This is a $209,297.85 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to George Mason University, a large public research university located in Fairfax, Virginia. The grant will fund a research project led by Dr. Young to investigate how coronal hole plumes and active region fan loops in the solar corona are heated, utilizing data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), and Hinode spacecraft. The project is divided into three work packages focused on correlating coronal emission, magnetic field strength, and photospheric flow velocities, surveying the spectroscopic properties of different plume types, and identifying small-scale, short-term heating events in plumes. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is set to run through July 12, 2023.
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