Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 86

 

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.

086.D-0024

Liefke, Schmitt, Fuhrmeister, Rudolf, Ness:

'Chasing stellar giant flares with UVES or X-Shooter in Rapid Response Mode'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

C

UVES 1.0 h

D

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

 

086.A-0070

Leibundgut, Blondin, Della Valle, Riess, Rosati, Maoz, Postman:

'SN rate at high redshift and the composition of the universe'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 40.0 h

 

086.D-0262

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

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 21.0 h

B

FORS2 15.0 h

 

086.D-0290

Kotak, Langer, Meikle, Dessart, Leibundgut, Smartt, van Marle, van Veelen, 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

 

086.D-0318

Cornelisse, Casares, Steeghs, Campana, Charles, Muñoz Darias, DÁvanzo, Israel, O'Brien, Stella:

'Measuring the fundamental parameters of an X-ray transient while in outburst'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 10.0 h

 

086.A-0332

Malesani, Fynbo, Antonelli, Covino, DÁvanzo, De Cia, D'Elia, Fiore, Flores, Groot, Goldoni, Hammer, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Kaper, Levan, Maiorano, Maund, Milvang-Jensen, Palazzi, Pian, Piranomonte, Rol, Schaye, Schulze, Sollerman, Tagliaferri, Tanvir, Thöne, de Ugarte Postigo, Vergani, Vreeswijk, Watson, Wiersema, Wijers:

'Near-infrared counterparts of high-redshift and highly extinguished gamma-ray bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

HAWKI 1.0 h

B

HAWKI 1.5 h

 

086.C-0378

Herczeg, Edwards, Ardila, Alexander, Brown, Valenti, 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

D

CRIRES 1.0 h

E

CRIRES 1.0 h

F

CRIRES 1.0 h

 

086.D-0454

Levan, Wijers, Tanvir, Hjorth, Rowlinson, Tunnicliffe, Fynbo, Jakobsson, Malesani, Thöne, Vreeswijk, Starling, Wiersema, O'Brien, Watson, Svensson:

'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 1.0 h

 

086.D-0471

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

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

SpecialNTT 2.0 n

B

SpecialNTT 0.5 n

B

SpecialNTT 0.5 n

 

086.D-0511

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

 

086.D-0590

de Ugarte Postigo, Castro-Tirado, Gorosabel, Lundgren, Garcia-Appadoo, De Breuck, Dumke, Martin, Guziy, Llorente, Bremer, Winters, Perez-Ramirez, Thöne, Covino, DÁvanzo, Salvaterra, Campana, 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

 

086.D-0618

Greiner, Tanvir, Bersier, Bremer, Castro-Tirado, Filgas, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Haiman, Hartmann, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Kann, Klose, Krühler, Küpcü Yolda\c s, Levan, Malesani, McBreen, Nardini, Nicuesa, Olivares, Pian, Rau, Rossi, Savaglio, Starling, Updike, Watson, Wiersema, Wijers:

'Probing the very early Universe with high-redshift GRBs'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 4.0 h

B

SINFONI 3.0 h

C

HAWKI 4.0 h

D

FORS2 2.0 h

 

086.B-0757

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 0.3 h

 

086.D-0763

Pian, Della Valle, Mazzali, Chincarini, Baade, Antonelli, Benetti, Bersier, Bufano, 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, Marconi, Margutti, Masetti, Matheson, Melandri, Mirabel, M\o ller, Nomoto, Palazzi, Panagia, Patat, 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

 

086.D-0791

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

'The progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NACO'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

NACO 10.0 h

 

086.C-0897

Jehin, Hartogh, Bockelée-Morvan, Biver, Crovisier, Dello Russo, 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