Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 95

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.

095.D-0011

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

'Testing the GRB fireball model'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 24.0 h

 

095.A-0045

Fynbo, Antonelli, Arabsalmani, Cano, Christensen, Covino, DÁvanzo, De Cia, D'Elia, Fiore, Flores, Friis, Groot, Goldoni, Gomboc, Greiner, Hammer, Hartoog, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Japelj, Kaper, Krühler, Ledoux, Leloudas, Levan, Maiorano, Malesani, Melandri, Milvang-Jensen, Moller, Palazzi, Pian, Piranomonte, Savaglio, Schaye, Schady, Schulze, Selsing, 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 14.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

095.D-0072

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

 

095.D-0104

Kann, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Klose, Greiner, Krühler, Bolmer, Elliot, Filgas, Graham, Knust, 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

 

095.C-0185

Sicardy, Braga-Ribas, Ortiz, Duffard, Dumas, Ivanov, Assafin, Camargo, Dias de Oliveira, Vieira Martins, Jehin, Opitom, Leiva, Vanzi, Benedetti-Rossi, Lellouch, Colas, Doressoundiram, Roques, Widemann:

'Target of Opportunity Observations: accurate measurements of sizes and shapes \rm of transneptunian and Centaur objects; detection of their rings and atmospheres\rm'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

HAWKI 3.0 h

B

SOFI 4.5 h

 

095.A-0223

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

'The Type Ia Supernova Near-IR Hubble Diagram'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

B

HAWKI 4.0 h

C

VIRCAM 2.0 h

 

095.D-0296

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

 

095.B-0301

Plewa, Dexter, Gillessen, Habibi, Genzel, Eisenhauer, Ott, Pfuhl:

'The flares of Sgr~A* up close: Disentangling orbital dynamics from heating \& cooling processes'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

NACO 2.5 n

B

SINFONI 0.8 n

 

095.D-0326

Vergani, Covino, Mundell, Wyrzykowski, Hodgkin, Ghirlanda, Gomboc, Japelj, Katz, Di Matteo, Kopac, Bonifacio, Petitjean:

'Catching GRB orphan afterglows from Gaia triggers'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

095.D-0483

Fraser, Elias-Rosa, Smartt, Mattila, Eldridge, Jerkstrand, Kotak:

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

NACO 3.0 h

B

NACO 3.0 h

 

095.D-0593

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

 

095.D-0603

Varela, Elliott, Krühler, Greiner, Klose, Rau, Kann, McBreen, Nardini, Nicuesa, Olivares, Rossi, Schady, Schmidl, Sudilovsky, Tanga, Delavoux, Knust, Graham:

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

HAWKI 2.0 h

 

095.D-0611

Inserra, Smartt, Sim, Bulla, Nicholl, Jerkstrand, Chen:

'"Super-luminous superovae" : spectropolarimetry of giant supernovae in dwarf galaxies'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 7.0 h

 

095.D-0617

Levan, Tanvir, Hjorth, Rowlinson, Angus, Fynbo, Perley, Wijers, Jakobsson, Malesani, Pian, 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

HAWKI 4.0 h

E

HAWKI 2.0 h

 

095.D-0633

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

'The geometry of the brightest supernova explosions.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 9.0 h

 

095.D-0641

Pian, Bufano, Mazzali, Della Valle, Palazzi, De Cia, Malesani, Rossi, Amati, Baade, Benetti, Bersier, Campana, Cappellaro, Castro-Tirado, Chincarini, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, Ferrero, Filippenko, Fruchter, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Greiner, Hjorth, Hunt, Hurley, Kann, Klose, Levan, Marconi, Melandri, Moller, Patat, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Sollerman, Starling, Stella, Tagliaferri, Tanaka, Tanvir, Vietri, Wiersema, Wijers:

'Origin, progenitors and remnants of low-redshift long gamma-ray bursts and their associated supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 12.0 h

 

095.A-0692

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

D

HAWKI 4.0 h

 

095.D-0771

Tanvir, Levan, Hjorth, Fynbo, Malesani, Milvang-Jensen, Watson, Pian, Sutton, Fairhurst, Wiersema, Greiner, Banerji, Irwin, McMahon, Gonzalez Fernandez, White, McGuire:

'Compact binary mergers: kilonovae, short-GRBs and gravitational waves'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

VIRCAM 24.0 h

B

VIRCAM 2.5 h

 

095.D-0797

Sullivan, Nichol, Smartt, DÁndrea, Inserra, Smith, Papadopoulos, Nicholl, Nugent, Gal-Yam, Scovacricchi, Prajs:

'Superluminous supernovae at z>1: Constraining progenitor scenarios and standardisation'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 12.0 h

 

095.B-0811

Levan, Tanvir, Hjorth, Fynbo, Angus, Brown, Cenko:

'The progenitors of the longest high-energy transients'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

C

FORS2 4.0 h

D

FORS2 1.0 h

 

095.D-0813

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

 

095.A-0830

Hook, Amanullah, Goobar, Kowalski, Lidman, Pain, Perlmutter, Nordin:

'Testing for time-varying dark energy with z>1 supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 14.5 h

B

XSHOOTER 5.5 h

C

FORS2 3.3 h

 

095.D-0848

Wang, Baade, Patat, Clocchiatti, Höflich, Maund, Reilly, Spyromilio, Wheeler, Zelaya:

'Post-blackout spectropolarimetric typing of bright Type Ia Supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.5 h

B

FORS2 13.7 h

 

095.D-0948

Malesani, Pian, Bailes, Bufano, Burrows, Burke-Spolaor, Cano, Champion, Covino, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, de Ugarte Postigo, Evans, Flynn, Fynbo, Gehrels, Gorosabel, Hjorth, Howell, Hunt, Jakobsson, Johnston, Keane, Keith, Kennea, Klose, Koay, Kramer, Krühler, Leloudas, Melandri, Mieske, Milvang-Jensen, Nicastro, Palazzi, Petroff, Possenti, Rossi, Sollerman, Schulze, Stappers, Tanvir, Xu:

'What are fast radio bursts (FRBs)? Our first chance to discover their counterparts.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

VIRCAM 5.0 h

B

OMEGACAM 5.0 h

C

XSHOOTER 4.0 h

D

FORS2 3.0 h