This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Eureka Scientific, Inc., a California-based small business. The $266,068 grant is for research to be conducted over 18 months, with a completion date of May 2, 2019.
The work under this contract involves several tasks: (1) co-adding data to produce the deepest view of the mid-infrared universe prior to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); (2) extracting deep catalogs using multiband prior decomposition; (3) co-adding and extracting epochal information from periodic datasets; (4) constructing high-quality light curves; and (5) associating all sources across wavebands. The resulting catalog will contain multi-wavelength spectral energy distributions, morphological decompositions, photometric redshifts, light curves, and a catalog of transient sources, along with deep images at all wavelengths.
This contract is not designated as a set-aside. Eureka Scientific, a small disadvantaged business, is the prime contractor and is not indicated to be using any major subcontractors. The work aligns with NASA's strategic goals in astrophysics, heliophysics, and planetary science.