Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 87

 

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.

087.C-0024

Fletcher, Orton, Simon-Miller, Mousis, Irwin:

'Awaiting the Spectacular Revival of Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: Temperatures and Haze Characteristics'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

VISIR 1.7 h

B

VISIR 1.7 h

 

087.D-0044

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

 

087.D-0068

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

'The progenitors of short duration gamma-ray bursts and their role as probes'

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

 

087.D-0134

Liefke, Elsässer, Fuhrmeister, Ganse, Rudolf, Ness, Schmitt, Mannheim:

'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

 

087.D-0188

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

 

087.A-0295

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

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 40.0 h

 

087.D-0349

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

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

NACO 10.0 h

 

087.D-0594

Pian, Della Valle, Mazzali, Bufano, Chincarini, Antonelli, Baade, Benetti, Bersier, Campana, Cappellaro, Castro-Tirado, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, 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, Moller, Nomoto, Nicastro, Palazzi, Panagia, Patat, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Sollerman, Starling, Stella, Stratta, Tagliaferri, Tanaka, Tanvir, Valenti, Vergani, Vietri, Wiersema, Wijers:

'The quest for the progenitors of long Gamma-Ray Bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 12.0 h

B

FORS2 12.0 h

 

087.B-0600

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

 

087.C-0929

Jehin, Hartogh, Bockelée-Morvan, Biver, Crovisier, Dello Russo, Hutsemékers, 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 2.5 h

C

UVES 11.0 h