MPS-Ascend: Can the Protostellar Magnetic Field be Used as a Signpost for Binary Formation Pathway?

MPS-Ascend：原恒星磁场可以用作二元形成路径的路标吗？

• 批准号: 2213275
• 负责人: Erin Cox
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Cox, Erin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2213275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MPS; Ascend; Protostellar; Magnetic; Field

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). PI Dr. Erin Cox is awarded a NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NSF MPS-Ascend) to conduct a program of research and activities related to broaden participation by groups underrepresented in STEM. This fellowship to Dr. Cox supports her research project entitled "MPS-Ascend: Can the Protostellar Magnetic Field be Used as a Signpost for Binary Formation Pathway?", under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. The host institution for the fellowship is Northwestern University, and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Giles Novak.The star formation rate of the Milky Way is extremely inefficient (~ 1-10%) and the only way to account for this inefficiency in simulations is when magnetic fields are included. Magnetic fields are difficult to observe and thus they remain one of the least understood aspects of the star formation process. This project will establish a new millimeter-wave Legacy Survey-- The Collapsing Magnetic Cores (CMC) Survey-- which will map the magnetic field of ~20 protostellar cores with unprecedented resolution. The CMC survey will provide the field with a revolutionary dataset showing exquisite maps of this unobserved area.The PI will develop an Introduction to Computational Logics class for the Northwestern Prisoners Education Project (NPEP). Black and Hispanic men are disproportionately represented in the US prison population. By developing and teaching this new class to the cohorts in NPEP, the PI will be contributing to the education of these students. NPEP is a degree granting program, and this new class will be directly involving these students in mathematical and physical sciences.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金根据《2021 年美国救援计划法案》（公法 117-2）提供。 PI 博士 Erin Cox 被授予 NSF 数学和物理科学提升博士后研究奖学金 (NSF MPS-Ascend)，以开展一项与扩大 STEM 代表性不足群体的参与相关的研究和活动计划。考克斯博士的这项奖学金支持她的研究项目“MPS-Ascend：原恒星磁场能否用作二元形成路径的路标？”，该项目是在一位资助科学家的指导下进行的。该奖学金的主办机构是西北大学，资助科学家是 Giles Novak 博士。银河系的恒星形成率极其低效（约 1-10%），在模拟中解释这种低效的唯一方法是当包括磁场时。磁场很难观测，因此它们仍然是恒星形成过程中最不为人所知的方面之一。 该项目将建立一个新的毫米波遗产勘测——坍缩磁芯（CMC）勘测——将以前所未有的分辨率绘制约 20 个原恒星核心的磁场图。 CMC 调查将为该领域提供革命性的数据集，显示这一未被观测区域的精美地图。PI 将为西北囚犯教育项目 (NPEP) 开发计算逻辑入门课程。黑人和西班牙裔男性在美国监狱人口中所占比例过高。 通过为 NPEP 学生开发和教授这门新课程，PI 将为这些学生的教育做出贡献。 NPEP 是一个学位授予计划，这个新课程将直接让这些学生参与数学和物理科学。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。