This $350,381 project grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences' Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research between the California Institute of Technology and other institutions to open the infrared sky to multi-messenger astrophysics. Key products and services include conducting time-domain surveys with the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer telescope at Palomar Observatory to search for infrared counterparts to gravitational wave detections from binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole mergers during the fourth LIGO/Virgo observing run. The project will also search for infrared counterparts to high-energy neutrino triggers from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and observe stellar mergers of the most massive stars. The award period is from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024 and aims to advance the goals of the Windows on the Universe Big Idea by combining information from gravitational waves, neutrinos and light to unravel physics of extreme cosmic events.
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