This federal contract award, valued at $77,494.34, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The contract is for research to improve the calibration of the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which will enable more accurate measurements of nearby galaxies. This work supports NASA's...
This federal contract award, valued at $531,120.25, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The contract is for an Archival Data Analysis Program (ADAP) to conduct a comprehensive ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopic analysis of archival spectra from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) and...
This federal contract award, valued at $29,366.59, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), a non-profit organization. The contract supports a 45 kilosecond NuSTAR observation and 40 kilosecond XMM-Newton observation of the radio-loud active galactic nucleus 3C 223. The objective is to search for absorption variability...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K0552, was granted to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), a non-profit organization. The $107,304.71 contract is a grant for research to study "obscuring outflows" in active galactic nuclei, which exhibit high-velocity gas close to the black hole. This research is being conducted on behalf of the NASA Shared Services Center, a civilian...
This is a $20,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), a non-profit organization. The grant is for the project "CATCHING TRANSIENT OBSCURING OUTFLOWS IN AGN WITH SWIFT", which aligns with NASA's space-based astronomical research initiatives. The grant has an ultimate completion date...
This federal contract award, valued at $282,243.00, was granted to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is a grant for research under the ROSES (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences) funding opportunity, which aims to execute a balanced science program, participate in NASA's exploration...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC19K0585, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The $506,369.69 grant will fund the characterization of variable stars, the search for infrared transients, and the search for galactic brown dwarfs in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The...
This federal contract award, valued at $604,698.00, was granted to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract is for research related to studying the diffuse galactic interstellar medium (ISM) through radio or infrared emission, with a period of performance ending on April 30, 2026. The contract has no set-aside designation....
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC23K0490, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The $52,707.00 grant is for a research project titled "ORIGIN AND ROLE OF DUST IN AGN: REVEALING THE DUSTY WIND IN NGC 6860". The contract, which is not set-aside, supports cutting-edge astronomical...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K1053, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The $1,653,358.00 grant is for a research project focused on advancing the theoretical understanding of galaxy formation, with a specific emphasis on the connection between the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and...