Management, Operations, and Associated Projects for the National Solar Observatory

根据这项合作协议的条款，天文学研究大学协会（AURA）公司将代表美国国家科学基金会和全国太阳物理学家和空间气象研究人员团体管理和运营国家太阳天文台（NSO）和相关项目。AURA将领导当前美国太阳天文学能力的转型，开发一个国家天文台，能够为太阳物理学家提供世界上最重要的太阳望远镜和强大的太阳天气计划。NSO将根据科学价值原则为基特峰国家天文台和萨克拉门托峰天文台的研究人员提供前沿设施和科学仪器，以及用户所期望的专家内部支持和数据分析工具。在这些天文台中，NSO提供了一系列资产，使太阳物理学家能够探测太阳的各个方面，从内部深处到日冕与行星际介质的界面。通过上述观测站和全球振荡网络组的六个站点，NSO在日震学、太阳变率的天气观测以及可见光和红外太阳大气的高分辨率研究方面提供科学和仪器方面的领导地位。这些资产为空间气象研究人员提供了数据，帮助他们了解太阳爆发及其对地球和气候的影响，并将这些知识应用于保护卫星、宇航员、陆基电力系统和地球。年代的气候。根据美国国家科学基金会的决定，先进技术太阳望远镜（ATST）将在本合作协议期间从绘图板转移到山顶。在最高一级，国家观测将使研究组合成为可能，这些组合将对太阳磁对流、太阳活动的起源以及从太阳内部穿过太阳大气层进入行星际空间的能量流进行可量化的测试。NSO的天气预报项目将提供有关太阳长期变化及其对人类影响的数据。该计划的更广泛影响包括：为整个太阳能社区提供基于智力价值的研究设施，数据的存档和分发，使任何人都可以访问互联网进行未来的调查，以及为学生和教育工作者提供服务和支持。NSO为参观其设施的公众、对太阳物理学感兴趣的本科生、进行太阳论文研究的研究生以及需要访问其设施的博士后研究人员领导了一个广泛的教育计划。根据这项合作协议的条款，NSO将大力推动在太阳物理和空间天气研究中少数族裔和残疾人的发展。

Under terms of this Cooperative Agreement, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. will manage and operate the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and associated projects on behalf of the National Science Foundation and the national communities of solar physicists and space weather researchers. AURA will lead a transformation of current U.S. capabilities in solar astronomy, develop a national observatory able to offer solar physicists access to the foremost solar telescope in the world and to a robust solar synoptic program. NSO will provide forefront facilities and scientific instruments for researchers at Kitt Peak National Observatory and Sacramento Peak Observatory based on the principle of scientific merit, as well as the expert in-house support and data analysis tools that users have come to expect. At these observatories, NSO provides a range of assets that allow solar physicists to probe all aspects of the Sun, from the deep interior to its interface in the corona with the interplanetary medium. NSO provides scientific and instrumentation leadership in helioseismology, synoptic observations of solar variability, and high-resolution studies of the solar atmosphere in the visible and infrared by means of the above observatories and the six stations of the Global Oscillations Network Group. These same assets provide data to space weather researchers in their efforts to understand solar eruptions and their effect upon Earth and its climate and to apply that knowledge to the protection of satellites, astronauts, land-based power systems, and Earth?s climate. Contingent on an NSF decision to fund it, the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) will move from the drawing boards to the mountaintop during the duration of this Cooperative Agreement. At the highest level NSO will enable a research portfolio that will provide quantifiable tests of solar magneto-convection, the origins of solar activity, and the flow of energy from the solar interior through the solar atmosphere and into interplanetary space. NSO synoptic programs will provide data on the long-term variability of the Sun and its consequences for humanity. Broader impacts of this program include providing access to research facilities to the entire solar community on the basis of intellectual merit, archiving and distribution of data to enable future investigations by anyone with access to the Internet, and services and support provided to students and educators. NSO leads a broad program in education for public visitors to its facilities, undergraduates interested in solar physics, graduate students conducting dissertation research on the Sun, and postdoctoral researchers needing access to its facilities. Under terms of this Cooperative Agreement, NSO will vigorously promote the advancement of under-represented minorities and persons with disabilities in solar physics and space weather research.