The National Science Foundation awarded a $180,000 Project Grant to the University of Utah under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research accelerating the pace of discovery in numerical relativity. Over a three-year period ending August 2025, the University will expand the computational framework Dendro-GR to calculate gravitational waveforms with sufficient accuracy for binary neutron star inspirals and large mass ratio binary black hole inspirals. Researchers will study merging binary compact objects using computer simulations to model a wide variety of possible mergers and search for new physics beyond current gravitational models. The University will also calculate gravitational waveforms for merging black hole binaries within alternative gravitational theories to probe deviations from general relativity. This work aims to advance computational capabilities for modeling high-energy astrophysical events detectable by gravitational wave detectors.
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