This federal contract award, with identification number 80NSSC22K0489, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a prominent public research university. The $491,103 grant will fund research to support two key goals of NASA's Cosmic Origin program: (1) the evolution of the reionization process, and (2) using Lyman-alpha emission as a tracer of reionization. The research will utilize observations from the Spitzer/IRAC...
This is a $116,606.92 grant award to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research on analyzing Spitzer/IRAC imaging data in the CANDELS GOODS-N and Abell 2744 lensing cluster fields. The goal is to derive robust stellar masses for high-redshift galaxies in order to better understand the evolution of the stellar mass function and the effects of feedback from supernovae. This research aligns with NASA's Cosmic Origins goals....
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin, with a ceiling value of $93,924.47. The purpose of the grant is to analyze a Spitzer/IRAC survey of nine sightlines in the sky to search for the brightest galaxies in the distant universe at redshift z>9, approximately 500 million years after the Big Bang. This grant will help build the most robust sample of bright z>9 galaxies, allowing researchers to place...
This federal contract award, valued at $520,660.00, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin. The award supports an extensive program of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations aimed at understanding the formation of dwarf galaxies and the interplay between galaxy formation and dark matter. The research will explore collisionless cold dark matter and alternative dark matter models, utilizing a modern treatment of baryonic physics and...
This federal contract award, valued at $274,083.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). The contract is a grant for research to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating UT Austin's competitive capabilities in...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $223,101.00 grant to the University of Texas at Austin to construct the most accurate set of galaxy ultraviolet (UV) luminosity functions over a large redshift range. The university will use Spitzer infrared data to minimize contamination and improve photometric redshift precision, applying a uniform set of selection criteria across datasets spanning a wide area. This research aims to provide robust constraints on the abundance...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for research related to exoplanets. The grant has a potential value of $282,245.53 and a completion date of May 16, 2023. The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. UT Austin, a public research university, is the prime contractor for this grant. The University of Texas System, the parent organization of UT Austin, has...
This federal contract award, valued at $81,035.58, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to conduct the Webb Epoch of Reionization Lyman-Alpha Survey (WERLS) project. The contract is structured as a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UT Austin, a prominent public research university, will perform the work under this contract, which supports NASA's objectives related to the James Webb...
This federal grant award to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for $714,877.00 supports research on the "Cosmological Assembly of Galactic Disks and Bulges." The grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has a period of performance ending on March 31, 2026. UT Austin, a major research university and component of the University of Texas System, frequently partners with federal agencies on a wide range of research initiatives across scientific...
This federal contract award, identified as Award ID 80NSSC21K0780, was granted by the Shared Services Center on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin, a non-profit educational institution and component of the University of Texas System. The $74,999.81 grant supports research on "Eclipsing Binaries (EBs)", which provide benchmark measurements of stellar masses and radii crucial for theoretical stellar astrophysics. The...
This federal contract award, valued at $287,210.15, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin, a component of the University of Texas System. The contract supports research to investigate the build-up of massive quiescent galaxies at high redshifts (z > 3), when the universe was less than 2 billion years old. The work leverages data from the Spitzer-HETDEX Exploratory Large Area (SHELA) survey, which provides wide-area coverage across optical, infrared, and X-ray wavelengths. This unique multi-wavelength dataset will enable robust measurements of the abundance and properties of massive quiescent galaxies in the early universe, shedding light on the physical processes driving galaxy quenching. The contract has no set-aside designation, as the University of Texas at Austin competes for federal research awards as a large public educational institution. As a major research university, UT Austin has an extensive track record of supporting NASA's Cosmic Origins program through scientific investigations and instrumentation development.