This $425,511.17 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University to support a project titled "A Science-Enhanced Database of GALEX UV Spectra to Characterize Interstellar Dust". The grant will fund research to classify and assess the quality of data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) ultraviolet spectroscopic survey, enabling the derivation of interstellar dust extinction curves that will expand our understanding...
This is a $329,171 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University. The purpose of the grant is to conduct a comprehensive study of the diffuse and dense interstellar medium using observations of light hydride molecules. The analysis will leverage archival data from the Herschel Space Observatory's HIFI spectrometer, focusing on molecular absorption and emission within bright submillimeter continuum sources. The goal is to derive...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $435,149.24 grant to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), to investigate the resolved variations of dust abundance and properties within and between nearby galaxies. The goal is to inform chemical evolution models, constrain dust formation and destruction processes, and improve dust and gas mass estimates in the distant universe....
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a division of the Smithsonian Institution. The $477,789.73 grant supports two related research projects to explore dust transport and evolution in the interstellar medium within galaxies. The first project aims to improve modeling of how supernova-created dust grains escape their natal ejecta and the hot interior of supernova remnants,...
This $313,476.14 federal grant award to The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on September 1, 2022 to support the development of a three-dimensional extinction map for microlensing planet discovery and characterization. The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025. JHU is a private, non-profit research university that regularly performs scientific research and analysis under prime and subcontracts with federal...
The U.S. government has awarded a $564,243.00 research grant to The Johns Hopkins University to support a project titled "21-SSO21-0006, DISENTANGLING NATAL AND POST-FORMATION PROCESSING IN COMETS THROUGH HIGH-RESOLUTION INFRARED OBSERVATIONS". This grant, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will support research to better understand the early formation and composition of comets through high-resolution infrared observations. The project has a performance...
This is a $457,413.08 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University. The grant will fund the development of new numerical techniques to improve the statistical power and sampling of "clustering redshifts" - a technique that allows the estimation of cosmological redshifts without detailed spectral data. This research will enable the creation of redshift catalogs for a broad range of NASA datasets, including WISE,...
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 $413,908 federal grant award was made by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University, a leading private, non-profit research institution. The grant will fund a research project to determine spatial variations of synchrotron and dust spectra, and apply machine learning to Planck cosmic microwave background data. The award does not utilize any set-aside designations. The Johns Hopkins University is a prominent...
This is a $400,105 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University, a private research university, to conduct a detailed analysis of maps and power spectra from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and Planck missions. The research will focus on three key tasks: 1) developing a novel likelihood method to extract cosmological information while fully propagating foreground uncertainties in CMB polarization data, 2) exploring...
This is a $400,301.96 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University to measure the properties of interstellar dust using a holistic approach that incorporates data from various NASA-supported missions and other complementary facilities. The planned analysis involves jointly modeling the dust extinction curve and stellar parameters, comparing extinction measurements to diffuse interstellar bands, extending the analysis to stars with asteroseismically determined radii, and comparing the dust extinction to microwave emission measured by the Planck satellite. This research aims to resolve longstanding uncertainties related to dust extinction, which has implications for studies of star and planet formation, extrasolar planets, supernovae, and cosmological parameters - all key NASA priorities. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is set to run until July 31, 2023.