Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC23M0047

This $388,823 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development and expansion of the "Fast and Furious" algorithm to improve the performance of adaptive optics systems at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The goal is to implement this algorithm for general use across all adaptive optics instruments and observing modes at Keck, which will enhance scientific observations and enable new...

This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) provides $133,491 to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ to execute a balanced science program. The award period runs from December 2, 2024 to December 1, 2027. The Lowell Observatory, a private non-profit research institution, will leverage its advanced astronomical facilities, including the 4.3-meter Discovery Channel Telescope, to conduct...

This Project Grant award, valued at $246,843.00 and effective from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate's Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.001). The grant will fund research to use radial velocity measurements from NASA/Keck's KPF and NN-EXPLORE's WIYN/NEID instruments, as well as archival TESS, K2, and Kepler data, to measure the masses and sizes of over 40 sub-Neptune exoplanets. This...

The University of California, Santa Cruz received a $298,871 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) on July 15, 2024. The funding will support a 2-year research project titled "Unlocking Three Decades of Transient Spectra with Keck/LRIS" to analyze archival data from the Keck Observatory's Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS). The research aims to expand scientific understanding of...

This Project Grant award of $246,703.00, provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science), will enable Eureka Scientific, Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Piedmont, CA, to conduct research to observationally constrain key properties of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) of an exoplanet host star. The research, spanning from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2028, aims to lay the groundwork needed to support...

This $271,602 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) supports a balanced science program focused on scientific research related to the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. Key objectives include: Executing a discipline-specific science program based on National Academies guidance and agency priorities Participating as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiatives, with a focus on scientific...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $881,843, is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award will support the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in upgrading the MKID Exoplanet Camera, an integral field spectrograph located behind the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument at the Subaru Telescope. The project aims to boost the spectral resolution and array fill factor of the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $415,771 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to study the dynamics of gas in merging galaxies. The project, titled "MAUNA: MULTIPHASE ANALYSIS OF (U)LIRG NUCLEAR ACTIVITY", leverages new observations from the Keck and James Webb Space Telescopes to analyze the movement of hot ionized and warm molecular gas in a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $277,936 to the University of San Diego to support two key research projects and educational activities. The first project will use the Keck Telescope's SCALES instrument to observe ongoing gas giant planet formation at mid-infrared wavelengths in wide-orbit planetary-mass companions. This aims to advance understanding of the origin and evolution of gas giant exoplanets and...

This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) provides $152,634.00 to The Johns Hopkins University to demonstrate an HgCdTe detector-based ultra-stable mid-infrared spectrometer for transit spectroscopy and phase curve observations of habitable planets around M-stars. The award period is from December 5, 2024 to December 4, 2026. This research aims to advance scientific understanding of exoplanets and...