Project Grant 1910471

The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $680,431 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the FAST and Fortunate for FRB Follow-up (F4) research team to conduct follow-up observations of hundreds of Fast Radio Bursts across the sky. Specifically, the team will acquire, analyze, and disseminate deep, multi-band imaging and spectroscopy of FRB...

The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded $347,617 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the California Institute of Technology to conduct research on Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2027. The award will support gathering and analyzing data on FRBs discovered with the new Deep Synoptic Array telescope and optical observations of FRB host galaxies. Funding will also support...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $177,881 supports the Fast and Fortunate for FRB Follow-up (F4) team's efforts to conduct follow-up observations and analysis of fast radio bursts (FRBs) through August 2025. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the funding will allow F4 to increase observational impact by an order of magnitude through follow-up of two new FRB surveys. Specifically, the team will acquire, analyze, and disseminate deep imaging...

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 $329,290 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Maryland Baltimore County to improve understanding of outflows from accreting supermassive black holes and their impact on host environments. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the three-year award will coordinate multiwavelength observations using the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System in Arizona and other observatories. Researchers will pair...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $367,381 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to conduct research on space weather in young stellar systems using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory - Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA). The research team, led by Caltech, will observe approximately 2,000 young stellar systems less than one billion years old with...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $431,250 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to The Johns Hopkins University. The award period is from June 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The funded research project has three main goals: (i) conduct radio follow-up observations of neutron star-neutron star and neutron star-black hole systems detected by gravitational wave observatories to study the physics of their ejecta and remnants; (ii) investigate...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $396,651 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds a collaborative research effort between Northwestern University and the University of Chicago to study Fast and Blue Optical Transients (FBOTs), a newly discovered class of astronomical events involving rapidly brightening stellar explosions believed to be powered by newly formed black holes or neutron...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $268,212 Project Grant to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to conduct collaborative research on using radio interferometry to study the photon ring around a black hole, a distinctive relativistic signature predicted by general relativity. Under this 3-year award from the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049), the Smithsonian Institution will: Analyze theoretical models to...