Large Programmes scheduled in Period 80
This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period
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 |
J | VIMOS | 7.0 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 |
P | FORS2 | 18.0 h |
Q | ISAAC | 17.0 h |
R | FORS1 | 10.0 h |
S | FORS1 | 17.0 h |
T | 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 |
D | 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 |
D | FLAMES | 4.0 n |
H | FORS2 | 5.0 h |
K | FLAMES | 2.0 n |
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 |
G | VIMOS | 16.0 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 |
H | FORS1 | 10.0 h |
L | SINFONI | 13.0 h |
P | FORS2 | 6.5 h |
Q | ISAAC | 6.5 h |
U | EMMI | 3.0 n |
W | NACO | 1.0 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 |
C | FEROS | 10.0 n |
G | 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 |
B | 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 |
C | SINFONI | 55.0 h |
Barucci, Merlin, de Bergh, Doressoundiram, Guilbert, Dumas, Hainaut, Delsanti, Fornasier, Peixinho, Belskaya, Bagnulo, Muinonen, Tozzi: 'TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECTS: CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACE PROPERTIES - DUPLICATE' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
D | FORS2 | 1.5 n |
E | ISAAC | 1.0 n |
F | SINFONI | 2.0 n |
G | FORS2 | 1.0 n |
H | ISAAC | 0.5 n |
I | SINFONI | 1.5 n |
van Dishoeck, Pontoppidan, Mer{í}n, Thi, Bast, Dent, Blake, Cieza, Crapsi, Oliveira, Salyk, Smette: 'The planet-forming zones of disks around solar-mass stars: a CRIRES evolutionary survey' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
C | CRIRES | 4.0 n |
Lallement, Crifo, Vergely, Koutroumpa, Hébrard, Lecavelier des Etangs, Welsh: '3D mapping and kinematics of the local interstellar medium' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
B | FEROS | 30.0 h |
Genzel, Alexander, Bower, Clénet, Cuadra, Eisenhauer, Falcke, Gerhard, Gillessen, Goldwurm, Levin, Martins, Menten, Moran, Nayakshin, Ott, Paumard, Porquet, Predehl, Quataert, Reid, Rouan, Sternberg, Yusef-Zadeh: 'The Galactic Center: a unique laboratory for studying fundamental physical processes near black holes' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
L | NACO | 4.0 h |
M | NACO | 4.0 h |
Contini, Lemoine-Busserolle, Le Fevre, Garilli, Kissler-Patig, Lamareille, Vergani, Pelló, Sánchez, Maccagni, Scodeggio, Bardelli, Zucca, Scaramella, Arnouts, Radovich, Amram, Epinat: 'Following the mass assembly of galaxies at the key epoch 1.0 < z < 1.8 from a complete sample observed with SINFONI' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
C | SINFONI | 76.0 h |
Almaini, Maddox, Cimatti, Smail, Lehnert, Bremer, Simpson, Clements, Franx, McLure, Croom, Cirasuolo, Dunlop, Aragón-Salamanca, Conselice, Foucaud, Dunne, Gray, Watson, Akiyama: 'Galaxy evolution, large-scale structure and environment in the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
A | VIMOS | 3.0 h |
B | VIMOS | 90.0 h |
C | FORS2 | 4.0 h |
D | FORS2 | 67.0 h |
Gilmore, Wilkinson, Wyse, Walker, Grebel, Kleyna, Koch, Zucker, Belokurov, Evans, Faria, Fellhauer, Dehnen, Ostriker, Quinn, Ural: 'Towards the Temperature of Cold Dark Matter: Quantitative stellar kinematics in dSph galaxies' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
B | FLAMES | 84.0 h |
Bonfils, Delfosse, Forveille, Gillon, Pont, Santos, Udry: 'New habitable planets around M dwarfs, and 1^{st} radius measurement of a 1-30 M\oplus exoplanet' | ||
Obs. Run | Instrument | Time Allocated |
A | HARPS | 10.0 n |
B | HARPS | 10.0 n |