Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE

Amount

$331,801.00

Award Date

8/14/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Dr Wilson will study ten clusters of galaxies at redshift 0.87 < z < 1.34, which are seen as they were when the cosmos had expanded to only about half its present size. The clusters are chosen from a survey that combined 3.6-micron images from a 50-square