CAREER: Evryscope Science: Realizing the Potential of the First Full-Sky Gigapixel-Scale Telescope

职业：Evryscope Science：实现第一台全天千兆像素级望远镜的潜力

• 批准号: 1555175
• 负责人: Nicholas Law
• 金额: $ 91.49万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-02-15 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555175&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Evryscope; Science; Realizing; Potential

The Evryscope is a new type of telescope that records the entire sky visible from Chile in each exposure, and it obtains a new exposure every two minutes, night after night. Its 691 megapixel camera and the continuous operation will enable the discovery of short-timescale events, such as the decrease in apparent brightness when a planet passes in front of its host star. Professor Law, along with students at the University of North Carolina, developed the Evryscope and will use it as the centerpiece of his 5-year integrated education and research plan in this Faculty Early Career Development Program award. In addition to providing opportunities for student research training, the PI will develop Evryscope-based modules into large introductory classes and into the upper-level observational astronomy curriculum. The team will create a zoomable, real-time view of the dynamic sky seen by Evryscope into a giant interactive planetarium display at UNC's Moorhead planetarium. This public exhibit will be used by hundreds of thousands of school-age children and planetarium visitors.The PI has deployed the 8000 square-degree Evryscope at Cerro Tololo, where it is recording the entire southern sky down to 16th magnitude with 2-minute cadence. The PI and his students will conduct the Evryscope survey of a range of variable and transient targets, and they will develop the data processing/analysis and database tools to maximize the scientific output of this survey. Their principal focus will be a large survey for habitable rocky planets around the nearest white dwarfs.

Evryscope是一种新型的望远镜，在每次曝光中都可以从智利可见的整个天空记录，它每隔两分钟又晚上就每隔两分钟才能获得一次新的曝光。它的691百万像素摄像头和连续的操作将能够发现短时间尺度的事件，例如，当行星在其宿主之星前通过时，明显的亮度下降。 Law教授与北卡罗来纳大学的学生一起开发了Evryscope，并将其用作他在该教师早期职业发展计划奖中其5年综合教育和研究计划的核心。除了提供学生研究培训的机会外，PI还将将基于EVR​​yscope的模块发展为大型入门类别，并将其分为高级观察天文学课程。该团队将创建一个可放大的实时视图，以欣赏Evryscope在UNC的Moorhead天文学上看到的巨型互动式天文馆展示的动态天空。该公共展览将被数十万学龄儿童和天文馆游客使用。PI部署了Cerro Tololo的8000平方客流Evryscope，在那里它将整个南方天空记录到16级，并以2分钟的速度记录。 PI和他的学生将对一系列可变和瞬态目标进行Evryscope调查，他们将开发数据处理/分析和数据库工具，以最大程度地提高本调查的科学输出。他们的主要重点将是对最近白矮人周围可居住的岩石行星进行的大规模调查。