CAREER: An Integrated Research and Education Program in Gravitational-Wave Phenomenology

华盛顿州立大学（WSU）将建立一个将尖端研究与各级教育相结合的引力波（GW）科学多学科项目。这在很大程度上是由世界各地的5个GW探测器开始的观测活动所推动的，其中包括位于华盛顿州立大学附近汉福德的美国国家科学基金会资助的激光干涉仪引力波天文台（LIGO）的3个探测器中的2个。同时运行的探测器网络将制定从各种天体物理和宇宙学来源搜索GW信号的数据分析策略，作为该计划的一部分。多探测器分析是重要的，因为它对仪器伪影和它揭示的附加源属性征收了最强大的否决权。以引力波科学为导向的课程和实验室实验将包括在内，以加强华盛顿州立大学的天文学项目，并发展快速转移知识所需的基础设施。每年约有200名二年级和四年级学生将接受培训，培养这个即将被数据淹没的领域的技能，希望他们中的一些人能继续攻读与乔治华盛顿大学研究密切相关的研究生课程。GW科学的课程将与物理专业交叉列出，从而扩大其影响。这项工作将支持LIGO开启物理学和天文学的新时代，在这个时代，人们将对脉冲星、超新星和黑洞的行为获得新的见解，并将我们对爱因斯坦广义相对论形式的经典引力的最佳理解置于一套新的严格测试中。

A multi-disciplinary program in gravitational wave (GW) science that integrates cutting-edge research with education at various levels will be established at the Washington State University (WSU). This is motivated largely by the onset of observational runs undertaken by five GW detectors around the world, including two of the three detectors of the NSF-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) located at Hanford, near WSU. Data analysis strategies for searching GW signals from a variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources with a network of detectors operating simultaneously will be formulated as part of this program. A multi-detector analysis is significant owing to the most powerful veto it levies against instrumental artifacts and the additional source properties it unravels. Gravitational-wave science oriented courses and lab experiments will be included to enhance WSU's astronomy program and to develop the infrastructure required for a quick transfer of knowledge. Sophomores and seniors, numbering about 200 per year, will be trained to develop skills in a field that will soon be inundated with data, with the hope that some of them will go on to graduate programs strongly tied to GW research. Courses in GW science will be cross-listed towards a major in physics, thus expanding their impact. LIGO will be supported by this work in ushering in a new era in Physics and Astronomy where novel insights will be gained into the behavior of pulsars, supernovae and black holes, and in putting our best understanding of classical gravity, in the form of Einstein's general relativity, to a fresh set of stringent tests.