CURRENT RESEARCH CONTRACTS


TITLE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
The Brilliant Lives of Massive Stars Philip Bennett
Masses and Mass Loss Rates of Red Supergiants in Binaries II Philip Bennett
Absolute Spectrographic Calibration to 1% from the FUV through the Near-IR David Finley
X-Ray Activity and Winds in Young A Stars at the Epoch of Disk Clearing Carol Grady
Probing the Evolution of Activity in Herbig Ae Stars with FUSE Carol Grady
Solar Systems Information: A NICMOS Coronagraphic Survey of Protoplanetary and Debris Disks Carol Grady
The Environment and Evolution of Young Stars and Planetary Systems: Improving the Dating of the Nearest Herbig AE Stars Carol Grady
Cosmic Far-IR Background Fluctuating Studies of the FLS for Spitzer Space Telescope Bruce Grossan
Analysis of Sky Fluctuations from HXTE V Duane Gruber
Chandra Study of the Structure of the Southern Part of the Horologium Supercluster Mark Henriksen
X-Ray Observation of DW UMa: A Cure for the SW Sex Syndrome Donald W. Hoard
Nonthermal Emission in A2163 Yoel Rafaeli
A Small Chandra Survey of Hard X-Ray Sources in Gamma-Ray Error Boxes Mallory Roberts
High Energy Pulsed Observations of the Young Pulsar in 3C58 Mallory Roberts
XMM-Newton Observation of Two Unusual Binary Pulsars Mallory Roberts
The Activity Rate of dMa Flare Stars in the Hyades Open Cluster Barry Y. Welsh

RECENT RESEARCH CONTRACTS


TITLE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Automated Classification Methods for Astronomical Object Identification David Bazell
Novel Approaches to Supervised and Unsupervised Data Exploration David Bazell
Testing Accretion Models of AM Hers/The New CV EUVE J2115-586 Damian Christian
Discovering New Sources with the EUVE Right Angle Program Damian Christian
EUVE Spectroscopy of EUV Selected White Dwarf Binaries Damian Christian
Testing Accretion Models of AM Hers, cont'd Damian Christian
Further EUVE Observations of Asynchronous Polar EUVE J2115-586 Damian Christian
The Magnetic Field Structure of the 450 MG Ultramassive White Dwarf EUVE J0317-855 Damian Christian
Continued Discoveries with the EUVE Right Angle Program Damian Christian
CGRO-Comptel Rapid Burst Response Alanna Connors
Catching the X-Ray Glow from a GRB with New Approaches for RXTE and HEAO 1 Alanna Connors
Advanced Statistical & Data Analysis Tools for Astrophysics Alanna Connors
Astrostatistical Tools in Python Alanna Connors
Hard X-Ray Properties of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies Rick Edelson
Chandra Snapshot Observations of Soft X-Ray Transient AGN Rick Edelson
The Space Elevator Brad Edwards
Multi-Wavelength Studies of Hot DA White Dwarfs David S. Finley
The Chemical Composition of Massive DA White Dwarfs David S. Finley
The Stark Truth about Hot, Dense Hydrogen Plasmas David S. Finley
The Influence of Weak Winds on DAO Abundances David S. Finley
T Tauri Star Coronagraphic Survey: A PMS Protoplanetary Disk Census Carol Grady
H2 in Herbig AE Stars Carol Grady
STIS Collaboration and Scientific Research Done by Dr. Carol Grady Carol Grady
Probing the Evolution of Stellar Activity in Young Stars with FUSE Carol Grady
A Search for Microsecond Variability from Bright Galactic X-Ray Source Garrett Jernigan
A Multi-Frequency Study of Circinus X-1 Garrett Jernigan
X-Ray Pulsar Studies with RXTE Garrett Jernigan
Localization of Optically-Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts Garrett Jernigan
Variability Studies of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy 1H0419-577 Herman Marshall
EUV Spectroscopy of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy 1H0419-577 & EUVE Spectrometer/Deep Survey Observations of Her X-1 Herman Marshall
HETG Observations of an Unusual Feature in the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy Ark 564 Herman Marshall
4U 2129+47: From ADIOS To ADAF or Isolated Neutron Star Michael Nowak
The X-Ray Cluster Environment of Blazars Joseph Pesce
An Unbiased Survey of X-Ray and Optical Emission from Extended Radio Jets in AGN Joseph Pesce
The Physics of Relativistic Jets: Deep Chandra and HST Observations of Two Newly Discovered Jets Joseph Pesce
Chandra Observations of a Uniform Sample of FRI Galaxies Joseph Pesce
PSR J2021+3651: A Gamma-Ray Pulsar at the Edge of the Galaxy Mallory Roberts
The Dynamics of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in G11.2-0.3 Mallory Roberts
Boundaries Conditions of the Heliosphere Jonathan Slavin
High-Resolution Imagery of Jets from Superluminal X-Ray Transients Marco Tavani
The Nature of Gamma-Ray Burster Host Galaxies Marco Tavani
The Nature of GRB970228 and its Surrounding Nebulosity Marco Tavani
Observations of a Possible Counterpart of GRB970508 Marco Tavani
Broad Band Long Term Monitoring of X-Ray Bursters Marco Tavani
Spectral Analysis of Gamma-Ray Bursts Marco Tavani
A Spectral Study of Gamma-Ray Bursts with SMM/GRS Marco Tavani
The Unseen Spectrum - A Traveling Lecture/Demonstration for the Oakland Public Schools John Vallerga
Locating the Elusive Counterpart of the Unusual X-ray Dipper X1624-490 Stefanie Wachter
A Long Look Down The BETA CMA Interstellar Tunnel Barry Welsh
Probing the Local Bubble-Inner Halo Connection Barry Welsh