Travel support to attend the Gravitational Wave Bursts: Astrophysics, Data Analysis and Numerical Relativity meeting; Chichen-Itza, Mexico; December 2009

该奖项支持科学家参加将于2009年12月在墨西哥奇琴伊察举行的“引力波爆发：天体物理学、数据分析和数值相对论”研讨会。引力波爆发是一种短信号，有可能揭示最广泛的引力辐射源，如恒星核心坍缩、伽马射线爆发引擎、宇宙弦、致密物体合并。引力波爆发是具有挑战性的研究来源，因为它们的物理和引力波发射机制尚未完全了解，因此现在不可能对它们进行详细建模，从而解释观测结果。这个跨学科的研讨会汇集了天体物理学、引力波数据分析和数值相对论的研究人员，目的是使引力波爆发观测成为天文发现的真正工具。这次会议的结果可能会对将于2009年7月开始运行的增强型激光干涉仪引力波天文台的数据产生影响。

This award supports the participation of scientists at the workshop "Gravitational Wave Bursts: Astrophysics, Data Analysis and Numerical Relativity" to be held in Chichen-Itza, Mexico in December 2009. Gravitational wave bursts are short signals with the potential of unveiling the broadest range of sources of gravitational radiation such as stellar core collapse, gamma-ray bursts engines, cosmic strings, compact object mergers. Gravitational wave bursts are challenging sources to study because their physics and gravitational wave emission mechanisms are not fully understood so that it is not now possible to model them in detail and thus to interpret observations. This interdisciplinary workshop brings together investigators in astrophysics, gravitational wave data analysis and numerical relativity with the goal of making gravitational wave burst observations become a genuine a tool of astronomical discovery. Results from this meeting could have an impact on the science from the enhanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory data run set to begin in July 2009.