REU Site: Multimessenger Astrophysics

REU 站点：多信使天体物理学

• 批准号: 1659740
• 负责人: Joshua Faber
• 金额: $ 24.48万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659740&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Multimessenger; Astrophysics

This award supports a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The first observations of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have opened up the dawn of the gravitational wave astronomy age. Soon, we will see the birth of multimessenger astronomy, as gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations are combined with theoretical models to give us new insights into astrophysical phenomena that were previously unavailable to science. A key step in moving this project forward will be the training of students that will form the next generation of scientific leaders. This REU site, dedicated to the study of multimessenger astrophysics, will help groom the next generation of scientists in the many and diverse skills that will allow them to pursue careers in this growing field as well as many others. Students in the REU program will learn about and perform research on topics spanning gravitational wave detection and data analysis, observational astronomy and astrophysics, visualization of scientific data, and theoretical and numerical modeling. Working in pairs, each supervised by a committed research mentor, students will spend ten weeks performing research and participating in a wide array of professional and scientific enrichment activities that include developing presentation skills, acquiring familiarity with academic literature, and learning to access and use workstations and supercomputers to perform numerical simulations. In addition, the site will have a particular focus on deaf and hard of hearing students, and will offer all of the REU students the chance to learn American Sign Language through a specialized "bootcamp", building community between hearing and deaf students in the program.

该奖项支持罗切斯特理工学院的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。激光干涉仪引力波天文台(LIGO)对引力波的首次观测揭开了引力波天文学时代的曙光。很快，我们将看到万能天文学的诞生，因为引力波和电磁观测与理论模型相结合，让我们对以前科学无法获得的天体物理现象有了新的见解。推动这一项目的关键一步将是培养学生，这些学生将形成下一代科学领袖。这个REU网站致力于研究多信使天体物理学，将帮助培训下一代科学家掌握多种技能，使他们能够在这一不断增长的领域以及其他许多领域追求职业生涯。REU项目的学生将学习和研究引力波探测和数据分析、观测天文学和天体物理学、科学数据可视化以及理论和数值建模等主题。学生们将结对工作，每个人都由一名坚定的研究导师监督，他们将花十周时间进行研究，并参与一系列广泛的专业和科学丰富活动，包括发展演讲技能，熟悉学术文献，以及学习访问和使用工作站和超级计算机来执行数值模拟。此外，该网站将特别关注聋哑人和重听学生，并将为所有REU学生提供通过一个专门的“训练营”学习美国手语的机会，在该计划中在听力和聋人学生之间建立社区。

项目成果

Accurate closed-form trajectories of light around a Kerr black hole using asymptotic approximants

使用渐近近似法计算克尔黑洞周围的精确封闭式光轨迹

• DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/aae0cd
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Classical and quantum gravity
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Beachley, Ryne J;Mistysyn, Morgan;Faber, Joshua A;Weinstein, Steven J;Barlow, Nathaniel S
• 通讯作者: Barlow, Nathaniel S

Superresolution Reconstruction of Severely Undersampled Point-spread Functions Using Point-source Stacking and Deconvolution

使用点源叠加和反卷积对严重欠采样的点扩散函数进行超分辨率重建

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abcaa5
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The Astrophysical journal
• 作者: Symons, Teresa;Zemcov, Michael;Bock, James;Cheng, Yung-Ting;Crill, Brendan;Hirata, Christopher;Venuto, Stephanie
• 通讯作者: Venuto, Stephanie

Modeling the Infrared Reverberation Response of the Circumnuclear Dusty Torus in AGNs: An Investigation of Torus Response Functions

活动星系核中核周尘埃环面的红外混响响应建模：环面响应函数的研究

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6aa1
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: The astrophysical journal
• 作者: Almeyda, Triana;Robinson, Andrew;Richmond, Michael;Nikutta, Robert;McDonough, Bryanne
• 通讯作者: McDonough, Bryanne