Project Grant 80NSSC22K0884

The University of Delaware received a three-year, $596,067 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) federal grant program. The award will support research to detect and study light echoes in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and artificial intelligence from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. Under the award, the University of Delaware will develop machine learning algorithms and data...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $587,441 to the University of Delaware over 3 years, from August 2023 to July 2026. The purpose is to adapt time-domain data analysis tools previously used in other scientific fields for application in astronomy, specifically for searches of Earth-like exoplanets around distant stars. The key deliverables include: Developing new variance-suppressing power spectrum estimators, like the...

This $732,034 Project Grant award by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support the development and deployment of an Operational Data Sharing (ODS) system to enable real-time spectrum sharing between radio astronomy observatories and satellite constellations. The primary objectives are to construct the ODS system and experiment with spectrum sharing between the Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Green Bank Telescope in...

The University of Delaware was awarded a $248,683 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences to develop a methodology for studying stellar flares using data from the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The project aims to leverage the LSST's image quality and sensitivity to constrain the temperature of stellar flares, which remain poorly understood, by using differential chromatic refraction in the Earth's...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $715,434 Project Grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This 3-year grant will fund a major upgrade of NJIT's Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA), which is the world's premier solar-dedicated radio array for broadband microwave imaging spectroscopy. The key objectives are to: 1) Improve EOVSA's polarization measurement capabilities by...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $824,005 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to provide routine radio observations of solar activity using the Owens Valley Solar Arrays. The project will support operations and investigations of the solar phenomena, such as solar flares, active regions, and coronal holes, which are important for understanding and forecasting space weather events that can disrupt communication...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports a collaborative research effort to measure the motions of faint stars in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the NSF's 4-meter Blanco telescope. The $132,190 award to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania will enable the researchers to develop and apply new techniques to precisely measure the...

This $589,429 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program will support research and development by Delaware State University to create new optical and photonic sensing technologies for detecting trace gases dissolved in ocean water. The project aims to develop small-scale in-situ sensors utilizing mid-infrared hollow-core optical fibers and lasers to monitor the air-water interface and gain a better understanding of the interactions...

This Project Grant award of $180,225 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the "Collaborative Research: DASI Track 2: Deployment and Operations of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HAMSCI) Personal Space Weather Station Network" at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The project aims to deploy a network of thirty standardized space weather monitoring stations and ten automated GPS-disciplined amateur radio...

This Project Grant award, valued at $457,856, was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award will establish the IDASTRO program, a collaboration of Idaho colleges and universities including Boise State University, College of Idaho, and College of Western Idaho, to improve access for students to astronomy research in the state of Idaho. The IDASTRO program will provide personalized mentoring,...