CAREER: An Integrated Research and Eduction Proposal in Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics

这个职业奖支持PI和他的学生在锡拉丘兹大学引力波小组的工作，用激光干涉引力波天文台（LIGO）探测引力波。该研究将针对增强型LIGO探测器中碰撞黑洞和中子星发出的引力波。该项目还将利用引力波源的计算机建模信息来改进搜索，并最大限度地利用可从探测中提取的天体物理信息。该奖项的推广部分将把NSF前沿研究的兴奋带到中学课堂。引力波和黑洞是爱因斯坦广义相对论最引人注目的预测之一。LIGO是NSF资助的一个雄心勃勃的项目，旨在探测这些波并利用它们来探索宇宙。探测这些波将打开一扇新的宇宙之窗，并使我们能够研究自然界的基本力量之一。 该奖项支持在引力波天文学家，源建模者和光学天文学家之间建立桥梁的努力。这些协同作用对于LIGO和引力波天文学领域的成功至关重要。这些项目还将为研究生和本科生提供培训，并推动国家网络基础设施的发展。

This CAREER award supports the work of the PI and his students within the Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group to detect gravitational waves with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). The research will target gravitational waves emitted by colliding black holes and neutron stars in the Enhanced LIGO detectors. This project will also use information from computer modeling of sources of gravitational waves to improve searches and maximize the astrophysical information that can be extracted from detections. The outreach component of this award will bring the excitement of the NSF's cutting edge research to the middle-school classroom.Gravitational waves and black holes are among the most dramatic predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity. LIGO is an ambitious NSF-funded project to detect these waves and use them to explore the Universe. Detecting these waves will open a new window on the Universe and will allow us to study one of the fundamental forces of nature. This award supports effort to build bridges between gravitational-wave astronomers, source modelers, and optical astronomers. These synergies will be essential to the success of LIGO and the field of gravitational-wave astronomy. The projects will also provide training for graduate and undergraduate student and drive development of the national cyberinfrastructure.