Graduate Student Participation and Optics Upgrades for the Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment

加那利红外相机实验的研究生参与和光学升级

• 批准号: 0352664
• 负责人: Stephen Eikenberry
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0352664&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Graduate; Student; Participation; Optics; Upgrades

AST-0352664/Eikenberry, U FloridaThe University of Florida is designing and building the Canarias Infrared Camera Experiment, a near-infrared open-use guest instrument for the soon-to-be-completed Gran Telescopio Canarias 10.4-meter telescope. The camera is an all-reflective 1-2.5 micron imager with a 3.4x3.4-arcminute field-of-view, offering built-in upgrade paths for narrow-band imaging, low- and moderate-resolution grism spectroscopy and imaging polarimetry. The combination of this camera and the Gran Telsescopio Canarias will produce one of the most powerful near-infrared scientific tools in the world, enabling a broad range of investigations from microquasars to stellar populations to high-redshift galaxy evolution (including at least eight projects currently funded by NSF). The present project will support the involvement of two graduate students in the design, fabrication, integration, and commissioning of the camera, as well as funds to populate the narrow-band imaging, spectroscopic, and polarimetric upgrades to the instrument. This work provides important training opportunities in astronomical instrumentation to two graduate students, and also greatly enhances the scientific productivity of the camera.

AST-0352664/Eikenberry，佛罗里达大学佛罗里达大学正在设计和建造加那利红外相机实验，这是一种近红外开放式客用仪器，用于即将完工的加那利大望远镜 10.4 米望远镜。该相机是一款全反射式 1-2.5 微米成像仪，具有 3.4x3.4 角分视场，提供窄带成像、低分辨率和中分辨率棱镜光谱以及成像偏振测量的内置升级路径。该相机与 Gran Telsescopio Canarias 的结合将产生世界上最强大的近红外科学工具之一，从而实现从微类星体到恒星种群再到高红移星系演化的广泛研究（包括目前至少八个项目）由美国国家科学基金会资助）。目前的项目将支持两名研究生参与相机的设计、制造、集成和调试，并提供资金来对仪器进行窄带成像、光谱和偏振升级。这项工作为两名研究生提供了重要的天文仪器培训机会，也极大地提高了相机的科学生产力。