MPS-Ascend: Identifying the Fingerprints of Gravitational Wave Source Formation

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。Alexandria Tucker被授予NSF数学和物理科学提升博士后研究奖学金，以开展与伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校STEM中代表不足的群体扩大参与相关的研究和活动。这项给塔克博士的奖学金支持了她在一位赞助科学家的指导下开展的名为《MPS-Ascend：识别引力波来源形成的指纹》的研究项目。该奖学金的主办机构是伊利诺伊大学香槟分校，赞助科学家是尼古拉斯·尤恩博士。塔克将制定双星进入地面探测器敏感带时轨道偏心的概率分布，并创建包括自旋进动和轨道偏心的通用引力波模型。除了这项研究，塔克还计划了四项外展活动，所有这些活动都旨在教育和提高公众对极端重力的兴趣，着眼于多样性和代表性不足的少数群体。其中包括对女性和代表性不足群体成员的氛围进行调查，旨在改变当地香槟-厄巴纳地区拉丁美洲小学生的科学态度的外联活动，创造艺术作品以促进科学中种族和性别的多样性，并通过将科学准确性与美学相结合的艺术作品来增强引力物理虚拟相对论模拟。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Alexandria Tucker is awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to conduct a program of research and activities related to broadening participation by groups underrepresented in STEM at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This fellowship to Dr. Tucker supports her research project entitled "MPS-Ascend: Identifying the Fingerprints of Gravitational Wave Source Formation", under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. The host institution for the fellowship is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Nicolas Yunes.Tucker will formulate a probability distribution of the orbital eccentricity of binaries as they enter the sensitivity band of ground-based detectors and create generic gravitational-wave models that include spin-precession and orbital eccentricity. Along with the research, Tucker has planned four outreach activities, all of which are aimed at educating and increasing the interest of the general public about extreme gravity, with an eye toward diversity and under-represented minorities. These include a survey of the climate for women and members of underrepresented groups, an outreach event aimed at changing scientific attitudes in Latin American elementary school students in the local Champaign-Urbana area, the creation of artwork to promote the diversity of ethnicities and genders in science and enhancing a gravitational physics virtual relativity simulation through artwork that combines scientific accuracy with aesthetics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.