Project Grant 2607081
- The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded New Mexico State University $534,487 on September 1, 2026, to conduct collaborative astrophysical research examining how supernovae influence galaxy evolution, particularly in dwarf galaxies. The award is structured as a Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) and runs through August 31, 2029. The research integrates discoveries from the Vera C. Rubin...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with CFDA number 47.049, will provide $788,071 to the University of Hawaii (UH) for the "Cosmology in the Local Volume with Hawaii Supernova Flows" research project. The primary goals of this 3-year project are to significantly expand the Hawaii Supernova Flows Survey by using over 3,000 new Type Ia supernovae to map the largest structures in the universe out to 300...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded $521,080 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program on October 1, 2025, for a collaborative research project examining the connection between astrophysical transients and their host galaxies. The award will support a major upgrade to BLAST, a web-based application that performs real-time spectral energy distribution fitting...
- This $325,777 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research effort to study nearby cosmic explosions, known as supernovae, from their earliest moments. The research team will enhance its rapid survey capabilities to promptly identify and study new supernovae in nearby galaxies, taking advantage of a network of small telescopes. This will enable the discovery of...
- The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded the University of Hawaii $645,379 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance adaptive secondary mirrors for ground-based telescopes. The project installs two adaptive secondary mirrors (ASMs)—one each at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the University of Hawaii's 2.2-meter telescope—and develops automated wavefront sensing and control systems...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded the University of Hawaii at Manoa $686,392 on July 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support a combined simulation and machine-learning study of particle acceleration in relativistic magnetized turbulence. The research uses three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations to model turbulent pair plasmas across systematic parameter space in magnetization and turbulence amplitude, including...
- This $463,844 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Hawaii (UH) to continue operating the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). ASAS-SN is a global network of 20 telescopes that provides a comprehensive survey of the bright transient and variable sky, discovering approximately 300 supernovae per year. Through this award, UH will maintain and expand the ASAS-SN...
- This $258,736 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research project to study nearby cosmic explosions, known as supernovae, from their earliest moments. The research team at Rutgers, The State University will enhance its rapid survey for the nearest and brightest supernovae, incorporating new infrastructure to identify even younger nearby supernovae. As part of this work, three...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) awarded $248,928 to the University of Hawaii at Hilo on September 1, 2025, to support a two-year research project (concluding August 31, 2027) addressing tensions in the current Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM) cosmological model. The principal investigator will develop CRISP (Cluster Recipes for Intrinsic Structural Parameters), a semi-analytic modeling framework designed...
- 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 to develop software and conduct research on explosive transients in the distant universe. The 4-year research program, running from March 2025 to August 2028, will leverage data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the Interplanetary Network, and the International Gravitational Wave Network to enable new...
The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded the University of Hawaii $459,457 on September 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study how supernovae regulate galaxy evolution using observations from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time combined with advanced spectroscopic observations. The project team will measure supernova rates, energetics, and environmental impacts across galaxy masses—from dwarf galaxies to Milky Way–like systems—by analyzing galactic wind kinematics, abundance variations, and star formation histories. The research will constrain how supernova feedback couples to the surrounding medium, quantify the timescales and extent over which metals distribute through supernova events, and determine the degree to which supernovae regulate star formation episodes. The work is collaborative with New Mexico State University and draws on integral-field spectroscopy conducted on telescopes operated by both institutions. The project runs through August 31, 2029, with place of performance in Hilo, Hawaii. Beyond research, the team will expand the CosmoVis 3D visualization platform into virtual-reality and planetarium formats for classroom and public use in partnership with the NMSU STEM Outreach Center and public schools across Southern New Mexico and Hawaii, integrating research, education, and outreach across both states.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $459.5k | 8/6/26 |