2015B
NOIRLab TAC Results and Statistics 2015B
NOAO Proposal Statistics by Telescope and Instrument for 2015B
The following tables list 2015B proposal request statistics for telescopes and instruments in the US ground-based observing system coordinated by NOAO. Only the 296 new proposals submitted to the 2015B NOAO TAC are included here (not Surveys, NASA GO programs, or ongoing long-term programs).
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory |
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| Telescope/Instrument | Proposals | "Runs" | Total Nights | Dark Nights | Percentage Dark |
Average Nights/Run |
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| CT-4m | 37 | 45 | 104.7 | 60.5 | 58 | 2.3 | |
| COSMOS | 4 | 4 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 44 | 2.2 | |
| DECam | 33 | 41 | 95.7 | 56.5 | 59 | 2.3 | |
| SOAR | 25 | 30 | 90.9 | 24.9 | 27 | 3.0 | |
| Goodman | 13 | 14 | 41.4 | 16.9 | 41 | 3.0 | |
| OSIRIS | 3 | 3 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.3 | |
| SAM | 5 | 5 | 15.5 | 4.0 | 26 | 3.1 | |
| SOI | 4 | 5 | 24.0 | 4.0 | 17 | 4.8 | |
| Spartan | 3 | 3 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.0 | |
| CT-1.5m | 6 | 6 | 17.4 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.9 | |
| CHIRON | 6 | 6 | 17.4 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.9 | |
| CT-1.3m | 7 | 7 | 13.1 | 2.3 | 18 | 1.9 | |
| ANDI | 7 | 7 | 13.1 | 2.3 | 18 | 1.9 | |
| CT-0.9m | 3 | 3 | 18.0 | 1.0 | 6 | 6.0 | |
| CFIM | 3 | 3 | 18.0 | 1.0 | 6 | 6.0 | |
Kitt Peak National Observatory |
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| Telescope/Instrument | Proposals | "Runs" | Total Nights | Dark Nights | Percentage Dark |
Average Nights/Run |
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| KP-4m | 32 | 46 | 107.0 | 53.0 | 50 | 2.3 | |
| KOSMOS | 19 | 21 | 54.0 | 37.0 | 69 | 2.6 | |
| MOSA | 11 | 17 | 33.0 | 15.0 | 45 | 1.9 | |
| MOSA3 | 3 | 4 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 17 | 1.5 | |
| NEWFIRM | 4 | 4 | 14.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.5 | |
| WIYN | 24 | 27 | 87.3 | 14.0 | 16 | 3.2 | |
| DSSI | 6 | 7 | 18.3 | 4.0 | 22 | 2.6 | |
| HEXPK | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 6.0 | |
| HYDR | 12 | 13 | 42.0 | 3.0 | 7 | 3.2 | |
| ODI | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 100 | 3.0 | |
| SPSPK | 2 | 2 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 57 | 3.5 | |
| WHIRC | 3 | 3 | 11.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.7 | |
| KP-0.9m | 3 | 5 | 28.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5.6 | |
| HDI | 3 | 5 | 28.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5.6 | |
Gemini North |
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| Telescope/Instrument | Proposals | "Runs" | Total Nights | Dark Nights | Percentage Dark |
Average Nights/Run |
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| GEM-N | 124 | 188 | 141.5 | 43.7 | 31 | 0.8 | |
| COMICS | 1 | 1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.8 | |
| DSSI | 6 | 6 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.4 | |
| FOCAS | 2 | 2 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 100 | 0.7 | |
| GMOSN | 50 | 77 | 49.3 | 27.1 | 55 | 0.6 | |
| GNIRS | 30 | 33 | 30.2 | 1.6 | 5 | 0.9 | |
| GRACES | 6 | 6 | 6.8 | 3.1 | 46 | 1.1 | |
| HDS | 5 | 5 | 7.6 | 0.8 | 11 | 1.5 | |
| IRCS | 3 | 3 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 31 | 0.9 | |
| NIFS | 11 | 32 | 12.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.4 | |
| NIRI | 17 | 18 | 14.4 | 3.0 | 21 | 0.8 | |
| SuprimeCam | 4 | 4 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 86 | 1.8 | |
| VIS | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.5 | |
Gemini South |
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| Telescope/Instrument | Proposals | "Runs" | Total Nights | Dark Nights | Percentage Dark |
Average Nights/Run |
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| GEM-S | 70 | 120 | 72.5 | 22.6 | 31 | 0.6 | |
| Flamingos2 | 11 | 16 | 14.6 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.9 | |
| GMOSS | 45 | 77 | 46.2 | 22.6 | 49 | 0.6 | |
| GPI | 11 | 20 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.4 | |
| GSAOI | 5 | 7 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.5 | |
Siding Spring Observatory |
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| Telescope/Instrument | Proposals | "Runs" | Total Nights | Dark Nights | Percentage Dark |
Average Nights/Run |
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| AAT | 6 | 6 | 16.6 | 7.0 | 42 | 2.8 | |
| AAOmega | 2 | 2 | 8.0 | 4.0 | 50 | 4.0 | |
| AAOmega+KOALA | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 100 | 3.0 | |
| IRIS2 | 1 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.6 | |
| UCLES | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.0 | |
| UCLES+CYCLOPS2 | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.0 | |
NOAO Approved Programs for 2015B
Approved NOAO Survey Programs
| PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finkelstein, Steven | University of Texas, Austin | The NEWFIRM HETDEX Survey - Probing the Growth of Galaxies with Cosmic Time | 2013B-0236 | KPNO | 4m | 23 |
| Kannappan, Sheila | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE: The RESOLVE Survey in Stripe 82 | 2013B-0512 | CTIO | SOAR | 3 |
| Kannappan, Sheila | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE: The RESOLVE Survey in Stripe 82 | 2013B-0512 | GEM-S | GEM-S | 6 |
| Moskovitz, Nicholas | Lowell Observatory | Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) | 2013B-0270 | CTIO | 1.3m | 6 |
| Moskovitz, Nicholas | Lowell Observatory | Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) | 2013B-0270 | CTIO | SOAR | 6 |
| Moskovitz, Nicholas | Lowell Observatory | Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) | 2013B-0270 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 4.408 |
| Moskovitz, Nicholas | Lowell Observatory | Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) | 2013B-0270 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.3 |
| Moskovitz, Nicholas | Lowell Observatory | Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) | 2013B-0270 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
| Nidever, David | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History - SMASH | 2013B-0440 | CTIO | 4m | 6 |
| Rhoads, James | Arizona State University | The Cosmic Deep And Wide Narrowband (Cosmic DAWN) Survey | 2013B-0528 | KPNO | 4m | 12.5 |
| Schlegel, David | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | The DECam Legacy Survey of the SDSS Equatorial Sky | 2014B-0404 | CTIO | 4m | 6 |
| Wood-Vasey, Michael | University of Pittsburgh | Type Ia Supernovae in the Near-Infrared: A Three-Year Survey toward a One Percent Distance Measurement with WIYN+WHIRC | 2012B-0500 | KPNO | WIYN | 3 |
Approved HST Programs
| PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foley, Ryan | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Understanding the Progenitor Systems, Explosion Mechanisms, and Cosmological Utility of Type Ia Supernovae | 2015B-0113 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.4 |
| Foley, Ryan | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Understanding the Progenitor Systems, Explosion Mechanisms, and Cosmological Utility of Type Ia Supernovae | 2015B-0113 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.4 |
| Griffith, Caitlin | Lunar and Planetary Lab | Elementary Abundances of Planetary Systems | 2015B-0164 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 1 |
| Saha, Abhijit | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Establishing a Network of DA White Dwarf SED Standards | 2015A-0174 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.85 |
Approved Fermi Programs
| PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailyn, Charles | Yale University | SMARTS Optical and near-infrared monitoring of Fermi Lat blazars | 2014B-0622 | CTIO | 1.3m | 1 |
Approved Long Term Programs
| PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foley, Ryan | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | The Next Generation Low-z Type Ia Supernova Sample for Cosmology | 2015B-0313 | CTIO | SOAR | 6 |
| Foley, Ryan | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | The Next Generation Low-z Type Ia Supernova Sample for Cosmology | 2015B-0313 | KPNO | 4m | 2 |
| Macri, Lucas | Texas A & M University | Towards a 2% measurement of H_0: Near-infrared light curves of Galactic Cepheids | 2015A-0150 | CTIO | 1.3m | 2.36 |
Approved Regular Programs
| PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandroff, Rachael | Johns Hopkins University | Quasar feedback at the peak of the galaxy formation epoch | 2015B-0244 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.9 |
| Allen, Thomas | Lowell Observatory | Kosmos Spectroscopy of Cep OB3b | 2015B-0301 | KPNO | 4m | 2.5 |
| Ammons, S Mark | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | A GEMS Probe for Superearths Orbiting Luhman 16AB | 2015B-0332 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.15 |
| Baker, Andrew | Rutgers University | Redshifts in the LADUMA Field to z ~ 0.6 | 2015B-0334 | SSO | AAT | 4 |
| Barkhouse, Wayne | University of North Dakota | Probing Star Formation in Cluster Dwarf Galaxies via H-alpha Imaging | 2015B-0065 | KPNO | 4m | 3 |
| Beck, Tracy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Characterizing "Typical" Jets from Young Stars | 2015B-0136 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.5 |
| Bell, Cameron | University of Rochester | Environmental impact on disk lifetimes - Robust ages for low density star-forming regions | 2015B-0240 | CTIO | 4m | 0.5 |
| Berg, Danielle | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Ultra Exteme Star-Forming Galaxies: A Window On Low Metallicity Star Formation at High Redshift | 2015B-0285 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.52 |
| Berger, Edo | Harvard University | DECam Follow-Up of the First Advanced LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave Detection | 2015B-0187 | CTIO | 4m-TOO | |
| Black, Christine | Dartmouth College | An Investigation of Secondary Spectral Emission Features in the Nebula Phase of SNe Ia | 2015B-0282 | KPNO | 4m | 1 |
| Bleem, Lindsey | Argonne National Laboratory | SPT-CL J0329−2330: Spectroscopic Observations of an Exceptional High-Redshift Galaxy Cluster | 2015B-0335 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.73 |
| Bowler, Brendan | California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science | Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: New Targets for Direct Imaging Planet Searches | 2015B-0031 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
| Bowler, Brendan | California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science | Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups | 2015B-0039 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 2.7 |
| Bowler, Brendan | California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science | Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups | 2015B-0042 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.8 |
| Briceno, Cesar | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | A SOAR Adaptive Optics study of Herbig-Haro Objects | 2015B-0221 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
| Briceno, Cesar | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | A Multiplicity survey in the Orion OB1 Association | 2015B-0268 | CTIO | SOAR | 2.5 |
| Buie, Marc | Southwest Research Institute | KBO astrometry for an improved occultation sample | 2015B-0299 | KPNO | 4m | 3 |
| Burgasser, Adam | University of California, San Diego | Mass Measurements Across the Hydrogen Burning Limit: Astrometric Orbits for Spectral Binaries | 2015B-0294 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.92 |
| Burningham, Ben | NASA Ames Research Center | Characterising a very fast moving T dwarf in the Galactic Plane | 2015B-0086 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.21 |
| Cai, Zheng | University of Arizona | Mapping the Most Massive Overdensity Through HI: KPNO/MOSAIC Observations of Galaxy Overdensities at z=2.3 | 2015B-0229 | KPNO | 4m | 3 |
| Canton, Paul | University of Oklahoma, Norman | The ELM Survey: Finding the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs | 2015B-0122 | KPNO | 4m | 5 |
| Cauley, Paul Wilson | Wesleyan University | Searching for Pre-Transit Hydrogen Absorption Around Hot Planets | 2015B-0102 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
| Cenko, Stephen | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | The Demographics of Tidal Disruption Flares | 2015B-0222 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.3 |
| Cenko, Stephen | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | The Demographics of Tidal Disruption Flares | 2015B-0222 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.3 |
| Chanchaiworawit, Krittapas | University of Florida | Spectroscopic Confirmation of LAE Candidates at z=6.5: Evidence of the highest redshift protocluster | 2015B-0323 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 4.6 |
| Chiang, Yi-Kuan | University of Texas, Austin | Mapping out the Densest Structures in the COSMOS Field at z~2–3 | 2015B-0085 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.34 |
| Chiang, Yi-Kuan | University of Texas, Austin | Mapping out the Densest Structures in the COSMOS Field at z~2–3 | 2015B-0085 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.207 |
| Cobb, Bethany | George Washington University | Optical/IR Follow-Up of Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS | 2015B-0123 | CTIO | 1.3m | 1.5 |
| Coker, Carl | Ohio State University | Confirmation and Characterization of Stellar Companions to the Host Stars of KELT Transiting Planets | 2015B-0169 | KPNO | WIYN | 2 |
| Colon, Knicole | Lehigh University | Comparative Exoplanetology: Connecting the Structure and Climate of Hot Jupiter Atmospheres to Irradiation | 2015B-0238 | KPNO | 4m | 6 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Lunar and Planetary Lab | Exometeorology: Searching for Weather on Beta Pictoris b | 2015B-0066 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.7 |
| Crotts, Arlin | Columbia University | SN 1987A Becomes SN Remnant 1987A | 2015B-0255 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 |
| Dawson, William | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Two Ideal Dark Matter Colliders | 2015B-0288 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 1 |
| Dawson, William | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Two Ideal Dark Matter Colliders | 2015B-0290 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.9 |
| Diamond, Tiara R. | Florida State University | Late-time near-infrared spectroscopy of SN 2014J | 2015B-0080 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.21 |
| Drahus, Michal | Jagiellonian University | Disruption of the Active Asteroid P/2012 F5 (Gibbs) | 2015B-0339 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.7 |
| Duchene, Gaspard | University of California, Berkeley | Assessing the fundamental limits of multiple star formation | 2015B-0213 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.85 |
| Esplin, Taran | Pennsylvania State University | Searching for the Bottom of the IMF | 2015B-0128 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.03 |
| Farihi, Jay | University College London | An Ongoing Study of Dwarf Carbon Stars: Binary Fraction, Orbital Period Constraints | 2015B-0125 | KPNO | 4m | 2 |
| Fesen, Robert | Dartmouth College | Near-infrared identification of the young pulsar J0205+6449 | 2015B-0211 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.15 |
| Fischer, Will | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Optical Spectroscopy of WISE-Identified Young Stellar Objects in Canis Major | 2015B-0273 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 |
| Foley, Ryan | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | DES Supernova Cosmology | 2015B-0197 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.8 |
| Foley, Ryan | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | DES Supernova Cosmology | 2015B-0197 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2.16 |
| Fu, Hai | University of Iowa | How Massive Galaxies Get Cold Gas: The Circum-Galactic Medium of Dusty Starburst Galaxies at z ~ 2 | 2015B-0127 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.26 |
| Galiazzo, Mattia | University of Western Ontario | Taxonomy discrimination of the Tina asteroid family via photometric color indices | 2015B-0072 | CTIO | 1.3m | 1.73 |
| Giampapa, Mark | National Solar Observatory | Contemporaneous WIYN/Hydra and K2 Measurements of the Magnetic Properties of Sun-like Stars | 2015B-0180 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
| Gladders, Michael | University of Chicago | Time delays for the sextuply-lensed quasar SDSS J2222+2745 from GMOS | 2015B-0300 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.32 |
| Graham, Melissa | University of California, Berkeley | Understanding the Power Source in Type Ia Supernovae with Nebular Phase Spectroscopy | 2015B-0142 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.83 |
| Graham, James | University of California, Berkeley | Astrometry of beta Pic b with GPI | 2015B-0237 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.22 |
| Griffith, Caitlin | University of Arizona | Clouds on extrasolar planets with inflated atmospheres | 2015B-0318 | KPNO | 4m | 1 |
| Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin | University of Toledo | Planet Occurrence around Mid-M Dwarfs in the Field | 2015B-0280 | KPNO | WIYN | 5 |
| Hargis, Jonathan | Haverford College | Dwarfs Around Dwarfs: Dwarf satellites and stellar halos around the dIrr WLM and IC 1613 | 2015B-0250 | CTIO | 4m | 2 |
| Hartman, Joel | Princeton University | Confirming the Inflated Size of a Transiting Super-Jupiter with WHIRC | 2015B-0115 | KPNO | WIYN | 2.5 |
| Hartman, Joel | Princeton University | Searching for Faint Stellar Companions to Transiting Planet Systems From HATNet With DSSI/WIYN | 2015B-0156 | KPNO | WIYN | 2.5 |
| Henry, Todd | Georgia State University | Searching for Companions to Nearby Stars on Solar System Scales | 2015B-0152 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 4 |
| Hilton, Matt | University of KwaZulu-Natal | Redshift confirmation of distant ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy cluster candidates | 2015B-0165 | CTIO | SOAR | 5 |
| Hirsch, Lea | University of California, Berkeley | Planets in Binary Systems | 2015B-0060 | KPNO | WIYN | 3 |
| Holberg, Jay | University of Arizona | Spectroscopic characterisation of Kepler 2 White Dwarfs | 2015B-0074 | KPNO | 4m | 3 |
| Horch, Elliott | Southern Connecticut State University | Understanding the Metal-Poor Mass-Luminosity Relation | 2015B-0081 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.42 |
| Howell, Steve | NASA Ames Research Center | Exoplanet Validation and Host Star Binarity of Kepler and K2 Discovered Candidates | 2015B-0058 | KPNO | WIYN | 8 |
| Hsieh, Henry | Planetary Science Institute | Observations of the Activity of Main-Belt Comets P/2010 R2, 233P, and 313P | 2015B-0099 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.6 |
| Hughes, John | Rutgers University | On the Trail of the Most Massive Galaxy Clusters in the Universe | 2015B-0220 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
| Jensen-Clem, Rebecca | California Institute of Technology-Dept of Physics, Math, Astronomy | The first detection of polarized radiation from exoplanets | 2015B-0216 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.95 |
| Jha, Saurabh | Rutgers University | Spectroscopy of Type Iax Supernovae | 2015B-0174 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.5 |
| Jiang, Linhua | Peking University | Y-band Imaging of Quasar Candidates at z>6.5 Selected in the SDSS Stripe 82 | 2015B-0088 | KPNO | 4m | 3 |
| Keller, Luke | Ithaca College | Near infrared study of gas emission from proto-planetary disks in the Small Magellanic Cloud | 2015B-0248 | CTIO | SOAR | 0.5 |
| Kiminki, Megan | University of Arizona | Using 3D Kinematics to Pinpoint the Birthplaces of Distributed Massive Stars: Targeted Follow-up of Radial-Velocity Variables | 2015B-0141 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 2 |
| Knight, Matthew | Lowell Observatory | Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of activity | 2015B-0183 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.34 |
| Koekemoer, Anton | Space Telescope Science Institute | Luminous Supernovae in the Epoch of Reionization | 2015B-0175 | CTIO | 4m | 3 |
| Kunder, Andrea | Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik | Bulge RR Lyrae Radial Velocity Assay | 2015B-0071 | SSO | AAT | 4 |
| Lacy, Mark | National Radio Astronomy Observatory Headquarters | The highest resolution view of distant massive galaxies | 2015B-0189 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.62 (DD) |
| Lamassa, Stephanie | Yale University | Unveiling Obscured Supermassive Black Hole Growth with Infrared Spectroscopy | 2015B-0132 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.2 |
| Liu, Tingting | University of Maryland | Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Variability Selected Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidates | 2015B-0190 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.48 |
| Liu, Guilin | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | IFU mapping of the most energetic BAL quasar outflows: C IV absorption | 2015B-0192 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.08 |
| Luhman, Kevin | Pennsylvania State University | Testing Model Atmospheres with the Coldest Known Brown Dwarf | 2015B-0019 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.68 |
| Marois, Christian | Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics | GPI detailed spectroscopic and astrometric characterization of HR 8799cde. | 2015B-0348 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.25 |
| Martini, Paul | Ohio State University | Search for z>6 QSOs with the Dark Energy Survey | 2015B-0264 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1 |
| Mason, Rachel | Gemini Observatory North | Stellar populations in the Palomar Galaxy Sample | 2015B-0254 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
| Mast, Damian | Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas | Integral Field Spectroscopy of Arcs - Unveiling the hundreds pc of star-forming galaxies at redshift ~0.7 to 2.5 | 2015B-0233 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.3 |
| McMillan, Robert | University of Arizona | Astrometry and Photometry of Faint, High Priority Solar System Objects | 2015B-0059 | KPNO | 4m | 3 |
| Milisavljevic, Dan | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | The Unprecedented Supernova Metamorphosis of SN 2014C | 2015B-0138 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.33 |
| Millar-Blanchaer, Max | University of Toronto | Constraining the Dust grain population of Beta Pic's Inner Disk | 2015B-0353 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.3 |
| Montet, Benjamin | California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy | Fundamental Parameters of Pre-Main Sequence M Dwarfs | 2015B-0310 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.41 |
| Mueller, Beatrice | Planetary Science Institute | Decoding activity one (or two) comet(s) at a time | 2015B-0215 | KPNO | 0.9m | 6 |
| Muzerolle, James | Space Telescope Science Institute | Photometric Monitoring of Close Binary T Tauri Stars: Connecting Accretion Activity with Inner Disk Structure | 2015B-0257 | CTIO | 1.3m | 3.2 |
| Olszewski, Edward | University of Arizona | Southern DA White Dwarf Calibration Standards | 2015B-0076 | CTIO | SOAR | 5 |
| Opitz, Daniela | University of New South Wales | Astrometry and Binarity of WISE Y dwarfs with MCAO | 2015B-0087 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.43 |
| Orosz, Jerome | San Diego State University | An optical search for black holes and neutron stars in the Kepler field | 2015B-0267 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.75 |
| Orosz, Jerome | San Diego State University | An optical search for black holes and neutron stars in the Kepler field | 2015B-0267 | KPNO | 4m | 3 |
| Pewett, Tiffany | Georgia State University | Deciphering the Wide Low Mass Main Sequence | 2015B-0118 | CTIO | 0.9m-TBD | 7 |
| Pewett, Tiffany | Georgia State University | Deciphering the Wide Low Mass Main Sequence | 2015B-0118 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 3 |
| Points, Sean | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | Optical Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnant Candidates in the LMC | 2015B-0188 | CTIO | SOAR | 3 |
| Redfield, Seth | Wesleyan University | Rayleigh Scattering in Exoplanet Atmospheres | 2015B-0275 | KPNO | WIYN | 2 |
| Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Photometric Time Series of Carinae's Great Eruption | 2015B-0305 | CTIO | 4m | 2 |
| Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions | 2015B-0307 | CTIO | 4m | 2.5 |
| Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions | 2015B-0307 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
| Rice, Sarah | University of Maine | Mapping Dark Matter through Weak Lensing in the Extremely Overdense Aquarius and Microscopium Supercluster Cores | 2015B-0191 | CTIO | 4m | 1 |
| Rodney, Steven | Johns Hopkins University | The Next Frontier: High-Redshift Supernovae in the HST Frontier Fields | 2015B-0104 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.5 |
| Rodney, Steven | Johns Hopkins University | The Next Frontier: High-Redshift Supernovae in the HST Frontier Fields | 2015B-0104 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.25 |
| Rodriguez, Joseph | Vanderbilt University | Measuring the Masses of the Brightest Transiting Exoplanets from KELT- South with High-Precision Radial Velocities from AAT | 2015B-0056 | SSO | AAT | 2 |
| Romanishin, William | University of Oklahoma, Norman | Shapes of Hilda ``Asteroids" (continuation) | 2015B-0263 | KPNO | 0.9m | 4 |
| Rotermund, Kaja | Dalhousie University | Detecting Dark Matter Subhalos with ALMA and GMOS-S/IFU using Strongly Lensed Submm Galaxies | 2015B-0135 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.55 |
| Schlaufman, Kevin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-Poor Stars | 2015B-0130 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 2.65 |
| Schlaufman, Kevin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-Poor Stars | 2015B-0130 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 4.29 |
| Sharon, Keren | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | “Resolving the Star Formation in Distant Galaxies” – supporting ground-based spectroscopy for a large HST program | 2015B-0230 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.35 |
| Sharon, Keren | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Multi Object Spectroscopy of the field of SDSSJ2222+2745: A cluster-lensed sextuple quasar | 2015B-0258 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.45 |
| Sheppard, Scott | Carnegie Institution of Washington | The Inner Oort Cloud Population | 2015B-0265 | CTIO | 4m | 5 |
| Skemer, Andrew | University of Arizona | The First Spectrum of the Coolest Brown Dwarf | 2015B-0153 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 2.9 |
| Smith, J Allyn | Austin Peay State University | Targeted Samples of the Hot Stellar Content in the Southern Sky | 2015B-0245 | CTIO | 0.9m-TBD | 10 |
| Smith, Verne | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Precision Stellar Characterization for Kepler Extended Mission (K2) Exoplanet Host Stars | 2015B-0322 | KPNO | WIYN | 7 |
| Sonnett, Sarah | California Institute of Technology--JPL | Confirming Binary Asteroid Candidates to Constrain the Dynamical Evolution of the Solar System | 2015B-0092 | KPNO | 0.9m | 15 |
| Stevenson, Kevin | University of Chicago | From Exoplanets to Exoworlds: Atmospheric Characterization with KOSMOS | 2015B-0226 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
| Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | Spectral Confirmation of New Galactic LBV and WN Stars Associated With Mid-IR Nebulae | 2015B-0185 | CTIO | 1.3m | 1.1 |
| Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | Spectral Confirmation of New Galactic LBV and WN Stars Associated With Mid-IR Nebulae | 2015B-0185 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 |
| Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | LBVs - Caught in the Act! | 2015B-0331 | CTIO | 1.3m | 1.3 |
| Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | LBVs - Caught in the Act! | 2015B-0331 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 4 |
| Szkody, Paula | University of Washington | Do white dwarfs in cataclysmic varibales grow in mass? | 2015B-0271 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.35 |
| Thomas, Cristina | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Search for a Differentiated Asteroid Family | 2015B-0328 | CTIO | SOAR | 3 |
| Tofflemire, Benjamin | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Accretion in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries | 2015B-0179 | CTIO | 1.3m | 3.11 |
| Tokovinin, Andrei | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | Dynamics of resolved triple systems and ``fast'' binaries | 2015B-0009 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 |
| Tokovinin, Andrei | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | Spectroscopic orbits in nearby triple systems | 2015B-0012 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 4 |
| Troup, Nicholas | University of Virginia | Verification and Characterization of Hot Jupiter Candidates Discovered by SDSS-III APOGEE-1 | 2015B-0325 | KPNO | WIYN | 1 |
| Tucker, Brad | Australian National University | Catching Supernovae in the Act with KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey) | 2015B-0093 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.13 |
| Tucker, Brad | Australian National University | Catching Supernovae in the Act with KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey) | 2015B-0093 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.3 |
| Tucker, Brad | University of California, Berkeley | Catching Supernovae in the Act with KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey) and DECam | 2015B-0314 | CTIO | 4m | 1.5 |
| Vaccaro, Todd | St. Cloud State University | Orbital and Systemic Parameters for Algol Binaries in the Kepler and K2 Fields | 2015B-0295 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
| Valenti, Stefano | University of California, Santa Barbara | Nebular observtions of SNe type II | 2015B-0223 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.6 |
| van Velzen, Sjoert | Johns Hopkins University | Reverberation mapping of stellar tidal disruption flares | 2015B-0225 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.5 |
| Van Velzen, Sjoert | Johns Hopkins University | Spectroscopic follow-up of stellar tidal disruption flares discovered by Gaia | 2015B-0227 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
| von der Linden, Anja | Stanford University | Weighing the f_gas Giants | 2015B-0261 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 2 |
| Walter, Frederick | Stony Brook University | The Denoument of KT Eridani | 2015B-0134 | CTIO | 1.3m | 0.6 |
| Walter, Frederick | Stony Brook University | The Denoument of KT Eridani | 2015B-0134 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 1.7 |
| Wang, Ji | Yale University | Confirming the Planet-Metallicity Correlation For Small Planets | 2015B-0053 | KPNO | WIYN | 7 |
| Williams, Kurtis | University of Texas, Austin | Too Small To Fail: Using White Dwarfs to Better Constrain the Supernova Mass Limit | 2015B-0344 | KPNO | 4m | 2 |
| Winkler, P Frank | Middlebury College | Supernova Remnants in the Most Fertile Galaxy: NGC 6946 | 2015B-0140 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.8 |
| Wood-Vasey, Michael | University of Pittsburgh | Final Host Galaxy Observations for ``SweetSpot'': Calibrating the Supernova Host Galaxy Light and Environment | 2015B-0347 | KPNO | WIYN | 5 |
| Yanny, Brian | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | Imaging Follow-up of Milky-Way companions revealed by the Dark Energy Survey | 2015B-0108 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.964 |
| Yi, Sukyoung | Yonsei University | A Spectroscopic Follow-up to Deep Optical Imaging for 3 Abell clusters at 0.04 < z < 0.08 | 2015B-0315 | KPNO | WIYN | 2 |
Updated on February 14, 2023, 5:44 am