Project Grant 2511107
- This Project Grant award of $186,148 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research to build the next-generation North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) pulsar timing array using the DSA-2000 telescope. The goal is to continue observations of millisecond pulsars to detect the low-frequency gravitational wave background produced by merging supermassive black holes in distant...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $334,648 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to Cornell University. The grant will support collaborative research to build the next-generation North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) pulsar timing array using the DSA-2000 radio telescope. The research aims to detect gravitational waves produced by the mergers of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies,...
- This $313,468 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences on September 1, 2025 will support "Collaborative Research: Building the Next-Generation NanoGrav Pulsar Timing Array with the DSA-2000" at West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC). The funding will enable the development and deployment of pulsar timing instrumentation and pipelines to accurately characterize the low-frequency gravitational...
- This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research that leverages the recent detection of gravitational waves to provide new insights into black holes, neutron stars, and the expansion of the universe. The funded research aims to analyze the rapidly growing catalog of gravitational wave sources, which is expected to expand from the current 90 confirmed events to over 300 by 2027. By studying the population...
- 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 $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 main research activities include searches for continuous gravitational waves from young neutron stars, including R-mode oscillations of known pulsars and searches of supernova remnants for non-pulsing neutron stars. The award also contributes to searches for other signals like neutron star...
- This Project Grant award for $150,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research in gravitational wave astrophysics. The research aims to solve Einstein's equations numerically using simulations run on NSF-funded supercomputers to study the inspiral and merger of binary neutron star systems and the associated gravitational waves. The results will increase understanding of gravitational wave...
- This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of a new framework for studying extreme astrophysical objects, such as neutron stars and black holes, using gravitational wave data from the NSF-supported LIGO observatories. The award will fund the creation of fast, flexible time-frequency analysis methods that can account for non-Gaussian and non-stationary noise in the LIGO...
- 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 $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 $222,693 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research to build the next-generation North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) pulsar timing array using the DSA-2000 radio telescope. The research aims to observe the gravitational waves generated by the merging of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, which stretch and squeeze spacetime and cause variations in the timing of millisecond pulsars. This award will fund the development of hardware, algorithms, and instrumentation to enable accurate characterization of the low-frequency gravitational wave background, with the ultimate goal of identifying individual black hole binary systems. The project also provides hands-on training for graduate and undergraduate students in pulsar timing instrumentation and data analysis.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $222.7k | 8/14/25 |