Grant For Research NNG05GE76G

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to analyze data from the Planck and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) missions and resolve discrepancies between their cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements. The $362,846.84 grant will fund research to: 1) quantify how Planck's CMB lensing data impacts cosmological parameter constraints compared to WMAP; 2) assess if WMAP's optical depth measurement is...

This is a $366,839.47 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University to investigate how modeling errors in foreground contamination may contribute to tensions observed between data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and Planck space missions, as well as other cosmological measurements. The research will assess the impact of polarization foreground assumptions on determining the cosmic microwave background (CMB)...

This is a $323,613 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, to conduct research related to the analysis of data from the Planck satellite. The grant supports the production of seven maps of the polarized sky from 30 to 353 gigahertz, which have been transformative for both cosmology and the study of the magnetized interstellar medium. The work is being performed at Princeton...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $217,332.00 grant to the University of Chicago for research and development of optical and optical coupling technologies for future satellite-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) missions. The research aims to develop anti-reflection coatings, filters, and feedhorns that will enable high-frequency, high-performance CMB measurements from 30-400 GHz to separate cosmological signals from foregrounds. The technologies being...

This is a $449,092 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University for a research project analyzing data from the Planck and WMAP missions to model and remove synchrotron and dust as cosmic microwave background (CMB) foregrounds. The work will address three key questions on the variation in CMB foregrounds and their impact on CMB measurements. This grant is not associated with a set-aside contract. The Johns Hopkins University is a...

This is a $2,569,956 firm fixed price contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Center to the University of California, Santa Cruz to perform studies related to the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The work involves characterizing various aspects of galaxy formation and evolution, including studies of galaxy properties, star formation, dark matter halos, active galactic nuclei, and the reionization history of the intergalactic medium. The contract has no set-aside...

This contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University supports the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The $1,066,741 firm-fixed-price contract, which has no set-aside designation, tasks the prime contractor with developing representative surveys to study resolved stellar populations in the Milky Way in order to assess WFIRST's capabilities for such observations. This includes defining detailed science goals,...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against an existing contract vehicle to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) to provide $28.2 million in support services for the Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission through June 2023. APL will perform work designated under task orders to conduct aerospace research, development, and engineering in areas including space systems...

This federal contract award is a grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, a non-profit organization and 1862 land grant college, to study a probe-scale mission to extract information from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The study will examine the potential to search for signatures of primordial gravitational waves, constrain the number of light particle species, measure the sum of neutrino masses, probe dark matter, and provide...

This is a firm-fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, to provide coordination services for the science investigation teams (SITs) associated with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) wide-field imager. The contract, valued at $1,675,031.00, supports the development of scientific performance requirements, observational strategies,...