The VYSOS Automatic Telescope Project

年轻（主序前）恒星物体的变异性是各种恒星形成相关事件的一个很好的探针，例如质量吸积，即来自星周盘的物质沿着磁漏斗流落到恒星上。这种变化也由巨星黑子和轨道碎片造成的掩星引起。已经购买了两台望远镜，目的是建立全自动远程观测站（一个在北半球，一个在南半球），以监测年轻恒星的变化，并创建可变年轻恒星天体调查（VYSOS）。这两个望远镜的直径为16.25英寸，分别位于毛伊岛的哈雷阿卡拉山和智利的塞罗托洛洛。南方望远镜已经获得了完成安装的资金。北方望远镜已购买，但尚未安装，目前的资金将用于在哈雷阿卡拉安装望远镜，并通过硬件和软件的开发和采购建立完全自动化的观测能力。联合远程观测设施将用于夏威夷的高中科学教育课程，在那里，望远镜之间的时差将允许在夏威夷的上课时间使用南方望远镜进行实时观测。该项目还将包括本科生和研究生参与望远镜的操作。

Variability of young (pre-main sequence) stellar objects is a good probe of various star formation-related events, such as mass accretion as material from circumstellar disks falls onto the stars along magnetic funnel flows. The variability is also caused by giant star spots and by occultations due to orbiting debris. Two telescopes have been purchased with the intent to build fully automated remote observing stations (one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere) to monitor variability in young stars, and to create the Variable Young Stellar Objects Survey (VYSOS). The telescopes are each 16.25 inch in diameter, and will be located on Haleakala mountain in Maui and Cerro Tololo in Chile. The southern telescope is already funded for complete installation. The northern telescope has been purchased but not installed, and the present funding will be used to install the telescope on Haleakala and to create a fully automated observing capability through hardware and software development and acquisition. The combined remote observing facilities will be used in high school science education classes in Hawaii, where the time difference between the telescopes will allow real-time observing on the southern telescope during school hours in Hawaii. The project will also involve undergraduate and graduate student participation in the operation of the telescopes.