Collaborative Proposal: RUI: An Automatic Telescope for Stellar Research and Training of Undergraduates

摘要：在亚利桑那州华盛顿营的费尔伯恩天文台，四位天文学家将利用四学院自动光度望远镜（一台0.75 m望远镜），在三所主要本科院校开展一系列合作和个人研究项目。例如：研究较少的主序g调节脉动恒星（包括缓慢脉动的B星和剑鱼座伽玛星）的频率测定；短周期三角天蝎座、造父变星和脉动白矮星（可用于探测内部结构）的星震学；监测早期超巨星的光度变异性（其光度与光度变异性相关，但根本原因尚不清楚）；继续监测磁性化学特殊恒星（旋转速率、表面活动等的变化）；以及正在进行的大约15个太阳类似物的光度测定（确定旋转速率，表面活动，变化等，以更好地了解我们太阳过去和未来的活动）。这些项目包括本科生在这项工作的各个方面的重要参与，包括数据收集、分析和在期刊和专业会议上的传播。这里收集的数据也将用于当地的大学预科学生项目和教师培训活动。

AST-0507551Robert DukesCollege of CharlestonCollaborative Proposal: RUI: An Automatic Telescope for Stellar Research andTraining of UndergraduatesABSTRACT:A series of collaborative and individual research programs will be carried out among fourastronomers at three primarily undergraduate institutions using the Four College AutomaticPhotometric Telescope, a 0.75-m telescope at the Fairborn Observatory site in Washington Camp,Arizona. Example projects are: frequency determinations of little studied main-sequence g-modepulsating stars (including slowly pulsating B stars and gamma Doradus stars); asteroseismology ofshort period delta Scuti, beta Cephei, and pulsating white dwarfs (which can be used to probeinterior structure); monitoring of the photometric variability of early type supergiants (whoseluminosities correlate with photometric variability although the underlying cause is not known);continued monitoring of magnetic chemically peculiar stars (for changes in the rotation rates,surface activity, etc.); and ongoing photometry of some 15 solar analogs (determining rotation rates,surface activity, variability, etc., to better understand the past and future activity of our Sun).These projects include significant involvement of undergraduate students in all aspects of this work,including data collection, analysis, and dissemination in journals and professional meetings. Thedata collected here will also be used in local programs for pre-college students and in teachertraining activities.