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NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY

Quarterly Report (1) FY 2004 October 1 – December 31, 2003

NOAO PAEO staff members helped plan and organize the International Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP), held in Tucson in October 2003. This work included an Educator's Day for the Optical Society of America's annual meeting, held concurrently with ETOP, which presented professional development activities to 60 math, engineering, and science teachers from different parts of Arizona, some of whom are shown here with one of the hands-on activities at the workshop.

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National Science Foundation

NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY QUARTERLY REPORT (1) FY 2004 October 1 – December 31, 2003*

Submitted to the National Science Foundation

Under Cooperative Agreement No. AST-0132798, February 11, 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH (PAEO) Media and Public Information..........................................................................................................1 Public Outreach................................................................................................................................2 Educational Outreach .......................................................................................................................3

SITE SAFETY REPORTS

Tucson and Kitt Peak Site Safety Report .........................................................................................5 NOAO South and AURA Observatory ............................................................................................7

OBSERVING PROGRAMS (SEMESTER 2003-B)

NOAO Gemini Science Center ........................................................................................................8 Kitt Peak National Observatory .....................................................................................................13 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.....................................................................................18 Hobby-Eberly Telescope................................................................................................................23 Multiple Mirror Telescope .............................................................................................................23 W.M. Keck Observatory .......................................................................................................... 24

* Scientific and programmatic accomplishments of the preceding quarter, including telescope

subscription statistics and updates on operational activities, are published separately in the quarterly NOAO Newsletter.

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH (PAEO)

MEDIA AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

NOAO was a major participant in an NSF-sponsored public symposium in early October 2003 in Washington, DC, on the future of ground-based astronomy, including exhibit handouts on the LSST and TMT projects, and a display of a colorful new NOAO Web site on Spanish language materials for astronomy education. This public event followed a highly successful conference for the astronomy outreach community on the best techniques for communicating astronomy to the public, which included the NOAO director and the NOAO manager of public affairs on its planning committees, and group leadership at the meeting.

An NOAO image of spiral galaxy M81 was featured prominently as the optical counterpart to one of the first infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope released by NASA-JPL at a Space Science Update news briefing on NASA TV in December. Similarly, an NOAO image of spiral galaxy NGC 1637 was used by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in an animation to support an October press release.

An NOAO press release on the Pleiades star cluster being the center of a three-body collision with two unrelated clouds of interstellar gas was covered by Space.com, Astronomy.com, the UniverseToday.com and SpaceflightNow.com.

More than 30 images from NOAO telescopes and the Kitt Peak Visitor Center Advanced Observing Program are featured in the July 2003 Cambridge Encyclopedia of Amateur Astronomy by Michael Bakich.

NOAO images were featured four times as the “Astronomy Picture of the Day” on the Web, and twice as the Space.com image of the day. The image on the main NOAO home page was updated six times. Images from the Kitt Peak Advance Observing Program were highlighted in Astronomy magazine, Sky & Telescope magazine, Space.com, and the ESO Website.

NOAO Press Release Titles for the Quarter:

• “Walker Named Director of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Obse• “Pleiades in Rare Interstellar Three-Body Collision” • “The Pelican Nebula Ionization Front” (image release)

PUBLIC OUTREACH

Through various community contacts, PAEO public outreacAirport Authority to secure a 3-foot by 8-foot banner space at no chaairport. This banner advertises Kitt Peak and its public programs and

Six travel writers from various publications toured Kitt Peenvironment. They took telescope tours and participated in the “Fu

Education, Media and Public InformationSummary of Server Hits

Oct – Dec. 2003 (Hits in Thousands)

Image Gallery Web hits 35.3

Education Web hits 57.0

Outreach Web hits 38.4

Non-PAEO Web hits 2,055.0

Total Web Hits 2,185.7

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Four dozen architecture students from the University of Arizona were given a special tour of the Mayall 4-meter and McMath-Pierce solar telescopes on October 13 with a focus on the design of the observatories.

A total of 46 students and adults experienced the “Fun with the Sun” program at Kitt Peak on November 21, and December 5 and 8, visiting the McMath-Pierce solar telescope, doing hands-on activities about the Sun, and using the 16-inch telescope to make videos of the Sun in Hydrogen-alpha.

NOAO Public Outreach staff visited Tucson’s Valencia Middle School in October and November to conduct presentations with the StarLab portable planetarium for a total of six classes and more than 100 students.

Science and Information Requests Oct – Dec. 2003

Information requests/inquiries about astronomy/science (phone calls, e-mails, walk-ins/requests for posters, bookmarks, brochures, etc.)

700

Requests and inquiries for use of NOAO images*

255

Total 955

* Does not include images downloaded from the NOAO Image Gallery

WIYN staff member Pat Knezek was interviewed in November for a children’s show on astronomy by Magic Carpet Productions. They shot exterior and interior images of the WIYN telescope.

On December 20, PAEO staff conducted a presentation on the winter night sky for a group of 15 people at the Sabino Canyon Visitor Center, located in the Coronado National Forest in northeast Tucson. More than 75 other park visitors viewed sunspots through a 10-inch telescope and solar filter set up by PAEO outside the visitor center.

NOAO Public Outreach program coordinator Robert Wilson worked with four local high school teachers to develop educational materials and exhibits for the Kitt Peak Visitor Center as a means of making the center a more effective educational resource for local schools. The center recently installed an exhibit on infrared radiation for which one of the teachers is developing anticipatory materials that will be made available to teachers as a pre-visit resource.

Group/Program Visitors

General Public Tours 3,149

School Groups K-12 292

Special Tours 6

Nightly Obs. Program 1,716

Advance Obs. Program 57

Total 5,220

Kitt Peak Visitor CenterQuarterly Data Summary

1st Qtr FY04

Public Outreach manager Rich Fedele attended the SCOPE meeting at National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM.

Public outreach nighttime staff collaborated with observers from Spacewatch, a project at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, on December 18 to train observers from Mongolia in astrometrics. The Mongolians use equipment closer in technology to the Kitt Peak Visitor Center’s telescopes and CCDs than to the equipment used by Spacewatch.

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH

Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE)

A successful recruiting campaign for the 2004 class of TLRBSE participants was conducted during September and October. This year, as a test to save on costs, the campaign was run completely


via electronic list-servs, with no hard copy mailings or advertisements as in previous years. The number of applications, nearly 120, slightly exceeded expectations and demonstrated the effectiveness of a purely electronic campaign. The 22 teacher leaders selected for 2004 appear to be another outstanding group. The new participants hail from 14 states, spanning the country from Maine to Hawaii, including representatives from five states new to the TLRBSE program.

Preparations for the 2004 TLRBSE distance learning course centered on “streamlining” of the course with fewer formal assignments, more interaction among the participants, and more group summary interactions between participants and the course instructors. These changes are the result of a study of several different models of successful distance learning courses and the suggestions of the project’s external evaluators.

A new element of the TLRBSE program – school-year observing – began during the fall of 2003. The program brings former RBSE and TLRBSE teachers and (for the first time) their students to Kitt Peak to pursue their own original observation programs at the telescopes the teachers learned to use during their RBSE/TLRBSE experiences. The objectives of the program are to increase science learning and experiences for students and to help recharge the community of RBSE/TLRBSE teach-ers. Three observation runs with the Coudé Feed telescope were successfully completed during the quarter. An observation slot on the 0.9-meter telescope was made available, but no satisfactory pro-posals were received, pointing out the difficulty of designing appropriate observing programs by non-professionals, and the need for more staff-teacher interaction during proposal preparation. This program is just getting started, and plans for the future include additional runs on the Coudé Feed, the 0.9-meter, the McMath-Pierce solar telescope, and remote-controlled telescopes in New Mexico and on Kitt Peak.

Two TLRBSE-related talks were presented at the Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP) conference in Tucson in October [see below].

Project ASTRO-Tucson

The training workshop for Project ASTRO-Tucson took place on 3-4 October 2003 at the University of Arizona with 33 teachers and 27 astronomer partners. Highlights of the workshop included a talk on the craters of the Moon by noted planetary scientist Charles Wood, a talk on student misconceptions in astronomy by science education specialist Ed Prather, and the participation of the group in 10 hands-on, “minds-on” activities. One set of activities, led by Mike Zawaski of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, was on “kinesthetic astronomy.” Another activity was based on integrating art, poetry and scientific journaling from the book “Moon Journals” and was presented by the past director of Project ASTRO, Suzanne Jacoby, her teacher partner, Susie Townsend, and PAEO staff member, Kathie Coil.

In all, 330 teachers and astronomers have been trained to date in the best methods to bring hands-on, astronomy-oriented activities into science classrooms. More than 100 of these teacher/astronomer partnerships from past years remain active today.

Family ASTRO

Family ASTRO has successfully initiated its second round of annual training workshops from October through November 2003. Held at the Desert View High School library again this year, three workshops on the Night Sky Adventure, Moon Mission and Race to the Planets kits were hosted by NOAO PAEO staff. Seventeen event leaders were trained this quarter.

Once trained at these workshops, event leaders hold evening or weekend events where families try activity stations and facilitated activities, and then receive a kit to take home. Some of the event leaders attending this year’s training workshops returned from last year to learn about new kits.


Attendees experiencing Family ASTRO for the first time include two new Kitt Peak docents, Project ASTRO astronomers, Girl Scout leaders, and teachers from Arizona Virtual Academy, Tucson Unified School District and Sunnyside Unified School District. The dedication and enthusiasm of the leaders were evident in all three sessions. Four highly successful Family ASTRO events were hosted by seven event leaders during the October through December period. An average of 10 families attended each event.

ASTRO-Chile

The ASTRO-Chile effort continues to expand its bilingual outreach program in astronomy education with great enthusiasm at NOAO North and South. Spanish-speaking science teachers from Tucson middle schools and high schools attend regular video conferences with Chilean teachers from various grades from the region surrounding La Serena, assisted by NOAO scientists and outreach personnel from both North and South.

At the fifth video workshop on 25 November 2003, the Tucson teachers reported on a light pollution study performed by students all over the city. In turn, the Chilean teachers reported on a study of light pollution carried out regionally by their students. Long-term plans are to link the two groups with international light pollution education efforts in Austria and Greece.

OTHER NOAO EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

NOAO educational outreach staff were highly visible at the December 2003 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), organizing two oral sessions and one poster session on Teacher Professional Development Programs Promoting Authentic Scientific Research in the Classroom. At each session, a PAEO staff member gave a presentation. There were a total of two talks given by Connie Walker and Steve Pompea and one poster given by Steven Croft. An AGU meeting poster was also presented by NSO staff (F. Hill, M. Gearen, C. Henney, H. Jones, and T. Stagg) on Data and Activities for Solar Learning.

NOAO Manager of Science Education Stephen Pompea served on the steering committee for the International Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP), held in Tucson in October 2003. Pompea organized and presided over a special invited session on “Best Practices for Optical Science Education.” PAEO staff members Connie Walker and Pompea also organized the Educator’s Day for the Optical Society of America annual meeting, held concurrently with ETOP, presenting professional development activities to 60 MESA teachers from different parts of Arizona

NSF awarded a five-year GK-12 project to the University of Arizona titled “Track 2 GK-12: Collaboration to Advance Teaching Technology and Science (CATTS)” with NOAO as a partner and Pompea as a Co-Investigator. NOAO will serve as a CATTS site for 2004 with an emphasis on delivering GEMS activities in astronomy and optics to schools that serve underrepresented groups. Two new CATTS Fellows for NOAO were chosen, and will begin work in January 2004.

Current NOAO CATTS Fellows Erika Offerdahl and Katie Moore have been active in working with local teachers and schools, reaching 14 classrooms, teacher workshops, or star parties in Tucson, Phoenix, and Nogales during this quarter.


SITE SAFETY REPORTS: TUCSON AND KITT PEAK

OSHA RECORDABLE OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES, ILLNESSES, AND OTHER INCIDENTS

Injury and illness recordkeeping requirements as mandated by OSHA for the calendar year of 2003 were completed and finalized. NOAO and NSO Tucson experienced two OSHA recordable injuries and Kitt Peak experienced one OSHA recordable injury. For calendar year 2003, Tucson injury rate is 0.85 (.85 injuries per 100 employees working a year) and Kitt Peak’s injury rate was 2.00 (2.00 injuries per 100 employees working a year).

A Kitt Peak employee reported falling from a slippery surface that cause bruising to the back and arm on December 28. A workers compensation claim was filed and the employee was sent for a precautionary diagnostic medical evaluation. The employee is recovering fine and the case is considered first aid. Anti-slip material will be applied to the surface.

During the Tucson annual floor cleaning, various aluminum blocks from the instrument shop were moved to the service yard on December 17. It was noticed that the stock was missing that afternoon. An e-mail was sent out to Tucson_All describing what was taken. Three NOAO employees responded and stated that they observed a contractor loading material into a vehicle. After investigation and with physical evidence, it was determined that the contractor’s employees were the likely suspects. The owner of the company was notified and took appropriate disciplinary action. It is estimated that the value of the aluminum, which has not been recovered, was $550.

SAFETY AND HEALTH

The NOAO risk management specialist provided an internal inspection, informal audit, and a management assessment of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile from September 22 to October 2, 2003. A formal report was issued to management in October.

Eighteen Tucson employees representing Kitt Peak Support, Instrument Makers, Electrical Technicians Central Facilities and the National Solar Observatory attended the Tucson on-site eight hour Crane and Rigging course on November 10. The seminar was followed by an inspection of hoisting equipment in the Instrument Shop and the Optics Shop. Nine additional employees representing Kitt Peak Facilities, Kitt Peak Instrument Specialists and four U of A employees attended a second Crane and Rigging course held at Kitt Peak on December 10.

Mike Hawes and Dawn Clemons attended the Southwest Regional Trauma Conference on October 2 and 3, 2003.

The NOAO risk management specialist provided an ergonomic review with recommendations for an NOAO employee. The employee has gained relief by implementing some of the recommendations.

A contract was established with a vendor that will aid NOAO and NSO with the compliance of OSHA’s 29 CFR 1910.134 Respiratory Protection Standard. The service includes review of employee confidential Respiratory Protection Medical Forms by a physician or licensed health care professional, follow up medical examination if required, and providing respirator fit testing.

As the secretary of the Southern Arizona Chapter - American Society of Safety Engineers, the NOAO risk management specialist participated in the development of a “Competent Persons – Safety at Heights” seminar that will be held in Tucson, March 3-5, 2004. Several NOAO and NSO employees have been identified as possible attendees.

The NOAO risk management specialist provided safety advisement and overview for the LSST office additions in the Tucson M1 area, GNIRS movement, SOLIS demolition, Visitor Center


modifications, 2.1M - Coudé Feed room modifications, Tucson October 25 planned power outage, Tucson lobby door modifications, information related to AURA’s insurance annual review, personal protective equipment for cleaning the HVAC systems, proper disposal of universal waste, oil cleanup and respirator protection, designated smoking areas, restocking of medical and safety equipment, researching an oxygen sensor for the Penn State project, preparation for the possibility of the management of radiation sources due to future projects, and attempting to recover funds for minor damage to a parking lot fence by a third party.

FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION

As a continuation of the fire prevention efforts at Kitt Peak in cooperation with local authorities, Fire Management Officer Guy Acuna of the Tohono O’odham Nation sent five firefighters to Kitt Peak on October 14. The purpose of their visit was threefold: 1) inventory and inspection of fire fighting equipment at the Kitt Peak Emergency Center (fire barn) and suggest recommendations, 2) helping with the stocking of wild land fire fighting equipment that firefighters would use to protect Kitt Peak facilities, and 3) a physical review of Kitt Peak structures.

ENVIRONMENTAL

The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Tohono O’odham Department of Public Safety conducted an inspection of the Kitt Peak underground petroleum storage tanks on November 11. One violation was noted because our vendor allowed fuel to partially fill one of the “spill buckets.” The violation was corrected during the time of the inspection. No citations were issued and the inspectors again noted Mountain Facilities exemplary record keeping and management practices.

Kitt Peak and Tucson underground gasoline storage tanks were tested for tank tightness on December 16, 2003 as required by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. All tanks passed.

Properly disposed of 160 pounds of burned out fluorescent light bulbs from Kitt Peak and Tucson. The light bulbs were sent to a recycling facility that makes new light bulbs.

Dawn Clemons completed the Arizona Department of Health Services Surface Water/ Ground Water Sampling and Analysis Workshop on October 7, 8, and 9, 2003.

For calendar year 2003, NOAO and NSO Tucson and Kitt Peak will report to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality as a conditionally exempt small quantity generator because the organization properly relocated and disposed of hazardous materials and universal wastes.

SECURITY

The NOAO risk management specialist completed the “Specifications for Unarmed Security Services” for the Tucson facility in preparation to re-bid during December and January. The specification required a major rewrite with additional requirements, modified and new procedures, and the addition of verbal understandings. Christine Stone completed the contract and coordinated a pre-bid meeting that was held on December 19, 2003, with five bidders attending. Bids are due January 14, 2004.


SITE SAFETY REPORTS: NOAO SOUTH AND AURA OBSERVATORY

INSPECTIONS

Planned inspection activities have been incremented in various work locations to reduce hazardous conditions, these include:

• Reorganization of items stored in warehouse and yards to improve order and cleanliness. • New evacuation route signs have been installed. • Evacuation routes together with office plans have been installed in La Serena offices. • Optimization of office orderliness to avoid falls and collisions with desks or other furniture. A

reorganization of the furniture was carried out in the Gemini GBF in La Serena to improve the internal walkways.

• A new evaluation of ergonomic conditions at offices to avoid the occurrence of carpal tunnel syndrome.

• Reorganization of all dangerous material was carried out and new receptacles and shelving were provided for their storage. Especially in Workshop #1 A total of 12 planned inspections were carried out, five at CTIO, two at Gemini, two at SOAR

and three at AOSS.

PERSONAL ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

CTIO reported three accidents this quarter. A CTIO mechanic technician sustained a cut to his hand which resulted in 8 days absence from work. A Gemini engineer fractured a finger when hit by heavy equipment within the aluminizing chamber, resulting in one day of absence from work and a change in his work responsibilities. A Gemini mechanic technician suffered a fall from a ladder, fracturing his knee, this is estimated to produce 45 days of absence from work.

VEHICLES ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

There were no vehicle accidents during this report period.

TRAINING/TALKS

Training talks were given on evacuation plans, emergency planning, food manipulation, risk when working with electricity. The following table shows the topics discussed and the number of participants at each division.

Nº Participants Training Course/Talk

CTIO AOSS SOAR GEMINI Security Cte. workshop 3 3 1 4Security (Paritario) Cte. encounter 2 2 1 3International Security and Health Symposium

1

Risk Prevention Experts Encounter 1 OSHA 18001 1


EMERGENCY PREPARATION

Emergency evacuation drills and fire hose manipulation courses have been carried out by all personnel working at the SOAR Telescope. A quarterly maintenance of all fire alarm systems was carried out at Gemini, SOAR and CTIO. The NOAO Contingency Plan was made known to Supervisors and all Safety Committees. Fire extinguisher replacement continues in La Serena.

ACTIVITIES WITH THE MUTUAL DE SEGURIDAD

Mutual de Seguridad personnel coordinated the following training sessions to the end of the year:

• Course on Legal Regulations and Prevention in response to Judicial Claims • Workshop for Safety and Hygiene Committee.

During November 2003, the Safety Audit was carried out. A study was performed in order to detect the presence of asbestos in the Victor Blanco

Telescope and Machine Shop areas on Cerro Tololo. Results indicate that the presence of asbestos in our environment is below the established norm.

LABOR HEALTH

Labor health exams were performed by the Mutual’s Labor Medicine Unit, these exams (Vision, Hearing, Blood Pressure, Lung Capacity and Benzene Detection) were carried out on Cerro Pachon, Cerro Tololo and La Serena Compound, and included all personnel exposed to health risks.

The Kitchen Personnel took the health exams required by the Sanitary Code. AURA was awarded a prize in recognition to the management of Risk Prevention. This award

was bestowed to 18 out of a total of 1200 institutions.


OBSERVING PROGRAMS – SEMESTER 2003B

NOAO GEMINI SCIENCE CENTER

A total of 57 U.S. scientific programs were awarded time on the Gemini telescopes in Semester 2003-B (August 1, 2003 – January 31, 2004), including 10 graduate thesis programs. The names of successful proposers, proposal titles, telescope(s) scheduled, and number of nights awarded to each program are specified below. (* = Program allocated time in Band 4 of the observing queue, i.e., overfill time. GEM-NQ = Gemini North Queue. GEM-SQ = Gemini S. Queue. GEM-N = Gemini North classical)

Program Type N % Total

U.S. Programs (non-Thesis) 47 82%

U.S. Programs (Theses) 10 18%

Total 57 100%

NGSC Observing ProgramsSemester 2003-B

U.S. Observing Programs: Gemini Telescopes (47) – Non-Thesis Tel. # Nights

1. T. Armandroff (NOAO), N. Caldwell (Smithsonian Institution), G. Da Costa (Australian National U.): “The Extended Star Formation Histories of M81 Group Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 1.38

2. J. Bally (U. of Colorado), R. Shuping, M. Morris, N. Smith (U. of Colorado): “Massive Star Formation in Orion: Direct Accretion or Cannibalism?”

GEM-SQ 3.2

3. J. Bechtold (U. of Arizona), K. McLeod, F. D’Arcangelo (U) (Wellesley College): “High Redshift Quasar Host Galaxies”

GEM-N 3

4. M. Bergmann (CTIO), I. Jorgensen (Gemini Observatory), R. Davies (U. of Oxford), D. Crampton (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), J. Barr (U. of Bristol), M. Takamiya (U. of Hawaii), B. Miller (Gemini Observatory): “Galaxy Evolution During Half the Age of the Universe”

GEM-SQ 2.25

5. J. Brodie (U. of California Observatories), S. Larsen (ESO), J. Strader (G) (U. of California Observatories), J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Extragalactic Globular Clusters in the Near-IR: Hidden Markers of Galaxy Assembly?”

GEM-NQ *

6. G. Cecil (U. of North Carolina), M. Dopita (Australian National U.), F. Hamann (U. of Florida), B. Groves (Australian National U.): “Dynamics of the Nuclear Outflow in NGC 1068”

GEM-NQ 0.31

7. D. Farrah (California Institute of Technology), M. Fox, M. Rowan-Robinson, R. Priddey, D. Clements (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine), J. Afonso (Observatoria Astronomico de Lisboa), R. Chary (California Institute of Technology): “Cirrus interlopers in blank-field sub-millimetre surveys”

GEM-NQ *

8. J. Feldmeier (Case Western Reserve U.), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby (WIYN), C. Gronwall, P. Durrell (Pennsylvania State U.), C. Mihos (Case Western Reserve U.): “Gemini spectroscopy of Fornax intracluster planetary nebulae and Lyman (α) galaxies at z=3.13”

GEM-SQ *



9. P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), H. Marion (G), P. Hoeflich (U. of Texas, Austin): “Type Ia Supernovae: The Collision of Theory and Observation”

GEM-NQ 1

10. K. Gebhardt (U. of Texas, Austin), T. Lauer (NOAO), R. Van Der Marel (STScI): “Black Holes in Brightest Cluster Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 0.6

11. K. Gebhardt (U. of Texas, Austin), D. Forbes (Swinburne U.), T. Bridges (Anglo-Australian Observatory), D. Hanes (Queen’s U.), J. Forte (IAFE), R. Sharples (U. of Durham), M. Beasley (Swinburne U.), S. Zepf (Michigan State U.), F. Feifer (U. Nacional de la Plata): “Exploring the Outer Edges of Galaxies”

GEM-SQ 1.88

12. J. Gerssen (STScI), K. Gebhardt, R. Van Der Marel (STScI), J. Allington-Smith (U. of Durham): “Stellar Kinematics in the Center of M3”

GEM-NQ 0.5

13. M. Gladders (Carnegie Institution of Washington), H. Yee (U. of Toronto), H. Hoekstra (G) (CITA), E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado): “Spectroscopy of Arcs in High Redshift “Super-Lens” Clusters”

GEM-NQ 1.14

14. K. Glazebrook (Johns Hopkins U.), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Institution of Washington), S. Savaglio (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Abraham (U. of Toronto), D. Crampton (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), I. Hook (U. of Oxford), A. Bunker, E. Stanway (U. of Cambridge), W. Couch (U. of New South Wales), K. Roth (Gemini Observatory), R. Murowinski (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), I. Jorgensen (Gemini Observatory), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (STScI), M. Colless (Australian National U.), Z. Tsvetanov (Johns Hopkins U.): “The First Galaxies: a long, hard look”

GEM-SQ 6.2

15. C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (STScI), Z. Tsvetanov (Johns Hopkins U.), Z. Haiman (Columbia U.), N. Pirzkal (ESO): “Spectroscopy of z > 5 Ly-α Emission-Line Galaxies from APPLES”

GEM-NQ *

16. P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), J. Johnson (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), R. Van Der Marel, J. Gerssen (STScI), E. Grebel, D. Harbeck (G) (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), D. Crampton (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “Dark Matter Halos of Dwarf Spheroidals: Andromeda VII”

GEM-NQ 0.45

17. P. Hartigan (Rice U.): “The Anatomy of Magnetic Precursors and C-Shocks” GEM-NQ *

18. K. Hinkle (NOAO), P. Bernath (U. of Waterloo), T. Tsuji (U. of Tokyo), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), J. Valenti, M. McCaughrean (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): “Infrared Spectroscopy of the T-dwarf (epsilon) Indi B”

GEM-SQ 1

19. K. Hinkle (NOAO), K. Cunha (Observatorio Nacional), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso): “The Origin of Fluorine”

GEM-SQ 1

20. B. Hrivnak (Valparaiso U.), K. Volk (Gemini Observatory), S. Kwok (U. of Calgary): “Mid-IR Imaging of Circumstellar Rings in the C-Rich PPN HD 56126”

GEM-NQ *

21. B. Hrivnak (Valparaiso U.), S. Kwok (U. of Calgary), K. Hinkle (NOAO), D. Kelly (U. of Arizona): “H2 Emission to Probe Small, Spatially-Resolved PPNs”

GEM-SQ 0.4

22. R. Hynes (U. of Texas, Austin), C. Haswell (Open U.), W. Cui (Purdue U.), C. Shrader (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), P. Charles (U. of Southampton), K. Horne (U. of St. Andrews), K. O’Brien, S. Chaty (Observatoire de Paris): “Reverberation Mapping of Black Hole X-ray Transients”

GEM-SQ *

23. C. Kulesa (U. of Arizona), J. Black (Chalmers U. of Technology): “Direct Measurement of Cold H2 and CO in the Ophiuchi Star Forming Region”

GEM-SQ 2

24. D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), K. Eriksson, B. Gustafsson (Uppsala U.), K. Hinkle (NOAO), N. Ryde, R. Wahlin (G), B. Westerlund (Uppsala U.): “Carbon Stars in the Local Group - Detailed Abundance Analysis of Carbon Stars in the LMC”

GEM-SQ 2



25. S. Leggett (UKIRT), D. Stephens, K. Noll (STScI), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory): “10 Micron imaging of T Dwarfs”

GEM-NQ 2

26. K. Luhman, G. Fazio (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory): “Searching for the Bottom of the Initial Mass Function”

GEM-NQ 2.6

27. L. Macri (NOAO), D. Sasselov, K. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Improving the Cepheid Distance Scale (II)”

GEM-NQ 3

28. P. Maloney (U. of Colorado), C. Dudley (Naval Research Laboratory), M. Imanishi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan): “Buried AGN in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies”

GEM-NQ *

29. P. Massey (Lowell Observatory), S. Holmes (G) (U. of Texas, Austin): “Evolved Massive Stars in the Local Group: Spectroscopy of Wolf-Rayets and Red Supergiants Candidates”

GEM-NQ *

30. K. Olsen (CTIO), B. Miller (Gemini Observatory), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), J. Huchra, P. Barmby (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “The Intriguing Globular Cluster System of NGC 300”

GEM-SQ *

31. S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), R. Pain (U. of Paris), C. Pritchet (U. of Victoria), R. Carlberg (U. of Toronto), I. Hook (U. of Oxford), J. Rich (CEA), R. McMahon (U. of Cambridge), R. Knop (Vanderbilt U.), G. Aldering (UC Berkeley), E. Smith (Vanderbilt U.), D. Howell, L. Wang, V. Fadayev, R. Gibbons (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), R. Vogel (G) (UC Berkeley), A. Spadafora (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): “The Nature of Dark Energy from Type Ia Supernovae”

GEM-NQ 1.5

32. M. Postman (STScI), W. Zheng, H. Ford, N. Benitez (Johns Hopkins U.), G. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), T. Broadhurst (The Hebrew U.), K. Zekser (G), D. Coe (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.): “Deep Infrared Imaging of ACS Fields: A Search for z > 7 Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 2

33. M. Rauch (Carnegie Institution of Washington), F. Marleau (Saint Mary’s U.), M. Haehnelt (U. of Cambridge), J. Graham (UC Berkeley), A. Bunker (U. of Cambridge): “Fluorescent re-emission of the ionizing UV background from Lyman-limit Systems”

GEM-NQ 4

34. C. Roman-Zuniga (G), E. Lada (U. of Florida): “Investigating the Role of OB stars in Determining the Lifetimes of Circumstellar Disks”

GEM-NQ 0.5

35. P. Schechter (MIT): “Anomalous flux ratios in two quadruply imaged quasars: millilensing or micro?”

GEM-NQ 0.25

36. E. Serabyn, M. Creech-Eakman, G. Orton (CalTech-JPL): “Mid-Infrared Probes of Brown Dwarfs”

GEM-SQ 2

37. R. Smith, A. Rest (CTIO), C. Stubbs (U. of Washington), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. of Washington), S. Keller, S. Nicolaev (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A. Clocchiatti, D. Minniti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), C. Alcock (U. of Pennsylvania), S. Hawley (U. of Washington), K. Mighell (NOAO): “Spectroscopy of LMC Microlensing Events from the SuperMacho Survey”

GEM-SQ 2

38. V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), K. Cunha (Observatorio Nacional), K. Hinkle (NOAO): “Chemical Evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud from Infrared Spectroscopy of Red Giants”

GEM-SQ 3

39. N. Smith (U. of Colorado): “Variability in the Near-IR Spectrum of Eta Carinae” GEM-SQ 0.3

40. N. Smith, P. Conti (U. of Colorado), C. Depree (Agnes Scott College), J. Jackson (Boston U.), J. Bally (U. of Colorado): “High-resolution infrared imaging of the most powerful water maser source in our Galaxy: W49A/G”

GEM-SQ *



41. D. Steeghs (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), P. Jonker (U. of Cambridge): “The nature of the ultra-compact X-ray binary 4U 0614+09”

GEM-NQ *

42. N. Suntzeff, R. Smith (CTIO), B. Schmidt (Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics), C. Stubbs (U. of Washington), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. of Hawaii), K. Krisciunas (CTIO), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), B. Barris (U. of Hawaii), W. Li (UC Berkeley), G. Miknaitis (U. of Washington), S. Holland (U. of Notre Dame), S. Jha, T. Matheson (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Sollerman (ESO), P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Pompea (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), A. Rest (U. of Washington): “ESSENCE/w Project: Measuring the Equation of State of Dark Energy”

GEM-SQ

GEM-NQ

2

2

43. C. Telesco, N. Marinas (U. of Florida), R. Fisher, T. Hayward (Gemini Observatory): “Mid-Infrared Imaging of Beta Pictoris”

GEM-SQ 3

44. T. Thuan (U. of Virginia), H. Hirashita, L. Hunt (Osservatorio Astrofisico Arcetri), S. Madden (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), S. Plante (Laval U.), M. Sauvage (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), T. Takeuchi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan): “Searching for Dust in Metal-Poor Star-Forming Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 1.45

45. N. Van Der Bliek (NOAO), D. Apai (U) (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), M. Sterzik (ESO), I. Pascucci (O), T. Henning (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie): “Exploring the Structure of Brown Dwarf Disks”

GEM-SQ 2.5

46. D. Weintraub (Vanderbilt U.), J. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology), J. Bary (G) (Vanderbilt U.): “Using Emission from Molecular Hydrogen Gas to Measure Masses of Circumstellar Disks of T Tauri Stars”

GEM-SQ *

47. P. Yanamandra-Fisher, G. Orton, B. Fisher (CalTech-JPL), C. Ferrari (CEA): “Thermal Asymmetries in Saturn’s Unshadowed Ring: Target of Opportunity in Support of NASA/CASSINI Mission.”

GEM-NQ *

U.S. Observing Programs: Gemini Telescopes – Thesis (10) Tel. Nights

48. A. Bolton (T), S. Burles (MIT): “IFU Observation of SDSS Spectroscopic Strong Lens Candidates”

GEM-NQ *

49. S. Brittain (T), T. Rettig (U. of Notre Dame), C. Kulesa (U. of Arizona): “H3+, H2 and CO

Line Emission as a Unique Probe of the Structure of Circumstellar Disks” GEM-SQ *

50. J. Cook (T), S. Wyckoff (Arizona State U.): “Spectroscopy of Pluto and Charon Between 1.4-2.5 (µ)m”

GEM-N

GEM-SQ

3

3

51. L. Ferrarese (Rutgers U.), B. Peterson, R. Pogge (Ohio State U.), D. Merritt (Rutgers U.), A. Wandel (The Hebrew U.), C. Onken (T) (Ohio State U.): “Understanding Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 3

52. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), R. Wijers (SUNY, Stony Brook), J. Rhoads (STScI), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), E. Pian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), S. Wachter (SIRTF), K. Sahu (STScI), P. Vreeswijk (G) (U. of Amsterdam), J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (G) (LAEFF), J. Hjorth (U. of Copenhagen), A. Levan (T) (U. of Leicester): “Quick Response to GRBs: probing underlying supernovae and rapid variability”

GEM-SQ 0.5

53. C. Impey, C. Petry (O), K. Eriksen (T), A. Marble (T), L. Bai (T) (U. of Arizona): "Cosmology with Quasar Pairs"

GEM-SQ 2


54. N. Marinas (T), C. Telesco (U. of Florida), R. Fisher (Gemini Observatory): “Mid-Infrared Imaging of Disks of Transitional Herbig Ae/Be Stars”

GEM-NQ 2

55. I. Ribas, E. Guinan (Villanova U.), R. Hilditch (U. of St. Andrews), C. Jordi, F. Vilardell (T) (Universitat de Barcelona): “The Cosmic Distance Scale: An Accurate Distance to M31 from Eclipsing Binaries”

GEM-NQ *

56. P. Treuthardt (T), R. Buta (U. of Alabama), H. Salo (U. of Oulu): “A Dynamical Study of Resonances in Barred Spiral Galaxies”

GEM-SQ *

57. P. Yoachim (T), J. Dalcanton (U. of Washington), R. Bernstein (U. of Michigan): “The Dynamics of Thick Disks: Constraining the Early Evolution of Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 4

KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY

For the six months ending January 31, 2004, a total of 74 scientific programs were scheduled on KPNO telescopes. Of the 69 observing programs conducted by U.S. scientists, 20 (29%) were graduate thesis programs. Telescope(s) scheduled and number of nights awarded are specified in the following tables (WIYN-SYN = Synoptic/Queue. TOO = Target of Opportunity scheduling)

Program N % TotalU.S. Programs (non-Thesis) 49 71%


Total U.S. Programs 69 100%

KPNO Observing ProgramsSemester 2003-B

(Total U.S. + Non-U.S. = 74)

U.S. Observing Programs – KPNO Telescopes (49) – Non-Thesis Tel. Nights

1. M. A’Hearn (U. of Maryland), L. Woodney, D. Schleicher (Lowell Obs.), D. Wellnitz (U. of Maryland): “High Resolution Spectroscopic Studies of Comet 2P/Encke Near Perigee: Isotopic Abundances, Short-lived Species, and the Greenstein Effect”

KP-4m 3

2. D. Bersier (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), N. Tanvir: “Long Period Variables in NGC 3368”

WIYN-SYN 0.5

3. R. Binzel (MIT), A. Rivkin: “Discovery of Possible Mars-Crossing Asteroid Families” KP-4m 6

4. H. Bond (STScI), O. De Marco (American Museum of Natural History), D. Harmer (O) (NOAO): “Searching for Spectroscopic Binaries in Planetary Nebulae”

WIYN 8

5. H. Bond (STScI), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), E. Nelan (STScI): “Trigonometric Calibration fo the Period-Luminosity Relations for Fundamental and First-Overtone Galactic Cepheids”

WIYN-2hr 1

6. B. Carney (U. of North Carolina), A. McWilliam (Carnegie Observatories), D. Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Chaboyer (Dartmouth College), J. Laird (Bowling Green State U.): “Halo Subgiants as Cosmological Probes”

KP-4m 4

7. E. Chiang (UC Berkeley), L. Wasserman, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), A. Jordan (G) (UC Berkeley): “Astrometric Investigation of the Kuiper Belt”

KP-4m 4

8. A. Connolly, J. Gardner (U. of Pittsburgh), M. Haynes, R. Giovanelli (Cornell U.): “Calibration of the SDSS Spectroscopic Line Width Scaling Relations”

KP-4m 3.5



9. A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh): “LSST Calibration Data” WIYN 1

10. A. Crotts (Columbia U.), D. Kirkman, D. Tytler (UC San Diego): “Ly(α) Forest Clustering and the Cosmological Constant”

KP-4m 2.5

11. R. De Jong (STScI), E. Bell (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), J. Dalcanton (U. of Washington), R. Somerville (STScI): “A deep survey of the low surface brightness environment of nearby galaxies”

KP-4m 4.5

12. R. Elston (U. of Florida), P. Eisenhardt, D. Stern (CalTech-JPL), S. Stanford (UC Davis), K. Wu (U. of Florida), M. Dickinson (STScI), H. Spinrad (UC Berkeley), A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh), A. Gonzalez (G), S. Raines (U. of Florida): “Tracing The Star Formation History of Galaxies from Z=0.4 to 1.7”

KP-4m 6

13. D. Gelino, J. Tomsick, W. Heindl (UC San Diego), P. Kaaret (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Measuring Low Mass X-Ray Binary Compact Object Masses: 4U 0042+32 and XTE J2123-058”

KP-4m 3.5

14. J. Grindlay, P. Edmonds, J. McClintock, P. Zhao, M. Garcia (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Cool (San Francisco State U.), S. Wachter, D. Hoard (NOAO), P. Green, B. Wilkes, J. Drake, V. Kashyap (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), H. Cohn (Indiana U.): “ChaMPlane: Measuring the Faint X-ray Binary and Stellar X-ray Content of the Galaxy”

KP-4m 2

15. P. Hartigan (Rice U.): “Ultraviolet Emmission from Protostellar Accretion Disks” KP-2.1m 7

16. T. Hillwig, D. Gies (Georgia State U.): “A Search for Extended Emission in the W Ser Binary RY Scuti”

WIYN-2hr 0.25

17. D. Hunter (Lowell Obs.): “The Stellar Edges of Irregular Galaxies: What’s Going on Out There?”

KP-2.1m 5

18. D. Hurley-Keller, H. Morrison, P. Harding (Case Western Reserve U.), G. Jacoby (WIYN): “Planetary Nebulae in the Halo of M31”

KP-0.9m, WIYN

2, 4

19. S. Kannappan (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Bershady (U. of Wisconsin Madison), E. Gillespie (U. of Arizona): “Kinematic Tully-Fisher Offsets at z=0 and Beyond”

WIYN 1

20. C. Keeton (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff, K. Williams, I. Momcheva (G) (U. of Arizona): “The Importance of Lens Galaxy Environments”

KP-4m 4

21. S. Lepine, M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History), R. Rich (UCLA): “A search for ultra-cool sdM and sdL subdwarfs”

KP-4m 3

22. L. Macri (NOAO), D. Sasselov, K. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Improving the Cepheid Distance Scale (II)”

WIYN 9.5

23. C. Mihos, J. Feldmeier, H. Morrison, P. Harding (Case Western Reserve U.), S. Hunsberger: “Testing dwarf galaxy formation models using compact groups”

KP-2.1m 10

24. R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E. Chiang (Institute for Advanced Study), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G) (MIT), D. Trilling (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Wagner, L. Wasserman, A. Jordan (G) (Lowell Obs.): “Deep Ecliptic Survey”

KP-4m 6

25. B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (NOAO): “Color Observations of Large Trans-Neptunian Objects as a Function of Rotational Phase”

KP-2.1m 5

26. B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (NOAO): “Nuclear Lightcurve Observations of Short Period Comets”

KP-2.1m 4

27. L. Mundy, G. Murphy (G), N. Chapman (G) (U. of Maryland): “An Ancillary Project for the SIRTF c2d Legacy Team: Studying Dust Extinction in the Persesus Molecular Cloud”

KP-4m 3

28. R. Murphy Williams, Q. Wang (U. Mass), Y. Chu (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “Energetic Shells Around Luminous X-ray Sources”

KP-4m 3.5



29. K. Nandra (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “The Sheep Survey: What kind of objects make thex-ray background?”

KP-4m 2

30. E. Nelan, R. Makidon (STScI): “Dynamical Masses and Radii of Four White Dwarf Stars” WIYN-2hr 0.8

31. M. O’Brien (STScI): “The Distance and Mass of the Neutrino-Luminous White Dwarf PG 0122+200”

WIYN-2hr 0.5

32. S. Oey (Lowell Obs.), D. Schaerer (Observatoire de Geneve): “Search for He II emission nebulae from WR and O stars”

KP-4m 2

33. B. Oppenheimer (American Museum of Natural History), F. Clarke (ESO), S. Hodgkin (Institute of Astronomy), C. Tinney (Anglo-Australian Obs.): “The nature of the L/T transition; variability in cool brown dwarfs”

KP-4m 7

34. B. Peterson (Ohio State U.), I. Strateva (G) (Princeton U.), L. Ferrarese (Rutgers U.), R. Pogge (Ohio State U.), M. Strauss (Princeton U.): “Masses of Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei with Double- Peaked Line Profiles”

KP-4m 3

35. R. Phelps (Cal State Sacramento): “CCD Photometry of the Oldest(?) Open Cluster, Be 17” KP-4m 1

36. T. Rector (NRAO), G. Jacoby (WIYN): “The Nova Rate in Galaxies of Different Hubble Type” KP-0.9m 6

37. I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (G) (U. of Pennsylvania), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona): “Meeting the cool neighbours: covering the sky”

KP-2.1m 4.5

38. J. Rhoads, A. Fruchter (STScI), M. Merrill (NOAO), J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), J. Urkia (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), A. Levan (G) (STScI), S. Patel (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), L. Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire): “Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Host Environments”

KP-4m-TOO, KP-2.1m-TOO

39. F. Ringwald (Cal State Fresno): “The Orbital Period of the Cataclysmic Variable V378 Peg (PG 2337+300)”

KP-2.1m 3.5

40. N. Scoville (California Institute of Technology): “The COSMOS 2-Degree ACS Survey” KP-4m 3

41. N. Suntzeff (NOAO), B. Schmidt (Australia Telescope National Facility), C. Stubbs (U. of Washington), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. of Hawaii), R. Smith (NOAO), K. Krisciunas (CTIO), M. Phillips (Carnegie Institution of Washington), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), B. Barris (U. of Hawaii), W. Li (UC Berkeley), C. Hogan, G. Miknaitis (U. of Washington), S. Holland (U. of Notre Dame), S. Jha, T. Matheson (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Sollerman (ESO), P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Pompea (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), A. Rest (U. of Washington), J. Quinn (G) (U. of Notre Dame), J. Gallagher (G): “The w Project: Measuring the Equation of State of the Universe”

WIYN 4

42. R. Swaters (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Andersen (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), M. Bershady (U. of Wisconsin Madison), M. Verheijen (Universitat Potsdam): “Broad Band Imaging of Disk Galaxies with H(α) Velocity Fields” KP-2.1m 7

43. R. Swaters (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Andersen (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), M. Bershady, M. Verheijen (U. of Wisconsin Madison): “The Distribution of Mass in Spiral Galaxies.” WIYN 3

44. M. Tsujimoto (Pennsylvania State U.), N. Kobayashi (National Astronomical Obs. of Japan), Y. Tsuboi (Chou U.), Y. Ezoe (G) (U. of Tokyo): “Multi-object K-band Spectroscopy of the X-ray-emitting YSOs Detected by Chandra in Orion Molecular Clouds” KP-4m 2

45. D. Turnshek, D. Vanden Berk, C. Hazard, S. Rao (U. of Pittsburgh), . SDSS Team Collaborators: “Identification of QSOs for Follow-up QSO Absorption-Line and QSO Clustering Studies” KP-2.1m 5



46. J. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Bernstein (U. of Michigan), I. Dell’Antonio (Brown U.), D. Wittman, D. Kirkman, G. Kochanski (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), T. Lauer (NOAO), T. Broadhurst (UC Berkeley), R. Cen (Princeton U.), J. Cohen (California Institute of Technology), A. Gonzalez, P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), W. Hu (Institute for Advanced Study), N. Kaiser (U. of Hawaii), J. Miralda-Escude (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Schommer (NOAO), D. Spergel (Princeton U.), G. Squires (California Institute of Technology), C. Stubbs, A. Becker (U) (U. of Washington), D. Loomba (G), J. Kubo (G), H. Khiabanian (G) (Brown U.): “Deep Lens Survey”

KP-4m 6

47. L. Van Zee (Indiana U.), D. Schade (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “SMUDGES: A Survey for Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe”

KP-0.9m 4

48. A. Whiting (CTIO), G. Hau (ESO), M. Irwin (U. of Cambridge): “Imaging of Dwarf Galaxy Candidates”

KP-2.1m 5.5

49. L. Young (New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology), M. Bureau (Columbia U.), L. Van Zee (Indiana U.), T. Statler (Ohio U.): “The Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies: CO content vs. Dust and Isophote Shapes”

KP-2.1m 5

U.S. Observing Programs – KPNO Telescopes – U.S. Theses (20) Tel. Nights

50. T. Beers (Michigan State U.), N. Christlieb (Universitat Hamburg), J. Rhee (U. of Virginia), S. Ryan (Open U.), M. Bessell (Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics), S. Rossi (IAGUSP), B. Marsteller (T) (Michigan State U.): "A ``Quick Survey\'\' for Halo Giants with [Fe/H] -2.5"

KP-4m 5

51. K. Dawson (T), W. Holzapfel (UC Berkeley), J. Carlstrom (U. of Chicago): "Identifying Galaxy Clusters in the BIMA CMB Anisotropy Survey"

KP-4m 4

52. R. Elston (U. of Florida), S. Stanford (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), P. Eisenhardt (California Institute of Technology), J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO), D. Stern (California Institute of Technology), K. Wu (U. of Florida), M. Dickinson (STScI), K. McFarland (T), E. McKenzie (T), S. Raines (U. of Florida): "The Evolution of Galaxy Clustering at 1<z<2"

KP-2.1m 14

53. P. Frinchaboy (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), R. Phelps (Cal State Sacramento), M. Skrutskie, H. Rocha-Pinto (U. of Virginia): "The Absolute Space Motions of Galactic Clusters"

WIYN 4

54. D. Gies, V. McSwain (T), P. Wiita (Georgia State U.), A. Van Der Meer (G), L. Kaper (U. of Amsterdam), W. Huang (G), T. Hillwig (Georgia State U.): "Mass Donors in SS433 and Other Microquasars"

KP-4m 5

55. R. Gutermuth (T) (U. of Rochester), S. Megeath, J. Pipher, D. Peterson (T) (U. of Rochester), L. Allen, P. Myers (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Inventory and Distribution of Disks, Protostars, and Proto-Brown Dwarfs in Young Stellar Clusters: Imaging with SQIID and SIRTF"

KP-2.1m 8.5

56. S. Kafka (T), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): "Chromospheric Activity in M dwarfs and Changes in the Mass Transfer Rate"

KP-2.1m 6

57. E. Lada, R. Elston, D. Dahari (T), C. Roman-Zuniga (T) (U. of Florida), J. Alves (ESO), C. Lada, A. Muench (T) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Najita (NOAO), J. Williams, J. Julian (O) (U. of Florida), R. Green (NOAO), D. Hon (O), S. Raines (U. of Florida), J. Elias, R. Joyce (NOAO), J. Levine (T), Y. Lin (G), N. Rashkind (U) (U. of Florida), B. Ferreira (T), T. Huard, C. Foltz (U), A. Gonzalez, E. McKenzie (T): "Toward a Complete Near-Infrared Spectroscopic and Imaging Survey of Giant Molecular Clouds"

KP-4m, KP-2.1m

17, 25

58. L. Mazzuca (T), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), M. Regan (STScI), J. Knapen (U. of Hertfordshire): "Gas Kinematics in the Nuclear Rings of Barred Spiral Galaxies"

WIYN 5


U.S. Observing Programs – KPNO Telescopes – U.S. Theses (20) Tel. Nights

59. S. McGaugh, J. Kim (T) (U. of Maryland): "Infrared and Hα Imaging of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies"

KP-4m, WIYN 7, 4

60. S. Meibom (T) (U. of Wisconsin Madison), R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin Eau Claire): “The effect of binarity on stellar angular momentum evolution in solar- type stars.”

WIYN 6

61. H. Osborne (T), T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.), S. Howell (PSI), B. McNamara (New Mexico State U.): “CV Secondary Star Masses: The Continuing Story”

KP-2.1m 10

62. D. Rupke (T), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland): “Superwinds in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: The Fall Sample”

KP-4m 6

63. T. Smecker-Hane, M. Hood (T), M. Teig (T) (UC Irvine), A. Cole (Kapteyn Astronomical Inst.): “Chemical Evolution of the Outer Disk/Halo of M33: Subtracting the Galactic Foreground”

KP-4m 3

64. H. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Lonsdale, B. Siana (T) (UC San Diego), M. Rowan-Robinson, D. Farrah, G. Morrison, S. Team (California Institute of Technology): “Rare Objects and Photometric Redshifts in the SWIRE Legacy Survey”

KP-4m 4

65. M. Stark (T), R. Wade (Pennsylvania State U.): “Determining the Properties of Hot Subdwarf Star Composite Binaries”

KP-2.1m 7

66. P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden U.), R. Quadri (T) (Yale U.): “Multislit Near-IR Spectroscopy of Red Galaxies at z>2”

KP-4m 3

67. N. Volgenau (T), L. Mundy (U. of Maryland), S. Legacy Team (O) (U. of Texas, Austin): “An Infrared View of Core Environments in the Perseus Complex”

KP-4m 1

68. J. Walawender (T), J. Bally (U. of Colorado), B. Reipurth (U. of Hawaii): “Deep Imaging of Giant Herbig-Haro Flows from Young Stars in Taurus”

KP-0.9m 4

69. J. Woo (T), C. Urry (Yale U.), P. Lira, J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), R. Van Der Marel (STScI): “The AGN-Galaxy Connection”

KP-4m 2

Observing Programs – KPNO Telescopes – Non-U.S. Programs (5) Tel. Nights

70. P. Bergbusch (U. of Regina), M. Blake (D. Dunlap Obs., U. of Toronto), M. Van Den Berg (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera): “Multi-colour Photometry of Old Open Clusters”

KP-2.1m 7.5

71. S. Courteau (U. of British Columbia), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), D. Andersen (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), M. Bershady (U. of Wisconsin Madison), L. MacArthur (G) (U. of British Columbia): “Galaxy Evolution with Emission Linewidths”

WIYN 5

72. J. Johnson (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), F. Herwig (U. of Victoria), N. Christlieb (Universitat Hamburg): "Nitrogen Abundances in Very Metal-Poor Stars"

KP-4m 3

73. W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), P. Frinchaboy (G), M. Skrutskie, S. Majewski (U. of Virginia): "Mapping the Dynamics of the Milky Way from 2MASS: Carbon Stars in the Galactic Disk and the Bar"

KP-2.1m 6.5

74. M. Richer (Observatorio Astronomico Nacional), M. Lee (Seoul National U.): “A Wide Field Survey of Planetary Nebulae in M31”

KP-0.9m 10


CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY

In the six months ending January 31, 2003, 69 scientific programs were allocated time on CTIO telescopes, of which 57 were programs of U.S. investigators. About 21% of the U.S. programs were thesis programs.

Programs N % Total

U.S. Programs (non-Thesis) 45 79%


Total U.S. 57 100%

U.S. Observing Programs at CTIOSemester 2003-B

(Total U.S. + non-U.S. Programs = 69)

U.S. Programs – CTIO – Non-Thesis (45) Tel. Nights

1. K. Adelberger (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Measuring the Lifetimes of High-Redshift QSOs”

CT-4m 2

2. Y. Chu, R. Gruendl, M. Guerrero (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “Physical Structure of the Wind-Blown Bubble S 308”

CT-4m 3

3. J. Cohen (California Institute of Technology), A. McWilliam, S. Shectman, I. Thompson (Carnegie Institution of Washington), N. Christlieb (Universitat Hamburg): “Photometry of Extremely Metal Poor Stars from the Hamburg/ESO Stellar Survey”

CT-1.3m 3.6

4. A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh): “LSST Calibration Data” CT-4m 2

5. D. DePoy, J. Marshall (G), C. Morgan (G) (Ohio State U.): “Infrared Spectroscopy of 2MASS Selected Red AGN”

CT-4m 2.5

6. M. Dickinson, M. Giavalisco (STScI), D. Stern (California Institute of Technology), C. Cesarsky (ESO), T. Team: “U- and I-band imaging of the CDF-S in support of the GOODS SIRTF Legacy and HST Treasury programs”

CT-4m 4

7. A. Dolphin (NOAO), A. Walker, N. Suntzeff, K. Olsen (CTIO): “A Stellar Census of the SMC”

CT-4m 4

8. L. French (Illinois Wesleyan U.), P. Abell (G) (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), F. Vilas (NASA Johnson Space Flight Center), Y. Fernandez (U. of Hawaii): “Photometry of Cometary Nucleus Candidates and Primitive Asteroids”

CT-0.9m 7

9. J. Gizis, B. Riaz (G), J. Harvin (U. of Delaware): “New Nearby M Dwarfs” CT-1.5m 5

10. P. Gomez, K. Romer (Carnegie Mellon U.), M. Runyan (California Institute of Technology), W. Holzapfel (UC Berkeley), J. Peterson (Carnegie Mellon U.), J. Ruhl (UC Santa Barbara): “Photometric Redshifts of Massive Sunyaev-Zeldovich Clusters”

CT-4m 4

11. K. Gordon, K. Misselt (U. of Arizona), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), D. Zaritsky (U. of Arizona), J. Harris (STScI): “Spectral Classification of Reddened Hot Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud”

CT-4m 3

12. P. Goudfrooij (STScI), C. Maraston, D. Thomas, R. Bender (Max-Planck Institute fur extraterrestrische Physik), R. Saglia (Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat-Muchen): “The Calibration of the CaII triplet with Bulge Globular Clusters”

CT-1.5m 3



13. C. Grillmair (SIRTF), J. Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study), D. Geisler, W. Gieren (Universidad de Concepcion), E. Grebel (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), M. Irwin (U. of Cambridge), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), I. Reid (STScI), D. Spergel, S. Tremaine (Princeton U.): "Mapping Globular Cluster Tidal Streams"

CT-4m 4

14. R. Gruendl, Y. Chu, M. Guerrero, R. Chen (G), S. Wang (G) (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “Optical Imaging of Nearby Galaxies in the Chandra Archive”

CT-0.9m 6

15. D. Hoard, S. Wachter (California Institute of Technology): “Long-term Variability of the Unusual Double-lined Cataclysmic Variable CM Phe”

CT-1.3m 2.46

16. M. Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Kavelaars (DRAO), T. Grav (G) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Gladman (U. of British Columbia), P. Nichsolson (Cornell U.), J. Petit (Observatoire de Besancon): “A Search for Small Distant Moons of Uranus”

CT-4m 4

17. A. Hopkins (U. of Pittsburgh), A. Georgakakis (National Obs. of Athens), J. Afonso (Observatoria Astronomico de Lisboa), M. Sullivan (U. of Durham), B. Mobasher (STScI): “Constraining the X-ray evolution of starburst galaxies”

CT-4m 2

18. J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Schneider (U. Mass), T. Jarrett, T. Chester, R. Cutri (California Institute of Technology), J. Mader (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Skrutskie (U. Mass): “The 2MASS Redshift Survey”

CT-1.5m 7

19. C. Keeton (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff, K. Williams, I. Momcheva (G) (U. of Arizona): “The Importance of Lens Galaxy Environments”

CT-4m 4

20. K. Krisciunas, N. Suntzeff (CTIO), M. Phillips (Las Campanas Obs.), M. Hamuy (Carnegie Observatories), P. Candia (O) (NOAO), R. Smith (CTIO), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.): “Optical and infrared photometry of bright supernovae”

CT-1.3m 4.2

21. A. Landolt (Louisiana State U.), G. Preston (Carnegie Institution of Washington): “A Study of Variability Among the Blue Metal Poor Stars”

CT-0.9m 7

22. S. Malhotra, J. Rhoads (STScI): “Lyman α Galaxies During and After Reionization” CT-4m 5

23. R. Marzke (San Francisco State U.): “A Search for Compact Elliptical Galaxies in the Field” CT-0.9m 5

24. B. McLean (STScI), J. Yus (O) (Gemini Obs.), B. Bucciarelli (O) (Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino), E. Costa (O) (Universidad de Chile), G. Massone (O) (Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino): “Photometric Calibrators for the Second Generation Guide Star Catalog”

CT-0.9m 4

25. G. Meurer (Johns Hopkins U.), H. Ferguson (STScI), R. Webster (U. of Melbourne), R. Kennicutt (U. of Arizona), P. Knezek, S. Oey (STScI), R. Smith (NOAO), M. Drinkwater (U. of Melbourne), K. Freeman (Australian National U.), V. Kilborn (G) (U. of Melbourne), M. Putman (G) (Australian National U.), L. Staveley-Smith (Australia Telescope National Facility), M. Meyer (G), A. Karrick (G) (U. of Melbourne): “Star Formation in H i Selected Galaxies”

CT-0.9m 7

26. J. Milingo (Gettysburg College), R. Henry (U. of Oklahoma), K. Kwitter (Williams College): “Testing the ON cycle via Sulfur in Galactic Type I PNe”

CT-1.5m 4

27. R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E. Chiang (Institute for Advanced Study), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G) (MIT), D. Trilling (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Wagner, L. Wasserman, A. Jordan (G) (Lowell Obs.): “Deep Ecliptic Survey”

CT-4m 4

28. R. Murphy Williams, Q. Wang (U. Mass), Y. Chu (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “Energetic Shells Around Luminous X-ray Sources”

CT-4m 3



29. K. Nandra (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “The Sheep Survey: What kind of objects make thex-ray background?”

CT-1.3m 0.8

30. C. O’Dell (Vanderbilt U.), L. Frattarre (O), M. Meixner, P. McCullough (STScI): “Emission Line Imaging of the Helix Nebula”

CT-4m 2

31. B. Penprase, A. Ates (G), M. Maier (U) (Pomona College): “Extinction and Abundances within HII regions of NGC 1313 and NGC 7793”

CT-1.3m 6

32. R. Probst (NOAO), M. Rubio (Universidad de Chile), R. Barba (U. Nacional de la Plata): “Study of the Initial Mass Function in Large Magellanic Cloud Star Forming Regions: N159”

CT-4m 3

33. I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (G) (U. of Pennsylvania), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona): “Meeting the cool neighbours: covering the sky”

CT-1.5m 4

34. J. Rhoads, A. Fruchter (STScI), M. Merrill (NOAO), J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), J. Urkia (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), A. Levan (G) (STScI), S. Patel (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), L. Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire): “Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Host Environments”

CT-4m-TOO

35. J. Schombert (U. of Oregon), K. Rakos (Universitat Wien (U. of Vienna)), H. Maitzen (Universitat Wien (U. of Vienna)): “Age/Metallicity Calibration for Old Stellar Populations”

CT-0.9m 5

36. H. Smith (Michigan State U.), G. Clementini (Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna), M. Catelan (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), E. Poretti (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera), E. Held (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), B. Pritzl (NOAO): “The Oosterhoff Phenomenon in Globular Clusters of the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

CT-4m 3

37. J. Smith (U. of Michigan), D. Tucker (FNAL): “Southern Standard Stars for the u’g’r’i’z’ System”

CT-0.9m 13

38. N. Smith (U. of Colorado): “Variability in the Near-IR Spectrum of Eta Carinae” CT-4m 0.3

39. K. Stassun, R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin Madison), L. Vaz: “A Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of Newly Discovered Pre-Main- Sequence Eclipsing Binaries in Orion”

CT-1.3m 6

40. N. Suntzeff (NOAO), B. Schmidt (Australia Telescope National Facility), C. Stubbs (U. of Washington), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. of Hawaii), R. Smith (NOAO), K. Krisciunas (CTIO), M. Phillips (Carnegie Institution of Washington), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), B. Barris (U. of Hawaii), W. Li (UC Berkeley), C. Hogan, G. Miknaitis (U. of Washington), S. Holland (U. of Notre Dame), S. Jha, T. Matheson (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Sollerman (ESO), P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Pompea (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), A. Rest (U. of Washington), J. Quinn (G) (U. of Notre Dame), J. Gallagher (G): “The w Project: Measuring the Equation of State of the Universe”

CT-0.9m, CT-4m

14, 14.5

41. J. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Bernstein (U. of Michigan), I. Dell’Antonio (Brown U.), D. Wittman, D. Kirkman, G. Kochanski (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), T. Lauer (NOAO), T. Broadhurst (UC Berkeley), R. Cen (Princeton U.), J. Cohen (California Institute of Technology), A. Gonzalez, P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), W. Hu (Institute for Advanced Study), N. Kaiser (U. of Hawaii), J. Miralda-Escude (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Schommer (NOAO), D. Spergel (Princeton U.), G. Squires (California Institute of Technology), C. Stubbs, A. Becker (U) (U. of Washington), D. Loomba (G), J. Kubo (G), H. Khiabanian (G) (Brown U.): “Deep Lens Survey”

CT-4m 6

42. S. Wachter (California Institute of Technology), P. Kaaret (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Corbel (CEA), D. Hoard (California Institute of Technology): “The Outburst Mechanism of X-ray Transients: Optical/X-ray Monitoring of X1608-52”

CT-1.3m 2.76



43. F. Walter (SUNY, Stony Brook), G. Hussain, A. Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Cameron (St. Andrews U.), A. Field-Pollatou (G) (SUNY, Stony Brook): "Doppler Imaging of AB Dor Simultaneous with FUSE"

CT-4m 2

44. A. Whiting (CTIO), K. Davidson (U. of Minnesota), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.), R. Humphreys (U. of Minnesota), N. Smith (U. of Colorado), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): "Photometric Monitoring of Eta Carinae"

CT-1.3m 0.6

45. G. Williger (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Dave (U. of Arizona), R. Clowes (U. of Central Lancashire), M. Graham (Imperial College of Science, Techonology and Medicine), C. Haines (U. of Central Lancashire), J. Liske (U. of Edinburgh), L. Campusano (Universidad de Chile): "A test of the foreground proximity effect at z=1.2"

CT-4m 1

U.S. Observing Programs – CTIO –Theses (12) Tel. Nights

46. J. Alonso-Garcia (T), M. Mateo (U. of Michigan Dearborn), K. von Braun (Carnegie Institution of Washington): “Globular Clusters in the Direction of the Inner Galaxy”

CT-4m 4

47. T. Beers (Michigan State U.), N. Christlieb (Universitat Hamburg), J. Rhee (U. of Virginia), S. Ryan (Open U.), M. Bessell (Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics), S. Rossi (IAGUSP), B. Marsteller (T) (Michigan State U.): “A “Quick Survey\’\’ for Halo Giants with [Fe/H] -2.5”

CT-4m 5

48. A. Crotts (Columbia U.), P. Bouchet (CTIO), S. Heathcote (SOAR), S. Lawrence (Hofstra U.), B. Sugerman (T) (Columbia U.), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): “Evolution of SN 1987A into a Supernova Remnant”

CT-4m 2

49. P. Frinchaboy (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), R. Phelps (Cal State Sacramento), M. Skrutskie, H. Rocha-Pinto (U. of Virginia): “The Absolute Space Motions of Galactic Clusters”

CT-4m 2

50. E. Gawiser, C. Urry, P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), E. Treister (T), L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), C. Liu (American Museum of Natural History), P. Coppi (Yale U.): “Deep Narrow-band Imaging of CDF-S: Testing the Peaks-Bias Paradigm of Galaxy Formation”

CT-4m 2

51. R. Grouchy (T), R. Buta (U. of Alabama): “Properties of Non-Barred Ringed Galaxies” CT-0.9m 7

52. K. Lewis (T), M. Eracleous, S. Sigurdsson (Pennsylvania State U.): “Black Hole Masses in Double-Peaked Emission-Line AGNs”

CT-4m 5

53. H. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Lonsdale, B. Siana (T) (UC San Diego), M. Rowan-Robinson, D. Farrah, G. Morrison, S. Team (California Institute of Technology): “Rare Objects and Photometric Redshifts in the SWIRE Legacy Survey”

CT-4m 7

54. J. Stocke, J. Rosenberg, B. Keeney (T) (U. of Colorado), E. Ryan-Weber (G) (U. of Melbourne), M. Putman (U. of Colorado): “Broad-band and H(α) Imaging of Galaxies with QSO Sightline Probes Through Their Halos”

CT-0.9m 4

55. C. Stubbs (U. of Washington), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), S. Hawley (U. of Washington), D. Welch (McMaster U.), C. Alcock (U. of Pennsylvania), K. Mighell (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), C. Nelson (G) (UC Berkeley), A. Drake (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A. Rest (T), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. of Washington), S. Keller (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory): “A Next Generation Microlensing Survey of the LMC”

CT-4m 15.5

56. P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), P. Hall, C. Urry (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden U.), E. Gawiser, R. Quadri (T) (Yale U.), J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), J. Willis, P. Coppi (Yale U.): “A Deep NIR Survey of the HDF-South Flanking Fields”

CT-4m 2

57. A. Walker (CTIO), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), H. Smith (Michigan State U.), M. Monelli (T) (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), P. Stetson (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “The Spatial Extent of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

CT-4m 2.5


Non-U.S. Observing Programs – CTIO – (8) Tel. Nights

58. A. Drake, M. Catelan (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile): “Detection of Halo White Dwarfs using Deep Imaging”

CT-4m 2.5

59. E. Gawiser (Universidad de Chile), L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), G. Galaz, E. Treister (G) (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), P. Van Dokkum, C. Urry (Yale U.), S. Lopez, P. Lira (Universidad de Chile): “A Square-Degree Deep Multiwavelength Survey for Protogalaxies at z=3”

CT-4m 3

60. J. Johnson (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), F. Herwig (U. of Victoria), N. Christlieb (Universitat Hamburg): “Nitrogen Abundances in Very Metal-Poor Stars”

CT-4m 3

61. W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), P. Frinchaboy (G), M. Skrutskie, S. Majewski (U. of Virginia): “Mapping the Dynamics of the Milky Way from 2MASS: Carbon Stars in the Galactic Disk and the Bar”

CT-4m 5

62. T. Lebzelter (Universitat Wien (U. of Vienna)), P. Wood (Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics): “A search for AGB variables in Stellar Clusters”

CT-1.3m 3.69

63. J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), P. Hall (Princeton U.), E. Gawiser (Universidad de Chile), J. Willis (ESO), E. Treister (G) (Universidad de Chile), L. Barrientos, L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), P. Van Dokkum, C. Urry (Yale U.), D. Minniti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), F. Castander (IEEC), P. Coppi (Yale U.), P. Lira (Universidad de Chile), R. Quadri (G) (Yale U.): “A Wide, Deep Near-IR Survey for Galaxies at 1<z<4”

CT-4m 5

64. T. Shanks, P. Outram, N. Metcalfe, P. Weilbacher, T. Theuns (U. of Durham): “A UV survey to probe interactions between galaxies, QSOs and the IGM at z~3”

CT-4m 2

65. A. Stephens, M. Catelan (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), J. Frogel (NASA Headquarters): “The Fornax Dwarf Galaxy; The First View in the IR”

CT-4m 3

Non-U.S Observing Programs – CTIO –. Theses (4)

66. W. Gieren, J. Garcia (T), G. Pietrzynski (Universidad de Concepcion), A. Walker (NOAO), F. Bresolin (U. of Hawaii): "Searching for Cepheid variables in the Sculptor galaxies NGC 55, NGC 247, and NGC 7793"

CT-4m 3

67. D. Lazzaro, R. Duffard (T), F. Roig (Observatorio Nacional): "Mineralogical characterization of V-type asteroids"

CT-4m 5

68. P. Lira, J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), J. Woo (T), C. Urry (Yale U.), R. Van Der Marel (STScI): "The AGN-Galaxy Connection"

CT-4m 2

69. Schnurr (T), A. Moffat, N. St-Louis (U. of Montreal): "WNLh Stars - the Most Massive Stars in the Universe?"

CT-1.5m 16


HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE (HET) AT MCDONALD OBSERVATORY AND THE MULTIPLE MIRROR TELESCOPE OBSERVATORY (MMT)

Program N % Total Program N % Total

US Programs 2 67% US Programs 3 60%

US Theses 1 33% US Theses 2 40%

Total HET 3 100% Total MMT 5 100%

Observing Programs at HETSemester 2003B

Observing Programs at MMTSemester 2003B

HET – U.S. Programs – Non-Thesis (2) Nights

1. G. Hussain, S. Saar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Looking for photospheric saturation in the (α) Per cluster"

1.5

2. D. Turnshek, S. Rao (U. of Pittsburgh): "The Kinematics of the Neutral Gas in Low-Redshift Damped Lyman-α Galaxies"

2

HET – U.S. Programs – Theses (1)

3. S. Kafka (T), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): "Monitoring the Wind in the Old Nova Q Cyg" 1.75

MMT – U.S. Programs – Non-Thesis (3)

1. D. Bowen (Princeton U.), T. Tripp (U. Mass), T. Heckman (Johns Hopkins U.), D. York (U. of Chicago): "Mg II QSO absorption systems: galaxy halos or metal enriched IGM?"

2

2. V. Kulkarni (U. of South Carolina), D. York (U. of Chicago), J. Lauroesch (Northwestern U.), P. Khare (Utkal U.), A. Crotts (Columbia U.), O. Nakamura (U. of Tokyo): "The Evolution of Metals and Dust in Damped Lyman-α Quasar Absorbers"

3

3. P. Massey (Lowell Observatory), R. Kudritzki, F. Bresolin (U. of Hawaii), L. Bianchi (Johns Hopkins U.), J. Puls (Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat-Muchen): "The Physical Parameters of Stellar Winds of Hot, Massive Stars at High Metallicity: O-stars in the Andromeda Galaxy"

1

MMT – U.S. Programs – Theses (2)

4. D. Nestor (T), D. Turnshek, S. Rao (U. of Pittsburgh): "A Survey for Low-Redshift High Column Density QSO Absorption Line Systems"

3

5. M. Strauss, N. Zakamska (T) (Princeton U.), G. Schmidt (U. of Arizona), J. Krolik (Johns Hopkins U.), M. Collinge (G), P. Hall, G. Richards (Princeton U.): "Spectropolarimetry of Type II Quasar Candidates selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"

3


W. M. KECK OBSERVATORY

In the six months ending January 31, 2004, nine scientific programs were awarded time on the Keck telescopes under the NSF-sponsored Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP). Eight of the programs were conducted by U.S. investigators, including one thesis program..

Programs N % Total

US Programs 7 78%

US Theses 1 11%

Non-U.S. Programs 1 11%

Total 9 100%

W.M. Keck ObservatorySemester 2003-B

(Total = 9)

Keck Telescopes – U.S. Programs – Non-Thesis — (7) Tel. Nights

1. J. Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study), S. Jha, R. Chornock (G), J. Comerford (G), J. Wright (G) (UC Berkeley): "Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of z ~eq 2 QSOs: Robust Constraints On A Varying Fine-Structure Constant"

Keck-II 2

2. J. Bechtold (U. of Arizona), B. Jannuzi (NOAO): "The IGM and the Distribution of Galaxies at z~1"

Keck-II 2

3. F. Hamann (U. of Florida): "Quasars and the Epoch of First Star Formation" Keck-I 1

4. J. Kirkpatrick (California Institute of Technology), P. Lowrance (SIRTF), A. Burrows (U. of Arizona), A. Burgasser (UCLA): "Gravity Effects in Brown Dwarf Spectra"

Keck-I 2

5. C. Koresko (California Institute of Technology): "Search for Cool Disks and Close Companions in X-Ray Selected Pre-Main Sequence Stars"

Keck-I 1

6. L. Prato (UCLA): "Pre-Main-Sequence Double-Lined Spectroscopic Binaries" Keck-II 1

7. J. Rhoads (STScI), S. Malhotra, A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO): "Lyman α Galaxies and galaxy formation scenarios"

Keck-II 1

Keck Telescopes – U.S. Programs – Theses (1)

8. S. Veilleux, D. Rupke (T) (U. of Maryland): "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Galactic Winds in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies"

Keck-I 1

Keck Telescopes – Non-U.S. Programs (1)

1. G. Meeus (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam), R. Jayawardhana (U. of Michigan), J. Bouwman (IAP): "Probing dust composition in protoplanetary disks"

Keck-I 1

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