Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics

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• 27 Active
• 107 Finished

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  Magnetic Field Structure of the Grand-Design Spiral Galaxy- M-51

  Jones, T. J.

  JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

  6/10/20 → 5/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • spiral galaxies 100%
  • magnetic fields 43%

• Constraining Dark Energy and Modified Gravity with Euclid

  Scarlata, C. M.

  JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

  2/28/20 → 2/27/21

  Project: Research project

  • dark energy 100%
  • gravitation 71%

• Constraining the evolution of the Hubble Parameter using cosmic chronometers

  Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  9/1/19 → 8/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • chronometers 100%

• The EXES Quest for the Ring: Benzyne in Sakurai's Object

  Woodward, C. E.

  Universities Space Research Association

  4/1/19 → 4/8/22

  Project: Research project

  • Ring 100%

• Comets: Cosmic Messengers - A FORCAST ToO Opportunity

  Woodward, C. E.

  Universities Space Research Association

  4/1/19 → 4/8/22

  Project: Research project

  • comets 100%

• Stellar Mergers - The Longwavelength View

  Woodward, C. E.

  Universities Space Research Association

  4/1/19 → 4/8/22

  Project: Research project

• Constraining Dark Energy and Modified Gravity with Euclid

  Scarlata, C. M.

  JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

  2/28/19 → 2/27/20

  Project: Research project

  • dark energy 100%
  • gravitation 71%

• SOFIA Target of Opportunity (ToO) Observations of Bright

  Gehrz, R. D.

  Universities Space Research Association

  7/11/18 → 7/10/20

  Project: Research project

  • SOFIA (airborne observatory) 100%
  • novae 42%

• The Mass Loss Histories of the Red Supergiants

  Humphreys, R. M.

  Universities Space Research Association

  7/3/18 → 7/2/20

  Project: Research project

  • History 100%

• Wiranen and Friends

  Woodward, C. E.

  Universities Space Research Association

  7/3/18 → 7/2/20

  Project: Research project

• The Formation of Massive Galaxies

  Scarlata, C. M.

  University of Copenhagen

  6/17/18 → 8/31/18

  Project: Research project

  • galaxies 100%

• The Leoncino Dwarf: The Lowest Metallicity Star-Forming

  Skillman, E. D.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  5/1/18 → 4/30/21

  Project: Research project

  • metallicity 100%
  • stars 70%
  • universe 42%
  • galaxies 37%

• NASA ADAP: Infrared Abundances and the Chemical Evolution of the Universe

  Skillman, E. D.

  THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO

  4/5/18 → 4/4/22

  Project: Research project

  • chemical evolution 100%
  • universe 66%

• Euclid Mission Science Support

  Scarlata, C. M.

  JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

  2/8/18 → 2/7/19

  Project: Research project

  • Euclid 100%

• Securing HST's UV Legacy in the Local Volume: Probing Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium in Low Mass Galaxies

  Skillman, E. D.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  2/1/18 → 1/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • star formation 100%
  • galaxies 78%

• Eta Carinae's Change of State: The End Game

  Humphreys, R. M. & Davidson, K.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  2/1/18 → 1/31/21

  Project: Research project

• Grain Alignment in Mass-Loss Winds

  Jones, T. J.

  Universities Space Research Association

  12/22/17 → 12/21/19

  Project: Research project

  • alignment 100%

• Constraining the evolution of the Hubble Parameter using

  Dickinson, H. J. & Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  12/1/17 → 7/31/19

  Project: Research project

  • chronometers 100%

• Eyes on the future: optimizing science output for next g

  Scarlata, C. M. & Fortson, L. F.

  National Science Foundation

  9/1/17 → 8/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • science 100%

• 3-D Stellar Hydrodynamics Simulations for Convective-Rea

  Woodward, P. R.

  National Science Foundation

  9/1/17 → 8/31/18

  Project: Research project

  • hydrodynamics 100%
  • nuclear fusion 68%
  • simulation 50%

• Mt. Lemmon Observatory use by U.S. Air Force

  Gehrz, R. D.

  USDOD AIR FORCE

  7/10/17 → 7/9/21

  Project: Research project

  • air 100%

• The Energetically Complete Picture of a Starburst Superw

  Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  5/1/17 → 4/30/21

  Project: Research project

• Tracing Galactic Outflows to the Source: Spatially Resol

  Skillman, E. D.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  5/1/17 → 4/30/20

  Project: Research project

  • tracing 100%

• SAFE: Star clusters, lyman Alpha and Feedback in Eso338-

  Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  5/1/17 → 4/30/21

  Project: Research project

  • star clusters 100%

• MAPS: The MMT Adaptive optics exoplanet Characterization

  Jones, T. J.

  University of Arizona

  2/1/17 → 1/31/19

  Project: Research project

  • 2-methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl 100%

• A Legacy Imaging Survey of M33

  Skillman, E. D.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  2/1/17 → 1/31/20

  Project: Research project

• SOFIA Target of Opportunity Observation of Galactic Supe

  Gehrz, R. D.

  Universities Space Research Association

  1/1/17 → 9/30/18

  Project: Research project

  • SOFIA (airborne observatory) 100%
  • supernovae 59%
  • galaxies 23%

• SOFIA Multiple Generations of Massive Star Formation in

  Jones, T. J.

  Universities Space Research Association

  1/1/17 → 9/30/20

  Project: Research project

  • SOFIA (airborne observatory) 100%
  • massive stars 67%
  • star formation 59%

• The Evolution of C/O in Low Metallicity Dwarf Galaxies

  Skillman, E. D.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  1/1/17 → 12/31/19

  Project: Research project

  • dwarf galaxies 100%
  • metallicity 85%

• SOFIA Comet NEOs 41P and C/2015 V2 - The FORCAST Story

  Woodward, C. E.

  Universities Space Research Association

  1/1/17 → 9/30/19

  Project: Research project

• SOFIA Observations of HR5171A

  Humphreys, R. M.

  Universities Space Research Association

  1/1/17 → 9/30/18

  Project: Research project

  • SOFIA (airborne observatory) 100%

• Science with the Euclid Mission

  Scarlata, C. M.

  JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

  12/8/16 → 11/30/17

  Project: Research project

  • Euclid 100%

• Collaborative Research: A New Instrument for the Large

  Woodward, C. E.

  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ

  9/1/16 → 8/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • telescopes 100%
  • atmospheres 93%

• The Final UV Frontier: Legacy Near-UV Imaging of the Fro

  Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  8/1/16 → 7/31/19

  Project: Research project

  • Imaging 100%

• Unveiling the Dark Baryons II: the First Sample of OVI E

  Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  8/1/16 → 7/31/19

  Project: Research project

  • Elementary Particles 100%

• Emission Line Galaxy Constraints from HST: Towards Accur

  Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  8/1/16 → 7/31/20

  Project: Research project

  • galaxies 100%
  • forecasting 79%

• Does All The Lyman Continuum Emission Escape From Young,

  Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  8/1/16 → 7/31/19

  Project: Research project

  • escape 100%
  • continuums 74%

• Collaboration on the use of the mPPM miniapp to test and

  Woodward, P. R.

  Sandia National Laboratories

  7/1/16 → 9/30/16

  Project: Research project

  • performance 100%

• Hubble Frontier Field Cluster Lens Reconstruction with G

  Williams, L. L.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  5/15/16 → 9/30/17

  Project: Research project

  • lenses 100%

• WFC3 spectroscopic parallel survey

  Scarlata, C. M.

  Space Telescope Science Institute

  2/1/16 → 1/31/19

  Project: Research project

• Emerging Comets from Protoplanetary Processes

  Woodward, C. E.

  University of California at San Diego

  1/1/16 → 1/6/20

  Project: Research project

  • comets 100%
  • emerging 77%

• Constraining Dark Energy and Modified Gravity with Eucli

  Scarlata, C. M.

  JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

  12/23/15 → 11/30/16

  Project: Research project

  • dark energy 100%
  • gravitation 71%

• ToO - Observations of Galactic Supernovae and Supernovae

  Gehrz, R. D.

  Universities Space Research Association

  11/1/15 → 6/30/17

  Project: Research project

  • supernovae 100%
  • galaxies 19%

• Grain Alignment in Class 0 YSOs

  Jones, T. J.

  Universities Space Research Association

  11/1/15 → 6/30/17

  Project: Research project

• RMH: Cool Dust and the Mass Loss Histories of the Hyperg

  Humphreys, R. M.

  Universities Space Research Association

  11/1/15 → 6/30/17

  Project: Research project

  • History 100%

• CEW: A Tale of Two Comets - The FORCAST Story

  Woodward, C. E.

  Universities Space Research Association

  11/1/15 → 6/30/17

  Project: Research project

• ToO - Observations of of Bright Classical Novae in Outbu

  Gehrz, R. D.

  Universities Space Research Association

  11/1/15 → 6/30/17

  Project: Research project

  • novae 100%

• Probing mass ejection in novae with X-ray grating spectr

  Nelson, T. J.

  SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY

  10/19/15 → 2/29/16

  Project: Research project

  • novae 100%
  • ejection 77%
  • gratings 54%
  • x rays 33%
  • spectroscopy 19%

• 3-D Simulations of i-Process Nucleosynthesis in the Earl

  Woodward, P. R.

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  10/1/15 → 8/31/17

  Project: Research project

  • nuclear fusion 100%
  • universe 38%
  • simulation 36%

• CR: Engaging Introductory Astronomy Students in Authenti

  Nelson, T. J. & Finley, F. N.

  National Science Foundation

  10/1/15 → 3/7/16

  Project: Research project

  • citizen 100%
  • student 80%