Large Programmes scheduled in Period 70

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.

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
A
UT4 / FORS26.0n
B
NTT / SOFI7.0n

 

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
G
UT1 / FORS11.0n
H
UT1 / ISAAC3.0n

 

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 / UVES105.0h

 

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
A
2.2m/ WFI150.0h

 

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/ ISAAC196.0h
B
2.2m/ WFI15.0h

 

169.A-0382

Lidman, Goobar, Folatelli, Garavini, Nobili, Amanullah, Pain, Astier, Raux, Schahmaneche, Hook, Perlmutter, Aldering, Nugent, Knop:

'Distant type Ia SNe and Cosmology: Constraining the nature of the dark energy and assessing the importance of dust and evolution'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT4 / FORS224.0h
C
UT4 / FORS28.0h
D
UT4 / FORS28.0h
E
UT4 / FORS28.0h

 

169.A-0458

Franx, Rix, Kuijken, Rosati, van Dokkum, vd Wel, vd Ven:

'Galaxy mass-to-light ratios at z > 1 from the Fundamental Plane: measuring the star formation epoch and mass evolution of galaxies'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT4 / FORS26.0n
B
UT4 / FORS20.6h

 

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
C
NTT / SOFI13.0n

 

170.A-0143

Cimatti, Berta, Ciliegi, Comastri, Daddi, di Serego Alighieri, Fiore, Fontana, Franceschini, Gruppioni, La Franca, Lonsdale, Maiolino, Mignoli, Poli, Pozzetti, Rodighiero, Saracco, Smith, Vernet, Zamorani:

'The nature and evolution of infrared galaxies: bridging optical and SIRTF-SWIRE data with near-infrared observations of the ELAIS-S1 field'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
NTT / SOFI6.0n

 

170.A-0519

Leibundgut, Sollerman, Clocchiatti, Spyromilio, Stubbs, Suntzeff, Schmidt:

'The ω project: measuring the equation of state of the universe'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
C
UT1 / FORS16.0n

 

170.A-0788

Cesarsky, Bergeron, Cristinai, da Costa, Dickinson, Elbaz, Ettori, Fosbury, Giavalisco, Hook, Leibundgut, 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
A
UT4 / FORS21.0h
B
UT4 / FORS270.0h

 

170.A-0789

Krautter, Arnaud, Böhringer, Dalton, Dennefeld, Elbaz, Franx, Guzzo, Ibata, Jorgensen, LaFranca, Lawrence, Meisenheimer, Morganti, Soucail, Surdej, Zamorani, da Costa, Arnouts, Hatziminaoglou, Rité, Sikkema, Slijkhuis, Vandame:

'Public Imaging Survey: WFI follow-up of XMM-Newton Serendipituous fields'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
2.2 / WFI35.0h

 

170.A-0790

Krautter, Arnaud, Böhringer, Dalton, Dennefeld, Elbaz, Franx, Guzzo, Ibata, Jorgensen, LaFranca, Lawrence, Meisenheimer, Morganti, Soucail, Surdej, Zamorani, da Costa, Arnouts, Hatziminaoglou, Rité, Sikkema, Slijkhuis, Vandame:

'Public Imaging Survey - GALEX and SIRTF coverage and completion of the Deep Survey'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
2.2 / WFI50.0h

 

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
A
UT2 / UVES74.0h
B
UT2 / UVES25.0h
C
UT2 / UVES30.0h
D
UT2 / UVES30.0h
E
3.6 / EFOSC24.0n
F
3.6 / EFOSC25.0n