Large Programmes scheduled in Period 87

This list of OPC approved Large Programmes (LPs) is updated every observing period.

 

179.B-2002

Minniti, Lucas, Emerson, Collaboration:

'VISTA VARIABLES IN THE VIA LACTEA (VVV)'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

VIRCAM 292.0 h

 

179.B-2003

Cioni, Bekki, Clementini, de Blok, Evans, de Grijs, Gibson, Girardi, Groenewegen, Ivanov, Leisy, Marconi, Mastropietro, Moore, Naylor, Oliveira, Ripepi, van Loon, Wilkinson, Wood:

'The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic System (LMC, SMC, Bridge \& Stream) - VMC'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

VIRCAM 82.0 h

 

179.A-2004

Sutherland, Kuijken, Bender, Boehringer, Bremer, Capaccioli, Clewley, Dalton, Driver, Edge, Emerson, Erben, Hopp, Jarvis, Liske, McMahon, Mellier, Neeser, Peacock, Pearson, Phillipps, Radovich, Romer, Saglia, Schneider, Schuecker, Seitz, Silvotti, Taylor, Valentijn, Venemans:

'The VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy survey (VIKING).'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

VIRCAM 220.0 h

 

179.A-2005

Dunlop, Afonso, Almaini, Arnouts, Bell, Bergeron, Best, Bolzonella, Bremer, Brusa, Bunker, Cirasuolo, Cimatti, Conselice, Contini, Coppin, Cuby, Dalton, Doherty, van Dokkum, Eales, Emerson, Foucaud, Freudling, Guzzo, Hambly, Hasinger, Hjorth, Ilbert, Irwin, Ivison, Jarvis, Koekemoer, Kneib, Kurk, Labbe, Lacey, Lawrence, Leibundgut, Lilly, Maddox, Mainieri, McCraken, McLure, Mellier, Moller, Nilsson, Olsen, Omont, Orsi, Pedersen, Peacock, Page, Rawlings, Renzini, Rix, Rosati, Roettgering, Schinnerer, Scodeggio, Serjeant, Shanks, Simpson, Smail, Somerville, Sutherland, Taniguchi, Tasca, Tresse, Valentijn, Walton, Williams, van der Werf, Zamorani:

'Ultra-VISTA: an Ultra Deep Survey with VISTA'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

VIRCAM 150.0 h

 

179.A-2006

Jarvis, Almaini, Bell, Bremer, Brinchmann, Caputi, Cimatti, Cirasuolo, Clewley, Simpson, Collins, Cotter, Oliver, Dalton, Dunlop, Edge, Emerson, Gonzalez-Solares, McLure, Meisenheimer, Rawlings, Smail, Sutherland, Franx, Le Fevre, Hodgkin, Ivison, Foerster-Schreiber, Jones, Kay, Kneib, Lehnert, Loveday, Lutz, Mann, Nichol, McHardy, McMahon, Moles, Croom, Peacock, Percival, Readhead, Rix, Romer, Rosati, Roettgering, Serjeant, Sharp, Clowes, Baugh, Venemans, Verma, Villar-Martin, Waddington, Walter, Walton, Wolf:

'VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) Survey'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

VIRCAM 158.0 h

 

179.A-2010

McMahon, Lawrence, Castander, Abdalla, Alexander, Alfonso, Bailer-Jones, Balcells, Barcons, Barrado y Navascues, Belikov, Bell, Benitez, Bouvier, Bremer, Bridle, Cairos, Carrera, Caux, Cioni, Collister, Crittenden, Dalton, Davies, Doel, Doherty, Driver, Edge, Edmundson, Emerson, Espinosa, Ferguson, Fernandez, Fosalba, Garcia, Garcia-Bellido, Garzon, Gaztanaga, Goldman, Gilmore, Gonzales, Hambly, Hererro, Hewett, Hodgkin, Ibata, Infante, Irwin, James, Jameson, Jarvis, Jones, Jones, Kendall, Kroupa, Kumar, Lagache, Lahav, Lalli, Liddle, Lodieu, Loveday, Lucas, Maartens, Manchado, Mann, Martin, Martin, Martinez, Maza, Miquel, Miralda-Escude, Moles, Molla, Monin, Moraux, Munoz-Tunon, Naylor, Nichol, O'Brien, Oliver, Omont, Page, Palla, Peacock, Percival, Perez-Fournon, Peroux, Petitjean, Phillips, Pinfield, Puget, Randich, Rawlings, Rebelo, Riello, Rix, Romer, Roettgering, Rowan-Robinson, Sanchez, Savage, Scholz, Serjeant, Shanks, Somerville, Smith, Sutherland, Swope, Tanvir, Testi, Venemans, Viana, Walter, Walton, Warren, Watson, Webb, Weller, Wolf, Zinnecker, Zucker:

'The VISTA Hemisphere Survey(VHS)'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

VIRCAM 311.0 h

 

183.C-0437

Bonfils, Delfosse, Forveille, Gillon, Mayor, Perrier, Santos, Udry:

'Planets Around M Dwarfs: The Shortcut to Happiness'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

I

HARPS 10.0 n

J

HARPS 9.0 n

J

HARPS 1.0 n

 

183.C-0972

Udry, Lovis, Mayor, Pepe, Queloz, Benz, Bouchy, Lo Curto, Santos, Ségransan:

'A census of the super-Earth and Neptune-mass planet population around solar-type stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

HARPS 5.0 n

Y

HARPS 5.0 n

Y

HARPS 1.0 n

Y

HARPS 1.0 n

Z

HARPS 6.0 n

 

183.B-1004

Genzel, Gillessen, Alexander, Martins, Paumard, Levin, Nayakshin, Eisenhauer, Falcke, Gerhard, Clenet, Bartko, Goldwurm, Yusef-Zadeh, Porquet, Menten, Quataert, Reid, Abuter, Haubois, Dodds-Eden, Bower, Grosso, Mascetti, Ott, Perets, Perrin, Pfuhl, Predehl, Rouan, Sternberg, Trap, Trippe, Weiss, Zucker:

'Duplicate: The Galactic Center: a unique laboratory for studying fundamental physical processes near black holes'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

NACO 1.2 n

 

183.C-1005

Udry, Lovis, Mayor, Pepe, Queloz, Benz, Bouchy, Lo Curto, Santos, Ségransan:

'Duplicate: A census of the super-Earth and Neptune-mass planet population around solar-type stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

HARPS 4.0 n

A

HARPS 1.0 n

A

HARPS 1.0 n

B

HARPS 3.0 n

B

HARPS 4.0 n

 

184.C-0567

Beuzit, Feldt, Boccaletti, Henning, Mouillet, Moutou, Schmid, Turatto, Udry, Vakili, Waters, Bonavita, Bonnefoy, Chauvin, Carson, Desidera, Eggenberger, Gratton, Lagrange, Kasper, Vigan:

'Probing the Occurrence of Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs at Wide Orbits'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

NACO 33.0 h

 

184.C-0639

Bouchy, Queloz, Moutou, Hébrard, Hatzes, Deleuil, Aigrain, Alonso, Baglin, Fridlund, Gazzano, Guenther, Guillot, Lovis, Pont:

'Characterization of the unique transiting exoplanets detected from the CoRoT space mission'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

HARPS 8.0 n

H

HARPS 8.0 n

 

184.C-0815

Desort, Lagrange, Ehrenreich, Lecavelier, Lo Curto:

'Search for short-period planets around early-type main-sequence stars.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

HARPS 4.0 n

H

HARPS 3.0 n

 

184.D-1140

Benetti, Turatto, Cappellaro, Patat, Fransson, Taubenberger, Sollerman, Agnoletto, Pastorello, Valenti, Schmidt, Pain, Danziger, Zampieri, Mazzali, Della Valle, Elias-Rosa, Mattila, Leibundgut, Sullivan, Pumo, Navasardyan, Miluzio, Bufano, Saurer, Harutyunyan, Inserra:

'Supernova Variety and Nucleosynthesis Yields'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

EFOSC2 1.5 n

H

SOFI 1.5 n

 

184.C-1143

Hainaut, Boehnhardt, Protopapa, Buie, Hsieh, Kleyna, Licandro, Lowry, Meech, Mueller, Snodgrass, Tozzi, Carraro:

'Main Belt Comets - a new class of minor bodies'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

EFOSC2 4.0 n

 

184.D-1151

Benetti, Turatto, Cappellaro, Patat, Fransson, Taubenberger, Sollerman, Agnoletto, Pastorello, Valenti, Schmidt, Pain, Danziger, Zampieri, Mazzali, Della Valle, Elias-Rosa, Mattila, Leibundgut, Sullivan, Pumo, Navasardyan, Miluzio, Bufano, Saurer, Harutyunyan, Inserra:

'Duplicate: Supernova Variety and Nucleosynthesis Yields'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

Q

EFOSC2 1.5 n

R

EFOSC2 1.5 n

S

EFOSC2 1.5 n

T

SOFI 1.5 n

U

SOFI 1.5 n

V

SOFI 1.5 n

 

185.D-0056

Poretti, Baglin, Catala, Michel, Rainer, Uytterhoeven, Aerts, Amado, Briquet, Carrier, Creevey, De Cat, Desmet, Floquet, Frémat, Garrido, Gutierrez-Soto, Hareter, Huat, Hubert, Mantegazza, Martin-Ruiz, Mathias, Moya, Neiner, Papics, Semaan, Suarez, Zima:

'Extending the ground-based observations of CoRoT asteroseismic targets'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

HARPS 10.0 n

I

HARPS 5.0 n

 

185.A-0745

Molaro, Petitjean, Murphy, Levshakov, Reimers, Srianand, Lopez, Martins, Bonifacio, Centurión, Wendt, D'Odorico, Malec, Vladilo, Monai:

'THE UVES LARGE PROGRAM FOR TESTING FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

UVES 36.0 h

F

UVES 36.0 h

 

185.A-0791

Le Fevre, Bardelli, Capak, Cassata, Cimatti, Contini, Cuby, Cucciati, de Ravel, de la Torre, Garilli, Giavalisco, Grazian, Ilbert, Kneib, Le Brun, Lilly, Maccagni, Mellier, Meneux, Mignoli, Paltani, Salvato, Schaerer, Scodeggio, Scoville, Taniguchi, Tasca, Tresse, Zamorani, Zucca:

'Probing the formation and evolution of galaxies from a spectroscopic survey of 12,000 galaxies with 2.5 <= z <= 6.7'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

I

VIMOS 1.0 h

J

VIMOS 63.0 h

K

VIMOS 1.0 h

L

VIMOS 44.0 h

 

185.C-1033

Lowry, Duddy, Fitzsimmons, Green, Hicks, Laird, Rozitis, Snodgrass, Weissman, Wolters:

'Direct Detections of the Asteroidal YORP Effect'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

G

EFOSC2 3.0 n

H

EFOSC2 3.0 n

I

EFOSC2 3.0 n

 

185.C-1034

Lowry, Duddy, Fitzsimmons, Green, Hicks, Laird, Rozitis, Snodgrass, Weissman, Wolters:

'Direct Detections of the Asteroidal YORP Effect'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

K

VISIR 0.4 n

L

VISIR 0.5 n

M

VISIR 0.5 n

N

VISIR 0.8 n

O

VISIR 0.4 n

P

VISIR 0.4 n

Q

VISIR 0.4 n

 

186.C-0289

Snellen, de Kok, de Mooij, Nefs, Brogi, Albrecht:

'a CRIRES survey of hot Jupiters atmospheres'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

D

CRIRES 0.6 n

D

CRIRES 0.6 n

E

CRIRES 0.6 n

E

CRIRES 0.6 n

F

CRIRES 0.6 n

F

CRIRES 0.6 n

G

CRIRES 0.5 n

H

CRIRES 0.5 n

H

CRIRES 0.5 n

I

CRIRES 0.5 n

I

CRIRES 0.5 n

J

CRIRES 0.5 n

J

CRIRES 0.5 n

K

CRIRES 0.6 n

K

CRIRES 0.6 n

L

CRIRES 0.6 n

L

CRIRES 0.6 n

M

CRIRES 0.6 n

M

CRIRES 0.6 n

N

CRIRES 0.9 n

N

CRIRES 0.9 n

 

186.C-0756

Smart, Tinney, Andrei, Burningham, Jones, Leggett, Pinfield, Bucciarelli, Costa, Crosta, Day-Jones, Goldman, Lattanzi, Lucas, Mendez, Marocco, Penna, Qi, Vecchiato, Yu:

'NPARSEC: NTT PARallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

E

SOFI 2.0 n

E

SOFI 2.0 n

F

SOFI 2.0 n

F

SOFI 2.0 n

G

SOFI 2.0 n

G

SOFI 2.0 n

H

SOFI 2.0 n

H

SOFI 2.0 n

 

186.A-0798

Rosati, Balestra, Bartelmann, Benitez, Biviano, Borgani, Broadhurst, Czoske, Demarco, Ettori, Girardi, Grillo, Halkola, Lombardi, Nonino, Regoes, Seitz, Tozzi, Boehnert, Coe, Lemze, Medezinski, Ford, Postman, Strazzullo, Umetzu, Zheng, Zitrin:

'Dark Matter Mass Distributions of Hubble Treasury Clusters and the Foundations of LCDM Structure Formation Models'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

B

VIMOS 12.4 h

D

VIMOS 39.0 h

 

186.A-0898

Fontana, Dunlop, McLure, Faber, Ferguson, Dickinson, Almaini, Caputi, Castellano, Chary, Cirasuolo, Cooray, Conselice, Daddi, Fazio, Giavalisco, Giallongo, Grazian, Grogin, Hathi, Koekemoer, Koo, Lucas, Nonino, Pentericci, Rix, Rosario, Santini, Scarlata, Stark, Targett, van der Wel, Vanzella, Wild, Wuyts, Yan, Zibetti:

'A complete view of the first 2 billion years of galaxy formation'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

C

HAWKI 15.0 h

D

HAWKI 25.0 h

 

187.A-0437

Boone, Schaerer, Smail, Lutz, Weiss, Menten, Nordon, Pello, Combes, Egami, Kneib, Beelen, Blain, Dessauges, Ivison, Omont, Perez-Gonzalez, Richard, Altieri, Knudsen:

'The LABOCA Lensing Survey'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 30.0 h

 

187.A-0645

Hennawi, Walter, Jahnke, Rix, Meisenheimer, Wisotzki, Maiolino, DeCarli, Rubin, Crighton, Inskip, Yang, Tsalmantza, Maier, DeRosa, DallÁglio, Prochaska, Ellison, Worseck, Richards, Hall, Boroson:

'A SOFI Legacy Survey of Bright Quasars in the UVES Archive: Towards \sim 100 near-IR Spectra'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

SOFI 5.0 n

 

187.B-0909

Zoccali, Gonzalez, Hill, Valenti, Babusiaux, Rejkuba, Vasquez, Minniti, McWilliam, Alves Brito, Renzini, Brown:

'Solving the puzzle of the Milky Way bulge'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

FLAMES 65.0 h

 

187.D-0917

Alecian, Neiner, Wade, Grunhut, Aurière, Bagnulo, de Batz, Böhm, Bouret, Braithwaite, Catala, Folsom, Fourtune-Ravard, Henrichs, Kochukhov, Landstreet, Lignières, Marcolino, Martins, Mathis, Montmerle, Oksala, Owocki, Petit, Silvester:

'Magnetism in Massive Stars: the MiMeS project'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

HARPS 7.0 n

 

187.D-0924

Paladini, Sacuto, Lagadec, Verhoelst, Klotz, Hron, Groenewegen, Kerschbaum, Richichi, Wittkowski, Olofsson, Jorissen:

'A joint venture in the red: the Herschel+MIDI+VISIR view on mass loss from evolved stars'

Obs. Run

Instrument Time Allocated

A

MIDI 32.5 h

B

MIDI 2.5 h

C

MIDI 2.5 h

E

VISIR 1.3 n

G

MIDI 10.0 h

H

MIDI 12.5 h

 

 


Last update: OPO - February 25, 2011