Australian Partnership in Advanced LIGO+

澳大利亚先进 LIGO 合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: LE170100217
• 负责人: Em/Prof David McClelland
• 金额: $ 56.68万
• 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: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-05-09 至 2021-05-08
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LE170100217
• 关键词: Australian; Partnership; Advanced; LIGO+

This project aims to improve the sensitivity of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (aLIGO). aLIGO’s detection of gravitational waves proved general relativity in the strong field limit and the existence of black hole binary systems. The increased sensitivity will enable daily detections and new classes of events, opening the field of gravitational wave astronomy. Since telescopes can detect only 5% of the stuff in the universe, this is expected to greatly improve understanding of the universe. This Australian partnership will put its physicists and astronomers at the vanguard of this field and inspire the next generation to study the physical sciences.

该项目旨在提高高级激光干涉仪引力波天文台（aLIGO）的灵敏度。aLIGO对引力波的探测证明了强场极限下的广义相对论和黑洞双星系统的存在。灵敏度的提高将使每天的探测和新的事件类别成为可能，从而打开了引力波天文学的领域。由于望远镜只能探测到宇宙中5%的物质，这有望大大提高对宇宙的理解。澳大利亚的这一伙伴关系将使其物理学家和天文学家处于这一领域的前沿，并激励下一代学习物理科学。