NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) for FY 2013 in Australia

这项行动资助弗吉尼亚大学的乔安娜·科尔比在2013年夏天在新南威尔士州肯辛顿的新南威尔士大学进行数学和物理科学领域的研究项目。 该项目的名称是“绘制银河系中心的分子图”。“东道主科学家是玛丽亚·坎宁安博士和保罗·琼斯博士。该项目利用澳大利亚的射电望远镜观测站来限制人马座B2的物理和化学，人马座B2是银河系银河系中心的一个分子气体云，具有活跃的星星形成。 该项目绘制了有机分子和前生物分子的光谱线发射和吸收图，并提供了关于这些物种空间分布的信息，这对于确定产生它们的化学反应网络至关重要。 数据分析的重点是分子，提供具体的洞察物理过程，包括通过冲击。 这详细说明了银河系中央600光年内高能过程的运动学和几何学。 EAPSI奖学金的更广泛的影响包括为研究员提供美国以外的第一手研究经验;介绍各自所在地的科学，科学政策和科学基础设施;以及社会，文化和语言的方向。 这些活动符合NSF的目标，即在科学家，工程师和教育工作者的职业生涯早期进行国际合作教育，从而确保具有全球意识的美国科学工作者。 此外，这次合作产生的数据将用于培训和激励年轻一代的科学家，利用研究员与弗吉尼亚州中部的高中生一起进行为期8个月的天体化学研究项目。项目数据还将用于2013-2014年计划进行的研究。

This action funds Joanna Corby of University of Virginia to conduct a research project in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences area during the summer of 2013 at University of New South Wales in Kensington, New South Wales. The project title is "Mapping Molecules in the Center of the Milky Way." The host scientists are Dr. Maria Cunningham and Dr. Paul Jones. The project utilizes Australia's radio telescope observatories to constrain the physics and chemistry of Sagittarius B2, a molecular gas cloud in the Milky Way's Galactic Center with active star formation. The project maps spectral line emission and absorption by organic and pre-biotic molecules and provides information on the spatial distributions of these species that is essential for determining the chemical reaction networks that produce them. Data analysis focuses on molecules that provide specific insight into physical processes, including the passage of shocks. This details the kinematics and geometry of highly energetic processes in the central 600 light years of the Galaxy. Broader impacts of an EAPSI fellowship include providing the Fellow a first-hand research experience outside the U.S.; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. These activities meet the NSF goal to educate for international collaborations early in the career of its scientists, engineers, and educators, thus ensuring a globally aware U.S. scientific workforce. Furthermore, the data resulting from this collaboration will be used to train and motivate a younger generation of scientists, drawing on the Fellows work with high school students in central Virginia on 8-month research projects in astrochemistry. Project data will also be used in planned research in 2013-2014.