California State University Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSUURE) in Astronomy

加州州立大学天文学本科生研究经历 (CSUURE)

• 批准号: 0850564
• 负责人: Eric Sandquist
• 金额: $ 27.84万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0850564&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: California; State; University; Undergraduate; Research

Dr. Eric Sandquist (San Diego State University, SDSU) and collaborators will continue a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at San Diego State University. Mentors for the program will be drawn from SDSU, other California State University (CSU) campuses, and the University of Kansas. The scientific focus of the program is observational astronomy, specifically photometry (brightness measurements) of stars and galaxies. The proposed student projects fall within several important areas at the foundations of astronomy: supernovae and the distance scale, stellar corpses, eclipsing binary stars, open and globular star clusters, extrasolar planets, and dwarf galaxies. Large blocks of observing time are available to the program on Mount Laguna telescopes.The SDSU REU program will provide research experiences for students without access to active astronomy faculty, facilitate student training and research for research faculty at other campuses, and encourage research at campuses that do not grant Ph.D. degrees (none of the physics or astronomy departments in this program grant doctoral degrees) and that serve disproportionately large populations of students from ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the physical sciences (40% at SDSU and 55% in the CSU system as a whole). Planned recruitment from community colleges under this renewed program will reach thousands of additional students with little access to research opportunities.This site is funded by the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences.

埃里克·桑德奎斯特博士（圣地亚哥州立大学，SDSU）和合作者将继续在圣地亚哥州立大学的本科生（REU）网站的研究经验。该项目的导师将来自SDSU、其他加州州立大学（CSU）校区和堪萨斯大学。该计划的科学重点是观测天文学，特别是恒星和星系的测光（亮度测量）。学生所提出的计画，包含天文学基础的几个重要领域：超新星与距离尺度、恒星尸体、食双星、疏散与球状星星团、太阳系外行星与矮星系。SDSU REU计划将为无法获得活跃天文学教师的学生提供研究经验，促进其他校区研究人员的学生培训和研究，并鼓励不授予博士学位的校园进行研究。学位（该计划中没有物理或天文学部门授予博士学位），并且为来自物理科学代表性不足的少数民族的学生提供不成比例的大量人口（SDSU为40%，CSU系统为55%）。根据这一更新的计划，计划从社区学院招募的学生将达到数千名额外的学生，他们几乎没有获得研究机会。