Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 98

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.

 

098.A-0055

Fynbo, Antonelli, Arabsalmani, Cano, Christensen, Covino, DÁvanzo, De Cia, D'Elia, Fiore, Flores, Friis, Groot, Goldoni, Gomboc, Greiner, Hammer, Heintz, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Japelj, Kaper, Krühler, Ledoux, Leloudas, Levan, Maiorano, Malesani, Melandri, Milvang-Jensen, Moller, Palazzi, Perley, Pian, Piranomonte, Pugliese, Savaglio, Schaye, Schady, Schulze, Selsing, Sollerman, Sparre, Tagliaferri, Tanvir, Thöne, de Ugarte Postigo, Vergani, Vreeswijk, Watson, Wiersema, Wijers, Xu:

'The \textit{Swift} GRB afterglow legacy survey: Probing the hearts of star-forming galaxies through cosmic time.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 14.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

098.D-0057

Sullivan, Smartt, Mazzali, DÁndrea, Inserra, Nichol, Prajs, Smith, Thomas, Cartier:

'Very early spectroscopy of superluminous supernovae: Constraining progenitor scenarios'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 7.5 h

B

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

 

098.A-0136

Greiner, Tanvir, Bersier, Bolmer, Bremer, Castro-Tirado, Delvaux, Fynbo, Haiman, Hartmann, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Kann, Klose, Krühler, Levan, Malesani, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Pian, Savaglio, Schady, Schmidl, Starling, Tanga, Varela, Watson, Wiersema, Wijers, Perley:

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

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 4.0 h

B

FORS2 3.0 h

C

HAWKI 4.0 h

 

098.D-0212

Greiner, Varela, Bertoldi, Menten, van Eerten, Weiss, Krühler, Schady, Yu, Klose, Moin, Tingay, Wieringa:

'Testing the GRB fireball model'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 24.0 h

 

098.D-0218

Pian, Bufano, Della Valle, Mazzali, Palazzi, De Cia, Malesani, Rossi, Amati, Baade, Benetti, Bersier, Campana, Cappellaro, Castro-Tirado, Chincarini, DÁvanzo, D'Elia, Ferrero, Filippenko, Fruchter, Fynbo, Greiner, Hjorth, Hunt, Hurley, Kann, Klose, Kouveliotou, Levan, Marconi, Melandri, Moller, Patat, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Sollerman, Starling, Stella, Tagliaferri, Tanaka, Tanvir, Wiersema, Wijers:

'Origin, progenitors and remnants of the powerful supernovae associated with gamma-ray bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 6.0 h

 

098.A-0283

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

'UVES-RRM observations of bright gamma-ray bursts. A lucky insight into high-z star-forming galaxies.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 3.5 h

B

UVES 3.5 h

 

098.C-0326

Sicardy, Bérard, Doressoundiram, Leiva, Lellouch, Meza, Roques, Widemann, Colas, Assafin, Benedetti-Rossi, Braga-Ribas, Camargo, Dias de Oliveira, Vieira Martins, Duffard, Ortiz, Ivanov, Jehin, Vanzi:

'Target of Opportunity Observations: accurate measurements of sizes and shapes \rm of Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects; detection of their rings \rm and monitoring of their f atmospheres\rm'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

B

SOFI 4.5 h

 

098.D-0372

Pian, Palazzi, Branchesi, Brocato, Astone, Benetti, Boer, Bufano, Campana, Cappellaro, Castro-Tirado, Chassande Mottin, Copperwheat, Covino, Fynbo, Gendre, Grado, Hjorth, Kasliwal, Klose, Kouveliotou, Leloudas, Levan, Malesani, Mazzali, Moller, Nicastro, Perley, Piranomonte, Ricci, Rossi, Stella, Stratta, Tanvir, Watson:

'Spectroscopic and imaging follow-up of gravitational radiation sources with the VLT'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 8.0 h

B

FORS2 2.0 h

C

HAWKI 2.0 h

 

098.D-0382

Smartt, Inserra, Chambers, Huber, Young, Smith, Stubbs, Tonry, Coughlin, Maguire, Kotak:

'Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources : XSHOOTER spectra of candidates'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

098.D-0384

Maguire, Childress, Gal-Yam, Mazzali, Patat, Sullivan:

'Distinguishing between Type Ia progenitor scenarios using complementary signatures of circumstellar material.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 8.5 h

 

098.D-0532

Inserra, Leloudas, Cikota, Bulla, Sim, Patat, Malesani, Spyromillio, Smartt, Maund, Sollerman, Wheeler:

'Probing the geometry of superluminous supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 15.0 h

 

098.C-0585

Cassan, Absil, Ranc, Street, Wertz, Wyrzykowski, Le Bouquin, Surdej:

'Mass measurement in galactic microlensing events: exoplanet hosts and stellar mass black holes'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

PIONIER 7.0 h

 

098.A-0648

Hjorth, Rodney, Selsing, Christensen:

'Piercing dark lenses with highly magnified transients'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 6.4 h

 

098.D-0710

Wiersema, Covino, Bernardini, Campana, DÁvanzo, di Serego, Fan, Fynbo, Ghirlanda, Ghisellini, Gomboc, Gompertz, Götz, Greiner, Guidorzi, Higgins, Hjorth, Jin, Kaper, Klose, Kobayashi, Kopac, Kouveliotou, Levan, Malesani, Melandri, Mundell, Min, Nava, Palazzi, Pian, Russell, Salvaterra, Sbarufatti, Smith, Starling, Steele, Tagliaferri, Tanvir, Toma, van der Horst, van Eerten, Vergani, Vreeswijk, Wijers:

'Testing relativistic particle models by GRB afterglow polarimetry'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.5 h

B

FORS2 1.0 h

C

FORS2 1.0 h

D

FORS2 1.0 h

E

FORS2 0.5 h

 

098.B-0768

Wyrzykowski, Fraser, Arcavi, Kozlowski, Hamanowicz, Blagorodnova, Mattila, Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Jonker, Udalski:

'A needle in a haystack: studying tidal disruption events in supermassive black holes'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 5.0 h

 

098.D-0780

Patat, Wang, Jiang, Baade, Clocchiatti, Cooke, Doi, Mould, Wheeler, Yang, Cikota:

'Spectroscopy of Very Early Supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 5.0 h

B

FORS2 5.0 h

 

098.A-0783

Amanullah, Ferretti, Fransson, Goobar, Lundqvist, Papadogiannakis, Sollerman, Bulla:

'Understanding the reddening law of Type Ia SNe'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 6.0 h

B

UVES 12.0 h

 

098.D-0789

Tanvir, Levan, Hjorth, Fynbo, Malesani, Milvang-Jensen, Watson, Pian, Palazzi, Sutton, Fairhurst, Mandel, Wiersema, Greiner, Kruehler, Irwin, McMahon, Gonzalez Fernandez, Gonzalez Solares, White, Lyman, Steeghs, Perley, de Ugarte Postigo, Thöne, Cano, Schulze, Evans, Osborne, O'Brien, Rosswog, Rowlinson, Rol, Ulaczyk, Copperwheat:

'Compact binary mergers: a search for a kilonovae accompanying gravitational wave transients'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

VIRCAM 54.0 h

 

098.C-0922

Facchini, Manara, Schneider, Bouvier, Clarke, Rosotti:

'Probing the correlation between accretion properties and inner disc perturbations in RW Aur A'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 0.5 h

 

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