This is a $485,457 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for the project titled "The CANDELS AGN and Merger Catalog: Star Formation and AGN Triggering in Mergers". The grant, which has a performance period ending on August 31, 2026, is for research related to the CANDELS (Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey) program and will focus on studying the connection between active...
This is a $168,263 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado (CU) to conduct research on the growth of supermassive black holes and their connection to the evolution of their host galaxies. The research aims to provide a fundamental understanding of how and when supermassive black holes build up their mass. CU, a U.S. state government institution of higher learning, will leverage its expertise in physics, astronomy, and materials science to investigate the triggering of active galactic...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, for a research project titled "Strongly Magnetized Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei." The award, valued at $651,721.41, will fund an analytical and computational study to investigate the physical properties of strongly magnetized accretion disks around supermassive black holes and their role in fueling...
This is a $135,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant supports a study on the impact of supernovae on their host galaxies, which aligns with NASA's Astrophysics Research Program objectives to explore the universe and the origin, evolution, and structure of the galaxy. The award will also...
This is a $388,654.61 grant award from NASA to the University of Colorado for a research project titled "Dynamic Chemical Galaxy Formation Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations." The project aims to develop advanced computational models to study the formation and evolution of galaxies, with a focus on understanding the circumgalactic medium and galaxy bimodality. This builds on the University's expertise in areas like space physics, climate science, and high energy physics. The award...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $89,763.13 grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for a research project to study the physical processes occurring within galaxies as observed through their light emissions. The grant was awarded without a set-aside designation and has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023. The University of Colorado is a public...
This is a $310,260 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Eureka Scientific, Inc., a small disadvantaged business in California. The grant is for a study of the high energy X-ray spectra emitted from active galactic nuclei (AGN) surrounding supermassive black holes, to better understand the impacts of general relativistic strong-field gravity. The work aligns with NASA's strategic goals in astrophysics and gravitational physics research. Eureka...
The Regents of the University of Colorado was awarded a $361,599.67 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop advanced ultraviolet spectrograph designs for future space astronomy missions. The goal is to create holographically corrected echelle grating designs that can provide enhanced sensitivity, resolution, and multi-object capabilities compared to current state-of-the-art instruments. This work will support the design of ultraviolet spectrographs...
This is a $463,697.00 grant awarded to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, by the NASA Shared Services Center. The contract is for fundamental research on accretion physics from black hole images and movies, with a period of performance through May 31, 2025. No set-aside designation was used. The University of Colorado is a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning that conducts...
The University of Colorado, through its Office of Contracts and Grants, was awarded a $150,000 research grant by a civilian federal agency (via the Shared Services Center) on September 1, 2022, with a completion date of February 28, 2026. This grant supports theoretical and computational research investigating magnetization mechanisms in active galactic nuclei (AGN) disk systems, with a focus on understanding how gravitational instability impacts magnetorotational instability evolution and its...
This is a $440,454.47 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, acting through its Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant supports a two-year project with the following objectives: 1) Building a publicly available catalog of physical properties for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) detected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and their host galaxies, and 2) Analyzing the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies during galaxy mergers. The research methods involve compiling multi-wavelength data on ~1,800,000 WISE AGN, deriving key physical properties, and assembling a sample of ~20,000 interacting AGN pairs for in-depth study. This work aligns with NASA's Astrophysics Division focus areas on galaxy evolution and black hole growth. The grant was awarded without a set-aside designation to the University of Colorado, a public research institution with expertise in space physics, climate science, and other areas of fundamental research supporting NASA's mission.