The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $343,307 Project Grant to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to support collaborative research titled "Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing...
The University of Hawaii at Manoa was awarded a $697,010 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the "CATCH A FADING STAR: USING TRANSIENT DIMMING TO EXPLORE THE PLANET-FORMING ZONES OF YOUNG STARS" research project being conducted from September 2021 through August 2024. The project aims to use observations of temporary dimming events caused by dust clouds around young stars to explore...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with CFDA number 47.049, will provide $788,071 to the University of Hawaii (UH) for the "Cosmology in the Local Volume with Hawaii Supernova Flows" research project. The primary goals of this 3-year project are to significantly expand the Hawaii Supernova Flows Survey by using over 3,000 new Type Ia supernovae to map the largest structures in the universe out to 300...
This $179,648 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project led by the University of Arizona. The project aims to explore the role of nature versus nurture in the formation of multiple star systems, in contrast to our own single-star solar system. The research team will use computer models incorporating physics like gravity, turbulence, radiation, and stellar...
This $389,192 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences will support a 5-year research initiative titled "CAREER: Uncovering the Links Between Outer Giant Planets and Their Inner Systems" at the University of New Mexico. The project aims to use spectroscopy to determine whether the presence and properties of giant exoplanets influence the formation and composition of inner terrestrial planets in the same planetary systems. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $121,411 project grant to the University of Hawaii at Manoa under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research into removability in geometric function theory from June 2021 through May 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by promoting progress in mathematics and physical sciences and increasing scientific knowledge. This particular award...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $377,113 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to uncover the secrets behind the growth of supermassive black holes located at the centers of galaxies. The project aims to 1) determine the merger rates of supermassive black holes and relate these to gravitational wave observations, 2) investigate the growth of supermassive black holes during the peak period of...
This Project Grant award, valued at $277,608, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The award establishes a research collaboration between the University of Hawaii (UH) and Duke University to advance supernova cosmology research and enhance STEM education programs. The key objectives of the project are to: Leverage UH-led supernova discovery surveys to reduce systematic uncertainties in cosmological parameter measurements,...
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 $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...