St Andrews Astronomy: PATT linked travel and subsistence

我们要求以滚动赠款的形式提供旅行和生活支助，使圣安德鲁斯大学天文学小组的观察员能够利用PATT等同行评审小组在主要国际设施上授予的望远镜时间。我们还寻求批准前往其他更小的望远镜。特别是，我们寻求支持在2009A学期和2010A学期使用上普罗旺斯（OHP） 1.9米望远镜上的索菲光谱仪进行后续径向速度观测。这将使我们能够测量由SuperWASP宽视场天空巡逻相机发现的太阳系外行星的质量，该相机目前正在拉帕尔马开始其第四个年头的运行。我们是行星合作的积极成员，并寻求批准偶尔前往南半球的小型望远镜，以协助对银河系凸起微透镜事件的密集观测活动。我们正在使用CTIO的望远镜来测量最低质量恒星的基本特性，并使用干涉成像来绘制恒星表面。这是PPARC与pat相关的拨款PP/E000584/1的延续

We request travel and subsistence support in the form of a rolling grant, to enable observers in the Astronomy group at the University of St Andrews to take up telescope time awarded by peer review panels such as PATT, on major international facilities. We also seek approval for travel to other, smaller telescopes. In particular, we seek support for follow-up radial-velocity observations during Semester 2009A and Semester 2010A using the SOPHIE spectrograph on the 1.9-m telescope at Haute-Provence (OHP). This will enable us to measure the masses of extra-solar planets found by the SuperWASP Wide-Field Sky Patrol Camera, which is currently beginning its fourth year of operation on La Palma. We are active members of the PLANET collaboration, and seek approval for occasional travel to small telescopes in the southern hemisphere to assist in intensive observing campaigns on Galactic Bulge microlensing events. We are using telescopes at CTIO to measure fundamental properties of the lowest-mass stars, and interferometric imaging to map stellar surfaces. This is a continuation of PPARC PATT-linked grant PP/E000584/1