Star Formation Study at UC Riverside

巴尔索尼 9501788该奖项是在NSF教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划的主持下。 作为一个职业获奖者，研究者除了她的科学研究项目外，还应该追求积极的教育计划。 了解恒星是如何形成的，对于了解所有尺度的恒星系统的形成有很大的影响，从行星系统的形成到宇宙的大尺度结构。 Barsony将从三个角度研究星星的形成--确定星星形成的初始条件，描述观测上最早可识别的原恒星状态，并试图了解导致分子云碎裂从而形成星星团的机制。 这些项目依赖于在很宽的波长范围内的观测--毫米、亚毫米和近红外。 教育计划包括开发新课程：为本科生和研究生开设的天体物理学和恒星天文学课程，包括天体物理学中的辐射过程，天体物理学流体动力学和当前天体物理学研究的读物。 此外，还将建立一个本科物理计算设施，使计算机可以直接融入本科物理课的教学。 ***

Barsony 9501788 This award is made under the auspices of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program. As a CAREER awardee the investigator is expected to pursue an active education plan in addition to her scientific research project. Understanding how stars form has great ramifications for understanding formation of stellar systems at all scales, from planetary system formation through large-scale structure of the Universe. Barsony will study star formation from three perspectives -- to determine the initial conditions for star formation, to characterize the earliest observationally recognizable protostellar state, and to try to understand the mechanisms leading to molecular cloud fragmentation and thus the formation of star clusters. These projects rely on observations over a broad range of wavelengths -- millimeter, submillimeter, and near infrared. The education plan includes developing new courses: Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy for undergraduates and graduate classes including Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics and Readings from Current Astrophysics Research. Also an undergraduate physics computing facility will be set up so that computers can be directly integrated into the teaching of undergraduate physics classes. ***