Cosmic Explorer Related Research Funding  


 

"Center for Coatings Research" (Stanford University, Syracuse University, University of Florida, American University, Embry-Riddle, University of California, Berkeley, Colorado State University, CSULA, and Hobart and William Swift. This award will enable the Center for Coating Research to pursue coatings for Cosmic Explorer with amplitude thermal noise a factor of two below the A+ design target. This will involve studies of theoretical models, structure determination methods, deposition methods, and macroscopic characterization tools. For crystalline coatings, the Center will investigate issues accessible with small substrates, including ultimate Brownian noise limits, thermo-optically/elastically compensated designs, point absorbers and thermal damage, induced birefringence, and non-Brownian noise sources, in parallel with issues in scaling to required sizes.  (NSF Awards 2309289, 2309290, 2309291, 2309292, 2309293, 2309294, 2309295, 2309296, 2309297)

 

"Neutron stars and gravitational waves from LIGO to Cosmic Explorer" (Texas Tech University). This award will help Cosmic Explorer push the frontiers of neutron star research by leading the way to future detections of continuous gravitational waves and bursts associated with starquakes.  It will also prepare the way to use those signals, as well as the many binary neutron star mergers Cosmic Explorer will detect, to enable precision measurement of the equation of state and material properties of the most extreme matter in the universe. (NSF Award 2309305)

 

 "Cosmic Collisions, Relativistic Blasts, and their Remnants in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy"  (Texas Tech University). One of the goals of this 3-yr project is to explore future multi-messenger observing scenarios with the next generation Very Large Array radio telescope and ground-based gravitational-wave detectors such as Cosmic Explorer.  (NSF Award 2307358)