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The NSF-funded GROWTH project ran between October 2015 and October 2020. This website keeps a record of all project activities that took place during the project lifetime.

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The Future is Now

Mansi M. Kasliwal, the Principal Investigator of the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) collaboration, shares her enthusiasm about the future of multi- messenger astrophysics.

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Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) is a 5 year project, funded by the National Science Foundation to advance our understanding of cosmic transient events - supernovae, white dwarf detonations, merging neutron stars, fast moving near-earth asteroids, gamma-ray bursts and more. Led by Caltech, GROWTH partner institutions from around the world have created a network of telescopes to continuously observe the transient sky unbeaten by sunrise. Such extended observations in the first 24 hours after a cosmic transient is detected help us to localize the primary sources of gravitational waves, identify the long sought cosmic location of heavy element production (see Caltech-led LIGO and astronomy teams strike gold) , track and analyze small near-earth asteroids and much more.

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Student Opportunities

GROWTH provides multiple opportunities for training and professional development to students and young researchers in astronomy, astrophysics and closely related fields in physical sciences.

 

Partners

We are a team of 16 partner institutions from the USA, Israel, Sweden, India, Japan, Taiwan, UK, Germany and Australia.

GROWTH is funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No 1545949. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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