Project Grant DENA0002722

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant award of $340,000 supports collaborative research between Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to advance the understanding of microscale plasma processes in shock and turbulent environments. The project aims to develop physics-based models of kinetic, non-equilibrium processes in astrophysical plasmas, focusing on particle heating/acceleration in shocks and thermodynamics/transport driven by...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) received a three-year, $358,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate the dynamics of interacting magnetized plasmas through laboratory experiments and computational modeling from June 2023 through May 2026. UNM will conduct controlled centimeter- and microsecond-scale experiments using a basic plasma science device to study the detailed plasma and magnetic...

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...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research on microscale plasma processes in shock and turbulent environments. The $341,464 award to Columbia University, spanning August 2024 to July 2027, will focus on two key areas: 1) particle heating and acceleration in shocks, and 2) thermodynamics and transport driven by large-scale turbulence. The research aims to develop...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the University of Rochester under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct a laboratory-based study of astrophysical plasma turbulence. The 3-year award supports a collaboration between the University of Rochester and the University of Oxford, known as the TDYNO (Turbulent Dynamo) project, which aims to recreate and model astrophysically relevant magnetized plasmas in the laboratory using...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $589,888 to the Space Science Institute (SSI) to conduct a series of laboratory experiments to better understand wave-wave interaction processes that may control imbalanced solar wind turbulence at ion scales. Specifically, the project will investigate the behavior of two interactions between co-propagating Alfvén waves: a novel interaction driven by Hall physics, and the dispersive...

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 project grant award of $540,000 provides funding from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to support research into relativistic plasmas under extreme conditions. The award is made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator at Arizona State University will investigate the role of super-strong magnetic fields on observable...

This three-year, $289,049 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research exploring the response of the magnetosphere to terrestrial weather. Specifically, the awardee Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (dba Orion Space Solutions) will investigate the extent to which sudden stratospheric warmings can impact the spatial and temporal variability of the upper ionosphere and magnetosphere using the Multiscale...

This three-year, $345,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support collaborative research between the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Marquette University to advance understanding of novel plasma physics processes in antimatter experiments. The researchers will develop new kinetic theory and molecular dynamics simulations to study electron and positron compression, antiproton cooling, and mixing/recombination of antiprotons...