Chronicling a Major Scientific Breakthrough: a Longitudinal Video Documentary of Advanced LIGO and the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

记录重大科学突破：先进 LIGO 和引力波天体物理学开端的纵向视频纪录片

• 批准号: 1607630
• 负责人: David Reitze
• 金额: $ 18.68万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1607630&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Chronicling; Major; Scientific; Breakthrough; Longitudinal

This award supports the production of a longitudinal video documentary of the evolution of Advanced LIGO and will chronicle the most critical and exciting period in the history of gravitational wave science in the past 100 years. LIGO resumed the search for gravitational waves in 2015 with a newly upgraded detector and on September 14, 2015 detected gravitational waves for the first time, astounding not only the scientific community but the entire world. Using footage captured at critical periods between August 2015 and March 2016 during the discovery phase as well as new filming taking place over the next two years, the team will produce films which will impact at least hundreds of thousands of people and possibly many more than that. The goal is to educate, inspire, and motivate. Students at the high school and undergraduate levels may be more inspired to pursue STEM careers after watching scientific vignettes focusing on the exciting science and technology of Advanced LIGO. Scientific historians and sociologists will have the opportunity to use the hundreds of hours of available film clips as a video database to investigate in detail the discovery of gravitational waves as a case study of large scale collaborations ("Big Science"). Videos highlighting the cutting edge technological advances brought about by Advanced LIGO and their impacts on other fields of science and technology may prove effective for educating officials and policy makers on the benefits of fundamental science.During the course of the project, a series of professionally made video shorts will be produced for the LIGO Laboratory and LSC for education and public outreach purposes through distribution on LIGO Laboratory, LSC web sites, and the LIGO YouTube Channel. Through an extensive series of film shoots, XPLR Productions will work with the LIGO Laboratory and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) to capture key moments as LIGO scientists work to achieve Advanced LIGO's design sensitivity and carry out a series of observing runs over the next two years. The team will produce a series of video shorts explaining the important scientific and technological concepts and issues of Advanced LIGO by the scientific experts who create them. In the longer term, footage will used to produce either a feature length documentary film or a twelve-part series on television entitled 'LIGO' chronicling the discovery of gravitational waves and the exploration of exotic high-energy astrophysical phenomena such as colliding black holes. Intended for broad distribution through cinema or television, 'LIGO' will bring science to life for a wide audience.

该奖项支持制作一部关于高级LIGO演化的纵向视频纪录片，并将记录过去100年引力波科学史上最关键和最令人兴奋的时期。2015年，LIGO使用新升级的探测器恢复了对引力波的搜索，并于2015年9月14日首次探测到引力波，不仅震惊了科学界，也震惊了整个世界。利用2015年8月至2016年3月发现阶段关键时期拍摄的镜头，以及未来两年将进行的新拍摄，该团队将制作影响至少数十万人、甚至更多人的电影。目标是教育、激励和激励。高中和本科阶段的学生在观看了聚焦于高级LIGO令人兴奋的科学和技术的科学插曲后，可能会更有动力追求STEM职业生涯。科学历史学家和社会学家将有机会利用数百个小时的可用电影剪辑作为视频数据库，详细研究引力波的发现，作为大规模合作的案例研究(《大科学》)。通过在LIGO实验室、LSC网站和LIGO YouTube频道上分发，在项目过程中，将为LIGO实验室和LSC制作一系列专业制作的视频短片，用于教育和公众宣传目的。通过一系列广泛的电影拍摄，XPLR Productions将与LIGO实验室和LIGO科学合作(LSC)合作，捕捉LIGO科学家努力实现Advanced LIGO设计敏感性的关键时刻，并在未来两年进行一系列观测运行。该团队将制作一系列视频短片，由创作它们的科学专家解释高级LIGO的重要科技概念和问题。从长远来看，胶片将被用来制作一部长篇纪录片或一部名为《LIGO》的十二集电视连续剧，记录引力波的发现和对黑洞碰撞等奇异高能天体物理现象的探索。旨在通过电影或电视广泛发行的《LIGO》将为广大观众带来科学生活。