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重点关注创造性和潜在变革性的研究，这是首次用引力波测试爱因斯坦理论。这是充分发挥引力波探测潜力的重要一步。鉴于即将出现的先进探测器和引力波天体物理学的曙光，此类研究也是及时且相关的。上述目标与首席研究员 Yunes 的长期目标完全一致，他在实现这一目标方面拥有多年的经验。引力波的影响表明系统性地偏离爱因斯坦的预测，这显然是令人震惊的。但不偏离爱因斯坦的理论也将构成科学的一大进步，一劳永逸地证明爱因斯坦的理论在最极端的引力情景下也是有效的。引力波天体物理学正在进入一个发现和探索的新时代，预计将在未来几年内通过美国地基干涉仪 Advanced LIGO 进行首次探测。 LIGO 的关键任务之一是测试爱因斯坦的广义相对论，这是以前从未测试过的：引力相对于地球或太阳的引力来说是巨大的。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，引力波会编码有关这种力的信息。该奖项的主要目标是资助一个科学研讨会，该研讨会将汇集引力波理论和数据分析方面的专家以及修正引力理论方面的专家，讨论如何利用引力波的发现来更多地了解爱因斯坦的理论。该活动是一项名为“庆祝爱因斯坦”的更广泛的外展活动的一部分，该活动将于 2013 年 4 月在蒙大拿州博兹曼举行。