Accepted DDT Requests in Period 82


 

282.D-5006

Kervella, Petr-Gotzens, Thévenin:

'The total eclipse of delta Velorum of 4 December 2008: a chance to get a clean spectrum of the Aa component'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
HARPS0.2 h

 

282.A-5008

Raiter, Fosbury, Rosati:

'Searching for primordial star clusters at redshift ~ 3.5'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SINFONI2.0 h

 

282.C-5009

Scholz, Meeus, Jayawardhana:

'Spectroscopic confirmation of a wide brown dwarf binary with a large circumbinary disk'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
ISAAC2.0 h
B
FORS21.0 h

 

282.D-5010

Wang:

'Watching the transient X-ray binary SAX J1808.4-3658 in outburst'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.5 h
B
FORS21.5 h
C
FORS21.5 h

 

282.C-5011

Reiners, Kalas, Seifahrt, Dreizler, Graham, Clampin:

'Direct detection of a <3 M{\rm J} planet around Fomalhaut'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO5.0 h

 

282.D-5012

Jonker, Torres, Steeghs:

'A unique opportunity to constrain neutron star equations of state via a mass measurement from phase resolved spectroscopic observations of EXO~0748-676.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS28.0 h

 

282.D-5014

Stefl, Baade, Rivinius, Carciofi, Le Bouquin, Rantakyrö, Otero:

'Dynamics and metamorphosis of a newly ejected disk around the Be star 28~CMa'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
AMBER9.3 h
B
UVES2.1 h
C
AMBER7.0 h

 

282.C-5015

Guenther, Aigrain, Alonso, Barge, Bouchy, Deeg, Deleuil, Fridlund, Gandolfi, Guenther, Guillot, Hatzes, Leger, Moutou, Pont, Queloz, Rouan, Schneider:

'Securing the first transiting super-Earth candidate'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO0.8 h
B
NACO0.8 h
C
CRIRES1.0 h

 

282.A-5016

Gilmozzi, D'Odorico, Amico, Franx, Nonino, Kolb, Manieri, Marchetti, Rosati, Toft:

'Spectroscopic Observations of the MAD Deep Extragalactic Field'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS23.5 h

 

282.D-5017

Mason, Howell, Walter:

'Investigating the magnetic nature of VY Scl'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS14.0 h

 

282.C-5019

Gibson, Pollacco, Hrudkova, Simpson, Maxted, Skillen, Benn, Joshi, Packham:

'Detection of thermal emission from the exoplanet WASP-19b'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
HAWKI5.0 h

 

282.C-5021

Lippi, Böhnhardt, Mumma, Prialnik:

'Search for Deuterated Water in Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin).'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
CRIRES8.0 h

 

282.A-5025

Doherty, Demarco, Lidman, Muzzin, Rosati, Tanaka, Wilson:

'A first look into the cluster desert with HAWK-I'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
HAWKI4.0 h

 

282.C-5026

Patience, Marios:

'Spectroscopic Characterization of the Directly-Imaged Planetary Companions to HR 8799'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SINFONI3.6 h

 

282.A-5027

Nesvadba, Polletta, Lehnert, De Breuck:

'Are AGN-driven winds a generic phase in the early evolution of massive galaxies?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
SINFONI4.0 h

 

282.A-5030

Noterdaeme, Ledoux, Petitjean, Srianand:

' The cloud with the highest H~i column density in the SDSS'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES8.0 h

 

282.C-5031

Malbet, Berger, Benisty, Le Bouquin, Millan-Gabet, Bouvier, Grankin, Chesneau:

'Probing disk sub-AU scale instabilities in the young stellar object Z~CMa with the VLTI'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
AMBER2.5 h
B
MIDI1.0 h
C
MIDI1.0 h
D
AMBER1.2 h
E
AMBER1.2 h
F
AMBER1.2 h
G
AMBER1.2 h
H
AMBER1.2 h
I
MIDI1.0 h
J
MIDI1.0 h
K
MIDI1.0 h
L
MIDI1.0 h
M
MIDI1.0 h

 

282.C-5034

Jenkins, Rojo, Jones, Jones, Hoyer, Barnes, Day-Jones:

'Does HD191760 Harbour an Exciting Eccentric Brown Dwarf in the Desert or Ground Braking Resonant Exoplanets?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
HARPS0.3 h

 

282.C-5036

Bouchy, Moutou, Baglin, Queloz, Hatzes, Deleuil, Aigrain, Alonso, Fridlund, Gazzano, Guenther, Guillot, Hébrard, Lovis, Pont, Barge, Deeg, Leger, Rouan, Schneider:

'Characterisation of the first super-Earth transiting planet CoRoT-Exo-7b'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
HARPS18.0 h

 

282.C-5037

Lagrange, Kasper, Chauvin, Gratadour, Ehrenreich, Boccaletti, Apai, Mouillet, Fusco, Rouan:

'Confirmation and 1st order characterization of Beta Pictoris b'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO2.0 h
B
NACO3.0 h
C
NACO3.0 h
D
NACO0.2 n

 

282.C-5040

Chauvin, Bouy, Bouvier, Dougados, Agra-Amboage, Benisty, Bonnefoy, Duchêne, Grankin, Lebouquin, Malbet, Tatulli:

'HAR Imaging and Spectroscopy of a unique outburst in the ZCMa binary'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NACO1.2 h
B
NACO1.2 h
C
NACO1.2 h
D
SINFONI2.0 h

 

282.C-5041

Hubrig, Grady, Mikulasek, Schöller, Stelzer, Zejda, Schütz:

'The magnetic field of the Herbig Be binary/FU Orionis object Z CMa during the current outburst which is the most violent event in the photometric history of this system'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS12.7 h

 

282.D-5042

Domiciano de Souza, Bendjoya, Le Bouquin, Vakili:

'Surface structures on Canopus from high-precision spectrally-resolved interferometry'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
AMBER1.5 h

 

282.D-5043

Groh, Hartman, Weigelt, Bristow, Damineli, Driebe, Gull, Hofmann, Kerber, Kraus, Millour, Murakawa, Nielsen, Schertl:

'Eta Carinae's spectacular spectroscopic event in 2009 January: a unique chance to probe the wind-wind collision zone during the periastron passage of the massive companion'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
CRIRES2.0 h
B
CRIRES2.0 h

 

282.D-5046

Domiciano de Souza, Niccolini, Chesneau, Carciofi, Bendjoya:

'The dusty disk of the galactic B[e] star GG Car in the mid-IR: 2h of observations to discriminate between models'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
MIDI2.0 h

 

282.C-5048

Tozzi, Boehnhardt, Licandro, Kolokolova, Patriarchi, Vincent:

'Organic grains in the coma of comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin)'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
EFOSC22.0 h
B
SOFI3.0 h

 

282.D-5052

Gosset:

'A definitive orbital solution and an emission-line variability study for the very massive colliding-wind binary WR25'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FEROS5.0 h

 

282.D-5055

Mason, Della Valle, Orio, Bianchini, Gilmozzi:

'Nova LMC 2009: a candidate recurrent nova and SN-Ia progenitor in the LMC'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES1.3 h
B
UVES5.9 h

 

282.C-5058

Le Bouquin, Merand, Stefl, Absil, Benisty, Sana, Montagnier:

'The scattering property of the debris disk around Fomalhaut: need for cross-calibration.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
CRIRES2.0 h

 

282.B-5059

Decarli, Dotti, Treves, Falomo, Colpi, Kotilainen:

'The nature of the massive binary black hole system in the quasar SDSS J1536+0441'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS20.5 h
B
FORS21.5 h
C
HAWKI2.0 h

 

282.B-5060

Nicastro, Fiore, Borgani, Elvis:

'Spectroscopic Redshift for the Best WHIM Target in the Universe'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES0.3 h

 

282.D-5064

Casella, Maccarone, O'Brien, Fender, Coriat, Corbel:

'Fast infrared variability from a black hole: measuring the speed, size and geometry of a relativistic jet'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
ISAAC6.0 h

 

282.D-5065

Przybilla, Nieva, Heber, Butler, Pakmor, Röpke, Weiss, Maeda, Nomoto, Meynet:

'Constraints on Super-/Hypernova Models from the Hyper-Velocity/Runaway Star HD271791'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES4.5 h

 

282.A-5066

Schirmer, Schrabback, Hildebrandt:

'Redshift of a Giant Arc in a fossil group of galaxies'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS20.6 h

 

282.C-5069

Day-Jones, Pinfield, Burningham, Napiwotzki, Ruiz, Jones, Jenkins:

'The first white dwarf + T dwarf binary system.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
FORS21.7 h

 

282.B-5071

Meisenheimer, Burtscher, Tristram, Jaffe, Raban, Röttgering:

'Have we really resolved a dusty torus in the quasar 3C 273?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
MIDI1.5 h
B
MIDI1.5 h
C
MIDI1.5 h

 

282.D-5073

Gull, Weis, Corcoran, Chincarini, Damineli, Groh, Hamaguchi, Hartman, Hillier, Kapor, Nielsen, Owocki, Pian, Pittard, Stahl, Thoene, Weigelt:

'Anomalous Post-Periastron X-ray Recovery of the Luminous Blue Variable, Eta Carinae-Has the wind interface reformed early?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UVES0.5 h
B
UVES0.5 h
C
UVES0.5 h
D
UVES0.5 h
E
UVES0.5 h

 

282.C-5075

Delorme, Delfosse, Forveille, Albert, Allard, Reylé, Artigau:

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

Obs. Run
InstrumentTime Allocated
A
ISAAC4.0 h

 

Last updated: April 22, 2009