Large Programmes scheduled in Period 78
This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period.
Hammer, Lehnert, Cimatti, Flores, Cesarsky, Pozzetti, Combes, Daddi, Elbaz, Amram, Balkowski, Burgarella, Dannerbauer, Di Seregho Alighieri, Fuentes-Carrera, Garrido, Guiderdoni, Khembavi \& R. Kumar, Lanzoni, Liang, Puech, Proust, Vergani, Vernet, Wozniak, Zheng: 'Tracing the Evolutionary Sequence of Galaxies Over the Last 8 Gyr: Dynamics, Morphology and Spectrophotometry of Distant Galaxies' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
M | FLAMES | 40.0 h |
Lilly, Kneib, Le Fevre, Renzini, Zamorani, Aussel, Carollo, Cimatti, Contini, Daddi, Guzzo, Hasinger, Impey, Lehmann, Maddox, McCarthy, Mobasher, Scaramella, Schinnerer, Scodeggio, Scoville, Smail, Taniguchi, Vettolani, the {z-Cosmos} team: 'zCOSMOS: The evolutionary links between galaxies, their nuclei, their morphologies and their environments.' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
G | VIMOS | 20.0 h |
H | VIMOS | 189.0 h |
Leibundgut, Blondin, Sollerman, Clocchiatti, Pignata, Spyromilio, Matheson, Stubbs, Suntzeff: 'ESSENCE -- The equation of state: supernovae trace cosmic expansion' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
C | FORS1 | 3.0 n |
D | FORS1 | 2.0 n |
E | FORS1 | 1.0 n |
Pain, Astier, Balland, Basa, Baumont, Bronder, Fabbro, Filiol, Garavini, Goncalves-Darbon, Goobar, Guy, Hardin, Hook, Lidman, McMahon, Mazure, Mouchet, Mourão, Nobili, Palanque-Delabrouille, Pritchet, Regnault, Rich, Tao, Walton: 'Measuring the Equation of State of Dark Energy: Spectroscopic identification of Supernovae from the CFHT Legacy Survey' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
E | FORS1 | 60.0 h |
F | FORS2 | 20.0 h |
Hjorth, Fynbo, Sollerman, Jakobsson, Watson, Castro Ceron, Thone, Tanvir, Levan, Priddey, Rol, Vreeswijk, Moller, Christensen, Ledoux, Wiersema, Starling, Curran, Wijers, Klose, Kneib, Gorosabel, Jaunsen, Courty, Bjornsson, Natarajan: 'Fundamental properties of GRB-selected galaxies: A Swift/VLT legacy survey' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
F | FORS2 | 18.0 h |
G | ISAAC | 17.0 h |
H | FORS1 | 10.0 h |
I | FORS1 | 17.0 h |
J | FORS2 | 6.0 h |
Courbin, Meylan, Magain, Agol, Eigenbrod, Vuissoz: 'Gravitational imaging of a quasar at micro- and nano-arcsecond scales: the Einstein Cross' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
B | FORS1 | 11.0 h |
Minniti, Bouchy, Fernandez, Gieren, Mayor, Mazeh, Melo, Moutou, Naef, Pietrzynski, Pont, Queloz, Ruiz, Santos, Soszynski, Udalski, Udry, Zoccali: 'THE MASS-RADIUS RELATION FOR TRANSITING EXOPLANETS, BROWN DWARFS AND M DWARFS' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
B | FLAMES | 4.0 n |
F | FORS1 | 5.0 h |
Carollo, Sargent, Eke, Mayer, Norberg, Lilly, van Gorkom: 'The effect of group environment on galaxy evolution: A benchmark study of 185 2dFGRS-selected groups' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
B | WFI | 45.0 h |
Koopmans, Barnabe, Treu, Bolton: 'Probing Galaxy Structure \& Evolution through Two-Dimensional Stellar Kinematics of Lens Galaxies' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
B | VIMOS | 54.0 h |
Le Fevre, see VVDS List in proposal: 'VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS): a complete census of the high redshift population of galaxies from a deep 22.5 <= I{AB} <= 24.75 survey' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
C | VIMOS | 1.0 h |
D | VIMOS | 67.0 h |
Barucci, Merlin, de Bergh, Doressoundiram, Guilbert, Dumas, Hainaut, Delsanti, Fornasier, Peixinho, Belskaya, Bagnulo, Muinonen, Tozzi: 'TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECTS: CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACE PROPERTIES' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
A | FORS1 | 10.5 h |
B | ISAAC | 10.0 h |
C | NACO | 2.0 h |
D | NACO | 1.0 n |
E | NACO | 1.0 n |
F | FORS1 | 12.0 h |
J | SINFONI | 20.0 h |
X | FORS1 | 1.5 n |
Y | ISAAC | 1.5 n |
Z | SINFONI | 3.0 n |
Poretti, Baglin, Catala, Michel, Uytterhoeven, Aerts, Amado, Briquet, Desmet, Floquet, Garrido, Goupil, Hubert, Lebreton, Mantegazza, Martin-Ruiz, Mathias, Moya, Neiner, Rainer, Schmider, Suárez, Zima: 'The ground-based counterpart of the CoRoT asteroseismic observations from space' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
A | FEROS | 10.0 n |
E | FEROS | 5.0 n |
McMahon, Parry, Bland-Hawthorn, Horton, King, Venemans, Bunker, Haehnelt, Johnson, Ryan-Weber, Santos: 'Probing the epoch of reionization at z>;7.5 via a sensitive search for Lyman-a emission using DAZLE; the Dark Ages "Z" Lyman-a Explorer' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
A | SpecialUT3 | 10.0 n |
Maiolino, Nagao, Marconi, Fontana, Grazian, Ballero, Cimatti, Granato, Mannucci, Matteucci, Pastorini, Pentericci, Pipino, Risaliti, Salvati, Silva: 'The mass-metallicity evolution at z>;3' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
A | SINFONI | 55.0 h |