Graduate Student Participation and CCD Procurement for the Original PolyOculus Array

研究生参与和原始 PolyOculus 阵列的 CCD 采购

• 批准号: 2205692
• 负责人: Stephen Eikenberry
• 金额: $ 17.34万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2205692&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Graduate; Student; Participation; CCD; Procurement

This project continues development of a new telescope configuration that is referred to as PolyOculus, which enables large telescope arrays at significantly lower cost. This allows smaller universities and colleges with limited budgets to engage in forefront research. The system uses small amateur telescopes to create robotic light collectors. These units are pointed at the same target and the light is fed into custom fiber optic cables. A photonic lantern is used to combine the light from the parallel fibers. Light can be further combined again with other similar units to make even bigger telescopes. The PolyOculus system would serve as a pathfinder for studies of targets identified by the Vera Rubin Observatory, to study the nature of Dark Energy and search for Earth-like planets. Follow-up spectroscopy is scientifically important for identifying the basic nature of new sources that are being discovered by time series observation of the night sky (e.g. supernovae, flare stars, tidal disruption events, or new classes of objects), for determining the key physical properties of these events(temperature, composition, radial velocity, outflows, etc.) and to follow the evolution of those properties with time. Traditional large spectroscopic facilities are expensive to construct. This project will develop a method for producing large-area-equivalent telescopes by using photonic technology to link multiple semi-autonomous, small, inexpensive, commercial-off-the-shelf telescopes. Crucially, this scalable design has construction costs which are substantially lower than equivalent traditional large-area telescopes. This project’s innovative array approach represents a new approach to obtaining spectroscopic follow-up for time-domain astronomy. Two graduate students will be engaged in the deployment and commissioning of the instrument at the Mount Laguna Observatory.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.

该项目继续开发一种新的望远镜配置，该配置称为多头发形，该配置使大型望远镜阵列的成本明显降低。这使预算有限的较小的大学可以从事前列研究。该系统使用小型业余望远镜来创建机器人轻型收集器。这些单元指向相同的目标，并将光馈入定制的光纤电缆中。光子灯笼用于将平行纤维的光结合。可以将光再次与其他类似单元相结合，以制造更大的望远镜。多头系统将作为对Vera Rubin天文台识别的目标研究的研究，以研究黑暗能量的性质和寻找地球样行星。后续光谱对于确定通过时间序列观察夜空（例如，超新星，耀斑星星，耀斑恒星，潮汐破坏事件或新物体）发现的新来源的基本性质在科学上很重要，以确定这些事件的关键物理特性（温度，构成，构成，辐射速度，辐射，出口等），以及这些属性以及这些属性以及这些属性的属性。传统的大型光谱设施的构造昂贵。该项目将开发一种通过使用光子技术将多个半自治，小型，廉价，商业式式望远镜链接的方法来生产大区域等效望远镜的方法。至关重要的是，这种可扩展的设计的建筑成本大大低于等效的传统大面积望远镜。该项目的创新阵列方法代表了一种获取时间域天文学的光谱随访的新方法。两名研究生将在拉古纳山天文台部署和调试该乐器。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准评估来诚实地获得支持。