Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 89

 

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.

089.D-0017

Rau, Greiner, Kruehler, Akerlof, Cenko, Schmidt, Elliot, Filgas, Gruber, Kann, Klose, McBreen, Nicuesa, Olivares, Rapoport, Rossi, Savaglio, Schady, von Kienlin, Weikang:

'Redshift determination of bright \textit{Fermi} GRBs: probing the GRB emission mechanism and circumburst environments.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.0 h

 

089.D-0026

Liefke, Elsaesser, Fuhrmeister, Ganse, Rudolf, Ness, Schmitt, Mannheim:

'Chasing stellar giant flares with UVES or X-Shooter in Rapid Response Mode'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

C

UVES 1.0 h

D

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

 

089.D-0033

Pian, Della Valle, Mazzali, Bufano, Chincarini, Amati, Antonelli, Baade, Benetti, Bersier, Campana, Cappellaro, Castro-Tirado, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, Deng, Ferrero, Filippenko, Fiore, Fruchter, Fynbo, Gilmozzi, Goldoni, Gorosabel, Greiner, Guetta, Guidorzi, Hjorth, Hurley, Kawabata, Klose, Kouveliotou, Maeda, Malesani, Marconi, Margutti, Masetti, Matheson, Melandri, Mirabel, Moller, Nomoto, Nicastro, Palazzi, Panagia, Patat, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Sollerman, Starling, Stella, Stratta, Tagliaferri, Tanaka, Tanvir, Valenti, Vergani, Vietri, Wiersema, Wijers:

'The quest for the progenitors of long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 12.0 h

B

FORS2 12.0 h

 

089.B-0047

Feltzing, Johnson, Adén, Asplund, Bensby, Gal-Yam, Gould, Lucatello, Meléndez:

'Metallicities, abundance ratios, and ages for dwarf stars in the Galactic bulge - using micro-lensing events to probe the properties of the Galactic bulge'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 2.4 h

B

UVES 2.4 h

C

UVES 2.4 h

D

UVES 2.4 h

E

UVES 2.4 h

F

UVES 2.4 h

G

UVES 2.4 h

H

UVES 2.4 h

I

UVES 2.4 h

J

UVES 2.4 h

K

UVES 2.4 h

L

UVES 2.4 h

M

UVES 2.4 h

N

UVES 2.4 h

O

UVES 2.4 h

 

089.A-0051

D'Elia, Fiore, Antonelli, Campana, Covino, DÁvanzo, de Ugarte Postigo, D'Odorico, Fernandez-Soto, Fugazza, Jin, Krongold, Meurs, Mirabel, Nicastro, Norci, Onori, Palazzi, Perna, Pian, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Stella, Tagliaferri, Vergani:

'A flash in the dark: probing high redshift galaxies through UVES-VLT Rapid Response mode and Target of Opportunity observations of GRB afterglows'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 0.8 h

B

UVES 2.3 h

 

089.D-0147

Covino, Wieserma, Melandri, Wijers, Mundell, Campana, Curran, DÁvanzo, di Serego, Fan, Fynbo, Ghirlanda, Ghisellini, Gomboc, Götz, Greiner, Gorosabel, Guidorzi, Hjorth, Jin, Klose, Kobayashi, Kopac, Kouveliotou, Levan, Malesani, Palazzi, Pian, Ramirez-Ruiz, Rol, Russell, Salvaterra, Sbarufatti, Smith, Starling, Steele, Tagliaferri, Tanvir, van der Horst, Vergani, Vreeswijk:

'Probing gamma-ray burst blast waves through polarimetry'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 11.0 h

B

FORS2 2.0 h

C

FORS2 0.5 h

D

ISAAC 3.0 h

E

FORS2 1.0 h

 

089.D-0191

Chaty, Grenier, Corbel, Burrows, Caraveo, de Luca, Dubus, Gehrels, Reimer, Thompson, Coleiro:

'ToO observation of a new bright transient discovered by Fermi-GST in the Galactic plane'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 2.7 h

B

FORS2 0.8 h

 

089.C-0218

Fletcher, Orton, Sanchez-Lavega, Irwin, de Pater, Simon-Miller, Mousis:

'Jupiter's Evolving Atmosphere: Identifying the Sources of Variability'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

VISIR 1.8 h

B

VISIR 1.8 h

 

089.D-0256

de Ugarte Postigo, Muñoz Darias, Campana, Gorosabel, Casares, Covino, DÁvanzo, Castro-Tirado, Rodriguez-Gil, Fynbo:

'Spectroscopy of an active magnetar'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 5.0 h

 

089.D-0266

Greiner, Bertoldi, Menten, Weiss, Krühler, Rau, Schady, Klose, Moin, Tingay, Wieringa:

'Testing the GRB fireball model'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 24.0 h

 

089.D-0267

de Ugarte Postigo, Bremer, Campana, Castro-Tirado, Covino, DÁvanzo, De Breuck, Dumke, Fynbo, Garcia-Appadoo, Gorosabel, Guziy, Hancock, Hjorth, Jelinek, Kubanek, Lundgren, Llorente, Martin, Murphy, Perez-Ramirez, Salvaterra, Thöne, Winters:

'Observing the peak emission of gamma-ray bursts afterglows in submillimeter frequencies'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 18.0 h

 

089.D-0270

Smartt, McCrum, Fraser, Kotak, Magill, Chen, Wright, Bresolin, Rest:

'“Ultra-bright” optical transients : giant supernovae in dwarf galaxies'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

C

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

D

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

089.D-0305

Fraser, Smartt, Mattila, Elias-Rosa, Benetti, Maund, Pastorello, Eldridge, Valenti, Sollerman, Danziger, Ergon, Kotak, Fransson, Jerkstrand:

'The progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NACO'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

NACO 3.0 h

B

NACO 3.0 h

 

089.C-0314

Sicardy, Doressoundiram, Lellouch, Ribas, Roques, Widemann, Colas, Assafin, Andrei, Camargo, Vieira Martins, Silva Neto, Dumas, Ivanov, Ortiz:

'Beyond Neptune: studying Trans-Neptunian Objects using stellar occultations'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 3.0 h

B

SOFI 4.0 h

 

089.A-0436

Leibundgut, Blondin, Della Valle, Rosati, Rodney, Riess, Maoz, Postman:

'SN rate at high redshift and the composition of the universe'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 15.0 h

 

089.A-0438

Ledoux, Vreeswijk, Smette, De Cia, Petitjean, Fox:

'UVES-RRM observations of time variability in absorption lines from the ISM at high redshift suddenly exposed to a g-ray burst'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 3.0 h

B

UVES 3.0 h

 

089.D-0450

Levan, Tanvir, Hjorth, Rowlinson, Tunnicliffe, Fynbo, Wijers, Jakobsson, Malesani, Starling, Wiersema, O'Brien, Watson:

'The progenitors of short duration gamma-ray bursts and their role as probes'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

B

FORS2 3.0 h

C

FORS2 1.5 h

D

HAWKI 2.0 h

E

HAWKI 1.0 h

 

089.D-0515

Pignata, Dessart, Bauer, Anderson, Leonard, Hillier:

'The Explosion Geometry of Red Supergiant Stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 28.0 h

 

089.D-0729

Tanvir, Greiner, Bersier, Bremer, Castro-Tirado, Elliott, Filgas, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Haiman, Hartmann, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Kann, Klose, Krühler, Küpcü Yolda\c s, Levan, Malesani, McBreen, Nardini, Nicuesa, Olivares, Pian, Rau, Rossi, Savaglio, Starling, Sudilovsky, Updike, Watson, Wiersema, Wijers:

'Probing the very early Universe with high-redshift GRBs'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 4.0 h

B

SINFONI 3.0 h

C

HAWKI 4.0 h

D

FORS2 3.0 h

 

089.D-0816

Kann, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Klose, Greiner, Krühler, Rossi, Rau, Schady, Filgas, Elliot, Afonso, Olivares E., Savaglio, Pierini, Burlon, Gruber, Schmidl, Nardini, McBreen, Küpcü Yoldas, Updike:

'Uncovering a new Domain: RRM Observations of the Early Afterglows of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

B

FORS2 1.0 h

 

089.C-0849

Jehin, Hartogh, Bockelée-Morvan, Biver, Hutsemékers, Manfroid, Kawakita, Kobayashi, Smette, Weiler, Decock, Rousselot, Lobanova:

'The isotopic and molecular composition of a bright Herschel ToO comet A multi-wavelength approach'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

CRIRES 9.5 h

B

FORS2 4.5 h

C

UVES 11.0 h

 

089.B-0887

Levan, Tanvir, Cenko, Read, Wiersema, Saxton, Tunnicliffe:

'Optical follow-up of newly discovered tidal disruption events'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 4.0 h

B

FORS2 3.0 h