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$33,120.00 CAD
≈ 5 months of average Canadian pay
- Department
- Canadian Space Agency
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2023-2024
- Agreement period
- March 20, 2024 – March 31, 2025
- Reference
- csa-asc:003-2023-2024-Q4-00030
Published purpose
This project will map out the ultraviolet colors of several nearby galaxies that are actively forming stars. AstroSat is observing the starlight of young, massive stars. As these short-lived stars die, the color of the galaxy changes, with the light becoming dominated by long-wavelength ultraviolet light. But there is a complication: dust in galaxies also makes the light appear redder. The new high-resolution data will be used to untangle the effects of aging from dust. This research is important because it is a local calibration needed to understand how to interpret the colors from different telescopes of the most distant galaxies.
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