Lifting the Veil: A Multiwavelength Picture of the Galactic Plane and of its Stellar Remnants

AST-0602099 Agueros，MarcelDr.Agueros被授予NSF天文学和天体物理学博士后奖学金，在哥伦比亚大学开展一项研究和教育计划。他将把新的多阵列银河系平面成像调查(MAGPIS)与现有的调查相关联，以构建详细的、多波长的银河系平面图像，并探索其超新星遗迹和脉冲星的数量。MAGPIS是一项超大型阵列(VLA)无线电测量，其灵敏度、分辨率和动态范围比以前的任何测量都大一个数量级。Agueros还将通过与哥伦比亚大学的科技入门计划等项目合作，为他们的学生开发一系列天文讲座，从而接触到传统上代表性较低的群体的高中生。他还将参加美国自然历史博物馆(AMNH)组织的教师培训活动。Agueros博士的推广计划建立在他与纽约市几个组织建立的关系以及他之前的工作基础上，目的是了解和解决阻碍许多来自代表性不足群体的学生接受高等教育和从事天文学职业的“漏水管道”。

AST-0602099Agueros, MarcelDr. Agueros is awarded an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out a program of research and education at Columbia University. He will correlate the new Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey (MAGPIS) with existing surveys to construct a detailed, multiwavelength picture of the Galactic plane and to explore its population of supernova remnants and pulsars. MAGPIS is a Very Large Array (VLA) radio survey of sensitivity, resolution and dynamic range more than an order of magnitude greater than any previously available.Dr. Agueros will also reach high school students from traditionally underrepresented groups by working with programs such as the Science and Technology Entry Program atColumbia to develop a series of astronomy lectures for their students. He will also participate in teacher-training activities such as those organized by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Dr. Agueros's outreach program builds on relationships that he has developed with several organizations in New York City and on his previous work to understand and address the "leaky pipeline" that prevents many students from underrepresented populations from pursuing higher education and careers in astronomy.