Project Grant 2508429
- The University of Oklahoma received a $368,640 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research services focusing on constraining the evolutionary pathways of white dwarfs through crystallization studies, investigations into cooling anomalies, and analyses of white dwarf mergers. Products and services to be delivered include a new...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $269,197 to Iowa State University of Science and Technology to study the puzzling behavior of pulsating white dwarf stars. The project aims to use computer models to understand the causes of phenomena such as sudden outbursts and random changes in brightness observed in these stars as they cool, as well as why pulsations cease. The award will support a...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $496,984.00 and provided by the Division of Astronomical Sciences, a civilian agency within the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences), will support research on hypervelocity white dwarfs that survive thermonuclear supernovae. The primary objectives of the project are to constrain the progenitor channels of Type Ia supernovae by identifying and characterizing these fast-moving stellar remnants, which provide direct...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $285,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Oklahoma. The grant supports Professor Sinha's research exploring the potential of future gravitational wave detectors and X-ray telescopes to probe the physics of dark matter, with a focus on studying axions and primordial black holes. This work aims to contribute to the fundamental understanding of the most abundant particle in the...
- This $363,623 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research effort between the City University of New York Queens College and Penn State Scranton. The primary objective is to develop and apply a new "seismic technique" that combines precision measurements of pulsating white dwarf stars with Gaia parallax data to accurately determine their masses and effective...
- The University of Delaware received a three-year, $541,852 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) and supports collaborative research on new models of stellar evolution to understand the past, present, and future of magnetic massive stars. Through this funding, the University will deliver research examining stellar structure and life cycles through the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $279,533 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Washington. The grant supports collaborative research to constrain the most uncertain processes in the evolution of the most massive stars, which play a crucial role in astrophysics. The research aims to precisely measure the formation efficiencies and evolutionary timescales for key outcomes of massive stellar evolution, such as...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to support "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WHITE DWARFS IN BINARIES ACROSS THE H-R DIAGRAM WITH THE APOGEE-GALEX-GAIA CATALOG", under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The goal of this 3-year project is to assemble an observational sample of thousands of post mass-transfer binary systems containing white dwarfs, by...
- This federal Project Grant award of $232,034 from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a theoretical investigation into helium-ignited binary white dwarf mergers as progenitors of Type Ia supernovae. The research team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will employ state-of-the-art 3D hydrodynamic simulations to study the evolution, detonation, and observable signatures of these stellar events. The project will utilize...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $530,312 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to study white dwarf stars under the influence of planets. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to be completed by August 31, 2024. The funding will support research examining how planetary systems affect white dwarf stars, advancing understanding of major problems in astrophysics. Chapel Hill's Office of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $390,073 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Oklahoma (OU) to study the origins and evolution of ultramassive white dwarfs - the dense, Earth-sized remains of stars like our Sun. The 3-year project aims to characterize the mass and temperature distribution of the most massive white dwarfs, identify likely white dwarf merger remnants, analyze massive pulsating white dwarfs using asteroseismology, constrain the origin of magnetic ultramassive white dwarfs, and survey cool white dwarfs to trace their connection to merger products. This research will provide training and research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students in astrophysics and observational techniques, and continue OU's science outreach program engaging K-12 students and local communities in Oklahoma.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $390.1k | 8/19/25 |