MPS-Ascend: Identifying the Fingerprints of Gravitational Wave Source Formation

MPS-Ascend：识别引力波源形成的指纹

• 批准号: 2212983
• 负责人: Alexandria Tucker
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Tucker, Alexandria
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2212983&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MPS; Ascend; Identifying; Fingerprints; Gravitational

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Alexandria Tucker is awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to conduct a program of research and activities related to broadening participation by groups underrepresented in STEM at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This fellowship to Dr. Tucker supports her research project entitled "MPS-Ascend: Identifying the Fingerprints of Gravitational Wave Source Formation", under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. The host institution for the fellowship is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Nicolas Yunes.Tucker will formulate a probability distribution of the orbital eccentricity of binaries as they enter the sensitivity band of ground-based detectors and create generic gravitational-wave models that include spin-precession and orbital eccentricity. Along with the research, Tucker has planned four outreach activities, all of which are aimed at educating and increasing the interest of the general public about extreme gravity, with an eye toward diversity and under-represented minorities. These include a survey of the climate for women and members of underrepresented groups, an outreach event aimed at changing scientific attitudes in Latin American elementary school students in the local Champaign-Urbana area, the creation of artwork to promote the diversity of ethnicities and genders in science and enhancing a gravitational physics virtual relativity simulation through artwork that combines scientific accuracy with aesthetics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。 亚历山大·塔克被授予NSF数学和物理科学上升博士后研究奖学金，以开展与扩大伊利诺伊大学香槟分校STEM代表性不足的群体参与相关的研究和活动计划。 塔克博士的奖学金支持她在赞助科学家的指导下进行的题为“MPS-Ascend：识别引力波源形成的指纹”的研究项目。该研究金的主办机构是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校，赞助科学家是尼古拉斯·尤尼斯博士。塔克将在双星进入地面探测器的灵敏度波段时，制定双星轨道偏心率的概率分布，并创建包括自旋进动和轨道偏心率的通用引力波模型。沿着这项研究，塔克还计划了四项外展活动，所有这些活动都旨在教育和提高公众对极端重力的兴趣，同时关注多样性和代表性不足的少数群体。 其中包括对妇女和代表性不足群体成员的气候调查，旨在改变Champaign-Urbana地区拉丁美洲小学生科学态度的外联活动，艺术作品的创作，以促进种族和性别的多样性，在科学和提高引力物理虚拟相对论模拟通过艺术作品，结合科学的准确性与美学。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。