Participants in LAMOST, US (PLUS): A Partnership with the Chinese LAMOST Project in Galactic Astronomy

该项目将支持美国研究人员积极参与中国科学院国家重大科学项目之一的“大空域多目标光纤光谱望远镜”项目。LAMOST设施的建设已经完成，望远镜正在进行工程测试。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，首席研究员与该项目的中国领导层建立了密切的合作关系，并一直是负责定义银河调查的工作组成员，这是LAMOST最初运营的两个主要项目之一。该项目的资金将允许美国天文学家与LAMOST建立伙伴关系。这种伙伴关系将正式参与银河调查，并保证加入PLUS合作的美国研究人员能够在10%的LAMOST关键项目中提出建议并成为pi，并尽早获得数据。

This project will support US researchers' active involvement in the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) project, one of the National Major Scientific Projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Construction of the LAMOST facility is complete, and the telescope is undergoing engineering tests. The principal investigator, with previous NSF support, has established close collaborative ties with the Chinese leadership of the project, and has been a member of the working group tasked with defining the Galactic survey, one of two major projects to be undertaken in LAMOST's initial years of operation. Funding of this project will permit establishment of a partnership between US astronomers and LAMOST. This partnership will formalize participation in the Galactic survey and guarantee the ability of US researchers who join the PLUS collaboration to propose and be PIs on 10% of LAMOST key projects, and to have early access to data.