Large Programmes scheduled in Period 68

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.

 

164.I-0605

van Dishoeck, Thi, Schutte, Ehrenfreund, d'Hendecourt, Dartois, Habart, Demyk, Tielens, Keane:

'Origin and Evolution of Ices in Star-Forming Regions'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1-ANTU / ISAAC2.5n

 

165.N-0115

Dejonghe, De Rijcke, Hau, Zeilinger:

'The internal dynamics of Fornax and NGC5044-group dwarf ellipticals (dEs)'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
B
UT4-YEPUN / FORS29n

 

165.S-0187

Hainaut, Boehnhardt, Delsanti, Meech, Sekiguchi, Veillet, Watanabe, West:

'Very distant TNOs: the "Missing Mass" of the Solar System'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A, B , C, D
2.2m / WFI9n

 

165.N-0276

Cayrel, Andersen, Nordstroem, Spite F., Spite M., Plez, Molaro, Bonifacio, Francois, Hill, Primas, Beers, Barbuy:

'Galaxy Formation, Early Nucleosynthesis, and the First Stars'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN / UVES9n

 

165.H-0464

van den Heuvel, Frontera, Hjorth, Castro-Tirado, Greiner, Vreeswijk, Rol, Pedersen, Pian, Gorosabel, Palazzi, Masetti, Kouveliotou, Wijers, Fruchter, Wiklind, Jaunsen, Courbin, Augusteijn, Boer, Atteia, Ricker, Piro, Heise, Hurley, Danziger (Large Programme with ToO status):

'The Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and the Nature of their Hosts'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT1-ANTU/ FORS120h
B
UT4-Yepun/ FORS25h
C
UT1-ANTU/ ISAAC20h
D
UT2-KUEYEN/ UVES5h
E
NTT/ SOFI30h
G
1.5mD/ DFOSC0.6n
H
2.2m/ WFI6h
I
3.6m/ EFOSC218h

 

166.A-0106

Bergeron, Baade, Boisse, Cristiani, Ferrara, Fontana, Giallongo, Heahnelt, Kim, Ledoux, Lopez, Moeller, Petitjean, Rauch, Reimers, Shaver, Vladilo:

'The Cosmic Evolution of the Intergalatic Medium'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN / UVES99h

 

166.A-0162

White, Aragon-Salamanca, Bender, Best, Bremer, Charlot, Clowe, Dalcanton, Fort, Jablonka, Kauffmann, Mellier, Pello, Poggianti, Roettgering, Schneider, Zaritsky:

'The ESO distant cluster survey: Evolution in clusters since z~1'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
C
UT4-KUEYEN / FORS211n

 

167.D-0173

Gratton, Bonifacio, Bragaglia, Carretta, Castellani, Centurion, Chieffi, Claudi, Clementini, D'Antona, Desidera, Francois, Grundhal, Lucatello, Molaro, Pasquini, Sneden, Spite, Straniero:

'Distances, Ages, and Metal Abundances in Globular Cluster Dwarfs'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN /UVES6n

 

167.C-0340

Boehnhardt, Barrera, Barucci, deBergh, Birkle, Delsanti, Doressoundiram, Dotto, Hainaut, Lazzarin, Meech, Ortiz, Romon, Sekiguchi, Thomas, Tozzi, Watanabe, West:

'Physical Properties of the Most Pristine Solar System Bodies: Transneptunian Objects and Centaurs'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
C
UT1 / FORS113h
D
UT1 / FORS113h
E
UT1 / ISAAC8h
F
UT1 / ISAAC8h
G
UT1 / FORS11n
H
UT1/ ISAAC7n

 

167.D-0407

Napiwotzki, Christlieb, Gorski, Heber, Homeier, Karl, Koester, Leibundgut, Moehler, Nelemans, Reimers, Reineke, Renzini, Yungelson:

'Are White Dwarf Binaries the Progenitors of Type IA Supernovae?'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2-KUEYEN /UVES125h

 

167.A-0409

Miley, Kurk, Pentericci, Venemans, Röttgering, Carilli, De Breuck, van Breugel, Ford, Heckman, McCarthy:

'Tracing the Formation and Evolution of Clusters and their Central Massive Galaxies to z > 4'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A + B
UT2-KUEYEN / FORS26n

 

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
A
2.2m/ WFI50h

 

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/ISAAC100h
B
2.2m/WFI40h