Award Abstract # 0758172
Theoretical and experimental efforts for detecting binary black hole mergers with a network of high-precision gravitational-wave interferometers

NSF Org: PHY
Division Of Physics
Recipient: WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: April 3, 2008
Latest Amendment Date: May 14, 2009
Award Number: 0758172
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Beverly K. Berger
PHY  Division Of Physics
MPS  Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date: May 1, 2008
End Date: December 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $0.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $80,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2008 = $80,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • Sukanta Bose (Principal Investigator)
     sukanta@wsu.edu
  • Fred Raab (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Washington State University
 240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG
 PULLMAN
 WA  US  99164-0001
(509)335-9661
Sponsor Congressional District: 05
Primary Place of Performance: Washington State University
 240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG
 PULLMAN
 WA  US  99164-0001
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:		 05
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): XRJSGX384TD6
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): LIGO RESEARCH SUPPORT
Primary Program Source: 01000809DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, 7483, OTHR
Program Element Code(s): 125200
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

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.

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B. Abbott et al. "All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5 Data" Phys.Rev.Lett , v.102 , 2009 , p.111102 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.111102
B. Abbott et al. "All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5 Data" Phys.Rev.Lett , v.102 , 2009 , p.111102
B. Abbott et al. "Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGO's S5 Data" Phys. Rev. D , v.79 , 2009 , p.122001 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.122001
B. P. Abbott et al. "First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings" Phys. Rev. D , v.80 , 2009 , p.062002 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062002
B. P. Abbott et al. "Search for High Frequency Gravitational Wave Bursts in the First Calendar Year of LIGO's Fifth Science Run" Phys. Rev. D , v.80 , 2009 , p.102002 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102002
E. Thrane, S. Ballmer, J. Romano, D. Talukder, S. Bose, and V. Mandic "Probing the anisotropies of a stochastic gravitational-wave background using a network of ground-based laser interferometers" Phys. Rev. D , v.80 , 2009 , p.122002 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.122002
P. Ajith, S. Bose "Estimating the parameters of non-spinning binary black holes using ground-based gravitational-wave detectors: Statistical errors" Phys. Rev. D , v.79 , 2009 , p.084032 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.084032

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