The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded $347,617 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the California Institute of Technology to conduct research on Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2027. The award will support gathering and analyzing data on FRBs discovered with the new Deep Synoptic Array telescope and optical observations of FRB host galaxies. Funding will also support...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $680,431 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the FAST and Fortunate for FRB Follow-up (F4) research team to conduct follow-up observations of hundreds of Fast Radio Bursts across the sky. Specifically, the team will acquire, analyze, and disseminate deep, multi-band imaging and spectroscopy of FRB...
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 $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 $580,810 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a research program called "GREENBURST" led by scientists at West Virginia University (WVU). The project will use the Green Bank Telescope to study two key populations of transient astrophysical objects: fast radio bursts at cosmological distances and ultra-long period pulsars in the Milky Way galaxy. Key activities include two survey projects...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to advance multi-messenger astronomy by enhancing computational frameworks for gravitational wave follow-up of gamma-ray bursts. The $150,000 award, effective from July 15, 2025 through June 30, 2028, will support the development of improved analysis pipelines across observational timescales and novel search techniques targeting post-gamma-ray burst remnant...
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 $218,224 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research into x-ray binary populations and their relationship to galactic metallicity and stellar age. The principal investigator and students at Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc. will analyze archival multiwavelength data to determine the detailed shape of the x-ray luminosity function for individual x-ray binaries within 48 nearby galaxies, while controlling for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $888,328 in funding to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The grant supports an international program led by UCSC researchers to study the electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events, with the key goals of: 1) discovering and characterizing new electromagnetic counterparts, 2) producing improved...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $392,056 to researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to conduct multi-messenger studies of pulsars - rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron stars. The award supports analysis of data from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in Mexico, along with data from space- and ground-based experiments, to study the highest energy...