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 their research using the JWST data.

The project will monitor K2-141b for three complete orbits of the planet with the MIRI LRS on the James Webb Space Telescope for just under 21 hours of time.

These and the fact that those white dwarfs also harbor an accretion disk, means that planets do survive the red giant phase at the end of a star life. This project aims at finding such planets by direct imaging.

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.

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.

Hot Jupiters present an unprecedented opportunity to answer long-standing question regarding the formation processes of giant planets by measuring the carbon-to-oxygen ratio of their atmospheres. WASP-127b currently harbours both the strongest known water and carbon absorption features of any exoplanet to date as measured from HST and Spitzer. Unfortunately, those observations cannot distinguish between a CO2-rich low C/O case, or a CO-rich high C/O case. Both of these scenarios would have drastically different implications not only regarding WASP-127b's atmospheric chemistry, but also in terms of what mechanisms are at play during giant planet formation. We propose to observe a single transit of the ultra-puffy hot Jupiter WASP-127b using NIRSpec BOTS to determine what is the dominant carbon species of its atmosphere. Distinguishing between these scenarios will provide invaluable information regarding the formation process not only of the intriguing population of hot Jupiters, but also giant planets in general.

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 black hole (BH) mass function in the local universe—a fundamental measure of the origin and growth of BHs over Cosmic time—remains poorly constrained at intermediate masses.

Using the unprecedented spectroscopic and imaging capabilities of JWST this project is a first attempt to measure the age of stellar populations, the star formation rates, and the shapes of the earliest formed 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 their research using the JWST data.

This project will utilize the JWST to perform a multi-epoch, ultra-deep survey for small Kuiper Belt Objects.

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 JWST, with its unrivalled sensitivity at 5 microns where brown dwarfs are least faint, will search for companions orbiting around the 20 coldest and presumably least massive brown dwarfs in an effort to determine at what rate these stars form with companions. That multiplicity rate can provide important clues to understand the star formation process as a whole, from massive to low-mass stars.

This project aims to encourage young leaders to become more knowledgeable about the transboundary nature of water scarcity and how the lack of coordinated water resource management threatens the livelihoods and national security interests of Israelis and Palestinians and the stability of the region as a whole. The project contributes to building trust and expertise to address the core issue of water management in a future peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. Project activities include: (1) focusing on national stakeholder events and site visits impact of water and climate crisis on local people and communities; (2) developing new models and analysis of a water-forward approach; (3) providing regional conferences and trainings for stakeholders; (4) providing training for educators and youth on water diplomacy; and (5) providing joint trainings for Israelis and Palestinians on water issues.