Theoretical and experimental efforts for detecting binary black hole mergers with a network of high-precision gravitational-wave interferometers

利用高精度引力波干涉仪网络探测双黑洞合并的理论和实验工作

• 批准号: 0758172
• 负责人: Sukanta Bose
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0758172&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Theoretical; experimental; efforts; detecting; binary

This award will support the theoretical and experimental work of Bose, Raab, and their students in gravitational-wave physics. On the theoretical front, they will work on searching for gravitational-wave signals from mergers of compact objects, such as binary black holes, in the data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) that was collected during a recently concluded two-year-long observation run. They will also contribute to the ongoing experimental effort for improving LIGO's sensitivity ten-fold in the process of building its successor, Advanced LIGO.The search being conducted currently in LIGO data has the potential for making the first direct detection of gravitational-wave signals. Even if such a detection is not made in the latest observation run, this exercise educates us about the new methods and tools that must be developed to make it happen with the more sensitive Advanced LIGO. In the process, this award will contribute to the training of future gravitational-wave astronomers.

该奖项将支持Bose，Raab及其学生在重力波物理学领域的理论和实验工作。在理论方面，他们将努力在激光干涉仪重力引力波观测站（Ligo）的数据中搜索来自紧凑型物体（例如二进制黑洞）的重力波信号，该数据是在最近结束的两年观测过程中收集的。他们还将为持续的实验努力做出贡献，以提高Ligo在建立其继任者Advanced Ligo的过程中提高灵敏度。即使在最新的观察过程中没有进行这种检测，此练习也会向我们教育，以使其与更敏感的高级ligo一起进行开发的新方法和工具。在此过程中，该奖项将有助于对未来重力波天文学家的培训。