Accepted DDT Requests in Period 79

279.B-5004

Dalla Bont\`a, Ferrarese, Miralda-Escudé, Corsini, Coccato, Pizzella:

'SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN BRIGHTEST CLUSTER GALAXIES: DEFINING THE UPPER END OF THE BLACK HOLE-BULGE RELATIONSHIP'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
EMMI2.5 h

 

279.D-5006

Wang, Kaspi, Bassa, Dib, Tam:

'Constraining the emission mechanism of an anomalous X-ray pulsar'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.0 h

 

279.C-5009

Mohanty, Ménard, Jayawardhana:

'NACO Differential Polarimetry: Confirming an Edge-On Disk around the Planetary Mass Companion 2M1207B'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO8.0 h

 

279.C-5010

Schmidt, Vogt, Bedalov, Neuhäuser, Seifahrt, Hauschildt:

'Confirmation of the planetary mass status of a newly identified co-moving companion around a T Tauri star using near infrared integral field spectroscopy'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SINFONI2.0 h

 

279.D-5014

Chesneau, Nardetto, Millour, Kraus, Wittkowski, Hummel, Schoeller, Banerjee, Ashok, Das:

'Observing the massive dust formation event of the nova V1280 Sco with MIDI/VLTI'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
MIDI3.0 h

 

279.A-5015

Jerjen, Walsh, Saviane:

'A Pair of Bo\"otes: a New Milky Way Satellite'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.5 h

 

279.C-5016

Meech, Hainaut, Lowry, Chesley, A'Hearn, Kleyna, Pittichová:

'Recovery of Deep Impact Extended Mission Target Comet 85P/Boethin'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS29.5 h

 

279.C-5017

Ahmic, Brandeker, Jayawardhana:

'Confirmation of a Sub-Stellar Companion Candidate'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO1.0 h

 

279.C-5018

Jörgens:

'Follow-up of very low-mass radial velocity companion of brown dwarf'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES2.3 h

 

279.C-5020

Ivanov, Caceres, Mason, Naef, Selman, Melo, Pietrzynski, Minniti:

'Timing the first transiting Neptune-mass extrasolar planet: search for additional bodies in the system and accurate planet radius measurement'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SOFI2.5 h

 

279.D-5021

Gandhi, Dhillon, Fabian, Makishima, Marsh, Miller:

'Optical spectroscopy of black holes candidates GX339-4 and SWIFT~J1753.5-0127 during simultaneous multi-wavelength rapid timing observations'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.8 h

 

279.B-5022

Schödel, Baganoff, Eckart, Markoff, Krips, Morris, Meyer, Straubmeier:

'A coordinated, multi-wavelength campaign to constrain the properties of Sagittarius~A*: The importance of MIR observations'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
VISIR18.0 h

 

279.D-5024

Ruiz, Patricio Rojo, Miriam Peña, Torres-Peimbert:

'A supernova Ia in the making.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
EMMI1.7 h
B
EMMI1.7 h
C
EMMI1.7 h
D
EMMI1.7 h

 

279.C-5026

Reiners, Seifahrt, Basri:

'Determining the magnetic field and testing magnetospheric accretion in the young nearby accreting brown dwarf 2MASSW~J1207334-393254'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES3.6 h

 

279.D-5030

Campana, DÁvanzo, Malesani, Chincarini, Covino, Della Valle, Israel, Stella, Tagliaferri:

'SWIFT J195509.6+261406: an enigmatic bursting object'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.5 h

 

279.C-5031

van den Ancker, van der Plas, Waters, Dominik, Bik:

'MWC 480: A water world in the making?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
CRIRES2.0 h

 

279.D-5032

Burderi, Testa, Antonelli, Menna, Di Salvo, Burgay, Possenti, Riggio, Papitto, DÁmico, Bozzo:

'VLT observations of newly discovered X-Ray millisecond binary pulsar SWIFT J1756.9-2508'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO1.0 h

 

279.D-5033

Castro-Tirado, de Ugarte Postigo, Gorosabel, Jelínek, Cunniffe, Kubanek, Sokolov, Fakthullin:

'Unveiling the nature of the bursting source SWIFT J195509.6+261406'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.5 h
B
NACO3.0 h

 

279.C-5035

Licandro, Boehnhardt, Tozzi, Hainaut, Pinilla-Alonso, de León, Campins:

'What drives the unusual, but recurrent activity of the comet-asteroid (7968) Elst-Pizarro around perihelion passage?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS11.0 h
B
FORS11.0 h

 

279.C-5036

Stecklum, Bourke, Chini, Froebrich:

'A Brown Dwarf in the Making'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO4.0 h

 

279.D-5037

Burderi, Di Salvo, Menna, Testa, Israel, Antonelli, Burgay, Possenti, Riggio, Papitto, DÁmico, Bozzo:

'IR follow-up of the accreting millisecond pulsar SWIFT J1756.9-2508 with the NACO camera at the VLT'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO2.0 h

 

279.C-5039

Folkes, Pinfield, Jones:

'A new bright nearby (<10pc) L-T transition type brown dwarf lying near the Galactic centre'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SOFI0.5 h

 

279.C-5041

Rojo, Margot:

'First Mass and Density Measurements of a Primitive B-type Asteroid'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO3.0 h

 

279.D-5042

Hubrig, Schoeller, Yudin, Pogodin, Curé:

'The impact of the magnetic field on the interaction between the massive components in \upsilon Sgr'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS12.5 h

 

279.C-5043

Orton, Mousis, Vanzi, Yanamandra-Fisher, Fletcher, Sánchez-Lavega, Pérez-Hoyos, Hueso, Barrado:

'Dynamics and Chemistry of Rapid Planetary-Scale Evolution in Jupiter'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
VISIR4.0 h

 

279.C-5044

Kubas, Beaulieu, Bennett, Brillant, Bond, Gould, Udalski, Fouqué:

'High Resolution Imaging of the Planetary Host Stars for Planetary Microlensing Events in Progress'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO3.0 h

 

279.D-5045

Hilker, Jordi, Baumgardt, Grebel, Kroupa:

'A deep CMD of Pal 14 - decision between MOND and Newton'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS24.0 h
B
FORS13.0 h

 

279.A-5048

Pompei, Iovino:

'DPOSS II compact groups survey: completing the EMMI/NTT spectroscopic follow-up of P78'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
EMMI5.5 h

 

279.C-5052

Boccaletti, Baudoz, Riaud, Montagnier, Chauvin, Beuzit, Ségransan:

'Searching for Planets and Brown Dwarf Companions using Four-Quadrant Phase Mask Coronography coupled with Simultaneous Differential Imaging.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO2.0 n

 

279.B-5054

Bianchi, La Franca, Matt:

'Ha spectroscopy of NGC 7213. Is the iron Ka line produced in the BLR?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
EMMI1.0 h

 

279.A-5055

Petitjean, Srianand, Gupta, Chand, Saikia:

'Probing the time variation of fundamental constants using a unique 21-cm absorber'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES5.0 h

 

279.C-5056

Orton, Mousis, Vanzi, Yanamandra-Fisher, Fletcher, Sánchez-Lavega, Pérez-Hoyos, Hueso, Barrado:

'Characterization of Rapid Planetary-Scale Evolution near Jupiter's GRS'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
VISIR1.0 h

 

279.D-5059

Kurtz, Elkin, Freyhammer, Mathys:

'The extreme magnetic Ap star HD 965'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES2.2 h

 

279.C-5062

Meech, Hainaut, Lowry, Chesley, A'Hearn, Kleyna, Pittichová:

'Recovery of Deep Impact Extended Mission Target Comet 85P/Boethin'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.3 h
B
FORS11.3 h
C
VIMOS1.3 h

 

279.D-5064

Kervella, Domiciano de Souza:

'Adaptive optics imaging and spectroscopy of a source near Achernar'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO1.0 h

 

279.C-5065

Cassan, Beaulieu, Bennett, Brillant, Bond, Gould, Kubas, Udalski, Fouqué:

'High Resolution Imaging of the Planetary Host Star of a Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO1.5 h