Grant For Research 80NSSC19K1718

This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AB48G, is a continuation of work funded through the Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) program's "Particle Astrophysics" sub-topic. The prime contractor is The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University), a leading private research institution. The contract is focused on improving the Galactic cosmic ray propagation model (GALPROP), which has become a standard analysis tool in cosmic ray astrophysics and related fields. Key...

This $40,635.49 federal grant award to Stanford University provides funding for data analysis of observations of jet-dominated active galaxies known as blazars. The observations will be conducted jointly by the NASA NuSTAR satellite and other observatories including the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, as well as ground-based optical, radio, and very high energy gamma-ray facilities. The goal is to study the spectral and variability properties of these strong and variable X-ray and gamma-ray...

The University of Maryland Baltimore County Financial Services has been awarded a $17,059 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to support work on the Fermi Light Curve Repository under contract 21-FERMI21-0031. As the prime contractor, UMBC Financial Services will deliver research services for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission through November 2024. No subcontractors or set-aside designations were indicated. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space...

This $153,731.41 grant from NASA to the University of California, Berkeley is funding work to aggregate, analyze, and document the in-situ data from the HELIOS 1 and 2 solar missions, which collected unprecedented measurements of the inner heliosphere over 11 years. The goal is to create a comprehensive public archive of this valuable dataset to support planning for the upcoming Solar Orbiter (SOLO) and Solar Probe Plus (SPP) missions. Key tasks include carefully analyzing and reprocessing the...

This is a $349,924.82 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit research and development organization, to investigate the drift-bounce dispersion of microbursts and their potential ability to explain the observation of 30-60 km fine-scale, persistent structures in over 35 keV electrons precipitating into the Earth's atmosphere. The research will utilize data from The Aerospace Corporation's Aerocube-6 (AC6) mission, a...

This is a bridge funding proposal for the continuation of the first phase of the Suborbital Astrophysics Program, HELIX (High-Energy Light Isotope Experiment), a magnet spectrometer payload designed to make measurements of the isotopic composition of cosmic rays. The $2,793,443.81 contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago, a renowned private research university, to support this research project. The contract does not have a...

This is a $449,830.92 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Trustees of Boston University, a private university, to continue monitoring 37 gamma-ray and radio bright active galactic nuclei using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). The research aims to determine the location of flaring sites in the parsec-scale jets of these active galactic nuclei, which is crucial to understanding the...

This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AI70G, was granted by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of a civilian federal agency to the University System of New Hampshire (UNH), through its University of New Hampshire division operating as the Office of Sponsored Research. The two-year, $218,988.63 grant funds a program to re-analyze data from the Compton Telescope (COMPTEL) instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) satellite, in search of evidence of polarization in both transient and...

This $268,932 federal grant was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to develop a comprehensive simulation package for measuring cosmic neutrinos from sub-orbital and space-based observations. The goal is to provide an efficient model to gauge the neutrino measurement performance of experiments like ANITA, EVA, EUSO-SPB2, and the POEMMA astrophysics probe. The simulation will cover neutrino interactions, tau lepton propagation, air shower...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $499,624 grant to the University of Chicago to support high energy neutrino astrophysics research. The grant will be used to develop an interferometric phased array trigger system for balloon-borne and ground-based experiments to detect ultra-high energy cosmogenic neutrinos and cosmic rays. This research aims to explore the structure and evolution of the universe, as well as the physics inside astrophysical sources that...