Project Grant 2511711
- This $244,369 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to identify and characterize populations of massive stellar binary systems, composed of a black hole or neutron star and a massive star, in nearby low-metallicity dwarf galaxies. The project will use multiwavelength archival data to study these "high mass X-ray binaries" as analogs to similar systems that may have formed in the early universe....
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $500,133 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. Through this grant, the research team will conduct a systematic study of the diverse outflows that occur during tidal disruption events, when a star is scattered into the gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole. The researchers will use radio and millimeter observations to track the evolution of...
- This $407,331 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research on magnetospheric accretion around magnetized stars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) will conduct first-principle numerical simulations to study how neutron stars produce X-ray pulsars and ultraluminous X-ray sources, as well as how young stars and planets evolve within their environments. The research will include four key simulation...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant of $154,664 awarded under the Integrative Activities program will fund research into radio emissions from intermediate mass black holes at the University of Nevada, Reno from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The university researchers will investigate differences in radio emissions between rapidly and weakly accreting intermediate mass black holes using radio data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in conjunction with...
- This $124,631 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports a collaborative research project to study supermassive black holes and relativistic jets. The 5-year project, starting September 1, 2024, will be conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan. Key objectives include determining the number of binary supermassive black holes in the early universe, studying the structure and...
- This $442,985 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to uncover the growth mechanisms of supermassive black holes. The key objectives are to: 1) Determine the merger rates of supermassive black holes and relate them to gravitational wave observations; 2) Investigate the growth of supermassive black holes during their peak activity period (known as "cosmic noon") and its connection to accretion...
- This $329,290 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Maryland Baltimore County to improve understanding of outflows from accreting supermassive black holes and their impact on host environments. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the three-year award will coordinate multiwavelength observations using the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System in Arizona and other observatories. Researchers will pair...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $707,214 Project Grant to the University of Colorado under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop next-generation general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) models for simulating black hole accretion flows and jets. The project aims to accurately link multi-wavelength observations of jets to the properties of the supermassive black hole and its surrounding environment. This...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $475,345 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on detecting dormant black holes and neutron stars in binary stellar systems. The key goals of the project are to: Obtain spectroscopic and multi-epoch radial velocity data for approximately 100 binary systems identified by the Gaia mission as likely containing black hole or neutron star...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $325,460 Project Grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant, effective from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will support research to better understand the global dynamics of mass and angular momentum accretion in high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) systems. The project will leverage computer simulations to quantify the material...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $488,967 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to analyze radio observations of 20 black hole X-ray binary (BHXB) systems before and after outbursts. The researchers aim to reveal the physical drivers for how jets respond to accretion flows in these systems, which are found throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The project will build a publicly accessible catalog of the BHXB systems and contribute to the training of two graduate students. It will also expand an existing outreach program to provide astronomy lessons to 1,000 middle school students across Nevada. The award period runs from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $489.0k | 8/19/25 |