University of Montreal

$39,051.00 CAD

≈ 6 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: 2023-2024
Agreement period: February 15, 2024 – April 30, 2026
Reference: csa-asc:003-2023-2024-Q4-00043

Published purpose

Following the JWST ERS and Cycle 2 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on July 6, 2023, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data. This project will conduct a survey proposal of 249 white dwarf stars within 25 parsecs of the sun in order to constrain the flux distributions of a large number of white dwarfs in the mid-infrared. The goal is to detect infrared excesses from cool brown dwarfs, young Jupiters, optically thin dust disks from shredding exo-planetesimals, and cyclotron emission from magnetic white dwarfs. These detections will define white dwarf science (and other fields) with JWST.

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