Project Grant 2511256
- This federal Project Grant award of $528,905 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports collaborative research on advanced digital calibration tools for 21cm cosmology measurements using radio telescopes. The research team from Yale University and West Virginia University, in collaboration with Canadian partners, will upgrade and expand the capabilities of a new drone-based radio calibrator source they previously developed. This calibrator...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $233,044 Project Grant to West Virginia University Research Corporation for collaborative research titled "Advanced Digital Calibrators for 21cm Cosmology." The three-year award running from September 2021 through August 2024 is funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Under the award, WVU Research Corporation will support collaborative research developing advanced...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $281,080 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to the West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC) for the collaborative research project "Mapping the Universe in Neutral Hydrogen with CHIME". The 3-year project, starting September 1, 2025, aims to develop new techniques to leverage the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope to make...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $279,914 to a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, and West Virginia University. The award supports the development of new techniques to leverage the latest advancements in signal processing, detector technology, and theoretical modeling for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)...
- This $509,534 National Science Foundation project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will develop new precision calibration processes for next generation radio telescopes. The University of Washington team will test an improved Bayesian calibration algorithm called Unified Calibration to enhance radio astronomy observations and 21 cm cosmology experiments. They will produce two Unified Calibration implementations - a flexible Python/Pyuvdata version for exploring...
- Yale University was awarded a $355,332 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2024. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Specifically, the funding will support Yale University's...
- 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 $312,341 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds the development of new algorithms and hardware to detect, mitigate, and fuse radio frequency interference (RFI) for radio astronomy observations. The research project, led by West Virginia University Research Corporation, aims to address the challenge of man-made radio interference that can obscure faint astronomical...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $169,693, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund a collaborative research project between the California Institute of Technology, University of Miami, and University of Maryland to study the Cosmic Microwave Background and the epoch of reionization using carbon monoxide (CO) line intensity mapping. The research team will work with the Caltech...
- This federal Project Grant award for $315,112 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Arizona State University. The goal of the project is to solve critical calibration and analysis challenges for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope, which will enable high-precision measurements of the large-scale structure of the universe using 21cm hydrogen intensity mapping. Key efforts include...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $321,340 Project Grant to the West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC) for the "Collaborative Research: Advanced Digital Calibrators for 21cm Cosmology" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The funding will support the development and deployment of a digital calibration source to improve measurements of neutral hydrogen in the universe using radio telescopes, which can inform our understanding of dark energy. This builds on the researchers' previous work to create a calibrator source using a fast chip that can be flown on a drone. The team will now focus on upgrading the source, expanding its capabilities, and using it to calibrate radio telescopes by deploying it on the telescopes and drones. The project aims to address critical gaps in current incoherent calibrators to enable full-sky, high signal-to-noise measurements of the instrument beam, supporting new interferometers targeting measurements of dark energy, reionization, and the dark ages. The award period runs from Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $321.3k | 7/31/25 |