Travel Support for Workshop on Gravitational Wave Tests of Alternative Theories of Gravity in the Advanced Detector Era at Montana State University April 5-7, 2013

2013 年 4 月 5 日至 7 日在蒙大拿州立大学举办的高级探测器时代替代重力理论​​的引力波测试研讨会的差旅支持

• 批准号: 1234826
• 负责人: Nicolas Yunes
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1234826&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; Workshop; Gravitational; Wave

The Scientific Workshop supported by this award will be focused on creative and potentially transformative research, constituting the first dedicated effort to test Einstein's theory with gravitational waves. This is an essential step to exploit the full potential of gravitational wave detection. This type of research is also timely and relevant, in view of upcoming, advanced detectors and the dawn of gravitational wave astrophysics. The objectives delineated above align perfectly with the Principal Investigator Yunes' long-term goals, who has years of experience building up to this objective. The impact of gravitational waves signaling a systematic departure from Einstein's predictions is clearly breathtaking. But the lack of a departure from Einstein's theory would also constitute a huge step for Science, proving for once and for all that Einstein's theory is also valid in the most extreme gravitational scenarios. Gravitational wave astrophysics is entering a new era of discovery and exploration, with first detections expected within the next few years with Advanced LIGO, the ground-based interferometer in the United States. One of the key missions of LIGO is to test Einstein's theory of General Relativity where it has never been tested before: where the gravitational force is enormous relative to Earth's or the Sun's pull. Such a task is achievable because gravitational waves encode information about this force when black holes and neutron stars collide in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. The main objective of this award is to fund a scientific workshop that will bring together experts in gravitational wave theory and data analysis, together with experts in modified gravity theories, to discuss how the discovery of gravitational waves can be leveraged to learn more about Einstein's theory. This event is part of a broader outreach initiative, called "Celebrating Einstein", to be held in Bozeman Montana in April 2013.

该奖项支持的科学研讨会将集中在创造性和潜在的变革性研究上，这构成了首次使用引力波测试爱因斯坦理论的专门努力。这是利用重力波检测的全部潜力的重要步骤。鉴于即将到来的高级检测器和引力波天体物理学的曙光，这种类型的研究也及时且相关。这些目标在上面描述的目标与主要研究者尤尼斯（Yunes）的长期目标完全相吻合，后者具有多年的实现这一目标的经验。引力波的影响表明与爱因斯坦的预测有系统地离开，这显然令人叹为观止。但是，缺乏偏离爱因斯坦的理论也将构成科学的巨大一步，这一劳永逸地证明了爱因斯坦的理论在最极端的引力场景中也是有效的。引力波天体物理学正在进入一个新的发现和探索时代，在未来几年内，与美国的Advanced Ligo（美国）在美国的高级ligo中预计。 Ligo的主要任务之一是测试爱因斯坦的一般相对论理论，在此之前从未进行过测试：相对于地球或太阳的拉力相对于地球或太阳的吸引力很大。这样的任务是可以实现的，因为当黑洞和中子星在银河系和附近星系中碰撞时，引力波编码有关这种力的信息。该奖项的主要目的是为一个科学研讨会提供资金，该研讨会将汇集重力波理论和数据分析的专家以及修改后的重力理论的专家，以讨论如何利用重力波的发现，以了解有关爱因斯坦理论的更多信息。该活动是一项更广泛的外展计划的一部分，称为“庆祝爱因斯坦”，将于2013年4月在博兹曼·蒙大拿州举行。