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 $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,...
This is a $100,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on "Imaging the Inner AU of Planet-Forming Disks Using a New Near-Infrared Combiner at the CHARA Array". The grant has a performance period ending on August 31, 2026 and does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Michigan is a highly regarded public research institution that has a history of conducting research...
This is a $394,850 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a study on the abundance of cold phase metals in the diffuse interstellar medium. The 4-year grant, awarded on April 9, 2020, will allow the University of Michigan to combine data from the X-ray spectroscopic archives of the XMM-Newton and Chandra X-Ray Observatories, as well as UV datasets, to conduct this research. The University of Michigan is a...
This is a $135,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division, to conduct research aimed at understanding and predicting the response of Earth's magnetosphere to variations in the solar wind. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Michigan is a leading educational institution that has extensive experience conducting research and...
This is a $124,938.81 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan (dba University of Michigan) for research related to the unique history of elements found in the solar system and throughout the universe. The grant has a performance period ending on February 23, 2024. The University of Michigan is a leading public research university and has a history of providing R&D services to federal agencies like the Department...
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), was awarded a $160,401.17 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research related to understanding the global distribution and dynamics of electric and magnetic fields in the magnetosphere and ionosphere during extreme space weather events. The research aims to advance the scientific understanding of how energetic electrons and...
This is a $990,610.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a project titled "GLOBAL EVOLUTION OF SOLAR WIND ALONG SOLAR CYCLES". The grant has an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2026. The Regents of the University of Michigan, a U.S. state government educational institution, will be conducting research and development services under this grant. No set-aside designation was used. The University...
This $890,660.47 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan, to characterize the Earth's time-varying radiation environment due to solar energetic particles (SEPs) and galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). The research aims to determine the fluxes and energy spectra of SEPs and GCRs from the magnetopause to low-Earth orbit...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $953,830 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), a U.S. state government educational institution. The grant is for research to examine fundamental questions related to ionospheric outflow and the impact and feedback of heavy ions in the magnetosphere. The research will investigate ion transport through the magnetosphere,...
This is a $175,512.25 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on the effects of ionization processes in young stellar objects and circumstellar disks, and the implications for planet formation. The research will focus on understanding how cosmic rays, short-lived radioactive nuclei, and high-energy radiation impact disk ionization levels, and how this in turn influences disk structure, accretion, and chemical composition - all of which are key factors in planetary system formation. The work will be carried out at the University of Michigan's Physics and Astronomy departments, and involves theoretical modeling and predictions of observational signatures. This grant does not specify any set-aside designation.