This $104,996.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Oklahoma to support the "Disk Detective: Finding Circumstellar Disks with WISE and 100,000 New Colleagues" project. The goal of this effort is to leverage the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) archive to identify new circumstellar disks, which provide insights into star and planet formation processes. The project will utilize a citizen science approach through...
The University of Oklahoma, doing business as the University of Oklahoma Office of Research Services, has been awarded a $140,429 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research relating to the study of young protoplanetary disks. Specifically, the University will use the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument and the Visible Aperture Masking Polarimetric Imager for Resolving Exoplanetary Signatures (VAMPIRES) integral field...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Oklahoma (OU) in the amount of $209,538.13. The award is for the Disk Detective Follow-Up Program, which involves faculty and a graduate student conducting multi-wavelength observations and characterization of objects of interest identified by the Disk Detective citizen science project. The graduate student will lead the follow-up observations at the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-meter...
This federal award is a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, for research on hydrodynamical processes in planet-forming accretion disks. The grant, valued at $298,723.87, is intended to develop theoretical models of various hydrodynamic instabilities and their impact on disk evolution and planet formation. The research will incorporate realistic factors like disk thermodynamics, dust...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AE57G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to apply next-generation models to the interpretation of protoplanetary disks. The $174,999.79 grant will fund research to characterize the conditions that drive disk evolution and lead to the formation of planets, including modeling the disks of stars still embedded in their infalling envelopes. The modeling will provide insights...
This is a $346,926.53 grant awarded by NASA to Associated Universities Inc. (AUI) to study the evolution of circumstellar disks, which are thought to be the birthplaces of exoplanetary systems. The research aims to determine if planet formation is underway in very young disks around 1 million years old, and to measure how the surface density of disks evolves over 5-10 million year timescales. This grant supports NASA's exoplanet research program by providing key insights into the origins of...
This federal contract award, valued at $233,656.12, was granted to the University of Oklahoma, operating as the Office of Research Administration, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract is for research to improve the understanding of planetary systems in multi-star environments, such as the Alpha Centauri system. The research aims to reassess the dynamical history of Alpha Centauri and its potential planets, understand how destabilized planetary systems...
This federal contract award was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Arizona, a public research university, to conduct research related to extrasolar debris disks. The $210,087.82 grant aims to systematically reanalyze Herschel Space Observatory data on debris disks to better understand the properties and extent of planetesimal zones around other stars. This research is expected to provide critical information for upcoming exoplanet and debris disk...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona provides $198,132.38 in funding for a research project titled "Debris Disk Variability - Exploring the Diverse Outcomes of Large Collisions During the Eras of Oligarchic and Chaotic Growth." The project aims to study the formation and evolution of planetary systems through observations of young exoplanetary debris disks and their variability. This research will support...
This is a $315,507.92 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Oklahoma, operating as the Office of Research Administration, for research on the early evolution of the Solar System. The project aims to develop additional constraints on the timing of the giant planet instability, conditions in the primordial Kuiper Belt prior to this event, and the dynamical lifetimes of Kuiper Belt binary objects. This will be accomplished through three...
This federal contract award is a research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Oklahoma to study transitional disks, which are an intermediate stage between gas-rich protoplanetary disks and older debris disks/young planetary systems. The grant, valued at $531,214.98, is part of NASA's Exoplanet Research Program and aims to locate regions in transitional disks where giant planets may have recently formed, conduct an imaging search for planets in these disks, and search for planets in young debris disks. The research leverages existing international collaborations, approved observing time on various telescopes, and builds upon the SEEDS survey, the largest extant high-contrast imaging study of transitional disks. This award is not associated with any set-aside designation.