Large Programmes scheduled in Period 89

This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period.

177.A-3011

Shanks, Baugh, Bridle, Boyle, Busarello, Capaccioli, Colless, Croom, Cruz da Angela, Drinkwater, Edge, Emerson, Evans, Frenk, Hambly, Hodgkin, Irwin, Lahav, Loaring, Maddox, McMahon, Metcalfe, Morris, Nichol, Peacock, Pimbblet:

'The VST ATLAS'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

OMEGACAM 371.0 h

 

177.A-3016

Kuijken, Bender, Boehringer, Capaccioli, Erben, Hopp, Mellier, Neeser, Peacock, Radovich, Saglia, Schneider, Schuecker, Seitz, Silvotti, Sutherland, Taylor, Valentijn, Warren:

'KIDS: A 1500-square degree cosmological survey with VST/OmegaCAM: u'and r' filters'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

OMEGACAM 465.0 h

 

177.D-3023

Drew, Walton, Irwin, Greimel, Eisloeffel, Knigge, Walsh, Acker, Augusteijn, Barlow, Cioni, Gaensicke, Groot, Heber, Magrini, Mampaso, Mardones, Napiwotzki, Naylor, Nelemans, Parker, Phillipps, Prusti, Steeghs, Woudt, Zijlstra:

'The VST photometric Ha and broad-band survey of the\ Southern Galactic Plane (VPHAS+)'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

OMEGACAM 145.0 h

 

179.B-2002

Minniti, Lucas, Emerson, Collaboration:

'VISTA VARIABLES IN THE VIA LACTEA (VVV)'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

VIRCAM 275.0 h

 

179.B-2003

Cioni, Bekki, Clementini, de Blok, Evans, de Grijs, Gibson, Girardi, Groenewegen, Ivanov, Leisy, Marconi, Mastropietro, Moore, Naylor, Oliveira, Ripepi, van Loon, Wilkinson, Wood:

'The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic System (LMC, SMC, Bridge \& Stream) - VMC'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

VIRCAM 80.0 h

 

179.A-2004

Sutherland, Kuijken, Bender, Boehringer, Bremer, Capaccioli, Clewley, Dalton, Driver, Edge, Emerson, Erben, Hopp, Jarvis, Liske, McMahon, Mellier, Neeser, Peacock, Pearson, Phillipps, Radovich, Romer, Saglia, Schneider, Schuecker, Seitz, Silvotti, Taylor, Valentijn, Venemans:

'The VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy survey (VIKING).'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

F

VIRCAM 145.0 h

 

179.A-2005

Dunlop, Afonso, Almaini, Arnouts, Bell, Bergeron, Best, Bolzonella, Bremer, Brusa, Bunker, Cirasuolo, Cimatti, Conselice, Contini, Coppin, Cuby, Dalton, Doherty, van Dokkum, Eales, Emerson, Foucaud, Freudling, Guzzo, Hambly, Hasinger, Hjorth, Ilbert, Irwin, Ivison, Jarvis, Koekemoer, Kneib, Kurk, Labbe, Lacey, Lawrence, Leibundgut, Lilly, Maddox, Mainieri, McCraken, McLure, Mellier, Moller, Nilsson, Olsen, Omont, Orsi, Pedersen, Peacock, Page, Rawlings, Renzini, Rix, Rosati, Roettgering, Schinnerer, Scodeggio, Serjeant, Shanks, Simpson, Smail, Somerville, Sutherland, Taniguchi, Tasca, Tresse, Valentijn, Walton, Williams, van der Werf, Zamorani:

'Ultra-VISTA: an Ultra Deep Survey with VISTA'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

F

VIRCAM 38.0 h

 

179.A-2006

Jarvis, Almaini, Bell, Bremer, Brinchmann, Caputi, Cimatti, Cirasuolo, Clewley, Simpson, Collins, Cotter, Oliver, Dalton, Dunlop, Edge, Emerson, Gonzalez-Solares, McLure, Meisenheimer, Rawlings, Smail, Sutherland, Franx, Le Fevre, Hodgkin, Ivison, Foerster-Schreiber, Jones, Kay, Kneib, Lehnert, Loveday, Lutz, Mann, Nichol, McHardy, McMahon, Moles, Croom, Peacock, Percival, Readhead, Rix, Romer, Rosati, Roettgering, Serjeant, Sharp, Clowes, Baugh, Venemans, Verma, Villar-Martin, Waddington, Walter, Walton, Wolf:

'VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) Survey'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

F

VIRCAM 130.0 h

 

179.A-2010

McMahon, Lawrence, Castander, Abdalla, Alexander, Alfonso, Bailer-Jones, Balcells, Barcons, Barrado y Navascues, Belikov, Bell, Benitez, Bouvier, Bremer, Bridle, Cairos, Carrera, Caux, Cioni, Collister, Crittenden, Dalton, Davies, Doel, Doherty, Driver, Edge, Edmundson, Emerson, Espinosa, Ferguson, Fernandez, Fosalba, Garcia, Garcia-Bellido, Garzon, Gaztanaga, Goldman, Gilmore, Gonzales, Hambly, Hererro, Hewett, Hodgkin, Ibata, Infante, Irwin, James, Jameson, Jarvis, Jones, Jones, Kendall, Kroupa, Kumar, Lagache, Lahav, Lalli, Liddle, Lodieu, Loveday, Lucas, Maartens, Manchado, Mann, Martin, Martin, Martinez, Maza, Miquel, Miralda-Escude, Moles, Molla, Monin, Moraux, Munoz-Tunon, Naylor, Nichol, O'Brien, Oliver, Omont, Page, Palla, Peacock, Percival, Perez-Fournon, Peroux, Petitjean, Phillips, Pinfield, Puget, Randich, Rawlings, Rebelo, Riello, Rix, Romer, Roettgering, Rowan-Robinson, Sanchez, Savage, Scholz, Serjeant, Shanks, Somerville, Smith, Sutherland, Swope, Tanvir, Testi, Venemans, Viana, Walter, Walton, Warren, Watson, Webb, Weller, Wolf, Zinnecker, Zucker:

'The VISTA Hemisphere Survey(VHS)'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

F

VIRCAM 311.0 h

 

183.C-0437

Bonfils, Delfosse, Forveille, Gillon, Mayor, Perrier, Santos, Udry:

'Planets Around M Dwarfs: The Shortcut to Happiness'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

M

HARPS 2.0 n

M

HARPS 9.0 n

N

HARPS 3.0 n

N

HARPS 7.0 n

 

183.D-0729

Bazot, Arentoft, Asplund, Bedding, Carfantan, Castro, Chaplin, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Dias do Nascimento, Dintrans, Elsworth, Ireland, Kjeldsen, Meléndez, Metcalfe, Monteiro, Santos, Sousa, Petit, Théado, Vauclair:

'Multi-disciplinary survey of the solar-twin 18 \emph{Sco}: a multi-site asteroseismic campaign.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

B

HARPS 12.0 n

 

183.C-0972

Udry, Lovis, Mayor, Pepe, Queloz, Benz, Bouchy, Lo Curto, Santos, Ségransan:

'A census of the super-Earth and Neptune-mass planet population around solar-type stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

HARPS 7.0 n

 

183.C-1005

Udry, Lovis, Mayor, Pepe, Queloz, Benz, Bouchy, Lo Curto, Santos, Ségransan:

'Duplicate: A census of the super-Earth and Neptune-mass planet population around solar-type stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

HARPS 2.0 n

G

HARPS 5.0 n

H

HARPS 7.0 n

I

HARPS 7.0 n

J

HARPS 7.0 n

 

184.D-1140

Benetti, Turatto, Cappellaro, Patat, Fransson, Taubenberger, Sollerman, Agnoletto, Pastorello, Valenti, Schmidt, Pain, Danziger, Zampieri, Mazzali, Della Valle, Elias-Rosa, Mattila, Leibundgut, Sullivan, Pumo, Navasardyan, Miluzio, Bufano, Saurer, Harutyunyan, Inserra:

'Supernova Variety and Nucleosynthesis Yields'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

K

EFOSC2 2.0 n

L

SOFI 2.0 n

M

EFOSC2 2.0 n

N

SOFI 2.0 n

O

EFOSC2 2.0 n

P

SOFI 2.0 n

 

184.C-1143

Hainaut, Boehnhardt, Protopapa, Buie, Hsieh, Kleyna, Licandro, Lowry, Meech, Mueller, Snodgrass, Tozzi, Carraro:

'Main Belt Comets - a new class of minor bodies'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

F

EFOSC2 4.0 n

 

185.D-0056

Poretti, Baglin, Catala, Michel, Rainer, Uytterhoeven, Aerts, Amado, Briquet, Carrier, Creevey, De Cat, Desmet, Floquet, Frémat, Garrido, Gutierrez-Soto, Hareter, Huat, Hubert, Mantegazza, Martin-Ruiz, Mathias, Moya, Neiner, Papics, Semaan, Suarez, Zima:

'Extending the ground-based observations of CoRoT asteroseismic targets'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

HARPS 10.0 n

K

HARPS 5.0 n

 

185.C-1033

Lowry, Duddy, Fitzsimmons, Green, Hicks, Laird, Rozitis, Snodgrass, Weissman, Wolters:

'Direct Detections of the Asteroidal YORP Effect'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

M

EFOSC2 3.0 n

N

EFOSC2 3.0 n

O

EFOSC2 3.0 n

 

186.C-0756

Smart, Tinney, Andrei, Burningham, Jones, Leggett, Pinfield, Bucciarelli, Costa, Crosta, Day-Jones, Goldman, Lattanzi, Lucas, Mendez, Marocco, Penna, Qi, Vecchiato, Yu:

'NPARSEC: NTT PARallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

M

SOFI 2.0 n

M

SOFI 2.0 n

N

SOFI 2.0 n

N

SOFI 2.0 n

O

SOFI 2.0 n

O

SOFI 2.0 n

P

SOFI 2.0 n

P

SOFI 2.0 n

 

186.A-0798

Rosati, Balestra, Bartelmann, Benitez, Biviano, Borgani, Broadhurst, Czoske, Demarco, Ettori, Girardi, Grillo, Halkola, Lombardi, Nonino, Regoes, Seitz, Tozzi, Boehnert, Coe, Lemze, Medezinski, Ford, Postman, Strazzullo, Umetzu, Zheng, Zitrin:

'Dark Matter Mass Distributions of Hubble Treasury Clusters and the Foundations of LCDM Structure Formation Models'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

F

VIMOS 58.6 h

 

186.A-0898

Fontana, Dunlop, McLure, Faber, Ferguson, Dickinson, Almaini, Caputi, Castellano, Chary, Cirasuolo, Cooray, Conselice, Daddi, Fazio, Giavalisco, Giallongo, Grazian, Grogin, Hathi, Koekemoer, Koo, Lucas, Nonino, Pentericci, Rix, Rosario, Santini, Scarlata, Stark, Targett, van der Wel, Vanzella, Wild, Wuyts, Yan, Zibetti:

'A complete view of the first 2 billion years of galaxy formation'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

HAWKI 17.0 h

H

HAWKI 28.0 h

 

187.A-0437

Boone, Schaerer, Smail, Lutz, Weiss, Menten, Nordon, Pello, Combes, Egami, Kneib, Beelen, Blain, Dessauges, Ivison, Omont, Perez-Gonzalez, Richard, Altieri, Knudsen:

'The LABOCA Lensing Survey'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

LABOCA 30.0 h

 

187.A-0645

Hennawi, Walter, Jahnke, Rix, Meisenheimer, Wisotzki, Maiolino, DeCarli, Rubin, Crighton, Inskip, Yang, Tsalmantza, Maier, DeRosa, DallÁglio, Prochaska, Ellison, Worseck, Richards, Hall, Boroson:

'A SOFI Legacy Survey of Bright Quasars in the UVES Archive: Towards \sim 100 near-IR Spectra'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

EFOSC2 2.5 n

E

SOFI 2.5 n

 

187.B-0909

Zoccali, Gonzalez, Hill, Valenti, Babusiaux, Rejkuba, Vasquez, Minniti, McWilliam, Alves Brito, Renzini, Brown:

'Solving the puzzle of the Milky Way bulge'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

B

FLAMES 65.0 h

 

187.D-0917

Alecian, Neiner, Wade, Grunhut, Aurière, Bagnulo, de Batz, Böhm, Bouret, Braithwaite, Catala, Folsom, Fourtune-Ravard, Henrichs, Kochukhov, Landstreet, Lignières, Marcolino, Martins, Mathis, Montmerle, Oksala, Owocki, Petit, Silvester:

'Magnetism in Massive Stars: the MiMeS project'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

HARPS 7.0 n

 

188.C-0265

Melendez, Asplund, Bean, Baumann, Alves-Brito, Dreizler, Monroe, Ramírez, Casagrande, Lind:

'Planets around solar twins: tracing planet formation using highly accurate abundance determinations'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

HARPS 7.0 n

D

HARPS 4.0 n

 

188.C-0493

King, Patience, Vigan, Baraffe:

'Testing models of the L-to-T transition through variability of field brown dwarfs'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

B

SOFI 7.0 n

 

188.C-0779

Bouchy, Alonso, Bonomo, Deleuil, Diaz, Fridlund, Guenther, Guillot, Hatzes, Hébrard, Queloz, Lovis, Moutou, Santerne:

'Characterization of \textit{CoRoT} transiting exoplanets'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

HARPS 3.0 n

C

HARPS 4.0 n

D

HARPS 6.0 n

 

188.B-3002

Gilmore, RANDICH, Asplund, Binney, Bonifacio, Drew, Feltzing, Ferguson, Jeffries, Micela, Negueruela, Prusti, Rix, Vallenari, Aden, Affer, Alcala, Alfaro, Allende Prieto, Altavilla, Alves, Antoja, Arenou, Argiroffi, Asensio Ramos, Babusiaux, Bailer-Jones, Balaguer-Nunez, Barbuy, Barisevicius, Barrado y Navascues, Battistini, Bellas-Velidis, Bellazzini, Belokurov, Bensby, Bergemann, Bertelli, Biazzo, Bienayme, Bland-Hawthorn, Blomme, Boeche, Bonito, Boudreault, Bouvier, Bragaglia, Brandao, Brown, de Brujine, Burleigh, Caballero, Caffau, Calura, Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Caramazza, Carraro, Casagrande, Casewell, Chapman, Chiappini, Chorniy, Christlieb, Cignoni, Cocozza, Colless, Collet, Collins, Correnti, Covino, Crnojevic, Cropper, Cunha, Damiani, David, Delgado, Duffau, Van Eck, Edvardsson, Enke, Eriksson, Evans, Eyer, Famaey, Fellhauer, Ferreras, Figueras, Fiorentino, Flaccomio, Flynn, Folha, Franciosini, Francois, Frasca, Freeman, Fremat, Friel, Gaensicke, Gameiro, Garzon, Geier, Geisler, Gibson, Gieles, Gomboc, Gomez, Gonzalez-Fernandez, Gonzalez Hernandez, Grebel, Greimel, Groenewegen, Grundahl, Guarcello, Gustafsson, Hadrava, Hadzidimitriou, Hambly, Hammersley, Hansen, Haywood, Heber, Heiter, Held, Helmi, Hensler, Herrero, Hill, Hodgkin, Huelamo, Huxor, Ibata, Irwin, Jackson, de Jong, Jonker, Jordan, Jordi, Jorissen, Katz, Kawata, Keller, Kharchenko, Klement, Klutsch, Knude, Koch, Kochukhov, Kontizas, Koposov, Korn, Koubsky, Lanzafame, Lallement, de Laverny, van Leeuwen, Lemasle, Lewis, Lind, Lindstrom, Lopez Santiago, Lucas, Ludwig, Lueftinger, Maiz Apellaniz, Magrini, Maldonado, Marconi, Matijevic, McMahon, Meyer, Messina, Miglio, Mikolaitis, Minchev, Minniti, Moitinho, Molawi, Momany, Monaco, Monier, Montalto, Monteiro, Montes, Mora, Moraux, Morel, Morino, Mowlavi, Mucciarelli, Munari, Napiwotzki, Nardetto, Naylor, Nelemans, Okamoto, Ortolani, Pace, Palla, Palous, Pancino, Parker, Pasquini, Paunzen, Penarrubia, Pillitteri, Piotto, Posbic, Prisinzano, Puzeras, Quirrenbach, Ragaini, Read, Recio-Blanco, Reyle, Robichon, Robin, Roeser, Romano, Royer, Ruchti, Ruzicka, Ryan, Ryde, Sacco, Santos, Sanz Forcada, Sarro Baro, Sbordone, Schilbach, Schmeja, Schnurr, Schoenrich, Scholz, Seabroke, Sharma, De Silva, Smiljanic, Smith, Solano, Sordo, Soubiran, Sousa, Spagna, Steffen, Steinmetz, Stelzer, Stempels, Tabernero, Tautvaisiene, Thevenin, Torra, Tosi, Tolstoy, Turon, Walker, Walton, Wambsganss, Worley, Venn, Vink, Wyse, Zaggia, Zeilinger, Zoccali, Zorec, Zucker, Zwitter:

'The Gaia-ESO Survey'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

FLAMES 5.0 n

E

FLAMES 5.0 n

F

FLAMES 5.0 n

G

FLAMES 5.0 n

H

FLAMES 5.0 n

I

FLAMES 5.0 n

 

188.D-3003

Smartt, Benetti, Cappellaro, Zampieri, Botticella, Sullivan, Hook, Maguire, Turatto, Bufano, Inserra, Hillebrandt, Taubenberger, Mazzali, Kotak, Pastorello, Valenti, Fraser, McCrum, Smith, Mattila, Sollerman, Fransson, Ergon, Jerkstrand, Kankare, Lundqvist, Goobar, Stritzinger, Amanullah, Nordin, Patat, Pain, Regnault, Le Guillou, Dennefeld, Marquette, Elias-Rosa, Isern, Stanishev, Kowalski, Langer, Eldridge, Gal-Yam, Schmidt, Scalzo, Sim, Yuan, Baltay, Danziger, Greggio, Pumo, Limongi, Maund, Rest, Huber, Stubbs, Della Valle, Dall'Ora, Blondin, Hamuy, Pignata, Ostman, Harutyunyan, Clocchiatti:

'A public spectroscopic survey of the Transient Universe'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

EFOSC2 1.5 n

B

SOFI 1.5 n

C

EFOSC2 1.5 n

D

SOFI 1.5 n

E

EFOSC2 1.5 n

F

SOFI 1.5 n

G

EFOSC2 1.5 n

H

SOFI 1.5 n

I

EFOSC2 1.5 n

J

SOFI 1.5 n

K

EFOSC2 1.5 n

L

SOFI 1.5 n

 

189.D-0165

Caffau, Bonifacio, Fran\c cois, Spite, Spite, Ludwig, Steffen, Christlieb, Koch, Cayrel, Sbordone, Monaco, Zaggia, Plez, Klessen, Glover, Clark:

'Search for the “critical metallicity” for low mass star formation'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 40.0 h

 

189.C-0313

Pontoppidan, Pascucci, Banzatti, Flaccomio, Salyk, Carmona, Blake, Meeus, Sterzik, Kaufl, Meyer, Sacco, Alexander, Kamp, Dullemond:

'Protoplanetary disks as chemical factories: A spectroscopic survey of the thermo-chemical evolution of planet-forming regions'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

VISIR 2.0 n

A

VISIR 2.0 n

 

189.A-0424

Lopez, Becker, Christensen, Cristiani, Cupani, Dessauges-Zavadsky, D'Odorico, Ellison, Haehnelt, Hamann, Hennawi, Menard, Paris, Prochaska, Raghunathan, Viel, Wisotzki, Worseck:

'Quasars and their absorption lines: a legacy survey of the high redshift universe with X-shooter'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 50.0 h

 

189.C-0644

Sana, Le Bouquin, Kratter, de Koter, Lacour, Absil, Berger, Lazareff, Millan-Gabet, Schnurr, Zinnecker:

'A VLTI/PIONIER multiplicity survey of O-type stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

PIONIER 5.0 n

B

PIONIER 5.0 n

E

NACO 3.0 n

 

189.B-0925

Trager, Peletier, Lan\c con, Prugniel, Vazdekis, Chen, Gonneau, Meneses-Goytia, Koleva, Cenarro, Falcón-Barroso, Mármol-Queraltó, Sánchez-Blázquez, Silva, Walcher:

'XSL: The X-Shooter Spectral Library'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 28.0 h