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E: Additional Sources of Funding for Astronomy
E: Additional Sources of Funding for Astronomy
Pages 66-75
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Members of the scientific staff have on occasion been invited to write internal proposals to use some of the discretionary funds for science. The outside grants are typically used in the Planetary Branch to fund coinvestigators or postdocs whose official places of employment may be SETT (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
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E.1.3 Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomy and astrophysics at GSFC is conducted in the Sciences Directorate, primarily in the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics and the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics. There are other smaller programs in the Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics (primarily comets and planetary work)
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E.~.5 Marshall Space Flight Center Astronomy and astrophysics research at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is conducted in the Space Science Department of the Science Directorate.
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E.1.6 Space Telescope Science Institute Research funding at STScI comes through a combination of direct salary support for the scientific staff and a small (approxi~nate1Y $0.5 million ner vear) Director's Discretionary Fund, which is ~ ~ 1 ~ ~ _ _ ~ _ ~ _ _ ~ _ ~ _ ~ a negotiated part of the overhead on the STScI operations contract.
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E.3.1 National Radio Astronomy Observatory The NRAO is a federally funded research and development center of NSF. NRAO operates a number of facilities: the Very Large Array and Very Long Baseline Array in Socorro, New Mexico; the 140 Foot Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, soon to be closed in anticipation of the completion of construction and the beginning of operations of the Green Bank Telescope in early 2000; and the 12 Meter Telescope on Kitt Peak near Tucson Arizona, to be closed when the Millimeter Array (MMA)
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Separate panels read proposals in galactic astronomy, extragalactic astronomy, and solar system studies and evaluate them on the basis of scientific merit. The NSF funds for operating the NOAO also provide support for 45 scientific staff, including postdocs.
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. The major projects funded by DOE HEP in FY 1997 included three direct clerk-matter searches (the cosmic axion search based at Livermore; the neutralino search currently at Stanford anti moving to the Soudan Mine, known as CDMS I and Il.; and a monopole search at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy, known as MACRO)
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It is estimated that funding for astrophysics since FY 1997 has increased at about 10 percent per year and that 10 percent of DOEsupported high-energy physicists are involved in astrophysics research. Both DOE Nuclear Physics and DOE HEP are currently considering new projects: the Auger Observatory and HiResII (ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays)
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The federally funded activities of SAO center around research in seven areas: atomic and molecular physics, high-energy astrophysics, optical and infrared astronomy, planetary sciences, radio and geoastronomy, solar and stellar physics, and theoretical astrophysics. Within these activities, the two major facilities are the F.L.
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and the University of Colorado at Boulder jointly support JILA, formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics. The senior scientific staff (or fellows)
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