Project Grant 80NSSC24K0991

This three-year, $130,077 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund collaborative research to better understand galaxy cluster merger dynamics. The Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory will analyze observational data and hydrodynamical simulations of ten galaxy clusters to map the projected total mass density, intracluster medium emissivity and temperature,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $269,690 to support research and education activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). A collaboration between the University of Nevada, University of California Los Angeles, and Arizona State University will develop advanced galaxy modeling tools and conduct cross-correlation analyses to maximize scientific return from upcoming telescopes studying the epoch of...

This collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will develop advanced theoretical models of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) accretion disks with strong magnetic field dominance. The $340,178 award to the California Institute of Technology spans three years (September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028) and will produce next-generation computational models connecting...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $328,865 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration to conduct research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The goal of the research is to improve understanding of the mechanisms of accretion onto supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) through echo mapping and radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $439,616 Project Grant to the University of Hawaii (UH) Institute for Astronomy (IFA) and the University of California, Riverside (UCR) for the California-Hawaii Astrophysics Mentoring Partnership (CHAMP) program. The 3-year grant aims to build a collaborative research, education, and outreach program focused on addressing recommendations from the 2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Key...

This $539,342 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences will support research into the unexpectedly high number of bright, rapidly star-forming galaxies observed at the cosmic dawn. The award recipient, Princeton University, will conduct simulations and analytical modeling to understand the physical conditions that could explain these observations, particularly in the context of massive dark matter halos at high redshift. The research aims...

This collaborative research Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $279,533 in funding to the University of Washington for a three-year project (September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028). The award supports the development of computational tools and methodologies to constrain uncertain processes in massive stellar evolution by analyzing spatially resolved stellar...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $446,421 to improve modeling of gravitational wave detections through active galactic nuclei channels. The award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York at Borough Manhattan Community College, from September 2022 to August 2025, will support rewriting and publicly releasing a Monte Carlo code developed to study compact object mergers in galactic...

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 $299,998 National Science Foundation project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research in relativity and relativistic astrophysics at Cornell University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The research aims to numerically solve Einstein's equations through supercomputer simulations to test predictions of general relativity against observations from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Simulations of binary mergers...