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)