Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 82

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.

082.D-0004

Patat , Benetti , Cappellaro , Chandra , Chevalier , Cox , Crawford , Elias-Rosa , Gal-Yam , Hillebrandt , Justham , Mazzali , Nomoto , Pasquini , Pastorello , Podsiadlowski , Renzini , Turatto :

'Pinning Down the Nature of Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES10.0 h

 

082.D-0137

Israel , Testa , Mignani , Rea , Bagnulo , Burgay , Campana , Chaty , Covino , Jonker , Lo Curto , Marconi , Mereghetti , Possenti , Stella , Dall'Osso , Zane , Turolla , Bernardini :

'PROMPT STUDY OF AXPs AND SGRs DURING BURST/OUTBURSTING ACTIVITY PHASES'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
NACO5.0 h
B
NACO12.0 h
C
NACO12.0 h

 

082.D-0151

Dessart , Leonard , Leibundgut , Blondin , Schmidt , Hillier , Matheson , Hicken , Kirshner , Spyromilio :

'Inferring the morphology of Type II supernova explosions'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS133.0 h

 

082.D-0154

Rodriguez-Gil , Schmidtobreick , Gänsicke , Muñoz-Darias , Torres , Marsh , Shahbaz , Long , Steeghs , Schreiber :

'The primary role of the SW Sextantis stars in the evolution of cataclysmic variables'

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

 

082.D-0232

Mattila , Smartt , Crockett , Pastorello , Kotak , Eldridge , Young , Maund , Danziger :

'Imaging the progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NAOS-CONICA'

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

 

082.D-0233

Coriat , Corbel , Buxton , Markoff , Kaaret , Tomsick , Chaty :

'Probing jets in weakly accreting black holes.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC3.3 h
B
FORS21.5 h

 

082.D-0276

Della Valle , Pian , Mazzali , Chincarini , Baade , Bersier , Campana , Covino , Ferrero , Fiore , Filippenko , Fruchter , Fynbo , Greiner , Maeda , Gilmozzi , Mirabel , Sollerman , Tagliaferri , Wiersema :

'Nature and diversity of the progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts and X-ray flashes'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS112.0 h
B
FORS212.0 h
C
FORS215.0 h

 

082.A-0301

Salvaterra , Antonelli , Campana , Chincarini , Covino , Cusumano , DÁvanzo , D'Elia , Della Valle , Fiore , Fugazza , Guidorzi , Margutti , Molinari , Pasotti , Saracco , Fernández-Soto , Stella , Stratta , Tagliaferri , Giommi , Goldoni , Israel , Moretti , Piranomonte :

'A new way to probe the early Universe and the reionization epoch with GRBs'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
SINFONI1.0 h
B
FORS21.0 h
C
ISAAC8.5 h
D
FORS25.5 h

 

082.D-0326

Kotak , Langer , Meikle , Dessart , Leibundgut , Smartt , Trundle , van Marle , Vink :

'Supernova forensics: using supernova light to constrain the mass-loss history of their progenitors'

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

 

082.D-0442

Grenier , Chaty , Caraveo , Corbel , Dubus , Burrows , Gehrels , Reimer , Thompson :

'ToO observation of a new bright transient discovered by GLAST in the Galactic plane'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC2.7 h
B
FORS20.8 h

 

082.D-0451

Levan , WIjers , Tanvir , Hjorth , Kouveliotou , Fynbo , Jakobsson , Watson , Bersier , Chapman , Malesani , Vreeswijk , Starling , Wiersema , O'Brien , Rol , Gorosabel , Fruchter , Castro-Tirado , Klose , Pian :

'The origins of short duration gamma-ray bursts'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS11.0 h
B
FORS12.0 h
C
FORS22.0 h
D
FORS10.7 h
E
FORS21.4 h
F
ISAAC1.0 h
G
ISAAC1.0 h

 

082.B-0453

Feltzing , Johnson , Gould , Adén , Bensby , Gal-Yam , Simmerer :

'Metallicities, abundance ratios, and ages for dwarf stars in the Galactic Bulge - using micro-lensing events as a unique probe of the properties of the Galactic Bulge'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES2.4 h
B
UVES2.4 h

 

082.C-0500

Sicardy , Boissel , Doressoundiram , Lellouch , Roques , Widemann , Colas , Ivanov , Mason :

'Beyond Neptune: studying Trans-Neptunian Objects using stellar occultations'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC3.0 h
B
SOFI3.0 h

 

082.A-0693

Greiner , Savaglio , Klose , Jehin , Haiman , Hartmann , Szokoly , McBreen , Küpcü Yolda\c s , Clemens , Krühler , Afonso , Ferrero , Kann , Updike :

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

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS213.0 h
B
UVES7.0 h
C
ISAAC21.0 h
D
HAWKI6.0 h

 

082.A-0755

D'Elia , Fiore , Piranomonte , Stella , Nicastro , Perna , Antonelli , Campana , Chincarini , Covino , DÁvanzo , D'Odorico , Fern&hellipndez-Soto , Fugazza , Guetta , Krongold , Meurs , Mirabel , Norci , Palazzi :

'A flash in the dark: probing high redshift galaxies through VLT/RRM/ToO observations of GRB afterglows.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES1.5 h
B
UVES2.5 h
C
FORS23.0 h
D
FORS23.0 h

 

082.D-0858

Wiersema , Wijers , Rol , Tanvir , Maitra , van der Horst , Curran , Fynbo , Fender , Gorosabel , Greiner , Hjorth , Klose , Levan , O'Brien , Palazzi , Pian , Ramirez-Ruiz , Starling , Vreeswijk :

'The physics of the most relativistic jet sources: disecting g-ray burst blast waves through polarimetry'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS112.0 h
D
ISAAC3.0 h

 

082.D-0870

Gorosabel , de Ugarte Postigo , LLorente , Castro-Tirado , Jelínek :

'Are hypernova explosions aespherical?'

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

 

082.D-0911

Stella , Bazzano , Belloni , Bozzo , Campana , Capitanio , Chincarini , Covino , Dall'Osso , DÁvanzo , Della Valle , Falanga , Goldoni , Guidorzi , Israel , Mereghetti , Rea , Tarana :

'The Optical/NIR Afterglow of Giant Flares from Magnetars in the Virgo Cluster'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS14.0 h
B
ISAAC4.0 h