Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 93

 

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.

093.D-0032

Rau, Greiner, Akerlof, Cenko, Schmidt, Singer, Elliott, Yu, Kann, Klose, Krühler, McBreen, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Rapoport, 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

 

093.A-0069

Fynbo, Antonelli, Cano, Christensen, Covino, DÁvanzo, De Cia, D'Elia, Fiore, Flores, Friis, Groot, Goldoni, Gomboc, Hammer, Hartoog, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Japelj, 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 4.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 4.0 h

 

093.D-0098

Greiner, Varela, 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

 

093.B-0218

Gillessen, Genzel, Eisenhauer, Ott, Pfuhl, Plewa, 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 1.2 n

A

SINFONI 0.4 n

B

SINFONI 2.5 n

B

SINFONI 1.2 n

B

SINFONI 0.8 n

D

SINFONI 16.0 h

 

093.D-0226

Kann, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Klose, Greiner, Krühler, Elliot, Filgas, Olivares E., Rau, Rossi, Schady, Schmidl, Tanga, 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

 

093.D-0229

Smartt, Nicholl, Inserra, Jerkstrand, Kotak, Chen, Wright, Bresolin:

'“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

 

093.A-0278

Goobar, Amanullah, Cao, Contreras, Fox, Hsiao, Johansson, Kasliwal, Lidman, Phillips, Stanishev:

'The Type Ia supernova near-IR Hubble diagram .'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

VIRCAM 20.0 h

 

093.D-0347

Klose, Janka, Greiner, Kann, Krühler, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Rau:

'Towards a direct observational proof that short GRBs signal the merger of compact stellar binaries'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 6.0 h

 

093.A-0393

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

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

SINFONI 3.0 h

B

FORS2 3.0 h

C

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

 

093.C-0557

Rojo, Hayes, Ivanov, Adamkovics, Turtle, Lunine:

'Investigating seasonal changes in Titan's meteorology through cloud monitoring with VLT/SINFONI.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

SINFONI 15.0 h

B

SINFONI 6.0 h

C

SINFONI 8.4 h

 

093.D-0649

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

'Afterglows, hosts and kilonovae: detailed study of short GRBs'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

B

FORS2 3.0 h

C

FORS2 3.0 h

D

NACO 1.0 h

E

NACO 2.0 h

F

SINFONI 3.0 h

 

093.C-0657

Galvan-Madrid, Liu, Manara, Costigan, Forbrich, Testi, Ramsay, Rodríguez, Takami, Chou, Yan:

'The Jet-Accretion Connection in Young Stellar Objects: Coordinated Observations with KMOS and the JVLA.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

KMOS 6.0 h

B

KMOS 6.0 h

 

093.A-0667

Hjorth, Rodney, Selsing, Christensen, Frederiksen:

'Hubble Frontier Field Supernova Spectroscopy'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 11.2 h

 

093.D-0675

Sternberg, Patat, Benetti, Cappellaro, Chandra, Chevalier, Cox, Gal-Yam, 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 4.0 h

B

UVES 16.0 h

 

093.D-0683

Chaty, Grenier, Corbel, Burrows, Caraveo, Coleiro, 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

XSHOOTER 1.3 h

 

093.B-0700

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

'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

F

UVES 2.4 h

G

UVES 2.4 h

H

UVES 2.4 h

 

093.D-0779

Amanullah, Arcavi, De Cia, Ferretti, Fransson, Gal-Yam, Goobar, Johansson, Leloudas, Papadogiannakis, Petrushevska, Sollerman, Sullivan, Taddia, Vreeswijk, Yaron:

'A spectroscopic study of supernovae in their infancy'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 6.0 h

 

093.D-0785

Vreeswijk, Savaglio, De Cia, Leloudas, Gal-Yam, Sollerman, Sullivan:

'Probing the immediate environment and host-galaxy ISM of iPTF superluminous supernovae at 0.5 < z < 1'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 4.5 h

 

093.D-0786

Rahoui, Coriat, Diaz Trigo:

'Accretion/ejection processes in microqusars: an X-shooter view of accretion disc winds in the hard state'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 1.3 h

B

XSHOOTER 0.7 h

 

093.D-0794

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

 

093.D-0798

Kotak, Polshaw, Fraser, Smartt:

'Interacting supernovae: what is their evolutionary path to explosion?'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 9.0 h

 

093.D-0820

Maund, Reilly, Baade, Patat, Wheeler, Clocchiatti, Hoflich, Spyromilio, 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

 

093.A-0837

Ledoux, Vreeswijk, Smette, De Cia, Petitjean, Fox, Fynbo, Krühler, Malesani:

'UVES-RRM observations of the high-redshift ISM suddenly exposed to a g-ray burst'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 3.0 h

B

UVES 3.0 h

 

093.D-0931

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

XSHOOTER 5.0 h