The Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope Program-Students Partner with Scientists

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Oct 2007

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #27.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.464

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Project provides students an opportunity to experience real science. It is also an opportunity for scientists to obtain time on a radio telescope. Via the Internet, students use a 34-meter dish retired from NASA's Deep Space Network to collect data. Approximately 3,500 students participate per year, located in 29 states, 13 countries, and 3 U.S. territories. Students have collaborated with scientists to study a variety of objects and in support of several spacecraft.
GAVRT students helped calibrate Cassini's passive radiometer during its 2000-2001 flyby of Jupiter.
Students participated in radar observations to help characterize the landing sites for the Opportunity and Spirit rovers.
In December 2007 students will participate in radar measurements of possible future landing sites for the Mars Science Laboratory.
From 2003 to the present students have been collecting quasar data as part of a study of the interstellar medium. Short-term fluctuations in quasar brightness are thought to be caused by scintillations due to scattering in interstellar plasmas rather than being intrinsic to the quasars themselves.
In 2007 students and teachers submitted a proposal to investigate how the mass of black holes at the center of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) might correlate to their radio and infrared emissions. This proposal was awarded Director's Discretionary Time on the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Students are conducting ground-based observations of the jovian magnetosphere. These data will be valuable to the Juno mission, helping it find clues about the formation of our solar system and adding to the 40 plus year record of the jovian synchrotron emission.
GAVRT students also monitor the radio brightness of Uranus, searching for predicted seasonal variability.
GAVRT is a partnership involving NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Lewis Center for Education Research in Apple Valley, California.

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