Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Amount

$378,368.00

Award Date

9/05/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

We plan high spatial resolution mid-IR (MIR, 7 ? 26?m) imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies, exploiting the sub-arcsecond resolution 8-10m telescopes afford. The fueling of black holes occu