Relativistic Astrophysics

索恩，基普AST 97-31698 索恩博士将开展一项理论研究计划，解决天体物理物体产生引力波和相对论天体物理学中的问题。 引力波研究是该研究计划的主要组成部分，将重点关注LIGO（激光干涉仪引力波天文台）可探测到的波。 索恩和他的研究小组将确定LIGO需要什么样的波生成计算，并将执行其中的一些计算，并向其他研究人员提供其他建议。 索恩的工作特别关注由黑洞、中子星和假设的致密物体（例如玻色子星、孤立子星和裸奇点）组成的二元系统的螺旋和合并产生的波。 计算将产生详细的，高精度的波形，通过求解爱因斯坦场方程计算的二进制的螺旋，合并和振铃，这将为从LIGO数据中搜索和提取信息提供指导。 ***

Thorne, Kip AST 97-31698 Dr. Thorne will carry out a program of theoretical research addressing issues in the generation of gravitational waves by astrophysical objects and in relativistic astrophysics. The gravitational wave research, which makes up the majority of the research program, will focus on waves detectable by LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory). Thorne and his research group will identify what wave-generation computations are needed for LIGO and will carry out some of these computations, and give advice on others to other researchers. Thorne's work is particularly concerned with waves produced by the inspiral and merger of binary systems made of black holes, neutron stars, and hypothetical compact objects, such as boson stars, soliton stars, and naked singularities. The calculations will produce detailed, high-accuracy waveforms, computed by solving the Einstein field equations for the binaries' inspiral, merger, and ringdown, which will provide guidance for the search and extraction of information from LIGO data. ***