Cycle 3 GO Program for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveiled. Details here
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for the next two years. According to the STScl Cycle 3, a total of 253 General Observer Programs are selected, dedicating approximately 5,500 hours of James Webb Telescope’s prime time and up to 1,000 hours of parallel time to explore various celestial phenomena in the next two years.
The selected proposals were prepared by more than 2,097 unique investigators from 41 countries, including 39 US states plus DC, 18 ESA member states, and 6 Canadian provinces. Twelve per cent of the proposals are led by student Principal Investigators, the STScl website said.
The STScl Cycle 3's selected proposals will explore a broad spectrum of subjects, including exoplanets and exoplanet formation, galaxies, intergalactic medium and the circumgalactic medium, large-scale structure of the universe, solar system, stellar physics and stellar type, stellar populations and the interstellar medium, supermassive black holes and active galaxies. These studies aim to deepen our understanding of the universe's accelerating expansion and the enigmatic dark energy fueling this growth.
Among the notable projects, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will investigate detailed characterization of a temperate water world on exoplanets. This observation will also determine whether the planet has a liquid-water ocean if it is a temperate water world.
This highly efficient and yet detailed characterization of the temperate sub-Neptune will constrain the suggested population of water worlds around M dwarfs and have the potential to expand the search space of habitable worlds from Earth-sized planets to larger planets. In another project, Columbia University's Assistant Professor David Kipping and his team will investigate
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