Accepted DDT Requests in Period 87

 

287.B-5008

Schirmer, Hatziminaoglou, Jozsa, Fosbury, Raiter:

'Near-IR pilot spectrum of an extremely unusual Seyfert-2 galaxy'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 0.9 h

 

287.D-5011

Ederoclite, Mason, Williams, Della Valle, Selvelli, Cassatella, Altamore, Schmidtobreick, Tappert, Gilmozzi, Izzo:

'The secrets of T-Pyx III - spectroscopic follow up of the unexpected outburst of the recurrent nova T-Pyxidis'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

287.D-5012

Chesneau, Banerjee, Wittkowski, Hummel, Ashok, Millour, Nardetto, Spang:

'Observing the bright outburst of the recurrent nova T Pyx with AMBER/VLTI'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

AMBER 3.0 h

B

AMBER 3.0 h

 

287.C-5013

Ortiz, Sicardy, Licandro, Alvarez-Candal, Jehin, Ivanov, Unda-Sanzana, Doressoundiram, Lellouch, Ribas, Roques, Widemann, Colas, Assafin, Andrei, Camargo, Vieira Martins, Silva Neto, Duffard, Thirouin, Campo-Bagatin:

'A stellar occultation by dwarf planet Makemake on April 23rd, 2011'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 0.5 h

B

SOFI 0.5 h

C

FORS2 0.5 h

 

287.D-5017

Pretorius, Knigge, Steeghs, Warner, Shara, Schaefer, Bond, Schmidtobreick:

'The light echo of the new eruption of T Pyx'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

NACO 10.0 h

 

287.D-5018

Rau, Greiner, Elliott:

'Measuring the distance to the outbursting recurrent nova T Pyx'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FEROS 4.0 h

 

287.D-5021

Schmidtobreick, Barria, Bayo, Beletsky, Boffin, Brammer, Carraro, de Witt, Girard, Hau, Ivanov, Moerchen, Momany, Nuernberger, Pretorius, Rivinius, Sanchez-Janssen, Schmidtobreick, Selman, Stefl, Yegorova:

'Catching the evolving chemistry in the shell of T Pyx: A unique event'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

SINFONI 5.0 h

B

VISIR 3.0 h

C

ISAAC 2.0 h

 

287.D-5022

Pietrzynski, Gieren, Suchomska, Thompson, Bono, Pilecki, Graczyk, Udalski, Soszynski:

'First accurate mass determination of an RR Lyrae star in an eclipsing binary system'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

UVES 5.0 h

 

287.D-5024

Rivinius, Baade, Carciofi, Schmidtobreick, Minniti:

'Clumpiness, chemical differentiation, and magnetic structure in the current T Pyx nova explosion'

Obs. Run
Instrument Time Allocated
A
FORS2 5.0 h

 

287.C-5025

Lachaume, Angeloni, Bouy, Elliott, Girard, Jordan, Rabus:

'Exovolcanism and photoevaporation on the rocky hot super-Earth 55 Cancri e'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FEROS 2.6 h

B

FEROS 1.7 h

   

287.C-5026

Perna, Giuliatti-Winter, Vieira Neto, Winter, Alvarez-Candal:

'Investigation of 2001 SN{263}, target of the Brazilian space mission ASTER'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 2.7 h

B

FORS2 4.0 h

 

287.D-5028

Ederoclite, Schmidtobreick, Lundgren, Ramstedt, Mohamed:

'Formation and destruction of molecules and dust particles in the shell of T Pyx'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

SHFI 5.0 h

B

LABOCA 5.0 h

 

287.D-5029

Bauer, Clochiatti, Zelaya, Maund:

'Spectropolarimetric Follow-up of the Luminous type IIn SN 2010jl'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.0 h

 

287.C-5032

Fletcher, Orton, Sanchez-Lavega, Hueso, Hesman, Baines, Bjoraker, Irwin:

'Tracking Saturn's Intense Infrared Beacons from the Great `Serpent' Storm'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

VISIR 2.2 h

B

VISIR 1.1 h

 

287.C-5035

Snellen, de Mooij, Croll, Brogi, de Kok:

'Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere of the super-Earth GJ1214b'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FORS2 3.0 h

 

287.D-5037

Kepler, Castanheira, Koester:

'Spectra of a Pulsating Magnetic White Dwarf'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.2 h

 

287.C-5039

Sacco, Looper, Kastner, Zuckerman, Huenemoerder, Montez:

'Simultaneous UV, Optical, NIR and X-ray spectroscopy of the nearby young accreting binary TWA 30'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 0.5 h

B

XSHOOTER 0.8 h

 

287.C-5040

Mawet, Absil, Riaud, Augereau, Montagnier, Girard, Stapelfeldt, Krist, Surdej:

'Confirming the bound character of a sub-Jupiter mass companion recently formed by gravitational instability around a young T Tauri star'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

NACO 2.5 h

 

287.C-5041

Casassus, Jordan, Menard, Schreiber:

'Spectroscopic followup of a protoplanet candidate found inside a protoplanetary disk gap'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

SINFONI 2.0 h

 

287.D-5042

Cseh, Grisé, Kaaret, Corbel:

'A direct test on the nature of the optical emission in an ultraluminous X-ray source'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

 

287.C-5044

Huelamo, Ribas, Pantin:

'On the possibility of detecting transiting planet occultations from ground-based mid-IR observations'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

VISIR 3.8 h

 

287.C-5045

ORourke, Müller, Barucci, Dotto, Kueppers, Carry, Kidger:

'A unique opportunity to characterise the OSIRIS-REx sample return target 101955 (1999~RQ36) with VISIR'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

VISIR 4.0 h

 

287.D-5046

Ederoclite, Schmidtobreick, Lundgren, Ramstedt, Mohamed:

'Dust destruction and formation in the shell of T Pyx - a follow-up with SABOCA.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

SABOCA 1.0 h

 

287.B-5047

Levan, Tanvir, Cenko, Wiersema, Greiner, Rau, Bloom:

'A relativistic tidal disruption event'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

B

HAWKI 3.0 h

C

XSHOOTER 1.5 h

D

FORS2 2.5 h

E

FORS2 1.8 h

 

287.C-5048

Boehnhardt, Duddy, Fitzsimmons, Lister, Lowry, Snodgrass, Vincent:

'Nucleus break-up in comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova?'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FORS2 0.5 h

B

FORS2 1.0 h

C

NACO 1.0 h

 

287.D-5051

Webb, Wiersema, Farrell, Servillat, Godet, Barret, Maccarone, Lasota:

'Understanding the Outbursts of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole HLX-1'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

 

287.D-5052

Walker, Sullivan, Mazzali, Ellis, Nugent, Howell, Gal-Yam, Cooke, Baron, Thomas, Hachinger, Moller:

'Multi-wavelength Observations of SN~2011ek: Towards a Physical Understanding of the Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 0.6 h

B

XSHOOTER 0.6 h

 

287.D-5053

Yaron, Pian, Gal-yam, Mazzali, Moller:

'PTF10nmn - A Rare Pair-Instability Supernova candidate; IR Spectrum crucial for determining elemental abundances of the ejecta and for discriminating between Core-collapse and Pair-Instability models.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 4.0 h

 

287.A-5059

Zackrisson, Schaerer, Inoue, Hayes, Östlin, Guaita, Adamo, Rydberg, Duval, Sandberg, Ström:

'Lya emission from a population III galaxy candidate at z~8-10'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 5.0 h

 

287.A-5063

Nesvadba, Dole, Montier, Puget, Welikala, Flores-Cacho, Lagache, Giard, Omont, Pointecouteau, Tristram:

'Spectroscopic confirmation of a high-redshift galaxy group or cluster discovered with Planck/Herschel'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 6.0 h

 

287.D-5064

Frew, Parker, Dobbie, Madsen:

'The most massive known progenitor of a planetary nebula -- towards the dividing line between white dwarf formation and core-collapse supernovae.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 2.0 h

 

287.D-5066

morel, Briquet, Niemczura, Hubrig:

'Follow up of the CoRoT target HD 45975: establishing the existence of pulsations in HgMn stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

UVES 3.7 h