Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 77
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.
77.D-0077 | Smartt/ Mattila/ Maund/ Danziger/ Crockett/ Eldridge/ ElMhamdi: 'Imaging the progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NAOS-CONICA' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | NACO | 10.0 h |
77.D-0082 | Bandyopadhyay/ Miller/ Blundell/ Rupen/ Miller-Jones: 'First IR Images of an X-ray Binary Jet.' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | NACO | 4.0 h |
B | NACO | 4.0 h |
C | NACO | 4.0 h |
77.A-0110 | Lidman/ Aldering/ Amanullah/ Goobar/ Hook/ Pain/ Perlmutter 'Decelerating and dustfree: using Type Ia SNe in the ellipticals of high redshift galaxy clusters to constrain the dark energy equation of state and its evolution with time.' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS2 | 8.0 h |
B | FORS2 | 8.0 h |
77.D-0136 | Lundqvist/ Mattila/ Leibundgut/ Sollerman/ Baron/ Ehrenfreund/ Fransson/ Nomotol: 'Early evolution of a nearby Type Ia supernova: probing the nature of the progenitor system' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | UVES | 9.0 h |
77.D-0297 | Pian/ Mazzali/ Klose/ Cappellaro/ Patat/ Sollerman/ Hjorth/ Kawabata/ Matheson/ Filippenko/ Nomoto/ Masetti/ Greiner/ Wijers/ Kouveliotou/ Fruchter/ Castro-Tirado/ Tanvir/ Fynbo/ Moller/ O'Brien: 'Exploring the diversity and physics of Supernovae associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 26.0 h |
B | FORS2 | 4.0 h |
77.D-0298 | Chaty/ Dubus/ Haswell/ Mignani/ Mirabel/ Pellizza Gonzalez/ Rahoui: 'Target of Opportunity Infrared and Optical Observations of Galactic X-ray Transients during Outburst' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | SOFI | 12.0 h |
B | SUSI2 | 3.0 |
C | EMMI | 1.0 h |
77.D-0424 | de Ugarte Postigo/ Gorosabel/ Fynbo/ Castro-Tirado/ Hjorth/ Castro Ceron/ Watson/ Bersier/ Fruchter/ Greiner/ Klose/ Kouveliotou/ Pak/ Pian/ Starling/ Tanvir/ Vreeswijk/ Wijers/ van den Heuvel/ Rau/ Sollerman: 'Testing the GRB-XRF-SN unification model in the Swift era: how different are X-ray flashes from classical gamma-ray bursts?' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | EMMI | 9.0 h |
77.D-0425 | Della Valle/ Malesani/ Chincarini/ Mirabel/ Benetti/ Covino/ Hurley/ Stella/ Gilmozzi/ Antonelli/ Campana/ Fiore/ Filliatre/ Goldoni/ Melandri/ Mason/ Pellizza Gonzalez/ Stratta/ Tagliaferri/ Zerbi: 'A SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE SUPERNOVA POPULATION ASSOCIATED WITH GAMMA-RAY BURSTSs' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 (alt run C FORS2) | 8.0 h |
B | FORS1 (alt run D FORS2) | 19.0 |
77.D-0465 | Uemura/ Yamaoka/ Kawabata/ Ohsugi/ Yamashita/ Nagae/ Chiyonobu/ Kato/ Nogami/ Ishioka/ Imada/ Yoshida/ Kinugasa/ Kawai/ Sato/ Murakami: 'Simultaneous X-ray/Optical Observations of the Galactic Microquasar V4641 Sgr' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS2 | 18.0 h |
77.D-0493 | Nagar/ Mundell/ Monfardini: 'Probing The Environment of Gamma Rays Bursts in the Era of Rapid Followup' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | UVES | 2.0 h |
B | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
C | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
D | FORS1 | 2.0 h |
E | FORS2 | 2.0 h |
77.D-0546 | Wiersema/ Wijers/ Klose/ Greiner/ Hjorth/ van den Heuvel/ Castro-Tirado/ Pian/ Rol/ Tanvir/ Rhoads/ Fynbo/ Gorosabel/ Starling/ Curran/ Kouveliotou/ O'Brien/ Palazzi/ Vreeswijk/ Boer: 'Early linear and circular polarisation study of bright $gamma$-ray burst blast waves' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 20.0 h |
B | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
C | FORS1 | 1.0 h |
77.A-0589 | Fiore/ Angelini/ Antonelli/ Burrows/ Chincarini/ D'Elia/ Della Valle/ Gehrels/ Giannini/ Hurley/ Lazzati/ Mason/ Meurs/ Nousek/ Goldoni/ Perna/ Piranomonte/ Stella/ Tagliaferri/ Molinari/ see also end of box 9): 'A flash in the dark: probing high redshift galaxies through VLT/RRM/ToO observations of GRBs afterglows.' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | UVES | 3.0 h |
B | UVES | 5.0 h |
C | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
D | ISAAC | 4.0 h |
77.D-0607 | Covino/ Antonelli/ Burrows/ Campana/ Chincarini/ Della Valle/ di Serego Alighieri/ Fiore/ Gehrels/ Goldoni/ Israel/ Lazzati/ Malesani/ Mason/ Mereghetti/ Mirabel/ Osborne/ Rossi/ Stella/ Tagliaferri/ Vietri: 'Polarimetry of gamma-ray burst afterglows: a close look at the shock front' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 1.0 h |
B | FORS1 | 1.0 h |
C | FORS1 | 2.0 h |
D | FORS1 | 3.0 h |
77.D-0661 | Vreeswijk/ Fynbo/ Ellison/ Ledoux/ Jaunsen/ Smette/ Moller/ Kaufer/ Hjorth/ Wijers/ Castro-Tirado/ Fruchter/ Gorosabel/ Greiner/ Jakobsson/ Klose/ Kouveliotou/ Rau/ Rol/ Sollerman/ Tanvir: 'Spectroscopy of Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows in the Swift era' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | UVES | 9.0 h |
B | FORS2 | 6.0 h |
C | FORS1 | 12.0 h |
D | FORS2 | 2.0 h |
E | ISAAC | 3.0 h |
77.A- 0667 | Tanvir/ Wijers/ Hjorth/ Levan/ Kouveliotou/ Fruchter/ Fynbo/ Jakobsson/ Watson/ Castro Ceron/ Priddey/ Vreeswijk/ Starling/ Wiersema/ Curran/ O'Brien/ Rol/ Gorosabel/ Castro-Tirado/ Pian: 'Probing the high-redshift universe with GRBs' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | ISAAC | 9.0 h |
B | FORS2 | 2.0 h |
77.D-0691 | Levan/ Wijers/ Tanvir/ Hjorth/ Kouveliotou/ Ramirez-Ruiz/ Rhoads/ Fynbo/ Jakobsson/ Watson/ Castro Ceron/ Sollerman/ Vreeswijk/ Starling/ Wiersema/ O'Brien/ Rol/ Gorosabel/ Castro-Tirado/ Klose/ Pian: 'The origin and physics of short-duration gamma-ray bursts' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 8.0 h |
B | FORS2 | 8.0 h |
C | ISAAC | 6.0 h |
77.D-0748 | Greiner/ Rau/ Klose/ Savaglio/ Jehin/ Haiman/ Hartmann/ Szokoly/ Kupcu Yoldacs/ Salvato/ Primak/ Clemens/ Ferrero/ Kann: 'High-resolution spectroscopy of GROND-selected high-redshift GRBs: Probing the very early Universe' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS2 | 15.0 h |
B | UVES | 7.0 h |
C | ISAAC | 21.0 h |
77.D-0805 | Tagliaferri/ Antonelli/ Burrows/ Campana/ Chincarini/ Covino/ Della Valle/ Fiore/ Gehrels/ Giommi/ Hurley/ Lazzati/ Mason/ Malesani/ Mirabel/ Nousek/ Osborne/ Pellizza Gonzalez/ Stella/ also box 9: 'The physics of the Gamma-Ray Burst decay and its cosmological implications' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 (alt run G / FORS1) | 4.0 h |
B | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
C | FORS2 ( alt run H / FORS1) | 28.0 h |
D | ISAAC (alt run I / NACO) | 18.0 h |
E | SUSI2 ( alt run J / EMMI) | 12.0 h |
F | SOFI | 6.0 h |
77.D-0844 | Zampieri/ Baron/ Benetti/ Blanc/ Cappellaro/ Gal-Yam/ Mazzali/ Pastorello/ Turatto/ Bufano: 'Simultaneous optical and near infrared spectroscopy of the next supernova targeted by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | EMMI | 3.0 h |
B | ISAAC | 9.0 h |