Large Programmes scheduled in Period 66

This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period.
The ESO policy regarding Large Programmes is available from a separate document.


164.O-0089

Arnaboldi, De Martino, Garilli, Guzzo, Le Fevre, Maccagni, Mazure, Picat, Scaramella, Vettolani, Zamorani

'A deep + shallow U imaging survey: preparation to the VIRMOS Deep redshift Survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
2.2m / WFI8.8n

 

164.L-0310

Forveille, Delfosse, Mayor, Udry, Perrier, Beuzit:

'Companions to nearby M dwarfs: Planets, Brown Dwarfs and Stars'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
1.5m / FEROS9n

 

164.O-0560

Cimatti, Broadhurst, Cristiani, D'Odorico, S., Daddi, Di Paola, Fontana, Gilmozzi, Menci, Pozzetti, Renzini, Saracco, Zamorani:

'A Stringent Test on the Formation of Early Type and Massive Galaxies'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN / FORS24n
B
UT1-ANTU/ISAAC4n

 

164.O-0561

Krautter, Renzini, da Costa, Baade, Moorwood:

'Public Imaging Survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
2.2m / WFI15.9
B
NTT/SOFI8

 

164.I-0605

van Dishoeck, Thi, Schutte, Ehrenfreund, d'Hendecourt, Dartois, Habart, Demyk, Tielens, Keane:

'Origin and Evolution of Ices in Star-Forming Regions'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1-ANTU / ISAAC5

 

164.O-0612

Franx, Moorwood, Rix, Kuijken, van Dokkum, Roettgering, van der Werf:

'Formation and Evolution of Galaxies from Ultra-deep ISAAC Imaging:
a Public Survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A+B
UT1-ANTU / ISAAC75h

 

165.N-0115

Dejonghe, De Rijcke, Hau, Zeilinger:

'The internal dynamics of Fornax and NGC5044-group dwarf ellipticals (dEs)'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
2.2m / WFI1n
B
UT2-KUEYEN / FORS28n

 

165.S-0187

Hainaut, Boehnhardt, Delsanti, Meech, Sekiguchi, Veillet, Watanabe, West:

'Very distant TNOs: the "Missing Mass" of the Solar System'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A, B , C, D
2.2m / WFI9.9n

 

165.N-0276

Cayrel, Andersen, Nordstroem, Spite F., Spite M., Plez, Molaro, Bonifacio, Francois, Hill, Primas, Beers, Barbuy:

'Galaxy Formation, Early Nucleosynthesis, and the First Stars'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN / UVES9n

 

165.I-0402

Rubio, Boulanger, Lequeux, Contursi, Kutner, Gomez:

'Deep CO(2-1) observations of molecular regions in the Magellanic Clouds'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SEST / 1.3/3.0Rec84h

 

165.H-0464

van den Heuvel, Frontera, Hjorth, Castro-Tirado, Greiner, Vreeswijk, Rol, Pedersen, Pian, Gorosabel, Palazzi, Masetti, Kouveliotou, Wijers, Fruchter, Wiklind, Jaunsen, Courbin, Augusteijn, Boer, Atteia, Ricker, Piro, Heise, Hurley, Danziger (Large Programme with ToO status):

'The Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and the Nature of their Hosts'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1-ANTU/ FORS120h
B
UT2-KUEYEN/ FORS25h
C
UT1-ANTU/ ISAAC20h
D
UT2-KUEYEN/ UVES5h
E
NTT/ SOFI30h
G
1.5mD/ DFOSC0.6n
H
2.2m/ WFI6h
I
3.6m/ EFOSC218h

 

165.H-0588

Napiwotzki, Christlieb, Gorski, Heber, Koester, Leibundgut, Moehler, Nelemans, Reimers, Renzini, Yungelson:

'Are White Dwarf Binaries the Progenitors of Type IA Supernovae'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN / UVES100h

 

166.A-0106

Bergeron, Baade, Boisse, Cristiani, Ferrara, Fontana, Giallongo, Heahnelt, Kim, Ledoux, Lopez, Moeller, Petitjean, Rauch, Reimers, Shaver, Vladilo:

'The Cosmic Evolution of the Intergalatic Medium'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN / UVES105h

 

166.A-0162

White, Aragon-Salamanca, Bender, Best, Bremer, Charlot, Clowe, Dalcanton, Fort, Jablonka, Kauffmann, Mellier, Pello, Poggianti, Roettgering, Schneider, Zaritsky:

'The ESO distant cluster survey: Evolution in clusters since z~1'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN / FORS27n
B
NTT / SOFI10n

 

166.A-0701

Rosati, Borgani, Broadhurst, Lidman, Lombardi, Franx, Nonino, Treu, Carlberg, Stanford, Stiavelli:

'The Galaxy Population of the most distant Massive Clusters and their Internal Dynamics'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN / FORS23n
B
UT1-ANTU / ISAAC32h
C
UT2-KUEYEN / FORS212h