Project Grant 2510183
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $295,332 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028 to conduct collaborative research on constraining dark matter properties using globular clusters and stellar streams. The project aims to develop a self-consistent model of globular cluster formation and evolution within a cosmologically evolving galaxy, and use this...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, awarded a $285,207 project grant to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct collaborative research on constraining dark matter properties using globular clusters and stellar streams. The project aims to develop a self-consistent model of globular cluster formation and evolution in a cosmologically evolving galaxy and use it to predict the properties of globular...
- This $508,212 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the creation of an ambitious simulation suite that will uniformly cover an unprecedented range of dark matter and gravity models. The goal is to enable detailed comparisons between these simulations and observational survey data, potentially ruling out certain models of dark matter and gravity. The simulations will be publicly available to enable...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $622,334 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct collaborative research on dark matter physics and its implications for galaxy formation. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: (1) new public software modules implementing different dark matter particle models...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at Drexel University to measure the mass distribution of dark matter in the universe. The $359,436 award, active from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will enable the research team to analyze distortions in the shapes of approximately 100 million galaxies observed through the Dark Energy Survey. By interpreting these "cosmic flexion"...
- This Project Grant award of $118,776 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support collaborative research to connect galaxies to dark matter halos using data from the Merian survey of 100,000 dwarf galaxies. The project aims to characterize the baryon and dark matter content of these dwarf galaxies through a united theory and observational approach. Key activities include measuring the composition and dark matter proportions of...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $398,629 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research to systematically predict dynamical signatures of new dark matter physics in galaxies. The researchers will implement various dark matter models in simulations of galaxies like the Milky Way and smaller dwarfs, creating a set of...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $202,576 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports a collaborative research effort to study how to indirectly test and constrain the properties of dark matter through observations of individual galaxies. Key deliverables include: 1) new, publicly available software modules...
- This Project Grant award of $552,880.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a research project at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor that aims to shed light on the nature of dark matter. The project will run computational simulations to understand how the underlying dark matter distribution affects the observed properties of globular cluster streams - long, thin trails of stars pulled from dense star clusters as...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $270,000 in funding to the University of Texas at Austin over 3 years, from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The award will support research to study the nature of dark matter, which accounts for 85% of all matter in the known universe. The research aims to better understand the microscopic properties of dark matter and its gravitational effects on...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research to investigate dark matter, the largest and most mysterious component of galaxies. The $313,105 award, spanning September 2025 to August 2028, will fund a team of researchers from the University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, and Northwestern University to conduct advanced computer simulations of galaxy formation and stellar streams, which are sensitive tracers of a galaxy's gravitational potential and its dark matter properties. The goal is to develop a comprehensive model to understand how globular star clusters form and evolve within galaxies with different dark matter characteristics, and to create educational resources including a virtual reality program to engage the public on the nature of dark matter and its role in galaxy evolution. This research aims to lay the groundwork for leveraging upcoming wide-field astronomical surveys to significantly advance the scientific understanding of the fundamental nature of dark matter.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $313.1k | 8/20/25 |