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Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
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About This Grant
The web-based application Blast helps astronomers understand the connection between transient events, such as supernovae, and the galaxies in which they live. This program will expand the capabilities of Blast to match the challenges created by the vast amount of data that will be generated by the new generation of telescopes, such as Rubin (NSF-DOE) and Roman (NASA). This program will also work with Zooniverse, a citizen science platform with more than 2.7 million registered users. With Zooniverse this program will engage the public in a variety of research projects related to transients and their host galaxies. Over the last several years, the wealth of transient data has increased dramatically and with it, the discovery potential. This program focuses on the ways in which the physics of astrophysical transients are fundamentally linked with the properties of the host galaxies in which their progenitor stars form and evolve. Understanding the stellar populations that give rise to these transients plays a key role in our understanding of the transients themselves, including constraining the progenitor systems of core-collapse supernovae, correcting Type Ia supernova distances, and probabilistically classifying transients with galaxy data. This program will support a major upgrade to Blast, a web application for host-galaxy inference, which provides real-time spectral energy distribution fitting from ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths for every astrophysical transient using the Prospector Bayesian inference framework. Among several outreach initiatives in Hawaii and Illinois, the PIs will support the Institute for Astronomy’s Hawaii Student/Teacher Astronomy Research program, which has trained astronomy-enthusiastic high school students in research skills for over a decade. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Grant Summary
Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time is a NSF grant providing up to $521K for university, nonprofit, small business. Applications are due 2028-09-30 (open). Check eligibility and apply with FindGrants.
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Up to $521K
2028-09-30
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Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time: Frequently Asked Questions
Who is eligible for the Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time?
Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time is offered by NSF and is generally open to university, nonprofit, small business. It is open to organizations nationwide unless the funder specifies otherwise. Review the specific eligibility terms before applying, since funders set their own requirements around organization type, location, and the population or project being served.
How much funding does the Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time provide?
Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time provides up to $521K per award from NSF. Actual award sizes depend on the scope of your project, available program funds, and the number of applicants, so build a budget that reflects realistic, allowable costs rather than the maximum figure.
When is the Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time deadline?
Applications for Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time are due 2028-09-30 (open). Because deadlines can change, verify the date with the funder, NSF, and give yourself enough time to prepare a complete, competitive application before the close date.
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To apply for Collaborative Research: The Connection between Astrophysical Transients and their Host Galaxies Across Cosmic Time, confirm your eligibility, gather the required documents, and prepare a narrative and budget that address the funder's priorities. FindGrants guides you step by step and can draft each section, then exports a submission-ready application pack for this grant from NSF.