This $160,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program funds theoretical research on several topics in relativistic astrophysics and general relativity. The key research focuses include: (i) computing gravitational waveforms from black hole inspirals, (ii) demonstrating Hamiltonian two-body dynamics without dissipation, (iii) developing a comprehensive understanding of soft hair conservation laws on black...
This $210,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research by the University of Virginia to advance gravitational wave physics and astrophysics. The key goals are to: (i) Compute persistent gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers using new conservation law models, and assess their detection prospects. (ii) Improve modeling of the gravitational wave memory effect to better understand its...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $599,998 to Cornell University to conduct research in black hole physics and relativistic astrophysics. The research aims to numerically solve Einstein's equations through supercomputer simulations, which will improve our understanding of general relativity in the strong field regime of black holes and support ongoing...
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 awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $287,554 to Vanderbilt University from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to conduct collaborative research on experimental general relativity using radio interferometry of a black hole photon ring. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Studying the information encoded in the...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research in the field of general relativity and mathematical relativity. The purpose of the project is to study several problems in general relativity using differential geometry and mathematical analysis techniques. Key objectives include investigating the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture, developing new proof methods for the Positive Mass Theorem,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $180,000 project grant to the University of Arizona under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical research on strongly gravitating systems such as black holes and neutron stars. The funding period is from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2025. Specifically, the university will conduct research into novel gravitational phenomena that push the known laws of physics to their limits, with the goal of...
This $294,769 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to enhance the discovery potential of gravitational wave observations from merging black holes. The key objectives of this 3-year award are to develop robust techniques for extracting measurements of black hole spin-precession and orbital eccentricity from...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award provides $180,000.00 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The primary goal of the project is to develop novel numerical simulations and data-driven models to predict gravitational wave signals from mergers of black holes and neutron stars. This research will test Einstein's general relativity under extreme conditions and help maximize...