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

ANT-0914508标题：圆顶API上预热望远镜的操作和返回：Dr. Christopher K.步行者，亚利桑那大学SGER奖题为“预热：第一次亚毫米站点测试和来自Dome A的天文光谱”被授予亚利桑那大学，为澳大利亚PLATO自主模块提供站点测试小型望远镜预热。PLATO模块随后于2007-08年夏季成功部署在南极高原的最高点Dome A，作为澳大利亚-中国天文学家团队联合开发的科学现场测试计划的一部分。该计划的目标是利用预热作为一项开创性的使命，为将来从穹顶A进行远红外天文研究铺平道路。Pre-HEAT在13 CO J=6-5的光谱光中绘制了南银河平面，这是参与星星形成和恒星星际反馈的温暖致密气体的关键测量。预热观测计划在2008年的南极冬季取得了很大的成功，现在它将持续到2009年。该提案寻求资金，以返回这些仪器回到亚利桑那大学。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，并在其教育使命中坚定地支持这项努力。

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.