Project Grant 80NSSC21K0524

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $520,894 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop improved image processing software for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets. The project aims to leverage wavefront sensor data from adaptive optics systems to enhance exoplanet detection and characterization capabilities of existing ground-based telescopes. The investigators will...

This $366,995 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will support the "REDWOODS: A Hybrid Wavefront Sensor / Science Camera to Demonstrate Extreme Exoplanet Imaging at Lick Observatory" project at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The project aims to test new technologies designed to enable direct imaging of Earth-like exoplanets, which are millions to billions of times fainter than their host stars....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $1,482,618 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a next-generation charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor optimized for astronomical spectroscopy. The project aims to demonstrate the ability to readout a 4096x4096 pixel CCD image in a few minutes instead of hours, which will significantly improve the...

This $299,997 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports the development of free and open-source software and a web interface for extracting high-precision brightness measurements of stars from citizen scientist observations collected with color digital cameras. The project aims to greatly expand the pool of citizen scientists able to contribute to...

This $238,354 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) will fund collaborative research to develop improved image processing software for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets. The project aims to enable more sensitive detection and characterization of exoplanets by fully utilizing data from the wavefront sensors in modern high-contrast imaging systems. The software will...

The National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $586,081 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop novel "photonic lanterns" - a key technology for isolating and characterizing exoplanets by suppressing interference from their host stars. The grant supports the advancement of this technology to enable the characterization of hundreds of exoplanets,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,996 to Opticalx, LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Tracy, CA, to develop an optical solution for detecting and tracking small space debris. The project, titled "Space-Time Projection Optical Tomography (SPOT)", aims to leverage graphical processing unit (GPU) computing to enable the detection of space debris...

This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) in the amount of $141,698 supports an "Advanced Study of Lunar Polarimetric Anomalies with POLCAM" at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). The research aims to expand scientific knowledge through new discoveries related to lunar exploration and space science. The project, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will...

Gigajot Technology, Inc. received a $248,834 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049) to develop an ultra-sensitive dual fluorescence and bright field imaging lensless microscopy system using a novel Quanta image sensor for bio-imaging. The six-month project period ran from February to August 2021. The system aimed to provide advanced bio-imaging capabilities without the need for traditional...

The Portland State University was awarded a $199,244 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Engineering program to develop bandwidth-efficient photon data capture and processing techniques for single-photon avalanche diode cameras. The goal is to enable megapixel and higher resolution SPAD cameras by addressing the data bandwidth challenge through hardware and algorithmic reconfigurability of the SPAD pixel array. The...