Grants and Contributions

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 observe cooling gas in the Phoenix Cluster of galaxies as it forms stars in the central galaxy and finds its way into the nucleus to feed the black hole. Researchers will examine the dynamics of the cold gas observed with JWST and hot, X-ray emitting gas to understand how the feedback cycle maintains itself.

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 aims to measure accurate masses and formation histories of galaxies in the most massive dark matter halo known in the epoch of reionization. These observations offer the chance to understand the formation of an extreme peak in the primordial density field and the role of environment in the early evolution of massive galaxies.

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.

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 their research using the JWST data.

The project will be about the exoplanetary system TRAPPIST-1 made up of seven Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting a nearby red dwarf star. This system is special because all seven of its planets transit the star: they periodically pass in front of the star as seen from the Earth, thus hiding a part of the stellar light. Moreover, some of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are in the habitable zone of the system. TRAPPIST-1 is thus an interesting system to study to search for traces of life outside the solar system. With these observations, we will determine whether those planets have an atmosphere or not. This will also help the scientific community plan for future observations of TRAPPIST-1 with JWST.

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 targets the most luminous, massive dust-obscured galaxy presently known. JWST data will be used to detect and characterize the stellar content in this extremely dust obscured galaxy. The spectral diagnostics covered by this project will provide a much needed link with the existing ALMA nebular emission line observations.

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 investigate how polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other molecules form, evolve and survive in clumpy, irradiated environments by observing the Ring Nebula with JWST instruments MIRI, NIRSpec and NIRCam to measure and analyze the emission of atomic, molecular and particulate components.

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.

This project will observe the full suite of transiting planet characterization geometries (transits, eclipses, and phase curves), and target planets with host stars that span an illustrative range of brightnesses. These observations, taken with the time-series modes of all four JWST instruments, will provide a compelling set of representative datasets and enable immediate scientific breakthroughs.

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.

This project will demonstrate the capability of JWST to observe quasar host galaxies in the early Universe, and provide valuable insight into the growth of black holes and galaxies in the early Universe, and of the relationships between black holes and their host galaxies.

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 their research using the JWST data.

Globular star clusters are the oldest assemblages of stars in our Galaxy. Their roughly coeval populations, sharing the same composition and distance from Earth, are ideal laboratories to test out theories of stellar evolution. With JWST they will observe the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, one of the richest and most extensively observed such clusters in our Galaxy, for the first time the cooling brown dwarf sequence and to hunt for ancient planetary systems around white dwarfs.

There is little attention on the potential impact of spaceflight associated low gravity (microgravity) on joint health. Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease, and it primarily affects the mechanical loading bearing structures of the joint. Its negative effect on patients' quality of life is enormous. Over 10% of the Canadian population suffer from osteoarthritis, and the most common joint affected is the knee. Knee osteoarthritis is prevalent in females. The reason for the high incidence of knee osteoarthritis in females is not fully understood.

This project will explore the use of simulated microgravity to understand the basis of the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis in females. The findings of this project have the potential to discover novel drug targets for treating knee osteoarthritis to alleviate the burden of the disease in Canada and globally. Additionally, the project can potentially advance the use of simulated microgravity to study other joint disorders.