VLBA St Croix Repairs

VLBA 圣克罗伊岛维修

• 批准号: 1838357
• 负责人: Adam Cohen
• 金额: $ 200万
• 依托单位: Associated Universities, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1838357&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VLBA; St; Croix; Repairs

This proposal describes repairs activities to the St. Croix Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) station on St. Croix Island. The St. Croix station was damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017, and, subsequently, Congress provided funding to perform repairs via the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123) signed into law by the President on 9 February 2018. The proposal outlines the planned activities in detail, all of which are in support of returning the site to a world-class working science observatory, and reinstating the full capabilities of the VLBA. Observations obtained by the VLBA with St. Croix contribute to the fulfillment of scientific goals set out by astronomy communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该提案描述了对圣克罗伊岛上的圣克罗伊甚大基线阵列(VLBA)站的维修工作。圣克罗伊车站在2017年9月遭到飓风玛丽亚的破坏，随后，国会根据总统于2018年2月9日签署成为法律的2018年两党预算法(公法115-123)提供资金进行维修。该提案详细列出了计划中的活动，所有这些活动都是为了支持将该地点归还给一个世界级的工作科学天文台，并恢复VLBA的全部能力。VLBA与圣克罗伊一起获得的观测结果有助于实现天文学团体设定的科学目标。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。