REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

该奖项支持加州理工学院本科生的研究体验，路易斯安那州利文斯顿和华盛顿州汉福德的激光干涉仪引力波天文台(LIGO)站点也进行了研究。该网站每年支持10名学生进行为期10周的暑期研究，项目重点是探测天体物理源的引力辐射，包括激光干涉测量、光学元件、电子学、伺服控制、复杂机械系统、数据分析技术、天体物理源建模和数值相对论。REU参与者与个别LIGO科学家在涉及探测器硬件开发、数据分析和震源建模的多个方面的项目上密切合作。这些学生能够在观测天体物理学前沿的研究经验中做出真正和持久的贡献。学生们与各个年龄段的科学家互动，因此除了科学本身之外，他们还可以了解当今科学领域的职业选择。该提案的RET部分涉及华盛顿州和路易斯安那州农村地区LIGO地点的当地高中教师。RET参与者在现场与REU学生一起参与研究项目，他们还致力于创建课堂活动，将LIGO科学的基础带给他们自己的学生。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持，并由数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室与物理部合作支持。

This award support the Research Experience for Undergraduates located at the California Institute of Technology, with research also taking place at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. The site supports ten students for ten weeks of summer research per year, with projects focusing on research in the detection of gravitational radiation from astrophysical sources, including laser interferometry, optical components, electronics, servo controls, complex mechanical systems, data analysis techniques, astrophysical source modeling, and numerical relativity. REU participants work closely with individual LIGO scientists on projects involving many aspects of detector hardware development, data analysis, and source modeling. The students are able to make real and lasting contributions in a research experience at the forefront of observational astrophysics. Students interact with scientists of all ages, so they can learn about today's career options in science in addition to the science itself. The RET component of this proposal involves high school teachers that are local to the LIGO sites in rural Washington and Louisiana. RET participants take part in research projects alongside the REU students at the sites, and they also work on creating classroom activities that bring the foundations of LIGO science to their own students. This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program, and by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Math and Physical Sciences Directorate in conjunction with the Physics Division.