This is a $436,539 grant awarded by NASA to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for research on the impact of nucleosynthesis on accretion disks, outflows, and observable signatures associated with the merger of binary compact objects and the central engines of gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. The research program will investigate rapid accretion following the tidal disruption of a white dwarf by a neutron star or black hole, as well as the long-term evolution of...
This federal contract award provides a USD 226,666.34 grant to the Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation for research on the formation and dynamics of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) within and around binary star systems. The grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will fund a project focused on understanding the complex planet formation processes in binary star environments, which present unique...
This is a $475,668.86 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration. The grant is for research on "Instability, Turbulence, and Enhanced Transport in Collisionless Black-Hole Accretion Flows." The research aims to develop a comprehensive first-principles study of the plasma physics of collisionless accretion flows using both analytic and state-of-the-art numerical models....
This federal grant award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration for a research project titled "Resolving Star Formation, Multiphase ISM Structure, and Wind Driving with MHD and RHD Models of Gala". The $490,060.88 grant will fund research to improve the modeling of interstellar medium properties, star formation, and galactic winds in disk galaxies using advanced...
This is a $254,082.66 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on protoplanetary disk formation. The grant seeks to use magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the formation of protostellar cores and disks, in order to improve understanding of the origins of exoplanetary systems. The research aims to predict the initial distributions of angular momentum and magnetic flux in protoplanetary disks,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $61,332.44 grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on changes in the accretion disk boundary layer of a symbiotic recurrent nova, T CRB. The research aims to observe T CRB when it returns to its quiescent state, which may occur during NASA's 19th Announcement of Opportunity (AO19), in order to test the hypothesis that nova eruptions in T CRB are preceded by periods of enhanced...
This is a $180,000.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, a top public research university. The grant will fund a project to investigate the stability of propagating spiral waves in protoplanetary disks through three-dimensional numerical simulations. The project aims to study the effects of disk thermodynamics on the instability of spiral waves excited by a planetary companion and assess the...
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) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, for a research project titled "Strongly Magnetized Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei." The award, valued at $651,721.41, will fund an analytical and computational study to investigate the physical properties of strongly magnetized accretion disks around supermassive black holes and their role in fueling...
This is a $143,551.05 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Space Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The goal of the project is to develop an adaptive hybrid computational model that combines kinetic ion and fluid electron descriptions to enable more detailed simulations of turbulent solar wind conditions and their impacts on the Earth's magnetosphere. The model will be integrated with global...
This is a grant for $404,138.00 awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & MRS Felix Fuld Foundation to conduct research on boundary layers in astrophysical accretion disks. The research aims to better understand the mechanisms driving angular momentum and mass transport in the boundary layer region between accretion disks and central objects like neutron stars and white dwarfs. This will involve detailed 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations that account for radiation transport and pressure effects. The goal is to improve interpretation of observations and variability of accreting astrophysical objects. This grant does not have a set-aside designation and runs through July 2020.