REU Site: Research Experiences in Astronomy for Undergraduate Students at the Maria Mitchell Observatory

REU 网站：玛丽亚·米切尔天文台本科生的天文学研究经验

• 批准号: 2149985
• 负责人: Regina Jorgenson
• 金额: $ 20.87万
• 依托单位: Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149985&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experiences; Astronomy

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This award is for renewed funding of the Maria Mitchell Observatory (MMO) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The REU program will be offered annually to six qualified applicants, who will perform state-of-the-art data analysis using a wide variety of space- and ground-based astronomical observations. The student projects include the general areas of: formation and evolution of stars, groups and clusters of galaxies, large-scale structure of the universe, cosmology, and star clusters.The MMO REU program will have a significant impact on the skills and career development of student participants by enhancing their capability to do research, to present their results at scientific meetings and in public settings, to write scientific papers, and to write observing proposals to use national and international telescope facilities. Hundreds of undergraduate students have participated in the REU program to date, the great majority of them women, and many have gone on to successful careers as astronomers at leading universities, observatories, and other organizations around the world. Indeed, roughly one of every 20 American women with a PhD in astronomy today acquired formative research experience at the MMO. This award will therefore contribute to developing a talented STEM workforce in the United States.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）全部或部分资助的。该奖项是为了重新获得马萨诸塞州南特基特大学本科生（REU）地点的玛丽亚·米切尔天文台（MMO）研究经验的资金。 REU计划每年将向六名合格的申请人提供，他们将使用各种基于空间和地面的天文观察进行最新的数据分析。学生项目包括：星系的形成和演变的一般领域，星系的组和群集，宇宙的大规模结构，宇宙学和恒星群。MMOREU计划将对学生参与研究的能力，以在国际待遇和撰写科学阶段，并提高科学论文，并提高科学论文，并在撰写科学论文中，并为学生提供研究的能力，并以撰写科学的论文，并在国际上介绍，并为撰写科学论文，并在国际上提高研究，并对撰写科学的论文，并为撰写科学的纸张，并为公共撰写，以及以撰写科学的培训，并为公共撰写，并以及撰写科学纸张，并为公共设置，以及撰写科学纸张，并产生重大影响。望远镜设施。迄今为止，数百名本科生参加了REU计划，其中绝大多数是女性，许多人都从事成功的职业，作为领先的大学，观察者和世界其他组织的天文学家。的确，今天拥有天文学博士学位的美国女性中，大约有一个在MMO获得了形成性研究经验。因此，该奖项将有助于在美国发展有才华的STEM劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

Constraining the Size of the Circumgalactic Medium Using the Transverse Autocorrelation Function of C iv Absorbers in Paired Quasar Spectra

利用成对类星体光谱中 C iv 吸收体的横向自相关函数约束环绕银河系介质的大小

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac764d
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The Astronomical Journal
• 作者: Mintz, Abby;Rafelski, Marc;Jorgenson, Regina A.;Fumagalli, Michele;Dutta, Rajeshwari;Martin, Crystal L.;Lusso, Elisabeta;Rubin, Kate H. R.;O’Meara, John M.
• 通讯作者: O’Meara, John M.