Welcome to my REU website!
This summer, I partcicpated in the REU at Northwestern University's CIERA. I worked with Drs Giacomo Fragione and Fred Rasio.
I worked on a project about studying the rates and properties of merging binary black holes (BBHs) in dense stellar clusters with a prominent runaway effect. I also studied the detection probabilities of these events using current and planned gravitational wave instruments (LISA, LIGO's Voyager, the Einstein Telescope, and the Cosmic Explorer).
This webiste, along with my poster and a draft research note, is a culmination of the work I did this summer. Feel free to contact me with any questions at rujuta.purohit.24 [at] dartmouth.edu
This research was supported by the Student Experiential Learning Fund (SELF) at Dartmouth College. This research was supported in part through the computational resources and staff contributions provided for the Quest high performance computing facility at Northwestern University which is jointly supported by the Office of the Provost, the Office for Research, and Northwestern University Information Technology. This REU was directed by Dr. Aaron Geller and co-directed by Dr. Emily Leiner.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. AST 2149425, a Research Experience s for Undergraduates (REU) grant awarded to CIERA at Northwestern University. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material a re those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
This reserach was carried out at Evanston, IL. Before colonization and settlement by people of European descent, Evanston was home to the Potawatomi, Odawa and Ojibwe Tribes, also known as the Niswi-mishkodewinan, an alliance of Anishinaabeg peoples. Adapted from the Evanston Public Library's land acknowledgement.
Background image credit: NASA Goddard