Project Grant 2407965
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $304,225 to the University of Florida and the University of Chicago from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The funding supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to advance understanding of stellar formation history through non-local thermodynamic equilibrium modeling of elemental abundances in metal-poor red giant stars. Specifically, the universities will...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $218,572 to San Francisco State University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to characterize over 300 metal-poor star candidates observed in the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment survey. The University will analyze and conduct follow-up observations of the metal-poor star candidates using the Lick and Keck telescopes to determine...
- 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 federal Project Grant award for $145,866 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort to apply a new technique called "polarimetric asteroseismology" to study the interior structures of massive hot stars. The grant involves a team of astronomers from the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy, Florida Gulf Coast University, the SETI Institute, the University of Maryland...
- This federal Project Grant award of $294,055, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to develop new tools for the Infrared Tip of the Red Giant Branch (IR-TRGB) method to measure the Hubble constant and expand the distance scale. The key activities include: 1) Completing the implementation of a fully-robotic, dual channel optical/infrared facility to monitor bright stars and...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $532,746.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research to investigate the anomalous magnetic fields and chemical abundances of chemically peculiar A and B-type stars (Ap/Bp stars). The key objectives are to: Develop a homogeneous and statistically significant catalog of Ap stars observed by the SDSS/APOGEE survey, including their stellar parameters,...
- This $599,199 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund development of tools and infrastructure to characterize discoveries from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Led by Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc., the team will build software to model populations of exoplanets, stars, and black holes detected by the LSST survey in real time. This includes algorithms to prioritize microlensing events...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $498,205 Project Grant to Florida State University (FSU) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The purpose of the grant is to advance understanding of the unique geometrical imprints of Type Ia supernova explosions and their progenitor systems. The research team at FSU will incorporate new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and ground-based spectropolarimetry programs...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $291,840 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Chicago. The grant supports collaborative research to develop and apply new techniques for precisely measuring the motions of faint stars using ground-based survey telescopes, including the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the NSF's 4-meter Blanco Telescope. The research aims to provide the most accurate measurements of the...
- This $237,593 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund a collaborative research effort between Georgia State University, Bridgewater State University, and Southern Connecticut State University. The project will conduct speckle imaging surveys of nearly 5,000 nearby stars, with a focus on K dwarf and M dwarf stars within 40 and 20 parsecs of the Sun, respectively. The observations will enable the researchers to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $346,927 to Florida State University (FSU) to enable Cepheids and RR Lyrae variable stars to serve as precision indicators of distance and metallicity for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time at the Vera Rubin Observatory (Rubin/LSST). The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Calibrate photometric metallicity relations to derive iron abundance ([Fe/H]) for hundreds of thousands of pulsating stars detected by Rubin/LSST; 2) Calibrate Period-Luminosity-Metallicity (PLZ) and Period-Wesenheit-Metallicity (PWZ) relations for Classical Cepheids and RR Lyrae in Rubin/LSST bands; and 3) Test these relations by studying the metallicity distribution of a sample of dwarf galaxies. This research aims to advance fundamental understanding of how stars, galaxies, and the universe itself formed and evolved over time. The project also includes public outreach activities at the FSU Planetarium.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $346.9k | 8/29/24 |