Primary Recipient

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION

Amount

$562,569.00

Award Date

6/05/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This project concerns a laboratory investigation of ion heating processes that are hypothesized to occur in the acceleration region of the fast solar wind. These experiments will continue our studies of modifications to the ion velocity distribution funct