HexPak: Building Survey Engines for the WIYN 3.5m Telescope to Explore Galaxy Disks

HexPak：为 WIYN 3.5m 望远镜构建勘测引擎以探索星系盘

• 批准号: 0804576
• 负责人: Matthew Bershady
• 金额: $ 27.31万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0804576&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HexPak; Building; Survey; Engines; WIYN

This award will fund the building of two Integral Field Units for the Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (WIYN) 3.5 meter telescope. These Integral Field Units will permit a wide range of science programs to be carried out with the existing spectrograph at the telescope. These include spectral-spatial measurements suitable for understanding the origin of ionized gas line-widths and their correlation with luminosity, dynamical mass, and asymmetry in nearby galaxies and the dynamics and stellar populations in nearby galaxy cores. In addition to these specific science programs, the instruments will be available to the entire astronomical community and the project will also allow for student training for development and use of spectroscopic instruments.

该奖项将资助为威斯康星-印第安纳-耶鲁-诺奥 (WIYN) 3.5 米望远镜建造两个整体现场装置。 这些整体现场装置将允许使用望远镜现有的摄谱仪来执行广泛的科学计划。其中包括适合了解电离气体线宽的起源及其与附近星系的光度、动力学质量和不对称性以及附近星系核心的动力学和恒星种群的相关性的光谱空间测量。除了这些具体的科学项目之外，这些仪器还将提供给整个天文学界，该项目还将允许对学生进行光谱仪器开发和使用的培训。