Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 83

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.

083.D-0053

Chesneau , Banerjee , Millour , Nardetto , Ashok , Das , Wittkowski , Hummel , Spang , Evans , Bode , O'Brien , Barlow , Gehrz , Woodward :

'Spatially resolving the line forming regions of novae at the earliest stages'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
AMBER3.5 h
B
AMBER3.5 h
C
AMBER3.5 h
D
AMBER3.5 h
E
AMBER3.5 h
F
AMBER3.5 h
G
AMBER1.5 h
H
MIDI3.0 h
I
MIDI3.0 h
J
MIDI3.0 h

 

083.D-0069

Pian , Della Valle , Mazzali , Chincarini , Baade , Bersier , Campana , Covino , Ferrero , Fiore , Filippenko , Fruchter , Fynbo , Gilmozzi , Greiner , Maeda , Mirabel , Sollerman , Tagliaferri , Wiersema :

'Nature and diversity of the progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS212.0 h
B
FORS212.0 h
C
FORS215.0 h

 

083.A-0084

Greiner , Savaglio , Klose , Jehin , Haiman , Hartmann , Szokoly , McBreen , Küpcü Yolda\c s , Clemens , Krühler , Afonso , Filgas , Sudilovsky , Ferrero , Kann , Updike :

'High-resolution spectroscopy of GROND-selected high-redshift GRBs: Probing the very early Universe'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS213.0 h
C
ISAAC21.0 h

 

083.D-0131

Smartt , Mattila , Crockett , Fraser , Maund , Pastorello , Eldridge , Valenti , Danziger , Maguire , Kotak :

'The progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NACO and SN follow-up spectroscopy'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
NACO10.0 h
B
FORS210.0 h

 

083.D-0259

Cappellaro , Mannucci , Agnoletto , Bufano , Benetti , Botticella , Cresci , Elias-Rosa , Greggio , Harutyunyan , Navasardyan , Mazzali , Patat , Riello , Turatto , Zampieri :

'A Snapshot Infrared Search for Supernovae in Starburst Galaxies'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
HAWKI42.0 h
B
ISAAC6.0 h

 

083.B-0265

Feltzing , Johnson , Adén , Asplund , Bensby , Gal-Yam , Gould , Lucatello , Meléndez , Simmerer :

'Metallicities, abundance ratios, and ages for dwarf stars in the Galactic Bulge - using micro-lensing events as a unique probe of the properties of the Galactic Bulge'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES2.4 h
B
UVES2.4 h
C
UVES2.4 h
D
UVES2.4 h
E
UVES2.4 h
F
UVES2.4 h
G
UVES2.4 h
H
UVES2.4 h
K
UVES0.5 h

 

083.D-0310

Stella , Bazzano , Belloni , Bozzo , Campana , Capitanio , Chincarini , Covino , Dall'Osso , DÁvanzo , Della Valle , Falanga , Goldoni , Guidorzi , Israel , Mereghetti , Rea , Tarana :

'The Optical/NIR Afterglow of Giant Flares from Magnetars in the Virgo Cluster'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS26.0 h
B
ISAAC6.0 h

 

083.D-0434

Gorosabel , de Ugarte Postigo , LLorente , Castro-Tirado , Jelinek , Madrid :

'Are hypernova explosions aspherical?'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS25.0 h

 

083.C-0451

Sicardy , Boissel , Doressoundiram , Lellouch , Roques , Widemann , Colas , Ivanov , Mason , Assafin , Vieira Martins :

'Beyond Neptune: probing Trans-Neptunian Objects using stellar occultations'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC3.0 h
B
SOFI3.0 h

 

083.A-0480

Lidman , Sullivan , Ellis , Hook , Blake , Walker , Gal-Yam , Howell , Nugent , Schmidt :

'Evolution in the Properties of Type Ia Supernovae'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
HAWKI4.5 h

 

083.A-0552

Tanvir , Levan , Rol , Jakobsson , Wijers , Hjorth , Malesani , Fruchter , Fynbo , Watson , O'Brien , Vreeswijk , Starling , Wiersema , Bremer , Gorosabel , Castro-Tirado , Pian , Bersier , Duke :

'Probing the high-redshift universe with GRBs'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
ISAAC3.0 h
B
FORS23.0 h
C
ISAAC2.0 h
D
FORS22.0 h

 

083.A-0593

Sullivan , Ellis , Hook , Lidman , Pain , Astier , Blake , Gal-Yam , Howell , Nugent , Schmidt :

'Evolution in the Spectral Properties of Type Ia Supernovae'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS24.6 h

 

083.D-0606

Levan , WIjers , Tanvir , Hjorth , Kouveliotou , Fynbo , Jakobsson , Watson , Bersier , Malesani , Vreeswijk , Starling , Wiersema , O'Brien , Rol , Gorosabel , de Ugarte Postigo :

'The progenitors of short duration gamma-ray bursts'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS21.0 h
B
FORS23.5 h
C
FORS22.5 h
D
ISAAC1.0 h
E
ISAAC1.0 h

 

083.A-0644

Fynbo , Covino , DÁvanzo , D'Elia , de Ugarte Postigo , Fiore , Gorosabel , Hjorth , Jakobsson , Kouveliotou , Ledoux , Levan , Malesani , Maund , Milvang-Jensen , Salvaterra , Sollerman , Tanvir , Vreeswijk , Wiersema :

'Securing the \textit{Swift} legacy: redshifts and host-galaxy ISM properties of \textit{Swift}-era gamma-ray bursts'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS26.0 h
B
FORS211.5 h
C
HAWKI2.0 h

 

083.D-0687

Patat , Benetti , Blondin , Cappellaro , Chandra , Chevalier , Cox , Crawford , Elias-Rosa , Gal-Yam , Hillebrandt , Justham , Mazzali , Nomoto , Pasquini , Pastorello , Podsiadlowski , Renzini , Turatto :

'Pinning Down the Nature of Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES16.0 h

 

083.D-0903

McBreen , Greiner , Krühler , Clemens , Savaglio , Klose , Bissaldi , von Kienlin , Afonso :

'Redshift determination of \textit{Fermi} LAT gamma-ray bursts : probing the very high energy universe, emission mechanisms and quantum gravity'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
FORS26.0 h

 

083.A-0911

Vreeswijk , Ledoux , Smette , De Cia , Ellison , Fox , Fynbo , Hjorth , Jakobsson , Petitjean , Savaglio , Sudilovsky , Vergani , Wiersema , Wijers :

'GRB afterglow spectroscopy with UVES: Revealing detailed ISM properties of the massive-star forming hosts and intervening absorbers'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
UVES6.0 h
B
UVES3.0 h

 

083.D-0915

De Luca , Mignani , Mereghetti , Tiengo , Caraveo , Bignami :

'Correlated X-ray/IR variability to unravel the mystery of the central source in RCW103.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
NACO3.0 h

 

083.D-0964

De Cia , Vreeswijk , Dhillon , Jakobsson , Fynbo , Hjorth , Marsh , O'Brien , Littlefair , Björnsson :

'High time-resolution imaging and spectroscopy time series of early GRB afterglows with ULTRASPEC on NTT.'

Obs. Run
InstrumentMax. Time Allocated
A
SpecialNTT1.0 n