Primary Recipient

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$299,563.00

Award Date

9/14/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Dr. Jeremy King and his students will utilize high-resolution spectroscopy to address several longstanding or timely issues of fundamental stellar astrophysics. Firstly, they will identify short-period tidally-locked binaries in globular clusters to provi