Grant For Research NNX17AF23G
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- This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, also known as Boston College, to conduct an unbiased survey of long period variable stars in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the Kepler space telescope. The $326,598.21 grant will enable the university to create a catalog and analyze the properties of these pulsating, dying stars on the asymptotic giant branch located within the disk of the Milky Way. The project...
- This federal contract award, valued at $108,627, was granted by the Shared Services Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The contract is for the "Evaluation of PlanetIQ High Rate Data Products Using Advanced Radio Propagation Techniques". This is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation, to support Boston...
- This federal contract award to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, supports the university's role in providing education, training, and outreach activities for the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) program. Boston College will organize annual workshops or schools on space science over a three-year period, with the specific locations to be determined based on the availability and interest of local hosts. The award amount is $88,831.91, and there is no...
- This federal contract award, NNX15AR06G, was granted by NASA to the Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a renowned private Jesuit Catholic university. The $118,162.41 grant supports research to better understand the initiation, development, and evolution of transient coronal dimming regions and their relationship to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). This work aligns with the Heliophysics Decadal Survey goals to determine the origins of the Sun's activity and predict...
- This is a $9,801,422.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The contract, titled "SPACE WEATHER RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS (SPARTA) CENTER OF EXCELLENCE", has an ultimate completion date of September 29, 2028. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating...
- This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to Trustees of Boston University, a private university, to investigate the occurrence of mid-infrared excesses in low-mass field stars. The $124,990 study will build upon a previous pilot study, using a larger photometric catalog to identify and analyze stars exhibiting infrared excesses, which may indicate planetary collisions and provide insights into terrestrial planet formation and...
- This is a $556,100 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, a private non-profit research university. The grant is for a research program called ROSES (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences) which aims to execute a balanced science program, participate as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiatives, advance discovery in emerging fields, and develop applied programs in areas like Earth...
- This federal contract award, valued at $463,749.87, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for a grant to execute a search for transiting exoplanets and exomoons around hundreds of nearby L and T dwarfs using the 1.83-meter Perkins Telescope and the MIMIR infrared imaging camera. The award is part of NASA's...
- This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K0985, was granted by the Shared Services Center (SSC) on May 4, 2021 to the Trustees of Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The $159,195.00 grant is for research to reformat spectra into a universally readable format. This award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating Boston College competed for the opportunity as a large organization. The university has extensive experience...
- This federal contract award is for $449,993.31 and was granted to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract is for the continuation of a comprehensive multi-waveband flux and polarization monitoring program, involving monthly Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) imaging of 33 radio and gamma-ray bright active galactic nuclei at 43 and 86 GHz. This research is being conducted for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The...
This federal contract award to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, supports research to improve the calibration accuracy of the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). The $233,223 grant will enable the university to use Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) observations to better tie the IRS photometric calibration to future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This work will help ensure the scientific legacy of the large IRS data archive and enable compatibility with future NASA space-based infrared astronomy programs. The award was made by NASA's Shared Services Center and does not have a set-aside designation, indicating Boston College competed for this opportunity as a leading research institution with expertise in space science and astronomy.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 2/5/19 | ||
| 4 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 2/5/19 | |
| 3 | Funding Only Action | $60.8k | 8/21/18 | |
| Not listed | $60.8k | 8/21/18 | ||
| 2 | Funding Only Action | $60.8k | 1/26/18 |