Execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the national academies of sciences engineering and medicine administration priorities and direction from congress

NASA Shared Services Center awarded Cornell University $468,881 on March 1, 2026, under the Science program (CFDA 43.001) to execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine and administration priorities and direction from Congress, with performance concluding February 29, 2028, at Ithaca, New York.

The award is a Project Grant. Cornell's Office of Sponsored Programs administers the funding.

Cornell University passed through sub-award funding to two research collaborators. California Institute of Technology, under sub-award 80NSSC26K0340-184374-24034 (awarded April 7, 2026), investigates all sources of error in numerical relativity code, including spatial error, time discretization error, errors associated with a finite outer boundary of grid, and errors associated with extracting gravitational waveforms from simulations. The University of Mississippi, under sub-award 80NSSC26K0340-184374-24035 (awarded March 30, 2026), implements previously known post-Newtonian results from eccentric but nonprecessing systems in waveform models for hybridization, continues exploitation of integrability to model generically spin-precessing and eccentric binaries with rapid waveform models at the level of conservative dynamics, and incorporates radiation-reaction results to generate slow evolution of constants of motion at the Hamiltonian level, ultimately generating waveforms that include radiation reaction for generically spin-precessing and eccentric binaries for use in hybridization pipelines.

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