SOFIA上的仪器专家培训与新技术开发
天体物理仪器与方法
2009-03-26 v1
摘要
本白皮书提交给天文学与天体物理学2010十年调查（Astro2010）职业状况委员会，旨在强调平流层红外天文台（SOFIA）在仪器专家和观测者培训以及相关技术开发方面的潜力。这一潜力超越了SOFIA的主要任务——开展独特、高优先级的天文研究。SOFIA是一架波音747SP飞机，搭载一台2.5米望远镜。它将能够随时随地、在大多数地面天文台无法观测的0.3微米至1.6毫米波长范围内进行天文观测。这些源于SOFIA机动性和飞行高度的特性，保证了丰富的科学回报。其仪器团队（第一代共九个）和客座研究人员将在舒适环境中进行亚轨道天文学研究。该项目将在20年的寿命期内每年投资1000万美元用于科学仪器开发。频繁的飞行机会以及允许快速更换科学仪器和机上亲手操作仪器的运行模式，确保了独特而广泛的潜力——既可用于培训年轻仪器专家，也可用于鼓励和部署新兴技术。覆盖光学、红外和亚毫米波段的新型仪器可由其开发者（包括学徒）为自身观测和客座观测者观测而开发并在SOFIA上测试，以验证技术并最大化观测效率。
引用
@article{arxiv.0903.4240,
title = {Training of Instrumentalists and Development of New Technologies on SOFIA},
author = {Edwin F. Erickson and Louis J. Allamandola and Jean-Paul Baluteau and Eric E. Becklin and Gordon Bjoraker and Michael Burton and Lawrence J. Caroff and Cecilia Ceccarelli and Edward B. Churchwell and Dan P. Clemens and Martin Cohen and Dale P. Cruikshank and Harriet L. Dinerstein and Edward W. Dunham and Giovanni G. Fazio and Ian Gatley and Robert D. Gehrz and Reinhard Genzel and Paul Graf and Matthew A. Greenhouse and Doyal A. Harper and Paul M. Harvey and Martin Harwit and Roger H. Hildebrand and David J. Hollenbach and Adair P. Lane and Harold P. Larson and Steven D. Lord and Suzanne Madden and Gary J. Melnick and David A. Neufeld and Catherine B. Olkin and Christopher C. Packham and Thomas L. Roellig and Hans-Peter Roeser and Scott A. Sandford and Kristen Sellgren and Janet P. Simpson and John W. V. Storey and Charles M. Telesco and Alexander G. G. M. Tielens and Alan T. Tokunaga and Charles H. Townes and Christopher K. Walker and Michael W. Werner and Stanley E. Whitcomb and Juergen Wolf and Charles E. Woodward and Erick T. Young and Jonas Zmuidzinas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4240},
year = {2009}
}
备注
10 pages, no figures, White Paper for Astro 2010 Survey Committee on State of the Profession