Primary Recipient

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Amount

$378,630.00

Award Date

9/28/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Dr. Di Stefano and her co-investigators will use gravitational lensing to explore the local neighborhood of the Galaxy, the region within 1 kiloparsec.and will develop methods to identify local neuron stars, to measure their masses and transverse velociti