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University Of California Los Angeles dba Office Of Research Administration

  • University Of California Los Angeles dba Office Of Research Administration

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  • Los Angeles, CA 900950001
  • Phone: 310-794-0369
  • Estimated Number of Employees: 52,000
  • Estimated Annual Receipts: $950,000,000
  • Business Start Date: 1919
  • Contact Person: Cindy Gilbert
  • Contact Phone: 310-267-4814
  • Contact Email: cgilbert@research.ucla.edu
  • Business Structure:
  • U.S. Government Entity
  • Business Type:
  • U.S. State Government
  • Educational Institution
  • State Controlled Institution of Higher Learning
  • Industries Served: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • Product Areas: PLASTICS FABRICATED MATERIALS

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

  • $9,975 - Tuesday the 25th of February 2014
    Department Of Navy
    NAVY MEDICINE PROFESSIONAL
    TUITION AND FEES
  • $99,100 - Friday the 13th of May 2016
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    MEMBERS OF THE PLANETARY PLASMA INTERACTIONS (PPI) NODE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM (PDS) SINCE ITS INCEPTION. THE PPI NODE STARTED AS THE PARTICLES AND FIELDS NODE OF THE ORIGINAL PILOT PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM. THE INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PDS CALLED FOR A PLANETARY PLASMA INTERACTIONS NODE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA FROM CHARGED PARTICLES AND FIELDS EXPERIMENTS ON NASA PLANETARY MISSIONS AND WE SUBMITTED A SUCCESSFUL PROPOSAL. THE PPI NODE SUPPORTS SCIENTISTS STUDYING THE INTERACTION OF THE SOLAR WIND WITH PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS AND IONOSPHERES AND THE INTERACTION OF PLANETARY WINDS WITH MOONS. DATA PROVIDED THROUGH THE PPI NODE SUPPORTS RADIATION BELT STUDIES, INVESTIGATIONS OF PLANETARY ATMOSPHERIC LOSS AND STUDIES OF THE INTERIORS OF PLANETARY BODIES USING REMNANT MAGNETISM AND INTRINSIC AND INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS. CURRENTLY THE PPI NODE MANAGES OVER TWO MILLION DATA FILES FROM 20 NASA AND ESA MISSIONS AND 79 EXPERIMENTS. WE ARE THE LEAD PDS NODE FOR THE MESSENGER MISSION TO MERCURY AND THE JAPANESE KAGUYA MISSION TO THE MOON. IN ADDITION TO OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS LEAD NODE ON THESE MISSIONS THE PPI NODE CURRENTLY SUPPORTS OTHER PDS NODES ON FIVE ACTIVE MISSIONS: CASSINI (FIVE INSTRUMENTS), AND MARS EXPRESS (TWO INSTRUMENTS), NEW HORIZONS (TWO INSTRUMENTS), ROSETTA (I INSTRUMENT), AND DAWN (INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT). WE ARE CURRENTLY COMPLETING THE ARCHIVE FOR THE ELECTRON REFLECTOMETER AND MAGNETOMETER EXPERIMENTS ON MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR AND HELPING THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY AND JUNO MISSIONS PREPARE FOR ARCHIVING AND MAKING THEIR DATA AVAILABLE TO THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY. WE ALSO CONTINUE TO WORK ON RESTORATIONS OF OLDER DATA ON A BEST EFFORT BASIS. DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS THE DATA IN THE ARCHIVE HAS INCREASED TEN-FOLD AND THE NUMBER OF PRODUCTS HAS INCREASED APPROXIMATELY 50%. THE VOLUME HAS TRIPLED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS ALONE. IN RESPONSE TO THIS DATA EXPLOSION WE HAVE DEVELOPED NEW WAYS TO EFFICIENTLY INGEST DATA INTO PDS. THROUGHOUT PDS' TWENTY YEARS OF EXISTENCE THE GOAL OF PRESERVING HIGH QUALITY DATA FROM NASA'S PLANETARY MISSIONS AND MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY HAS REMAINED UNCHANGED. PDS HAS LONG REALIZED THAT THE KEY TO GOOD DATA PRODUCTS IS STARTING THE PROCESS OF PLANNING THE ARCHIVE EARLY IN THE MISSION. EVEN WHEN MISSIONS START THIS PLANNING EARLY THEY OFTEN DEVELOP THEIR OWN DATA SYSTEM AND THEN APPLY PDS DATA STANDARDS LATER, JUST BEFORE THEY DELIVER THE DATA TO PDS. RECENTLY WE HAVE TRIED A NEW APPROACH WITH THE DAWN SPACECRAFT CURRENTLY IN ROUTE TO THE ASTEROIDS CERES AND VESTA. DAWN WILL UTILIZE PDS STANDARDS INTERNALLY. THE MISSION DATA SYSTEM WILL UTILIZE PPI PROVIDED TOOLS FOR DOCUMENTING THE DATA AND MANAGING THE DATA WITHIN THE PROJECT. MISSION DATA PRODUCTS WILL BE PDS DATA PRODUCTS. WE BELIEVE THAT THIS WILL MAKE FOR A MUCH MORE EFFICIENT ARCHIVING PROCESS. THE PPI NODE SERVES THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY BY MAKING THE DATA FREELY AVAILABLE OVER THE INTERNET. THERE ARE ABOUT 6000 WEB VISITS PER MONTH FROM ABOUT 50 SITES KNOWN TO CONDUCT PLANETARY AND SPACE PHYSICS RESEARCH. WE HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY ACTIVE IN SUPPORTING DATA REQUESTS FROM THOSE PROPOSING NASA PLANETARY MISSIONS. WE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO SUPPORT THOSE WRITING PROPOSALS AND THEN TO HELP WITH THE MISSION DESIGN BY PROVIDING DATA PRODUCTS. THESE INCLUDE REQUESTS FROM SELECTED MISSIONS (E.G. JUNO), AND MISSIONS THAT ARE STILL IN THE PROPOSAL STAGE (E.G. EUROPA ORBITER). FINALLY WE HAVE HAD REQUESTS FOR DATA FROM THE MARIE INSTRUMENT ON THE MARS ODYSSEY SPACECRAFT TO HELP WITH STUDIES OF THE RADIATION DANGER TO ASTRONAUTS AT MARS AS PART OF THE EXPLORATION INITIATIVE. DURING THE NEXT GRANT INTERVAL WE WILL CONTINUE TO ACTIVELY WORK WITH MISSIONS AND WE WILL WORK TO MAKE THE DATA EASIER TO ACCESS AND USE. WE WILL WORK TO MAKE THE PPI WEB PAGES EASIER TO NAVIGATE. WE WILL IMPROVE THE PACKAGING OF THE DATA DELIVERED TO USERS SO THEY HAVE ALL THE METADATA NEE
  • $98,306 - Tuesday the 4th of August 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    THE PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT, AND EXPORT OF MELTWATER FROM THE SURFACE OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET TO THE GLOBAL OCEAN IS ONE OF THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES ON EARTH. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WOULD: (1) GAIN BASIC SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE EVOLUTION, FORM, DRAINAGE PATTERN AND PROCESSES OF GREENLAND'S SUPRAGLACIAL STREAMS, RIVERS, AND LAKES; (2) DETERMINE THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT PATHWAYS FOR THIS MELTWATER, I.E. SINKING INTO THE ICE SHEET, RUN-OFF OVER THE SURFACE VIA ORGANIZED CHANNEL NETWORKS, OR PONDING AND RETENTION AT THE SURFACE; AND (3) ASSESS WHETHER THE BULK OF THIS MELTWATER IS RETAINED BY THE ICE SHEET, THUS CONFOUNDING ESTIMATES OF MASS LOSS; OR ESCAPES TO THE GLOBAL OCEAN VIA RIVERS AND TIDEWATER PLUMES, THUS CONTRIBUTING TO SEA LEVEL RISE. STUDIED COLLECTIVELY, THESE THREE RESEARCH OBJECTIVES WILL SUBSTANTIALLY ADVANCE OUR HYDROLOGIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET. A MULTITUDE OF SATELLITE AND AIRBORNE REMOTE-SENSING OBSERVATIONS ARE THE CORE DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR ACHIEVING THESE GOALS. WE PROPOSE INTENSIVE USE OF ARCHIVED AIRBORNE DATASETS AND MODIS, ASTER, LANDSAT, QUICKBIRD/WORLDVIEW, AND ALOS PALSAR SATELLITE DATA TO MAP CHANNEL DRAINAGE PATTERNS, LAKE DYNAMICS, AND SINKING STREAMS ON THE SURFACE OF THE ICE SHEET; AND TIDEWATER SEDIMENT PLUMES, ENGLACIAL WATER OUTBURSTS, AND BRAIDED RIVER WATER FLUXES AT ITS EDGE. THIS REMOTE SENSING WORK WILL BE COMPLIMENTED BY ADVANCED INFORMATICS AND GIS ANALYSIS AND A MODEST LEVEL OF FIELD VALIDATION ACTIVITY IN THE VICINITY OF KANGERLUSSUAQ. SURFACE AND BEDROCK TOPOGRAPHY DATASETS WILL BE USED TO DELINEATE HYDRAULIC "POTENTIOMETRIC WATERSHEDS" REPRESENTING POTENTIAL SOURCE AREAS AND MIGRATION PATHS OF MELTWATER THROUGH OR OVER THE ICE SHEET. FINALLY, A COST-EFFECTIVE TARGETED AIRBORNE DATA ACQUISITION - IF IT CAN BE COORDINATED WITH NASA'S PLANNED OPERATION ICEBRIDGE - IS PROPOSED TO OBTAIN BENCHMARK HIGH-RESOLUTION DATASETS OF SURFACE AND BEDROCK RELIEF, HIGH-RESOLUTION CAMERA IMAGERY, AND GRAVITY ANOMALIES OVER THE ICE SHEET NEAR KANGERLUSSUAQ, A HYDROLOGICALLY IMPORTANT AREA IDEALLY SITUATED FOR ROAD, AIR, AND CH2MHILL FIELD LOGISTICS SUPPORT. THE COLLECTION AND PUBLIC DISSEMINATION OF THESE BENCHMARK DATASETS, TOGETHER WITH THE PROPOSED IN SITU MEASUREMENTS, WOULD ESTABLISH THE WATSON RIVER ICE DRAINAGE AS THE PREMIER STUDY SITE FOR HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH ON THE GREATER (NON-ICE-STREAM) GREENLAND ICE SHEET. THIS PROPOSAL IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIVE TO THREE "SPECIFIC GOALS" OF THIS SOLICITATION CONCERNING ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, MELTWATER FORMATION AND CONNECTIONS TO THE OCEAN, CONTRIBUTION OF LAND-BASED ICE TO SEA LEVEL RISE, AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS; AS WELL AS A SPECIFIC CALL FOR LINKAGES TO ICEBRIDGE. IT IS ALSO RESPONSIVE TO TWO NASA RESEARCH OBJECTIVES IN THE SCIENCE PLAN FOR NASA'S SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE 2007-2016; AND FOUR OVERARCHING STRATEGIC GOALS OF THE U.S. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE PROGRAM.
  • $98,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
    Veterans Affairs Department
    262-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 22
    IGF::OT::IGF ASSIST WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF VA WOMEN'S HEALTH PACT. - OTHER FUNCTIONS
  • $9,217,654 - Tuesday the 22nd of May 2012
    Department Of Navy
    NAVSUP FLT LOG CTR NORFOLK
    NAVY/MARINE CORPS SERVICES
  • $905,500 - Friday the 13th of May 2016
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    MEMBERS OF THE PLANETARY PLASMA INTERACTIONS (PPI) NODE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM (PDS) SINCE ITS INCEPTION. THE PPI NODE STARTED AS THE PARTICLES AND FIELDS NODE OF THE ORIGINAL PILOT PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM. THE INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PDS CALLED FOR A PLANETARY PLASMA INTERACTIONS NODE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA FROM CHARGED PARTICLES AND FIELDS EXPERIMENTS ON NASA PLANETARY MISSIONS AND WE SUBMITTED A SUCCESSFUL PROPOSAL. THE PPI NODE SUPPORTS SCIENTISTS STUDYING THE INTERACTION OF THE SOLAR WIND WITH PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS AND IONOSPHERES AND THE INTERACTION OF PLANETARY WINDS WITH MOONS. DATA PROVIDED THROUGH THE PPI NODE SUPPORTS RADIATION BELT STUDIES, INVESTIGATIONS OF PLANETARY ATMOSPHERIC LOSS AND STUDIES OF THE INTERIORS OF PLANETARY BODIES USING REMNANT MAGNETISM AND INTRINSIC AND INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS. CURRENTLY THE PPI NODE MANAGES OVER TWO MILLION DATA FILES FROM 20 NASA AND ESA MISSIONS AND 79 EXPERIMENTS. WE ARE THE LEAD PDS NODE FOR THE MESSENGER MISSION TO MERCURY AND THE JAPANESE KAGUYA MISSION TO THE MOON. IN ADDITION TO OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS LEAD NODE ON THESE MISSIONS THE PPI NODE CURRENTLY SUPPORTS OTHER PDS NODES ON FIVE ACTIVE MISSIONS: CASSINI (FIVE INSTRUMENTS), AND MARS EXPRESS (TWO INSTRUMENTS), NEW HORIZONS (TWO INSTRUMENTS), ROSETTA (I INSTRUMENT), AND DAWN (INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT). WE ARE CURRENTLY COMPLETING THE ARCHIVE FOR THE ELECTRON REFLECTOMETER AND MAGNETOMETER EXPERIMENTS ON MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR AND HELPING THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY AND JUNO MISSIONS PREPARE FOR ARCHIVING AND MAKING THEIR DATA AVAILABLE TO THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY. WE ALSO CONTINUE TO WORK ON RESTORATIONS OF OLDER DATA ON A BEST EFFORT BASIS. DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS THE DATA IN THE ARCHIVE HAS INCREASED TEN-FOLD AND THE NUMBER OF PRODUCTS HAS INCREASED APPROXIMATELY 50%. THE VOLUME HAS TRIPLED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS ALONE. IN RESPONSE TO THIS DATA EXPLOSION WE HAVE DEVELOPED NEW WAYS TO EFFICIENTLY INGEST DATA INTO PDS. THROUGHOUT PDS' TWENTY YEARS OF EXISTENCE THE GOAL OF PRESERVING HIGH QUALITY DATA FROM NASA'S PLANETARY MISSIONS AND MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY HAS REMAINED UNCHANGED. PDS HAS LONG REALIZED THAT THE KEY TO GOOD DATA PRODUCTS IS STARTING THE PROCESS OF PLANNING THE ARCHIVE EARLY IN THE MISSION. EVEN WHEN MISSIONS START THIS PLANNING EARLY THEY OFTEN DEVELOP THEIR OWN DATA SYSTEM AND THEN APPLY PDS DATA STANDARDS LATER, JUST BEFORE THEY DELIVER THE DATA TO PDS. RECENTLY WE HAVE TRIED A NEW APPROACH WITH THE DAWN SPACECRAFT CURRENTLY IN ROUTE TO THE ASTEROIDS CERES AND VESTA. DAWN WILL UTILIZE PDS STANDARDS INTERNALLY. THE MISSION DATA SYSTEM WILL UTILIZE PPI PROVIDED TOOLS FOR DOCUMENTING THE DATA AND MANAGING THE DATA WITHIN THE PROJECT. MISSION DATA PRODUCTS WILL BE PDS DATA PRODUCTS. WE BELIEVE THAT THIS WILL MAKE FOR A MUCH MORE EFFICIENT ARCHIVING PROCESS. THE PPI NODE SERVES THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY BY MAKING THE DATA FREELY AVAILABLE OVER THE INTERNET. THERE ARE ABOUT 6000 WEB VISITS PER MONTH FROM ABOUT 50 SITES KNOWN TO CONDUCT PLANETARY AND SPACE PHYSICS RESEARCH. WE HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY ACTIVE IN SUPPORTING DATA REQUESTS FROM THOSE PROPOSING NASA PLANETARY MISSIONS. WE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO SUPPORT THOSE WRITING PROPOSALS AND THEN TO HELP WITH THE MISSION DESIGN BY PROVIDING DATA PRODUCTS. THESE INCLUDE REQUESTS FROM SELECTED MISSIONS (E.G. JUNO), AND MISSIONS THAT ARE STILL IN THE PROPOSAL STAGE (E.G. EUROPA ORBITER). FINALLY WE HAVE HAD REQUESTS FOR DATA FROM THE MARIE INSTRUMENT ON THE MARS ODYSSEY SPACECRAFT TO HELP WITH STUDIES OF THE RADIATION DANGER TO ASTRONAUTS AT MARS AS PART OF THE EXPLORATION INITIATIVE. DURING THE NEXT GRANT INTERVAL WE WILL CONTINUE TO ACTIVELY WORK WITH MISSIONS AND WE WILL WORK TO MAKE THE DATA EASIER TO ACCESS AND USE. WE WILL WORK TO MAKE THE PPI WEB PAGES EASIER TO NAVIGATE. WE WILL IMPROVE THE PACKAGING OF THE DATA DELIVERED TO USERS SO THEY HAVE ALL THE METADATA NEE
  • $89,414 - Thursday the 12th of July 2012
    Department Of Air Force
    FA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL/RQK
    PLASMA TURBULENCE
  • $89,118 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    WE PROPOSE TO EVOLVE THE CARBON MONITORING SYSTEM FLUX PILOT PROJECT FUNDED UNDER PHASE 1 INTO A TOP-DOWN CO2 ATTRIBUTION FRAMEWORK THAT INTEGRATES SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF THE ENTIRE CARBONCLIMATE-HUMAN SYSTEM. THIS EXPANDED FRAMEWORK WILL ENABLE A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE AND A MEANS OF QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICIES. THIS CMS-FPP IS MOTIVATED BY THE INCREASE IN TROPOSPHERIC CO2 FROM ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS, WHICH IS THE SINGLE LARGEST DRIVER OF OBSERVED AND PREDICTED CLIMATE CHANGE [FORSTER ET AL., 2007]. HOWEVER, ROUGHLY HALF OF THE CO2 PRODUCED FROM THESE EMISSIONS HAS BEEN REMOVED BY TERRESTRIAL AND OCEAN SINKS. CONSEQUENTLY, THE FUTURE TRAJECTORY OF CLIMATE FORCING WILL DEPEND ON FUTURE EMISSIONS AND ON THE CAPACITY OF THE CARBON-CYCLE TO ABSORB CO2 [FRIEDLINGSTEIN, 2008]. RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN AN ACCELERATION OF FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS AND SIGNS OF AN ONSET OF CARBONCYCLE FEEDBACKS [CANADELL ET AL., 2007]. SINCE 2005, FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS HAVE BEEN REGIONALLY REDISTRIBUTED TOWARDS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, WHICH NOW MAKE UP MORE THAN HALF OF CO2 EMISSIONS (>4 PGC/YR) [PETERS ET AL., 2012]. WHILE THE GLOBAL CARBON BUDGET AND ITS PARTITIONING BETWEEN ANTHROPOGENIC, TERRESTRIAL, AND OCEANIC FLUXES ARE REASONABLY UNDERSTOOD, THE CONTRIBUTION OF REGIONAL DRIVERS TO THAT BUDGET ARE NOT [CANADELL ET AL., 2010]. UNCERTAINTY IN THE ATTRIBUTION OF CO2 ACCUMULATION TO THOSE DRIVERS ON A YEAR-TO-YEAR BASIS LIMITS OUR CAPACITY TO QUANTIFY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICIES [LE QUERE ET AL., 2009]. IN ORDER TO REDUCE UNCERTAINTY IN CO2 ATTRIBUTION, WE WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY IMPROVE AND AUGMENT ALL MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE CURRENT CMS-FPP: NEW SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS, AN ADDITIONAL TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM MODEL, A NEW FOSSIL FUEL ASSIMILATION SYSTEM, UPDATED OCEAN ASSIMILATION ALGORITHMS, AND IMPROVED ATMOSPHERIC INVERSION ALGORITHMS. THE CMS-FPP PHASE 2 WILL GENERATE A SUITE OF NEW AND UPDATED PRODUCTS COVERING 7/2009 2011 INCLUDING NEW HIGH RESOLUTION GLOBAL FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS, BETTER ESTIMATES OF OCEANIC CO2 AIR-SEA EXCHANGE, EVALUATION OF PREDICTED AND OBSERVED GLOBAL ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS, AND REFINEMENTS IN TOP-DOWN ATTRIBUTION AND UNCERTAINTY ALGORITHMS. PRODUCTS GENERATED FROM BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN ESTIMATES WILL BE MADE PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE THROUGH THE NASA CARBON MONITORING SYSTEM WEB PORTAL (HTTP://CARBON.NASA.GOV). THROUGH THESE UPDATES, THE CMS-FPP WILL PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN ASSESSING THE CURRENT CAPABILITY OF SPACE-BORNE OBSERVING SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE INTEGRATED CARBONCLIMATE- HUMAN SYSTEM AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE FORCING.
  • $8,906 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    AS PROPOSED BY STECKER, ET AL. (1992), OBSERVATIONS OF TEV Y-RAY EMITTING BLAZARS UTILIZING MODERN AIR CERENKOV TELESCOPE ARRAYS HAVE BEEN USED TO PROBE THE NEARBY (REDSHIFT Z~0 0.5) INTERGALACTIC INFRARED BACKGROUND RADIATION. SUCH STUDIES MAKE USE OF THE OPACITY CAUSED BY THE QED ANNIHILATION OF Y-RAYS OWING TO E+E PRODUCING INTERACTIONS WITH LOW ENERGY PHOTONS. SIMILARLY, THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE (FERMI) IS NOW BEING USED TO PROBE THE HIGH REDSHIFT (Z~1 5) INTERGALACTIC BACKGROUND LIGHT (IBL) AT OPTICAL AND UV WAVELENGTHS BY CONSTRAINING THE OPACITY OF THE UNIVERSE TO MULTI-GEV Y-RAYS (ABDO ET AL. 2010). THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY MEASURING THE ENERGY OF THE HIGHEST ENERGY PHOTONS OBSERVED BY FERMI THAT HAVE BEEN EMITTED BY GRBS AND BLAZARS AT KNOWN REDSHIFTS.
  • $88,391 - Friday the 29th of June 2012
    Office Of Assistant Secretary For Admin And Management
    DEPT OF LABOR/OFF ASST SEC ADMIN AND MGMT
    OTLA CONTRACT 2012 RESEARCH PROGRAM

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