Operation and Return of the Pre-HEAT Telescope on Dome A

Ant-0914508标题：Dome API上预热望远镜的操作和返回：亚利桑那大学克里斯托弗·K·沃克博士授予亚利桑那大学题为“预热：来自Dome A的第一个亚毫米站点测试和天文光谱”的SGER奖，以向澳大利亚柏拉图自治模块提供现场测试小型望远镜预热。作为澳中天文学家团队联合开发的科学现场测试项目的一部分，柏拉图模块随后在2007-08年的南半球夏季成功地部署在南极高原的最高点Dome A。这个计划的目标是利用预热作为一项开创性的任务，为未来来自Dome A的远红外天文调查铺平道路。预热绘制了南银河系平面在13CO J=6-5的光谱光下的图，这是参与恒星形成和星际反馈的温暖、密集气体的关键测量单位。预热观测计划在2008年南冬期间基本上取得了成功；现在该计划将持续到2009年。该提案寻求资金，将这些仪器归还给亚利桑那大学。对学生的持续依赖为这项拟议的研究提供了更广泛的影响，并使这一努力在其教育使命中站稳了脚跟。

ANT-0914508 Title: Operation and Return of the Pre-HEAT Telescope on Dome API: Dr. Christopher K. Walker, University of ArizonaThe SGER award entitled "Pre-HEAT: First Submillimeter Site Testing and Astronomical Spectra from Dome A" was awarded to the University of Arizona to supply a site-testing small telescope Pre-HEAT to the Australian PLATO autonomous module. The PLATO module was then successfully deployed at Dome A, the highest point on the Antarctic Plateau, in the 2007-08 austral summer as part of a science site-testing program jointly developed by the Australia-Chinese team of astronomers. The objectives of this program was to utilize Pre-HEAT as a pioneering mission which night pave the way for future far-infrared astronomical investigations from Dome A. Pre-HEAT maps the Southern Galactic Plane in the spectral light of 13CO J=6-5, a key measure of the warm, dense gas that participates in star formation and stellar-interstellar feedback. The Pre-HEAT observational program was mostly successful through austral winter of 2008; it is now continued through 2009. This proposal seeks funding to return these instruments back to University of Arizona. Continued reliance on students provides a broader impact to this proposed research and firmly grounds this effort in its educational mission.