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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
NACO10.0 h

 

77.D-0082

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

 

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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS28.0 h
B
FORS28.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES9.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS126.0 h
B
FORS24.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
SOFI12.0 h
B
SUSI23.0
C
EMMI1.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
EMMI9.0 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
InstrumentMax. 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS218.0 h

 

77.D-0493

Nagar/ Mundell/ Monfardini:

'Probing The Environment of Gamma Rays Bursts in the Era of Rapid Followup'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES2.0 h
B
ISAAC2.0 h
C
ISAAC2.0 h
D
FORS12.0 h
E
FORS22.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS120.0 h
B
ISAAC2.0 h
C
FORS11.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES3.0 h
B
UVES5.0 h
C
ISAAC2.0 h
D
ISAAC4.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS11.0 h
B
FORS11.0 h
C
FORS12.0 h
D
FORS13.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES9.0 h
B
FORS26.0 h
C
FORS112.0 h
D
FORS22.0 h
E
ISAAC3.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC9.0 h
B
FORS22.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS18.0 h
B
FORS28.0 h
C
ISAAC6.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS215.0 h
B
UVES7.0 h
C
ISAAC21.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS1 (alt run G / FORS1)4.0 h
B
ISAAC2.0 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
SOFI6.0 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
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
EMMI3.0 h
B
ISAAC9.0 h