This $295,591 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University to develop two new methods for measuring precise extragalactic distances using integral field spectroscopy. The goal is to help address the current "Hubble tension" discrepancy between the expansion rate of the universe measured locally versus inferred from early universe physics. The Penn State team will analyze existing and new...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at Drexel University to measure the mass distribution of dark matter in the universe. The $359,436 award, active from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will enable the research team to analyze distortions in the shapes of approximately 100 million galaxies observed through the Dark Energy Survey. By interpreting these "cosmic flexion"...
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...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $299,761 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences on September 1, 2021, with a completion date of August 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research exploring the galaxy and its white dwarfs through the HET Dark Energy Experiment. The research aligns with the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the Nation's...
This $434,573 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences will support a collaborative research program at Pennsylvania State University to trace cosmic structures using galaxies, quasars, and gas at "cosmic noon" - the period ~10 billion years in the past when the universe was only about 1/4 its present size and key processes like star formation and black hole activity peaked. The researchers will combine data from several large...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $622,334 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct collaborative research on dark matter physics and its implications for galaxy formation. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: (1) new public software modules implementing different dark matter particle models...
This $345,303 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports collaborative research by scientists at the University of Hawaii and the University of Chicago. The researchers will analyze data from multiple state-of-the-art astronomical surveys, including the Dark Energy Survey (DES), South Pole Telescope (SPT), and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), to obtain precise and unbiased constraints on the properties of the universe....
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $202,576 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports a collaborative research effort to study how to indirectly test and constrain the properties of dark matter through observations of individual galaxies. Key deliverables include: 1) new, publicly available software modules...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $438,078 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the development of a new statistical method to quantify the relationship between dark matter and the observable galaxies in the universe. The researchers will apply this technique to analyze data from the Bright Galaxy Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)....
The Pennsylvania State University received a $317,977 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The project, titled "THE FINAL STEP: ESTABLISHING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN BLACK-HOLE GROWTH AND HOST-GALAXY PROPERTIES DURING THE LAST HALF OF COSMIC TIME," aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing understanding of major problems...