Project Grant NNX11AN33H

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund a $697,725 project over 3 years to detect and characterize new low-mass planets orbiting distant stars. The award will support a team at San Francisco State University, which will use the EXPRES high-precision radial velocity spectrograph to find small, long-period planets in systems similar to our own solar system....

The National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $586,081 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop novel "photonic lanterns" - a key technology for isolating and characterizing exoplanets by suppressing interference from their host stars. The grant supports the advancement of this technology to enable the characterization of hundreds of exoplanets,...

This $299,997 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports the development of free and open-source software and a web interface for extracting high-precision brightness measurements of stars from citizen scientist observations collected with color digital cameras. The project aims to greatly expand the pool of citizen scientists able to contribute to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $520,894 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop improved image processing software for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets. The project aims to leverage wavefront sensor data from adaptive optics systems to enhance exoplanet detection and characterization capabilities of existing ground-based telescopes. The investigators will...

This $306,464 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds the development of DECIPHER, a machine learning tool that automatically detects and measures the mass of forming exoplanets in protoplanetary disks from observational data. The project aims to increase the speed and accessibility of exoplanet detection and characterization, making this analysis available to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $537,856 Project Grant to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This 3-year grant will fund a survey using the Tierras Observatory, a 1.3-meter ultra-precise photometric telescope located at the F.L. Whipple Observatory in Arizona. The survey aims to detect small, temperate terrestrial exoplanets as small as Mercury and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $361,083 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop a new reliable electro-optic astrocomb with 350-1000 nm wavelength coverage. The award aims to advance the detection and characterization of exoplanets, a key objective in the field of astronomy. The new astrocomb technology, based on nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides in lithium...

This $238,354 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) will fund collaborative research to develop improved image processing software for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets. The project aims to enable more sensitive detection and characterization of exoplanets by fully utilizing data from the wavefront sensors in modern high-contrast imaging systems. The software will...

This $325,293 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports a collaborative research effort to discover and characterize new exoplanets through innovative direct imaging techniques. The project leverages world-class ground-based adaptive optics systems in Hawaii to observe the accelerated motion of nearby young stars, indicating the presence of dimmer companion objects. The research...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,996 to Opticalx, LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Tracy, CA, to develop an optical solution for detecting and tracking small space debris. The project, titled "Space-Time Projection Optical Tomography (SPOT)", aims to leverage graphical processing unit (GPU) computing to enable the detection of space debris...