This is a $882,838 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, for a research project titled "Nonthermal Particle Acceleration, Electron Heating and Radiation in Hot Black Hole Accretion Flows: From First-Principles Kinetics to GRMHD Simulations to Observations". The grant is for fundamental research in space physics, with potential applications in areas like space weather modeling and...
This is a $80,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government entity and accredited public research university, for a research project titled "X-RAY POLARIZATION FROM RELATIVISTIC BULK COMPTONIZATION AROUND ACCRETING BLACK HOLES". The grant is for fundamental research to expand scientific knowledge in the area of space physics and astrophysics, with potential applications for space technology and...
This is a $735,456.00 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado, a public research university. The grant will fund a project titled "High-Time-Resolution Observation from MMS Guided by Simulations of Reconnecting Plasmas Reveal that Both Electron and Ion" over a period ending on August 31, 2025. This award is not associated with a set-aside designation and is structured as a grant for research. The University of...
This $98,588.98 federal grant award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, acting through its Office of Contracts and Grants, to conduct research on magnetic reconnection processes in the Earth's magnetotail. The University of Colorado, an accredited public research institution, will use this funding to study the rapid transport of magnetic flux and plasma towards and away from the Earth, as observed by satellite...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $760,938.25 grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, for research titled "Ion Tori Around Accreting Black Holes: A Kinetic Approach". This research grant has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2024 and was awarded on January 23, 2020 without any set-aside designation. The University of Colorado is a prominent public research university with a strong...
This is a $463,697.00 grant awarded to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, by the NASA Shared Services Center. The contract is for fundamental research on accretion physics from black hole images and movies, with a period of performance through May 31, 2025. No set-aside designation was used. The University of Colorado is a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning that conducts...
This is a $168,263 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado (CU) to conduct research on the growth of supermassive black holes and their connection to the evolution of their host galaxies. The research aims to provide a fundamental understanding of how and when supermassive black holes build up their mass. CU, a U.S. state government institution of higher learning, will leverage its expertise in physics, astronomy, and materials science to investigate the triggering of active galactic...
This is a $686,768 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 Office of Contracts and Grants Division, a U.S. state government entity and public research university. The grant is for the "Physics of the Black Hole Corona" research project, which will run from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The University of Colorado has a history of federal research and...
This is a $612,874.41 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), doing business as the University of Colorado, for research on whether magnetic reconnection occurs via single or multiple X-lines in the solar wind. The research aims to understand solar wind structure and energy budget by analyzing magnetic field signatures across solar wind exhausts. The grant supports solar wind observations, multi-spacecraft...
This is a $173,362.72 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado for a research project titled "Stirring Coronal Spaghetti: Determining the Importance of Jet-like and Filamentary Density Fluctuations". The goal is to improve the understanding of the origin of coronal density fluctuations and their influence on coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. The research will involve theoretical modeling and data analysis, including investigating high-speed network jets in the...