Large Programmes scheduled in Period 73

This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period.
The ESO policy regarding Large Programmes is available from a separate document.

 

167.D-0492

Fransson, Dahlén, de Mello, Feltzing, Gilmozzi, Leibundgut, Lundqvist, Östlin, Wiklind, Wold:

'Supernovae at high redshift'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
C
UT3 / VIMOS50.0h

 

168.A-0322

Franceschini, Vettolani, Held, Lonsdale, Zamorani, Rowan-Robinson, Smith, Rizzi, Ciliegi, La Franca, Oliver, Perez-Fournon, Gruppioni, Prouton, Rodighiero, Berta, Matute:

'An ESO-SIRTF Wide-Area Imaging Survey (ESIS), targeting the history of cosmic transformations of baryons in stars and active nuclei'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
UT3 / VIMOS20.0h

 

168.A-0485

Cesarsky, Bergeron, Cristiani, da Costa, Dickinson, Elbaz, Fosbury, Giavalisco, Hook, Renzini, Rosati:

'The great observatories origins deep survey: ESO public observations of the SIRTF Legacy / Chandra Deep Field South'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1 / ISAAC90.0h
C
UT3 / VIMOS40.0h

 

169.A-0595

Böhringer, Rosati, Schuecker, Collins, Guzzo, Borgani, Bower, Müller, Plionis, van der Weygaert, Lynam, Leibundgut, Matsushita, Ikebe, Finoguenov, Mullis:

'In-depth XMM-VLT study of cosmic structure and evolution with massive clusters and groups of galaxies'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
G
UT3 / VIMOS21.5h
H
UT3 / VIMOS3.0n

 

169.A-0725

Krautter, Arnaud, Böhringer, Dennefeld, Elbaz, Franx, Guzzo, Ibata, Jorgensen, LaFranca, Meisenheimer, Morganti, Soucail, Surdej, Zamorani, da Costa, Arnouts, Groenewegen, Hatziminaoglou, Hook, Madejsky, Mignani, Rité, Slijkhuis, Vandame, Wicenec:

'Public Imaging Survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
G
NTT / SOFI5.0n

 

170.D-0010

Christlieb, Bessell, Barklem, Beers, Edvardsson, Gustafsson, Hill, Karlsson, Korn, Kratz, Pfeiffer, Ryan:

'Nucleo-chronometric age dating of the oldest stars in the galaxy and the nature of the r-process'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
H
UT2 / UVES35.5h

 

171.A-0486

Pain, Antilogus, Astier, Balland, Basa, Copin, Cuby, Fabbro, Goobar, Hardin, Hook, Irwin, Lafoux, Lebrun, Lesquoy, Lidman, McMahon, Mazure, Mouchet, Mourao, Pécontal, Rich, Schahmaneche, Soucail, Sullivan, Walton:

'Measuring the "Cosmic Equation of State" and the "Star Formation Rate": spectroscopic identification of supernovae in the CFHT Legacy Survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1 / FORS120.0h
C
UT2 / FORS140.0h

 

171.A-3045

Cesarsky, Bergeron, Cristiani, da Costa, Daddi, Dickinson, Elbaz, Ettori, Fosbury, Giavalisco, Hook, Kuntschner, Leibundgut, Nonino, Renzini, Rosati:

'The great observatories origins deep survey: ESO public observations of the SIRTF Legacy / HST Treasury / Chandra Deep Field South'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
UT3 / VIMOS10.0h

 

171.A-3054

Giallongo, Bardelli, Cristiani, D'Odorico, Fontana, Foucaud, Garilli, LeFevre, Maccagni, Marinoni, Poli, Scaramella, Scodeggio, Tresse, Vanzella, Vettolani, Zanichelli, Zamorani:

'An ultra deep IFU sepctroscopic coverage of the Hubble Deep Field South'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT3 / VIMOS28.0h
B
UT3 / VIMOS34.0h

 

171.B-0442

Tacconi, Genzel, Iserlohe, Sanders, Veilleux, Burkert, Baker, Lutz, Rigopoulou, Tecza:

'The dynamics and evolution of galaxy mergers: properties of the 1 Jy ULIRG sample'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
D
UT1 / ISAAC3.0n

 

171.B-0588

Tolstoy, Hill, Jablonka, François, Helmi, Venn, IRwin, Shetrone, Primas, Kauder, Szeifert, Letarte, Arimoto, Sadakane, Abel:

'Dwarf Galaxies: remnants of galaxy formation and corner stones for understanding galaxy evolution'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2 / FLAMES12.0h

 

171.D-0004

Gieren, Pietrzynski, Minniti, Bono, Bresolin, Fouqué, Kudritzki, Méndez, Storm:

'The Araucaria project: improving the distance scale with stellar distance indicators in nearby galaxies'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1 / ISAAC28.0h
C
UT4 / FORS21.5h
J
NTT / SOFI2.0n

 

173.A-0440

Haehnelt, IGM RTN Network, Bunker, Cristiani, Jarvis, Lacey, Morris, Graham, Peroux, Rauch, Röttgering, Theuns:

'Fluorescent re-emission of the ionizing UV background from Lyman-Limit systems'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT4 / FORS260.0h

 

173.A-0687

Cimatti, Berta, Cassata, Daddi, Di Serego Alighieri, Franceschini, Kurk, Lanzoni, Vernet, Mignoli, Pozzetti, Renzini, Rodighiero, Rosati, Zamorani:

'GMASS: the galaxy mass assembly ultra-deep spectroscopic survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
UT4 / FORS229.7h
C
UT4 / FORS20.3h

 

173.C-0606

Kürster, Hatzes, Els, Endl, Cochran, Kaufer, Brillant, Lo Curto:

'In search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of M dwarfs. Continuation of the UVES faint star planet search'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2 / UVES40.0h