Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 74

This list of OPC approved Target of Opportunity Proposals (ToOs) is updated every observing period. The ESO ToO Policy is available from a separate document. Please note that when activating the observations, the ToO requests have to be fully documented, indicating the trigger of the requested observations. Observing time is only granted up to the indicated maximum of allocated time.

74.C-0014

Marchis, Prange, Le Mignant, Rathbun, Els, de Pater, Fusco, Tokunaga, Davis:

'Prompt exploration of Io's volcanic outburst with VLT/NACO'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
NACO10.0 h

 

74.C-0712

Boattini, West, Hainaut, Boehnhardt, Scholl, Morbidelli, D'Abramo, Hahn, Michelsen, Carpino, Forti, Pravec, Lagerkvist, Carusi, Valsecchi:

'Astrometric follow-up of newly discovered NEOs at small solar elongations with the Wide Field Imager'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
EMMI10.0 h

 

74.D-0154

Bandyopadhyay, Miller, Blundell, Rupen, Miller-Jones:

'First IR images of an x-ray binary jet'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
NACO4.0 h
B
NACO4.0 h
C
NACO4.0 h

 

74.D-0314

Fiore, Angelini, Antonelli, Burrows, Chincarini, Covino, Della Valle, Gehrels, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Mirabel, Nousek, Perna, Stella, Tagliaferri, Vietri, Zerbi, Meurs, Ward, Burderi, D'Elia, Di Paola, Israel, Melandri, Sbordone, Stratta, Testa, Campana, Fugazza, Moretti, Vergtani, Caraveo, Mereghetti, Cimatti, Costa, Piro, Cusumano, Giommi, Ward, Goldoni, Malesani, O'Brien, Puchnarewicz:

'A flash in the dark: probing high-z galaxies and GRB physics through VLT/RRM observations of GRBs afterglows'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES3.0 h
B
ISAAC7.5 h
C
FORS13.0 h

 

74.D-0324

Gorosabel, Fynbo, Hjorth, Castro Tirado, Watson, Klose, Wijers, Greiner, Pian, Tanvir, van den Heuvel:

'Testing the GRB-XRF-SN unification model: how different are x-ray flashes from GRB?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
EMMI4.5 h
B
EFOSC24.5 h

 

74.D-0418

Tagliaferri, Angelini, Antonelli, Burrows, Chincarini, Covino, Della Valle, Fiore, Gehrels, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Malesani, Mirabel, Nousek, O'Brien, Stella, Ward, Zerbi, Burderi, Campana, Caraveo, Cimatti, Costa, Cusumano, Fugazza, Ghirlanda, Giommi, Goldoni, Israel, Kalogerakos, Merghetti, Molinari, Moreti, Osborne, Perna, Piro, Puchnarewicz, Simoncelli, Vergani, Vietri:

'Optical/NIR follow-up of GRB in the Swift era: using BRBs as laboratories for cosmology and high energy astrophysics'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A=F
FORS25.5 h
B
ISAAC9.0 h
C
SOFI4.0 h
D
FORS11.0 h
E
UVES2.0 h

 

74.D-0426

Wijers, Klose, Greiner, Hjorth, van den Heuvel, Castro Tirado, Mason, Pian, Rol, Tanvir, Ward, Thoads, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Starling, Kouveliotou, O'Brien, Palazzi, Vreeswijk, Boer:

'Early linear and circular polarisation study of bright GRB blast waves'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A=C
FORS19.0 h
B
ISAAC1.0 h

 

74.D-0507

Vreeswijk, Ellison, Jaunsen, Ledoux, Smette, Fynbo, Møller, Kaufer, Andersen, Hjorth, Wijers:

'UVES survey of GRB afterglows: probing the physical conditions inside the host galaxies and foreground absorvers up to z=7'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES9.0 h

 

74.D-0589

Hjorth, Kouveliotou, Ramirez-Ruiz, Fynbo, Watson, Jakobsson, Gorosabel, Wijers, Starling, Wierseman, Tanvir, Levan, O'Brien, Ward, Castro Tirado, Castro Ceron, Klose, Vreeswijk:

'The origin of short-duration GRB'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS11.0 h
B
FORS21.0 h
C
FORS16.0 h
D
FORS26.0 h
E
ISAAC2.0 h

 

74.D-0625

Watson, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Pedersen, Reeves, O'Brien, Osborne, Levan, Starling, Wijers, Kouveliotou:

'Testing the redshift prediction in soft x-ray line emitting BRB afterglows'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS13.0 h

 

74.D-0732

Vreeswijk, Andersen, Bersier, Castro Tirado, Dhillon, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Greiner, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Kouveliotou, Levan, Masetti, P. O'Brien, K. O'Brien, Palazzi, Pian, Tanvir, Marsh, Wijers:

'High time-resolution multi-color optical imaging of early GRB afterglows with ULTRACAM'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
Special8.0 h