Workshop on Educational Radio (and Optical) Astronomy

无线电（和光学）天文学教育研讨会

• 批准号: 0943305
• 负责人: Daniel Reichart
• 金额: $ 2.34万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 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: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0943305&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Educational; Radio; Optical; Astronomy

For the last 17 years, Dr. Daniel Reichart (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a small group of radio astronomy educators from across the country, have taken 15 mostly undergraduate students but also a few high school students and occasionally a member of the general public on a unique, intense, one-week workshop at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia called "Educational Research in Radio Astronomy" (ERIRA). Most astronomy programs do not teach radio astronomy, at least not in an observational or laboratory setting. This is primarily due to the prohibitive cost of building, operating, and maintaining sufficiently large radio telescopes, thus the need for ERIRA. Under this award, Dr. Reichart and his team will continue ERIRA for three summers as both a workshop in radio astronomy and in optical astronomy as well. The optical astronomy aspects are based on the development of the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network and the Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT) telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.Radio astronomy is a wonderful teaching tool. Unlike optical astronomy, it can be done during the day when students are naturally awake, and it can be done through most weather conditions. Furthermore, coupled with optical astronomy it makes a powerful teaching package - fostering a better understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum and the important role that multi-wavelength observations play in 21st-century astronomy. Furthermore, it exposes students to a wide range of astrophysical phenomena - solar system objects, star-forming regions, supernova remnants, galaxies, quasars - and a wide range of emission processes - blackbody, synchrotron, bremsstrahlung, radio and optical emission lines - in ways that are fundamentally different than when they are experienced in only one waveband or the other.

在过去的17年里，丹尼尔·赖卡特博士（北卡罗来纳州查佩尔山大学）和一小群来自全国各地的射电天文学教育工作者，在绿色银行的国家射电天文台举办了一个独特的，紧张的，为期一周的研讨会，西弗吉尼亚州称为“射电天文学教育研究”（ERIRA）。 大多数天文学课程不教射电天文学，至少不是在观测或实验室环境中。这主要是由于建造、操作和维护足够大的射电望远镜的成本过高，因此需要ERIRA。 在这个奖项下，Reichart博士和他的团队将继续ERIRA三个夏天作为射电天文学和光学天文学的研讨会。 光学天文学方面是以天网机器人望远镜网络和Cerro Tololo美洲天文台的全色机器人光学监测和偏振测量望远镜的发展为基础的，射电天文学是一个极好的教学工具。 与光学天文学不同，它可以在学生自然清醒的白天进行，并且可以在大多数天气条件下进行。此外，与光学天文学相结合，它是一个强大的教学包-促进对电磁频谱的更好理解，以及多波长观测在21世纪天文学中的重要作用。此外，它使学生接触到广泛的天体物理现象-太阳系物体，恒星形成区，超新星遗迹，星系，类星体-以及广泛的发射过程-黑体，同步加速器，韧致辐射，无线电和光学发射线-与只在一个波段或另一个波段体验时有根本不同的方式。