Project Grant 80NSSC19K1465

This $407,331 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research on magnetospheric accretion around magnetized stars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) will conduct first-principle numerical simulations to study how neutron stars produce X-ray pulsars and ultraluminous X-ray sources, as well as how young stars and planets evolve within their environments. The research will include four key simulation...

This $329,290 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Maryland Baltimore County to improve understanding of outflows from accreting supermassive black holes and their impact on host environments. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the three-year award will coordinate multiwavelength observations using the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System in Arizona and other observatories. Researchers will pair...

This $367,790 Project Grant award from the NASA Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) supports scientific research focused on the goals of executing a balanced science program, participating as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiative, and advancing discovery in emerging fields. The University of Maryland Baltimore County, the prime awardee, will conduct radiation transport simulations for hard X-rays in magnetar atmospheres, including modeling Compton scattering in strong...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $707,214 Project Grant to the University of Colorado under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop next-generation general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) models for simulating black hole accretion flows and jets. The project aims to accurately link multi-wavelength observations of jets to the properties of the supermassive black hole and its surrounding environment. This...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with a total funding amount of $441,642, supports research to deepen the understanding of the final stages of stellar evolution, specifically focusing on red giants and their mass-shedding processes. The key objectives of this 2-year research project, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, are to: Employ very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations,...

This three-year, $598,710 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research and education activities at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Maryland, College Park focused on investigating electromagnetic precursor transients to gravitational wave events through computational simulations. Caltech will lead the research effort to perform the first numerical simulations of the crustal shattering...

This $525,731 National Science Foundation project grant will support the creation of precision models for a reference set of Mira variable stars. The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will analyze archival data spanning several years from multiple space missions, along with recent observations, to provide fundamental parameters for each star. These parameters include variability periods, bolometric fluxes, radii, masses, luminosities, effective temperatures and distances. The work...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $189,753 awarded on September 1, 2022 supports research into the evolution of magnetic complexity in older sun-like stars under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Principal investigators Metcalfe and Van Saders will obtain polarized spectra of 12 stars using the Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument at the Large Binocular Telescope and the Las Cumbres Observatory's Network of Robotic...

This $145,866 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences will fund a collaborative research initiative on "Polarimetric Asteroseismology of Massive Hot Stars." The project aims to determine the interior structures of these stars by observing seismic waves and applying a new polarimetric technique. The research team, comprising astronomers from Florida Gulf Coast University, Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy, SETI...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $465,884 project grant to Carnegie Mellon University to carry out an observational campaign of astronomical transient events using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). The goal is to discover new electromagnetic counterparts to mergers of binary neutron stars and neutron star-black hole mergers, as well as to study the origin of gravitational wave sources and produce new measurements of the Hubble...