Large Programmes scheduled in Period 69

This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period.
The ESO policy regarding Large Programmes is available from a separate document.

 

164.I-0605

van Dishoeck, Thi, Schutte, Ehrenfreund, d'Hendecourt, Dartois, Habart, Demyk, Tielens, Keane:

'Origin and Evolution of Ices in Star-Forming Regions'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1 / ISAAC3H2 + 2n

 

166.A-0106

Bergeron, Baade, Boisse, Cristiani, Ferrara, Fontana, Giallongo, Heahnelt, Kim, Ledoux, Lopez, Moeller, Petitjean, Rauch, Reimers, Shaver, Vladilo:

'The Cosmic Evolution of the Intergalatic Medium'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2 / UVES65h

 

166.A-0162

White, Aragon-Salamanca, Bender, Best, Bremer, Charlot, Clowe, Dalcanton, Fort, Jablonka, Kauffmann, Mellier, Pello, Poggianti, Roettgering, Schneider, Zaritsky:

'The ESO distant cluster survey: Evolution in clusters since z~1'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
NTT / SOFI3n

 

167.C-0340

Boehnhardt, Barrera, Barucci, deBergh, Birkle, Delsanti, Doressoundiram, Dotto, Hainaut, Lazzarin, Meech, Ortiz, Romon, Sekiguchi, Thomas, Tozzi, Watanabe, West:

'Physical Properties of the Most Pristine Solar System Bodies: Transneptunian Objects and Centaurs'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
G
UT1 / FORS12 x 0.5n
H
UT1 / ISAAC4n

 

167.D-0407

Napiwotzki, Christlieb, Gorski, Heber, Homeier, Karl, Koester, Leibundgut, Moehler, Nelemans, Reimers, Reineke, Renzini, Yungelson:

'Are White Dwarf Binaries the Progenitors of Type IA Supernovae?'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2 / UVES120h

 

167.A-0409

Miley, Kurk, Pentericci, Venemans, Röttgering, Carilli, De Breuck, van Breugel, Ford, Heckman, McCarthy:

'Tracing the Formation and Evolution of Clusters and their Central Massive Galaxies to z > 4'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2 / FORS23n
B
UT2 / FORS23n

 

168.A-0322

Franceschini, Vettolani, Held, Lonsdale, Zamorani, Rowan-Robinson, Smith, Rizzi, Ciliegi, La Franca, Oliver, Perez-Fournon, Gruppioni, Prouton, Rodighiero, Berta, Matute:

'An ESO-SIRTF Wide-Area Imaging Survey (ESIS), Targeting the History of Cosmic Transformations of Baryons in Stars and Active Nuclei'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
2.2m/ WFI27n
B
UT3/ VIMOS8n

 

168.A-0485

Cesarsky, Bergeron, Cristiani, da Costa, Dickinson, Elbaz, Fosbury, Giavalisco, Hook, Renzini, Rosati:

'The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: ESO Public Observations of the SIRTF Legacy /
Chandra Deep Field South'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1/ ISAAC296h
B
2.2m/ WFI40h

 

169.A-0382

Lidman, Goobar, Folatelli, Garavini, Nobili, Amanullah, Pain, Astier, Raux, Schahmaneche, Hook, Perlmutter, Aldering, Nugent, Knop:

'Distant type Ia SNe and Cosmology: Constraining the nature of the dark energy and assessing the importance of dust and evolution'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
UT4 / FORS220h
F
UT4 / FORS27h
G
UT1 / FORS115h
H
UT1 / ISAAC25h

 

169.A-0458

Franx, Rix, Kuijken, Rosati, van Dokkum, vd Wel, vd Ven:

'Galaxy mass-to-light ratios at z > 1 from the Fundamental Plane: measuring the star formation epoch and mass evolution of galaxies'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT4 / FORS23n
B
UT4 / FORS20.3h

 

169.D-0473

Gratton, Bonifacio, Bragaglia, Carretta, Castellani, Centurion, Chieffi, Claudi, Clementini, D'Antona, Desidera, Francois, Grundhal, Lucatello, Molaro, Pasquini, Sneden, Spite, Straniero:

'Distances, Ages, and Metal Abundances in Globular Cluster Dwarfs'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
UT2 / UVES6n

 

169.C-0510

Beaulieu, Sackett, Caldwell, Wambsganss, Albrow, Greenhill, Menzies, Sahu, Williams, PLANET Collaboration:

'PLANET II: A Simultaneous Search for Microlensing and Transiting Planets using a Worldwide Network'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
2.2 / WFI240h

 

169.A-0595

Böhringer, Rosati, Schuecker, Collins, Guzzo, Borgani, Bower, Müller, Plionis, van der Weygaert, Lynam, Leibundgut, Matsushita, Ikebe, Finoguenov, Mullis:

'In-depth XMM-VLT Study of Cosmic Structure and Evolution with Massive Clusters and Groups of Galaxies'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT4 / FORS22h
B
UT4 / FORS210h
C
UT1 / FORS130h

 

169.A-0725

Krautter, Arnaud, Böhringer, Dennefeld, Elbaz, Franx, Guzzo, Ibata, Jorgensen, LaFranca, Meisenheimer, Morganti, Soucail, Surdej, Zamorani, da Costa, Arnouts, Groenewegen, Hatziminaoglou, Hook, Madejsky, Mignani, Rité, Slijkhuis, Vandame, Wicenec:

'Public Imaging Survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
2.2 / WFI30h
C
NTT / SOFI16H1
D
NTT / SOFI3n