The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $628,661 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) for the "FAST TRANSIENTS AND FURIOUS SPECTROSCOPY: REVEALING THE HIGH-SPEED SKY WITH ARGUS PATHFINDER" project. This 3-year award will enable UNC to develop and deploy the ARGUS PATHFINDER array, a high-speed, wide-field telescope system capable of rapidly surveying large areas of the sky to detect and characterize transient astronomical events such as superflares from stars. The project aims to contribute to understanding the high-speed astrophysical phenomena that could impact the search for life beyond Earth. A sub-award was provided to the University of Colorado Boulder to assist with graduate student training and analysis of the flare survey data.
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