The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team

在这一合作努力中，dr。Rebecca Koopmann（联合学院）、Sarah Higdon（佐治亚南方大学）、Thomas Balonek（高尔盖特大学）及其团队成员将开展一系列活动，旨在让本科生参与到现实世界的前沿研究项目中，收集、分析并在某些情况下发布来自ALFALFA（阿雷西博遗产快速ALFA调查）的数据，ALFA是阿雷西博l波段馈源阵列项目的首字母缩写。ALFALFA是对银河系外星系中性氢的大型调查，使用阿雷西博天文台射电望远镜上的七束ALFA接收器进行。ALFALFA预计将在未来五年内探测超过20,000个星系，从而产生广泛的科学应用。该项目由四个部分组成：1)每年在阿雷西博举办一次本科生ALFALFA团队研讨会，向学生介绍ALFA项目，交流科学项目以及观察和数据分析技术；2)学生将在教师导师的帮助下，开发自己的研究项目，并使用世界上最大的望远镜阿雷西博进行自己的观测；3)为小型学校提供数据分析的电脑基础设施；4)在竞争的基础上为学生提供暑期研究职位，帮助他们走上科学的轨道。该项目将对隶属本科生ALFALFA团队联盟的14所大学产生广泛影响。该项目将促进发现和促进本科生和研究生在不同的大学设置，包括公立和私立，在全国各地的学习。所有团队成员都将参加年度研讨会，并鼓励他们在科学会议上展示他们的成果。研究和教育的基础设施将通过学生、教师和天文台之间的合作得到促进，这将刺激规模较小的学院的本科生研究。由参与机构与阿雷西博安吉尔·拉莫斯游客中心主任合作开发的本科和K-12申请课程和推广材料将向公众开放。在参与该项目的教员中，女性占很大比例。

In this collaborative effort, Drs. Rebecca Koopmann (Union College), Sarah Higdon (Georgia Southern University), Thomas Balonek (Colgate University), and members of their consortium team will carry out an array of activities directed toward involving undergraduate students in real-world, cutting-edge research projects to collect, analyze, and, in some cases, publish data from the ALFALFA (The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey, where ALFA is an acronym for the Arecibo L-band Feed Array project. ALFALFA is large survey for neutral hydrogen in galaxies external to the Milky Way being carried out using the seven-beam ALFA receiver on the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. ALFALFA is expected to detect over 20,000 galaxies over the next five years, resulting in a wide range of scientific applications. The program has four components: 1) An annual undergraduate ALFALFA team workshop will be held at Arecibo that will introduce students to the ALFA project and communicate science programs and observing and data analysis techniques; 2) Students, with the help of faculty mentors, will develop their own research programs and do their own observing using Arecibo, the world''s largest telescope; 3) Computer infrastructure for data analysis will be provided to smaller schools; and 4) Summer research positions will be provided to students on a competitive basis to help keep them on a science track. The program will have wide impact at 14 universities belonging to the Undergraduate ALFALFA Team consortium.The program will advance discovery and promote learning among undergraduate and graduate students in a diverse array of university settings, both public and private, across the country. All team members will participate in the annual workshops and will be encouraged to present their results at scientific meetings. Infrastructure for research and education will be promoted via the collaboration between students and faculty and the observatory, which will stimulate undergraduate research at the smaller colleges. Curricular and outreach material for both undergraduate and K-12 application, developed at the participating institutions and in collaboration with the Director of the Angel Ramos Visitor Center at Arecibo, will be made publicly available. Women comprise a large fraction of the faculty involved in the program.