Project Grant DESC0025296

This $628,695 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northwestern University to analyze gravitational wave data and infer astrophysical population properties. The university will characterize gravitational waves detected in the fourth observing run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory to understand how black holes and neutron stars interact. Researchers will develop frameworks to analyze binary merger source populations, interpret observed...

This $3 million National Science Foundation project grant supports research and development activities critical to the success of gravitational-wave astronomy through the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)-Virgo-KAGRA network. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will deliver several data analysis elements for low-latency detection of transient gravitational waves from binary neutron star and black hole...

This $1,075,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research to improve the ability of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to extract information from observed gravitational waves. The research aims to enhance the accuracy and parameter coverage of gravitational waveform predictions using the Spectral Einstein Code (SPEC) for binary black hole collisions,...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $446,421 to improve modeling of gravitational wave detections through active galactic nuclei channels. The award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York at Borough Manhattan Community College, from September 2022 to August 2025, will support rewriting and publicly releasing a Monte Carlo code developed to study compact object mergers in galactic...

This $150,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research conducted by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in two key areas: Detector characterization efforts to understand and mitigate the effects of Earth-based noise on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) interferometers, enabling more sensitive detection of gravitational waves. This includes near-real time...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $437,486 provides funding from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 to examine gravitational wave emission from compact object binaries in galactic nuclei. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will analyze physical processes that can lead to or suppress mergers of compact objects like black holes and...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $526,943 to Northwestern University to investigate the role of collapsars (stellar explosions powered by black holes) in creating heavy elements like gold and platinum. The 3-year project aims to develop numerical models that connect the pre-collapse structure of massive stars to the gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts produced during the...

This $188,470 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical investigations into gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by extreme mass-ratio compact binaries. The research aims to develop improved mathematical models and computational techniques for analyzing GW signals that will be detected by the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. This work involves...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $429,000 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will enhance the Gravitational-Wave Event Portal, a platform that provides public access to data from gravitational wave detectors like LIGO and Virgo. The award has two components: Expanding the Event Portal database to include hundreds of anticipated compact object merger detections, broadening it to include events discovered outside the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration, and...