Workshop on Educational Radio (and Optical) Astronomy

在过去的17年里，Daniel Reichart博士（北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校）和一小群来自全国各地的射电天文学教育者，在西弗吉尼亚州格林班克的国家射电天文台举办了一个独特的、紧张的、为期一周的研讨会，主要是本科生，也有一些高中生，偶尔还有一名普通公众。大多数天文学项目不教射电天文学，至少在观测或实验室环境中不教。这主要是由于建造、操作和维护足够大的射电望远镜的成本过高，因此需要ERIRA。根据该奖项，Reichart博士和他的团队将在三个夏天继续ERIRA作为射电天文学和光学天文学的研讨会。光学天文学方面是基于天网机器人望远镜网络和Cerro Tololo美洲天文台的全色机器人光学监测和偏振测量望远镜（PROMPT）望远镜的发展。射电天文学是一个很好的教学工具。与光学天文学不同，它可以在学生自然清醒的白天进行，并且可以在大多数天气条件下进行。此外，与光学天文学相结合，它形成了一个强大的教学包——促进对电磁波谱和多波长观测在21世纪天文学中发挥的重要作用的更好理解。此外，它使学生接触到广泛的天体物理现象-太阳系物体，恒星形成区域，超新星遗迹，星系，类星体-以及广泛的发射过程-黑体，同步加速器，轫致辐射，无线电和光学发射线-以与仅在一个波段或另一个波段体验的方式根本不同。

For the last 17 years, Dr. Daniel Reichart (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a small group of radio astronomy educators from across the country, have taken 15 mostly undergraduate students but also a few high school students and occasionally a member of the general public on a unique, intense, one-week workshop at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia called "Educational Research in Radio Astronomy" (ERIRA). Most astronomy programs do not teach radio astronomy, at least not in an observational or laboratory setting. This is primarily due to the prohibitive cost of building, operating, and maintaining sufficiently large radio telescopes, thus the need for ERIRA. Under this award, Dr. Reichart and his team will continue ERIRA for three summers as both a workshop in radio astronomy and in optical astronomy as well. The optical astronomy aspects are based on the development of the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network and the Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT) telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.Radio astronomy is a wonderful teaching tool. Unlike optical astronomy, it can be done during the day when students are naturally awake, and it can be done through most weather conditions. Furthermore, coupled with optical astronomy it makes a powerful teaching package - fostering a better understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum and the important role that multi-wavelength observations play in 21st-century astronomy. Furthermore, it exposes students to a wide range of astrophysical phenomena - solar system objects, star-forming regions, supernova remnants, galaxies, quasars - and a wide range of emission processes - blackbody, synchrotron, bremsstrahlung, radio and optical emission lines - in ways that are fundamentally different than when they are experienced in only one waveband or the other.