Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$367,268.00

Award Date

7/07/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Dr. Casetti and her team will continue work on the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion (SPM) survey, which measures the tiny motions of stars across the sky over multiple decades, to test models for the Milky Way's formation. In the present project they