Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation and the National Science Foundation
Abstract
Over its more than thirty-year history, the Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program has provided grants to support technology development for ground-based astronomy. Research from this program has advanced adaptive optics, high resolution and multi-object spectroscopy, optical interferometry and synoptic surveys, to name just a few. Previous and ongoing scientific advances span the entire field of astronomy, from studies of the Sun to the distant universe. Through a combination of literature assessment and individual case studies, we present a survey of ATI funded research for optical-infrared astronomy. We find that technology development unfolds over a time period that is longer than an individual grant. A longitudinal perspective shows that substantial scientific gains have resulted from investments in technology.
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@article{arxiv.1809.01294,
title = {Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation and the National Science Foundation},
author = {Peter Kurczynski and James E. Neff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01294},
year = {2018}
}
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14 pages, 2 figures; Conference proceeding from SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin TX