Newton STFC Capacity Building with LIGO-India

Newton STFC 与 LIGO-India 进行能力建设

• 批准号: ST/R001928/1
• 负责人: Giles Hammond
• 金额: $ 39.07万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FR001928%2F1
• 关键词: Newton; STFC; Capacity; Building; LIGO

With the first direct observation of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes by the LIGO Scientific collaboration last year there has been great interest around the world in extending the reach of the future detector network, as gravitational wave astronomy breaks open a new window on the Universe. With the siting of the 3rd aLIGO detector in India there is an essential need for critically skilled students, postdocs and early career researchers to be trained at the highest level in gravitational wave astronomy, for construction of the infrastructure & technology, development of high performance computing/machine learning algorithms and efficient data pipelines. In turn, the LIGO India project will help Indian scientific community to be a major player in the emerging research frontier of GW astronomy. Based on the model of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, there is a huge potential for inclusive growth across many areas of industry, academia and society. The UK consortia also have a strong track record of outreach & public engagement, which will be shared with our Indian collaborators. The Indian partners will be those institutions jointly coordinating and executing the LIGO-India project and their associates: the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, the Indian Institute for Science Education & Research (IISER) and the TIFR Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad. Over the coarse of the project we will also develop linkages with the Department of Atomic Energy organisations: Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar and the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore who will be leading the development of infrastructure (laser, vacuumm system, suspensions and seismic isolation).The main objectives of this proposal are to build up technical capacity and capability in India in a broad range of multidisciplinary fields associated with gravitational wave detection. This field is very wide in nature and the technologies required range from delicate mechanical instrumentation, through high and low power laser optics to signal processing and large data handling, and thus capacity built up from the work of this proposal will have wide application in other fields. We have already identified several UK-India comapny linkages in the areas of machine learning, sensors & autonomous systems & data algorithms, and we propose to share our experience of methods to spin-out high technology research into applied fields.The consortium behind this proposal in the UK - the Universities of the West of Scotland, Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton, and Sheffield - has a strong and extensive track record in detector development, data analysis and background theory and astrophysics for the gravitational wave field, as well as working with industry, in public outreach and school teacher CPD. Thus it is ideally suited to provide training for PhD students, research assistants and early career researchers in the ODA country of India to build capacity and make these countries major contributors to the international community and to provide dedicated summer schools/workshops in the UK utilising the expansive UK training network, for training the incoming members from the ODA countries in the necessary data analysis and experimental hardware techniques. Further the consortium will arrange opportunities for researchers to travel to/from India and the UK to capacity build and perform on-site training of researchers. Such a model has already shown to be extremely valuable in the transfer of UK expertise to both the US during the construction of Advanced LIGO and in Japan, during the construction of KAGRA.

去年，LIGO 科学合作首次直接观测到来自合并黑洞的引力波，随着引力波天文学打开了了解宇宙的新窗口，世界各地对扩大未来探测器网络的覆盖范围产生了浓厚的兴趣。随着第三个 aLIGO 探测器在印度落户，迫切需要技能熟练的学生、博士后和早期职业研究人员接受引力波天文学最高水平的培训，以建设基础设施和技术、开发高性能计算/机器学习算法和高效的数据管道。反过来，LIGO 印度项目将帮助印度科学界成为 GW 天文学新兴研究前沿的主要参与者。基于LIGO科学合作组织的模式，工业界、学术界和社会的许多领域都存在巨大的包容性增长潜力。英国财团在外展和公众参与方面也拥有良好的记录，这些记录将与我们的印度合作者分享。印度合作伙伴将是那些共同协调和执行 LIGO-India 项目的机构及其联营机构：浦那大学间天文学和天体物理学中心 (IUCAA)、印度科学教育与研究学院 (IISER) 和 TIFR 中心跨学科科学，海得拉巴。在该项目的总体过程中，我们还将与原子能部组织建立联系：甘地讷格尔等离子研究所（IPR）和印多尔 Raja Ramanna 先进技术中心（RRCAT），他们将领导基础设施的发展（该提案的主要目标是在印度与引力波探测相关的广泛多学科领域建立技术能力和能力。该领域本质上非常广泛，所需的技术范围从精密机械仪器、高功率和低功率激光光学到信号处理和大数据处理，因此本提案工作所建立的能力将在其他领域得到广泛应用。我们已经确定了机器学习、传感器、自主系统和数据算法领域的几家英国-印度公司联系，我们建议分享我们将高科技研究转移到应用领域的方法经验。该提案背后的联盟英国的大学——西苏格兰大学、格拉斯哥大学、卡迪夫大学、伯明翰大学、南安普顿大学和谢菲尔德大学——在探测器开发、数据分析以及背景理论和天体物理学方面拥有强大而广泛的记录。引力波场，以及与工业界、公共外展和学校教师 CPD 的合作。因此，它非常适合为 ODA 国家印度的博士生、研究助理和早期职业研究人员提供培训，以建设能力并使这些国家成为国际社会的主要贡献者，并利用广泛的英国培训网络，用于对来自官方发展援助国家的新成员进行必要的数据分析和实验硬件技术的培训。此外，该联盟还将安排研究人员往返印度和英国的机会，以进行能力建设并对研究人员进行现场培训。这种模式已被证明对于将英国专业知识转移到美国先进 LIGO 建设期间和日本 KAGRA 建设期间非常有价值。

项目成果

Enhancing the sensitivity of transient gravitational wave searches with Gaussian mixture models

利用高斯混合模型增强瞬态引力波搜索的灵敏度

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.102.104023
• 发表时间: 2020-08-04
• 期刊: arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
• 作者: V. Gayathri;D. Lopez;Pranjal R. S.;I. Heng;A. Pai;C. Messenger
• 通讯作者: C. Messenger

Generalised gravitational wave burst generation with generative adversarial networks

利用生成对抗网络生成广义引力波爆发

• DOI: http://dx.10.1088/1361-6382/ac09cc
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Classical and Quantum Gravity
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: McGinn J

Generalised gravitational burst generation with Generative Adversarial Networks

使用生成对抗网络生成广义引力爆发

• DOI: http://dx.10.48550/arxiv.2103.01641
• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: McGinn J