Award Abstract # 0908402
The RECONS Survey of the Solar Neighborhood

NSF Org: AST
Division Of Astronomical Sciences
Recipient: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Initial Amendment Date: August 13, 2009
Latest Amendment Date: August 13, 2009
Award Number: 0908402
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: James Neff
jneff@nsf.gov  (703)292-2475
AST  Division Of Astronomical Sciences
MPS  Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date: September 1, 2009
End Date: August 31, 2013 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $581,591.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $581,591.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2009 = $581,591.00
ARRA Amount: $581,591.00
History of Investigator:
  • Todd Henry (Principal Investigator)
     thenry@astro.gsu.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
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Sponsor Congressional District: 05
Primary Place of Performance: Georgia State University
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Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:		 05
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): MNS7B9CVKDN7
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): GALACTIC ASTRONOMY PROGRAM
Primary Program Source: 01R00910DB RRA RECOVERY ACT
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, 1207, OTHR, 6890
Program Element Code(s): 121600
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).

This program will focus on discovering and characterizing the fainter members of the solar neighborhood: red dwarfs, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and extrasolar planets. The core science goals of the RECONS (Research Consortium on Nearby Stars) effort at Georgia State University (GSU) are to (1) reveal new nearby and young stars with proper motions of 3 arcseconds/year down to undetectable levels, (2) move toward the completion of the census of all stars within 10 pc, (3) substantially increase the samples of red and white dwarfs within 25 pc, and (4) search astrometrically the nearest red and white dwarfs for brown dwarf and massive planetary companions with orbital periods up to a decade.

The Broader Impacts of this program include resources for professional and amateur astronomers consisting of the Census of Objects Nearer than 10 Parsecs and List of the Nearest 100 Stellar Systems, generating more than 13000 server requests to the RECONS website in the first nine months of 2008. A parallax database has recently been added. The program will support 1 postdoctoral researcher, 2 graduate students, and 1 undergraduate student.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Boyd, Mark R.; Henry, Todd J.; Jao, Wei-Chun; Subasavage, John P.; Hambly, Nigel C. "The Solar Neighborhood. XXVII. Discovery of New Proper Motion Stars with μ > 0.18 "/yr in the Southern Sky with 16.5 < R < 18.0" AJ , v.142 , 2011 , p.92
Boyd, Mark R.; Winters, Jennifer G.; Henry, Todd J.; Jao, Wei-Chun; Finch, Charlie T.; Subasavage, John P.; Hambly, Nigel C. "The Solar Neighborhood. XXV. Discovery of New Proper Motion Stars with 0.40 "/yr > μ >= 0.18 "/yr between Declinations -47° and 00°" AJ , v.142 , 2011 , p.10
Cantrell, Justin R.; Henry, Todd J.; White, Russel J. "The Solar Neighborhood XXIX: The Habitable Real Estate of Our Nearest Stellar Neighbors" The Astronomical Journal , v.146 , 2013 , p.99 10.1088/0004-6256/146/4/99
Dieterich, S.B., Henry, T.J., Golimowski, D.A., Krist, J.E., Tanner, A.M. "The Solar Neighborhood XXVIII: The Multiplicity Fraction of Nearby Stars from 5 to 70 AU and the Brown Dwarf Desert Around M Dwarfs" Astronomical Journal , v.144 , 2012 , p.64
Finch, Charlie T., Zacharias, Norbert, Henry, Todd J. "UCAC3 Proper Motion Survey. I. Discovery of New Proper Motion Stars in UCAC3 with 0.40"/yr > mu > 0.18"/yr between Declinations -90 and -47" Astronomical Journal , v.140 , 2010 , p.844
Jao, Wei-Chun, Henry, Todd J., Subasavage, John P., Winters, Jennifer G., Riedel, Adric R., Ianna, Philip A. "The Solar Neighborhood. XXIII. Parallax Results from the CTIOPI 0.9m Program: Stars with mu > 1.0"/yr (MOTION Sample) and Subdwarfs" Astronomical Journal , 2010
Mamajek, Eric E.; Bartlett, Jennifer L.; Seifahrt, Andreas; Henry, Todd J.; Dieterich, Sergio B.; Lurie, John C.; Kenworthy, Matthew A.; Jao, Wei-Chun; Riedel, Adric R.; Subasavage, John P.; Winters, Jennifer G.; Finch, Charlie T.; Ianna, Philip A.; Bean, "The Solar Neighborhood. XXX. Fomalhaut C" The Astronomical Journal , v.146 , 2013 , p.154 10.1088/0004-6256/146/6/154
Raghavan, Deepak, McAlister, Harold A., Henry, Todd J., Latham, David W., Marcy, Geoffrey W., Mason, Brian D., Gies, Douglas R., White, Russel J., ten Brummelaar, Theo A. "A Survey of Stellar Families: Multiplicity of Solar-type Stars" Astrophysical Journal , v.190 , 2010 , p.1
Riedel, Adric R.; Murphy, Simon J.; Henry, Todd J.; Melis, Carl; Jao, Wei-Chun; Subasavage, John P. "The Solar Neighborhood. XXVI. AP Col: The Closest (8.4 pc) Pre-main-sequence Star" AJ , v.142 , 2011 , p.104
Riedel, Adric R., Subasavage, John P., Finch, Charlie T., Jao, Wei-Chun, Henry, Todd J., Winters, Jennifer G., Brown, Misty A., Ianna, Philip A., Costa, Edgardo, Mendez, Rene A. "The Solar Neighborhood. XXII. Parallax Results from the CTIOPI 0.9 m Program: Trigonometric Parallaxes of 64 Nearby Systems with 0.5"/yr < mu < 1.0"/yr (SLOWMO Sample)" Astronomical Journal , v.140 , 2010 , p.897
Riedel, Adric R., Subasavage, John P., Finch, Charlie T., Jao, Wei-Chun, Henry, Todd J., Winters, Jennifer G., Brown, Misty A., Ianna, Philip A., Costa, Edgardo, Mendez, Rene A. "The Solar Neighborhood. XXII. Parallax Results from the CTIOPI 0.9 m Program: Trigonometric Parallaxes of 64 Nearby Systems with 0.5"/yr < mu < 1.0"/yr (SLOWMO Sample)" Astronomical Journal , v.140 , 2010 , p.897
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