Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 85

 

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.

085.D-0195

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

 

085.C-0225

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

 

085.D-0243

Pian, Della Valle, Mazzali, Chincarini, Baade, Antonelli, Benetti, Bersier, Campana, Cappellaro, Castro-Tirado, Covino, DÁvanzo, Deng, Ferrero, Filippenko, Fiore, Fruchter, Fynbo, Gilmozzi, Goldoni, Gorosabel, Greiner, Guetta, Guidorzi, Hjorth, Hurley, Kawabata, Klose, Kouveliotou, Maeda, Malesani, Margutti, Masetti, Matheson, Melandri, Mirabel, M\o ller, Nomoto, Palazzi, Panagia, Patat, Pellizza, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Sollerman, Starling, Stella, Stratta, Tagliaferri, Tanaka, Tanvir, Valenti, Vergani, Wiersema, Wijers:

'Long gamma-ray bursts, X-ray flashes, and energetic core-collapse supernovae: the quest for progenitors'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 12.0 h
B
FORS2 12.0 h

 

085.A-0283

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

 

085.D-0391

Dessart, Leonard, Blondin, Hillier, Pignata:

'Inferring the morphology of Type II supernova explosions'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 30.0 h

 

085.B-0399

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

'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 2.4 h
E
UVES 2.4 h
F
UVES 2.4 h
G
UVES 2.4 h
H
UVES 2.4 h
I
UVES 2.4 h
J
UVES 2.4 h
K
UVES 0.5 h

 

085.D-0534

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

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

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 6.0 h

 

085.D-0540

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

'ToO observation of a new bright transient discovered by Fermi-GST in the Galactic plane'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC 2.7 h
B
FORS2 0.8 h

 

085.D-0577

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

'X-shooter ToO Observations of a Very Young Type I Supernova on the Rise'

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

 

085.D-0662

De Cia, Vreeswijk, Levan, Jakobsson, Dhillon, Marsh, O'Brien, Littlefair, Björnsson, Schulze, Fynbo, Hjorth, Tanvir, Wiersema, O'Brien, Castro-Tirado, Gorosabel, Wijers:

'High time-resolution multi-colour optical imaging of early GRB afterglows with ULTRACAM on NTT.'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
SpecialNTT 1.0 n

 

085.D-0731

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

'Well-Sampled Spectropolarimetric Evolution of a Very Bright Type Ia Supernova'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
FORS2 36.0 h

 

085.C-0737

Jehin, Bockelée-Morvan, Biver, Crovisier, Dello Russo, Hartogh, Hutsemékers, Lippi, Manfroid, Kawakita, Kobayashi, Smette, Weiler, 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 11.0 h

 

085.D-0750

Smartt, Mattila, Fraser, Crockett, 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

 

085.D-0773

Wiersema, Rol, Tanvir, Hjorth, Mundell, Wijers, Evans, 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 1.0 h
B
FORS2 7.0 h

 

085.A-0777

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

'Evolution in the Spectral Properties of Type Ia Supernovae'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
XSHOOTER 5.1 h
B
XSHOOTER 5.3 h

 

085.D-0807

De Luca, Mignani, Mereghetti, Tiengo, Caraveo, Bignami:

'Correlated X-ray/IR variability to unravel the mystery of the central source in RCW103.'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
NACO 3.0 h

 

085.C-0827

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

'Simultaneity of Accretion and Outflow in Young Stars'

Obs. Run
Instrument Max. Time Allocated
A
CRIRES 1.0 h
B
CRIRES 1.0 h
C
CRIRES 1.0 h