Collaborative Research: Breaking Barriers in Multi-messenger Astrophysics: The RITTU Partnership

合作研究：打破多信使天体物理学的障碍：RITTU 合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 2319326
• 负责人: Jason Nordhaus
• 金额: $ 31.38万
• 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: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2319326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Breaking; Barriers; Multi

A new research and education partnership in astronomy will be developed between the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Texas Tech University (TTU) with the aim of exploring how to break both disciplinary and cultural boundaries to solve key questions in neutron-star astrophysics. RIT hosts the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, one of the premier deaf education institutes in the world and TTU is a Hispanic Serving Institution. The two-year program will explore authentic pathways for Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing and Hispanic undergraduate students to join the RITTU partnership and participate in academic year preparation programs and summer research experiences. The students will acquire a set of skills that cross between theory and observations and will be supported by a dedicated mentoring team, thereby placing them in competitive positions for graduate programs or other STEM careers.The next few years will herald a golden age for the astrophysics of neutron stars, which are compact stellar objects, often synonymous with pulsars, and which are one of the end stages of massive star evolution. Neutron stars and mergers of binary neutron stars can be observed through multiple messengers: gravitational waves (GWs), electromagnetic radiation and potentially neutrinos—offering unparalleled opportunities to answer fundamental questions in astrophysics. The program will involve two inter-related studies. The study of binary neutron star mergers will reveal the formation mechanism of the Universe’s heaviest elements, probe the generation and structure of the most powerful astrophysical jets, and elucidate the characteristics of the remnant population of massive stellar evolution. In the topic of neutron star astrophysics, the team will develop new tools to shed light on pulsar glitches and use pulsar timing observations to guide searches for burst and continuous GWs. This award advances the goals of the Windows on the Universe Big Idea.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.

罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）和德克萨斯理工大学（TTU）将在天文学领域建立新的研究和教育伙伴关系，旨在探索如何打破学科和文化界限，解决中子星天体物理学中的关键问题。 RIT主办国家聋人技术研究所，世界上首屈一指的聋人教育机构之一，TTU是西班牙裔服务机构。 为期两年的计划将探索聋人/听力困难和西班牙裔本科生加入RITTU合作伙伴关系，并参加学年准备计划和夏季研究经验的真实途径。学生们将获得一套理论和观测之间的交叉技能，并将得到专门的指导团队的支持，从而使他们在研究生课程或其他STEM职业中处于竞争地位。未来几年将预示着中子星天体物理学的黄金时代，中子星是紧凑的恒星物体，通常与恒星同义，是大质量星星演化的最终阶段之一。中子星和双中子星的合并可以通过多种信使观察到：引力波（GW），电磁辐射和潜在的中微子-为回答天体物理学中的基本问题提供了无与伦比的机会。该计划将涉及两个相互关联的研究。对双星中子星星合并的研究将揭示宇宙中最重元素的形成机制，探测最强大天体物理喷流的产生和结构，阐明大质量恒星演化的残余布居特征。在中子星星天体物理学的主题中，该团队将开发新的工具来阐明脉冲星故障，并使用脉冲星计时观测来指导对爆发和连续GWs的搜索。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。