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组的工作，用激光干涉仪引力波天文台（LIGO）探测引力波。这项研究将针对增强型LIGO探测器中黑洞和中子星碰撞发出的引力波。该项目还将利用计算机模拟引力波来源的信息来改进搜索，并最大限度地从探测中提取天体物理信息。该奖项的外联部分将把NSF的前沿研究带给中学课堂。引力波和黑洞是爱因斯坦广义相对论中最引人注目的预言之一。LIGO是美国国家科学基金会资助的一个雄心勃勃的项目，旨在探测这些引力波并利用它们来探索宇宙。探测到这些引力波将为我们打开一扇了解宇宙的新窗口，并使我们能够研究自然界的一种基本力量。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.