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<h3>Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)</h3>
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Stony Brook University is part of
the <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/act/">Atacama
Cosmology Telescope (ACT)</a> Collaboration. ACT
is a six-metre telescope on Cerro Toco in the
Atacama Desert in the north of Chile. It is
designed to make high-resolution,
millimeter-wavelength surveys of the sky in order
to study the cosmic microwave background radiation
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), a CMB telescope in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
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<p>The <a href="http://www.lsst.org/lsst/">Large
Synoptic Survey Telescope</a> (LSST) will
image half the night sky every three days and
see objects that are 400-million times fainter
than those we can see with the naked eye. This
endeavor will generate about 30 terabytes of
data per night. This instrument will become
operational in 2020, and it will revolutionize
all fields of astronomy.
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National Lab</a> (BNL) has been a partner
institution in LSST for almost a decade, and
has a major role in the development of the
LSST camera. Several faculty at Stony Brook
are members of the LSST Dark Energy Science
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scientists at BNL to lay the theoretical,
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<P>Stony Brook University is one of the founding
members of
the <A HREF="http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/SMARTS/smarts.html">SMARTS</A>
consortium. The SMARTS consortium was organized
to keep open and operating
the <a href="http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~whiting/smartspix.html">small
telescopes</a> at
the <a href="http://www.ctio.noao.edu/">Cerro
Tololo Interamerican Observatory</a>. The prime
source of information about SMARTS is
the <a href="http://www.astro.yale.edu/smarts/">main
SMARTS web page</a> at Yale university.
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the SMARTS telescopes
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<p>The <A href="/astro/mtstonybrook">Mount Stony
Brook Observatory</A> consists of a new
computerized Meade 14 inch LX200-ACF telescope
permanently mounted in a dome on the roof of
our building. We have 2 CCD cameras (+ filter
wheel) and a spectrograph that can be used
with it, as well as an assortment of
eyepieces. The telescope is currently used
for graduate and undergraduate classes and
labs and during
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Open Nights</a>. Additionally, a large number
of smaller 8" telescopes are also
available for use.
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the 14" telescope
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<p>Stony Brook astronomers make regular use of the
wide array of instrumentation available to
contemporary astronomy. Stony Brook faculty and
graduate students are frequent users of the
facilities of
the <a href="http://www.noao.edu/">National
Optical Astronomy Observatories</a> such as
the <a href="http://www.ctio.noao.edu/">Cerro
Tololo Interamerican Observatory</a>,
the <a href="http://www.nrao.edu/">National
Radio Astronomy Observatories</a>, the NASA
<a href="http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/">Infrared
Telescope Facility (IRTF)</a> on Mauna Kea,
the <a href="http://www.nofs.navy.mil/projects/npoi/">Naval
Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI)</a>,
the <a href="http://www.gemini.edu/">Gemini</a>, <a href="http://www.keckobservatory.org/">Keck</a>,
the <a href="http://www.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/">CHARA
Array</a>, <a href="http://iram.fr/">IRAM</a>
observatories, the
<a href="http://www.mmarray.org/">Combined Array
for Research in Millimeter Astronomy
(CARMA)</a>,
the <a href="http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/index-e.html">Nobeyama
45m telescope</a>, and
the <a href="http://www.naoj.org/">Subaru
telescope</a>.
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<p>Stony Brook faculty have been principal
investigators on programs using
the <a href="http://www.stsci.edu/resources/">Hubble
Space Telescope (HST)</a>,
the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/chandra/">Chandra
X-ray
Observatory</a>, <a href="http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/">XMM-Newton
X-ray
Observatory</a>, <a href="http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=16">Herschel
telescope</a> and
the <a href="http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/">Spitzer
Space Telescope</a>. Faculty and students
routinely use archival data from these and other
NASA missions in the course of their
research. Graduate students routinely
participate in analysis of data obtained from
these and other missions, and use these data in
the PhD theses.
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<p>The department maintains computing facilities,
consisting of UNIX workstations and Linux PCs,
for support of data analysis and theoretical
work. Profs. Swesty and Zingale have small
beowulf clusters for research. In addition the
University has a 470 processor
cluster, <A HREF="http://www.stonybrook.edu/seawulfcluster/">Seawulf</A>
available for graduate student use. Stony Brook
also is part of the New York Center for
Computational Science and together with
Brookhaven National Lab run a large IBM Blue
Gene/L machine (> 36,000
processors), <A HREF="http://www.bnl.gov/newyorkblue/">New
York Blue</A>.
<p>More details can be found on
the <a href="./localcomputing.html">Astronomy
Group Local Computing page</a>
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the WOPR beowulf cluster
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<p>Stony Brook researchers have large allocations
of supercomputer time (10s of million of
CPU-hours per year) at
the <A HREF="http://www.nersc.gov/">National
Energy Research Scientific Computing Center</A>,
the <A href="http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/">Oak
Ridge Leadership Computing Facility</A> (through
the INCITE program), and the
<A href="http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/bluewaters">NCSA
Blue Waters</a> machine through NSF. These
computers are used mainly for simulations of
supernovae (Type Ia and II), X-ray bursts, and
other stellar explosions.
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