The University of Western Ontario
$100,000.00 CAD
≈ 16 months of average Canadian pay
- Department
- Canadian Space Agency
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2024-2025
- Agreement period
- March 11, 2025 – March 1, 2027
- Reference
- csa-asc:003-2024-2025-Q4-00025
Published purpose
This project will analyze JWST observations of the Red Rectangle, a unique nebula surrounding an evolved star, that exhibits all these signatures of carbonaceous dust at the same time. The team will spatially characterize the spectral properties of these carbonaceous components and use their emission to establish the inventory of carbonaceous species at each location, and map the growth of molecules and trace the processing induced by UV radiation. This will result in a thorough understanding of the formation of carbonaceous species in evolved stars and the impact of photo-chemistry of these species.
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