York University

$30,000.00 CAD

≈ 5 months of average Canadian pay

Department: Canadian Space Agency
Program: Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Recipient country: Canada
Fiscal year: 2021-2022
Agreement period: March 24, 2022 – December 31, 2023
Reference: csa-asc:003-2021-2022-Q4-00036

Published purpose

Following the JWST ERS and Cycle 1 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on June 14, 2021, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data. Using the unprecedented spectroscopic and imaging capabilities of JWST this project is a first attempt to measure the age of stellar populations, the star formation rates, and the shapes of the earliest formed massive galaxies. The long-wavelength capability of JWST will reveal the nature of massive galaxies during their peak formation epoch and will return key information on how such galaxies and their massive black holes form so fast, so early.

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