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.

This JWST spectroscopic study addresses fundamental questions in our understanding of the refractory organics in cometary material and the formation of the solar system. It affords the first opportunity to sample the complete infrared spectrum of cometary refractory organics, and represents a chance to test the limits of the JWST discovery space that complements cometary missions' in situ and sample analyses, thereby improving our understanding of the origins and evolution of the solar system.

Following the AstroSat Funding Offer 2021 sent to eligible researchers on October 18th 2021, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct research with AstroSat data. This project will use the UVIT instrument to study galaxies in the Virgo Cluster to better understand star formation within cluster galaxies' environments.

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 obtain the first spatially resolved, high spectral resolution IR observations of the Orion Bar using NIRCam, NIRSpec, and MIRI. It will probe the response of gas and dust, including large carbonaceous molecules, to the penetrating stellar photons on a physical scale relevant to the physical and chemical processes.

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.