Large Programmes scheduled in Period 76

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.

 

173.A-0440

Haehnelt, IGM RTN Network, Bunker, Cristiani, Jarvis, Lacey, Morris, Graham, Peroux, Rauch, Röttgering, Theuns:

'Fluorescent re-emission of the ionizing UV background from Lyman-Limit systems'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
UT1 / FORS260.0 h

 

173.C-0606

Kürster, Hatzes, Els, Endl, Cochran, Kaufer, Brillant, Lo Curto:

'In search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of M dwarfs. Continuation of the UVES faint star planet search'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
E
UT2 / UVES40.0 h

 

174.B-0328

Hammer, Lehnert, Cimatti, Flores, Cesarsky, Pozzetti, Combes, Daddi, Elbaz, Amram, Balkowski, Burgarella, Dannerbauer, Di Seregho Alighieri, Fuentes-Carrera, Garrido, Guiderdoni, Khembavi, Kumar, Lanzoni, Liang, Puech, Proust, Vergani, Vernet, Wozniak, Zheng:

'IMAGES: Intermediate MAss Galaxy Evolution Sequence'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
E
UT2 / FLAMES5.0 n
F
UT1 / FORS220.0 h

 

175.A-0706

Bremer, Lehnert, Douglas, Waddington, Aragon-Salamanca, Milvang-Jensen, Charlot, Kauffmann, Rudnick, Clowe:

'The ESO remote galaxy survey: galaxies at the highest redshifts'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
C
UT1 / FORS230.0 h
D
UT1 / FORS210.0 h

 

175.A-0839

Lilly, Kneib, Le Fèvre, Renzini, Zamorani, Aussel, Carollo, Cimatti, Contini, Daddi, Guzzo, Hasinger, Impey, Lehman, Maddox, McCarthy, Mobasher, Scaramella, Schinnerer, Scodeggio, Scoville, Samil, Taniguchi, Vettolani, z-Cosmos team:

'zCOSMOS: the evolutionary links between galaxis, their nuclei, their morphologies and their environments'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
C
UT3 / VIMOS20.0 h
D
UT3 / VIMOS162.0 h

 

175.C-0685

Aigrain, Hodgkin, Moraux, Hebb, Bouvier, Irwin, Favata, Gilmore, Clarke, Ashley, Flaccomio, McCaughrean:

'Transiting planets and brown dwarfs in young open clusters'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
2.2m / WFI50.0 h
C
2.2m / WFI100.0 h

 

176.A-0319

Leibundgut, Blondin, Sollerman, Clocchiatti, Pignata, Spyromilio, Matheson, Stubbs, Suntzeff:

'ESSENCE - The equation of state: supernovae trace cosmic expansion'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2 / FORS13.0 n
B
UT2 / FORS13.0 n

 

176.A-0589

Pain, Astier, Balland, Basa, Baumont, Bronder, Fabbro, Filiol, Garavini, Goncalves-Darbon, Goobar, Guy, Hardin, Hook, Lidman, McMahon, Mazure, Mouchet, Mourao, Nobili, Palanque-Delabrouille, Pritchet, Regnault, Rich, Tao, Walton:

'Measuring the Equation of State of Dark Energy: Spectroscopic identification of Supernovae from the CFHT Legacy Survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2 / FORS160.0 h
B
UT1 / FORS220.0 h