Project Grant 1515392

This $780,494 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) will support a deep search for small, rocky planets around nearby stars using the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) spectrometer at the Keck Observatory. The California Planet Search collaboration will conduct approximately 100 observations of 10 nearby G and K-type stars over 3 years to detect low-mass planets with month-timescale orbital periods. The project...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $407,067 Project Grant to Cornell University to conduct collaborative research using the Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), an imaging spectrometer that will observe on the Arizona Radio Observatory 12-meter radio telescope. The 3-year grant, with a start date of September 1, 2023, will support scientific operations, data reduction pipeline development, and publication of results from TIME's...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund a $697,725 project over 3 years to detect and characterize new low-mass planets orbiting distant stars. The award will support a team at San Francisco State University, which will use the EXPRES high-precision radial velocity spectrograph to find small, long-period planets in systems similar to our own solar system....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $199,461 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This 3-year grant supports the Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), an imaging spectrometer that will observe on the Arizona Radio Observatory 12-meter radio telescope at Kitt Peak. The TIME instrument will map large portions of the sky to probe the early...

This $306,464 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds the development of DECIPHER, a machine learning tool that automatically detects and measures the mass of forming exoplanets in protoplanetary disks from observational data. The project aims to increase the speed and accessibility of exoplanet detection and characterization, making this analysis available to...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences Project Grant award of $449,288 will fund a 3-year research program at Columbia University to investigate variations in planet formation conditions. The research will utilize radio telescopes to analyze the structure and chemistry of protoplanetary disks around young stars, particularly in environments that have been less characterized. Specific objectives include comparing the chemical properties of disks undergoing late...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $537,856 Project Grant to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This 3-year grant will fund a survey using the Tierras Observatory, a 1.3-meter ultra-precise photometric telescope located at the F.L. Whipple Observatory in Arizona. The survey aims to detect small, temperate terrestrial exoplanets as small as Mercury and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award supports the Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), an imaging spectrometer that will observe on the Arizona Radio Observatory 12-meter radio telescope at Kitt Peak. TIME will map large portions of the sky to probe the early epochs of the universe by measuring bright ionized carbon emission from galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization and by measuring carbon monoxide during the peak of star formation. The $199,162...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $435,610 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The project, titled "Galactic Imprints of AGB Outflows: Linking Second-Generation Planetesimal Formation to White Dwarf Pollution and Emergence of Interstellar Objects," will investigate how heavy elements accumulate on the surfaces of white dwarf stars....