The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $322,751 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Illinois. The grant supports a collaborative research project to develop and apply new techniques for measuring the motions of faint stars using ground-based survey telescopes. The researchers will analyze data from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the NSF's 4-meter Blanco Telescope to perform precise measurements of the proper motions of hundreds of millions of stars. This research will contribute to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and provide scientific training for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as engage the public through visualizations of stellar motions in the Milky Way galaxy. The project period runs from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027.
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