Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 92

 

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.

092.D-0043

Pian, Della Valle, Mazzali, Bufano, Chincarini, Amati, Antonelli, Baade, Benetti, Bersier, Campana, Cappellaro, Castro-Tirado, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, Deng, Ferrero, Filippenko, Fruchter, Fynbo, Gilmozzi, Goldoni, Gorosabel, Greiner, Guidorzi, Hjorth, Hurley, Kawabata, Klose, Levan, Maeda, Malesani, Marconi, Masetti, Matheson, Melandri, Moller, Nomoto, Palazzi, Patat, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Sollerman, Starling, Stella, Tagliaferri, Tanaka, Tanvir, Valenti, Vergani, Vietri, Wiersema, Wijers:

'A facet of massive stars final fate: asymmetric core-collapse and long Gamma-ray Bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 12.0 h

B

FORS2 6.0 h

 

092.D-0056

Rau, Greiner, Akerlof, Cenko, Schmidt, Elliott, Gruber, Kann, Klose, Kruehler, McBreen, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Rapoport, Rossi, Savaglio, Schady, Schmidl, von Kienlin, Zheng:

'Redshift determination of bright \textit{Fermi} GRBs: probing the emission mechanism and circumburst environments.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 1.5 h

B

FORS2 1.5 h

 

092.D-0089

Kann, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Klose, Greiner, Krühler, Rossi, Rau, Schady, Filgas, Elliot, Knust, Afonso, Olivares E., Schmidl, Nardini, Varela:

'Uncovering a new Domain: RRM Observations of the Early Afterglows of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

B

FORS2 1.0 h

 

092.A-0124

Fynbo, Antonelli, Cano, Christensen, Covino, DÁvanzo, De Cia, D'Elia, Fiore, Flores, Friis, Groot, Goldoni, Hammer, Hartoog, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Kaper, Krühler, Ledoux, Leloudas, Levan, Maiorano, Malesani, Melandri, Milvang-Jensen, Palazzi, Pian, Piranomonte, Schaye, Schulze, Sollerman, Sparre, Tagliaferri, Tanvir, Thöne, de Ugarte Postigo, Vergani, Vreeswijk, Watson, Wiersema, Wijers, Xu:

'The \textit{Swift} GRB afterglow legacy survey: Probing the hearts of star-forming galaxies through cosmic time'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 12.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 4.0 h

C

HAWKI 2.5 h

 

092.D-0174

Leloudas, de Ugarte Postigo, Gorosabel, Malesani, Maund, Patat, Sollerman, Wheeler:

'Polarimetry of a super-luminous Supernova.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 7.0 h

 

092.C-0186

Sicardy, Doressoundiram, Lellouch, Ribas, Roques, Widemann, Colas, Assafin, Andrei, Camargo, Vieira Martins, Silva Neto, Dumas, Ivanov, Ortiz, Jehin:

'Target of Opportunity Observations: measuring the size of transneptunian objects and detecting their atmospheres by stellar occultations'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 3.0 h

B

SOFI 4.5 h

 

092.D-0211

Greiner, Bertoldi, Menten, Weiss, Rau, Krühler, Schady, Klose, Moin, Tingay, Wieringa:

'Testing the GRB fireball model'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 24.0 h

 

092.D-0325

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

'Spectroscopy of an active magnetar'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

HAWKI 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 5.0 h

 

092.B-0398

Gillessen, Genzel, Eisenhauer, Ott, Pfuhl, Fritz:

'Watching the gas cloud G2 disrupt as it passes the massive black hole in the Galactic Centre'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

SINFONI 4.0 h

B

SINFONI 8.0 h

 

092.A-0533

Hjorth, Rodney, Frederiksen:

'Frontier Field Supernova Spectroscopy'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 9.0 h

 

092.D-0555

Smartt, Inserra, Jerkstrand, Nicholl, Valenti, McCrum, Fraser, Kotak, Chen, Wright, Bresolin, Rest, Margheim:

'“Super-luminous” 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

 

092.B-0626

Feltzing, Johnson, Asplund, Bensby, Gould, Lucatello, Meléndez, Yee:

'Ages in the Galactic bulge - using micro-lensed dwarf stars to probe the age structure and other properties of the central sub-kpc of the Galaxy.'

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

 

092.D-0633

Greiner, Tanvir, Bersier, Bremer, Castro-Tirado, Elliott, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Haiman, Hartmann, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Kann, Klose, Krühler, Levan, Malesani, Nardini, Nicuesa, Pian, Rau, Savaglio, Schady, Schmidl, Starling, Sudilovsky, Tanga, Updike, Varela, 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

E

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

 

092.D-0645

Gall, Hjorth, Stritzinger, Leloudas, Malesani, Maund, Watson:

'Dust extinction curves of bright supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 5.2 h

B

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

092.D-0686

Sternberg, Patat, Benetti, Cappellaro, Chandra, Chevalier, Cox, Hillebrandt, Justham, Mazzali, Nomoto, Pastorello, Podsiadlowski, Renzini, Turatto:

'An Ongoing Effort to Uncover the Nature of Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 20.0 h