The resources provided by the NASA Planetary Science Early Career Award will allow Fowler and team to undertake research-related activities that are not always possible within the scope of more “traditional” research grants.
McLaughlin is co-director of the North American Nanohertz Observatory
for Gravitational Waves Physics Frontiers Center, or NANOGrav, which
recently announced evidence for gravitational waves
with periods of years to decades that had never previously been
observed. The Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County is the primary
telescope used for this work.
