Accepted DDT Requests in Period 76

276.D-5004

Rol, Fynbo, Vreeswijk:

'Chasing the faint afterglows of GRBs in the Swift era with rapid response VLT observations'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS220.0 h

 

276.B-5005

Davies, Sarzi, Thatte, Houghton, Magorrian, Krajnovic:

'Imaging the nuclear eccentric disk of NGC~1399'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO1.0 h

 

276.D-5010

Chincarini, Antonelli, Campana, Covino, Della Valle, Fiore, Fugazza, Malesani, Stella, Tagliaferri:

'The very early optical phases of gamma-ray burst afterglows and their redshift determination'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS124.0 h
B
ISAAC15.0 h

 

276.B-5011

Jahnke, Courbin, Jablonka, Letawe, Meylan, Magain, Wisotzki, Elbaz, Lagage, Omont, Pantin:

'HE 0450-2958: Scantly dressed quasar or massively dust obscured host galaxy?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
VISIR4.0 h

 

276.C-5013

Thatte, Clarke, Close, Abuter, Tecza, Nielsen:

'High contrast spectroscopy with SINFONI - Proof of Concept spectra of AB Dor C'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SINFONI2.0 h

 

276.D-5014

Maxted, Napiwotzki, Burleigh, Dobbie:

'WD 0137-349 -- first detection of a short period brown dwarf - white dwarf binary.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES2.0 h

 

276.C-5017

Delfosse, Delorme, Forveille, Albert, Martin, Allard, Reylé, Robin, Willott:

'Infrared spectroscopy of an ultra-cool Y dwarf candidate'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
ISAAC2.0 h

 

276.C-5018

Siebenmorgen, Krügel, Pantin:

'VY CMa: A red supergiant with a jet'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
VISIR1.5 h

 

276.C-5019

Carvano, Barucci, Fulchignoni:

'Support observation for the albedo determination of 2867 Steins, target of the ROSETTA mission'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SUSI24.0 h
B
SUSI24.0 h

 

276.D-5020

Kotak, Meikle:

'SN 2005gj: another SN 2002ic?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES1.0 h
B
ISAAC2.0 h

 

276.C-5021

Alcala, Spezzi, Frasca, Covino, Porras, Merín, Persi:

'ISO-CHA II 13: the first brown dwarf in Chamaeleon II with a very low-mass and a surrounding~disk.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS22.0 h

 

276.C-5022

Fedele, van den Ancker, Petr-Gotzens, Ageorges:

'Follow-Up Observations of the FU Ori Candidate V1647 Orionis in Fading Phase'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.0 h
B
FORS25.0 h
C
TIMMI21.0 h

 

276.B-5024

Heber, Przybilla, Napiwotzki, Edelmann:

'The origin of the hyper-velocity star HE~0437-5439'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES5.0 h

 

276.C-5025

Huelamo, Pantin, Sterzik:

'Characterization of dust in proplyds: grain growth and the influence of \theta Ori~C on the silicate flux'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
VISIR6.0 h

 

276.D-5027

Foellmi, Dall, Depagne, Mirabel:

'{Has the secondary star of the runaway black-hole GRO J1655-40 been polluted? Again? }'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES7.0 h

 

276.C-5030

Delbo, Cellino, Tedesco:

'Determination of the size of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 99942 Apophis'

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

 

276.C-5031

Mer{í}n, van Dishoeck, Geers, Comeron, Augereau, Pontoppidan, Dullemond, Alcala, Cieza, Mundy, Jaffe:

'Optical spectroscopy of two brown dwarf candidates in Lupus with highly crystalline disks'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
EMMI1.0 h

 

276.A-5034

Lidman, Aldering, Goobar, Hook, Mullis, Pain, Perlmutter, Rosati:

'Decelerating and dustfree: using Type Ia SNe in the ellipticals of high redshift galaxy clusters to constrain the dark energy equation of state and its evolution with time.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS25.0 h

 

276.D-5035

Patat, Pian, Mazzali, Cappellaro, Della Valle, Wang, Kulkarni:

'Is there a Supernova at z = 0.04 under GRB060117?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
EMMI2.0 h

 

276.B-5036

Boisson, Benbow, Costamante, Dubus, Giebels, McComb, Pita, Punch, Puehlhofer, Sol, Wagner, Ward:

'Redshift of the high-frequency peaked TeV g-ray emitting blazar 1ES1553+113'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SINFONI5.0 h

 

276.C-5038

Kasper, Biller, Brandner, Close:

'Follow up observations of a very nearby brown dwarf: NIR imaging and spectroscopy of SCR 1845-6357B'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO2.0 h

 

276.D-5040

Greiner, Tappert, Schwarz:

'A rare VY Scl optical low-state: Understanding the state transition'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
B
FORS18.0 h
C
EMMI1.0 h

 

276.D-5041

Christlieb, Norris:

'Abundance analysis of HE0557-4840 -- the missing link between [Fe/H] = -5.3 and [Fe/H] = -4.0?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES7.0 h

 

276.C-5042

Rousselot, Mousis, Lorin, Petit, Marboeuf:

'Spectroscopy and images of Centaur (60558) 2000~EC{98} outburst'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS23.0 h

 

276.D-5048

Patat, Benetti, Cappellaro, Elias-Rosa, Hillebrandt, Mazzali, Pastorello, Turatto:

'Probing The Inter-Stellar Medium to SN 2006X in M100'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES3.0 h

 

276.D-5049

Chesneau, Hummel, Vannier, Millour:

'Observing the bright outburst of the nova RS Oph with AMBER/VLTI'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
AMBER2.0 h
B
AMBER3.0 h

 

276.C-5050

Jayawardhana, Ivanov:

'Spectroscopic Confirmation of Free-Floating Planetary Mass Objects'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS23.0 h
B
EMMI1.0 h

 

276.C-5052

Sicardy, Mousis, Rousselot, Foellmi, Ivanov, Bellucci, Petit, Renner, Widemann:

'Urgent proposal: Pluto's atmospheric activity from a stellar occultation on the night 9 to 10 April 2006'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
WFI1.5 h
B
SOFI1.0 h
C
WFI1.5 h
D
SOFI1.0 h

 

276.C-5054

Melo, Sterzik, Santos, Alcala, Covino, Naef:

'The enigmatic temperature inversion in the first brown dwarf eclipsing binary: Stringent test of evolutionary models below the Hydrogen burning limit'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES7.0 h

 

276.C-5055

Mousis, Ferrari, Orton, Simon-Miller, Chanover, Petit, Rousselot:

'Urgent proposal: observation of Jupiter's atmospheric activity in parallel with HST'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
VISIR5.0 h

 

276.C-5057

Dotto, Fornasier, Milani, Valsecchi, Lazzarin, Rossi, Boattini, Paolicchi, De Luise, Perna:

'Unveiling the nature of 2004 VD17: a non-zero probability Earth impactor'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
EMMI10.0 h
B
ISAAC7.0 h
C
FORS11.5 h
D
FORS11.5 h
E
FORS11.5 h
F
FORS11.5 h
G
FORS11.5 h
H
FORS11.5 h
I
FORS11.5 h