Collaborative Research: Building the Next-Generation NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array with the — NSF Award to University of Wisconsin-
Enormous black holes a billion times more massive than the Sun orbit and merge with each other in the hearts of distant galaxies. These mergers produce gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time itself, with periods of years. Recently, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANO
| Award title | Collaborative Research: Building the Next-Generation NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array with the |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2511106 |
| Awardee | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| City | MILWAUKEE |
| State | WI |
| Amount obligated | $186,148 |
| Principal investigator | David Kaplan |
| Program | WoU-Windows on the Universe: T |
| Start date | 09/01/2025 |
| Abstract | Enormous black holes a billion times more massive than the Sun orbit and merge with each other in the hearts of distant galaxies. These mergers produce gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time itself, with periods of years. Recently, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) collaboration confirmed the existence of these ripples. The collaboration has been observing cosmic clocks, called "millisecond pulsars", for 15 years. Gravitational waves st |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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