Large Programmes scheduled in Period 89
This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period.
Shanks, Baugh, Bridle, Boyle, Busarello, Capaccioli, Colless, Croom, Cruz da Angela, Drinkwater, Edge, Emerson, Evans, Frenk, Hambly, Hodgkin, Irwin, Lahav, Loaring, Maddox, McMahon, Metcalfe, Morris, Nichol, Peacock, Pimbblet: 'The VST ATLAS' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
D |
OMEGACAM | 371.0 h |
Kuijken, Bender, Boehringer, Capaccioli, Erben, Hopp, Mellier, Neeser, Peacock, Radovich, Saglia, Schneider, Schuecker, Seitz, Silvotti, Sutherland, Taylor, Valentijn, Warren: 'KIDS: A 1500-square degree cosmological survey with VST/OmegaCAM: u'and r' filters' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
D |
OMEGACAM | 465.0 h |
Drew, Walton, Irwin, Greimel, Eisloeffel, Knigge, Walsh, Acker, Augusteijn, Barlow, Cioni, Gaensicke, Groot, Heber, Magrini, Mampaso, Mardones, Napiwotzki, Naylor, Nelemans, Parker, Phillipps, Prusti, Steeghs, Woudt, Zijlstra: 'The VST photometric Ha and broad-band survey of the\ Southern Galactic Plane (VPHAS+)' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
C |
OMEGACAM | 145.0 h |
Minniti, Lucas, Emerson, Collaboration: 'VISTA VARIABLES IN THE VIA LACTEA (VVV)' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
D |
VIRCAM | 275.0 h |
Cioni, Bekki, Clementini, de Blok, Evans, de Grijs, Gibson, Girardi, Groenewegen, Ivanov, Leisy, Marconi, Mastropietro, Moore, Naylor, Oliveira, Ripepi, van Loon, Wilkinson, Wood: 'The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic System (LMC, SMC, Bridge \& Stream) - VMC' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
G |
VIRCAM | 80.0 h |
Sutherland, Kuijken, Bender, Boehringer, Bremer, Capaccioli, Clewley, Dalton, Driver, Edge, Emerson, Erben, Hopp, Jarvis, Liske, McMahon, Mellier, Neeser, Peacock, Pearson, Phillipps, Radovich, Romer, Saglia, Schneider, Schuecker, Seitz, Silvotti, Taylor, Valentijn, Venemans: 'The VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy survey (VIKING).' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
F |
VIRCAM | 145.0 h |
Dunlop, Afonso, Almaini, Arnouts, Bell, Bergeron, Best, Bolzonella, Bremer, Brusa, Bunker, Cirasuolo, Cimatti, Conselice, Contini, Coppin, Cuby, Dalton, Doherty, van Dokkum, Eales, Emerson, Foucaud, Freudling, Guzzo, Hambly, Hasinger, Hjorth, Ilbert, Irwin, Ivison, Jarvis, Koekemoer, Kneib, Kurk, Labbe, Lacey, Lawrence, Leibundgut, Lilly, Maddox, Mainieri, McCraken, McLure, Mellier, Moller, Nilsson, Olsen, Omont, Orsi, Pedersen, Peacock, Page, Rawlings, Renzini, Rix, Rosati, Roettgering, Schinnerer, Scodeggio, Serjeant, Shanks, Simpson, Smail, Somerville, Sutherland, Taniguchi, Tasca, Tresse, Valentijn, Walton, Williams, van der Werf, Zamorani: 'Ultra-VISTA: an Ultra Deep Survey with VISTA' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
F |
VIRCAM | 38.0 h |
Jarvis, Almaini, Bell, Bremer, Brinchmann, Caputi, Cimatti, Cirasuolo, Clewley, Simpson, Collins, Cotter, Oliver, Dalton, Dunlop, Edge, Emerson, Gonzalez-Solares, McLure, Meisenheimer, Rawlings, Smail, Sutherland, Franx, Le Fevre, Hodgkin, Ivison, Foerster-Schreiber, Jones, Kay, Kneib, Lehnert, Loveday, Lutz, Mann, Nichol, McHardy, McMahon, Moles, Croom, Peacock, Percival, Readhead, Rix, Romer, Rosati, Roettgering, Serjeant, Sharp, Clowes, Baugh, Venemans, Verma, Villar-Martin, Waddington, Walter, Walton, Wolf: 'VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) Survey' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
F |
VIRCAM | 130.0 h |
McMahon, Lawrence, Castander, Abdalla, Alexander, Alfonso, Bailer-Jones, Balcells, Barcons, Barrado y Navascues, Belikov, Bell, Benitez, Bouvier, Bremer, Bridle, Cairos, Carrera, Caux, Cioni, Collister, Crittenden, Dalton, Davies, Doel, Doherty, Driver, Edge, Edmundson, Emerson, Espinosa, Ferguson, Fernandez, Fosalba, Garcia, Garcia-Bellido, Garzon, Gaztanaga, Goldman, Gilmore, Gonzales, Hambly, Hererro, Hewett, Hodgkin, Ibata, Infante, Irwin, James, Jameson, Jarvis, Jones, Jones, Kendall, Kroupa, Kumar, Lagache, Lahav, Lalli, Liddle, Lodieu, Loveday, Lucas, Maartens, Manchado, Mann, Martin, Martin, Martinez, Maza, Miquel, Miralda-Escude, Moles, Molla, Monin, Moraux, Munoz-Tunon, Naylor, Nichol, O'Brien, Oliver, Omont, Page, Palla, Peacock, Percival, Perez-Fournon, Peroux, Petitjean, Phillips, Pinfield, Puget, Randich, Rawlings, Rebelo, Riello, Rix, Romer, Roettgering, Rowan-Robinson, Sanchez, Savage, Scholz, Serjeant, Shanks, Somerville, Smith, Sutherland, Swope, Tanvir, Testi, Venemans, Viana, Walter, Walton, Warren, Watson, Webb, Weller, Wolf, Zinnecker, Zucker: 'The VISTA Hemisphere Survey(VHS)' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
F |
VIRCAM | 311.0 h |
Bonfils, Delfosse, Forveille, Gillon, Mayor, Perrier, Santos, Udry: 'Planets Around M Dwarfs: The Shortcut to Happiness' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
M |
HARPS | 2.0 n |
M |
HARPS | 9.0 n |
N |
HARPS | 3.0 n |
N |
HARPS | 7.0 n |
Bazot, Arentoft, Asplund, Bedding, Carfantan, Castro, Chaplin, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Dias do Nascimento, Dintrans, Elsworth, Ireland, Kjeldsen, Meléndez, Metcalfe, Monteiro, Santos, Sousa, Petit, Théado, Vauclair: 'Multi-disciplinary survey of the solar-twin 18 \emph{Sco}: a multi-site asteroseismic campaign.' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
B |
HARPS | 12.0 n |
Udry, Lovis, Mayor, Pepe, Queloz, Benz, Bouchy, Lo Curto, Santos, Ségransan: 'A census of the super-Earth and Neptune-mass planet population around solar-type stars' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
G |
HARPS | 7.0 n |
Udry, Lovis, Mayor, Pepe, Queloz, Benz, Bouchy, Lo Curto, Santos, Ségransan: 'Duplicate: A census of the super-Earth and Neptune-mass planet population around solar-type stars' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
G |
HARPS | 2.0 n |
G |
HARPS | 5.0 n |
H |
HARPS | 7.0 n |
I |
HARPS | 7.0 n |
J |
HARPS | 7.0 n |
Benetti, Turatto, Cappellaro, Patat, Fransson, Taubenberger, Sollerman, Agnoletto, Pastorello, Valenti, Schmidt, Pain, Danziger, Zampieri, Mazzali, Della Valle, Elias-Rosa, Mattila, Leibundgut, Sullivan, Pumo, Navasardyan, Miluzio, Bufano, Saurer, Harutyunyan, Inserra: 'Supernova Variety and Nucleosynthesis Yields' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
K |
EFOSC2 | 2.0 n |
L |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
M |
EFOSC2 | 2.0 n |
N |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
O |
EFOSC2 | 2.0 n |
P |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
Hainaut, Boehnhardt, Protopapa, Buie, Hsieh, Kleyna, Licandro, Lowry, Meech, Mueller, Snodgrass, Tozzi, Carraro: 'Main Belt Comets - a new class of minor bodies' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
F |
EFOSC2 | 4.0 n |
Poretti, Baglin, Catala, Michel, Rainer, Uytterhoeven, Aerts, Amado, Briquet, Carrier, Creevey, De Cat, Desmet, Floquet, Frémat, Garrido, Gutierrez-Soto, Hareter, Huat, Hubert, Mantegazza, Martin-Ruiz, Mathias, Moya, Neiner, Papics, Semaan, Suarez, Zima: 'Extending the ground-based observations of CoRoT asteroseismic targets' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
E |
HARPS | 10.0 n |
K |
HARPS | 5.0 n |
Lowry, Duddy, Fitzsimmons, Green, Hicks, Laird, Rozitis, Snodgrass, Weissman, Wolters: 'Direct Detections of the Asteroidal YORP Effect' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
M |
EFOSC2 | 3.0 n |
N |
EFOSC2 | 3.0 n |
O |
EFOSC2 | 3.0 n |
Smart, Tinney, Andrei, Burningham, Jones, Leggett, Pinfield, Bucciarelli, Costa, Crosta, Day-Jones, Goldman, Lattanzi, Lucas, Mendez, Marocco, Penna, Qi, Vecchiato, Yu: 'NPARSEC: NTT PARallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
M |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
M |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
N |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
N |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
O |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
O |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
P |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
P |
SOFI | 2.0 n |
Rosati, Balestra, Bartelmann, Benitez, Biviano, Borgani, Broadhurst, Czoske, Demarco, Ettori, Girardi, Grillo, Halkola, Lombardi, Nonino, Regoes, Seitz, Tozzi, Boehnert, Coe, Lemze, Medezinski, Ford, Postman, Strazzullo, Umetzu, Zheng, Zitrin: 'Dark Matter Mass Distributions of Hubble Treasury Clusters and the Foundations of LCDM Structure Formation Models' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
F |
VIMOS | 58.6 h |
Fontana, Dunlop, McLure, Faber, Ferguson, Dickinson, Almaini, Caputi, Castellano, Chary, Cirasuolo, Cooray, Conselice, Daddi, Fazio, Giavalisco, Giallongo, Grazian, Grogin, Hathi, Koekemoer, Koo, Lucas, Nonino, Pentericci, Rix, Rosario, Santini, Scarlata, Stark, Targett, van der Wel, Vanzella, Wild, Wuyts, Yan, Zibetti: 'A complete view of the first 2 billion years of galaxy formation' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
G |
HAWKI | 17.0 h |
H |
HAWKI | 28.0 h |
Boone, Schaerer, Smail, Lutz, Weiss, Menten, Nordon, Pello, Combes, Egami, Kneib, Beelen, Blain, Dessauges, Ivison, Omont, Perez-Gonzalez, Richard, Altieri, Knudsen: 'The LABOCA Lensing Survey' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
C |
LABOCA | 30.0 h |
Hennawi, Walter, Jahnke, Rix, Meisenheimer, Wisotzki, Maiolino, DeCarli, Rubin, Crighton, Inskip, Yang, Tsalmantza, Maier, DeRosa, DallÁglio, Prochaska, Ellison, Worseck, Richards, Hall, Boroson: 'A SOFI Legacy Survey of Bright Quasars in the UVES Archive: Towards \sim 100 near-IR Spectra' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
C |
EFOSC2 | 2.5 n |
E |
SOFI | 2.5 n |
Zoccali, Gonzalez, Hill, Valenti, Babusiaux, Rejkuba, Vasquez, Minniti, McWilliam, Alves Brito, Renzini, Brown: 'Solving the puzzle of the Milky Way bulge' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
B |
FLAMES | 65.0 h |
Alecian, Neiner, Wade, Grunhut, Aurière, Bagnulo, de Batz, Böhm, Bouret, Braithwaite, Catala, Folsom, Fourtune-Ravard, Henrichs, Kochukhov, Landstreet, Lignières, Marcolino, Martins, Mathis, Montmerle, Oksala, Owocki, Petit, Silvester: 'Magnetism in Massive Stars: the MiMeS project' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
C |
HARPS | 7.0 n |
Melendez, Asplund, Bean, Baumann, Alves-Brito, Dreizler, Monroe, Ramírez, Casagrande, Lind: 'Planets around solar twins: tracing planet formation using highly accurate abundance determinations' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
C |
HARPS | 7.0 n |
D |
HARPS | 4.0 n |
King, Patience, Vigan, Baraffe: 'Testing models of the L-to-T transition through variability of field brown dwarfs' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
B |
SOFI | 7.0 n |
Bouchy, Alonso, Bonomo, Deleuil, Diaz, Fridlund, Guenther, Guillot, Hatzes, Hébrard, Queloz, Lovis, Moutou, Santerne: 'Characterization of \textit{CoRoT} transiting exoplanets' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
C |
HARPS | 3.0 n |
C |
HARPS | 4.0 n |
D |
HARPS | 6.0 n |
Gilmore, RANDICH, Asplund, Binney, Bonifacio, Drew, Feltzing, Ferguson, Jeffries, Micela, Negueruela, Prusti, Rix, Vallenari, Aden, Affer, Alcala, Alfaro, Allende Prieto, Altavilla, Alves, Antoja, Arenou, Argiroffi, Asensio Ramos, Babusiaux, Bailer-Jones, Balaguer-Nunez, Barbuy, Barisevicius, Barrado y Navascues, Battistini, Bellas-Velidis, Bellazzini, Belokurov, Bensby, Bergemann, Bertelli, Biazzo, Bienayme, Bland-Hawthorn, Blomme, Boeche, Bonito, Boudreault, Bouvier, Bragaglia, Brandao, Brown, de Brujine, Burleigh, Caballero, Caffau, Calura, Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Caramazza, Carraro, Casagrande, Casewell, Chapman, Chiappini, Chorniy, Christlieb, Cignoni, Cocozza, Colless, Collet, Collins, Correnti, Covino, Crnojevic, Cropper, Cunha, Damiani, David, Delgado, Duffau, Van Eck, Edvardsson, Enke, Eriksson, Evans, Eyer, Famaey, Fellhauer, Ferreras, Figueras, Fiorentino, Flaccomio, Flynn, Folha, Franciosini, Francois, Frasca, Freeman, Fremat, Friel, Gaensicke, Gameiro, Garzon, Geier, Geisler, Gibson, Gieles, Gomboc, Gomez, Gonzalez-Fernandez, Gonzalez Hernandez, Grebel, Greimel, Groenewegen, Grundahl, Guarcello, Gustafsson, Hadrava, Hadzidimitriou, Hambly, Hammersley, Hansen, Haywood, Heber, Heiter, Held, Helmi, Hensler, Herrero, Hill, Hodgkin, Huelamo, Huxor, Ibata, Irwin, Jackson, de Jong, Jonker, Jordan, Jordi, Jorissen, Katz, Kawata, Keller, Kharchenko, Klement, Klutsch, Knude, Koch, Kochukhov, Kontizas, Koposov, Korn, Koubsky, Lanzafame, Lallement, de Laverny, van Leeuwen, Lemasle, Lewis, Lind, Lindstrom, Lopez Santiago, Lucas, Ludwig, Lueftinger, Maiz Apellaniz, Magrini, Maldonado, Marconi, Matijevic, McMahon, Meyer, Messina, Miglio, Mikolaitis, Minchev, Minniti, Moitinho, Molawi, Momany, Monaco, Monier, Montalto, Monteiro, Montes, Mora, Moraux, Morel, Morino, Mowlavi, Mucciarelli, Munari, Napiwotzki, Nardetto, Naylor, Nelemans, Okamoto, Ortolani, Pace, Palla, Palous, Pancino, Parker, Pasquini, Paunzen, Penarrubia, Pillitteri, Piotto, Posbic, Prisinzano, Puzeras, Quirrenbach, Ragaini, Read, Recio-Blanco, Reyle, Robichon, Robin, Roeser, Romano, Royer, Ruchti, Ruzicka, Ryan, Ryde, Sacco, Santos, Sanz Forcada, Sarro Baro, Sbordone, Schilbach, Schmeja, Schnurr, Schoenrich, Scholz, Seabroke, Sharma, De Silva, Smiljanic, Smith, Solano, Sordo, Soubiran, Sousa, Spagna, Steffen, Steinmetz, Stelzer, Stempels, Tabernero, Tautvaisiene, Thevenin, Torra, Tosi, Tolstoy, Turon, Walker, Walton, Wambsganss, Worley, Venn, Vink, Wyse, Zaggia, Zeilinger, Zoccali, Zorec, Zucker, Zwitter: 'The Gaia-ESO Survey' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
D |
FLAMES | 5.0 n |
E |
FLAMES | 5.0 n |
F |
FLAMES | 5.0 n |
G |
FLAMES | 5.0 n |
H |
FLAMES | 5.0 n |
I |
FLAMES | 5.0 n |
Smartt, Benetti, Cappellaro, Zampieri, Botticella, Sullivan, Hook, Maguire, Turatto, Bufano, Inserra, Hillebrandt, Taubenberger, Mazzali, Kotak, Pastorello, Valenti, Fraser, McCrum, Smith, Mattila, Sollerman, Fransson, Ergon, Jerkstrand, Kankare, Lundqvist, Goobar, Stritzinger, Amanullah, Nordin, Patat, Pain, Regnault, Le Guillou, Dennefeld, Marquette, Elias-Rosa, Isern, Stanishev, Kowalski, Langer, Eldridge, Gal-Yam, Schmidt, Scalzo, Sim, Yuan, Baltay, Danziger, Greggio, Pumo, Limongi, Maund, Rest, Huber, Stubbs, Della Valle, Dall'Ora, Blondin, Hamuy, Pignata, Ostman, Harutyunyan, Clocchiatti: 'A public spectroscopic survey of the Transient Universe' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
A |
EFOSC2 | 1.5 n |
B |
SOFI | 1.5 n |
C |
EFOSC2 | 1.5 n |
D |
SOFI | 1.5 n |
E |
EFOSC2 | 1.5 n |
F |
SOFI | 1.5 n |
G |
EFOSC2 | 1.5 n |
H |
SOFI | 1.5 n |
I |
EFOSC2 | 1.5 n |
J |
SOFI | 1.5 n |
K |
EFOSC2 | 1.5 n |
L |
SOFI | 1.5 n |
Caffau, Bonifacio, Fran\c cois, Spite, Spite, Ludwig, Steffen, Christlieb, Koch, Cayrel, Sbordone, Monaco, Zaggia, Plez, Klessen, Glover, Clark: 'Search for the “critical metallicity” for low mass star formation' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
A |
XSHOOTER | 40.0 h |
Pontoppidan, Pascucci, Banzatti, Flaccomio, Salyk, Carmona, Blake, Meeus, Sterzik, Kaufl, Meyer, Sacco, Alexander, Kamp, Dullemond: 'Protoplanetary disks as chemical factories: A spectroscopic survey of the thermo-chemical evolution of planet-forming regions' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
A |
VISIR | 2.0 n |
A |
VISIR | 2.0 n |
Lopez, Becker, Christensen, Cristiani, Cupani, Dessauges-Zavadsky, D'Odorico, Ellison, Haehnelt, Hamann, Hennawi, Menard, Paris, Prochaska, Raghunathan, Viel, Wisotzki, Worseck: 'Quasars and their absorption lines: a legacy survey of the high redshift universe with X-shooter' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
A |
XSHOOTER | 50.0 h |
Sana, Le Bouquin, Kratter, de Koter, Lacour, Absil, Berger, Lazareff, Millan-Gabet, Schnurr, Zinnecker: 'A VLTI/PIONIER multiplicity survey of O-type stars' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
A |
PIONIER | 5.0 n |
B |
PIONIER | 5.0 n |
E |
NACO | 3.0 n |
Trager, Peletier, Lan\c con, Prugniel, Vazdekis, Chen, Gonneau, Meneses-Goytia, Koleva, Cenarro, Falcón-Barroso, Mármol-Queraltó, Sánchez-Blázquez, Silva, Walcher: 'XSL: The X-Shooter Spectral Library' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Time Allocated |
A |
XSHOOTER | 28.0 h |