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

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。PI Aaron Stemo被授予NSF数学和物理科学上升博士后研究奖学金（NSF MPS-Ascend），以开展与扩大STEM代表性不足的群体参与有关的研究和活动计划。Stemo博士的研究金支持他在一名赞助科学家的指导下开展的题为“MPS-Ascend：通过普查潜在的对应机构来带头开展包容性指导和多信使培训”的研究项目。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。大质量黑洞双星（MBHB）-质量约为1000万太阳质量-的螺旋和合并将产生强烈的引力波（GW），即将发射的激光干涉仪空间天线（丽莎）卫星将能探测到。 丽莎将能够在黑洞合并前一个月从MBHB探测到GW，并提供参数以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将使用调查数据的集合对丽莎的GW探测的潜在对应星系进行普查。这将涉及三个关键的科学目标：1）创建一个框架，以确定调查数据中丽莎MBHB GW探测的星系对应物，2）确定深度，面积和波长覆盖范围如何影响将EM对应物隔离到丽莎MBHB GW探测的能力，以及3）确定第一多信使检测到的MBHB的可能性质。（建立多信使天文学包容性培训）计划建立在菲斯克-范德比尔特桥梁计划的成功基础上，通过整合跨学科课程，可转移的技能发展以及未来劳动力所需的广泛的技术专业知识培训，所有这些都是建立在包容性做法的基础之上的。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，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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.