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Galactic Recipe for Exo-Planets

We discover steadily new planets around other stars. Many of these exoplanets orbit their host star much closer than Mercury. The most common type of exoplanets does not exist in the Solar System. These exoplanets have a size between Earth and Neptune and a range of masses that makes it difficult...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Resolving the Solar Convective Conundrum: A Full-Physics Approach to Solar Convection

The Sun looks calm from a distance, but its interior is boiling. Hot gas rises, cooler gas sinks, and this continuous churning – called convection – transports energy from the deep interior to the surface. These flows help drive the Sun’s magnetic field and, in turn, the solar activity that affec...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Origin and Evolution of Solar Eruptions (OESE)

Solar eruptions, including solar flares and jets, are among the most energetic events in the solar system, driven by the complex interplay of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere. Their origin lies in the long-term evolution of the magnetic field, where energy is gradually stored through magne...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Ukrainian-Norwegian partnership for measuring the cosmic microwave background spectrum

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the first light emitted in the Universe. By studying it, we can understand how the first elements were formed, how the first stars and galaxies evolved, and even how the Universe began. The exact color of the CMB not only tells us the temperature of the Un...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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COMAP: Mapping the teenage universe with carbon monoxide

Since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965, modern cosmology has been an uninterrupted success story of one ground-breaking experiment after the other that have revolutionized our understanding of the physics of the Universe, from the hot Big Bang to dark energy and black hole...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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MultiSCORE: Multi-Scale structure of the coronal environment

The solar corona, the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, is responsible for some of the most energetic space weather events, which can disrupt technology and communication systems on Earth. The structure of the corona spans a vast range of scales, which makes it difficult to capture its co...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Imaging the Big Bang through gravitational waves with LiteBIRD

The detection of primordial gravitational waves created during the Big Bang ranks among the greatest potential discoveries in science. The most direct path to such a discovery is through accurate measurements of the polarized large-scale cosmic microwave background, the CMB. LiteBIRD is a satelli...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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NEVO: illuminating the dark cosmos

Think of the universe as a huge balloon that is always expanding. The further away a point is on the balloon, the faster it is expanding away from you. This is similar to how the universe is expanding, and the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away from us on Earth. For many year...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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CosmoglobeHD: Mapping the universe from the Milky Way to the Big Bang in high resolution

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Norwegian partnership in the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

In 1984, the Research Councils of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (Iceland joined later) formed the Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association (NOTSA) with the purpose of building a medium-size optical and near infrared telescope for the astronomical communities in the respective countri...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Tracing the impact of evolved stars on the Galactic chemical enrichment

Stars in the late stages of their lives eject a large fraction of newly synthesized heavy elements and stellar dust particles into the interstellar medium (ISM). They therefore strongly influence the chemical evolution of galaxies. Using state-of-the-art observational facilities across multiple w...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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EuroHPC-prosjekt SPACE, Scalable Parallel and distributed Astrophysical Codes for Exascale

Astrophysical systems often involve highly non-linear and interconnected processes over a huge range of dynamical scales. Take galaxy formation as an example, galaxy evolution is strongly influences by large-scale processes like the accretion of intergalactic gas (at Mega-parsec scale), and at th...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Norwegian Participation in Euclid: Early Post-Launch Phase

Cosmology, the study of the Universe as a whole, has come a long way in the last twenty years, mainly because of observatories that have studied the cosmic microwave background and galaxy surveys that have mapped the distribution of galaxies in the Universe. This has given us a model, called the ...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Topfinancing: A Deep Learning approach for boulder detection –The key to understanding planetary surfaces evolution

This application is a financial supplementary personal grant (MSCA-TOPP) related to the awarded MSCA IF Global fellowship project BOULDERING.

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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Impact of small-scale reconnection events on the solar atmosphere

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in which the magnetic topology is rearranged and magnetic energy is converted into other forms of energy such as heat and particle acceleration. Our closest star, the Sun, provides unique opportunity to advance our understanding of the proce...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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ORCS: Oscillations in the Realistic Corona of the Sun

The hot outer layer of the atmosphere of the Sun, known as the corona, is dynamic and continuously evolving. Understanding the dynamics of the solar corona is crucial for predicting the impacts of the solar activity on the Earth. The corona is filled with waves, which carry energy across differen...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Unveiling the Nature of Gravity at Galaxy Clusters Scales

The nature of gravity is one of the great mysteries of physics. The aim of this proposal is to investigate whether there are alternative gravity models that describe the universe and its constituents better than general relativity. To achieve such a goal, we aim to confront predictions from sever...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Exploring Millimeter Indicators of Solar-Stellar Activity

The activity in the outer layers of the Sun and other stars remains poorly understood due to the difficulties with interpreting available observations. The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA), which is a telescope array located high in the Chilean Andes, observes at wavelengths a...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Norwegian Participation in Euclid: Implementation phase, part 3

Cosmology, the study of the Universe as a whole, has come a long way in the last twenty years, mainly because of observatories, like the satellite Planck, which have studied the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation coming from the Big Bang, and galaxy surveys, like 2dF, SDSS and DES, which have ...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Astronomiolympiaden

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Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Simulating the Circumgalactic Medium and the Cycle of Baryons In and Out of Galaxies Throughout Cosmic History

How galaxies form and evolve throughout cosmic history is a central question of modern cosmology. Galaxies are not isolated objects in the Universe, but fundamentally connected within a “cosmic web”. This "web" is scaffolded by gravitational collapse of dark matter into sheets and filamentary str...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, Rosseland senter for solfysikk (RoCS)

The vision of the centre is “understanding the workings of the energetic Sun”. Solar magnetism lies at the root of most solar and heliospheric physics. The magnetic field is generated by enigmatic dynamo processes in the solar interior, is organized into the complex patterns of activity observed...

Awarded: NOK 167.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Long ago and far away: Viewing galaxy formation and evolution through the best cosmic magnifying glasses.

The finite speed of light enables us to look back in time as we peer out in the universe. This enables us to study how galaxies were formed and how they evolved throughout the history of the universe. However, it is difficult to study distant galaxies in detail: Each galaxy only covers a few pixe...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Next-generation CMB satellites: Norwegian participation in Core and LiteBIRD

At 10.51 on September 14th 2015 the US-funded LIGO experiment made the world's first direct observation of gravitational waves produced by two colliding black holes, almost exactly 100 years after the effect was predicted by Albert Einstein. Only two years later, this work was awarded the Nob...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Solar Atmospheric Modelling, adjunct professor position

Solar magnetism lies at the root of most solar and heliospheric physics. The intricate structure of the solar field, the activity cycle and the influence of the field on the heliosphere represent major quests of (astro) physics which bear directly on the human environment. The sun's magnetic fiel...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

SPIDER: Imaging the birth of the universe from 38,000 meters above Antartica

On March 17th 2014, Harvard University and the BICEP2 experiment issued a press release titled "First Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation", claiming the first detection of primordial gravitational waves. If correct, this detection would both prove the inflationary cosmological paradigm, and provi...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Unravelling the Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere

The Sun is our star and governs the solar system. There is a long scientific tradition of observing and studying the Sun but many fundamental questions remain unclear. For example, we still lack detailed understanding on why the outer solar atmosphere, the corona, is so hot (millions of degrees) ...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

COMAP: Mapping the teenage universe with carbon monoxide

The greatest success story in modern cosmology is the mapping of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Providing a direct image of the infant universe, experiments such as COBE, WMAP and Planck have revolutionized modern cosmology. Most cosmological parameters have be...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Observing and understanding flux emergence using IRIS and SST coordinated data

In 1908 the Sun became the first star on which magnetic fields were detected by Hale). Since then the solar community has developed different methods and instrumentation in order to measure these magnetic fields, and has tried to explain their effect on our nearest star as well as on the heliosph...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Probing cosmological evolution with the most powerful lenses in the universe.

Quasars are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe: Hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy can emit much more radiation than the rest of the galaxy. If a sufficiently massive object is located along the line of sight to a quasar, the light from the ...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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