Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL150100148

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FL150100148

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Exascale astronomy: real-time analysis of the transient radio universe. Exascale astronomy: real-time analysis of the transient radio universe: This fellowship project aims to develop and deploy a generic supercomputing solution for the powerful square kilometre array precursor telescopes in Australia and South Africa. ‘Fast radio bursts’ are a new astronomical phenomenon of as yet unknown origin, with enormous potential to probe the cosmos in new ways — but only a handful are known. Concurrently, advances in computer graphics have enabled very low-cost parallel processors to be constructed that are revolutionising radio astronomy signal processing. The telescopes in Australia and South Africa will be used to discover new fast radio bursts, and will also be pursuing a pulsar timing program which seeks to probe the interior of neutron stars, search for gravitational waves and make new tests of general relativity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-11-2015

End Date: 30-09-2021

Funding Scheme: Australian Laureate Fellowships

Funding Amount: $2,840,752.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

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

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences |

Other Keywords

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

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