Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE

Amount

$270,606.00

Award Date

8/11/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Dr. Gnedin will study how the intergalactic gas becomes ionized by hot stars in newly-formed galaxies, and by their active nuclei. He and his team will use very large simulations to calculate the expected absorption-line spectra from neutral hydrogen gas