Instrumentation For Undergraduate Research In Astronomy

9352146 Hirshfeld这个项目的目标是（i）扩大本科生观测天文学的研究机会;（ii）确定并实施可转移到拥有小型观测站的类似机构的具体教育研究项目，以及（iii）提供书面指导方针和材料，帮助这些机构的教师启动他们自己的天文学本科研究计划。该项目的主要仪器是一台CCD成像摄像机，以补充现有的望远镜和光电光度计，以及用于数据采集和图像分析的计算机。该相机将被本科生用于获得行星和扩展天体的图像，如星星团，星云和星系，并在哈佛天体物理中心径向速度研究中对明亮的食双星，变星和选定的程序星进行长期孔径测光。这个项目的意义，超越其对学生教育的本地影响，是它的潜力，以提高本科科学培训，确定如何帮助教师在其他机构建立自己的观测天文学研究项目的学生。该大学为首席研究员提供了执行该项目的时间。 ***

9352146 Hirshfeld The goals of this project are to (i) expand research opportunities in observational astronomy for undergraduates; (ii) identify and carry out specific educational research projects that would be transferable to similar institutions with small observatories, and (iii) produce written guidelines and materials that would help faculty at these institutions initiate their own undergraduate research programs in astronomy. The primary instruments for the project are a CCD imaging camera to supplement an existing telescope and photoelectric photometer plus computers for data acquisition and image analysis. The camera will be used by undergraduates to obtain images of planets and extended celestial objects, such as star clusters, nebulae and galaxies, and to do long- term aperture photometry of bright eclipsing binary stars, variable stars, and selected program stars in the Harvard Center for Astrophysics radial velocity study. The significance of this project, beyond its local impact on the education of students, is its potential to improve undergraduate science training by identifying ways to help faculty at other institutions set up their own observational astronomy research programs for students. The university is providing release time for the principal investigator to carry out the project. ***