CAREER: Evryscope Science: Realizing the Potential of the First Full-Sky Gigapixel-Scale Telescope

职业：Evryscope Science：实现第一台全天千兆像素级望远镜的潜力

• 批准号: 1555175
• 负责人: Nicholas Law
• 金额: $ 91.49万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-02-15 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555175&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Evryscope; Science; Realizing; Potential

The Evryscope is a new type of telescope that records the entire sky visible from Chile in each exposure, and it obtains a new exposure every two minutes, night after night. Its 691 megapixel camera and the continuous operation will enable the discovery of short-timescale events, such as the decrease in apparent brightness when a planet passes in front of its host star. Professor Law, along with students at the University of North Carolina, developed the Evryscope and will use it as the centerpiece of his 5-year integrated education and research plan in this Faculty Early Career Development Program award. In addition to providing opportunities for student research training, the PI will develop Evryscope-based modules into large introductory classes and into the upper-level observational astronomy curriculum. The team will create a zoomable, real-time view of the dynamic sky seen by Evryscope into a giant interactive planetarium display at UNC's Moorhead planetarium. This public exhibit will be used by hundreds of thousands of school-age children and planetarium visitors.The PI has deployed the 8000 square-degree Evryscope at Cerro Tololo, where it is recording the entire southern sky down to 16th magnitude with 2-minute cadence. The PI and his students will conduct the Evryscope survey of a range of variable and transient targets, and they will develop the data processing/analysis and database tools to maximize the scientific output of this survey. Their principal focus will be a large survey for habitable rocky planets around the nearest white dwarfs.

Evryscope是一种新型的望远镜，它记录了智利在每次曝光时所能看到的整个天空，它每两分钟获得一次新的曝光，一夜又一夜。它的6.91亿像素照相机和连续运行将能够发现短时间尺度的事件，例如当一颗行星经过它的宿主星星前面时，表观亮度的下降。教授法，沿着与学生在北卡罗来纳州的大学，开发了evrycope，并将使用它作为他的5年综合教育和研究计划在这个教师早期职业发展计划奖的核心。除了为学生提供研究培训的机会外，PI还将开发基于Evryscope的模块，使其成为大型入门课程和高级观测天文学课程。该团队将创建一个可缩放的，实时的动态天空视图看到的Evryscope到一个巨大的互动天文馆显示在波士顿的穆尔黑德天文馆。这个公共展览将被成千上万的学龄儿童和天文馆游客使用。PI已经在Cerro Tololo部署了8000平方度的Evryscope，在那里它以2分钟的节奏记录了整个南部天空，直到16级。PI和他的学生将对一系列可变和瞬态目标进行Evryscope调查，他们将开发数据处理/分析和数据库工具，以最大限度地提高调查的科学产出。他们的主要焦点将是对最近的白色矮星周围的可居住岩石行星进行大规模调查。