Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 78

This list of OPC approved Target of Opportunity Proposals (ToOs) is updated every observing period. The ESO ToO Policyis 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.

078.D-0041

Wiersema, Wijers, Klose, Greiner, Hjorth, Castro-Tirado, Pian, Rol, Tanvir, Levan, Rhoads, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Starling, Curran, Kouveliotou, O'Brien, Palazzi, Vreeswijk, Ramirez-Ruiz, van den Heuvel:

'Early linear and circular polarisation study of bright g-ray burst blast waves'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS120.5 h
B
ISAAC2.0 h
C
FORS11.0 h

 

078.A-0060

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

 

078.D-0190

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

 

078.A-0218

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 GRB afterglows.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES3.0 h
B
UVES5.0 h
C
ISAAC2.0 h
D
ISAAC4.0 h

 

078.D-0236

Pian, Mazzali, Klose, Cappellaro, Patat, Sollerman, Hjorth, Kawabata, Matheson, Filippenko, Nomoto, Masetti, Greiner, Wijers, Kouveliotou, Fruchter, Castro-Tirado, Tanvir, Fynbo, Deng, O'Brien:

'Unifying Gamma-Ray Bursts and Type Ic Supernova Explosions.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS130.0 h
B
FORS15.0 h

 

078.D-0268

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 h
C
EMMI1.0 h

 

078.D-0290

Zampieri, Baron, Benetti, Blanc, Bufano, Cappellaro, Gal-Yam, Mazzali, Pastorello, Turatto:

'Simultaneous optical and near infrared spectroscopy of the next core-collapse supernova targeted by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
EMMI3.0 h
B
ISAAC9.0 h

 

078.D-0344

Covino, Burrows, Campana, Chincarini, Della Valle, di Serego Alighieri, Fiore, Gehrels, Goldoni, Israel, Lazzati, Malesani, Mason, Mereghetti, Mirabel, Osborne, Pellizza Gonzalez, 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

 

078.D-0383

Sollerman, Davis, Stritzinger, Leibundgut, Spyromilio, Blondin, Challis, Kirshner:

'Testing for Spectroscopic Evolution in High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae'

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

 

078.D-0416

Vreeswijk, Fynbo, Ellison, Ledoux, Jaunsen, Smette, Moller, Hjorth, Wijers, Castro-Tirado, Fruchter, Gorosabel, Greiner, Jakobsson, Klose, Kouveliotou, Rol, Savaglio, Sollerman, Tanvir, Wiersema:

'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
ISAAC2.0 h
F
SOFI2.0 h

 

078.D-0519

Greiner, Savaglio, Klose, Jehin, Haiman, Hartmann, Szokoly, Küpcü Yolda\c{s}, Primak, Clemens, Ferrero, Kann, Updike:

'High-resolution spectroscopy of GROND-selected high-redshift GRBs: Probing the very early Universe'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS27.5 h
B
UVES3.5 h
C
ISAAC10.5 h
D
SOFI2.0 h

 

078.D-0546

Klose, Greiner, Ferrero, Kann, Savaglio, Kouveliotou, Wijers, Hjorth, Castro-Tirado, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Hartmann, Küpcü Yolda\c{s}, Masetti, O'Brien, Palazzi, Pian, Starling, Stratta, Tanvir, Vreeswijk, Wiersema:

'Integral Field Spectroscopy as a new tool to perform early-time spectroscopy of small GRB error boxes'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
B
VIMOS5.0 h

 

078.D-0556

Rodríguez-Gil, Gänsicke, Schmidtobreick, Marsh, Araujo-Betancor, Long, Torres, Steeghs, Schreiber:

'Unravelling the role of the SW Sextantis stars in the evolution of cataclysmic variables'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS26.0 h

 

078.A-0578

Tanvir, Levan, Wijers, Hjorth, Kouveliotou, Fruchter, Fynbo, Jakobsson, Watson, O'Brien, Priddey, Vreeswijk, Starling, Wiersema, Bremer, Rol, Gorosabel, Castro-Tirado, Pian, Bersier:

'Probing the high-redshift universe with GRBs'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC4.0 h
B
FORS21.5 h
C
SINFONI3.0 h
D
SOFI8.0 h

 

078.D-0684

Kotak, Meikle:

'Progenitor systems of type Ia supernovae: understanding the circumstellar media of SN~2002ic-like events'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES2.0 h
B
ISAAC3.0 h

 

078.D-0752

Della Valle, Malesani, Chincarini, Mirabel, Antonelli, Benetti, Campana, Covino, Gilmozzi, Goldoni, Hurley, Fiore, Mason, Pellizza Gonzalez, Stella, Stratta, Tagliaferri:

'A SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE SUPERNOVA POPULATION ASSOCIATED WITH GAMMA-RAY BURSTS'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS14.0 h
B
FORS110.0 h
C
FORS2 (alt run A, same time)0.0 h
D
FORS2 (alt run B, same time )0.0 h

 

078.D-0809

Stella, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Covino, Chincarini, DÁvanzo, Della Valle, Fiore, Gehrels, Guetta, Hurley, Israel, Lazzati, Malesani, Mason, Osborne, Pellizza Gonzalez, Perna, Piranomonte, Tagliaferri:

'Unveiling the Nature of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts through the Study of their Afterglows'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS12.0 h
B
ISAAC1.0 h
C
FORS18.0 h
D
ISAAC8.0 h
E
SINFONI4.0 h
F
FORS2 (alt run A, same time)0.0 h
G
FORS2 (alt rund C, same time)0.0 h
H
NACO (alt run D, same time)0.0 h