The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $447,242 Project Grant to The Washington University in St. Louis to conduct research on the multi-wavelength emission of pulsars. The 3-year grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, will support a research team using direct numerical simulations to develop a unified theoretical model connecting plasma physics processes to observational data on these rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars. The research aims...
This $431,872 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research at the University of Maryland, College Park on the physical processes responsible for the generation of radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray emissions from pulsars. The research team will use advanced numerical simulations to investigate how pair plasma discharges and magnetic reconnection in pulsars lead to the production of coherent radio waves as...
This $301,094 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on neutron stars and gravitational waves. The award will fund cutting-edge searches for continuous gravitational wave signals from young neutron stars, including from pulsar r-mode oscillations and supernova remnants. It will also contribute to the detection and analysis of other neutron star signals, such as from binary mergers and...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $888,328 in funding to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The grant supports an international program led by UCSC researchers to study the electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events, with the key goals of: 1) discovering and characterizing new electromagnetic counterparts, 2) producing improved...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $416,409 will support research by West Virginia University Research Corporation to strengthen gravitational-wave and pulsar science using data from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. The primary objectives are to: Characterize the stability of pulse morphology and noise properties for millisecond-period radio pulsars observed by the North American...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) project grant for $131,871 awarded to Yale University will contribute to an empirical model of the stochastic gravitational wave background expected to be detected through pulsar timing array observations. The project will: Use observations of quasar luminosity functions and dual active galactic nuclei to build an empirical model of the cosmological distribution of supermassive black hole binaries, which...
This $148,567 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to detect low-frequency gravitational waves. The principal investigator at the University of Montana will lead efforts to improve pulsar timing models, add new observatories to the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGRAV) dataset, and create combined International Pulsar Timing Array...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), is providing $270,310 from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2026 to conduct collaborative research on the physics and electromagnetic counterparts of neutrino blazars. The investigators will use advanced computer simulations to study these powerful cosmic events where jets shoot out from the vicinity of supermassive black holes, in order to unlock the secrets of these...
This $407,331 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research on magnetospheric accretion around magnetized stars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) will conduct first-principle numerical simulations to study how neutron stars produce X-ray pulsars and ultraluminous X-ray sources, as well as how young stars and planets evolve within their environments. The research will include four key simulation...