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

职业：引力波天文学和天体物理学的综合研究和教育提案

• 批准号: 0847611
• 负责人: Duncan Brown
• 金额: $ 55万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0847611&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Integrated; Research; Eduction; Proposal

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.

该职业奖支持雪城大学引力波小组的 PI 及其学生利用激光干涉仪引力波天文台 (LIGO) 探测引力波的工作。该研究将针对增强型 LIGO 探测器中黑洞和中子星碰撞发出的引力波。该项目还将利用引力波源计算机建模的信息来改进搜索并最大限度地利用从探测中提取的天体物理信息。该奖项的推广部分将把美国国家科学基金会尖端研究的兴奋带入中学课堂。引力波和黑洞是爱因斯坦广义相对论中最引人注目的预测之一。 LIGO 是一个由 NSF 资助的雄心勃勃的项目，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。