Project Grant 2405812
Award Date
9/1/24
Completion Date
8/31/27
Dollars Obligated
$403K
Federal Agency
Division of Astronomical Sciences
Federal Grant Program
47.049
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Similar Awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $311,243 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The award will support collaborative 3-D stellar hydrodynamics research to improve understanding of convection and convective boundary mixing in massive stars. The researchers will apply a new 1-D convection model to better estimate main...
This $540,758 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences supports research at Northwestern University focused on advancing the understanding of star formation, the interstellar medium (ISM), and stellar winds in galaxies with bursty versus steady star formation rates. The key research objectives are to: 1) assess the applicability of equilibrium disk and pressure balance models for the Kennicutt-Schmidt star formation law, 2) examine the...
This $560,337 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support collaborative research at the University of Arizona focused on improving our understanding of how convective mixing impacts the nature of gas giant exoplanet atmospheres. The project aims to develop computational simulation tools to investigate the physical, evolutionary, and observational consequences of convection for gas giant worlds, which...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $365,771 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to enhance stellar models by simulating turbulent plasma flows within stars using cutting-edge computational tools. The project aims to refine the understanding of rotational mixing within stars, a key factor in stellar evolution codes, through direct numerical simulations and multiscale asymptotic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $422,670 Project Grant to the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy (MIRA) to support a collaborative research effort on "Polarimetric Asteroseismology of Massive Hot Stars". This research project, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to determine the interior structures of massive hot stars by applying a new technique called polarimetric asteroseismology. The collaboration...
This Project Grant award of $118,673 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project focused on "Polarimetric Asteroseismology of Massive Hot Stars." A team of astronomers from the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy, Florida Gulf Coast University, SETI Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with international partners, will...
This two-year, $610,363 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into nucleosynthesis in degenerate stars through the Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The principal investigator at the University of Notre Dame will estimate neutron star merger rates by analyzing elemental abundances in nearby galaxies. High school students will participate in the research during summer internships with stipends to promote inclusion. The investigator...
This $379,797 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences supports research on electron impact ionization and recombination processes for heavy elements produced in neutron star mergers. The project aims to calculate accurate cross sections for these key astrophysical plasma ionization mechanisms, which will help astronomers better interpret the spectra of kilonovae - the transient electromagnetic emissions from neutron star...
This $590,559 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a three-year research program led by Columbia University. The program aims to perform computer simulations that predict the radiation emitted from neutron star winds and how it propagates through the debris of stellar explosions. The research will also apply these calculations to spinning neutron stars created from the merger of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $178,480 to Grand Valley State University for nuclear physics research with undergraduate students. The project aims to engage students in nuclear structure theory and its applications to nuclear astrophysics, exploring the origin of elements in the universe and the chemical evolution of stars and galaxies. Key activities include developing computational...