A New Observatory for Undergraduate Training and Faculty Research at Swarthmore College

该项目将为斯沃斯莫尔学院购买一个0.6米的研究望远镜，它将与单独出资的相机和光谱仪一起用于教职员工和学生的研究。这项研究将包括对年轻恒星吸积的监测，对OB恒星风的研究，以及对Be恒星盘的研究。这些研究领域最好是在专用设施和大量望远镜时间的情况下进行研究。这一设施将使本科生能够进行天文学专业的研究培训，其中大约一半是女性，其中很大一部分人成为专业科学家。培训包括使用研究级仪器计划和执行观测，以及减少、分析和发布结果数据的经验。天文台也将向更大的天文学社区开放。该奖项由天文科学部和MPS多学科活动办公室资助

This project will acquire a 0.6-meter research telescope for Swarthmore College which will be used with a separately-funded camera and spectrograph for faculty and student research. This research will include monitoring of accretion in young stars, a study of the winds of OB stars, and a study of Be stellar disks. These areas of research are best studied with a dedicated facility and large amounts of telescope time.This facility will enable research training of undergraduate astronomy majors, roughly half of whom are women, and a significant fraction of whom become professional scientists. The training includes experience in planning and carrying out observations using a research-grade instrument, and reducing, analyzing, and publishing the resulting data. The observatory will also be available to the larger astronomical community.This award is funded by the Division of Astronomical Sciences and the MPS office of Multidisciplinary Activities