This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization that manages astronomical observatories and telescopes. The $524,743.00 grant is for a research project to perform a comprehensive study of the subsurface and surface flows associated with active regions and their evolution using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a division of the Smithsonian Institution, for a project titled "Time-Distance Study of Emerging Active Regions Using HMI Observations". The grant's purpose is to investigate emerging active regions on the Sun and look for potential precursor indicators of their emergence, using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar...
This federal contract award is a grant to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a division of the Smithsonian Institution. The $233,283.51 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will support research on solar flares and magnetic reconnection using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and other NASA missions. The research aims to better understand the 3D magnetic topology and energy release processes in solar flares by studying the motions,...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to conduct research on particle energization in solar flares. The $459,998.43 grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will fund a project that combines observations from various NASA missions, including the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Hinode, Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Predictive Science Incorporated, doing business as Predictive Science Inc., a for-profit organization. The $119,676.23 grant funds research and analysis services relating to solar eruptions and space weather modeling and forecasting. The work involves using advanced magnetohydrodynamic modeling to study coronal mass ejections and their impact on the solar corona, leveraging data from NASA's Solar...
This is a $615,284 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization that manages astronomical observatories and telescopes. The grant funds research to study the role of the sun's meridional flow on solar magnetic field dynamics and to use those findings to predict the strength of the upcoming Solar Cycle 25. The research will analyze data from NASA's Solar Dynamics...
This is a $188,534.51 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (NWRA), a scientific research organization in Redmond, Washington. The grant is for the development and application of a new algorithm to compute helioseismic maps of the sun's far hemisphere using Doppler seismic observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The algorithm will improve the sensitivity and accuracy of these maps, increasing the number of...
This is a $213,668.74 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, a division of the Smithsonian Institution, a trust instrumentality of the United States. The grant supports research to investigate the stability of magnetic flux ropes in the solar corona, which is fundamental to understanding solar activity and space weather events. The project uses a combination of solar observations, nonlinear force-free field...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (Nwra) on October 16, 2017 with a potential value of $508,407.25. The grant is focused on modeling the storage and release of energy in the Sun's corona that powers solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The work aims to address key science goals from the Heliophysics Decadal Survey, including determining the origins of solar activity and...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (Nwra) to study the behavior of the solar atmosphere prior to solar energetic events, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The research aims to better understand the initiation of these events by quantitatively characterizing dynamics and heating in the solar chromosphere and corona using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly...