2019/07/17 by P. T. Baker, The NANOGrav Collaboration, Baker, P. T. +60
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM #physics.ed-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.07348
Submitted as a State of the Profession White Paper for the Astro2020 Decadal Survey (10 pages + cover and references, 6 figures)
arxiv created 2019/07/17 · openalex publication_date 2019/07/17 · arxiv updated 2019/07/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The new field of gravitational wave astrophysics requires a growing pool of students and researchers with unique, interdisciplinary skill sets. It also offers an opportunity to build a diverse, inclusive astronomy community from the ground up. We describe the efforts used by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) NSF Physics Frontiers Center to foster such growth by involving students at all levels in low-frequency gravitational wave astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and establishing collaboration policies that ensure broad participation by diverse groups. We describe and illustrate the impact of these techniques on our collaboration as a case study for other distributed collaborations.