POWRE: Visiting Professorship at Harvey Mudd College

摘要-Barsony女性研究和工程专业机会奖(POWRE)将支持哈维穆德学院物理系为期18个月的客座教授职位。这一奖项将允许与亚历克斯·鲁道夫教授全职合作，开发克莱蒙特-里弗赛德红外相机(CLRIRCAM-发音为“Clear cam”)项目。访问将于1998年1月开始。哈维·穆德学院是克莱蒙特学院之一，克莱蒙特学院是由五所小型学院组成的集团，位于加利福尼亚州克莱蒙特。波莫纳学院是这五所学院中历史最悠久、规模最大的一所，它拥有一台1.0米长的望远镜，由这五所学院共享使用。与鲁道夫博士进行了为期三年的合作，为这台望远镜购买了一台近红外阵列相机。哈维·穆德学院的POWRE访问教授将用于制定相机的设计规范，开发数据采集软件--包括高效的镶嵌模式，将相机控制软件与望远镜控制软件集成，使用可写CD-ROM开发高效的数据归档系统，以及开发用于光度测量、天体测量、镶嵌以及多色图像的重新缩放和组合的IDL数据还原例程。将制作文件齐全的软件，以及关于望远镜、仪器的使用以及使用CLRIRCAM进行数据采集和数据简化的正确步骤的学生手册。波莫纳学院的1.0米望远镜是CLRIRCAM项目的绝佳仪器。它位于海拔7200英尺的高山天文台，位于圣加布里埃尔山脉的另一边，远离洛杉矶盆地的灯光，是近红外观测的理想之地。CLRIRCAM将为整个社区打开天文研究的机会，包括来自六个合作机构的教师、博士后、研究生和本科生。使用CLRIRCAM的研究计划包括对暗的星际分子云进行系统的大面积多色成像调查，以研究嵌入的年轻恒星和星团，寻找最年轻的原恒星，以及频繁和长期监测可变的年轻恒星物体(YSO)，以阐明流入、流出和盘吸积机制。YSO监测项目有可能导致我们对与年轻恒星周围环境中的气体运动有关的基本物理学的理解取得新的突破，这也可能为行星形成的情景提供一些线索。

ABSTRACT - BARSONY A Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Engineering (POWRE)award will support an 18-month Visiting Professorship at the Physics Department at Harvey Mudd College. This award will allow a full time collaboration with Prof. Alex Rudolph to develop the Claremont-Riverside InfraRed CAMera (CLRIRCAM-pronounced "clearer cam") project. The visit will start in January of 1998. Harvey Mudd College is one of the Claremont Colleges, a group of five small colleges located in Claremont, California. Pomona College, the oldest and largest of the five, owns a 1.0-meter telescope, whose use is shared among the five colleges. A three-year collaboration with Dr. Rudolph involves the acquisition of a near-infrared array camera for this telescope. The POWRE Visiting Professorship at Harvey Mudd College will be spent developing the design specifications for the camera, developing software for data acquisition-including an efficient mosaicing mode, integrating the camera control software with the telescope control software, developing an efficient data archiving system using writeable CD-ROMs, and developing IDL data reduction routines for photometry, astrometry, mosaicing, and re-scaling and combining of multi-color images. Well-documented software, and student manuals on the use of the telescope, the instrument, and on the correct steps for data-taking and data reduction with CLRIRCAM will be produced. The Pomona College 1.0-meter telescope is a superb instrument for the CLRIRCAM project. It is located at Table Mountain Observatory, a high, dry site, at an altitude of 7200 feet, on the other side of the San Gabriel Mountains away from the lights of the Los Angeles basin, making it ideal for near-infrared observations. CLRIRCAM will open up astronomical research opportunities for an entire community, including faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduates from each of the six collaborating institutions. The research plans usi ng CLRIRCAM include systematic large-area multi-color imaging surveys of dark, interstellar molecular clouds to study embedded young stars and star clusters, the search for the youngest protostars, and frequent and long-term monitoring projects of variable young stellar objects (YSOs) to elucidate infall, outflow, and disk accretion mechanisms. The YSO monitoring projects have the potential to lead to new breakthroughs in our understanding of fundamental physics relating to the gas motions in the immediate circumstellar environments of young stars, that may also shed some light on planet formation scenarios.