This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization. The $353,295.16 grant is for research to understand whether the "nanoflare hypothesis" can explain coronal heating, by analyzing new high-quality data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and using modeling to identify and correct for systematic effects. The research aims...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization that manages astronomical observatories and telescopes. The $524,743.00 grant is for a research project to perform a comprehensive study of the subsurface and surface flows associated with active regions and their evolution using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (Nwra) to conduct research addressing two key goals from the Heliophysics Decadal Survey. The research combines analysis of data from the current NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft with numerical simulation to gain insights into the solar dynamo and magnetic activity cycles, which can help predict the arrival of new solar active...
This is a $188,534.51 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (NWRA), a scientific research organization in Redmond, Washington. The grant is for the development and application of a new algorithm to compute helioseismic maps of the sun's far hemisphere using Doppler seismic observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The algorithm will improve the sensitivity and accuracy of these maps, increasing the number of...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (NWRA) to investigate and understand the lifecycle of the solar magnetic field. The grant, valued at $145,785.00, supports the use of data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument to model the propagation of solar eruptions and their effects on Earth and space-based assets. The grant aims to better...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a division of the Smithsonian Institution, for a project titled "Time-Distance Study of Emerging Active Regions Using HMI Observations". The grant's purpose is to investigate emerging active regions on the Sun and look for potential precursor indicators of their emergence, using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (NWRA), a scientific research company based in Redmond, Washington. The $199,929 grant is for a project to produce a new temporally consistent series of solar vector magnetogram data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI) instrument. The goal is to develop an algorithm that can better disambiguate the direction of the magnetic field...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (Nwra) on October 16, 2017 with a potential value of $508,407.25. The grant is focused on modeling the storage and release of energy in the Sun's corona that powers solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The work aims to address key science goals from the Heliophysics Decadal Survey, including determining the origins of solar activity and...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Predictive Science Incorporated, doing business as Predictive Science Inc., a for-profit organization. The $119,676.23 grant funds research and analysis services relating to solar eruptions and space weather modeling and forecasting. The work involves using advanced magnetohydrodynamic modeling to study coronal mass ejections and their impact on the solar corona, leveraging data from NASA's Solar...
This federal contract award is a grant to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a division of the Smithsonian Institution. The $233,283.51 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will support research on solar flares and magnetic reconnection using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and other NASA missions. The research aims to better understand the 3D magnetic topology and energy release processes in solar flares by studying the motions,...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (Nwra) to study the behavior of the solar atmosphere prior to solar energetic events, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The research aims to better understand the initiation of these events by quantitatively characterizing dynamics and heating in the solar chromosphere and corona using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). The project will analyze a large sample of both event-producing and event-quiet target regions to identify unique pre-event behavior using statistical classification techniques. The results will provide constraints for models and the derived data products will be made available to the research community. This research is relevant to several high-level science goals of NASA's Heliophysics Research Program. The award does not have a set-aside designation and has a potential value of $309,783.51.