MIfA faculty awarded General Observer (GO) time on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Several MIfA faculty members were awarded GO time on JWST for one or more of their research projects:

1. Dr. Bob Gehrz:

Title: Dust Formation in a Primitive Environment
Hours: 24.1
Co-I: R. D. Gehrz 

2. Dr. Pat Kelly:

Title: 2282 - "A Strongly Magnified Individual Star and Parsec-Scale Clusters Observed in the First Billion Years at z = 6"
Hours: 13.9
Co-I  

3. Dr. Claudia Scarlata:

Title: COSMOS-Webb: The Webb Cosmic Origins Survey
Hours: 208 
Co-I

Title: PASSAGE- Parallel Application of Slitless Spectoscopy to Analyze Galaxy Evolution
Hours: 591
Co-I together with Vihang Mehta and Sean Bruton

Title: Beasts in the Bubbles: Characterizing ultra-luminous Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
Hours: 13.6 
Co-I

4. Dr. Evan Skillman:

Title: Extremely Low-Mass Galaxy Leo P
Hours: 35.7
Co-I

Title: Securing the TRGB Distance Indicator: A Pre-Requisite for a JWST Measurement of H_0
Hours: 6.8
Co-I

Title: Dissecting the Prototypical Starbursts NGC 253 and M 82 and Their Cool Galactic Winds
Hours: 42.8
Co-I

Title: The Vanishing Act: PAHs and Heavy Element Abundance in M101
Hours: 7.0
Co-I

Title: Dust Formation in a Primitive Environment
Hours: 24.1
Co-I

5. Dr. Chick Woodward:

Title: The Coma Dust and Volatiles of C/2017 K2 (Pan-STARRS)
Hours: 12.4
PI

Title: Measuring the Insoluble Organic Matter (IOM) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Content of Comet 9P/Tempel 1
Hours: 5.5
Co-I

Title: Variability and Abundance of Hydration on M-Type Asteroid (16) Psyche: The search for water on the largest metallic
Hours: 8.7
Co-I

Title: Shocks and Expanding Ejecta in Supernova 1987A
Hours: 24.3
Co-I