Mississippi participation in LIGO's search for gravitational waves

密西西比州参与 LIGO 搜寻引力波

• 批准号: 0757937
• 负责人: Marco Cavaglia
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: University of Mississippi
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0757937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mississippi; participation; LIGO; search; gravitational

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is designed to observe gravitational waves in the intermediate-high frequency regime. Inspiral and merger of stellarmass compact objects and black holes are leading candidate sources for detection. This award provides support for the LIGO research activities of the University of Mississippi (UMISS) group. The UMISS group contributes to LIGO efforts in the areas of data analysis, detector characterization, and outreach. The supported program focuses on these areas. Its main goals are: (1) Investigate the effect of different instrumental and signal-based proposed vetoes in current and future searches and to develop and implement possible optimization methods that may result from these studies; (2) Contribute to the investigation and mitigation of environmental disturbances at the LIGO Observatories; (3) Contribute to the LIGO outreach program by developing educational material and coordinating LIGO outreach activities in Mississippi. A theoretical component of this program focuses on the possible detection of ringdown signals and exotic compact objects by Enhanced and Advanced LIGO. These investigations will pave the way to extract astrophysical information and test fundamental physics with next-generation LIGO detectors.The proposed research will successfully contribute to LIGO near-, intermediate- and longterm science goals by contributing to LIGO?s efforts in achieving the first-ever detection of a gravitational-wave and by exploring in depth LIGO?s potential for measuring astrophysical parameters and testing the fundamental nature of gravitation. The broader impact of this project is to increase research and educational opportunities in a geographical region of the United States where engagement in basic sciences is below national average. This project will expand Mississippi?s involvement in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and will create new opportunities for public outreach initiatives at local and regional scale.

激光干涉仪重力波观测站（LIGO）旨在观察中高频率状态下的重力波。 Stellarmass紧凑型物体和黑洞的灵感和合并是用于检测的主要候选资源。该奖项为密西西比大学（UMISS）小组的LIGO研究活动提供了支持。 UMISS小组在数据分析，探测器表征和外展领域促进了LIGO努力。支持的计划重点关注这些领域。它的主要目标是：（1）研究在当前和将来的搜索中不同工具和基于信号的否决权的影响，并开发和实施这些研究可能导致的可能的优化方法； （2）有助于调查和缓解Ligo观测值的环境干扰； （3）通过开发教育材料并协调密西西比州的Ligo外展活动来为Ligo外展计划做出贡献。该程序的理论组成部分着重于通过增强和高级的Ligo检测环down信号和外来紧凑物体的可能检测。这些调查将为提取天体物理信息的方法铺平道路，并通过下一代Ligo探测器测试基本物理学。拟议的研究将成功地为近距离，中间和长期的科学目标做出成功，通过为Ligo做出贡献，以实现对牵引力和探索ligo ligo ligo s Atterty的探索的努力，从而为Ligo的努力做出贡献吗？引力。 该项目的广泛影响是在美国的地理区域中增加研究和教育机会，在美国参与基础科学水平低于全国平均水平。该项目将扩大密西西比州参与Ligo Scientific Collaporation的参与，并将为地方和区域规模创造新的机会。