Primary Recipient

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Amount

$526,291.00

Award Date

2/23/2010

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The research project involves a comprehensive study of galactic foreground emission for removal from sensitive maps of the Cosmic Microwave background (CMB), necessary to produce useful images of the CMB. Polarized and unpolarized galactic emission from 1