Collaborative Research: Modeling Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Sources and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts

该奖项将支持对中子星等各种类型紧凑物体合并的多方面理论研究。了解这些合并事件的全部顺序是当前高度关注的跨学科挑战。 这项工作将模拟双星形成和引力波驱动的螺旋;合并的流体动力学;合并后残余物的粘性，热和核演化;中子星和黑洞坍塌的广义相对论辐射流体动力学（及其相关的引力波信号）;以及产生可观测电磁波（光，无线电波等）的未结合喷出物的核和辐射流体动力学。信号. 一个主要的动机是模拟重力波和电磁签名从这些合并。这两种类型的特征提供了关于源的不同区域的重要信息。引力波将决定源的“引擎”，它们的质量，自旋和倾角。电磁信号将提供精确的位置，成分，以及它们与天体物理学的其他部分（核合成，磁星，磁星，瞬变，Ia型超新星，形成率和祖先）的关系。该项目将有助于研究生的培训和参与机构之间的定期学生交流。研究小组的成员将继续努力为公众、高中和本科院校提供非技术性讲座，并就课程、电影、电视和广播提供咨询。这项研究的结果涉及往往引起广泛兴趣的专题（恒星碰撞、爆炸、坍缩成黑洞、时空中的引力波），将纳入这些活动。该团队还将向天体物理学界广泛提供这项研究的结果。

This award will support a multifaceted theoretical study of the mergers of various types of compact objects such as neutron stars. Understanding the full sequence of events in these mergers is a great interdisciplinary challenge of high current interest. The work will model binary formation and gravitational wave-driven inspiral; the hydrodynamics of mergers; the viscous, thermal and nuclear evolution of the post merger remnant; the general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics of the collapse to neutron stars and black holes (with its associated gravitational wave signals); and the nuclear and radiation hydrodynamics of the unbound ejecta that produces observable electromagnetic (light, radio wave, etc.) signals. A major motivation is to model both gravity wave and electromagnetic signatures from these mergers. The two types of signatures provide important information about different regions of the sources. Gravitational waves will determine the 'engine' of the sources, their masses, spins, and inclinations. The electromagnetic signals will provide the precise locations, compositions, and their relation to the rest of astrophysics (nucleosynthesis, pulsars, magnetars, transients, Type Ia supernovae, formation rates and progenitors). The project will contribute to the training of graduate students and in regular student exchanges between the participating institutions. Members of the research team will continue their efforts to give non-technical lectures for the public, high schools and undergraduate institutions, and consult on curricula, films, TV and radio. The results of this research, on topics that tend to generate broad interest (stellar collisions, explosions, collapse to black holes, gravitational waves in space-time), will be incorporated into these activities. The team will also make the results from this study widely available to the astrophysics community.