NSF's NOIRLab: Management and Operations of the Directorate, Mid-Scale Observatories, and the Community Science and Data Center (NOIRLab Base)

NSF 的 NOIRLab：理事会、中型天文台以及社区科学和数据中心（NOIRLab 基地）的管理和运营

• 批准号: 2211467
• 负责人: Charles Mattias Mountain
• 金额: $ 11396.42万
• 依托单位: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2211467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; NOIRLab; Management; Operations; Directorate

NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NSF’s NOIRLab) is the U.S. national center for ground-based nighttime optical astronomy. NOIRLab includes the International Gemini Observatory, the Kitt Peak National Observatory, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, operations of Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC). This award supports management, operations and maintenance of these facilities for five years, 2023-2027. The award supports preparations for the launch of Rubin Observatory and the first three years of Rubin’s ten-year Legacy Survey in Space and Time (LSST). Gemini is operated by NSF in collaboration with its international partners in Canada, Brazil, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and Chile. Rubin is operated jointly with the Department of Energy. NOIRLab will also continue and further develop an ambitious program of communication, education, and outreach activities. NOIRLab communicates the wonders of astronomy through its facilities, technology and people. NOIRLab engages with the public locally through a range of face-to-face activities in Hawai’i, Chile and Arizona, and on a national and indeed international level through on-line publications, educational resources, and citizen-science projects. Through its telescopes, instruments and software services, NOIRLab supports over 400 graduate thesis projects and of order 550 non-thesis graduate students each year. On a yearly basis, NOIRLab facilities generate data for more than 700 scientific papers.NOIRLab's vision is to be the preeminent laboratory for research in modern ground-based optical-infrared (OIR) astronomy, supporting a diverse community of scientists spread across all 50 states through the entire research life cycle. NSF’s goal is to create in NOIRLab a national resource that will lead the world in data-intensive astronomy, drive exploration of the new frontiers in time-domain astronomy and multi-messenger astrophysics, maximize science return from Rubin Observatory, and provide a foundation for all U.S. scientists to make full use of potential future Extremely Large Telescopes in the 2030s and beyond. For the science community NOIRLab provides access to state-of-the-art instrumentation on large (8-meter mirror diameter) and medium-sized or “mid-scale” (approximately 4-meter diameter) OIR telescopes to enable research in all areas of astronomy. NOIRLab also provide a national focus for the development of research and educational partnerships with universities, other NSF-funded research disciplines, other funding agencies, and international communities. Over the next five years NOIRLab will continue to operate and develop the 4-meter Blanco and SOuthern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescopes in Chile and the twin 8-meter Gemini telescopes in Hawai’i and Chile. NOIRLab will support pre-operations of Rubin leading to commissioning in 2024 and the launch of LSST shortly thereafter. Rubin will undoubtedly revolutionize modern astronomy through its extensive survey of the southern skies but also by releasing millions of time domain alerts every night. Rubin, working in concert with the other NOIRLab telescopes and with software and archival support from CSDC, will have a significant impact on all of the priority science areas identified in the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) decadal survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy & Astrophysics for the 2020s (Astro2020).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.

NSF的国家光红外天文学研究实验室（NSF的NOIRLAB）是美国国家地面夜间光学天文学中心。 NOIRLAB包括国际双子座天文台，基特峰国家天文台，塞罗·托洛洛（Cerro Tololo）跨美国天文台，维拉·鲁宾（Vera C. Rubin）天文台的操作以及社区科学与数据中心（CSDC）。该奖项支持2023 - 2027年的管理，运营和维护五年。该奖项支持为推出鲁宾天文台的准备工作，以及鲁宾在时空（LSST）的十年旧遗产调查的头三年。双子座由NSF与其在加拿大，巴西，阿根廷，大韩民国和智利的国际合作伙伴合作。鲁宾与能源部共同运营。 Noirlab还将继续发展，并进一步制定雄心勃勃的沟通，教育和外展活动计划。 Noirlab通过其设施，技术和人员传达了天文学的奇观。 Noirlab通过在夏威夷，智利和亚利桑那州的一系列面对面活动以及通过在线出版物，教育资源和公民科学项目的国家和国际层面上的一系列面对面活动与当地的公众互动。通过其望远镜，仪器和软件服务，Noirlab每年为400多个研究生论文项目和550个非论文研究生提供支持。每年，Noirlab设施每年生成700多篇科学论文的数据。Noirlab的愿景将成为现代基于地面的光学融资（OIR）天文学研究的杰出研究实验室，以支持整个研究生命周期的所有50个州的科学家社区。 NSF的目标是在Noirlab中创建一种国家资源，将带领世界上的数据密集型天文学，推动对时间域天文学和多人天体物理学的新边界进行探索，鲁宾天文台的最大科学回报，并为所有美国科学家提供基础，以使所有美国科学家充分利用潜在的未来大型大型远程计算机，并在2030年代和更远的地方使用。对于科学界而言，Noirlab提供了在大型（8米镜直径）和中型或“中尺度”（大约4米直径）OIR望远镜上使用最先进的仪器，以在所有天文学领域进行研究。 Noirlab还为与大学，其他NSF资助的研究学科，其他资助机构和国际社区建立研究和教育伙伴关系提供了全国重点。在接下来的五年中，Noirlab将继续运作并开发智利的4米Blanco和南部天体研究（SOAR）望远镜，以及夏威夷和智利的Twin 8米Gemini望远镜。 Noirlab将支持鲁宾的宣传，导致2024年的委托，此后不久将推出LSST。鲁宾无疑将通过对南部天空的广泛调查，以及每天晚上发布数百万个时域警报来彻底改变现代天文学。鲁宾与其他Noirlab望远镜合作，与CSDC的软件和档案支持一起，将对在最近的国家科学，工程学学院，工程和医学学院（NASEM）衰老研究中确定的所有优先科学领域产生重大影响，该领域对天文学和天文学的宣传，对天文学和天文学的发现（ATTROS）（ATTROS）（ATTRO）（ATTRO）（ATTROS）（ATTRO）（ATTROS）（ATTRO）（ATTRO）（ATTROS）。使命，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估值得支持的。