The Michigan/Magellan Fiber System (M2FS): An MRI Development Proposal

密歇根/麦哲伦光纤系统 (M2FS)：MRI 开发提案

• 批准号: 0923160
• 负责人: Mario Mateo
• 金额: $ 142.93万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0923160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Michigan; Magellan; Fiber; System; M2FS

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Observing time on the world's largest telescopes is a very valuable commodity. Any scheme that can enhance their efficiency pays significant dividends in the number of scientific research programs that can be undertaken and in the associated cost of the observations. Dr. Mario Mateo of the University of Michigan has designed a new spectrograph for use on the 6.5-meter Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, a research facility of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Spectrographs are a workhorse instrument for astronomy and many other fields of science and technology. They spread the light from the telescope focus into its constituent colors (like a rainbow) for further analysis. The analysis can tell us about the chemical composition, temperature, and velocity of a celestial object. This new spectrograph will realize a significant increase in operational efficiency, wavelength coverage, optical throughput, and ease of use over the existing instrument. The new spectrograph will be fed light simultaneously from up to 256 objects on the sky via optical fibers. The National Science Foundation is funding the development of this new spectrograph through its Major Research Instrumentation program.

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国复苏与再投资法》（公共法律111-5）资助的。在世界上最大的望远镜上观察时间是非常有价值的商品。 任何可以提高其效率的计划都会在可以进行的科学研究计划的数量和观察成本相关的成本中带来很大的分红。 密歇根大学的Mario Mateo博士设计了一个新的光谱仪，可在智利的Las Campanas天文台的6.5米麦哲伦望远镜上使用，这是华盛顿卡内基研究所的观测站的研究机构。 光谱仪是天文学和许多其他科学技术领域的主力工具。 他们将望远镜的光聚焦在其组成颜色（如彩虹）中进行进一步分析。该分析可以告诉我们天体物体的化学成分，温度和速度。 这种新的光谱仪将实现对现有仪器的操作效率，波长覆盖，光学吞吐量和易用性的显着提高。新的光谱仪将通过光纤在天空上的256个物体同时供电。国家科学基金会通过其主要的研究工具计划为这一新光谱仪的发展提供了资金。