The Governors of the University of Alberta

$29,930.00 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 29, 2022 – April 29, 2024
Reference: csa-asc:003-2021-2022-Q4-00017

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 research using the JWST. The project will use JWST to find individual, newly formed stellar systems in the spiral arm of nearby galaxy M33. They plan to measure how spiral arms trigger star formation, including how long this process take and whether low-mass stars are formed before high-mass stars.

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