2012B
NOIRLab TAC Results and Statistics 2012B
NOAO Proposal Statistics by Telescope and Instrument for 2012B
The following tables list 2012B proposal request statistics for telescopes and instruments in the US ground-based observing system coordinated by NOAO. Only the 365 new proposals submitted to the 2012B 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 | 9 | 11 | 24.5 | 10.5 | 43 | 2.2 | |
DECam | 9 | 11 | 24.5 | 10.5 | 43 | 2.2 | |
SOAR | 27 | 33 | 97.3 | 29.0 | 30 | 2.9 | |
Goodman | 11 | 12 | 43.0 | 17.0 | 40 | 3.6 | |
OSIRIS | 7 | 8 | 24.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.0 | |
SOI | 10 | 12 | 29.4 | 12.0 | 41 | 2.4 | |
Spartan | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.0 | |
CT-1.5m | 7 | 9 | 34.5 | 16.6 | 48 | 3.8 | |
CHIRON | 3 | 3 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.9 | |
CSPEC | 4 | 6 | 28.6 | 16.6 | 58 | 4.8 | |
CT-1.3m | 9 | 9 | 19.9 | 1.2 | 6 | 2.2 | |
ANDI | 9 | 9 | 19.9 | 1.2 | 6 | 2.2 | |
CT-1.0m | 3 | 3 | 21.0 | 14.0 | 67 | 7.0 | |
CFIM | 3 | 3 | 21.0 | 14.0 | 67 | 7.0 | |
CT-0.9m | 8 | 12 | 39.0 | 16.0 | 41 | 3.2 | |
CFIM | 8 | 12 | 39.0 | 16.0 | 41 | 3.2 | |
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 | 63 | 73 | 268.3 | 80.0 | 30 | 3.7 | |
ECH | 10 | 10 | 37.0 | 4.0 | 11 | 3.7 | |
FLMN | 4 | 4 | 11.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.8 | |
MARS | 3 | 3 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 57 | 2.3 | |
MOSA | 9 | 13 | 49.0 | 36.0 | 73 | 3.8 | |
NEWFIRM | 10 | 11 | 49.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 4.5 | |
PHNX | 8 | 8 | 26.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.2 | |
RCSP | 20 | 23 | 85.3 | 36.0 | 42 | 3.7 | |
VIS | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 4.0 | |
WIYN | 19 | 24 | 69.0 | 20.0 | 29 | 2.9 | |
HYDR | 8 | 8 | 24.0 | 7.0 | 29 | 3.0 | |
MIMO | 3 | 3 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 100 | 2.0 | |
SPCKL | 2 | 2 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 6.0 | |
SPSPK | 3 | 3 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 88 | 2.7 | |
WHIRC | 5 | 8 | 19.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.4 | |
KP-2.1m | 17 | 33 | 162.5 | 38.5 | 24 | 4.9 | |
CFIM | 7 | 14 | 66.5 | 38.5 | 58 | 4.8 | |
EXPRT | 5 | 11 | 54.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 4.9 | |
FLMN | 3 | 3 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.7 | |
PHNX | 2 | 3 | 21.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 7.0 | |
VIS | 2 | 2 | 13.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 6.5 | |
KP-CF | 3 | 3 | 11.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.7 | |
CAM5 | 3 | 3 | 11.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.7 | |
KP-0.9m | 1 | 1 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 9.0 | |
MOSA | 1 | 1 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 9.0 | |
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 | 160 | 247 | 198.2 | 47.1 | 24 | 0.8 | |
COMICS | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.0 | |
GMOSN | 67 | 110 | 85.4 | 39.6 | 46 | 0.8 | |
GNIRS | 35 | 39 | 39.2 | 1.9 | 5 | 1.0 | |
HDS | 4 | 4 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 13 | 2.0 | |
Michelle | 7 | 18 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.4 | |
NIFS | 21 | 39 | 20.0 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.5 | |
NIRI | 30 | 34 | 28.8 | 2.1 | 7 | 0.8 | |
SuprimeCam | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 100 | 2.0 | |
VIS | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 7.0 | |
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 | 71 | 121 | 96.7 | 45.2 | 47 | 0.8 | |
GMOSS | 59 | 99 | 84.5 | 45.2 | 54 | 0.9 | |
NICI | 12 | 22 | 12.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.6 | |
MMT Observatory |
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Telescope/Instrument | Proposals | "Runs" | Total Nights | Dark Nights | Percentage Dark |
Average Nights/Run |
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MMT | 13 | 15 | 24.5 | 7.5 | 31 | 1.6 | |
BCHAN | 4 | 6 | 9.0 | 3.0 | 33 | 1.5 | |
Hectochelle | 2 | 2 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.5 | |
Hectospec | 4 | 4 | 4.5 | 2.5 | 56 | 1.1 | |
RCHAN | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.0 | |
SPOL | 2 | 2 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 50 | 2.0 | |
Mt. Palomar |
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Telescope/Instrument | Proposals | "Runs" | Total Nights | Dark Nights | Percentage Dark |
Average Nights/Run |
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Hale | 11 | 14 | 29.3 | 14.0 | 48 | 2.1 | |
DBSP | 8 | 9 | 21.3 | 14.0 | 66 | 2.4 | |
TSpec | 3 | 5 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.6 | |
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 | 5 | 5 | 6.2 | 0.3 | 5 | 1.2 | |
AAOmega | 4 | 4 | 4.9 | 0.3 | 6 | 1.2 | |
UCLES | 1 | 1 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.3 | |
NOAO Approved Programs for 2012A
Approved NOAO Survey Programs
PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
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Desert, Jean-Michel | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Comparative Exoplanetology of Hot-Jupiter Prototypes | 2012B-0398 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 3 |
Desert, Jean-Michel | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Comparative Exoplanetology of Hot-Jupiter Prototypes | 2012B-0398 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2 |
Grundy, William | Lowell Observatory | Mutual Orbits and Masses of Kuiper Belt Binaries and Multiple Systems | 2011A-0017 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 2.5 |
Guhathakurta, Puragra | University of California, Santa Cruz | NEWFIRM Survey of Intermediate Age Populations in M31's Halo: A Test of (Lambda)CDM | 2012B-0540 | KPNO | 4m | 13 |
Salzer, John | Indiana University | Making Hay with ALFALFA: The Star-Formation Properties of an HI-Selected Galaxy Sample | 2011A-0030 | KPNO | 2.1m | 7.5 |
Stubbs, Christopher | Harvard University | Spectroscopy of Galaxies in Massive Clusters: Galaxy Properties and Dynamical Cluster Mass Calibration | 2011A-0034 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 5.2 |
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 | 7 |
Approved Long Term Programs
PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
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Bond, Howard | Space Telescope Science Institute | Intermediate-Luminosity Red Transients: SMARTS Monitoring | 2012A-0388 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 1.5 |
Macri, Lucas | Texas A & M University | Mapping the Nearby Universe: The 2MASS Redshift Survey | 2012B-0055 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 6 |
Metcalfe, Travis | High Altitude Observatory | Activity Cycles of Southern Asteroseismic Targets | 2011B-0001 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 5 |
Phillips, Mark | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Followup of Type Ia Supernovae in the Hubble Flow | 2011B-0262 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1 |
Approved Regular Programs
PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
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Allen, Tom | University of Toledo | Mosaic Imaging of the Cep OB3b Cloud | 2011B-0584 | KPNO | 0.9m | 4 |
Allen, Lori | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | DECam NEO Search Pilot Project | 2012B-0569 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 2 |
Anthony-Twarog, Barbara | University of Kansas | Constraining the Evolution of Li via the Turnoff Structure of NGC 7789 | 2012B-0096 | KPNO | WIYN | 1 |
Antoniou, Vallia | Iowa State University | Classification of X-ray sources detected in the XMM-Newton survey of the SMC | 2012B-0426 | SSO | AAT-SVC | 0.6 |
Atlee, David | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | A Spectroscopic Study of the Contribution of TP-AGB Stars to Integrated NIR Starlight | 2012B-0461 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.4 |
Axelrod, Tim | University of Arizona | LMC Microlensing Source Stars - Stripped from the SMC? | 2012B-0182 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1 |
Baker, Andrew | Rutgers University | Deep Public u-band Imaging for the LADUMA Survey | 2012B-0520 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 1 |
Barlow, Brad | Pennsylvania State University | The MUCHFUSS project: Searching for the most massive companions to hot subdwarf stars (follow-up) | 2012B-0214 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
Bauer, James | California Institute of Technology--JPL | A WISE Long Period Comet Survey - Southern Summer Targets | 2012B-0221 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 |
Beck, Tracy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Understanding the Jet Launching Mechanism in Young Star Outflows | 2012B-0238 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.85 |
Beers, Timothy | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | A Survey for Unrecognized Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy | 2012B-0179 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | |
Berger, Edo | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Unveiling the Explosion Physics of Nature's Most Luminous Supernovae | 2012B-0103 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.8 |
Bianco, Federica | Las Cumbres Observatory | Multiband monitoring of light echoes from the historical eruptions of Eta Carinae | 2012B-0381 | CTIO | SOAR | 1 |
Bibby, Joanne | American Museum of Natural History | A WR+BH X-Ray Binary in M74? | 2012B-0236 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.13 |
Bilikova, Jana | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | High-resolution Spectroscopic Study of the Complex Nucleus of EGB 6 | 2012B-0509 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.17 |
Biller, Beth | Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie | Weather on Planets: A Search for Photometric Variability in the Young Exoplanets HR 8799bc | 2012B-0314 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1 |
Bloom, Joshua | University of California, Berkeley | A Pilot DECam Time-Domain Survey | 2012B-0363 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 2 |
Bosh, Amanda | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Seasonal Change in Pluto's Atmosphere | 2012B-0542 | CTIO | SOAR | 1 |
Bosh, Amanda | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Seasonal Change in Pluto's Atmosphere | 2012B-0542 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.32 |
Briceno, Cesar | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | A NEWFIRM JHK variability study of 4-10 Myr members of the Orion OB1 association | 2012B-0487 | KPNO | 4m | 5 |
Brown, Alexander | University of Colorado | MMT Hectochelle Spectral Variability of Active Late-type Stars in the Kepler Field (2012B) | 2012B-0197 | MMT | MMT-TBD | 3 |
Bryngelson, Ginger | Clemson University | Physics of Supernovae Type Ia at Late Epochs | 2012B-0428 | KPNO | 4m | 1 |
Burgasser, Adam | University of California, San Diego | Hunting for Halo Brown Dwarfs in the Catalina Rapid Transient Survey | 2012B-0340 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.821 |
Canton, Paul | University of Oklahoma | The ELM Survey: Finding the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs | 2012B-0114 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
Cauley, Paul Wilson | Rice University | A Survey of Mass Flows in Herbig Ae/Be Stars | 2012B-0165 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.7 |
Cenko, S Bradley | University of California, Berkeley | Probing the Central Black Holes of Distant, Quiescent Galaxies via Tidal Disruption Flares | 2012B-0198 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.15 |
Cenko, S Bradley | University of California, Berkeley | Probing the Central Black Holes of Distant, Quiescent Galaxies via Tidal Disruption Flares | 2012B-0198 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.15 |
Chatelain, Joseph | Georgia State University | Light Curves and Low Phase Angle Photometry for Jupiter Trojans. | 2012B-0224 | CTIO | 0.9m-TBD | 7 |
Crotts, Arlin | Columbia University | SN 1987A's Vacuum UV/Optical Light Echo Evolution | 2012B-0317 | CTIO | 0.9m-SVC | 4 |
Crotts, Arlin | Columbia University | Spectroscopic Evolution of SNR 1987A | 2012B-0396 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.4 |
Currie, Thayne | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | A Panchromatic Study of the Massive Planet and Debris Disk Around beta Pictoris | 2012B-0348 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.83 |
Cushing, Michael | University of Toledo | The Search for Y Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood with WISE | 2012B-0141 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 3.6 |
Damjanov, Ivana | Harvard University | The Adaptive Optics Deep Field | 2012B-0427 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 1.5 |
Desert, Jean-Michel | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Relative atmospheric compositions of a multiplanet system | 2012A-0497 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.8 |
Desjardins, Tyler | University of Western Ontario | Mapping Star Formation in Dense Environments: H(alpha) Imaging of Compact Galaxy Groups | 2012B-0201 | KPNO | 4m | 3.5 |
Dhital, Saurav | Vanderbilt University | The Extremely Extreme: Searching for Companions in Wide M-dwarf Binaries | 2012B-0130 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.6 |
Eisenhardt, Peter | California Institute of Technology--JPL | The Most Luminous Galaxies Found by WISE | 2012B-0344 | CTIO | SOAR | 5 |
Eisenhardt, Peter | California Institute of Technology--JPL | The Most Luminous Galaxies Found by WISE | 2012B-0344 | GEM-S | GEM-S | 2 |
Eisenhardt, Peter | California Institute of Technology--JPL | The Most Luminous Galaxies Found by WISE | 2012B-0344 | KPNO | WIYN | 3.5 |
Farihi, Jay | University of Leicester | The Bulk Composition of Rocky Planetary Debris and a Search for Water | 2012B-0140 | MMT | MMT-TBD | 2 |
Fassnacht, Christopher | University of California, Davis | Quantifying the line-of-sight mass distributions to time-delay lenses | 2012B-0481 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.37 |
Flaherty, Kevin | University of Arizona | Understanding the Influence of Variable Accretion on Protoplanetary Disk Structure | 2012B-0297 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.4 |
Foley, Ryan | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | The Most Precise Distances to Type Ia Supernovae | 2012B-0306 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.35 |
French, Linda | Illinois Wesleyan University | Photometric Study of Jovian Trojan Asteroids | 2012B-0341 | CTIO | 0.9m | 7 |
Gagne, Jonathan | University of Montreal | Spectroscopic confirmation of very low-mass stars and brown dwarf candidates in nearby, young moving groups | 2012B-0356 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
Galicher, Raphael | Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics | Completing the follow-ups of the 300 stars International Deep Planet Survey | 2012B-0564 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.36 |
Galicher, Raphael | Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics | Completing the follow-ups of the 300 stars International Deep Planet Survey | 2012B-0564 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.21 |
Ge, Jian | University of Florida | Follow-up of MARVELS Brown Dwarf and Planet Candidates | 2012B-0493 | KPNO | 2.1m | 10 |
Gelino, Christopher | California Institute of Technology--IPAC | Photometric Follow-up of WISE Brown Dwarf Candidates | 2012B-0275 | CTIO | SOAR | 5 |
Geller, Aaron | Northwestern University | Towards A Complete Census of the Solar-Type Binaries in the Young Open Cluster M37 | 2012B-0284 | KPNO | WIYN | 2 |
Giammichele, Noemi | University of Montreal | Understanding the Spectral Evolution of Helium-Line DB White Dwarfs | 2012B-0044 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
Gizis, John | University of Delaware | A Great Spot on a Kepler L Dwarf | 2012B-0233 | KPNO | 2.1m | 3.5 |
Gizis, John | University of Delaware | A Great Spot on a Kepler L Dwarf | 2012B-0233 | MMT | MMT-TBD | 2 |
Gizis, John | University of Delaware | Completing the nearby L dwarf sample | 2012B-0424 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.9 |
Gonzalez, Anthony | University of Florida | The Massive Distant Clusters of Wise Survey (MaDCoWS) | 2012B-0470 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 2 |
Gonzalez, Anthony | University of Florida | The Massive Distant Clusters of Wise Survey (MaDCoWS) | 2012B-0470 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.2 |
Gonzalez, Anthony | University of Florida | The Massive Distant Clusters of Wise Survey (MaDCoWS) | 2012B-0470 | KPNO | WIYN | 5 |
Haines, Christopher | University of Arizona | KPNO 0.9m H(alpha) Imaging Survey of ``Transforming Galaxies'' in Local Galaxy Groups | 2012B-0285 | KPNO | 0.9m | 9 |
Hartigan, Patrick | Rice University | The Layered Skin of the Elephant's Trunk | 2012B-0166 | KPNO | 4m | 5 |
Heinze, Aren | State University of New York, Stony Brook | Intensive Multi-Band Photometry to Elucidate Weather on a Spitzer- Identified Variable L-Dwarf | 2012B-0468 | KPNO | 2.1m | 7.5 |
Heinze, Aren | State University of New York, Stony Brook | Simultaneous Ground Based Monitoring of Brown Dwarfs Being Observed with Spitzer | 2012B-0530 | KPNO | 2.1m | 0.5 |
Heinze, Aren | State University of New York, Stony Brook | Simultaneous Ground Based Monitoring of Brown Dwarfs Being Observed with Spitzer | 2012B-0530 | KPNO | 2.1m-TBD | 5 |
Hillenbrand, Lynne | California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy | Connecting Stellar Properties and Aperiodic Photometric Variability Origins in Young Stars | 2012B-0295 | MMT | MMT-TBD | 1 |
Hinkle, Kenneth | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Keplerian disks around RV Tauri stars | 2012B-0268 | KPNO | 2.1m | 7 |
Horch, Elliott | Southern Connecticut State University | A Multiplicity Survey of M35 and M67 with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument | 2012B-0437 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
Howell, Steve | NASA Ames Research Center | Speckle and Lucky imaging of Kepler Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars | 2012B-0083 | KPNO | WIYN | 7 |
Howell, Steve | NASA Ames Research Center | Spectroscopy of Kepler Exoplanet Host Stars | 2012B-0085 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
Howell, D. Andrew | University of California, Santa Barbara | Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae to reveal progenitors and metallicity | 2012B-0491 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1 |
Howell, D. Andrew | University of California, Santa Barbara | Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae to reveal progenitors and metallicity | 2012B-0497 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.5 |
Hsieh, Henry | University of Hawaii/IfA-CFHT | The Sublimation-Driven Nature of Main-Belt Comet Activity | 2012B-0418 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.3 |
Hsieh, Tien-Hao | National Tsing Hua University | Studying the Nature of Very Low Luminosity Objects (VeLLOs) | 2012B-0532 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.47 |
Hufford, Tara | University of Georgia | Debris disks in the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association | 2012B-0174 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 4 |
Indriolo, Nick | Johns Hopkins University | The Utility of H_3^+ Observations in Diffuse Molecular Clouds | 2012B-0227 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
Ingleby, Laura | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Peering through the Magnetospheres of Slowly Accreting T Tauri Stars | 2012B-0274 | KPNO | 4m | 6 |
Jacobson, Seth | University of Colorado | Directly Detecting the BYORP effect and further characterization of near- Earth asteroid binaries | 2012B-0276 | KPNO | 2.1m | 4 |
Jeon, Yiseul | Seoul National University | Optical Spectroscopic Observation of z~5 Quasar Candidates | 2012B-0537 | KPNO | 4m | 2.5 |
Johnson, Christian | University of California, Los Angeles | A 10,000 Star Survey for Li-rich K Giants in the Galactic Bulge | 2012B-0312 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.55 |
Kafka, Stella | Carnegie Institution of Washington | The mixing of blue stragglers | 2012B-0116 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 0.5 |
Kasliwal, Mansi | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Rapid Spectroscopy of Elusive Transients and Young Supernovae | 2012B-0412 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.48 |
Keeney, Brian | University of Colorado | Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web: III. Imaging Galaxies Near /COS AGN Fields with DECam | 2012B-0319 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 1 |
Kelson, Daniel | Carnegie Observatories | The Carnegie Spitzer IMACS Survey: 5-band Optical Imaging of the Southern Fields | 2012B-0506 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 2 |
Kim, Alex | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Spectroscopic Diversity in Supernovae Discovered by the Dark Energy Survey | 2012B-0278 | SSO | AAT-SVC | 2 |
Kriek, Mariska | University of California, Berkeley | Physical Properties of Galaxies as a Function of Spectral Type | 2012B-0185 | MMT | MMT-TBD | 1 |
Kriek, Mariska | University of California, Berkeley | Resolved Kinematics of a Compact z=2.1 Quiescent Galaxy: Evidence for a Rotating Disk? | 2012B-0218 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.8 |
Kunder, Andrea | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | CCD Photometry of the M22 RR Lyrae Instability Strip | 2012B-0178 | CTIO | 0.9m | 6 |
Kunder, Andrea | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | Search for Stellar Sub-Structure in the Galactic Bulge | 2012B-0301 | SSO | AAT-SVC | 0.3 |
Lada, Charles | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Deep NIR Imaging Surveys of the Nearest GMCs: Determining the Factors that Control the Star Formation Rates in Dense Gas | 2012B-0439 | KPNO | 4m | 7 |
Landolt, Arlo | Louisiana State University | Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star Fields: KPNO | 2012B-0006 | KPNO | 2.1m | 28.5 |
Lee, Ting-Hui | Western Kentucky University | Chemical Abundances of Compact Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Disk | 2012B-0405 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 |
Leggett, Sandy | Gemini Observatory North | Near-Infrared Characterization of the WISE Y Dwarfs | 2012B-0118 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.4 |
Lena, Davide | Rochester Institute of Technology | Mapping sub-kpc gas flows in NGC1365 | 2012B-0311 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.4 |
Levitan, David | California Institute of Technology-Dept of Physics, Math, Astronomy | Orbital Periods for Two Unique, Recently Discovered AM CVn Systems | 2012B-0315 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.86 |
Li, Rui | University of Florida | Tracing Metallicity of Brown Dwarf/Giant Planet Candidates from MARVELS using EXPERTS | 2012B-0415 | KPNO | 2.1m | 3 |
Liu, Guilin | Johns Hopkins University | Feedback in Unobscured vs. Obscured Quasars | 2012B-0170 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.5 |
Lonsdale, Carol | National Radio Astronomy Observatory Headquarters | The Astrophysics of extreme feedback in WISE-radio selected AGN | 2012B-0291 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
Maqueo Chew, Yilen Gomez | Vanderbilt University | A SuperWASP Benchmark Eclipsing Binary with a Very Low-Mass Secondary in the Brown Dwarf Desert | 2012B-0400 | KPNO | 2.1m | 4 |
Marois, Christian | Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics | Further constraining the nature of the enigmatic Fomalhaut b planet candidate with NICI. | 2012B-0256 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.35 |
McConnell, Nicholas | University of California, Berkeley | The Most Massive Galaxies and Black Holes | 2012B-0137 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.6 |
McGee, Sean | University of Durham | The high redshift progenitors of massive galaxy clusters | 2012B-0138 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.49 |
Megeath, Tom | University of Toledo | A Deep Newfirm Survey of the Orion B Cloud | 2012B-0514 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
Menanteau, Felipe | Rutgers University | Mass estimation of four z~1 ACT/SZE Discovered Galaxy Clusters | 2012B-0223 | GEM-S | GEM-S | 1 |
Menanteau, Felipe | Rutgers University | Mass estimation of four z~1 ACT/SZE Discovered Galaxy Clusters | 2012B-0223 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.2 |
Menanteau, Felipe | Rutgers University | Optical/NIR Identification of New SZ Galaxy Clusters from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope | 2012B-0378 | CTIO | SOAR | 3 |
Morales-Calderon, Maria | California Institute of Technology--IPAC | Characterizing Variable Young Stars in NGC 2264 | 2012B-0309 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
Mortazavi, S Alireza | Johns Hopkins University | SparsePak Kinematics of Tidally Interacting Galaxy Pairs | 2012B-0436 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
Mueller, Beatrice | Planetary Science Institute | The continuing rotational evolution of comet 2P/Encke | 2012B-0455 | KPNO | 2.1m | 12.5 |
Myers, Adam | University of Wyoming | Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium of Low and High Mass Galaxies with Close Quasar Pairs | 2012B-0337 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.71 |
Myers, Adam | University of Wyoming | Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium of Low and High Mass Galaxies with Close Quasar Pairs | 2012B-0337 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2.6 |
Neugent, Kathryn | Lowell Observatory | Determining the Binary Frequency of Wolf-Rayet Stars as a Function of Metallicity | 2012B-0129 | MMT | MMT-TBD | 2.5 |
Nidever, David | University of Virginia | DECam Magellanic Clouds Survey Pilot Program | 2012B-0416 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 2 |
Nielsen, Eric | University of Hawaii | The Deepest Search for Planets Around Newly Identified Young, Nearby Stars | 2012B-0466 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 3.3 |
Oswalt, Terry | Florida Institute of Technology | Observational Constraints on the White Dwarf Mass-Radius Relation | 2012B-0355 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
Oswalt, Terry | Florida Institute of Technology | Observational Constraints on the White Dwarf Mass-Radius Relation | 2012B-0355 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
Papovich, Casey | Texas A & M University | A Comprehensive Spectroscopic Survey of z > 4 Galaxies in CANDELS | 2012B-0482 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 2 |
Papovich, Casey | Texas A & M University | A Comprehensive Spectroscopic Survey of z > 4 Galaxies in CANDELS | 2012B-0482 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.15 |
Papovich, Casey | Texas A & M University | A Comprehensive Spectroscopic Survey of z > 4 Galaxies in CANDELS | 2012B-0482 | GEM-S | GEM-S | 2 |
Papovich, Casey | Texas A & M University | A Comprehensive Spectroscopic Survey of z > 4 Galaxies in CANDELS | 2012B-0482 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.15 |
Patel, Rahul | State University of New York, Stony Brook | Age Diagnostics of New WISE Detected Debris Disk-Host Stars | 2012B-0541 | KPNO | 4m | 2.5 |
Patel, Rahul | State University of New York, Stony Brook | Age Diagnostics of New WISE Detected Debris Disk-Host Stars | 2012B-0541 | SSO | AAT-SVC | 1 |
Pepper, Joshua | Vanderbilt University | Follow-up and Confirmation of Transiting Planet Candidates From the KELT Survey | 2012B-0361 | KPNO | 2.1m | 6.5 |
Pilachowski, Catherine | Indiana University | Fluorine in Metal-Poor Stars with Phoenix | 2012B-0077 | KPNO | 2.1m | 7 |
Quinn, Samuel | Georgia State University | Close visual companions to transiting exoplanet host stars | 2012B-0369 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.29 |
Rabinowitz, David | Yale University | Measuring the Rotational Light Curve of (79360) Sila-Nunam : an Eclipsing Binary in the Kuiper Belt | 2012B-0070 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.66 |
Reed, Mike | Missouri State University | Testing theoretical models of subdwarf B stars using multicolor photometry | 2012B-0253 | KPNO | 2.1m | 5.5 |
Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Spectroscopic Time Series of Carinae's Great Eruption | 2012B-0321 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.35 |
Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions | 2012B-0322 | KPNO | 4m | 8 |
Rich, Michael | University of California, Los Angeles | Hydra I: an odd, double-lobed ``globular cluster'' | 2012B-0098 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.225 |
Richardson, Noel | Georgia State University | Interactions in the LBV binaries Carinae and HD 5980 | 2012B-0194 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 4 |
Ridgway, Susan | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | The Evolution of the Obscured and Unobscured Quasar Population | 2012B-0465 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2 |
Roe, Henry | Lowell Observatory | Titan's Methane Weather post-Equinox: Seasonal climate change and large storm systems | 2012B-0088 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.3 |
Roe, Henry | Lowell Observatory | Titan's Methane Weather post-Equinox: Seasonal climate change and large storm systems | 2012B-0088 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.2 |
Rogerson, Jesse | New York University | Spectroscopic Follow Up of Variable Quasars | 2012B-0538 | Hale | 2 | |
Rupke, David | Rhodes College | QSO Feedback in Action: The AGN Threshold | 2012B-0117 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.6 |
Salyk, Colette | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | CO variability in HAeBe disks: A search for planet-disk interactions | 2012B-0433 | KPNO | 4m | 2 |
Schirmer, Mischa | Gemini Observatory North | Determining the redshift of the strong lens system in the fossil group J0454-0309 | 2012B-0102 | CTIO | SOAR | 1 |
Schirmer, Mischa | Gemini Observatory North | Redshifts of strongly lensed multiple image systems in a high redshift double cluster | 2012B-0125 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 (DD) |
Schlawin, Everett | Cornell University | Imager-Corrected NIR Spectro-Photometry of a Hot Jupiter | 2012B-0454 | Hale | 1 | |
Schlieder, Joshua | Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik | New Low-Mass Members of Nearby Young Moving Groups | 2012B-0222 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
Sheffield, Allyson | Columbia University | Exploring the Origin of M Giant Stars in the Nearby Galactic Halo | 2012B-0386 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
Sheppard, Scott | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Precise Astrometry for Predicting Kuiper Belt Object Occultations | 2012B-0289 | CTIO | 0.9m-SVC | 5 |
Sheppard, Scott | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Beyond the Kuiper Belt Edge | 2012B-0451 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 1 |
Shivvers, Isaac | University of California, Berkeley | Observationally Constraining the Effects of Orbital Circularization for Stars in Binary Orbits | 2012B-0512 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 1.35 |
Siverd, Robert | Vanderbilt University | Revealing the Origins and Fates of Hot Jupiters with Eccentric Eclipsing Binaries | 2012B-0536 | KPNO | 2.1m | 14 |
Slater, Colin | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Deep follow-up of two new distant satellites of Andromeda | 2012B-0566 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.86 |
Smith, J. | Austin Peay State University | Targeted Samples of the Hot Stellar Content in the Southern Sky | 2012B-0232 | CTIO | 0.9m-TBD | 7 |
Smith, J. | Austin Peay State University | Targeted Samples of the Hot Stellar Content in the Southern Sky | 2012B-0232 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 6 |
Sonnenfeld, Alessandro | University of California, Santa Barbara | Probing dark matter in the Cosmic Horseshoe | 2012B-0230 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.06 |
Sromovsky, Lawrence | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Probing Uranus' Atmosphere With Discrete Cloud Observations | 2012B-0246 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.6 |
Stanghellini, Letizia | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Chemical evolution of two Sculptor galaxies through the abundances of planetary nebulae and H II regions | 2012B-0191 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.86 |
Stauffer, John | California Institute of Technology--IPAC | The Death Spiral of a 1 Myr Exoplanet? | 2012B-0106 | KPNO | 4m | 3 |
Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sol | The Co-Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies probed with NIFS | 2012B-0562 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.876 |
Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | Is it Alive? Recovering the Supernova Impostor SN1961V | 2012B-0345 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.45 |
Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | Confirming LBV Candidates Through Variability: A Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring Study | 2012B-0521 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 4.6 |
Sullivan, Mark | University of Oxford | The host galaxies of local PTF Type Ia supernovae | 2012B-0552 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.87 |
Thorman, Paul | University of California, Davis | Galaxy and Mass Evolution via Deep u-band Imaging in the Deep Lens Survey | 2012B-0448 | CTIO | 4m-TBD | 2 |
Tokovinin, Andrei | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | Kappa Fornax, a triple radio-star? | 2012B-0075 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 0.4 |
Trafton, Laurence | University of Texas, Austin | Investigation of Thermal Tides in Uranus' Thermosphere | 2012B-0533 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.6 |
Tran, Kim-Vy | Texas A & M University | Mapping Cool Gas In and Around Star-forming Cluster Galaxies at z=1.62 | 2012B-0302 | GEM-S | GEM-S | 3 |
Tran, Kim-Vy | Texas A & M University | Mapping Cool Gas In and Around Star-forming Cluster Galaxies at z=1.62 | 2012B-0302 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.05 |
Trilling, David | Northern Arizona University | Finding KBO flyby targets for New Horizons | 2012B-0422 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 2 |
Trueblood, Mark | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Long Term Follow-up of Near Earth Objects | 2012B-0057 | KPNO | 2.1m | 5 |
Trujillo, Chad | Gemini Observatory North | Surface Composition of Pluto's Moons Nix and Hydra | 2012B-0568 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.25 |
Tucker, Brad | Australian National University | Catching Supernovae in the Act with KISS (Kepler International Supernova Search) | 2012B-0385 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.2 |
Veilleux, Sylvain | University of Maryland | Neutral Winds in Local Quasar-Dominated Mergers. II. | 2012B-0093 | KPNO | 4m | 2.5 |
Walsh, Jonelle | University of Texas, Austin | Examining Massive Black Holes in Small, High-Dispersion Galaxies | 2012B-0208 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.95 |
Walter, Frederick | State University of New York, Stony Brook | Substellar Mass Objects in Orion OB1b | 2012B-0280 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 |
Willman, Beth | Haverford College | Investigating Overdensities of Cool Stars at the Edge of the Milky Way | 2012B-0209 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 2 |
Winter, Lisa | University of Colorado | Optical Outflows and Emission Line Properties in X-ray Obscured AGNs | 2012B-0251 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
Worseck, Gabor | University of California Observatories | Revealing the Proximity Zones of Helium-Reionizing Quasars at ~ 3 | 2012B-0526 | Hale | 5 | |
Yan, Renbin | New York University | Probing the Warm Ionized Gas in Nearby Early-type Galaxies | 2012B-0488 | Hale | 2 | |
Zakamska, Nadia | Johns Hopkins University | Spectropolarimetry of high-redshift type 2 quasar candidates | 2012B-0181 | MMT | MMT-TBD | 2 |
Zaritsky, Dennis | University of Arizona | Searching for Systematic Effects in SNe Ia Distances | 2012B-0515 | CTIO | SOAR | 3 |
Zhao, Ping | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | The Mass Function of a New Candidate of Quiescent Low-Mass X-ray Binary | 2012B-0430 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1 |
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