Report
Enabling Discoveries: Thirty Years of Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation at the National Science Foundation
| العنوان: | Enabling Discoveries: Thirty Years of Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation at the National Science Foundation |
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| المؤلفون: | Kurczynski, Peter, Milojević, Staša |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| الوصف: | Over its more than thirty-year history, the Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program has provided grants to support technology development and instrumentation for ground-based astronomy. Through a combination of automated literature assessment and in-depth literature review, we present a survey of ATI-funded research and an assessment of its impact on astronomy and society. Award acknowledgement and literature citation statistics for ATI are comparable to a comparison astronomy grant program that does not support technology development. Citation statistics for both NSF-funded programs exceed those of the general astronomical literature. Numerous examples demonstrate the significant, long term impact of ATI-supported research on astronomy. As part of this impact, ATI grants have provided many early career researchers the opportunity to gain critical professional experience. However, technology development unfolds over a time period that is longer than an individual grant. A longitudinal perspective shows that investments in technology and instrumentation have lead to extraordinary scientific progress. Comment: 87 pages, 15 figures. Submitted to JATIS. Comments welcome |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05899 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.2006.05899 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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