Project Grant 2307581
- This $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of cutting-edge circuit designs and signal processing algorithms to enhance the resilience of radio telescopes against radio frequency interference (RFI) from satellite transmissions. The primary goal is to enable the continued operation of radio astronomy service (RAS) in the presence of unavoidable RFI through a modulo sampling-based approach. The research...
- This $259,799 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Engineering program will support research into using an intelligent surface installed near a radio telescope to help mitigate radio frequency interference from other electromagnetic spectrum users. The Research Foundation for the State University of New York at the University at Albany will construct an experimental radio telescope based on the Small Radio Telescope design...
- This $313,468 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences on September 1, 2025 will support "Collaborative Research: Building the Next-Generation NanoGrav Pulsar Timing Array with the DSA-2000" at West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC). The funding will enable the development and deployment of pulsar timing instrumentation and pipelines to accurately characterize the low-frequency gravitational...
- This $580,810 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a research program called "GREENBURST" led by scientists at West Virginia University (WVU). The project will use the Green Bank Telescope to study two key populations of transient astrophysical objects: fast radio bursts at cosmological distances and ultra-long period pulsars in the Milky Way galaxy. Key activities include two survey projects...
- This $732,034 Project Grant award by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support the development and deployment of an Operational Data Sharing (ODS) system to enable real-time spectrum sharing between radio astronomy observatories and satellite constellations. The primary objectives are to construct the ODS system and experiment with spectrum sharing between the Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Green Bank Telescope in...
- West Virginia University Research Corporation was awarded a $432,848 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant will support the "The Petabyte Project for Fast Radio Transients" which aims to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences through increasing the store of scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems confronting the nation....
- This $586,924 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of scalable and efficient astronomical data processing software among distributed observatories. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of Virginia team will design system software focusing on performance measurement and analysis of data processing jobs run on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Common Astronomy Software Applications and machine/deep learning...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $271,974 provides funding from September 15, 2022 through August 31, 2025 for collaborative research titled "SWIFT-SAT: RFI Detection Across Six Orders of Magnitude in Intensity: A Unifying Framework with Weakly Supervised Machine Learning." The award is made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these fields to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically,...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems provides $115,201 to develop signal cancellation technologies using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for radio astronomy services. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, the award supports research at the California Institute of Technology from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Specifically, the project investigates using an intelligent surface installed near a radio...
- This federal Project Grant award of $528,905 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports collaborative research on advanced digital calibration tools for 21cm cosmology measurements using radio telescopes. The research team from Yale University and West Virginia University, in collaboration with Canadian partners, will upgrade and expand the capabilities of a new drone-based radio calibrator source they previously developed. This calibrator...
This $312,341 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds the development of new algorithms and hardware to detect, mitigate, and fuse radio frequency interference (RFI) for radio astronomy observations. The research project, led by West Virginia University Research Corporation, aims to address the challenge of man-made radio interference that can obscure faint astronomical signals. The team will develop real-time RFI detection, characterization, and flagging methods, as well as prototype new RFI detection hardware. The algorithms, firmware, and software produced will be made freely available to the global radio astronomy community. This work has potential applications beyond astronomy, such as in self-driving car and collision avoidance radar systems. The project runs from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026 and engages faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at West Virginia University.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $312.3k | 8/17/23 |