Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 91

 

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.

091.D-0024

Rau, Greiner, Akerlof, Cenko, Schmidt, Elliott, Gruber, Kann, Klose, Kruehler, McBreen, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Rapoport, Rossi, Savaglio, Schady, Schmidl, von Kienlin, Zheng:

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 1.5 h

B

FORS2 1.5 h

 

091.A-0067

Leibundgut, 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

 

091.B-0088

Gillessen, Genzel, Eisenhauer, Ott, Pfuhl, Fritz, Blind:

'Watching the gas cloud G2 disrupt as it approaches the massive black hole in the Galactic Centre'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

SINFONI 3.0 n

B

SINFONI 2.0 n

C

NACO 16.0 h

D

VISIR 4.0 h

 

091.A-0109

Goobar, Kneib, Perlmutter, Amanullah, Lidman, Richard, Fabbro, Johansson, Limousin, Mörtsell, Nordin, Paech, Petrusevska, Riehm, Stanishev:

'Cherry Picked Supernovae: a Zoomed View of SNe Ia and Dark Energy'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

C

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

D

FORS2 3.0 h

E

FORS2 3.0 h

F

FORS2 3.0 h

G

HAWKI 2.6 h

H

HAWKI 2.6 h

I

HAWKI 2.6 h

 

091.D-0131

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

'Testing the GRB fireball model'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 24.0 h

 

091.D-0191

Elliott, Krühler, Greiner, Klose, Rau, Kann, Knust, McBreen, Nardini, Nicuesa, Olivares, Rossi, Schady, Schmidl, Sudilovsky:

'Instantaneous RRM near-infrared imaging of GRB afterglows.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

HAWKI 4.0 h

 

091.B-0289

Feltzing, Johnson, Asplund, Bensby, Gould, Lucatello, Meléndez, Yee:

'Ages in the Galactic bulge - using micro-lensed dwarf stars to probe the age structure and other properties of the central sub-kpc of the Galaxy.'

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

 

091.D-0291

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

'A facet of massive stars final fate: asymmetric core-collapse and long Gamma-ray Bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 12.0 h

B

FORS2 6.0 h

 

091.D-0317

Kann, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Klose, Greiner, Krühler, Rossi, Rau, Schady, Filgas, Elliot, Knust, Afonso, Olivares E., Schmidl, Nardini:

'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

 

091.D-0352

Amanullah, Goobar, Johansson, Lundqvist, Mattila, Nordin, Petrusevska, Sollerman:

'Probing the explosion environment and origin of Type Ia supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 4.0 h

B

UVES 4.0 h

 

091.D-0401

Pignata, Dessart, Bufano, Leonard, Hillier:

'The Explosion Geometry of Red Supergiant Stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 20.0 h

 

091.A-0442

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

'UVES rapid-response mode observations of the ISM at high redshift suddenly exposed to a g-ray burst'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 9.0 h

B

UVES 6.0 h

 

091.D-0516

Maund, Reilly, Baade, Patat, Wheeler, Clocchiatti, Hoflich, Quinn, Spyromilio, Wang, Zelaya:

'From an Explosion of Models to a Model of the Explosion of Core-collapse Supernovae: Geometry as a Physics Discriminator'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.5 h

B

FORS2 17.5 h

C

FORS2 1.5 h

 

091.D-0558

Levan, Tanvir, Hjorth, Rowlinson, Tunnicliffe, Fynbo, Perley, 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

 

091.D-0561

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

'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

 

091.B-0601

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

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 3.0 h

B

FORS2 2.0 h

 

091.D-0749

Smartt, McCrum, Fraser, Kotak, Chen, Inserra, Wright, Nicholl, Jerkstrand:

'“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

 

091.D-0780

Sternberg, Patat, Benetti, Cappellaro, Chandra, Chevalier, Cox, Gal-Yam, Hillebrandt, Justham, Mazzali, Nomoto, Pastorello, Podsiadlowski, Renzini, Turatto:

'Uncovering the Nature of Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 13.0 h

 

091.D-0861

Klose, Greiner, Nomoto, Maeda, Kann, Elliott, Ferrero, Filgas, Knust, Krühler, Nardini, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Olivares E., Rau, Rossi, Schady, Schmidl, Sudilovsky:

'Nailing down the GRB-supernova issue'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.0 h

B

FORS2 2.0 h

C

FORS2 2.0 h

D

FORS2 2.0 h

E

FORS2 2.0 h

F

FORS2 2.0 h

 

091.A-0877

Schady, Savaglio, Greiner, Rau, Elliott, Rossi, Kann, Nardini, Klose:

'Probing the metal-rich ISM at high-z with dust-extinguished GRB afterglows'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 5.7 h