Postdoctoral Fellowship: AAPF: Near-field Cosmology with 6D Stellar Streams

诺拉·希普 (Nora Shipp) 获得美国国家科学基金会天文学和天体物理学奖学金，在卡内基梅隆大学开展研究和教育项目。希普将利用对绕银河系运行的恒星流的观测和模拟来了解暗物质的特性和星系形成的物理学。对于该项目的教育部分，希普将为具有数据科学专业知识的天文学家和物理学家提供数据科学方面的培训和志愿者机会，以造福社会。该研究项目将利用各种宇宙学模拟和半解析模型，对银河系周围及其他地区的恒星流群进行可靠的预测。然后，希普将使用大型天文调查，例如维拉·C·鲁宾天文台时空遗产调查 (LSST) 来测试这些预测，并绘制暗物质的局部分布图，为我们的小尺度星系形成模型提供信息，并测量银河系的结构和组装历史。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Nora Shipp is awarded an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellowship to carry out a program of research and education at Carnegie Mellon University. Shipp will use observations and simulations of stellar streams orbiting the Milky Way to understand properties of dark matter and the physics of galaxy formation. For the educational component of this project, Shipp will establish training and volunteer opportunities in data science for social good for astronomers and physicists with data science expertise. This research project will establish robust predictions for populations of stellar streams around the Milky Way and beyond, using a variety of cosmological simulations and semi-analytic models. Shipp will then use large astronomical surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to test these predictions and to map the local distribution of dark matter, inform our models of small-scale galaxy formation, and measure the structure and assembly history of the Milky Way.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.