This is a grant awarded by NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for $307,719.20 to develop new data analysis methods for future satellite missions using combined Compton-scattering and pair-creation telescopes. The work aims to advance the reconstruction of tracked Compton events and low-energy pair events in the intermediate energy band, which faces several key data science challenges. The methods will be implemented within the publicly available MEGALIB framework and...
This federal contract award, valued at $88,000.00, was granted to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the polarization of gamma-rays emitted by neutron stars and black holes. The goal is to use the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) telescope to measure the gamma-ray polarization of compact objects like the Crab Pulsar and Nebula and the...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC19K1389, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $1,234,274.93 grant is for a "REFLIGHT OF COSI" which will allow the university to obtain more science results on transient events, combine new data with 2016 data to improve statistics for positron and nucleosynthesis studies, and provide training...
This federal contract award, valued at $581,072.73, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The award supports research on mitigating systematic effects in the measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is crucial for detecting the faint signal of primordial gravitational waves that could provide insights into cosmic inflation. The project...
This is a $524,834 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant is for a research project investigating particle acceleration in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. The goal is to better understand the formation of power-law energy spectra in these settings. The award has a period of performance from March 1, 2022 through February 28,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $74,997 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, to maintain the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) as part of the Interplanetary Network. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will support research activities from April 11, 2022 through April 10, 2025. UC Berkeley is a public research university that has received over $825,000 in prime...
This award is a $395,953.31 grant for research provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley to develop an open-source computational toolbox for modeling and analyzing data from galaxy redshift surveys. The goal is to enable more robust extraction of cosmological information, such as the expansion history of the universe and growth of large-scale structure, from these surveys, including those planned for the upcoming Wide-Field...
This is a grant award to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of focal-plane detector and multiplexed detector technology, as well as mission simulations, for next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization missions. The award, valued at $203,315.66, has an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2023. The award was not set aside for any...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K1587, is a $51,000.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), a public research university. The contract is titled "A COORDINATED FERMI-VLA VIEW OF THE MOST EXTREME MASS-LOSS EVENTS FROM MASSIVE STARS" and does not have a set-aside designation. UC Berkeley, the prime contractor, will perform the research work in Albany, California. The...
This federal contract award is for the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), a wide-field gamma-ray (0.2-5 MeV) imager with germanium detectors. The award, valued at $377,298.00, was granted to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The contract is a grant for research and was awarded by a civilian federal agency, the Shared Services Center. The award has no set-aside designation, indicating open competition. UC...
This federal contract award is for the development of advanced data analysis methods for Compton telescopes, which are used in astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary sciences, and other applications. The University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a $149,930.54 research grant (NNX17AC84G) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create a hybrid reconstruction approach that can accurately retrieve source parameters such as location, spectrum, polarization, and flux from Compton telescope data. The goal is to unlock the full potential of future satellite missions using Compton scatter technology to study phenomena like galactic nucleosynthesis, positron annihilation, and gamma-ray bursts. This award is not associated with a set-aside program, and the parent organization is the State of California Controller's Office.