Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 80
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.
080.D-0008 | Gorosabel, LLorente, de Ugarte Postigo, Castro-Tirado, Jelínek: 'Are hypernova explosions aespherical?' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 5.0 h |
080.D-0107 | Baade, Maund, Clocchiatti, Patat, Wang, Höflich, Wheeler: 'Polarimetry of Core-Collapse Supernovae - Probing the Nature of Asymmetric Explosions' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 13.6 h |
080.D-0108 | Baade, Wang, Clocchiatti, Patat, Maund, Höflich, Wheeler: 'Spectropolarimetry of Type Ia Supernovae: Probing the Explosion Physics, Binary Nature, and Cosmological Calibration' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 16.0 h |
080.D-0167 | Greiner, Savaglio, Klose, Jehin, Haiman, Hartmann, Szokoly, McBreen, Küpcü Yolda\c{s}, Primak, Clemens, Krühler, Ferrero, Kann, Schulze, Updike: '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 |
080.D-0229 | Della Valle, Chincarini, Mirabel, Benetti, Covino, DÁvanzo, Hurley, Stella, Gilmozzi, Antonelli, Campana, Fiore, Goldoni, Stratta, Tagliaferri, Zerbi: 'Gamma-ray Bursts from "Bright" and "Dark" Hypernovae: a Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of their Progenitors' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS2 | 4.0 h |
B | FORS2 | 10.0 h |
080.D-0250 | Covino, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Chincarini, DÁvanzo, Della Valle, di Serego Alighieri, Fiore, Gehrels, Goldoni, Lazzati, Mason, Mereghetti, Mirabel, Osborne, Rossi, Stella, Tagliaferri: '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 |
080.C-0257 | Boehnhardt, Kaufl, Kerber, Lippi, Mumma, Prialnik: 'Clues on the formation of the Solar System from high resolution IR spectroscopy of comets' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | CRIRES | 14.0 h |
080.A-0398 | 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 | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | UVES | 3.0 h |
B | UVES | 3.0 h |
C | FORS2 | 5.0 h |
D | FORS2 | 5.0 h |
080.D-0430 | Dessart, Leonard, Leibundgut, Blondin, Schmidt, Hillier, Matheson, Hicken, Kirshner, Spyromilio: 'Inferring the morphology of Type II supernova explosions' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 29.0 h |
080.D-0438 | Mattila, Smartt, Crockett, Pastorello, Kotak, Eldridge, Young, Maund, Danziger, ElMhamdi: 'Imaging the progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NAOS-CONICA' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | NACO | 10.0 h |
080.D-0477 | Sollerman, Davis, Stritzinger, Leibundgut, Spyromilio, Blondin, Challis, Kirshner: ' Testing for Spectroscopic Evolution in High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS2 | 4.5 h |
B | FORS2 | 4.5 h |
C | FORS2 | 4.5 h |
080.D-0526 | Vreeswijk, Fynbo, Ellison, Ledoux, Jaunsen, Smette, Moller, Hjorth, Wijers, Gorosabel, Greiner, Jakobsson, Klose, Kouveliotou, Malesani, Rol, Savaglio, Tanvir, Thone, Wiersema: 'Spectroscopy of Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows in the Swift era' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | UVES | 6.0 h |
B | FORS2 | 3.0 h |
C | FORS1 | 8.0 h |
D | FORS2 | 1.0 h |
E | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
F | SOFI | 2.0 h |
080.A-0593 | Lidman, Goobar, Pain: 'A pilot study with the LGS mode of NACO to measure precise distances to Type Ia supernovae' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | NACO | 6.0 h |
080.D-0643 | Levan, Wijers, Tanvir, Hjorth, Kouveliotou, Ramirez-Ruiz, Fynbo, Jakobsson, Watson, Bersier, Chapman, Vreeswijk, Starling, Wiersema, O'Brien, Rol, Gorosabel, Fruchter, Castro-Tirado, Klose, Pian: 'The progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 2.0 h |
B | FORS1 | 6.0 h |
C | FORS2 | 6.0 h |
D | FORS1 | 2.0 h |
E | FORS2 | 2.0 h |
F | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
G | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
080.B-0706 | Saxton, Sánchez-Portal, Altieri, Read, Equej, Freyberg, Komossa: 'Spectroscopy of tidal disruption candidates discovered in the XMM-Newton slew survey' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | EMMI | 4.6 h |
B | EMMI | 4.6 h |
080.A-0746 | Tanvir, Levan, Rol, Priddey, Jakobsson, Wijers, Hjorth, Kouveliotou, Fruchter, Fynbo, Watson, O'Brien, Vreeswijk, Starling, Wiersema, Bremer, Gorosabel, Castro-Tirado, Pian, Bersier: 'Probing the high-redshift universe with GRBs' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | ISAAC | 3.0 h |
B | FORS2 | 2.0 h |
C | SOFI | 4.0 h |
D | ISAAC | 1.0 h |
E | FORS2 | 1.0 h |
F | SOFI | 2.0 h |
080.D-0792 | Covino, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Chincarini, Cusumano, Della Valle, Fiore, Gehrels, Goldoni, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Mirabel, Molinari, Nousek, Osborne, Stella, Tagliaferri: 'The Physics of the Afterglows of Long Gamma Ray Bursts' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS2 | 2.0 h |
B | ISAAC | 2.0 h |
C | FORS2 | 3.0 h |
D | SUSI2 | 6.0 h |
E | ISAAC | 3.0 h |
F | SOFI | 6.0 h |
080.A-0825 | Tagliaferri, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Chincarini, Covino, Della Valle, Fiore, Gehrels, Giommi, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Mirabel, Nousek, Osborne, Salvaterra, Saracco, Stella, also box 9: 'GRBs as Probes of the Very Young Universe' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | SINFONI | 2.0 h |
B | SINFONI | 5.0 h |
C | ISAAC | 6.0 h |
D | FORS2 | 6.0 h |
E | EMMI | 6.0 h |
F | SOFI | 6.0 h |
080.D-0844 | Maitra, Casella, Russell, Wiersema, Stefanescu, Schödel, Klein-Wolt, O'Brien, Markoff, Fender, Bailyn, Maccarone, Kanbach, Belloni, Wijnands, van der Klis: 'Infrared Polarization and rapid time variability in transient X-ray binary systems harboring black hole candidates' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | ISAAC | 6.0 h |
B | ISAAC | 8.0 h |
080.D-0906 | Stella, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Covino, Chincarini, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, Della Valle, Fiore, Gehrels, Guetta, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Perna, Piranomonte, Stratta, Tagliaferri: 'Unveiling the Nature of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts through the Study of their Afterglows' | |
Obs. Run | Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 2.0 h |
B | ISAAC | 1.0 h |
C | FORS1 | 12.0 h |
D | ISAAC | 12.0h |
E | SINFONI | 2.0 h |