Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 84

 

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.

084.A-0149

Sullivan, Hook, Blake, Ellis, Smoker, Lidman, Pain, Astier, Gal-Yam, Howell, Nugent, Schmidt:

'Evolution in the Spectral Properties of Type Ia Supernovae'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
XSHOOTER 8.5 h
B
XSHOOTER 8.3 h

 

084.C-0206

Orton, Fletcher, Mousis, Yanamandra-Fisher, Sanchez-Lavega, Perez-Hoyos, Hueso, Barrado, Boudon:

'Jupiter's Oval BA: One Year on from the Great Red Spot Encounter'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
VISIR 4.0 h
B
VISIR 4.0 h

 

084.D-0261

Smartt, Mattila, Crockett, Fraser, Maguire, Maund, Pastorello, Eldridge, Valenti, Danziger, Kotak, Fransson, Jerkstrand:

'The progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NACO and SN follow-up spectroscopy'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
NACO 10.0 h
B
FORS2 10.0 h

 

084.D-0320

Danziger, Bouchet, Gouiffes, Hernandez:

'Direct Measurements of masses of radioactive cobalt, 56Co+57Co, in nearby SNIa'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
VISIR 6.0 h

 

084.C-0332

Lippi, Böhnhardt, Mumma, Prialnik, Jehin:

'A comprehensive study of the composition of comets from IR high resolution spectroscopy.'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
CRIRES 16.0 h

 

084.A-0422

Blondin, Dessart, Basa, Greiner, Hillier, Leibundgut, Matheson, Kirshner:

'A direct and precise measurement of the Hubble constant with Type II supernovae'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
XSHOOTER 8.0 h

 

084.D-0463

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
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
UVES 9.0 h

 

084.D-0483

Goobar, Amanullah, Folatelli, Lidman, Mörtsell, Nordin, Paech, Stanishev:

'Search for sub-mm dust emission around Type Ia supernovae'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
SABOCA 10.0 h

 

084.C-0620

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

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

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC 3.0 h
B
SOFI 3.0 h

 

084.D-0621

Levan, Wijers, Tanvir, Hjorth, Kouveliotou, Fynbo, Jakobsson, Watson, Bersier, Malesani, Vreeswijk, Starling, Wiersema, O'Brien, Gorosabel, Svensson, de Ugarte Postigo, Rowlinson:

'The diversity of short gamma-ray bursts'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 1.0 h
B
FORS2 5.0 h
C
FORS2 2.0 h
D
HAWKI 2.0 h
E
HAWKI 2.0 h
F
XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

084.C-0634

Herczeg, Edwards, Ardila, Alexander, Brown, Valenti, Espaillat, Gregory:

'Simultaneity of Accretion and Outflow in Young Stars'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
CRIRES 0.8 h
B
CRIRES 2.4 h
C
CRIRES 0.8 h
D
CRIRES 0.8 h

 

084.D-0719

Folatelli, Hamuy, Mazzali, Maza, Pignata, Forster, Stritzinger, Phillips:

'X-shooter ToO observations of a Type Ia supernova on the rise'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
XSHOOTER 10.0 h

 

084.D-0732

de Ugarte Postigo, Castro-Tirado, Gorosabel, Lundgren, Garcia-Appadoo, De Breuck, Dumke, Guziy, Llorente, Bremer, Winters, Perez-Ramirez, Jelinek, Kubanek:

'Observing the peak emission of gamma-ray bursts afterglows in submillimeter frequencies'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
LABOCA 18.0 h

 

084.D-0764

Greiner, Savaglio, Krühler, Rau, Klose, Jehin, Haiman, Clemens, Afonso, Filgas, Hartmann, Küpcü Yolda\c s, McBreen, Olivares, Rossi, Szokoly, Updike:

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

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 10.0 h
B
UVES 5.0 h
C
ISAAC 19.0 h
D
HAWKI 10.0 h
E
XSHOOTER 12.0 h

 

084.C-0789

van Boekel, Juhasz, Henning, Köhler, Gustafsson, Kley, Ratzka, Leinert:

'T Tauri South: An Eruptive Young Star in a Triple System? \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
NACO 4.7 h
B
VISIR 3.3 h

 

084.D-0799

Baade, Maund, Clocchiatti, Patat, Quinn, Wang, Höflich, Wheeler:

'Spectropolarimetry of Core-Collapse Supernovae - Probing the Nature of Asymmetric Explosions'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 17.6 h

 

084.B-0837

Feltzing, Johnson, Adén, Asplund, Bensby, Gal-Yam, Gould, Lucatello, Meléndez, Simmerer:

'Metallicities, abundance ratios, and ages for dwarf stars in the Galactic bulge - using micro-lensing events to probe the properties of the Galactic bulge'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
UVES 2.4 h
B
UVES 2.4 h
C
UVES 2.4 h
D
UVES 0.5 h

 

084.D-0939

Wiersema, Rol, Tanvir, Hjorth, Mundell, Wijers, Vreeswijk, Fynbo, Willingale, Malesani, Jakobsson, Van der Horst, O'Brien, Starling, Levan, Curran, Kamble, Kouveliotou:

'Constraining GRB afterglow physics through their optical light curves'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 0.3 h
B
FORS2 2.4 h

 

084.D-0949

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

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

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 11.0 h
B
FORS2 2.0 h
C
FORS2 0.5 h
D
ISAAC 3.0 h
E
FORS2 1.0 h

 

084.C-1106

Jehin, Bockelée-Morvan, Biver, Crovisier, Dello Russo, Hartogh, Hutsemékers, Lippi, Manfroid, Kawakita, Smette, Weiler, Zucconi, Arpigny, the HSSO Team:

'The isotopic and molecular composition of the first Herschel ToO comet A multi-wavelength approach'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
CRIRES 9.5 h
B
FORS2 1.5 h
C
UVES