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GRANT RECIPIENTS

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2006 GRANTS

In 2006 we received 4 applications. Awards by our Grants Committee totaling $11,973 were as follows (principal investigator indicated in parentheses):

  1. University of Central Florida (Daniel Britt). $2,998 to purchase a 20” Ritchie Chreiten that will be mounted on a Mathis-instrument MI-750 Equatorial Mount to allow external guiding.

  2. Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy (Wm. Bruce Weaver). $2,975 to acquire a vacuum pump, a portable computer, and a customized script for creating FITS images in support of research using two MIRA CCD to be used for direct imaging and spectroscopy of gravitational lenses, diffuse interstellar bands, T Tauri, stars, Be lines, and comets, among others. The F.A.R. gratefully acknowledges the donation by the Institute for Space Observations of the funds for this grant.

  3. University of Hawaii-Manoa (Nader Haghighipour). $3,000 for the purchase of two or three 4-CPU dual-node Intel Xeon workstations. The PI will use these computers to build a cluster that will be used for computational studies of planetary dynamics. This facility will be available to approximately 30 scientists, including faculty, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students.

  4. University of Washington (Fabio Governato). $3,000 to assemble a Linux workstation able to visualize in 3D the output of cosmological simulations of galaxy formation to enable students and researchers to easily observe numerical simulations of astrophysical processes.
In addition, in October 2006, the Fund for Astrophysical Research donated a mirror blank to the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The mirror blank had been donated to the F.A.R. many years ago, when the F.A.R. was an operating foundation. It had been carried on our books at zero book value and had been reported on our 990-PF for 2005 with an estimated fair market value of $20,000. There is no active market in mirror blanks of this kind. The University of Tasmania advised the F.A.R. that it was selling the mirror blank for US$30,000 to the developer of an observatory in Australia and would apply the cash proceeds toward the completion of the Dunham-Waterworth Spectrograph at the University’s observatory in Tasmania.