Target of Opportunity Proposals in Period 90

 

This list of OPC approved Target of Opportunity Proposals (ToOs) is updated every observing period. The ESO ToO Policy is available from a separate document. Please note that when activating the observations, the ToO requests have to be fully documented, indicating the trigger of the requested observations. Observing time is only granted up to the indicated maximum of allocated time.

090.D-0022

Liefke, Elsaesser, Fuhrmeister, Ganse, Rudolf, Ness, Schmitt, Mannheim:

'Chasing stellar giant flares with UVES or X-Shooter in Rapid Response Mode'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 1.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

C

UVES 1.0 h

D

XSHOOTER 1.0 h

 

090.A-0034

Ledoux, Vreeswijk, Smette, De Cia, Petitjean, Fox:

'UVES-RRM observations of the ISM of high-redshift galaxies suddenly exposed to a g-ray burst'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 6.0 h

B

UVES 3.0 h

 

090.D-0048

Rau, Greiner, Kruehler, Akerlof, Cenko, Schmidt, Elliott, Gruber, Kann, Klose, McBreen, Nicuesa, Olivares, Rapoport, Rossi, Savaglio, Schady, von Kienlin, Weikang:

'Redshift determination of bright \textit{Fermi} GRBs: probing the GRB emission mechanism and circumburst environments.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 2.0 h

 

090.A-0072

D'Elia, Fiore, Antonelli, Campana, Covino, DÁvanzo, de Ugarte Postigo, D'Odorico, Fernandez-Soto, Fugazza, Jin, Krongold, Meurs, Mirabel, Nicastro, Norci, Onori, Palazzi, Perna, Pian, Piranomonte, Salvaterra, Stella, Tagliaferri, Vergani:

'A flash in the dark: probing high redshift galaxies through UVES-VLT Rapid Response Mode and Target of Opportunity observations of GRB afterglows'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 3.0 h

B

UVES 6.0 h

 

090.D-0077

Chaty, Grenier, Corbel, Burrows, Caraveo, de Luca, Dubus, Gehrels, Reimer, Thompson, Coleiro:

'ToO observation of a new bright transient discovered by Fermi-GST in the Galactic plane'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 2.7 h

B

FORS2 0.8 h

 

090.D-0164

Greiner, Tanvir, Bersier, Bremer, Castro-Tirado, Elliott, Fynbo, Gorosabel, Haiman, Hartmann, Hjorth, Jakobsson, Kann, Klose, Krühler, Levan, Malesani, Nardini, Nicuesa, Olivares, Pian, Rau, Rossi, Savaglio, Schady, Starling, Sudilovsky, Updike, Watson, Wiersema, Wijers:

'Probing the very early Universe with high-redshift GRBs'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 4.0 h

B

SINFONI 3.0 h

C

HAWKI 4.0 h

D

FORS2 3.0 h

 

090.A-0201

Leibundgut, Della Valle, Rosati, Rodney, Riess, Maoz, Postman:

'SN rate at high redshift and the composition of the universe'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 15.0 h

 

090.B-0204

Feltzing, Johnson, Adén, Asplund, Bensby, Gal-Yam, Gould, Lucatello, Meléndez:

'Metallicities, abundance ratios, and ages for dwarf stars in the Galactic bulge - using micro-lensing events to probe the properties of the Galactic bulge'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

UVES 2.4 h

B

UVES 2.4 h

C

UVES 2.4 h

D

UVES 2.4 h

E

UVES 2.4 h

 

090.D-0329

Fraser, Maund, Smartt, Mattila, Elias-Rosa, Benetti, Pastorello, Eldridge, Valenti, Sollerman, Danziger, Ergon, Kotak, Fransson, Jerkstrand, Reilly:

'The progenitors of core collapse supernovae - precision astrometry with NACO'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

NACO 3.0 h

B

NACO 3.0 h

 

090.A-0496

Goobar, Kneib, Perlmutter, Amanullah, Lidman, Richard, Fabbro, Johansson, Limousin, Mörtsell, Nordin, Paech, Petrusevska, Riehm, Stanishev:

'Cherry Picked Supernovae: a Zoomed View of SNe Ia and Dark Energy'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

B

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

C

XSHOOTER 3.0 h

D

FORS2 3.0 h

E

FORS2 3.0 h

F

FORS2 3.0 h

G

HAWKI 2.6 h

H

HAWKI 2.6 h

I

HAWKI 2.6 h

 

090.D-0635

Levan, Tanvir, Hjorth, Rowlinson, Tunnicliffe, Fynbo, Wijers, Jakobsson, Malesani, Starling, Wiersema, O'Brien, Watson:

'The progenitors of short duration gamma-ray bursts and their role as probes'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

B

FORS2 1.0 h

C

FORS2 1.0 h

D

HAWKI 1.0 h

E

HAWKI 1.0 h

 

090.D-0650

de Ugarte Postigo, Bremer, Campana, Castro-Tirado, Covino, DÁvanzo, De Breuck, Dumke, Fynbo, Garcia-Appadoo, Gorosabel, Guziy, Hancock, Hjorth, Jelinek, Kubanek, Lundgren, Llorente, Martin, Murphy, Perez-Ramirez, Salvaterra, Sánchez-Ramírez, Thöne, Winters:

'Observing the peak emission of gamma-ray bursts afterglows in submillimeter wavelengths'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 18.0 h

 

090.D-0667

de Ugarte Postigo, Muñoz Darias, Campana, Gorosabel, Casares, Covino, DÁvanzo, Castro-Tirado, Rodriguez-Gil, Fynbo:

'Spectroscopy of an active magnetar'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

ISAAC 1.0 h

 

090.D-0732

Kann, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Klose, Greiner, Krühler, Rossi, Rau, Schady, Filgas, Elliot, Afonso, Olivares E., Savaglio, Pierini, Burlon, Gruber, Schmidl, Nardini, McBreen, Küpcü Yoldas, Updike:

'Uncovering a new Domain: RRM Observations of the Early Afterglows of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 1.0 h

B

FORS2 1.0 h

 

090.D-0789

Wiersema, Covino, Wijers, Melandri, Mundell, Campana, Curran, DÁvanzo, di Serego, Fan, Fynbo, Ghirlanda, Ghisellini, Gomboc, Götz, Greiner, Gorosabel, Guidorzi, Hartoog, Hjorth, Jin, Klose, Kobayashi, Kopac, Kouveliotou, Levan, Malesani, Palazzi, Pian, Ramirez-Ruiz, Rol, Russell, Salvaterra, Sbarufatti, Smith, Starling, Steele, Tagliaferri, Tanvir, van der Horst, Vergani, Vreeswijk:

'Probing gamma-ray burst blast waves through polarimetry'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

FORS2 11.0 h

B

FORS2 2.0 h

C

FORS2 0.5 h

D

ISAAC 3.0 h

E

FORS2 1.0 h

 

090.D-0826

Maund, Reilly, Baade, Patat, Wheeler, Clocchiatti, Hoflich, Quinn, Spyromilio, Wang, Zelaya:

'From an Explosion of Models to a Model of the Explosion of Core-collapse Supernovae: Geometry as a Physics Discriminator'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

B

FORS2 17.5 h

C

FORS2 1.5 h

 

090.D-0828

Maguire, Sullivan, Patat, Hook, Podsiadlowski, Pan, Mazzali, Gal-Yam, Howell, Nugent, Baltay:

'Determining the progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae in elliptical galaxies via circumstellar absorption.'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 11.6 h

 

090.D-0842

Greiner, Bertoldi, Menten, Weiss, Rau, Krühler, Schady, Klose, Moin, Tingay, Wieringa:

'Testing the GRB fireball model'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

LABOCA 24.0 h

 

090.A-0885

Schady, Savaglio, Greiner, Rau, Elliott, Rossi:

'Studying the high-z metal-rich ISM through the dust extinguished afterglows of GRBs'

Obs. Run

Instrument Max. Time Allocated

A

XSHOOTER 5.7 h