Grant For Research 80NSSC22K1651

This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K2036, was granted to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $75,000 grant is for research aimed at improving the localization of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) instrument. The research involves utilizing data from the Swift satellite's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) to either...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $470,905 grant to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) to mine the Swift gamma-ray burst archive and discover new short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The goal is to systematically search the untapped Swift data archive to find GRBs that were not detected by the on-board trigger system. Any GRBs found will be correlated with signals from other facilities such as the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and gravitational wave...

This is a grant awarded by NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for $307,719.20 to develop new data analysis methods for future satellite missions using combined Compton-scattering and pair-creation telescopes. The work aims to advance the reconstruction of tracked Compton events and low-energy pair events in the intermediate energy band, which faces several key data science challenges. The methods will be implemented within the publicly available MEGALIB framework and...

This is a $439,032.37 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to investigate the role of a newly discovered, ultra-low frequency, storm-time wave mode in the inner magnetosphere and its impact on the energization of the ion plasma populating this region of space. The research will use observations from the Van Allen Probes to characterize these waves and quantify their contribution to storm-time ion...

This is a $51,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for a research project titled "CONSTRAINING THE MOST EXTREME MASS LOSS EVENTS FROM MASSIVE STARS WITH FERMI AND THE VLA". The project will investigate extreme mass loss events from massive stars using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope. This grant does not have a set-aside designation. UC...

This federal contract award is for the development of advanced data analysis methods for Compton telescopes, which are used in astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary sciences, and other applications. The University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a $149,930.54 research grant (NNX17AC84G) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create a hybrid reconstruction approach that can accurately retrieve source parameters such as location, spectrum, polarization, and flux from...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) for $116,879.00. The grant supports research to search for gamma-ray burst (GRB) events similar to GRB 170817A, which is the only confirmed counterpart to a binary neutron star (BNS) merger detected to date. The goal is to better understand the physics linking BNS mergers to short GRBs, using data from the Burst and Transient Source...

This is a $507,421.09 grant award to Purdue University from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a self-consistent model for the emission properties of blazars, which are a type of active galactic nucleus. The research aims to understand the particle acceleration and energy dissipation mechanisms in blazar jets using particle-in-cell simulations and radiative transfer modeling. The goal is to create a framework that can be extended to explain emission from other...

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 $41,276.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to continue a successful program of follow-up observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The program aims to provide rapid and accurate localizations, photometric redshifts, and multi-color afterglow observations of these high-energy GRB events, which have opened up new realms of study from GRB physics to theories...