RUI - Gravitational Wave Modelling and Detection

在该项目中，将分析包括激光干涉引力波天文台（LIGO）在内的引力波探测器的数据，以寻找天体物理物体的引力波。该项目有两个主要目标：快速旋转中子星（比太阳质量更大、城市大小更大的极密天体，每秒自转数十至数百次），以及黑洞和/或中子星的双星系统在由于GW发射而导致轨道崩溃的最后几秒。引力波爱因斯坦的广义相对论所预言的几何、空间和时间的扭曲，提供了一个新的宇宙窗口，使我们能够补充从电磁波谱的不同部分以及从宇宙射线和中微子观测中获得的信息。 包括LIGO在内的新一代引力波探测器前景在不久的将来实现第一次直接引力波探测。 该奖项支持的研究将涉及罗切斯特理工学院的教师和学生，以寻求第一次探测和由此产生的对我们宇宙知识的突破性扩展。 除了寻找引力波，可视化的引力波传播和检测，这将有助于公众对LIGO所做的科学的理解。

In this project, data will be analyzed from gravitational wave detectors including the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves from astrophysical objects. There are two main targets of this project: rapidly rotating neutron stars (extremely dense objects more massive than the sun and the size of a city, spinning tens to hundreds of times every second), and binary systems of black holes and/or neutron stars in the last seconds of the breakdown of their orbits due to GW emission.Gravitational waves, distortions of the geometry and space and time predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, provide a new window on the universe, allowing us to supplement information available from different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum and from cosmic ray and neutrino observations. A modern generation of gravitational wave detectors including LIGO holds the prospect of of the first direct gravitational wave detection in the near future. The research supported by this award will involve faculty and students of the Rochester Institute of Technology in the quest for that first detection and the resulting groundbreaking expansion of our knowledge of the universe. In addition to the search for gravitational waves, visualizations of gravitational-wave propagation and detection which will aid the general public's understanding of the science done by LIGO.