CAREER: Beyond Gravitational Wave Detection

该奖项将支持教学和研究的综合计划，旨在教育科学家在引力波（GW）源和测量的基础。 该计划将由三个主要部分组成：（1）设计一门新的GW科学课程，主要侧重于GW源的天体物理学。本课程将通过麻省理工学院的开放式课程计划（http：//web.mit.edu/ocw）向社区开放。(2)制作一个公众可访问的目录，介绍各种GW源的“声音”。这种声音已经被证明是非常有效地说明GW科学的原则，无论是技术观众和更广泛的。 GW科学的音频编码将在可能的情况下与源动力可视化相结合。 这项工作的大部分将由麻省理工学院的本科生完成。 (3)GW源科学和测量的研究计划。 该计划将特别侧重于研究双星系统的辐射发射;绘制大质量黑洞特征的形式主义;以及可以用地面GW探测器网络完成的天文学。 这些研究项目的大部分工作将由研究生完成，这项工作将有助于确保GW探测器充分发挥其作为GW观测站的潜力，开辟观测天文学的新领域。 将开发的课程将有助于教育未来几年将使用这些新仪器的年轻科学家;声音和可视化目录将有助于向更广泛的科学界通报GW科学的前景，并作为有效的公共宣传工具。

This award will support an integrated program of teaching and research designed to educate scientists in the fundamentals of gravitational-wave (GW) sources and measurement. Three majorcomponents will comprise this program: (1) The design of a new course in GW science focusing largely on the astrophysics of GW sources. This course will be made accessible to the community via MIT's OpenCourseWare Initiative (http://web.mit.edu/ocw). (2) The production of a publiclyaccessible catalog presenting the "sounds" of various GW sources. Such sounds have been demonstrated to very effectively illustrate the principles of GW science, both to technical audiences and more broadly. Audio encodings of GW science will be coupled to source dynamical visualizations where possible. Much of this work will be done by undergraduate students at MIT. (3) A research program in GW source science and measurement. This program will focus in particular on studies of radiation emission from binary systems; a formalism for mapping the characteristics of massive black holes; and the astronomy that can be done with networks of ground-based GW detectors. The bulk of the work in these research projects will be performed by graduate students.This work will help ensure that GW detectors reach their full potential as GW observatories, opening a new field of observational astronomy. The course that will be developed will help educate the young scientists who will work with these new instruments in the coming years; the catalog of sounds and visualizations will serve to inform the broader scientific community about the promise of GW science, as well as serve as an effective public outreach tool.