The Bolocam Millimeter Wavelength Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane

北银道面的 Bolocam 毫米波长巡天

• 批准号: 0708403
• 负责人: John Bally
• 金额: $ 40.41万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0708403&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bolocam; Millimeter; Wavelength; Survey; Northern

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.

Drs。约翰·巴利和杰森·格伦（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，完成并分析对银河平面大部分区域的1毫米连续测量。该项目的主要目标是将致密核心云的位置、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的云和恒星形成模式。星团大小和云核质量之间的关系也将通过对年轻恒星和与最近核心相关的星团的红外和可见光观测来确定。作为这项研究工作的一部分，密集核心云及其性质的校准图像和目录将向公众开放。这项研究的结果将为未来上线的大型设施（如阿塔卡马大型毫米波阵列）的后续观测提供数千个对象。这项调查也将有助于几篇博士论文，并将为本科生提供研究项目。这次调查的图像将在互联网上以及科罗拉多州博尔德市的菲斯克天文馆和科罗拉多州丹佛市的盖茨天文馆传播。