Australian Partnership in Advanced LIGO+: continuation

澳大利亚高级 LIGO 合作伙伴关系：延续

• 批准号: LE210100002
• 负责人: Em/Prof David McClelland
• 金额: $ 200.04万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LE210100002
• 关键词: Australian; Partnership; Advanced; LIGO+; continuation

The aim of this project is, in collaboration with the USA and UK, to complete the installation and commissioning of the Advanced LIGO+ facilities in the USA in order to bring them to design sensitivity. These facilities expect to increase the event rate of gravitational wave signals by a factor of 125. This should lead to daily detections and the observation of new sources of gravitational waves. Given that only 5% of the universe is detectable by telescopes, the impact of gravitational wave detections on our understanding of the universe is inestimable. Australian partnership intends to enable our physicists and astronomers to be at the vanguard of this brand new field and inspire a new generation to study the physical sciences.

该项目的目标是与美国和英国合作，完成高级LIGO+设施在美国的安装和调试，以使它们具有设计敏感性。这些设施预计将把引力波信号的事故率提高125倍。这应该会导致每天的探测和对新的引力波来源的观测。考虑到只有5%的宇宙是望远镜可以探测到的，引力波探测对我们理解宇宙的影响是不可估量的。澳大利亚的伙伴关系旨在使我们的物理学家和天文学家成为这一全新领域的先锋，并激励新一代人学习物理科学。