Large Programmes scheduled in Period 90

This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period.

177.A-3011

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

OMEGACAM 24.0 h

 

177.A-3016

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

OMEGACAM 90.0 h

 

177.D-3023

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+)'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

OMEGACAM 64.0 h

 

179.B-2002

Minniti, Lucas, Emerson, Collaboration:

'VISTA VARIABLES IN THE VIA LACTEA (VVV)'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

VIRCAM 152.0 h

 

179.B-2003

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

H

VIRCAM 152.0 h

 

179.A-2005

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

H

VIRCAM 120.0 h

 

179.A-2006

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

VIRCAM 50.0 h

 

179.A-2010

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)'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

VIRCAM 311.0 h

 

183.C-0437

Bonfils, Delfosse, Forveille, Gillon, Mayor, Perrier, Santos, Udry:

'Planets Around M Dwarfs: The Shortcut to Happiness'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

O

HARPS 4.0 n

O

HARPS 6.0 n

P

HARPS 10.0 n

 

183.C-0972

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

H

HARPS 2.0 n

H

HARPS 2.0 n

H

HARPS 3.0 n

H

HARPS 4.0 n

H

HARPS 5.0 n

H

HARPS 5.0 n

H

HARPS 6.0 n

H

HARPS 7.0 n

H

HARPS 1.0 n

 

184.C-1143

Hainaut, Boehnhardt, Protopapa, Buie, Hsieh, Kleyna, Licandro, Lowry, Meech, Mueller, Snodgrass, Tozzi, Carraro:

'Main Belt Comets - a new class of minor bodies'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

EFOSC2 4.0 n

 

185.D-0056

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

F

HARPS 10.0 n

L

HARPS 5.0 n

 

185.A-0791

Le Fevre, Bardelli, Capak, Cassata, Cimatti, Contini, Cuby, Cucciati, de Ravel, de la Torre, Garilli, Giavalisco, Grazian, Ilbert, Kneib, Le Brun, Lilly, Maccagni, Mellier, Meneux, Mignoli, Paltani, Salvato, Schaerer, Scodeggio, Scoville, Taniguchi, Tasca, Tresse, Zamorani, Zucca:

'Probing the formation and evolution of galaxies from a spectroscopic survey of 12,000 galaxies with 2.5 <= z <= 6.7'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

S

VIMOS 120.0 h

 

185.C-1033

Lowry, Duddy, Fitzsimmons, Green, Hicks, Laird, Rozitis, Snodgrass, Weissman, Wolters:

'Direct Detections of the Asteroidal YORP Effect'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

P

EFOSC2 3.0 n

Q

EFOSC2 3.0 n

R

EFOSC2 3.0 n

 

186.C-0756

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

Q

SOFI 2.0 n

Q

SOFI 2.0 n

R

SOFI 2.0 n

R

SOFI 2.0 n

S

SOFI 2.0 n

S

SOFI 2.0 n

T

SOFI 2.0 n

T

SOFI 2.0 n

 

187.A-0437

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

LABOCA 30.0 h

 

187.A-0645

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

F

SOFI 2.5 n

G

EFOSC2 2.5 n

 

187.D-0917

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

HARPS 8.0 n

 

188.C-0265

Melendez, Asplund, Bean, Baumann, Alves-Brito, Dreizler, Monroe, Ramírez, Casagrande, Lind:

'Planets around solar twins: tracing planet formation using highly accurate abundance determinations'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

HARPS 7.0 n

F

HARPS 4.0 n

 

188.C-0779

Bouchy, Alonso, Bonomo, Deleuil, Diaz, Fridlund, Guenther, Guillot, Hatzes, Hébrard, Queloz, Lovis, Moutou, Santerne:

'Characterization of \textit{CoRoT} transiting exoplanets'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

HARPS 7.0 n

F

HARPS 2.0 n

F

HARPS 4.0 n

 

188.B-3002

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

J

FLAMES 5.0 n

K

FLAMES 5.0 n

L

FLAMES 5.0 n

M

FLAMES 2.0 n

M

FLAMES 3.0 n

N

FLAMES 2.0 n

N

FLAMES 3.0 n

O

FLAMES 5.0 n

 

188.D-3003

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

M

EFOSC2 3.0 n

M

EFOSC2 3.0 n

M

EFOSC2 4.0 n

N

SOFI 3.0 n

N

SOFI 3.0 n

N

SOFI 4.0 n

O

EFOSC2 3.0 n

O

EFOSC2 3.0 n

O

EFOSC2 4.0 n

P

SOFI 3.0 n

P

SOFI 3.0 n

P

SOFI 4.0 n

Q

EFOSC2 3.0 n

Q

EFOSC2 3.0 n

Q

EFOSC2 4.0 n

R

SOFI 3.0 n

R

SOFI 3.0 n

R

SOFI 4.0 n

 

189.D-0165

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

B

XSHOOTER 40.0 h

 

189.C-0313

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

B

VISIR 4.0 n

 

189.A-0424

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

B

XSHOOTER 50.0 h

 

189.C-0644

Sana, Le Bouquin, Kratter, de Koter, Lacour, Absil, Berger, Lazareff, Millan-Gabet, Schnurr, Zinnecker:

'A VLTI/PIONIER multiplicity survey of O-type stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

PIONIER 2.5 n

D

PIONIER 6.0 n

F

PIONIER 2.0 n

 

189.B-0925

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'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

B

XSHOOTER 26.0 h

 

190.C-0027

Santos, Melo, Sousa, Dumusque, Figueira, Gomes da Silva, Sozzetti, Mortier, Udry, Mayor, Queloz, Pepe, Lovis, Boisse, Benamati, Lo Curto:

'Completing a deep search for hot neptunes around a sample of moderately metal-poor stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

HARPS 2.0 n

A

HARPS 11.0 n

A

HARPS 1.0 n

 

190.D-0237

Gieren, Pietrzynski, Storm, Nardetto, Bono, Fouqué, Kudritzki, Bresolin, Graczyk, Pilecki, Gallenne, Udalski, Soszynski, Thompson:

'Measuring the effect of metallicity on Cepheid absolute magnitudes: Towards a high-precision determination of the Hubble constant based on classical Cepheids'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

HARPS 2.0 n

A

HARPS 3.0 n

A

HARPS 1.0 n

B

SOFI 3.0 n

B

SOFI 4.0 n

 

190.C-0357

Lowry, Deller, Duddy, Fitzsimmons, Green, Hicks, Rozitis, Snodgrass, Weissman, Wolters:

'Direct Detection of the Asteroidal YORP Effect: VISIR Phase 2'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

VISIR 0.9 n

B

VISIR 0.6 n

C

VISIR 0.5 n

 

190.A-0685

pentericci, Vanzella, Fontana, Castellano, Dunlop, Giavalisco, Grazian, Dickinson, Bradac, Maiolino, Giallongo, Cristiani, Caputi, Conselice, Dahlen, Dekel, Fazio, Finkelstein, Galametz, Grogin, Hathi, Koekemoer, McLure, Mobasher, Scarlata, Santini, Tilvi, Treu, Yan:

'Looking for the CANDELS that reionized the Universe'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FORS2 15.0 h

B

FORS2 25.0 h

 

190.C-0963

Berger, Lazareff, Monnier, Thi, Millan-Gabet, Benisty, Juhasz, Kluska, Kraus, Le Bouquin, Isella, Malbet, Dominik, Pinte, Baron, Menard, Thiebaut, Lachaume:

'Imaging the dusty horizon. The first VLTI protoplanetary disk survey with astronomical unit resolution.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

PIONIER 7.0 n

B

PIONIER 4.0 n

C

PIONIER 4.0 n