This is a $149,954.24 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization that manages astronomical observatories and telescopes. The grant is for a large K2 program to monitor approximately 10,000 bright galaxies per campaign over three campaigns, with the goal of identifying at least 15 supernovae light curves. The research under this grant builds on...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC19K0112, was granted to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), a non-profit organization. The $124,371.81 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is for a proposed large K2 program to monitor galaxies, with supplementary ground-based resources to discover, follow-up, and analyze any supernovae (SNe) imaged by K2 in Campaigns...
This is a $99,936.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a project titled "The K2 Extra-Galactic Survey (KEGS) Transient Survey." The purpose is to monitor approximately 4,700 bright active galactic nuclei and supernovae that exhibit variability on timescales from hours to months, in order to better understand these mysterious astrophysical phenomena. This grant is part of NASA's K2 program,...
This is a $297,096 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The grant is part of NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) funding opportunity, which aims to execute a balanced science program, participate in NASA's exploration initiatives, and advance discovery in emerging fields. The grant does not...
This is a $335,676 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization that manages astronomical observatories and telescopes. The grant is for research related to asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars during the final stages of stellar evolution. AURA has extensive experience conducting astronomical research and providing operations and management services for NASA...
This federal contract award, NNX15AI73G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit consortium that manages and operates astronomical observatories and telescopes. The award, valued at $141,844.00, is for a research grant titled "What Drives Star Formation in Galaxies?: A Multiwavelength Analysis of Infrared Galaxies." The objective is to study the evolution of galaxy...
This federal contract award with ID 80NSSC20K0760 was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization, for a research grant. The award is not set aside and has a ceiling value of $484,196.22. The grant supports research on galaxies and their relationship to large-scale structure in the universe and stellar chemistry. AURA, which operates major...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $29,000.00 grant to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) to conduct research on measuring the masses of red giant stars using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Kepler space telescopes. AURA is a non-profit organization that manages astronomical observatories and telescopes on behalf of the federal government. This grant is funding research that leverages TESS and...
This is a $560,138 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization that operates major astronomical observatories and telescopes. The grant is for AURA to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. Key focus areas include scientific research related to the Moon, Mars, and...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), a non-profit organization that manages and operates astronomical observatories and telescopes. The $350,793 grant is for a project titled "IT'S ELEMENTARY: CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOPLANET-HOSTING M-DWARFS USING APOGEE." The project aims to conduct detailed spectral analysis of M-dwarf stars, including...
This federal contract award is a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) for the "K2 Extragalactic Survey (KEGS) for Transients" program. The $149,708.48 grant supports astronomical research to monitor approximately 2,500 galaxies using NASA's K2 space telescope, with the goal of observing supernovae and active galactic nuclei and improving the calibration of supernovae type Ia as standard candles for measuring cosmic distances and dark energy. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. AURA is a non-profit consortium of universities that operates astronomical observatories and manages space telescope programs on behalf of NASA. This grant aligns with NASA's astrophysics research priorities to advance the understanding of the universe.