Collaborative Research: Breaking Barriers in Multi-messenger Astrophysics: The RITTU Partnership

合作研究：打破多信使天体物理学的障碍：RITTU 合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 2319327
• 负责人: Benjamin Owen
• 金额: $ 19.51万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2319327&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Breaking; Barriers; Multi

A new research and education partnership in astronomy will be developed between the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Texas Tech University (TTU) with the aim of exploring how to break both disciplinary and cultural boundaries to solve key questions in neutron-star astrophysics. RIT hosts the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, one of the premier deaf education institutes in the world and TTU is a Hispanic Serving Institution. The two-year program will explore authentic pathways for Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing and Hispanic undergraduate students to join the RITTU partnership and participate in academic year preparation programs and summer research experiences. The students will acquire a set of skills that cross between theory and observations and will be supported by a dedicated mentoring team, thereby placing them in competitive positions for graduate programs or other STEM careers.The next few years will herald a golden age for the astrophysics of neutron stars, which are compact stellar objects, often synonymous with pulsars, and which are one of the end stages of massive star evolution. Neutron stars and mergers of binary neutron stars can be observed through multiple messengers: gravitational waves (GWs), electromagnetic radiation and potentially neutrinos—offering unparalleled opportunities to answer fundamental questions in astrophysics. The program will involve two inter-related studies. The study of binary neutron star mergers will reveal the formation mechanism of the Universe’s heaviest elements, probe the generation and structure of the most powerful astrophysical jets, and elucidate the characteristics of the remnant population of massive stellar evolution. In the topic of neutron star astrophysics, the team will develop new tools to shed light on pulsar glitches and use pulsar timing observations to guide searches for burst and continuous GWs. This award advances the goals of the Windows on the Universe Big Idea.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.

罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）和德克萨斯理工大学（TTU）之间将建立新的研究和教育合作伙伴关系，以探索如何打破纪律和文化边界以解决中子-STAR天体物理学中的关键问题。 RIT主持了国家聋人技术研究所，这是世界上首要的聋人教育之一，TTU是西班牙裔服务机构。为期两年的计划将探索聋/听力障碍和西班牙裔本科生的真实途径，以加入Rittu合作伙伴关系并参加学年准备计划和夏季研究经验。学生将获得一组在理论和观察之间穿越的技能，并将得到一支敬业的心理团队的支持，从而使他们处于研究生课程或其他STEM职业的竞争位置。接下来的几年将为中子星体的天体物理学预示着与脉冲星体合成的中子星体的黄金时代，与脉冲星群合成，这是一部分，这是一部分是一部分，这是一部分，这是一部分是一部分，这是一部分，这是一部分的出现。可以通过多个使者观察到二进制中子星的中子星和合并：重力波（GWS），电磁辐射和潜在的神经元 - 为回答天体物理学基本问题的机会提供了无与伦比的机会。该计划的二进制中子恒星合并的研究将揭示宇宙最重的元素的形成机制，探测最强大的天体物理喷气机的产生和结构，并阐明巨大恒星进化的残余人群的特征。在中子明星天体物理学的主题中，团队将开发新的工具来阐明脉冲星故障，并使用脉冲星的定时观察来指导搜索爆发和连续的GWS。该奖项推动了宇宙中窗户的目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准评估来诚实地获得支持。