Grant For Research NNX17AK70G
Award Date 7/1/17
Potential Completion Date 1/5/23
Potential Value $372K
Federal Agency
Ultimate Awardee
NAICS Category
Not listed Federal Contract Vehicle
- Not listed
Set-Aside Type
No Set-Aside Used
Extent Competed
Full and Open Competition
Major Defense Program
Not listed Pricing Type
Other
Place of Performance
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Solicitation Procedures
Basic Research
Number Of Offers Received
Not listed
Legislative Mandate
Not listed National Interest Action
Not listed Research Type
Not listed Primary Consortia Member
Not listed Similar Awards
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $540,470.00 grant to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for research related to the formation and evolution of compact star clusters at high redshifts. The research aims to investigate several aspects of the underlying astrophysics, including the role of these clusters in producing seeds for supermassive black holes, the physics of their formation and growth, the impact of X-ray heating, and their influence on the...
- This federal contract award, valued at $448,691.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for research into the microphysics of the intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters. The research aims to characterize thermal conduction within the ICM, which has important implications for understanding the thermodynamic state of galaxy cluster environments. The work will involve analytical theory, computer modeling, and...
- This is a $223,411.23 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to support the principal investigator's research using data from the Astro-H spacecraft. The research will focus on understanding the structure of the iron K-band in active galactic nuclei, the thermal structure of cooling flows, the chemical abundances in elliptical galaxies and galaxy clusters, and the nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources. This grant...
- This is a $223,409 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for a research project titled "ASTRO-H IS A POWERFUL OBSERVATORY FOR STUDYING THIS RELATIVISTIC REFLECTION". The project aims to characterize the relativistic reflection in several active galactic nuclei using the spectroscopic capabilities of the ASTRO-H observatory. This grant is part of NASA's "AGN AND CLUSTER STUDIES WITH ASTRO-H"...
- This federal contract award, NNX17AF29G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The $455,070.73 grant will fund a research project titled "Unifying Spectral and Timing Studies of Relativistic Reflection in Active Galactic Nuclei." The project aims to develop new analysis tools for conducting a unified spectral-timing analysis of X-ray properties of active galactic nuclei, with the goal of enhancing the...
- This is a $30,083 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to monitor a changing-look active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a newly-launched radio jet. The grant, which has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026, is for research and does not utilize any set-aside designations. UMBC, a public research university known for its expertise in scientific research and analysis, will lead this project...
- This is a $37,439.76 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a research project on the time-domain variability analysis of 117 blazars (active galactic nuclei) in the Swift-BAT 105-month catalog. The award does not have a set-aside designation. As a major public research university, UMD has a long history of receiving federal grants and contracts from agencies like NASA, the National Science...
- This federal grant award to the University of Maryland, College Park funds research into the radiative effects of aerosols on deep convective clouds and their impact on the Earth's radiation budget. The $450,590.51 award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will support a 4-year study to: 1) derive a global climatology of aerosol-mediated cloud radiative forcing for deep convective clouds, 2) estimate changes in upper troposphere/lower stratosphere water vapor from...
- The University of Maryland, College Park received a $34.8K research grant from a Shared Services Center within a federal civilian agency to support the project "Linking the Short and Long Delays in NGC 4151." The award, announced on November 8, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of November 7, 2024, represents a non-set-aside grant supporting fundamental astronomical research. UMD, a prominent land-grant research institution, serves as the prime contractor with work to be performed...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $49,230 research grant to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct "A Search for Quasiperiodic Oscillations in Short Gamma Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi/GBM." The grant, numbered 23-FERMI23-0035, will be performed at UMD's College Park, Maryland campus and carries an ultimate completion date of September 10, 2026. This award represents a non-set-aside, direct grant to support fundamental scientific research...