This $120,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, supports fundamental research on gravitational astrophysics and computational methods to advance scientific understanding of neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves, and the large-scale structure of the universe. The award will fund a series of research projects at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) focused on developing new...
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 $145,866 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences will fund a collaborative research initiative on "Polarimetric Asteroseismology of Massive Hot Stars." The project aims to determine the interior structures of these stars by observing seismic waves and applying a new polarimetric technique. The research team, comprising astronomers from Florida Gulf Coast University, Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy, SETI...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award provides $180,000.00 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The primary goal of the project is to develop novel numerical simulations and data-driven models to predict gravitational wave signals from mergers of black holes and neutron stars. This research will test Einstein's general relativity under extreme conditions and help maximize...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports a collaborative research effort to measure the motions of faint stars in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the NSF's 4-meter Blanco telescope. The $132,190 award to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania will enable the researchers to develop and apply new techniques to precisely measure the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to support "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WHITE DWARFS IN BINARIES ACROSS THE H-R DIAGRAM WITH THE APOGEE-GALEX-GAIA CATALOG", under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The goal of this 3-year project is to assemble an observational sample of thousands of post mass-transfer binary systems containing white dwarfs, by...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $603,824 Project Grant to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will support a team of scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania to use new high-resolution data from the NSF-funded Atacama...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) to reconstruct primordial density fluctuations using near-field cosmology. The key product of this $419,979 award, with a performance period from December 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027, will be an efficient and accurate model for predicting the Milky...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $446,421 to improve modeling of gravitational wave detections through active galactic nuclei channels. The award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York at Borough Manhattan Community College, from September 2022 to August 2025, will support rewriting and publicly releasing a Monte Carlo code developed to study compact object mergers in galactic...
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...