An Enhanced Public Share for the SMARTS 2 Consortium

该项目将继续为极为成功的小型和中等口径望远镜系统提供资金，该系统在智利的Cerro Tololo美洲天文台运行四个一米级望远镜。向公众提供的观测时间将涵盖广泛的天文专题，包括柯伊伯带天体、附近恒星的视差研究、双星棕矮星、伽马射线暴、恒星光谱监测、附近的超新星和引力透镜类星体中的时间延迟。该项目将为来自联盟和非联盟成员的本科生和研究生提供培训，并参加在Cerro Tololo美洲天文台举行的本科生研究体验计划。

This project will give continued funding to the highly successful Small and Moderate Aperture Telescope System which operates four one meter class telescopes at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory in Chile. Observation time made available to the general community will cover a broad range of astronomical topics including Kuiper Belt objects, parallax studies of nearby stars, binary brown dwarfs, Gamma ray bursters, spectroscopic monitoring of stars, nearby supernovae and time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. The project will provide training to undergraduate and graduate students from consortium and non-consortium members as well as participation in a Research Experience for Undergraduates program held at the Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory.