This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC19K0829, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), a research institution within the University System of New Hampshire. The $665,685 grant is for a research project that will involve a mix of theory, simulation, and data analysis to study the nonlinear evolution of Alfvén waves and slow waves in the solar wind, taking into account the parametric decay instability and mutual...
This is a $160,962.24 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to conduct research on turbulence and intermittency in solar wind. The project aims to develop analytical theories on these phenomena and test them against simulations and solar wind observations. This research is relevant to the Heliophysics Decadal Survey objectives to understand fundamental processes within the heliosphere. The award does not have a...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), through its Office of Sponsored Research, for a research project on plasma turbulence in the solar wind. The award, valued at $611,917.74, will support an extensive program of investigations involving hybrid simulations, data analysis, and theoretical modeling to explore the driving of turbulence by interstellar pickup ions in the outer solar system. The research aims...
This federal contract award is a $542,119.37 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), operating through its Office of Sponsored Research. The project will investigate the turbulence in the slow solar wind and solar ejecta using a three-dimensional hybrid kinetic simulation. Key goals include identifying the nature of turbulent fluctuations, determining the ion heating processes, and assessing the partition of...
This federal contract award with ID 80NSSC19K0914 was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), which is part of the University System of New Hampshire (USNH). The $872,263.00 grant funds research into the evolution and interaction of transient phenomena, such as interplanetary coronal mass ejections and small flux ropes, and their effects on galactic cosmic rays in the inner heliosphere. The research leverages data from...
This federal contract award, valued at $773,969.13, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), a non-profit, 1862 land grant educational institution, to conduct research on the behavior of alpha particles in the solar wind. The project aims to develop analytical theories and numerical simulations to better understand the differential flow, anisotropic heating, and abundance variations of helium in the solar wind. The research...
This federal contract award is a $915,233 grant for research to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), part of the University System of New Hampshire (USNH), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The goal of the research is to study factors affecting the heavy ion content, particularly O+, in the Earth's magnetosphere, using observational data from various spacecraft. The methodology involves a combination of statistical studies and case studies, leveraging data from the...
This federal contract award, valued at $664,424.05, was granted by NASA to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), operating through its Office of Sponsored Research. The objective is to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the early development and propagation of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the associated solar energetic particle (SEP) acceleration. The research will combine data analysis of remote-sensing observations of the solar corona and in-situ measurements, as well...
The University of New Hampshire, a division of the University System of New Hampshire, received a $1.45M research grant from NASA's Shared Services Center, awarded October 19, 2023, with a completion date of October 18, 2026. The contract supports an integrated numerical, theoretical, and observational investigation of the helicity barrier and its effects on turbulence in coronal holes and near-sun solar wind. The research will develop simplified models of imbalanced Alfvén wave turbulence and...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University System of New Hampshire (UNH), through its University of New Hampshire (UNH) division operating as the Office of Sponsored Research. The $824,999.64 grant supports a research investigation to understand the electrodynamic dynamo in the dayside mid-latitude ionosphere driven by thermospheric winds and ionosphere interactions. UNH will provide...
This federal contract award, valued at $107,992.67, was granted to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to examine high-resolution Voyager spacecraft magnetic field data for evidence of physical processes at kinetic scales in the outer heliosphere. The data analysis will focus on waves excited by newborn interstellar pickup ions as well as properties of the magnetohydrodynamic turbulent cascade and dissipation. This work is relevant to two goals of the National Research Council's Heliophysics Decadal Survey: determining the interaction of the Sun with the solar system and the interstellar medium, and discovering and characterizing fundamental processes that occur both within the heliosphere and throughout the universe. The award does not have a set-aside designation, and UNH will be the prime contractor performing this research under the grant.