Project Grant 1910021

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 three-year, $263,272 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research to better understand galaxy cluster mergers through observational data and advanced hydrodynamical simulations of ten galaxy clusters. The California Institute of Technology will conduct deep, multi-probe observational studies of the selected clusters to map their total mass density, intracluster...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $223,210 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) for the "LEAPS-MPS: WHERE GALAXIES KEEP THEIR COOL IN THE HEAT: A PATHFINDER TO DETECT COOL COSMIC GAS FILAMENTS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON GALAXY PROPERTIES IN CLUSTERS" research program. This project, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, aims to characterize the role of cool gas...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $435,097 to support research analyzing spectra from lensed galaxies and developing public outreach materials. The award to North Carolina State University will fund analysis of new and archival spectra from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager and Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instruments to develop spatially-resolved maps of galaxy circumgalactic media on kiloparsec scales. Principal investigators...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (AAPF) award, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $110,000 to support a 3-year research and education project led by Joseph Golec at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The project will use millimeter-wave observations to study the hot gas and dark matter within galaxy clusters, the most massive structures in the universe. Key objectives include...

This three-year, four hundred twenty-six thousand seven hundred forty-eight dollar Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences will fund research at Cornell University to combine measurements from cosmic microwave background experiments and galaxy clustering surveys to probe the nature of gravity, dark matter, and neutrinos in the universe. Key products will include the highest signal-to-noise pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich measurements to date...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will conduct research on the temperature of the circumgalactic and intergalactic medium over cosmic time under a $392,216 National Science Foundation Project Grant in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Over a three-year period from September 2021 through August 2024, the university's researchers will investigate the temperature of gas surrounding and between galaxies to better understand the evolution of large-scale structures in the...

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...

Columbia University was awarded a three-year $399,802 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to conduct collaborative research on the destruction and growth of hydrogen clouds surrounding the Milky Way Galaxy. The research aims to determine through computer simulations and new telescope observations whether these intergalactic gas clouds grow as they fall into the Galaxy to fuel star formation, or are scattered and destroyed during the...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) totaling $226,917 provides funding to New Mexico State University (NMSU) for research on leveraging X-ray astronomical observations to study the circumgalactic medium and its role in galaxy formation. The principal investigator's research group at NMSU will collaborate with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to train the PI and a graduate student in X-ray astronomical...