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 是一种新型望远镜，每次曝光都会记录从智利可见的整个天空，并且每两分钟就会获得一次新的曝光，夜复一夜。其 691 兆像素相机和连续运行将能够发现短时间尺度的事件，例如当行星经过其主恒星前方时表观亮度的降低。 Law 教授与北卡罗来纳大学的学生一起开发了 Evryscope，并将其用作该教师早期职业发展计划奖中他的 5 年综合教育和研究计划的核心。除了为学生研究培训提供机会外，PI 还将把基于 Evryscope 的模块开发成大型入门课程和高级观测天文学课程。该团队将把 Evryscope 看到的动态天空的可缩放实时视图创建到北卡罗来纳大学穆尔黑德天文馆的巨型交互式天文馆显示屏中。这个公开展览将供数十万学龄儿童和天文馆参观者使用。PI 在托洛洛山部署了 8000 平方度的 Evryscope，以 2 分钟的节奏记录整个南部天空，低至 16 星等。 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，以最大限度地提高这项调查的科学产出。他们的主要重点将是对最近的白矮星周围的宜居岩石行星进行大型调查。