Large Programmes scheduled in Period 72

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
E
NTT / SOFI1.0n
F
UT4 / FORS23.0n

 

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 / VIMOS40.0h

 

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 / VIMOS40.0h

 

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
C
UT1 / ISAAC67.0h

 

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
J
UT4 / FORS210.0h

 

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
E
UT4 / FORS24.0n

 

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
F
UT3 / VIMOS25.0h
G
UT3 / VIMOS32.0h

 

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
F
NTT / SOFI6.0n

 

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
C
NTT / SOFI4.0n

 

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
B
UT1 / FORS13.0n
C
UT1 / FORS13.0n

 

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
B
UT4 / FORS246.0h

 

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 / WFI15.5h

 

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 / WFI107.0h

 

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
G
UT2 / UVES70.0h

 

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 / FORS160.0h

 

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 / VIMOS40.0h

 

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
B
UT1 / ISAAC20.0h
C
UT1 / ISAAC5.0n

 

171.B-0520

Gilmore, Binney, Efstathiou, Evans, Gerhard, Grebel, Harbeck, Hernandez, Irwin, Kleyna, Odenkirchen, Ostriker, Rix, Smartt, Turok, White, WIlkinson, Wyse:

'Towards the temperature of cold dark matter: quantitative stellar kinematics in dSph galaxies'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
C
UT2 / FLAMES9.0n
D
UT2 / FLAMES8.0n

 

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 / FLAMES66.5h
E
2.2m / WFI8.0h

 

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 / FORS21.4h
E
2.2m / WFI68.0h
H
UT4 / FORS23.0n
I
UT4 / FORS22.0n

 

171.D-0237

Smartt, Lennon, Puls, Pauldrach, Korn, Dufton, Munn, Ryans, Trundle, Evans, Howarth, Irwin, Venn, Hamann, Kaufer, de Koter, Herrero, Villamariz, Urbaneja, Najarro, Kudritzki:

'The FLAMES survey of massive stars in the Magellanic clouds'

Obs. Run
Telescope / InstrumentTime Allocated
A
UT2 / FLAMES53.0h