The Bolocam Millimeter Wavelength Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane

John Bally博士和Jason Glenn博士（科罗拉多大学博尔德分校）将执行一项计划，利用加州理工学院亚毫米天文台的Bolocam完成和分析银河系大部分平面的1毫米连续测量。 该项目的主要目标是将密集核心云的位置、大小、质量、柱密度和形状作为银河系位置和环境的函数制成表格，并使用这些数据来约束这些区域中云和星星形成的模式。还将通过对与最近核心有关的年轻恒星和星星团的红外和可见光波长观测来确定星团大小与云核心质量之间的关系，作为这项研究工作的一部分，将公开提供密集核心云及其性质的校准图像和目录。 这项研究的结果将提供数千个物体，供今后在阿塔卡马大型毫米波阵列等大型设施上进行后续观测。 这项调查也将有助于几个博士。论文，并将提供本科研究项目。 这次调查的图像将在互联网上传播，也将在科罗拉多博尔德的菲斯克天文馆和科罗拉多丹佛的盖茨天文馆传播。

Drs. John Bally and Jason Glenn (University of Colorado at Boulder) will carry out a program to complete and analyze a 1 mm continuum survey of a large portion of the Galactic plane using Bolocam on the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. The primary goals of the project are to tabulate the locations, sizes, masses, columns densities, and shapes of dense core clouds as functions of Galactic location and environment and to use these data to constrain the modes of cloud and star formation in these regions. The relationship between cluster size and cloud core mass will also be determined through infrared and visual wavelength observations of young stars and star clusters associated with nearest cores.As a part of this research effort, calibrated images and catalogs of dense core clouds and their properties will be made publicly available. The results of this research will provide thousands of objects for follow-up observations on larger facilities coming on-line in the future such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. This survey will also contribute to several Ph.D. dissertations and will provide projects for undergraduate research. The images from this survey will be disseminated on the internet and also at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado and the Gates Planetarium in Denver, Colorado.