Faculty profile

Harvey Richer

ResearcherPhysics and AstronomyUniversity of British Columbia

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Signals and details

Research

Ancient Brown Dwarfs Carbon Stars Cosmology Debris Disks Around Ancient White Dwarfs Globular Star Clusters Hubble Constant Initial-Final Mass Relation Massive White Dwarfs

Latest funding

Near and Far: White Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs and a New Standard Candle
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$100,000
The UBC Southern Observatory
NSERC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$143,100
Doing Physics in the Cores of Globular Star Clusters
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$444,000

All 14 grants and awards

Near and Far: White Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs and a New Standard Candle

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Richer, Harvey

Keywords: Ancient Brown Dwarfs; Carbon Stars; Cosmology; Debris Disks Around Ancient White Dwarfs; Globular Star Clusters; Hubble Constant; Initial-Final Mass Relation; Massive White Dwarfs; New Approaches to Globular Cluster Ages; Open Star Clusters

$100,000

The UBC Southern Observatory

Co-investigatorNSERC2019Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Boley, Aaron

$143,100

Doing Physics in the Cores of Globular Star Clusters

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Richer, Harvey

$444,000

The archaeology of galaxies in the local group

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Richer, Harvey

$185,000

Astrophysics with resolved stellar populations

Principal investigatorNSERC2006Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Richer, Harvey

$265,950

The thirty meter telescope project

Co-investigatorNSERC2006Special Research Opportunity Program - Project

Principal investigators: Carlberg, Raymond

$6,000,000

Old white dwarfs and the universe: chronology and dark matter

Principal investigatorNSERC2001Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Richer, Harvey

$250,000

White dwarfs, star clusters and the age of the universe

Principal investigatorNSERC1997Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Richer, Harvey

$220,500

Workstation and large disk for reduction of Hubble Space Telescope data

Principal investigatorNSERC1995Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Richer, Harvey

$15,000

Star and cluster formation in the early universe

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Richer, Harvey

$188,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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