This $328,623 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a 4-year collaborative research program led by investigators at Louisiana State University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and University of Maryland, College Park. The research aims to improve our understanding of explosive transients, such as gamma-ray bursts and...
This federal Project Grant award, issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, will enhance existing search strategies and analysis capabilities for discovering and characterizing the coalescence of compact binary systems, such as black holes and neutron stars. The $200,000 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will fund four key activities: (i) extending multi-messenger Bayesian inference...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $303,516 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) for a 4-year research program focused on studying explosive transients in the universe. The research team will combine data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time with observations from space-based gamma-ray burst monitors and ground-based gravitational-wave...
This $484,024 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a 4-year collaborative research program led by investigators at Louisiana State University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and University of Maryland, College Park. The research aims to improve understanding of explosive transient events in the distant universe by combining data from multiple observation platforms,...
This $2,275,504 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of open-source software infrastructure to enable advancements in multi-messenger astrophysics. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Software to enable real-time querying and analysis of heterogeneous data streams from gravitational wave, neutrino, and electromagnetic observations to...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049), aims to advance the field of interferometric gravitational wave astronomy. The $150,000 award, with a performance period of August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will support research focused on three key areas: 1) Simulations to support commissioning of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and design of future detectors like...
This $374,699 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a 4-year collaborative research program led by investigators at Louisiana State University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and University of Maryland, College Park. The research aims to improve the understanding of explosive transients in the distant universe by...
This Project Grant award, totaling $189,022, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program. The funding supports an interdisciplinary research team to use advanced machine learning techniques to develop new models for studying the complex gravitational wave signals from binary black hole systems in extreme astrophysical environments. The team plans to build on their previous work on gravitational waveform...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research at The Johns Hopkins University to develop new theoretical frameworks for modeling multi-messenger signatures from the interactions of supermassive black hole binaries and their environments. The $443,481 award, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028, aims to advance the state-of-the-art in multi-messenger astrophysics by...
This $371,451 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research to improve the understanding of extragalactic gamma-ray photons from blazars and the detection of these photons by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year award include: The project will study the creation of gamma-ray photons within blazars, quantify the interactions of the...