Management and Operations of the Arecibo Observatory (AO)

SRI国际(SRI)与大学空间研究协会(USRA)和大都会大学(UMET)合作，组成阿雷西博管理伙伴(AMP)，管理和运营阿雷西博天文台(AO)。AMP将作为一个统一的组织在AO现场运营，向Robert Kerr主任报告。USRA带来了天文学和行星科学方面的专业知识，而UMET带来了教育、公共宣传和设施管理方面的专业知识。UMET庞大的员工基础和广泛的岛上资源将为新的和现有的AO员工提供职业道路和就业机会。27个支持机构将与AMP合作，推动对AO在科学和教育领域的未来的共同愿景。除了这些学术机构外，AMP还将与波多黎各教育部和两个波多黎各经济发展机构合作。通过其设施发展计划，AMP将为AO的科学和教育任务提供广泛的技术、设备和后勤资源。这包括扩大行政干事的用户基础，为行政干事工作人员创造人力资源和专业发展机会。AMP的射电天文学计划将侧重于十年调查进程核准的科学：通过脉冲星计时的引力波天文学，通过中性氢测量和分子谱学研究宇宙结构形成和银河系能量学，以及通过甚长基线干涉测量探测恒星的形成和坍塌。行星雷达计划提供了近地物体轨道和物理特性的宝贵特征，有助于减轻对未来机器人和载人飞行任务的潜在撞击危险和风险。行星雷达计划还将绘制行星和卫星的地图，以揭示地表特征、亚地表地质和内部结构。AMP的空间和大气科学计划将把NSF大气区域耦合、能量和动力学(Cedar)、国家空间天气和气候变化社区整合为主要利益相关者，并在电离层相互作用和共轭研究方面开发重要的新计划。SAS的开发计划包括通过安装固态调制器来提高430 MHz发射机的可靠性，安装磁性共轭非相干散射雷达(ISR)、仪器自动化和远程控制、新的氦和金属共振激光雷达、光学实验室中的新红外相机以及围绕AO望远镜的相控阵雷达。拟议的管理计划将AO编织到波多黎各的科学、教育和经济发展结构中。该教育计划将重新建立一个计划，将42,000名K-12学生带到澳旅游和举办以STEM教育为重点的研讨会，为高中生创建暑期研究学院，每年培训20名STEM高中教师，维持现有的REU计划，在AO运营的各个方面创造本科实习生职位，并首次为大陆大学的拉美裔学生创造博士机会。外展计划将更新天使拉莫斯基金会游客中心，以扩大游客体验，参观整个网站。AO和我们的宇宙的虚拟旅游将在一个互动视频游戏平台上开发，在全球范围内发行。AMP将提高波多黎各经济发展的技术素养，并从传统上人数较少的拉美裔人口中培训新一代天文学家和空间科学家。

SRI International (SRI) teams with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) to form the Arecibo Management Partners (AMP) to manage and operate the Arecibo Observatory (AO). AMP will operate on-site at AO as a unified organization reporting to Director Robert Kerr. USRA brings expertise in astronomy and planetary science, while UMET brings expertise in education, public outreach, and facilities management. UMET's large employee base and extensive on-island resources will provide career paths and employment opportunities for new and existing AO staff. Twenty-seven supporting institutions will collaborate with AMP to advance a common vision of AO's future in science and education. In addition to these academic institutions, AMP will partner with the Puerto Rico Department of Education and two Puerto Rican economic development agencies. Through its facility development plan, AMP will provide broad technical, equipment, and logistic resources to AO's science and education missions. This includes expanding the AO user base and creating staffing resources and professional development opportunities for AO staff. AMP's plan for radio astronomy will focus on science endorsed by the Decadal Survey process: gravitational-wave astronomy through pulsar timing, studies of cosmic structure formation and galactic energetics through neutral-hydrogen surveys and molecular-line spectroscopy, and probes of star formation and collapse through Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The planetary radar plan provides invaluable characterization of near-Earth object orbits and physical properties, for mitigation of both potential impact hazards and risks to future robotic and crewed missions. The planetary radar program will also map planets and satellites to uncover surface features, sub-surface geologies, and interior structures. AMP's space and atmospheric sciences plan will integrate the NSF Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR), National Space Weather, and Climate Change communities as primary stakeholders, and exploit important new programs in ionospheric interactions and conjugate studies. The plans for SAS development include improved 430 MHz transmitter reliability via installation of a solid-state modulator, installation of a magnetic conjugate Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR), instrument automation and remote control, new helium and metal resonant lidars, a new infrared camera in the optics lab, and a phased-array radar surrounding the AO telescope. The proposed management plan weaves AO into the fabric of scientific, educational, and economic development in Puerto Rico. The educational plan will reinstitute a program to bring 42,000 K-12 students to AO for tours and workshops emphasizing STEM education, create a summer research academy for high-school students, train 20 STEM high-school teachers each year, maintain the existing REU program, create undergraduate intern positions in all aspects of AO operations, and, for the first time, create PhD opportunities for Hispanic students with mainland universities. The outreach plan will update the Angel Ramos Foundation Visitor Center to expand the visitor experience with tours of the entire site. Virtual tours of AO and our universe will be developed on an interactive video gaming platform for distribution world-wide. AMP will enhance technical literacy for economic development in Puerto Rico and to train a new generation of astronomers and space scientists from a traditionally underrepresented Hispanic population.