Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180100857

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP180100857

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Weighing the Universe using fast radio bursts. Fast radio bursts are a newly-discovered astronomical phenomenon whose millisecond-timescale emission occurs at cosmological distances, rendering them exceptional probes of the matter that lies in intergalactic space. This project aims to measure the positions and obtain the distances to these bursts to make a direct measurement of the density of ordinary matter in the Universe, at least 50 per cent of which is believed to remain undetected in intergalactic space. This project will measure the distribution of this missing matter, and find how it has evolved throughout the history of the Universe. This will provide significant benefits, such as addressing two fundamental questions about our Universe: how much matter does it contain, and has a large fraction of it hitherto evaded detection in intergalactic space?

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2018

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $367,072.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical and Space Sciences | General Relativity and Gravitational Waves | Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | General Relativity and Gravitational Waves

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