Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 80

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.

080.D-0008

Gorosabel, LLorente, de Ugarte Postigo, Castro-Tirado, Jelínek:

'Are hypernova explosions aespherical?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS15.0 h

 

080.D-0107

Baade, Maund, Clocchiatti, Patat, Wang, Höflich, Wheeler:

'Polarimetry of Core-Collapse Supernovae - Probing the Nature of Asymmetric Explosions'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS113.6 h

 

080.D-0108

Baade, Wang, Clocchiatti, Patat, Maund, Höflich, Wheeler:

'Spectropolarimetry of Type Ia Supernovae: Probing the Explosion Physics, Binary Nature, and Cosmological Calibration'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS116.0 h

 

080.D-0167

Greiner, Savaglio, Klose, Jehin, Haiman, Hartmann, Szokoly, McBreen, Küpcü Yolda\c{s}, Primak, Clemens, Krühler, Ferrero, Kann, Schulze, Updike:

'High-resolution spectroscopy of GROND-selected high-redshift GRBs: Probing the very early Universe'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS215.0 h
B
UVES7.0 h
C
ISAAC21.0 h

 

080.D-0229

Della Valle, Chincarini, Mirabel, Benetti, Covino, DÁvanzo, Hurley, Stella, Gilmozzi, Antonelli, Campana, Fiore, Goldoni, Stratta, Tagliaferri, Zerbi:

'Gamma-ray Bursts from "Bright" and "Dark" Hypernovae: a Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of their Progenitors'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS24.0 h
B
FORS210.0 h

 

080.D-0250

Covino, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Chincarini, DÁvanzo, Della Valle, di Serego Alighieri, Fiore, Gehrels, Goldoni, Lazzati, Mason, Mereghetti, Mirabel, Osborne, Rossi, Stella, Tagliaferri:

'Polarimetry of gamma-ray burst afterglows: a close look at the shock front'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS11.0 h
B
FORS11.0 h
C
FORS12.0 h
D
FORS13.0 h

 

080.C-0257

Boehnhardt, Kaufl, Kerber, Lippi, Mumma, Prialnik:

'Clues on the formation of the Solar System from high resolution IR spectroscopy of comets'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
CRIRES14.0 h

 

080.A-0398

Fiore, Angelini, Antonelli, Burrows, Chincarini, D'Elia, Della Valle, Gehrels, Giannini, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Meurs, Nousek, Goldoni, Perna, Piranomonte, Stella, Tagliaferri, Molinari, see also end of box 9):

'A flash in the dark: probing high redshift galaxies through VLT/RRM/ToO observations of GRB afterglows.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES3.0 h
B
UVES3.0 h
C
FORS25.0 h
D
FORS25.0 h

 

080.D-0430

Dessart, Leonard, Leibundgut, Blondin, Schmidt, Hillier, Matheson, Hicken, Kirshner, Spyromilio:

'Inferring the morphology of Type II supernova explosions'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS129.0 h

 

080.D-0438

Mattila, Smartt, Crockett, Pastorello, Kotak, Eldridge, Young, Maund, Danziger, ElMhamdi:

'Imaging the progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NAOS-CONICA'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
NACO10.0 h

 

080.D-0477

Sollerman, Davis, Stritzinger, Leibundgut, Spyromilio, Blondin, Challis, Kirshner:

' Testing for Spectroscopic Evolution in High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS24.5 h
B
FORS24.5 h
C
FORS24.5 h

 

080.D-0526

Vreeswijk, Fynbo, Ellison, Ledoux, Jaunsen, Smette, Moller, Hjorth, Wijers, Gorosabel, Greiner, Jakobsson, Klose, Kouveliotou, Malesani, Rol, Savaglio, Tanvir, Thone, Wiersema:

'Spectroscopy of Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows in the Swift era'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES6.0 h
B
FORS23.0 h
C
FORS18.0 h
D
FORS21.0 h
E
ISAAC2.0 h
F
SOFI2.0 h

 

080.A-0593

Lidman, Goobar, Pain:

'A pilot study with the LGS mode of NACO to measure precise distances to Type Ia supernovae'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
NACO6.0 h

 

080.D-0643

Levan, Wijers, Tanvir, Hjorth, Kouveliotou, Ramirez-Ruiz, Fynbo, Jakobsson, Watson, Bersier, Chapman, Vreeswijk, Starling, Wiersema, O'Brien, Rol, Gorosabel, Fruchter, Castro-Tirado, Klose, Pian:

'The progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS12.0 h
B
FORS16.0 h
C
FORS26.0 h
D
FORS12.0 h
E
FORS22.0 h
F
ISAAC2.0 h
G
ISAAC2.0 h

 

080.B-0706

Saxton, Sánchez-Portal, Altieri, Read, Equej, Freyberg, Komossa:

'Spectroscopy of tidal disruption candidates discovered in the XMM-Newton slew survey'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
EMMI4.6 h
B
EMMI4.6 h

 

080.A-0746

Tanvir, Levan, Rol, Priddey, Jakobsson, Wijers, Hjorth, Kouveliotou, Fruchter, Fynbo, Watson, O'Brien, Vreeswijk, Starling, Wiersema, Bremer, Gorosabel, Castro-Tirado, Pian, Bersier:

'Probing the high-redshift universe with GRBs'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC3.0 h
B
FORS22.0 h
C
SOFI4.0 h
D
ISAAC1.0 h
E
FORS21.0 h
F
SOFI2.0 h

 

080.D-0792

Covino, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Chincarini, Cusumano, Della Valle, Fiore, Gehrels, Goldoni, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Mirabel, Molinari, Nousek, Osborne, Stella, Tagliaferri:

'The Physics of the Afterglows of Long Gamma Ray Bursts'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS22.0 h
B
ISAAC2.0 h
C
FORS23.0 h
D
SUSI26.0 h
E
ISAAC3.0 h
F
SOFI6.0 h

 

080.A-0825

Tagliaferri, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Chincarini, Covino, Della Valle, Fiore, Gehrels, Giommi, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Mirabel, Nousek, Osborne, Salvaterra, Saracco, Stella, also box 9:

'GRBs as Probes of the Very Young Universe'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
SINFONI2.0 h
B
SINFONI5.0 h
C
ISAAC6.0 h
D
FORS26.0 h
E
EMMI6.0 h
F
SOFI6.0 h

 

080.D-0844

Maitra, Casella, Russell, Wiersema, Stefanescu, Schödel, Klein-Wolt, O'Brien, Markoff, Fender, Bailyn, Maccarone, Kanbach, Belloni, Wijnands, van der Klis:

'Infrared Polarization and rapid time variability in transient X-ray binary systems harboring black hole candidates'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC6.0 h
B
ISAAC8.0 h

 

080.D-0906

Stella, Antonelli, Burrows, Campana, Covino, Chincarini, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, Della Valle, Fiore, Gehrels, Guetta, Hurley, Lazzati, Mason, Perna, Piranomonte, Stratta, Tagliaferri:

'Unveiling the Nature of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts through the Study of their Afterglows'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS12.0 h
B
ISAAC1.0 h
C
FORS112.0 h
D
ISAAC12.0h
E
SINFONI2.0 h