Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 88

 

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.

088.D-0006

Liefke, Elsaesser, 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

 

088.A-0215

D'Elia, Stratta, Antonelli, Campana, Calzoletti, Covino, DÁvanzo, Fiore, Hunt, Jin, Malesani, Onori, Palazzi, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Stella, Tagliaferri, Vergani:

'The puzzling case of the extremely dark gamma-ray bursts: chasing them in the mid infrared'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 6.4 h

B

ISAAC 7.6 h

 

088.D-0222

Stritzinger, Amanullah, Boldt, Burns, Goobar, Hsiao, Leloudas, Nordin, Phillips, Taddia:

'Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Followup of Type Ia Supernovae in the Hubble flow'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 17.0 h

 

088.D-0230

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-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 12.0 h

B

FORS2 12.0 h

 

088.B-0349

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

 

088.D-0429

Campana, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, Melandri, Piranomonte, Stratta, Antonelli, Belloni, Covino, Della Valle, Fiore, Ghisellini, Stella, Tagliaferri:

'Multi-wavelength timing properties of gamma-ray bursts: a new avenue to unveil the powering mechanism'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 2.0 h

 

088.D-0446

Chaty, Grenier, Burrows, Caraveo, Corbel, de Luca, Dubus, 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

 

088.D-0480

de Ugarte Postigo, Muñoz Darias, Castro-Tirado, Casares, Covino, Gorosabel, Campana, DÁvanzo, Rodriguez-Gil, Fynbo:

'Searching for the Rosetta stone: Spectroscopy of an active magnetar'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 5.0 h

 

088.D-0502

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

'Well-Sampled Spectropolarimetric Evolution of Very Bright Type Ia Supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 12.0 h

B

FORS2 9.0 h

C

FORS2 15.0 h

 

088.D-0523

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

'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

 

088.A-0663

Amanullah, Goobar, Jönsson, Lidman, Nordin, Perlmutter:

'Spectral time-series of high redshift Type Ia supernovae hosted by early-type galaxies.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 6.0 h

B

FORS2 3.0 h

C

FORS2 3.0 h

D

FORS2 1.5 h

 

088.D-0678

Elliott, Krühler, Greiner, Klose, Rau, Filgas, Kann, McBreen, Nicuesa, Olivares, Rossi, Schady, Sudilovsky:

'Instantaneous RRM near-infrared imaging of GRB afterglows.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

HAWKI 4.0 h

 

088.D-0719

Greiner, Tanvir, Bersier, Bremer, Castro-Tirado, Elliott, 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, Sudilovsky, 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 3.0 h

 

088.D-0761

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

'From an Explosion of Models to a Model of the Explosion of Core-collapse Supernovae: Geometry as a Physics Discriminator'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.5 h

B

FORS2 17.5 h

C

FORS2 1.5 h

 

088.D-0928

Smartt, Pastorello, McCrum, Fraser, Kotak, Fraser, Magill, Bresolin, Kudritzki, Rest:

'“Ultra-bright” optical transients : giant supernovae in dwarf galaxies'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

C

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

D

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

088.C-0940

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

 

088.D-0955

Bauer, Clochiatti, Zelaya, Maund:

'Spectropolarimetric Monitoring of the Luminous type IIn SN 2010jl'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 6.0 h