论文标题
能够发现：国家科学基金会的三十年高级技术和仪器
Enabling Discoveries: Thirty Years of Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation at the National Science Foundation
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论文摘要
在其三十多年的历史中，先进的技术和仪器（ATI）计划为基于地面天文学的技术开发和仪器提供了赠款。通过自动文献评估和深入文献综述的结合，我们介绍了ATI资助的研究的调查以及对其对天文学和社会的影响的评估。 ATI的奖励确认和文献引用统计数据与不支持技术开发的比较天文学赠款计划相媲美。这两个NSF资助的计划的引文统计数据都超过了一般天文学文献的统计数据。许多例子表明，ATI支持的天文学研究对长期的长期影响。作为这种影响的一部分，ATI赠款为许多早期的职业研究人员提供了获得重要专业经验的机会。但是，技术开发在一个时期内展开的时间比个人赠款更长。纵向观点表明，技术和仪器的投资导致了非凡的科学进步。
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.
