Establishing a diverse community of expert Rubin Observatory users throughout the California State University System

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。 在加州州立大学系统内的观测天文学家网络与NOIRLab和Vera Rubin天文台的成员之间建立了伙伴关系，以使用遗留的时空巡天数据。 CSU的教师和本科生将组成团队，这些团队将：与鲁宾天文台的工作人员密切合作，以实现数据访问;与NOIRLab科学家开发新的科学合作;参与技术培训和独特的研究机构集中的经验;并成为鲁宾科学平台（RSP）的专家用户。反过来，对合作伙伴关系的科学研究将确定最佳实践，为NOIRLab的研究包容性工作提供服务。 项目亮点和合作伙伴简介将在23个校园的CSU STEM社区中制作和传播，为建立一个超越项目期的CSU天文学家网络奠定基础。 四个CSU合作机构中有三个是西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）。认真和深思熟虑的招聘和指导将增加来自天文学领域代表性不足群体的学生的保留和成功机会。CSU天文学教师和本科生将共同学习鲁宾科学平台，在预览数据科学方面进行合作，并为鲁宾数据发布1的立即使用做好准备。合作伙伴将通过研究天体物理学主题，特别是与LSST实验装置和每个CSU中心的专业知识协同，来发展RSP的专业知识和流利程度。在初夏的“数据峰会”上，鲁宾的专家将提供量身定制的支持，CSU的团队将建立社区。每个团队将开发自己的项目并产生自己的科学成果，但将作为一个社区开发和共享数据分析管道，作为一个问责小组，并修改数据分析笔记本。CSU的四个中心涉及的科学领域是：大尺度结构中的星系/灯丝排列，X射线双星监测和发现，伽马射线爆发余辉表征和探测，以及在附近矮星系中发现长周期变星。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). A partnership is developed between a network of observational astronomers within the California State University (CSU) system and members of NOIRLab and the Vera Rubin Observatory to use the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) data. Faculty and undergraduate students at the CSU will form teams that will: work closely with Rubin Observatory staff to achieve data access; develop new scientific collaborations with NOIRLab scientists; engage in technical training and unique research-institute focused experiences; and become expert users of the Rubin Science Platform (RSP). In turn, a scientific study of the partnership will set best-practices that will serve the NOIRLab in its work toward research inclusion. Program highlights and partner profiles will be produced and communicated throughout the 23-campus CSU STEM community, laying the groundwork for building a CSU network of astronomers that extends beyond the project period. Three of the four CSU partner institutions are Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Conscientious and deliberate recruitment and mentoring will increase opportunities for the retention and success of students from groups underrepresented in astronomy. CSU astronomy faculty and undergraduate students will work together to learn the Rubin Science Platform, collaborate on preview-data science, and prepare for the immediate use of the Rubin Data Release 1. The partners will develop expertise and fluency in the RSP by investigating astrophysics topics particularly synergistic with the LSST experimental setup and the expertise at each CSU hub. At an early summer ‘data summit’ Rubin specialists will deliver tailored support and the CSU teams will build community. Each team will develop their own project and produce their own scientific results, but will work as a community to develop and share data analysis pipelines, as an accountability group, and in revising data analysis notebooks. The scientific areas addressed at the four CSU hubs are: Galaxy/Filament alignments in large scale structures, X-ray binary monitoring and discovery, gamma ray burst afterglow characterization and detection, and discovery of long-period variable stars in nearby dwarf galaxies. The impact on the student experience will be tracked by an external program evaluator.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.