Grants and Contributions

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 map the distribution of dark matter around 16 massive galaxies when the Universe was only 1-2 billion years old. This will be accomplished by constructing robust mass models to account for the observed rotation curves tracing the gravitational influence exerted by the total (luminous and dark) matter distributions. This project will provide key clues on the nature of dark matter by tracing dark matter halos at a cosmic epoch that has been out of reach until now.

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.

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.

Spectral variability of brown dwarfs holds the key to understanding their atmospheric properties. This project aims to determine the mechanism that produces brown dwarf variability and determine what drives the variability (evolving clouds, dynamical chemistry, both?).

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.

To begin to unravel the formation history of massive galaxies, this pilot project will provide a first comprehensive view towards a target nearly four billion light years away. The target, situated in the core of a galaxy cluster, is forming stars at an unusually high rate while harbouring one of the largest known molecular gas reservoirs in a cluster core. This project will shed light on the growth of the target massive galaxy by examining the physical conditions of the gas fueling its star formation.

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 program will analyze the observation of one transit of the cloud-free hot-Jupiter WASP-96b with NIRSpec/G395H to determine its atmosphere composition, and the effects of dynamics-induced chemistry. Because WASP-96b is cloudless, it is a prime target to study these effects. It has long been recognized that the atmosphere composition of hot-Jupiters can inform us about their formation and migration processes. These observations will provide some of the tightest-yet constraints on the formation history of an exoplanet.

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 measure multi-band spectrophotometry of several Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) that have already been observed by a number of ground and space-based facilities. These observations will provide detailed compositional and multiplicity information about these bodies. The result of this work is a sample of the most highly characterized KBOs which will be invaluable for deciphering the formative vs. evolutionary processes these objects have undergone.

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.

JWST is the first telescope to be able to probe the chemistry of both clouds and gases in brown dwarf atmospheres. This project will survey a diverse sample of brown dwarfs to establish the range of their atmospheric properties. These observations will offer a broad empirical basis for interpreting both higher-resolution JWST MIRI spectra of brown dwarfs and MIRI spectra of directly imaged or transiting exoplanets.

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 is designed to look for the faintest possible sources of Reionization, tiny dwarf galaxies. This program employs a novel approach of detecting dwarf galaxies based on their star-formation rate, instead of their total mass. Some of the filters in the projects are designed to detect emission from ultra-hot, ultra-low metallicity stars. These could result in the detection of some of the first stars to form in the universe.

To meet Canada’s yearly assessed contributions to the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies.

The overarching goal (purpose) is to support enhancements in marine safety and marine environmental protection in Canadian waters, while embracing the concepts of co-development and sustainable economic development.