Expanding interdisciplinary research at the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy

该CREST提案的目标是进一步加强德克萨斯大学布朗斯维尔分校在引力波（GW）天文学研究和教育方面的使命，并通过增加代表性不足的群体的参与，保持在基础物理学这一领域的国家竞争力。这将通过在三个领域的子项目的多学科，协同组合来实现，这三个领域对GW天文学的成功至关重要：数据分析，探测器表征和天体物理学。拟议的分项目侧重于10至1000赫兹波段的地基GW天文学，将联合收割机与低频和超低频GW探测方面的现有活动结合起来，建立一个独特的GW天文学研究小组。每个分项目的目标都是及时的，并与GW天文学的持续发展保持一致。在数据分析方面，将开发最佳方法，将来自世界范围探测器网络的数据结合起来，以便提高灵敏度和新科学。将制定各种方法，克服在寻找连续GW源和分析特定天体物理模型数据方面的计算瓶颈。将通过采用其他学科的有希望的结果来开发新的GW数据分析工具。探测器表征项目将开发复杂的数据挖掘和自动知识发现工具，使GW实验人员和数据分析人员能够更好地了解探测器和数据。在天体物理学子项目中，该项目将寻求了解LIGO在研究中等质量黑洞形成方面的观测能力，并探索银河系中心大质量黑洞探测器的潜力。

The goal of this CREST proposal is to further strengthen the University of Texas at Brownsville's mission of research and education in gravitational wave (GW) astronomy and, by increasing the participation of underrepresented groups, maintain national competitiveness in this area of fundamental physics. This will be achieved by a multi-disciplinary, synergistic combination of sub-projects in three areas that are critical to the success of GW astronomy: data analysis, detector characterization, and astrophysics. The proposed sub-projects, which focus on ground-based GW astronomy in the 10 to 1000 Hz band, will combine with existing activities in low and ultra-low frequency GW detection to create a unique research group in GW astronomy. The goals of each sub-project are timely and in tune with the ongoing developments in GW astronomy. Under data analysis, optimal ways of combining data from a worldwide network of detectors will be developed in order to enable better sensitivity and new science. Methods will be developed to overcome computational bottlenecks in searches for continuous GW sources and for the analysis of data for specific astrophysical models. Novel GW data analysis tools will be developed by adapting promising results from other disciplines. Detector characterization projects will develop sophisticated data mining and automated knowledge discovery tools that will enable GW experimentalists and data analysts to better understand both the detectors and the data. In the astrophysics sub-project, the project will seek to understand LIGO's observational capability in the study of intermediate-mass black hole formation and explore the potential of pulsars as probes of the massive black hole at the Galactic center.