Astronomical Instrumentation and Development

伯克利自动超新星搜索已经通过了它的概念验证。这个奖项将建立一个强大的、新的科学工具，将搜索定位在一个遥远的地点，那里的天空比现在更暗，视野更好，天气也更好。将其与新的CCD和更快的计算机相结合，将把发现超新星的灵敏度提高到20等，并将每张图像的处理时间从70秒减少到30秒。一架望远镜、一台CCD相机、一座大楼和必要的计算机的资金已经到位。该合同将涵盖新的远程搜索的部署和测试。搜索的科学目标是尽早发现超新星，并为统计目的找到大量的超新星。早期发现超新星并跟踪它们的光曲线和光谱将有助于研究超新星爆炸机制的理论家，并有助于将超新星作为距离指示器进行研究。超新星统计（特别是星系中的超新星率）提供了关于星系组成和演化的信息，以及星际介质的结构、运动学和组成。

The Berkeley Automated Supernova Search has passed its proof of concept. This award will build a powerful, new scientific tool by locating the search at a remote site with a darker sky, better seeing, and better weather than the present location. Combining this with a new CCD and a faster computer, will increase the sensitivity for finding supernovae to 20th magnitude and decrease the processing time per image from seventy to thirty seconds. Funding for a telescope, a CCD camera, a building, and the necessary computers has already been obtained. This award will cover the deployment and testing of the new remote search. The scientific goals of the search are to find supernovae at the earliest possible time and to find a large number of supernovae for statistical purposes. Finding supernovae early and following them up with light curves and spectra will aid theorists who study the mechanism of supernova explosions and aid in the study of supernovae as distance indicators. Supernova statistics (in particular the supernova rate in galaxies) provides information about galaxy composition and evolution as well as the structure, kinematics, and composition of the interstellar medium.