Grant For Research 80NSSC19K0587
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- The University of Hawaii at Manoa received a $596,487 research grant from NASA's Shared Services Center, awarded February 26, 2019, with an ultimate completion date of February 25, 2025. This grant supports a comprehensive asteroseismology research initiative leveraging data from the Kepler and K2 space missions to advance stellar astrophysics and exoplanet science. The project addresses critical gaps in existing asteroseismic datasets by conducting homogeneous analysis of reprocessed Kepler...
- The University of Hawaii at Manoa, part of the University of Hawaii Systems, was awarded a $49,995.30 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project titled "Our Program is the First Near-All-Sky Survey that Systematically Combines Asteroseismology and Transit Photometry to Precisely Characterize Exoplanets Orbiting Evolved Stars." The grant is a research contract with a completion date of January 15, 2024. The University of Hawaii has...
- This is a $100,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH) for the "The Masses and Prevalence of Small Planets with K2 - Cycle 3" research project. The grant supports UH's work to search for and characterize transiting exoplanets using data from NASA's K2 mission. The project aims to construct catalogs of transiting planets around FGK dwarf stars, discover small planets suitable for high-precision radial...
- The University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa was awarded a $199,301.07 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research related to inferring stellar masses, radii, luminosities, and ages using a combination of spectroscopic, photometric, and rotation-based proxies. This grant, contract number 80NSSC21K0246, has a period of performance ending on November 4, 2023. UH, a public university system and the primary institution of higher education in Hawaii, has...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $50,000 grant to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to support research on young star and planet formation processes. As the prime contractor, the University of Hawaii at Manoa will probe the ages of stellar groups to help constrain timelines for fundamental early stellar and planetary evolutionary stages. No set-aside designation was specified. The grant completion date is March 22, 2025. NASA supports scientific research to...
- This is a $531,581.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The grant is for a project titled "A BENCHMARK SAMPLE FOR STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS: PULSATION TIMING OF INTERMEDIATE-MASS STARS USING KEPLER, K2 AND TESS". The project aims to conduct research on stellar astrophysics and pulsation timing of intermediate-mass stars using data from the Kepler, K2, and TESS space telescopes. The grant does not have a...
- The University of Hawaii at Manoa has been awarded a $701,901 research grant by a civilian federal agency to support the project "Exploring Planet Formation on Solar System Scales with Extreme Adaptive Optics." The award, announced on October 19, 2023, with completion targeted for October 18, 2026, represents a continuation of the university's extensive involvement in astronomical research and planetary science. The work will be performed in Honolulu, Hawaii, leveraging the...
- This is a $81,330 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a public research university in Hawaii. The grant is for a research project titled "DIRECT DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOPLANETS WITH IMAGING FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY" and is under the supervision of student Jingwen Zhang. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Hawaii at Manoa is the prime recipient of this award,...
- This is a $149,784.44 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH Manoa) to conduct research on patterns in Kepler multi-planet systems. The grant supports a NASA Keck Time Solicitation and is set to conclude on August 8, 2024. UH Manoa, a public research university and NASA partner, has extensive expertise in astronomy, planetary science, and other scientific domains. This award aligns with NASA's Planetary Science Division and reflects the university's specialized...
- The University of Hawaii at Manoa received a $61,702.52 research grant from a civilian federal agency to study stellar flare rates as a function of stellar age. The research leverages a sample of 400 wide white-dwarf main-sequence binary star systems to extend flare-activity-age relations for low-mass stars, utilizing high-fidelity ages (10-30% precision) derived from white dwarf companion measurements. This study represents the first precision examination of flare rate evolution in old stars...
The University of Hawaii at Manoa received a $199,882 research grant from NASA with an ultimate completion date of February 24, 2027, to conduct a systematic analysis of brightness variations in young stars observed through the K2 mission. The project will examine transient dimming events, or "dips," in stellar light curves to better understand the mechanisms driving planet formation in protoplanetary disks. Researchers will re-analyze archival K2 observations of stars in five star-forming regions and clusters—Taurus, Rho Ophiucus, Upper Scorpius, Pleiades, and Praesepe—spanning the first 800 million years of stellar evolution. The study aims to create comprehensive, unbiased catalogs of dipping stars and characterize their properties across different stellar masses and disk evolutionary stages, ultimately testing theoretical models of how dusty circumstellar structures obscure starlight and their relationship to planet formation. No set-aside designation was applied to this award. The research directly supports NASA's broader planetary science mission by providing empirical constraints on disk evolution and planet emergence during the critical protoplanetary disk phase. By detecting and characterizing dips as anomalous intervals within complex stellar variability using Gaussian process modeling, the team will generate datasets that bridge observational capabilities with theoretical models of planet formation, addressing a fundamental gap in understanding how planets emerge from circumstellar dust and gas disks. The project leverages the University of Hawaii at Manoa's established expertise in astronomy and planetary science, consistent with the institution's substantial portfolio of NASA-funded research and its role as a premier federal research partner in space exploration and scientific discovery.
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| P00009 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 2/23/26 | |
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| P00008 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 6/3/25 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 2/20/25 |