Primary Recipient

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY

Amount

$58,536.00

Award Date

8/02/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The main goal is to model physical properties of so-called compact stars, which are the collapsed cores---about 20 kilometers in diameter but with the mass of the Sun---of ordinary stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel. Like the Earth, a compact st