PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 1103553
• 负责人: Abigail Vieregg
• 金额: $ 20.88万
• 依托单位: Vieregg Abigail G
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-15 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1103553&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PostDoctoral; Research; Fellowship

Through precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), astrophysicists tackle the most exciting questions about the nature of the Universe at the beginning of time, including probing the widely-held theory that the Universe underwent violent Inflation during the first moments of time. The applicant plans to work at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics on the SPUD Array, a new set of receivers that will observe from the South Pole aiming to discover the first direct signature of Inflation: the primordial B-mode polarization imprint left behind in the CMB. The intellectual merit of the proposed research is to directly probe the Universe through the data analysis effort drawn from the applicant's experience in particle physics while developing new analysis tools. For the broader impact, the applicant plans writing for the Exploratorium?s Web site "Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists", which shares stories about astrophysical research in Antarctica. She also plans to be a Worldwide Telescope Ambassador, giving public presentations and adding images from Antarctic-based telescopes to the Worldwide Telescope?s computer-based astronomy visualization tools for education.

通过对宇宙微波背景（CMB）的精确测量，天体物理学家在开始时就解决了有关宇宙本质的最令人兴奋的问题，包括探究了宇宙在第一瞬间进行暴力通货膨胀的广泛存在的理论。申请人计划在哈佛大学天体物理学中心在SPUD阵列上工作，SPUD阵列是一组新的接收器，它将从南极观察到，目的是发现通货膨胀的第一个直接签名：原始B模式极化痕迹留在CMB中。拟议的研究的智力优点是通过从申请人在开发新分析工具的同时，通过申请人在粒子物理学方面的经验中得出的数据分析工作直接探究宇宙。对于更广泛的影响，申请人计划为Exploratorium的网站写作“ Ice Stories：Polar Scientists派遣”，该网站分享了南极洲天体研究的故事。她还计划成为全球望远镜大使，进行公开演讲，并在全球望远镜的基于计算机的天文学可视化工具中添加基于南极的望远镜的图像。