Execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the national academies of sciences engineering and medicine administration priorities and direction from congress

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded the Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, $373,254 on March 1, 2026, under the NASA Science program (CFDA 43.001).

The award funds spectroscopic line survey work and diagnostic measurements supporting Hinode and Solar-C data analysis. UC Berkeley will perform Fe X and Ca XV line surveys across multiple extreme ultraviolet bandpasses, measure line intensities versus electron beam energy, and benchmark theoretical density diagnostic calculations using the EBIT-I facility. Results will be communicated to the CHIANTI, EIS, EUVST, and MUSE teams. The work includes line surveys in the MUSE 108 and 284 Ångström bandpasses, searching for emission lines from oxygen, neon, aluminum, silicon, sulfur, magnesium, iron, and nickel charge states.

Period of performance runs through February 28, 2029. Work is performed at Berkeley, California.

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University, serves as a sub-recipient. Columbia will execute the line survey measurements and communicate diagnostic findings to instrument teams and theoretical modeling groups.

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