Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$553,311.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is an unprecedented, large spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity, surface gravity), and hence distances, for up to one million (bright) stars in