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

诺拉·希普被授予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一项研究和教育计划。Shipp将使用对围绕银河系运行的恒星流的观测和模拟，以了解暗物质的性质和星系形成的物理学。对于该项目的教育部分，Shipp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。这项研究项目将使用各种宇宙学模拟和半解析模型，建立对银河系周围和更远的恒星流种群的可靠预测。然后，Shipp将使用大型天文测量，如Vera C.Rubin天文台遗留空间和时间调查(LSST)来测试这些预测，绘制暗物质的局部分布图，告知我们小规模星系形成的模型，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优势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.