NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORYAn NOAO press release on a joint U.S.-Chinese discovery of a Young Stellar Object in the Rosette Nebula, including a strikingly beautiful newly

Quarterly Report (2) FY 2004 January 1 – March 31, 2004

A student and her father test their skill as Constellation Detectives. The challenge is to find the

constellation, pictured in the box, amid the numerous stars on the map. The actual constellation might be oriented differently on the map and requires patience to locate.

Submitted to the National Science Foundation Pursuant to Scientific Program Order No. 1, Article 5-C Cooperative Agreement No. AST-0132798, Article VI

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NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY

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NOAO Quarterly Report (2) FY 2004 January 1 – March 31, 2004

Submitted to the National Science Foundation

Under Cooperative Agreement No. AST-0132798, Article VI May 12, 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 ................................................................................................................ 6 NOAO South and AURA Observatory.............................................................................................9

Observing Programs (Semester 2004-A) NOAO Gemini Science Center ............................................................................................... 12 Kitt Peak National Observatory .............................................................................................. 18 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.............................................................................. 25 Hobby-Eberly Telescope......................................................................................................... 29 Multiple Mirror Telescope ...................................................................................................... 30 W.M. Keck Observatory ......................................................................................................... 30

NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY

NOAO QUARTERLY REPORT (2) FY 2004 1

PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH (PAEO)

Media and Public Information

Results from NOAO and the Gemini telescopes received very strong media coverage at the January 2004 AAS meeting in Atlanta. The opening Monday press briefing of the meeting focused on the initial results from the Gemini Deep-Deep Survey, the first time that Gemini science has been the sole focus of an AAS press event. This briefing led to coverage in the New York Times, USA Today, The Australian newspaper and every major Hawaiian newspaper, among others. The second day of the meeting featured a well-presented multi-wavelength story of galaxy destruction by gas ram pressure stripping, including data from Kitt Peak and Gemini, that was subsequently reported by Reuters, the Associated Press (reprinted across the nation), United Press International, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Astronomy.com and Sky&Telescope.com. The story later appeared as the cover story for the February 21 issue of Science News. Finally, a Wednesday press briefing on a huge galaxy string in the early universe using observations from Cerro Tololo was cited in the New York Times, the AIP Physics News Bulletin and Sky&Telescope.com. Other NOAO-related news releases were covered actively by space and astronomy news Web sites.

KOLD CBS-TV in Tucson aired their weather reports live from Kitt Peak for their 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 10 p.m. broadcasts on Friday, March 5. In addition to scenic panoramas of both ends of Kitt Peak, the segments included interviews with NOAO PAEO Manager D. Isbell by weathercaster Chuck George on new activities at the Visitor Center and the importance of dark skies, plus many graphical slides of positive Kitt Peak factoids that ran before commercial breaks. The event was topped by the first-ever live TV views of Saturn, the Moon, and Jupiter from the 20-inch telescope at the Visitor Center Observatory in the 10 p.m. broadcast.

An NOAO press release on a joint U.S.-Chinese discovery of a Young Stellar Object in the Rosette Nebula, including a strikingly beautiful newly reprocessed image of the nebula by co-author T. Rector, led to a variety of news coverage across the world. This coverage included Chinese Central Television, a color image in the Dallas Morning News, the cover of the March 2004 issue of the Astronomical League’s magazine, and the French magazine Ciel et Espace. The publicity around this research helped it be selected as #4 in the “Top Ten” major science and technology advances of the National Astronomical Observatory of China in 2003.

NOAO imagery and information filled the March 2004 issue of Sky&Telescope, including a lead News Note on the first Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images that uses an NOAO (N. Sharp) image of M81 as the optical comparison, a two-page showcase color image of the Pelican Nebula (J. Bally/U. of Colorado) released by NOAO last fall, color images of NGC 6822 by the Local Group Galaxies Survey and M51 (T. Rector and M. Ramirez) to illustrate a book review in the magazine, and a Kitt Peak Advanced Observing Program image of planetary nebula NGC 2438 (A. Block and public visitors) to illustrate a story on objects to see that month in the constellation Puppis.

Media and Public Information Summary of Server Hits

2nd Qtr 2004

Image Gallery Web hits 43,356

Education Web hits 78,290

NOAO Outreach Web hits 505,599

Non-PAEO Web hits 696,880

Total Web hits 1,324,125


The NOAO home page image was updated seven times. NOAO images were featured six times as the “Astronomy Picture of the Day” and four times at the Space.com daily image.

NOAO Press Release Titles for the Quarter:

Fitful Young Star Sputters to Maturity in the Rosette Nebula

Majority of Planetary Nebulae May Arise from Binary Systems

Guide to the Best Spanish Language Astronomy Education Materials Debuts at NOAO Web Site

Public Outreach

Kitt Peak was featured as a central part of the text and supporting pictures in a Sunday, January 25, New York Times Travel Section article on the best attractions to see in Tucson and Southern Arizona.

NOAO Public Outreach Manager R. Fedele gave a panel presentation to the Safford Chamber of Commerce on January 29 on how to improve tourism marketing collaborations in Arizona. The event was attended by more than 100 people from across the state.

Forty graduate students attending a conference on astrobiology at the University of Arizona toured the Mayall telescope prior to attending the Nightly Observing Program on January 10.

Thirty adult students in a community education class conducted by Jeff Hester at Arizona State University toured the Mayall, watched the sunset, and observed with the Visitor Center 20-inch telescope on February 29.

Two large school groups toured Kitt Peak on March 8 and 10. The former came from Sierra Middle School, under the supervision of a participant in the Teacher Intern Program, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Eighty students toured the 2.1-meter telescope, the McMath-Pierce solar telescope, and the Visitor Center 16-inch telescope, where they were able to observe the sun in H-alpha. Sixty-seven students and adults from St. Anthony’s Catholic School later participated in a similar tour.

PAEO staff visited Cienegas High School in Vail on February 18-19 and made Star Lab presentations on the night sky and its changing constellations to 180 students.

NOAO PAEO hosted a booth at the Math, Science, and Technology Fun Fest at the Tucson Convention Center during the mornings of March 17-19. The lively event featured about 70 exhibits and more than 7,400 student attendees. NOAO’s booth featured numerous activities from

Kitt Peak Visitor Center Summary of Visitors

2nd quarter 2004

Group/Program Visitors

General public tours 7,091

School groups K-12 202

Special tours 70

Nightly Obs. Program 1,943

Adv. Obs. Program 66

Total Visitors 9,372


Family and Project ASTRO, as well at the Star Lab portable planetarium; several student participants said it was one of the most fun booths at the fest.

Educational Outreach

Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE)

The distance learning class for the 2004 cadre of TLRBSE began on January 14. Course materials include topics in leadership and mentoring, research pedagogy and practice, and astronomy content relevant to the research projects the cadre will work on in the summer workshop. Progress so far in the class has been excellent, and the instructors agree that the quality of the responses of this year’s group exceed even those of last year’s outstanding group. As indicated by an external mid-course evaluation, our efforts at streamlining the class—principally to reduce teacher workload and increase student-student interaction—appear to have been successful. (Two of the original 22 participants have dropped out for personal reasons.)

February 23–26 marked the debut or introduction of a new solar observing program for TLRBSE teachers and students, under the broader banner of NOAO Teacher Observing Experiences. The initial run was a great success as the teachers and students took, reduced, and analyzed data from the McMath-Pierce telescope which they then brought back to the classroom for further study. Results will appear in the RBSE Journal this spring. Two similar runs were completed in the on-going Coude Feed observing program.

S. Croft gave presentations on the TLRBSE program and the Astronomy Village software packages at the 35th annual Lunar & Planetary Science conference in Houston, TX. Croft also participated in the presentation of the beta version of the El Yunque educational software package at the annual Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) conference in Puerto Rico.

Project ASTRO

Two dozen Project ASTRO and Family ASTRO events were held this quarter, including one that received impressive media coverage in the Arizona Daily Star. See: http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/northwest/16156.php)

On February 28, the skies cleared just in time for what became a memorable evening at Jarnac Observatory, as NOAO PAEO staff and David and Wendee Levy hosted their third Project ASTRO and Family ASTRO-Tucson spring workshop and star party. The solar science theme was bolstered with appropriate hands-on activities, solar observing, an unforgettable talk by David on the Antarctic solar eclipse, plus a surprise visit by Carolyn Shoemaker, co-discoverer of the famous comet SL9, and an even more surprising announcement of the naming of an asteroid

Public Outreach staff (Robert Wilson) explains to a group of eager students and teachers that the Reason for Seasons is the tilt of the Earth. The group then enters the portable planetarium to witness a simulation of the Sun's apparent annual movement across the sky.


after the ASTRO Director, Connie Walker. Astronomy resource people from Flandrau, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association, Kitt Peak, International Dark-sky Association, Coronado Instruments and Starizona helped make participants richer with an abundance of information and giveaways.

Family ASTRO

On January 22, PAEO staff R. Wilson and C. Walker conducted the last in a set of four Family ASTRO training workshops for the 2003-2004 year. Event leaders from the Sahuaro Girl Scouts as well as teachers from the local school districts participated in a training session on the newest Astronomical Society of the Pacific Family ASTRO kit, Cosmic Decoder. This kit provides a fun way for families to learn about light, color and filters, as well as how to send messages to and receive messages from conceptual space aliens.

ASTRO-Chile

On February 3, the ASTRO-Chile team from Tucson held a meeting to finalize a new 4th-12th grade curriculum for a light pollution study of the night sky toward Orion. The curriculum aligns with the efforts of our Chilean counterparts in the program and was designed to provide a similar platform for a cross-cultural exchange. During the quarter, the Tucson team expanded beyond the city limits to include families from across Arizona who are part of the Arizona Virtual Academy and Family ASTRO-Tucson and also families from the Tohono O’Odham Indian Nation who are partners in both Family and Project ASTRO-Tucson. Plans are being made to input the data collected onto the international site hosted by Austria.

Other NOAO Educational Outreach Activities

On March 17, 18 and 19, NOAO participated for the first time in the Tucson Math, Science and Technology Fun Fest. The theme for NOAO’s booth was “Sun Fest at the Fun Fest”. Highlights included portable planetarium shows for kids, parents, and teachers; a half dozen hands-on activities on the Sun, Moon, planets and constellations like making Sun Clocks; continual showing of DVD movies on the Sun; astronomers from NOAO on hand to answer kids’ questions, and observing with solar telescopes courtesy of Coronado Instruments. An average of 2400 participants attended the Fest each day for three days. At least 240 came each day to the NOAO booth. It was quoted by one anonymous youngster as being the best booth at the festival.

A prototype competition titled “Building a Newtonian Reflecting Telescope” has been created for use with the Math Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program of Arizona, and will be tested using MESA of Arizona teachers in an early April student team competition. The competition kit developed by NOAO includes instructions for designing and building a telescope from surplus optics parts using a minimum of tools as well as a list of review questions appropriate for both middle and high school students. A judging and testing procedure and accompanying forms were also created.

UA science education graduate student Jessie Antonellis continues to work with S. Pompea and K. Garmany on best practices in science education for reaching Native American students. Material for a prototype Web site has been written by Antonellis and Garmany, who have been


working with Tohono O’odham schools. Work continues by Garmany on organizing an astronomy class at Tohono O’odham Community College.

The Collaboration to Advance Teaching Technology and Science (CATTS) program has selected two new NOAO CATTS Fellows for this GK-12 project. These Fellows include UA Optical Sciences graduate student Ken Cardell and UA Flinn Scholar Joseph Fu. The new CATTS Fellows are currently taking a training class on educational pedagogy and making classroom observations. They are also working with current CATTS Fellows Erika Offerdahl and Katie Moore in order to learn the GEMS kits and workshop formats. Fellows Moore and Offerdahl have been active this quarter in working with schools in the Tucson region, reaching more than 440 students and teachers at Naylor Middle School, Alice Vail Middle School, Magee Middle School, Secrist Middle School, and Naylor Middle School, and the Nogales area.

“Revealing the Invisible Universe: from Nanoscope to Telescope” is a collaborative effort among four units at the University of Arizona (Flandrau Science Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Arizona State Museum and the Science and Math Education Center) and NOAO. The project is creating three modular programs for science centers for the general public and middle-school groups. The emphasis this second program year is in highlighting, through the work of student interns, the use of infrared detectors on satellites to look both into space and back at archeological sites on Earth. Co-Investigator S. Pompea is co-teaching with Debra Colodner of Flandrau Science Center a course for undergraduate student interns to prepare them for informal science education program development. During this quarter, the course has had activities highlighting basic optics, the electromagnetic spectrum, and experiments with a thermal infrared camera.


TUCSON AND KITT PEAK SITE SAFETY REPORT

OSHA Recordable Occupational Injuries and Illnesses

• A Kitt Peak employee slipped on a patch of ice on January 26, 2004. He claimed that he was fine on that day. During a routine medical examination on January 28 it was determined that the employee had broken ribs due to the fall. A Physician prescribed pain medication and light duty. This case is an OSHA recordable due to both prescriptions. The general area that the employee fell was sanded that morning, but the employee was in an area that was not sanded.

• A Tucson employee fell in the hallway on February 6, 2004 with minor injuries. This case is not an OSHA recordable.

• A Tucson employee reported hand and wrist strain on February 24, 2004 while lifting a heavy object. This case has been classified as an OSHA recordable.

• An employee reported damage to his vehicle February 18, 2004 in the Tucson parking lot due to a hit and run. No suspects or evidence was found. The employee made a claim to his insurance company.

Safety and Health

• As an annual requirement the OSHA 300A injury and illness logs for Tucson and Kitt Peak were completed, signed by the Director and posted throughout the facilities before February 1, 2004.

• Risk management considerations for the movement and lifting of the NSO - SOLIS instrument to the Kitt Peak vacuum tower are being addressed. A safety and health action plan has been prepared and is being followed, the hoisting and moving plan by a contractor has been reviewed, inland marine insurance language was reviewed and the policy is now active, personal fall protection equipment for the job has been ordered and received, and pre-lift considerations were made for equipment that will be lifted by Kitt Peak personnel.

• A critical lift plan was created in preparation for any mobile and fixed crane lifts that may be done by Kitt Peak personnel.

• Safety and health inspections were conducted at the Kitt Peak kitchen, NSO - FTS, SOLIS, DMAC building remodel project, and maintenance facilities.

• Thirty-Three Kitt Peak employees and tenants attended the American Heart First aid, CPR, AED training on February 10, 12, and March 16, 2004. Ms. Adrianne Rios, American Heart CPR and First Aid Instructor and Tohono O’odham Nation Fire firefighter conducted the training seminar.

• NOAO Tucson provided a letter to the University of Arizona police department that contained updated NOAO and NSO emergency contact names and telephone numbers.

• Worker compensation tele-claim information form was updated and reissued to managers and insurance coordinators.

• Respirator medical evaluations and respirator fit testing were completed for two Kitt Peak and one Tucson employee.


• Department of Transportation medical evaluations were completed for two of our facilities employees that have Certified Drivers Licenses (CDL’s).

• Six NOAO and NSO employees attended a Fall Protection – Competent Person for Safety at Heights seminar on March 3, 4, and 5, 2004. Persons attending were Will Goble, Frank Gidney, Fred Wortman, Scott Long, Eric Galayda and Chuck Gessner.

• A one-day crane operator-training course was held at Kitt Peak on March 29, 2004. Persons attending were Kairy Abdel-Gawad, Will Goble, Mike Hawes, Frank Gidney, Fred Wortman, Jose Montes, Rubin Rodriguez and Chuck Gessner.

• Hal Halbedel completed an Arizona Department of Health Services approved forty-hour emergency medical technology (EMT) basic refresher-training program on February 12.

• The NOAO risk management specialist was the keynote speaker at the American Society of Safety Engineers luncheon on March 19, 2004. The speech topic was “MAGMA – Elements of a Safety Revolution.”

• The NOAO risk management specialist was nominated to be a Life Experience Portfolio Evaluator for a colleague in pursuit of a M. A. in Safety and Risk Management.

• Material Safety Data Sheets for Kitt Peak facilities and the Optics lab were updated.

• The NOAO risk management specialist provided an ergonomic review with recommendations for an NOAO employee.

• The NOAO risk management specialist consulted and worked on a number of other risk management issues including issuing of key cards, issuance of prescription safety glasses, continued research and preparation for the possibility of the management of radiation sources due to future projects, elevator inspection research, 4M structural repair, confined space and industrial hygiene compliance for Kitt Peak engineering.

Fire Protection and Prevention

• Tohono O’odham Nation Fire Management Officer Guy Acuna informed us that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) approved the Kitt Peak National Observatory Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Mitigation Plan. Approximately $356,000 will be allocated for hazardous fuel reduction at Kitt Peak. The proposed start up date is July 2004, which will include continuation of defensible space around critical structures and utilities, and fire breaks. The approval and obtainment of funds was due to the interagency cooperation between the Bureau of Indian Affairs - Western Regional Office, Tohono O’odham Nation Fire Management Program, Southwest Region-Fire Management - United States Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAO Kitt Peak management.

• Fire extinguishers, fire sprinkler protection and fire alarms at Tucson and Kitt Peak facilities were inspected and maintained this quarter.

Environmental

• The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality 2003 Facility Annual Report (FAR) was completed and submitted for NOAO- NSO Tucson. The Tucson facility maintains and enjoys its status as a Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator of Hazardous Waste.


• Properly disposed of approximately 100 pounds of used batteries that will be recycled. The Tucson hazardous chemical storage area was inventoried and organized.

• The NOAO risk management specialist attended RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) seminar on March 18 and 19, 2004 to comply with the Environmental Protection Act, 40 CFR requirements.

• Dawn Clemons completed the training requirements for Water Distribution Review on February 24 and the Water Treatment Review on February 26 as required to maintain her certification for Level II Water Treatment Operator and Water Distribution Operator. This certification is required to manage the water treatment systems at Kitt Peak.

Security

• After rewrite of the “Specifications for Unarmed Security Services” for Tucson facilities, Central Alarm was awarded the bid and will continue to provide after hour service.

• Site access and security was coordinated during the test tower demolition that was managed by the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab.


NOAO SOUTH AND AURA OBSERVATORY SITE SAFETY REPORT

Inspections

A continuing coordinated program of planned inspections has been carried out. This was oriented to cover the work places at the diverse observatory premises with the purpose of reducing the risk conditions, including the following relevant improvements:

Conducted a program on housekeeping and storage of materials on the grounds of Cerro Pachon and Cerro Tololo to improve the cleanliness and orderly appearance of these areas.

Installed FM 200 safety signs in Console room of the Gemini Telescope.

Supervised the maintenance work done on the access road.

Optimized the housekeeping arrangements in offices to prevent falls or bumps. The furniture has been rearranged in the Gemini Building in La Serena to improve interior transit.

Made new assessments to evaluate the ergonometric conditions in the Gemini Offices, detecting mouse and keyboard support problems.

Continued working on the housekeeping and storage conditions at the Instrument Shop in La Serena. An addition to the existing building has been designed to further improve its prevailing safety conditions.

A total of 16 planned inspections were conducted—6 at CTIO, 4 at Gemini, 2 at SOAR and 4 at AOSS.

Personal Accident Investigation: No accidents reported during this quarter.

Vehicle Accident Investigation

There was one motor vehicle accident reported during the period, which took place on 16 March, at 01:20am. at KM12 on the Observatory main access road. This accident involved a vehicle of Carabineros de Chile, which collided with the guardrail, resulting only in material damages.

Training/Talks

During this quarter we completed the planning of on-the-job training activities together with the Mutual de Seguridad C.cH.C. These activities have been designed to commence in April 2004

The most relevant planned on-the-job training courses during this period are the following:

Self care Hygiene and food handling techniques Construction work safety Prevention of alcohol and drug consumption on the job


Emergency Preparedness

Drills for the SOAR Telescope emergency evacuation involving the participation of all the users were performed, in addition to a short talk regarding the proper use of fire hydrants and hoses, and emergency communication exercises.

The quarterly maintenance of the fire alarm systems was conducted at CTIO, the Gemini and Soar telescope buildings.

The public dissemination of the current NOAO contingency plan, which was included on the main AOSS Web Page, was performed during the quarter under report.

The annual fire extinguisher maintenance program was conducted on Cerro Tololo. This job was outsourced to Wilug, a company duly equipped with ISO 9.000 and ISO 18.000 certification.

Safety activities performed in concert with the Mutual de Seguridad Cámara Chilena de la Construcción

Mutual de Seguridad C.Ch.C personnel have been working in close contact with the AURA-O safety expert in the planning of academic and training activities for CY-2004. In December 2003, AURA-O requested the execution of a safety audit from the experts of the Mutual de Seguridad C.Ch.C. The Mutual gave this responsibility to their expert safety engineer. During the course of the audit, however, the Mutual’s expert resigned his position with them leaving the ongoing AURA audit project incomplete.

On March, we received the audit’s report conducted on the installations of Cerro Pachon, Tololo and the Recinto in La Serena. In broad terms, the report found adequate safety conditions throughout the workplace at the indicated sites.

After having read this report’s rather ambiguous conclusions and generalizations, however, it has been our widespread feeling that this project has not been performed with the diligence and expertise we would otherwise expect from an organization which has a respectable reputation in the area of industrial safety. We have presented a complaint and objections for a job we have deemed of modest performance.

Occupational Health

AOSS received the results from the occupational health physical tests performed by the work medicine unit of the Mutual de Seguridad C.CH.C.

These medical exams were given on Cerro Pachon, Cerro Tololo and La Serena to all workers subject to potential health hazards. They included eyesight, hearing, espirometry, blood pressure, and benzene tests. Five specific suspicious cases were detected and will be subject to further evaluation in the facility installations of the Mutual.

The kitchen personnel in charge of food handling completed their medical exams as mandated by the Sanitary Code. We included on this occasion the temporary and sub-contracted workers as well.


Environmental

The dump-site on Cerro Tololo is operating under normal conditions. The garbage is periodically buried to prevent the infestation by insects or rodents, in proper compliance with the mandatory and corresponding sanitary norm.

AOSS received an environmental certification from the Company Hidronor de Chile for the recycling of magnetic tapes and oil-refuse from Gemini, CTIO and AOSS, which was sent to the recycling plant of Hidronor in Santiago, in compliance with the current environmental norm.

AOSS received the results of the monitoring inspection issued by the Mutual de Seguridad reporting the environmental testing for detection of asbestos pollution in the Blanco Telescope and the AOSS maintenance shop at CTIO. The results show that the asbestos contamination level in the areas tested is extremely low and barely perceptible to the testing gear. These results practically imply that our telescope buildings are free from asbestos pollution and do not represent a hazard to the health of our workers. In addition, in order to further improve on the condition at those sites, a repair work to patch up some loose spots on the asbestos lining surface of the telescope walls was performed.


SEMESTER 2004-A OBSERVING PROGRAMS SIX MONTHS ENDING JULY 31, 2004

NOAO Gemini Science Center

NOAO Gemini Science Center

Observing Programs Semester 2004-A

Program Type N % Total U.S. Programs (non-Thesis) 57 85%

U.S. Programs (Theses) 10 15%

Total 67 100%

A total of 65 U.S. observing programs were awarded time on the Gemini telescopes for Semester 2004A, 10 (15%) of which were thesis programs. The telescope(s) scheduled and number of nights awarded are specified in the following list. (* = Program allocated time in Band 4 of the observing queue, i.e., overfill time. GEM-NQ = Gemini North Queue, GEM-SQ = Gemini South Queue. GEM-N – Gemini North classical.)

U.S. Observing Programs: Gemini Telescopes - Non-Thesis (57) Telescope Nights

1. S. Balachandran (U. of Maryland), J. Carr (Naval Research Laboratory), K. Venn (Macalester College): "Mixing and CNO Abundances in M Supergiants" GEM-SQ 2

2. E. Barton, J. Smith, R. Dave, C. Papovich (U. of Arizona): "Searching for Star Formation at z=8.2" GEM-NQ 6.4

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

GEM-NQ 2.3

4. J. Bloom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), H. Chen (MIT), J. Prochaska (University of California Observatories): "Probing the ISM of High Redshift Galaxies with Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows"

GEM-NQ GEM-SQ

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5. R. Blum (NOAO), D. Figer (STScI), F. Najarro (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory): "The Most Massive Stars Known, Single or Multiple?" GEM-SQ 3

6. R. Blum (NOAO), C. Barbosa (G), A. Damineli (IAGUSP), P. Conti (U. of Colorado): "The Circumstellar Environments of Massive Young Stellar Objects" GEM-SQ 1

7. P. Bouchet (NOAO), J. Danziger (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste), N. Suntzeff (NOAO), O. Hernandez (G) (Talca University): "Dust in Types I & II Supernovae" GEM-SQ 4.5

8. P. Bouchet (NOAO), A. Crotts (Columbia U.), S. Heathcote (SOAR), S. Lawrence (Hofstra University), B. Sugerman (STScI), N. Suntzeff (NOAO): "Bolometric Evolution of SN1987A: monitoring the dust in the mid-IR"

GEM-SQ 1.5



9. J. Carr (Naval Research Laboratory), S. Balachandran (U. of Maryland): "The Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Center" GEM-SQ 4.3

10. G. Cecil (U. of North Carolina), P. Ferruit (CRAL), A. Wilson (U. of Maryland), E. Emsellem (CRAL), B. Jungwiert (Astronomical Institute), C. Mundell (Liverpool Johns Moores University): "Nuclear kinematics and stellar populations in Seyferts: GMOS/IFU Feasibility Study"

GEM-NQ 0.97

11. H. Chen, S. Burles, R. Simcoe (MIT): "A Survey of Damped Absorbing Galaxies using the Integral Field Unit" GEM-NQ 1.5

12. J. De Buizer (Gemini Observatory): "Thermal Infrared Characterization of Hot Molecular Cores" GEM-SQ 0.425

13. J. De Buizer (Gemini Observatory), J. Radomski (U. of Florida): "The Morphologies and Physical Properties of Dust in Ultracompact HII Regions" GEM-SQ 1.6

14. M. Dietrich (Georgia State U.), F. Hamann (U. of Florida): "Quasars at Redshift z~eq 5 to probe Early Star Formation" GEM-NQ 2.2

15. 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 Virgo's intracluster planetary nebulae"

GEM-NQ 1.375

16. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), D. Bersier (STScI), E. Pian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), D. Burrows (Pennsylvania State U.), S. Wachter (CTIO), K. Sahu, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), A. Levan, M. Ward (University of Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI), R. Wijers (University of Amsterdam): "What are the Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts?"

GEM-SQ 0.8

17. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (University of Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), R. Wijers (University of Amsterdam), E. Pian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), E. Pian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), D. Bersier (STScI), S. Wachter (SIRTF), K. Sahu, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), S. Pak (University of Hertfordshire), A. Levan, M. Ward (University of Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI): "Diversity of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era"

GEM-SQ 0.6

18. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (University of Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), R. Wijers (University of Amsterdam), E. Pian (Instituto di Fisica Cosmica e Tecnologie), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), D. Bersier (STScI), S. Wachter (CTIO), K. Sahu, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), S. Pak (University of Hertfordshire), A. Levan, M. Ward (University of Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI): "Diversity of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era"

GEM-NQ 1.2

19. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (University of Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), D. Bersier (STScI), E. Pian (Instgituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), D. Burrows (Pennsylvania State U.), S. Wachter (CTIO), K. Sahu, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), A. Levan, M. Ward (University of Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI), R. Wijers (University of Amsterdam): "What are the Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts?"

GEM-NQ 1.6

20. M. Geha (Carnegie Observatories), P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), R. Van Der Marel (STScI): "A New Spin on Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies" GEM-NQ 1



21. J. Gizis, H. Shipman, J. Harvin (U. of Delaware): "Spectra of Very Young Brown Dwarfs" GEM-SQ 1

22. D. Golimowski (Johns Hopkins U.), S. Leggett (UKIRT), X. Fan (Steward Observatory), J. Knapp (Princeton U.), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory): "M' Photometry of late-L and T dwarfs"

GEM-NQ 2.3

23. K. Gordon, C. Engelbracht (U. of Arizona), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), K. Misselt, G. Rieke, A. Alonso-Herrero (U. of Arizona): "The 3.3 µm Infrared Emission Feature in Starburst Galaxies"

GEM-NQ 2.2

24. P. Goudfrooij, T. Puzia (STScI), F. Schweizer (Carnegie Observatories), B. Whitmore (STScI): "K-band Imaging of Globular Clusters in Candidate Intermediate-Age Elliptical Galaxies"

GEM-NQ 1.4

25. C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (STScI), Z. Tsvetanov (Johns Hopkins U.), Z. Haiman (Columbia U.), N. Pirzkal (STScI): "Imaging & Spectroscopy of z ~ 4 - 6 Ly(alpha) Emission-Line Galaxies from APPLES"

GEM-NQ 1.5

26. T. Heckman (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Dey (NOAO), C. Hoopes (Johns Hopkins U.), C. Martin, D. Schminovich (California Institute of Technology), S. Charlot (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), B. Jannuzi, M. Brown (NOAO), A. Szalay, T. Budavari (Johns Hopkins U.): "UV Spectral Evolution of Galaxies from z~1 to z~3"

GEM-N 3

27. K. Hinkle (NOAO), P. Bernath (University of Waterloo), T. Tsuji (University of Tokyo), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), J. Valenti (STScI), M. McCaughrean (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): "Infrared Spectroscopy of the late T-dwarf (epsilon) Indi Bb"

GEM-SQ 1

28. R. Hynes, E. Robinson (U. of Texas, Austin), P. Charles (University of Southampton), C. Haswell (Open U.), T. Shahbaz (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), C. Zurita (University of Lisbon), J. Casares (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias): "The Spectroscopic Signature of Low Luminosity Accreting Black Holes"

GEM-SQ *

29. R. Jayawardhana (U. of Michigan), G. Meeus (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): "Probing dust composition and processing in protoplanetary disks" GEM-SQ 2

30. R. Knop (Vanderbilt U.), R. Carlberg, D. Howell, M. Sullivan (University of Toronto), A. Babul, D. Balam, S. Ellison, F. Hartwick (University of Victoria), H. Hoekstra, T. Merrall (University of Toronto), J. Navarro (University of Victoria), K. Perrett (University of Toronto), D. Schade, L. Simard, P. Stetson, S. van den Bergh (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), J. Willis (University of Victoria), I. Hook (University of Oxford), R. McMahon (University of Cambridge), R. Pain (University of Paris), S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J. Rich (CEA), N. Walton (University of Cambridge), C. Pritchet (University of Victoria), E. Smith (Vanderbilt U.), G. Aldering, L. Wang, R. Gibbons, V. Fadeyev, A. Spadafora (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), M. Scherzer, H. Agarwal (UC Berkeley): "The Nature of Dark Energy from Supernovae of Type Ia"

GEM-NQ 1

31. A. Kundu (Michigan State U.), T. Puzia (STScI), S. Zepf (Michigan State U.), T. Maccarone (University of Amsterdam), K. Ashman (U. of Kansas), K. Rhode (G) (Yale U.): "Determining the Ages of Major Formation Events in Ellipticals with K- band Imaging"

GEM-NQ 1.68



32. D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), N. Ryde (Uppsala University), K. Hinkle (NOAO): "The origin of Sulfur as determined from the [SI] line" GEM-SQ 2

33. D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), K. Eriksson, B. Gustafsson (Uppsala University), K. Hinkle (NOAO), N. Ryde, R. Wahlin (G), B. Westerlund (Uppsala University): "Carbon Stars in the Local Group - Detailed Abundance Analysis of Carbon Stars in the Magellanic Clouds"

GEM-SQ 2

34. D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), K. Eriksson, B. Gustafsson (Uppsala University), G. Harper (U. of Colorado), K. Hinkle (NOAO), N. Ryde (Uppsala University): "A CO Resonance Scattering Map of alpha Ori's Circumstellar Shell"

GEM-SQ 2

35. T. Lebzelter (U. Vienna), K. Hinkle (NOAO), B. Aringer (U. Vienna): “Stellar evolution along the AGB” GEM-SQ 2

36. W. Merline (Southwest Research Institute), L. Close (U. of Arizona), C. Dumas (CalTech-JPL), P. Tamblyn (Southwest Research Institute), F. Menard (LAOG), C. Chapman (Southwest Research Institute): "Search for Asteroidal Satellites using Adaptive Optics"

GEM-N 3

37. J. Mould (NOAO), J. De Buizer (Gemini Observatory), M. Werner, V. Gorjian (CalTech-JPL): "Resolving the star formation in Henize 206" GEM-SQ 1

38. D. Norman (CTIO), D. Wittman, V. Margoniner (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), J. Hughes (Rutgers U.), T. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), I. Dell'Antonio (Brown U.): "Determining Spectral Redshifts for a Shear- Selected Sample of Galaxy Clusters"

GEM-NQ *

39. T. Oka (U. of Chicago), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), K. Hinkle (NOAO), B. McCall (UC Berkeley), M. Goto (Institute of Astronomy): "Observation of H3+ and CO toward the Galactic Center"

GEM-SQ 2

40. M. Postman (STScI), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), H. Ford, N. Homeier (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Zirm (Leiden University), B. Holden (UC Santa Cruz), J. Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins U.): "Tracing Star Formation in a z=0.83 Rich Galaxy Cluster"

GEM-NQ *

41. M. Rauch (Carnegie Observatories), F. Marleau (Saint Mary's University), M. Haehnelt (University of Cambridge), J. Graham (UC Berkeley), A. Bunker (University of Cambridge): "Fluorescent re-emission of the ionizing UV background from Lyman-limit Systems"

GEM-SQ 6

42. H. Roe (California Institute of Technology), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), M. Brown (California Institute of Technology), A. Bouchez (Keck): "Titan's methane clouds: Time-scales and correlation with surface features"

GEM-NQ 2

43. A. Saha (NOAO): "DDO 187: Confirming the distance to a dwarf galaxy with enigmatic variable stars" GEM-NQ 0.7

44. R. Schulte-Ladbeck, S. Rao, D. Turnshek (U. of Pittsburgh), I. Drozdovsky (SIRTF), M. Pettini (Institute for Astronomy, UK): "Emission-line Abundances in the Damped Lyman (alpha) Absorber SBS 1543+593"

GEM-NQ 1

45. J. Scott, G. Kriss, H. Ferguson (STScI), J. Hutchings (DRAO): "Star Forming Galaxies in the Field of the UV Bright QSO HS1700+6416" GEM-NQ 5



46. N. Smith (U. of Colorado), R. Gehrz, C. Woodward (U. of Minnesota): "IR Variability During a Shell Ejection of Eta Carinae" GEM-SQ 0.9

47. V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), K. Cunha (Observatorio Nacional), I. Ivans (California Institute of Technology), J. Lattanzio (Monash University), K. Hinkle (NOAO): "Using Fluorine Abundances to Test for the Signature of Hot-Bottom Burning in the Globular Cluster M4"

GEM-SQ 0.5

48. V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), D. Terndrup (Ohio State U.), K. Cunha (Observatorio Nacional), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): "Comparative Chemical Evolution in Stellar Populations: Infrared Spectroscopy of Galactic Bulge Red Giants"

GEM-SQ 2.25

49. V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), K. Cunha (Observatorio Nacional, Brazil), A. McWilliam (Carnegie Observatories): "Mapping Chemical Evolution from Red Giants in the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy"

GEM-SQ 3

50. I. Song (UCLA), B. Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), B. Zuckerman, E. Becklin (UCLA): "Adaptive Optics Imaging Search for Massive Planets around Young Nearby Stars"

GEM-NQ 1

51. Y. Taniguchi (Tohoku U.), W. Zheng (Johns Hopkins U.), S. Lipari (U. Nacional de Cordoba), M. Ajiki (Tohoku U.), Y. Shioya (Tohoku U.), R. Diaz (U. Nacional de Cordoba), H. Dottori (U. Fed. Rio Grande do Sul), R. Terlevich (U. Cambridge): “Star Formation and Galactic Wind at Redshift 5.7”

GEM-SQ 1.72

52. S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), P. Bergeron (U. Montreal), B. Hansen (U.C. Los Angeles), S. Sigurdsson (Pennsylvania State U.), I. Stairs (U. British Columbia), H. Richer (U. British Columbia): "Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs in Messier 4"

GEM-SQ 1.72

53. T. Tripp (U. Mass), D. Bowen (Princeton U.), J. Prochaska (University of California Observatories), E. Jenkins (Princeton U.), B. Savage (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "Probing the Nature of Low-Redshift O VI Absorbers with a Deep Galaxy Redshift Survey"

GEM-NQ 1.05

54. W. Vacca (Universities Space Research Association), K. Johnson (U. of Wisconsin Madison), A. Verma (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie): "The Mid-IR Spectral Energy Distribution of Ultradense HII Regions in Starburst Galaxies"

GEM-SQ *

55. N. Van Der Bliek (CTIO), D. Apai (U) (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), M. Sterzik (ESO), I. Pascucci (O), K. Dullemond (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), G. Meeus (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): "Exploring the Structure of Brown Dwarf Disks"

GEM-SQ *

56. P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden University): "Properties of Red Galaxies at z>2" GEM-N 4

57. A. Weinberger (Carnegie Institution of Washington), E. Becklin, B. Zuckerman, I. Song (UCLA): "Asteroidal Material Around Young Stars?" GEM-SQ 1

U.S. Thesis Programs - Gemini Telescopes (10) Telescope Nights

58. A. Bolton (T), S. Burles (MIT): "IFU Observation of SDSS Spectroscopic Strong Lens

Candidates" GEM-NQ 2.55


U.S. Thesis Programs - Gemini Telescopes (10) Telescope Nights

59. J. Cook (T), S. Wyckoff (Arizona State U.), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory): "Spectroscopy of Pluto and Charon Between 1.4-2.5 µm"

GEM-N, GEM-SQ 6

60. J. Hennawi (T), M. Strauss, U. Seljak, P. McDonald (Princeton U.), S. Burles (MIT): "Cosmological Constraints from Ly(alpha) Forest Absorption Spectra of Close Quasar Pairs"

GEM-N 3

61. L. Macri (NOAO), K. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), D. Bersier (STScI), A. Bonanos (T), L. Greenhill (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "An accurate calibration of the Cepheid Distance Scale with the Maser Galaxy NGC 4258"

GEM-NQ 4

62. M. Meixner (STScI), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Ardila (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Doering (T) (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Lubow (STScI): "High-Resolution Mid-IR Imaging of Dusty Proto-planetary Disks Surrounding Intermediate Mass Stars"

GEM-SQ 1.3

63. C. Packham (U. of Florida), L. Colina (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia), M. Orduna (T) (U. of Florida), A. Alonso-Herrero (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia), J. Radomski (U. of Florida): "Title: 10µm Observations of ULIRGs: Unveiling the Dust-Enshrouded Energy Source"

GEM-SQ *

64. G. Schaefer (T) (SUNY, Stony Brook), T. Beck (Gemini Observatory), L. Prato (UCLA), M. Simon (SUNY, Stony Brook): "Dynamical Masses of Pre-Main Sequence Stars" GEM-NQ 0.2

65. H. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Lonsdale (California Institute of Technology), F. Owen (NRAO Headquarters), B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Rowan-Robinson (Imperial College, London), G. Morrison (California Institute of Technology), B. Siana (T) (UC San Diego), D. Farrah, S. Team (California Institute of Technology): "IR Galaxies in a Deep SIRTF/VLA/Chandra Survey: The Power Balance between AGN & Starbursts to z~ 1.5"

GEM-NQ GEM-N

0.4 4

66. C. Woodward (U. of Minnesota), D. Harker (UC San Diego), D. Wooden (NASA Ames Research Center), B. Rodgers, T. Hayward (Gemini Observatory), W. Reach (SIRTF), M. Kelley (T) (U. of Minnesota): "Cometary Grains - Icy Planetesimal Evolution"

GEM-SQ 1.26

67. 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

KPNO Observing Programs Semester 2004-A

(Total U.S. + Non-U.S. = 98) Program N % Total U.S. Programs (non-Thesis) 66 72% U.S. Programs (Theses) 26 28% Total 92 100%

For the six months ending July 31, 2004, a total of 92 scientific programs were awarded time on KPNO telescopes. Of the 92 observing programs conducted by U.S. scientists, 26 (28%) were thesis programs. Telescope(s) scheduled and number of nights awarded are specified in the following tables. (WIYN-SYN = Synoptic/Queue)

U.S. Programs: KPNO – Non-Thesis (66) Telescope Nights

1. J. Baldwin (Michigan State U.), R. Williams (STScI), E. Jenkins (Princeton U.): "Chemical Abundances in Nebulae: Integrated Absorption and Emission-Line Analysis"

KP-2.1m 4

2. W. Barkhouse, P. Green, J. Silverman (G), R. Cameron (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Jannuzi , B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), P. Smith (U. of Arizona): "The Cosmological Evolution of X-ray Selected AGN"

KP-4m, WIYN 3, 4

3. D. Bersier (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), N. Tanvir : "Long Period Variables in NGC 3368" WIYN-SYN 0.5

4. J. Birriel (Morehead State University): "A Search for Raman Scattered He II 6545 in Selected Young PNe and Symbiotic Stars" KP-2.1m 3

5. H. Bond (STScI), O. De Marco (American Museum of Natural History), D. Harmer (O) (NOAO): "Searching for Spectroscopic Binaries in Planetary Nebulae" WIYN 7

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

WIYN-2hr 1

7. E. Chiang (UC Berkeley), L. Wasserman, M. Buie (Lowell Observatory), A. Jordan (G), J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley), J. Kane (U) (MIT): "Astrometric Investigation of the Kuiper Belt"

KP-4m 1

8. A. Crotts (Columbia U.), D. Kirkman, D. Tytler (UC San Diego): "Ly(alpha) Forest Clustering and the Cosmological Constant" KP-4m 2

9. A. Dey, D. Mills, R. Lynds (NOAO): "New inefficiencies in MARS nod-and-shuffle mode (from new guider software)" KP-4m 1

10. M. Dickinson, C. Papovich (G) (STScI), P. Eisenhardt (U), D. Stern (California Institute of Technology), M. Giavalisco, B. Mobasher, K. Lee (G), C. Kretchmer (G), H. Ferguson (STScI), R. Idzi (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), T. Dahlen, N. Grogin (STScI), H. Yan (California Institute of Technology): "Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)"

KP-4m 14.5



11. R. Elston (U. of Florida), P. Eisenhardt, D. Stern (CalTech-JPL), S. Stanford (UC Davis), E. McKenzie (G) (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 5.5

12. X. Fan (U. of Arizona), M. Strauss, J. Hennawi (G) (Princeton U.), L. Jiang (G) (U. of Arizona): "A Survey of z~ 6 Quasars from the SDSS"

KP-4m 4

13. J. Feldmeier (Case Western Reserve U.), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby (WIYN), P. Durrell (Pennsylvania State U.): "Bridging the Intracluster Star gap in Ursa Major"

KP-4m 1

14. L. Ferrarese (Rutgers U.): "The Upper End of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function: Pushing the 10 Billion Solar Mass Limit" KP-2.1m 4

15. J. Ge, S. Mahadevan, J. Van Eyken (NOAO): "Time is requested for instrument characterization of the Exoplanet Tracker, ET." KP-2.1m 10

16. D. Gelino (UC San Diego), T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.): "Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole in GS 2000+25" KP-4m 5

17. R. Green, J. Glaspey, J. Dunlop (NOAO): "A Friday or Saturday night in April is requested for Tohono O'odham night."

KP-2.1m, KP-4m, WIYN 0.5, 0.5, 0.5

18. R. Green (NOAO), S. Croom (Anglo-Australian Observatory), S. Warren (Imperial College of Science, Techonology and Medicine), P. Hall (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), M. Brown, A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO), P. Smith (U. of Arizona), D. Norman, M. Smith (CTIO), G. Tiede (U. of Florida): "A Deep Wide-Field Infrared Survey for QSOs"

WIYN 4

19. S. Hameed (Smith College), D. Wang (U. Mass): "Exploring X-ray - H(alpha) Connection to Test Galaxy Formation Theories" KP-4m 4

20. T. Hillwig, D. Gies (Georgia State U.): "A Search for Extended Emission in the W Ser Binary RY Scuti" WIYN-2hr 0.25

21. C. Hoopes, D. Thilker (Johns Hopkins U.), S. Hameed (Smith College): "Revealing the Fossil Record of Chemical Evolution in Nearby Galaxies" KP-4m 7.5

22. D. Hunter (Lowell Observatory), E. Anderson (Northern Arizona U.): "The Stellar Edges of Irregular Galaxies: What\'s Going on Out There?" KP-2.1m 5.5

23. B. Jannuzi, A. Dey, T. Armandroff, E. Ajhar, R. Blum, T. Boroson, C. Claver, I. Dell'Antonio (NOAO), M. Dickinson (STScI), R. Elston (U. of Florida), R. Green (NOAO), P. Hall (University of Toronto), G. Jacoby, R. Joyce, M. Keane, T. Lauer, R. Lynds, S. Malhotra, R. Mendez, M. Merrill, K. Mighell, J. Najita, E. O'Neil (NOAO), M. Postman (STScI), R. Probst, T. Rector, J. Rhoads, N. Samarasinha (NOAO), A. Sarajedini (Wesleyan U.), D. Hoard, M. Miller (U), K. Brand, A. Ford (O), H. Schweiker (O) (NOAO): "The NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey"

KP-4m 2

24. S. Kannappan (U. of Texas, Austin), C. Impey (U. of Arizona): "Faint Companions and LSB Extensions of S0 Galaxies: Clues to Thick and Thin Disk Formation"

KP-4m 3.5

25. W. Keel (U. of Alabama), F. Owen (NRAO), M. Ledlow (Gemini Observatory), D. Wang (U. Mass): "Signatures of stellar and gas stripping in the core of Abell 2125" WIYN-2hr 2

26. S. Lederer (Cal State San Bernadino), F. Vilas (NASA Johnson Space Flight Center), K. Jarvis (O) (Lockheed Martin Corp.): "Physical Properties of Centaurs and Kuiper Belt Objects"

KP-4m 3

27. J. MacKenty, R. Green, R. Joyce (NOAO): "Time for first-light commissioning for IRMOS is requested on the 2.1-m" KP-2.1m 5



28. S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), Z. Ivezic (Princeton U.), R. Patterson, H. Rocha-Pinto, M. Skrutskie (U. of Virginia), M. Weinberg (U. Mass), J. Crane (G) (U. of Virginia), F. Prada (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)), P. Frinchaboy (G) (U. of Virginia): "New Tidal Stream Candidates in the Outer Milky Way"

KP-4m 3.5

29. S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), D. Geisler (Universidad de Concepcion), D. Bizyaev : "Chemically Fingerprinting the Milky Way\\\'s Accretion Past"

KP-4m 4.5

30. S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Observatory), J. Rhee (Yonsei University), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), D. Geisler (Universidad de Concepcion), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), J. Crane (G) , A. Polak (G) (U. of Virginia), P. Frinchaboy (G) , A. Kundu (Michigan State U.), W. Gieren (Universidad de Concepcion), I. Reid (STScI), R. Munoz (G) (U. of Virginia): "Mapping the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Galactic Halo"

WIYN 6

31. P. Massey (Lowell Observatory), K. Olsen (CTIO), B. Plez, E. Josselin (Universite de Montpellier II): "The Physical Parameters of Red Supergiants: When Massive Stars Are as Cool as They Get"

KP-2.1m 10

32. S. McGaugh, R. De Naray (G) (U. of Maryland), E. De Blok (University of Wales, Cardiff), A. Bosma (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille): "High resolution velocity fields of low surface brightness galaxies"

KP-4m, WIYN 2, 4

33. K. Mighell (NOAO): "14 nights at the 2.-1m for the REU 2003 KPNO & NSO student observing program." KP-2.1m 13

34. R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Observatory), 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 Observatory), J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley): "Deep Ecliptic Survey"

KP-4m 6

35. B. Mobasher (STScI), N. Scoville (California Institute of Technology), L. Macri (NOAO), L. Yan (SIRTF), D. Thompson (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), J. Mould (NOAO), D. Sanders (U. of Hawaii), T. Lisker (G) (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), C. Liu (American Museum of Natural History): "Near-IR Survey of the HST-ACS COSMOS 2-Degree Field"

KP-4m 5

36. N. Morgan (Yale U.), C. Kochanek (Ohio State U.), P. Schechter (MIT), E. Falco (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), E. Mediavilla (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), J. Winn (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Optical Monitoring of Gravitationally Lensed Quasars"

WIYN-SYN 3

37. G. Morrison (California Institute of Technology), S. Oliver (University of Sussex), D. Farrah (California Institute of Technology), F. Owen (NRAO), C. Lonsdale (California Institute of Technology), H. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Xu (California Institute of Technology), B. Siana (G) , N. Onyett (G) (University of Sussex), S. Team : "The SWIRE Bright Galaxy Infrared Luminosity Function Survey"

WIYN 5

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

KP-2.1m 4

39. J. Munn, H. Harris (US Naval Observatory), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona): "An Improved Luminosity Function of Cool White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" KP-4m 6

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



41. T. Oswalt, S. Barnes, M. Rudkin (G) (Florida Institute of Technology), N. Hambly (University of Edinburgh), N. Silvestri, S. Hawley (U. of Washington): "White Dwarf Cooling Times and the Chromospheric Activity - Age Relations for Lower Main Sequence Stars"

KP-4m 4

42. C. Papovich, E. Egami (U. of Arizona), J. Huang , P. Perez-Gonzalez , M. Rieke (U. of Arizona), S. Miyazaki (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), I. McHardy (University of Southampton), F. Cordova (UC Riverside), K. Gunn (University of Southampton), K. Mason, M. Page (University College London), N. Seymour (IAP): "A Near-Infrared Survey of Extragalactic SIRTF Fields"

KP-4m 3

43. J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), R. Allen, B. Gladman (University of British Columbia), C. Hergenrother (O) (U. of Arizona), J. Kavelaars (National Research Council), J. Petit (Observatoire de Besancon): "The Kuiper Belt Legacy Project: Recoveries"

KP-4m, WIYN 3, 3

44. R. Probst, R. Elston (NOAO): "Test and characterize new image slicer IFU for IR spectroscopy" KP-4m 4

45. R. Probst, R. Green (NOAO): "FLAMINGOS checkout nights following instrument installation" KP-4m 2

46. T. Rector (NOAO): "This request is for the 2004 TLRBSE teacher's workshop" KP-2.1m, KP-

0.9m 5, 5

47. I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (G) (U. of Pennsylvania), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona): "Meeting the Cool Neighbours: completing the survey"

KP-4m 2.5

48. I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (G) (U. of Pennsylvania): "Finding the nearby stars that Luyten missed" KP-2.1m 5

49. J. Rhee, I. Ivans (California Institute of Technology), A. McWilliam (Carnegie Observatories): "Chemical Compositions of Newly Discovered Extremely Metal-Poor Giants from the HK-II Survey"

KP-4m 4

50. J. Rhoads, A. Fruchter (STScI), M. Merrill (NOAO), I. Burud, J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), J. Urkia (LAEFF), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), A. Levan (G) (University of Leicester), S. Patel (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), L. Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (University of Hertfordshire), D. Bersier (STScI): "Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Host Environments"

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

WIYN-TOO , ,

51. J. Salzer (Wesleyan U.), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), A. Jangren, J. Werk (U) (Wesleyan U.): "Wide, Deep KISS - Exploring the Properties of a Local Sample of Emission- Line Galaxies in the NWDFS"

KP-2.1m 3

52. J. Salzer, A. Jangren (Wesleyan U.), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Moody (Brigham Young U.), J. Werk (U) (Wesleyan U.): "Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxies toward the Bootes Void"

KP-2.1m 7

53. H. Schweiker (NOAO): "Verification of telescope and instrument systems" KP-4m 1

54. 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 1.5

55. R. Swaters (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Andersen (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), M. Bershady (U. of Wisconsin Madison), M. Verheijen (Universitat Potsdam), K. Westfall (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "Broad Band Imaging of Disk Galaxies with H(alpha) Velocity Fields"

KP-2.1m 7



56. E. Tedesco (TerraSystems, Inc.), A. Cellino (Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino), D. Davis (PSI), V. Meadows (SIRTF), C. Neese (PSI), B. Soifer (SIRTF), G. Esquerdo (G) (U. of Arizona): "Enhancing SIRTF's Ecliptic Plane Survey"

KP-4m 1.5

57. D. Trilling (U. of Pennsylvania), A. Rivkin (MIT), T. Spahr (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), C. Hergenrother (O) (U. of Arizona): "A search for Mars Trojan asteroids"

KP-0.9m 7

58. D. Turnshek, D. Berk, C. Hazard, S. Rao, M. Belfort (G) (U. of Pittsburgh), E. Monier , A. Quider (U) (U. of Pittsburgh): "Identification of QSOs for Follow-up QSO Absorption-Line and QSO Clustering Studies"

KP-2.1m 6.5

59. 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), 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.), R. Schommer (CTIO), D. Brooks , D. Sweeney (U. of Arizona): "Deep Lens Survey"

KP-4m 2.5

60. S. Van Dyk (California Institute of Technology): "Core-Collapse Supernovae and Massive Star Formation Regions"

KP-2.1m 4

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

KP-0.9m 6

62. S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland): "UMd Summer School" KP-2.1m 4

63. E. Verner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), K. Kawara (University of Tokyo), Y. Yoshii (Institute of Astronomy,University of Tokyo), B. Peterson (Australian National U.), F. Bruhweiler (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Y. Tsuzuki (G), S. Oyabu (G), Y. Matsuoka (G) (Institute of Astronomy,University of Tokyo): "Age Dating of Host Galaxies: Fe Abundance in Quasars at z=2.4 - 3.6"

KP-2.1m 2

64. B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Siana (G) (UC San Diego): "The Balance of Power between Starbusters and AGN: a Chandra SIRTF Survey"

KP-4m 8

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

KP-4m 1

66. N. Zacharias (US Naval Observatory), M. Zacharias (O) (Universities Space Research Association), T. Rafferty (O) (US Naval Observatory): "Extragalactic reference frame link of the UCAC project"

KP-0.9m 9.5

U.S. Theses — KPNO 26) Telescope Nights

67. J. Crane (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), J. Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), H. Rocha-Pinto : "Measuring Local Dark Matter with K giants at the North Galactic Pole"

KP-2.1m 7



68. 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), A. Gonzalez , N. Rashkind (G) (U. of Florida), Y. Lin (T) (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), M. Brown , A. Stolte, C. Roman-Zuniga (T) (U. of Florida): "The Evolution of Galaxy Clustering at 1<z<2"

KP-2.1m 10

69. R. Gilliland (STScI), D. Stello (T) (U. of Sydney), H. Kjeldsen, S. Frandsen (University of Aarhus), T. Bedding (U. of Sydney): "The M67 K Giant Project" KP-2.1m 10.5

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

KP-2.1m 4

71. G. Heald (T), R. Rand (U. of New Mexico), R. Benjamin (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater): "Warm Ionized Gas Outflows in M101" KP-4m 4

72. G. Heald (T), R. Rand (U. of New Mexico), R. Benjamin (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater), M. Bershady (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "Kinematics of the Disk-Halo Flow in NGC 4302"

WIYN 2

73. J. Hennawi (T), M. Strauss, F. Dong (T), J. Gunn (Princeton U.), N. Dalal (Institute for Advanced Study), N. Bahcall (Princeton U.): "A Systematic Search for Giant Arcs Behind the Richest Clusters in the Universe"

WIYN 3

74. A. Hopkins, A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh), A. Conti (STScI), J. Gardner, S. Schmidt (T) (U. of Pittsburgh): "Infrared Glimpses of the High Redshift Universe" KP-4m 4

75. J. Huang, P. Barmby, S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), D. Gong (T) (MIT), G. Fazio, M. Pahre (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "An Unbiased Study of Galaxies at z=3: IR photometry of Lyman Break Galaxies with SIRTF"

KP-4m 3

76. S. Kafka (T), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): "Chromospheric Activity in M Dwarfs and Changes in the CV Mass Transfer Rate" KP-2.1m 5.5

77. B. Keeney (T), J. Stocke, J. Rosenberg (U. of Colorado): "Broad-band and H(alpha) Imaging of Galaxies with QSO Sightline Halo Probes" KP-2.1m 3

78. C. Keeton (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff, I. Momcheva (T), K. Williams (U. of Arizona): "The Importance of Lens Galaxy Environments" KP-4m 4

79. J. Kim (T), S. McGaugh (U. of Maryland): "Infrared and H alpha Photometry of Nearby Low Surface Brightness Galaxies" KP-4m, WIYN 4, 3

80. 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) , A. Stolte (U. of Florida), A. Steinhauer (Indiana U.): "Toward a Complete Near-Infrared Spectroscopic and Imaging Survey of Giant Molecular Clouds"

KP-2.1m 1

81. A. Leistra (T) (U. of Arizona), A. Cotera (SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona), P. Massey (Lowell Observatory): "The Stellar IMF of Massive Young Stellar Clusters"

KP-4m 2

82. Y. Lin (T), J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), R. Elston (U. of Florida), S. KP-2.1m 4.5



Stanford (IGPP): "Near-IR Luminosity-Mass Correlation in Low Redshift Galaxy Clusters"

83. A. Matkovic (T), R. Guzman (U. of Florida): "Testing The Galaxy Harassment Scenario for The Formation of Cluster Dwarf Ellipticals" WIYN 2

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

WIYN 5

85. L. Mundy, N. Chapman (T), N. Volgenau (G) (U. of Maryland), N. Evans, II (U. of Texas, Austin), E. van Dishoeck , G. Blake (California Institute of Technology): "The Serpens and Ophiuchus Clouds Revealed by SIRTF"

KP-4m 5.5

86. J. Neill (T) (Columbia U.), M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History): "The Rest of the Iceberg: Finding Faint Cataclysmic Variables" KP-4m 1.5

87. H. Osborne (T), T. Harrison, B. McNamara (New Mexico State U.): "Determining the Masses of Cataclysmic Variables: Radial Velocities" KP-2.1m 6

88. D. Rupke (T), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland): "AGN-driven Superwinds in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies" KP-4m 5

89. J. Simon (T), A. Leroy (G), A. Bolatto, L. Blitz (UC Berkeley), E. Gates (University of California Observatories): "Cusps vs. Cores: The Distribution of Dwarf Galaxy Density Profile Slopes"

WIYN 8

90. P. Treuthardt (T), R. Buta (U. of Alabama), H. Salo (University of Oulu): "A Dynamical Study of Resonances in Barred Spiral Galaxies" KP-2.1m 3

91. C. Warner (T), F. Hamann (U. of Florida), M. Dietrich (Georgia State U.): "Quasars and Their Host Galaxies at High Redshifts" KP-4m 5

92. E. Wehner (T), J. Gallagher (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "An Examination of Tidal Debris in Starbursting Galaxies with Evidence of Recent Merging" KP-2.1m 3.5


Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

For the six months ending July 31, 2004, 62 U.S. scientific programs have been awarded time on CTIO telescopes; of these 13 (21%) are thesis programs. Telescope(s) scheduled and number of nights awarded are specified in the following tables. (CT = Curtis-Schmidt; ToO = Target of Opportunity program)

U.S. Programs: CTIO – Non-Thesis (49) Telescopes Nights

1. W. Barkhouse, P. Green, J. Silverman (G), R. Cameron (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Jannuzi (NOAO), B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr for Astrophysics), P. Smith (U. of Arizona): "The Cosmological Evolution of X-ray Selected AGN"

CT-4m 1

2. P. Bouchet (CTIO), J. Danziger (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), O. Hernandez (G) (Talca University): "Dust in Types I & II Supernovae" CT-4m 2.5

3. M. Briley (U. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh), G. Smith (UC Santa Cruz): "Chemical Homogeneity of Metal Rich Globulars" CT-4m 3

4. J. Carpenter (California Institute of Technology), M. Fernandez (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)), N. Huelamo (ESO) : "Star - accretion disk interface in classical T Tauri stars"

CT-1.3m 7.2

5. Y. Chu, R. Gruendl (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Points (CTIO), M. Guerrero (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)): "Physical Structure of Wolf-Rayet Bubbles" CT-4m 4

6. R. Ciardullo, K. Herrmann (G), P. Durrell (Pennsylvania State U.): "The Planetary Nebula Systems of M83 and NGC 5068" CT-4m 3

7. J. Cohen (California Institute of Technology), A. McWilliam, S. Shectman, I. Thompson (Carnegie Observatories), N. Christlieb (Hamberger Sternwarte): "Photometry of Extremely Metal Poor Stars from the Hamburg/ESO Stellar Survey"

CT-1.3m 3.6

8. A. Cool (San Francisco State U.), I. King (U. of Washington), J. Anderson (Rice U.): "Monitoring a Probable Dwarf Nova in the Core of M22"

CT-1.3m 4.1

9. P. Cote (Rutgers U.), J. Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins U.), L. Ferrarese, A. Jordan (G) (Rutgers U.), S. Mei (University of Paris), D. Merritt (Rutgers U.), M. Milosavljevic (California Institute of Technology), E. Peng (Rutgers U.), J. Tonry, M. West (U. of Hawaii): “SDSS Photometry for Galactic Globular Clusters and an Empirical Calibration of the (g’-z’)-[Fe/H] Relation for Old Stellar Populations”

CT-0.9m 7

10. Y. Fernandez (U. of Hawaii), C. Lisse (U. of Maryland): "Visible Imaging of Comet Hale-Bopp Complementing SIRTF Observations" CT-1.3m 2.6

Program Type N % Total

U.S. Programs (non-Thesis) 49 79%

U.S. Theses 13 21%

Total U.S. Programs 62 100%

U.S. Observing Programs at CTIOSemester 2004-A

(Total U.S. + non-U.S. Programs = 78)



11. E. Gawiser, C. Urry, P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), E. Treister (G) (Yale U.), J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), C. Liu (American Museum of Natural History), P. Coppi (Yale U.): "Deep Narrow-band Lyman [alpha] Imaging at z=3.1: “Testing the Peak-Bias Paradigm of Galaxy Formation”

CT-4m 2

12. P. Ghavamian (Johns Hopkins U.), J. Hughes (Rutgers U.): "The Interaction of the Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant G292.0 + 1.8 with its Circumstellar Medium" CT-4m 2

13. J. Gizis, B. Riaz (G), J. Harvin (U. of Delaware): "New Nearby M Dwarfs from 2MASS and ROSAT" CT-1.5m 4

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 (SIRTF), P. Green, B. Wilkes, J. Drake, V. Kashyap et.a. : “ChaMPlane: Measuring the Faint X-Ray Binary and Stellar X-Ray Content of the Galaxy”

CT-4m 5

15. K. Haisch, R. Jayawardhana (U. of Michigan): "A Deep Optical and Near-IR Imaging Survey of the [eta] Chamaeleontis Young Cluster" CT-4m 5

16. J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), L. Macri (NOAO), T. Jarrett (CalTech-JPL), S. Schneider (U. Mass), T. Chester (California Institute of Technology), R. Cutri (CalTech-JPL), M. Skrutskie (U. of Virginia), J. Mader (Keck): "The 2MASS Redshift Survey in the Zone of Avoidance”

CT-1.5m, CT-4m 5, 8

17. J. Kim, M. Meyer, M. Silverstone (U. of Arizona), J. Carpenter (California Institute of Technology): "Defining the Stellar SEDs of SIRTF Targets: Placing Our Solar System in Context"

CT-0.9m-SVC 2

18. C. Kobulnicky, B. Uzpen (G) (U. of Wyoming), E. Churchwell (U. of Wisconsin Madison), G. Team (O) : "Spectroscopic Observations of Stars toward G284.3-0.3: Calibration for the GLIMPSE SIRTF Legacy Survey"

CT-4m 0.5

19. K. Krisciunas (U. of Notre Dame), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), M. Phillips, M. Hamuy (Carnegie Observatories), P. Candia (O), R. Smith (CTIO), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.): "Photometry and spectroscopy of bright supernovae"

CT-0.9m-SVC, CT-

1.3m 6, 5.4

20. A. Layden, G. Tiede (Bowling Green State U.), B. Chaboyer (Dartmouth College): "Population II Ages via SIM: O/IR Light Curves of Field RR Lyrae Stars" CT-1.3m 2.5

21. K. Luhman, G. Fazio (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Searching for the Bottom of the Initial Mass Function" CT-4m 3

22. S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Observatory), J. Rhee (Yonsei University), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), D. Geisler (U. de Concepcion), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), J. Crane (G), et al.: “Mapping the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Galactic Halo”

CT-4m 6

23. P. Massey (Lowell Observatory), K. Olsen (CTIO), B. Plez, E. Josselin (Universite de Montpellier II): "The Physical Parameters of Red Supergiants: When Massive Stars Are as Cool as They Get"

CT-1.5m 6

24. B. McLean (STScI), J. García (O) (Gemini South) , 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-1.0m 7

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.), et al.: “Star Formation in HI Selected Galaxies”

CT-0.9m 7



26. R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Observatory), 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 Observatory), J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley): "The Deep Ecliptic Survey”

CT-4m 4

27. B. Mobasher (STScI), N. Scoville (California Institute of Technology), L. Macri (NOAO), L. Yan (SIRTF), D. Thompson (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), J. Mould (NOAO), D. Sanders (U. of Hawaii), T. Lisker (G) (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) et al.: “Near-IR Survey of the HST-ACS COSMOS 2-Degree Field”

CT-4m 5

28. S. Mohanty, L. Hartmann (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Substellar Companions to Pre-Main Sequence Stars: A Survey of the Sco- Cen OB Association" CT-4m 5

29. D. Norman (CTIO), D. Wittman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), D. Loomba (U. of New Mexico): "Do Quasars Form in Massive Dark Matter Halos?" CT-4m 5

30. D. Norman (CTIO), D. Wittman, V. Margoniner (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), J. Hughes (Rutgers U.), T. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), I. Dell'Antonio (Brown U.): "Determining Spectral Redshifts for a Shear- Selected Sample of Galaxy Clusters"

CT-4m 2

31. P. Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), M. Phillips (Carnegie Observatories), G. Aldering (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): "Hubble Flow Type Ia Supernovae"

CT-1.3m 0.4

32. T. Oswalt, S. Barnes, M. Rudkin (G) (Florida Institute of Technology), N. Hambly (University of Edinburgh), N. Silvestri, S. Hawley (U. of Washington): "White Dwarf Cooling Times and the Chromospheric Activity - Age Relations for Lower Main Sequence Stars”

CT-4m - 1.0m-SVC, CT-0.9m-

SVC

3, 3, 7

33. C. Pilachowski, H. Jacobson (G) (Indiana U.): "Infalling Planetesimals in Young Star Clusters - Year 2" CT-4m 5

34. I. Platais (Johns Hopkins U.), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), D. Terndrup (Ohio State U.): “Deciphering the history of omega Cen formation” CT-4m 0.3

35. J. Raymond (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), K. Korreck (G) (U. of Michigan Dearborn), P. Ghavamian (Johns Hopkins U.): “H(alpha) observations of Northwest Region of SN1006”

CT-4m 1

36. J. Rhoads, A. Fruchter (STScI), M. Merrill (NOAO), I. Burud, J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), J. Urkia (LAEFF), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), A. Levan (G) (University of Leicester), S. Patel, et al.: “Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Host Environment”

CT-4m-TOO

37. E. Ryan, W. Ryan (New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology): “Analysis of the Binary Vesta-family Asteroid 3782 Celle and Search for Additional Binary Systems” CT-1.0m 14

38. B. Schaefer (Louisiana State U.): “Light Curves of Kuiper Belt Objects” CT-1.0m 1

39. B. Schaefer (Louisiana State U.): “Are Recurrent Novae the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae?” CT-1.0m 14

40. J. Smith (U. of Wyoming), D. Tucker (FNAL): “Southern Standard Stars for the u’g’r’i’z’ System” CT-0.9m 8

41. J. Sokoloski, S. Kenyon (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "The Outbursts of Symbiotic Binaries" CT-1.3m 1.2

42. B. Twarog, B. Anthony-Twarog (U. of Kansas): "Probing the Chemical Properties of Metal-Rich Globular Clusters" CT-0.9m 7

43. 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.

CT-4m 6


U.S. Programs: CTIO – Non-Thesis (49) Telescopes Nights Cohen et al.: “The Deep Lens Survey”

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 0.55

45. A. Whiting, N. Suntzeff (CTIO), L. Schmidtobreick (ESO), A. Layden (Bowling Green State U.), N. Van Der Bliek, R. Smith, R. Students (U) (CTIO): “Undergraduates and Exploding Stars”

CT-1.5m, CT0.9m 6, 6

46. 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 0.5

47. K. Williams (U. of Arizona), M. Bolte (UC Santa Cruz), M. Meyer (U. of Arizona): “White dwarfs in open clusters: the initial-final mass relation and supernova mass limit”

CT-4m, CT-0.9m 4, 3

48. G. Williger (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Dave (U. of Arizona), R. Clowes (University of Central Lancashire), M. Graham (Imperial College of Science, Techonology and Medicine), C. Haines (University of Central Lancashire), J. Liske (University of Edinburgh), et al.: “A Test of the Foreground Proximity Effect at z=1.2”

CT-4m 1

49. N. Zacharias, A. Fey (US Naval Observatory), M. Zacharias (O) (Universities Space Research Association), T. Rafferty (O) (US Naval Observatory): “Extending the radio-optical reference frame link”

CT-0.9m 5

CTIO Observing Programs — U.S. Theses (13) Telescope Nights

50. K. Allers (T), D. Jaffe (U. of Texas, Austin), N. Van Der Bliek (CTIO), F. Allard (CRAL): “Young Jupiter-Mass Objects in Nearby Molecular Clouds” CT-4m 7

51. J. Alonso-Garcia (T), M. Mateo (U. of Michigan), K. von Braun (Carnegie Institution of Washington): “Globular Clusters in the Direction of the Inner Galaxy” CT-4m 4

52. J. Bally, J. Walawender (T) (U. of Colorado), B. Reipurth (U. of Hawaii): “Protostellar Outflows in the Nearest Southern Dark Clouds” CT-4m 4

53. L. Cieza (T), P. Harvey, N. Evans, II, T. Von Hippel (U. of Texas, Austin): “The ages of weak-lined T Tauri stars of the SIRTF Legacy Project c2d” CT-0.9m 7

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

CT-4m 1

55. L. Dundon (T), K. Meech (U. of Hawaii): “Color Variation of Distant Comets and Primitive Asteroids” CT-1.0m 5

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

CT-4m 2

57. A. Grocholski (T), A. Sarajedini, E. Lada (U. of Florida), D. Zaritsky (U. of Arizona), R. Probst , K. Olsen (NOAO) , G. Tiede (Bowling Green State U.): “The LMC in Space and Time: An infrared reconnaissance”

CT-4m 3

58. R. Grouchy (T), R. Buta (U. of Alabama): “Spectroscopic Properties of Nonbarred Ringed Galaxies” CT-4m 2

59. C. Keeton (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff, I. Momcheva (T), K. Williams (U. of Arizona): “The Importance of Lens Galaxy Environments” CT-4m 4


CTIO Observing Programs — U.S. Theses (13) Telescope Nights

60. B. Reipurth (U. of Hawaii), R. Chini, K. Kampgen (T) (Ruhr Universitat, Bochum): “A first unbiased NIR survey toward the R Cr A molecular cloud” CT-4m 2

61. P. Van Dokkum, R. Quadri (T) (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden University), P. Hall (Princeton U.), C. Urry, E. Gawiser (Yale U.), J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), J. Willis (ESO), P. Coppi (Yale U.): “Surface Density and Clustering of Red Galaxies at z>2”

CT-4m 4

62. P. Zhao, J. Grindlay, S. Laycock, X. Koenig (T) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), H. Cohn, P. Lugger, A. Rogel (G) (Indiana U.), J. Hong (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “ChaMPlane Survey: Spectroscopy and Calibration Follow-up”

CT-1.3m 1.8

Time Awarded at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory

For the six months ending July 31, 2004, three U.S. programs were awarded time on the HET under a prior NSF-sponsored grants program. No thesis programs were awarded.

U.S. Programs: HET – Non-Thesis (3) Tel. Nights

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

2. G. Wegner (Dartmouth College), R. Saglia (Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat-Muchen), J. Thomas (G) : "The dynamical structure of flattened ellipticals in the Coma cluster" HET 3.2

3. K. Yoss (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), H. Detweiler (Illinois Wesleyan U.), G. Miller (O) , D. Bell (NOAO): "Spectrographic Observations of Suspected Halo Giants" HET 0.8


U.S. Programs 3 100%

Non-U.S. 0 0%

Total 3 100%

HET Observing ProgramsSemester 2004-A


Time Awarded at the Multiple Mirror Telescope There were no proposals awarded time on the Multiple Mirror Telescope during this report period. Time Awarded at the W.M. Keck Observatory Telescopes Under the Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP)

For the six months ending July 31, 2004, 7 scientific programs have been awarded time on the Keck telescopes under the NSF-sponsored Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP). All of the programs were conducted by U.S. investigators, including two theses programs. U.S. Programs: W.M. Keck Obs. – Non-Thesis (5) Telescope 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. M. Dickinson (STScI), D. Elbaz (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), R. Chary (SIRTF), D. Stern 2.(CalTech-JPL), M. Giavalisco, L. Moustakas, B. Mobasher (STScI): “Star forming galaxies at z ~ 2 in the GOODS/HDF-N”

Keck-I 2

3. X. Fan (U. of Arizona), M. Strauss (Princeton U.), L. Jiang (G) (U. of Arizona): “IGM Enrichment at the End of Reionization” Keck-II 2

4. D. Fischer (San Francisco State U.), G. Laughlin (UC Santa Cruz): “Mapping the Realm of Hot Jupiters” Keck-I 3

5. S. Malhotra, J. Rhoads (STScI), A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO), J. Wang (Johns Hopkins U.): “Lyman Alpha Galaxies and Galaxy Formation Scenarios” Keck-II 1

U.S. Theses: W.M. Keck Obs. (2) Telescope Nights

6. C. Impey, A. Marble (T), K. Eriksen (T), L. Bai (G), C. Petry (O) (U. of Arizona): “Cosmology with QSO Pairs” Keck-I 2

7. L. Prato (UCLA), C. Bender (T), G. Schaefer (T), M. Simon (SUNY, Stony Brook): “Dynamical Masses of Pre-Main-Sequence and Brown Dwarf Binaries” Keck-II 1


U.S. Programs 5 71%

U.S. Thesis 2 29%

Total 7 100%

Observing Programs at Keck (under TSIP)

Semester 2004-A

Documents

NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORYAn NOAO press release on a joint U.S.-Chinese discovery of a Young Stellar Object in the Rosette Nebula, including a strikingly beautiful newly