MPS-Ascend: Spearheading Inclusive Mentoring and Multimessenger Training with a Census of Potential Counterpart Galaxies

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。Pi Aaron Stemo被授予NSF数学和物理科学提升博士后研究奖学金(NSF MPS-Ascend)，以开展一项与扩大STEM中代表性不足的群体的参与相关的研究和活动。Stemo博士的这笔奖学金支持了他的研究项目，名为MPS-Ascend：在一位赞助科学家的指导下，通过潜在对口星系的普查，带头进行包容性指导和多方传播者培训。该奖学金的主办机构是范德比尔特大学，赞助科学家是杰西·朗诺博士。质量约为1000万太阳质量的大质量黑洞双星(MBHB)的激发和合并将产生强大的引力波(GW)，将被即将到来的激光干涉仪空间天线(LISA)卫星探测到。LISA将能够在黑洞合并前一个月探测到来自MBHB的GW，并提供参数来识别星系调查中的电磁对应物。这些参数的不确定性称为误差量。PI将使用一系列调查数据创建一份潜在对应星系的普查，以响应Lisa的GW探测。这将解决三个关键的科学目标：1)创建一个框架，以在调查数据中确定LISA MBHB GW探测的星系对应物，2)确定深度、面积和波长覆盖如何影响分离LISA MBHB GW探测的EM对应物的能力，以及3)确定第一个多信使探测到的MBHBs的可能特性。EMIT(建立多传播者天文学包容性培训)计划建立在Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge计划的成功基础上，包括跨学科课程、可转移的技能发展和未来劳动力所需的广泛的技术专业培训，所有这些都建立在包容性实践的基础上。Stemo将作为MPS-Ascend博士后研究员加入EMIT，并将为研究生的招聘、指导和培训做出贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). PI Aaron Stemo is awarded a NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NSF MPS-Ascend) to conduct a program of research and activities related to broaden participation by groups underrepresented in STEM. This fellowship to Dr. Stemo supports his research project entitled "MPS-Ascend: Spearheading Inclusive Mentoring and Multimessenger Training with a Census of Potential Counterpart Galaxies", under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. The host institution for the fellowship is Vanderbilt University, and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Jessie Runnoe.The inspiral and merger of massive black hole binaries (MBHB) - those with masses around 10 million solar masses - will produce strong Gravitational Waves (GW) that will be detectable by the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) satellite. LISA will be able to detect GWs from MBHB up to a month before the black holes coalesce and provide parameters to identify electromagnetic counterparts in galaxy surveys. The uncertainty on these parameters is called an error volume. The PI will create a census of potential counterpart galaxies to LISA’s GW detections using an ensemble of survey data. This will address three key science goals: 1) create a framework to identify galaxy counterparts to LISA MBHB GW detections in survey data, 2) establish how depth, area, and wavelength coverage affects the ability to isolate EM counterparts to LISA MBHB GW detections, and 3) determine the likely properties of the first multimessenger detected MBHBs.The EMIT (Establishing Multimessenger Astronomy Inclusive Training ) program builds on the success of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program by incorporating a cross-discipline curriculum, transferable skill development, and a breadth of technical expertise training required for the future workforce, all built around a foundation of inclusive practices. Stemo will join EMIT as an MPS-Ascend Postdoctoral Fellow and will contribute to recruitment, mentoring and training of graduate studentsThis 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.