REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

REU 网站：引力波天体物理学本科生研究

• 批准号: 0753855
• 负责人: Kenneth Libbrecht
• 金额: $ 36.6万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0753855&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Undergraduate; Research; Gravitational

This award support the Research Experience for Undergraduates located at the California Institute of Technology, with research also taking place at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. The site supports ten students for ten weeks of summer research per year, with projects focusing on research in the detection of gravitational radiation from astrophysical sources, including laser interferometry, optical components, electronics, servo controls, complex mechanical systems, data analysis techniques, astrophysical source modeling, and numerical relativity. REU participants work closely with individual LIGO scientists on projects involving many aspects of detector hardware development, data analysis, and source modeling. The students are able to make real and lasting contributions in a research experience at the forefront of observational astrophysics. Students interact with scientists of all ages, so they can learn about today's career options in science in addition to the science itself. The RET component of this proposal involves high school teachers that are local to the LIGO sites in rural Washington and Louisiana. RET participants take part in research projects alongside the REU students at the sites, and they also work on creating classroom activities that bring the foundations of LIGO science to their own students. This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program, and by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Math and Physical Sciences Directorate in conjunction with the Physics Division.

该奖项支持位于加州理工学院的本科生的研究经验，研究也发生在路易斯安那州利文斯顿和汉福德，华盛顿的激光干涉仪引力波天文台（LIGO）网站。 该网站每年支持10名学生进行为期10周的夏季研究，项目集中在天体物理源的引力辐射检测研究，包括激光干涉测量，光学元件，电子学，伺服控制，复杂的机械系统，数据分析技术，天体物理源建模和数值相对论。 REU参与者与LIGO科学家密切合作，参与涉及探测器硬件开发，数据分析和源建模等多个方面的项目。 学生们能够在观测天体物理学的前沿研究经验作出真实的和持久的贡献。 学生与所有年龄段的科学家互动，所以他们可以了解今天的职业选择，除了科学本身。 这项提案的RET部分涉及华盛顿和路易斯安那州农村地区LIGO站点的高中教师。RET的参与者与REU的学生一起参加研究项目，他们还致力于创建课堂活动，将LIGO科学的基础带给自己的学生。 该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持，并由数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室与物理部门合作。