Graduate Opportunities at Fisk in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research (GO-FAAR)

菲斯克天文学和天体物理学研究研究生机会（GO-FAAR）

• 批准号: 0750898
• 负责人: Keivan Stassun
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: Fisk University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0750898&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Graduate; Opportunities; Fisk; Astronomy; Astrophysics

Dr. Keivan Stassun, Dr. Michael Watson, and Dr. Arnold Burger from Fisk University will partner with Dr. J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann from Vanderbilt and Dr. James Jackson from Boston University (BU) in a project to be known as Graduate Opportunities at Fisk in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research or GO-FAAR. The University of Cape Town (UCT) will also be a partner in this extensive collaboration. GO-FAAR will leverage the successful Fisk-Vanderbilt masters-to-PhD bridge program to attract, train and mentor students. The Bridge program will be expanded to include an instrumentation track thanks to the partnership with BU. The GO-FAAR program will also build a new instrumentation lab and develop a graduate instrumentation course for Fisk students. The GO-FAAR research projects will include the areas of astronomical instrumentation, computational astrophysics and observational astronomy. The instrumentation projects include the development of high-energy detectors and space- and ground-based instrumentation. The observational astronomy component of the GO-FAAR program will investigate stellar astrophysics, star formation, transiting exoplanets, and supernovae cosmology. Each of these topics has a lead scientist from one of the partnering organizations who will serve as a point of contact and student mentor for the research program.

菲斯克大学的Keivan Stassun博士、Michael Watson博士和Arnold Burger博士将与范德比尔特大学的J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann博士和波士顿大学（BU）的James Jackson博士合作开展一个名为“菲斯克天文学和天体物理学研究研究生机会”（GO-FAAR）的项目。开普敦大学（UCT）也将成为这一广泛合作的伙伴。GO-FAAR将利用菲斯克-范德比尔特大学成功的硕士到博士衔接项目来吸引、培训和指导学生。由于与BU的合作关系，桥梁项目将扩大到包括仪器跟踪。GO-FAAR项目还将建立一个新的仪器实验室，并为菲斯克学生开发一门研究生仪器课程。GO-FAAR研究项目将包括天文仪器、计算天体物理学和观测天文学领域。仪器项目包括高能探测器和空间和地面仪器的发展。GO-FAAR项目的观测天文学部分将研究恒星天体物理学、恒星形成、凌日系外行星和超新星宇宙学。每个主题都有一个来自合作组织的首席科学家，他将作为研究项目的联络点和学生导师。