CAREER: An Integrated Research and Education Program in Gravitational-Wave Phenomenology

华盛顿州立大学(WSU)将建立一个多学科的引力波(GW)科学项目，将尖端研究与各级教育相结合。这在很大程度上是因为世界各地的五个GW探测器开始进行观测运行，其中包括位于西德克萨斯大学附近汉福德的美国国家科学基金会资助的激光干涉仪引力波观测站的三个探测器中的两个。利用同时运行的探测器网络搜索来自各种天体物理和宇宙学来源的GW信号的数据分析战略将作为该计划的一部分。多探测器分析具有重要意义，因为它对仪器文物征收了最强大的否决权，并揭示了额外的震源属性。将包括以引力波科学为导向的课程和实验室实验，以加强西斯安那州立大学的天文学计划，并发展快速转移知识所需的基础设施。每年约有200名大二和大四学生将接受培训，以发展这个很快就会被数据淹没的领域的技能，希望他们中的一些人能继续攻读与GW研究密切相关的研究生课程。GW科学课程将被交叉列入物理学专业，从而扩大其影响。LIGO将在这项工作的支持下，开创物理学和天文学的新时代，在这个时代，我们将对脉冲星、超新星和黑洞的行为获得新的见解，并将我们对经典引力的最好理解，以爱因斯坦广义相对论的形式，接受一系列新的严格测试。

A multi-disciplinary program in gravitational wave (GW) science that integrates cutting-edge research with education at various levels will be established at the Washington State University (WSU). This is motivated largely by the onset of observational runs undertaken by five GW detectors around the world, including two of the three detectors of the NSF-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) located at Hanford, near WSU. Data analysis strategies for searching GW signals from a variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources with a network of detectors operating simultaneously will be formulated as part of this program. A multi-detector analysis is significant owing to the most powerful veto it levies against instrumental artifacts and the additional source properties it unravels. Gravitational-wave science oriented courses and lab experiments will be included to enhance WSU's astronomy program and to develop the infrastructure required for a quick transfer of knowledge. Sophomores and seniors, numbering about 200 per year, will be trained to develop skills in a field that will soon be inundated with data, with the hope that some of them will go on to graduate programs strongly tied to GW research. Courses in GW science will be cross-listed towards a major in physics, thus expanding their impact. LIGO will be supported by this work in ushering in a new era in Physics and Astronomy where novel insights will be gained into the behavior of pulsars, supernovae and black holes, and in putting our best understanding of classical gravity, in the form of Einstein's general relativity, to a fresh set of stringent tests.