RUI - Gravitational Wave Modelling and Detection

在这个项目中，将分析来自引力波探测器的数据，包括激光干涉引力波天文台(LIGO)，以搜索来自天体物理对象的引力波。这个项目有两个主要目标：快速旋转的中子星(质量比太阳和城市大小都大的极高密度的物体，每秒自转几十到数百倍)，以及黑洞和/或中子星的双星系统，这些系统由于GW辐射而在轨道崩溃的最后几秒钟内。引力波，爱因斯坦广义相对论预测的几何和空间和时间的扭曲，为我们提供了一个了解宇宙的新窗口，使我们能够补充从电磁光谱的不同部分以及从宇宙射线和中微子观测中获得的信息。包括LIGO在内的现代一代引力波探测器有望在不久的将来实现第一次直接引力波探测。这项由该奖项支持的研究将使罗切斯特理工学院的教职员工和学生参与到首次探测的探索中来，并由此突破性地扩展我们对宇宙的知识。除了对引力波的搜索外，对引力波传播和探测的可视化将有助于普通公众了解LIGO所做的科学。

In this project, data will be analyzed from gravitational wave detectors including the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves from astrophysical objects. There are two main targets of this project: rapidly rotating neutron stars (extremely dense objects more massive than the sun and the size of a city, spinning tens to hundreds of times every second), and binary systems of black holes and/or neutron stars in the last seconds of the breakdown of their orbits due to GW emission.Gravitational waves, distortions of the geometry and space and time predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, provide a new window on the universe, allowing us to supplement information available from different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum and from cosmic ray and neutrino observations. A modern generation of gravitational wave detectors including LIGO holds the prospect of of the first direct gravitational wave detection in the near future. The research supported by this award will involve faculty and students of the Rochester Institute of Technology in the quest for that first detection and the resulting groundbreaking expansion of our knowledge of the universe. In addition to the search for gravitational waves, visualizations of gravitational-wave propagation and detection which will aid the general public's understanding of the science done by LIGO.