Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 96
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.
096.A-0079 |
Fynbo, Antonelli, Arabsalmani, Cano, Christensen, Covino, DÁvanzo, De Cia, D'Elia, Fiore, Flores, Friis, Groot, Goldoni, Gomboc, Greiner, Hammer, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Japelj, Kaper, Krühler, Ledoux, Leloudas, Levan, Maiorano, Malesani, Melandri, Milvang-Jensen, Moller, Palazzi, Pian, Piranomonte, Pugliese, 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' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
XSHOOTER | 14.0 h |
B |
XSHOOTER | 2.0 h |
096.D-0144 |
Wang, Baade, Patat, Clocchiatti, Höflich, Maund, Reilly, Spyromilio, Wheeler, Yang, Zelaya: 'Post-blackout spectropolarimetric typing of bright Type Ia Supernovae' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
FORS2 | 2.5 h |
B |
FORS2 | 13.7 h |
096.A-0147 |
D'Elia, Fiore, Antonelli, Campana, Covino, DÁvanzo, de Ugarte Postigo, D'Odorico, Fugazza, Jin, Krongold, Meurs, Nicastro, Norci, Onori, Palazzi, Perna, Pian, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Stella, Tagliaferri, Vergani: 'High-redshift galaxies with UVES/RRM: in search of the young Universe' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
UVES | 3.0 h |
B |
UVES | 6.0 h |
096.C-0176 |
Sicardy, Bérard, Doressoundiram, Lellouch, Meza, Roques, Widemann, Colas, Assafin, Benedetti-Rossi, Braga-Ribas, Camargo, Dias de Oliveira, Vieira Martins, Duffard, Ortiz, Dumas, Ivanov, Jehin, Leiva, Vanzi: 'Target of Opportunity Observations: accurate measurements of sizes and shapes \rm of Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects; detection of their rings and atmospheres\rm' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
NACO | 3.0 h |
B |
SOFI | 4.5 h |
096.B-0179 |
Levan, Tanvir, Hjorth, Fynbo, Angus, Brown, Cenko: 'The progenitors of the longest high-energy transients' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
XSHOOTER | 1.0 h |
B |
XSHOOTER | 2.0 h |
C |
FORS2 | 3.0 h |
D |
FORS2 | 2.0 h |
096.C-0239 |
Fitzsimmons, Snodgrass, Knight: 'Discovery and activity of Kreutz sungrazing comets' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
OMEGACAM | 30.0 h |
B |
OMEGACAM | 1.0 h |
096.A-0310 |
Greiner, Tanvir, Bersier, Bremer, Castro-Tirado, 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' |
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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 |
E |
NACO | 2.0 h |
096.C-0384 |
Facchini, Manara, Rosotti, Bouvier, Clarke, Schneider, Booth, Dai, Haworth: 'Probing dust grain growth in protoplanetary discs: absorption properties in the spectrum of RW Aurigae A' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
XSHOOTER | 0.5 h |
096.D-0391 |
Pian, Palazzi, Branchesi, Brocato, Astone, Benetti, Boer, Bufano, Campana, Cappellaro, Castro-Tirado, Chassande Mottin, Copperwheat, Covino, Fynbo, Gendre, Gorosabel, Grado, Hunt, Kasliwal, Klose, Levan, Malesani, Mazzali, Moller, Nicastro, Piranomonte, Ricci, Rossi, Stella, Tanvir: 'Spectroscopic and imaging follow-up of gravitational radiation sources with the VLT' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
XSHOOTER | 8.0 h |
B |
FORS2 | 2.0 h |
C |
HAWKI | 2.0 h |
096.D-0603 |
Levan, Tanvir, Hjorth, Angus, Fynbo, Perley, Wijers, Jakobsson, Malesani, Pian, Wiersema, O'Brien, Watson, Schulze, Cano: 'Afterglows, hosts and kilonovae: detailed study of short GRBs' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
MUSE | 2.0 h |
B |
MUSE | 2.0 h |
C |
FORS2 | 3.0 h |
D |
FORS2 | 2.0 h |
E |
HAWKI | 3.0 h |
F |
HAWKI | 3.0 h |
096.A-0612 |
Hjorth, Rodney, Selsing, Christensen: 'Illuminating dark lenses with highly magnified transients' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
XSHOOTER | 6.4 h |
096.D-0702 |
Klose, Janka, Greiner, Kann, Krühler, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Rau, Rossi, Schady: 'Searching for a kilo-nova signal in short-GRB afterglows' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
FORS2 | 3.0 h |
B |
FORS2 | 6.0 h |
C |
HAWKI | 6.0 h |
096.D-0773 |
Tanvir, Levan, Hjorth, Fynbo, Malesani, Milvang-Jensen, Watson, Pian, Palazzi, Sutton, Fairhurst, Mandel, Wiersema, Greiner, Banerji, Irwin, McMahon, Gonzalez Fernandez, White, Lyman, Steeghs, Perley, de Ugarte Postigo, Thoene, Cano, Schulze, Evans, Osborne, O'Brien, Rosswog: 'Compact binary mergers: a search for a kilonova accompanying a gravitational wave transient' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
VIRCAM | 24.0 h |
096.D-0793 |
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' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
FORS2 | 1.0 h |
B |
FORS2 | 1.0 h |
096.C-0855 |
Snodgrass, Guilbert-Lepoutre, Jehin, Bagnulo, Tozzi, Rousselot, Opitom, Besse, Tubiana, Yang, Dumas, Fitzsimmons, Hainaut, Hutsemékers, Lowry, Manfroid, Schulz, Kolokolova, Boehnhardt, Borisov, Levasseur-Regourd, Stinson, Jones: 'Expect the unexpected - rapid reaction to an exploding comet' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
FORS2 | 0.8 h |
B |
MUSE | 4.5 h |
C |
SINFONI | 4.5 h |
D |
UVES | 5.2 h |
E |
FORS2 | 1.0 h |
F |
OMEGACAM | 14.0 h |
096.D-0908 |
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)? Locations, distance, and spectral energy distribution of these mysterious transients' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
A |
VIRCAM | 2.5 h |
B |
OMEGACAM | 2.5 h |
C |
XSHOOTER | 2.0 h |
D |
FORS2 | 1.5 h |
096.A-0926 |
Hook, Amanullah, Goobar, Kowalski, Lidman, Pain, Perlmutter, Nordin: 'Testing for time-varying dark energy with z>1 supernovae' |
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Obs. Run |
Instrument | Max. Time Allocated |
B |
XSHOOTER | 11.2 h |
C |
FORS2 | 13.8 h |
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Last update: OPO - July 07, 2015