2016A
NOIRLab TAC Results and Statistics 2016A
NOAO Proposal Statistics by Telescope and Instrument for 2016A
The following tables list 2016A proposal request statistics for telescopes and instruments in the US ground-based observing system coordinated by NOAO. Only the 364 new proposals submitted to the 2016A 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 | 39 | 55 | 177.8 | 51.1 | 29 | 3.2 | |
| ARCoIRIS | 6 | 6 | 16.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.7 | |
| COSMOS | 6 | 8 | 18.0 | 7.0 | 39 | 2.2 | |
| DECam | 28 | 41 | 143.8 | 44.1 | 31 | 3.5 | |
| SOAR | 30 | 37 | 89.5 | 31.0 | 35 | 2.4 | |
| Goodman | 17 | 19 | 54.5 | 25.0 | 46 | 2.9 | |
| HRCam | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.0 | |
| OSIRIS | 3 | 3 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.0 | |
| SAM | 2 | 2 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 57 | 3.5 | |
| SOI | 5 | 8 | 13.0 | 2.0 | 15 | 1.6 | |
| Spartan | 3 | 4 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.8 | |
| CT-1.5m | 9 | 9 | 32.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.6 | |
| CHIRON | 9 | 9 | 32.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.6 | |
| CT-1.3m | 9 | 9 | 23.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.6 | |
| ANDI | 9 | 9 | 23.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.6 | |
| CT-0.9m | 3 | 3 | 19.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 6.3 | |
| CFIM | 3 | 3 | 19.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 6.3 | |
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 | 11 | 17 | 38.0 | 14.5 | 38 | 2.2 | |
| KOSMOS | 2 | 2 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 100 | 2.5 | |
| MOSA | 8 | 8 | 18.5 | 6.5 | 35 | 2.3 | |
| MOSA3 | 3 | 5 | 10.5 | 3.0 | 29 | 2.1 | |
| NEWFIRM | 2 | 2 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.0 | |
| WIYN | 32 | 39 | 135.0 | 39.0 | 29 | 3.5 | |
| DSSI | 4 | 5 | 14.0 | 3.0 | 21 | 2.8 | |
| HYDR | 16 | 21 | 64.5 | 19.0 | 29 | 3.1 | |
| ODI | 4 | 5 | 30.0 | 10.0 | 33 | 6.0 | |
| SPSPK | 3 | 3 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 78 | 3.0 | |
| WHIRC | 5 | 5 | 17.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.5 | |
| KP-0.9m | 2 | 3 | 18.0 | 14.0 | 78 | 6.0 | |
| HDI | 2 | 3 | 18.0 | 14.0 | 78 | 6.0 | |
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 | 139 | 201 | 166.9 | 67.9 | 41 | 0.8 | |
| COMICS | 1 | 1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.8 | |
| GMOSN | 59 | 93 | 81.8 | 53.9 | 66 | 0.9 | |
| GNIRS | 26 | 28 | 28.1 | 3.6 | 13 | 1.0 | |
| GRACES | 11 | 11 | 14.3 | 2.0 | 14 | 1.3 | |
| HDS | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 100 | 1.0 | |
| HSC | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 100 | 2.0 | |
| IRCS | 1 | 2 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.6 | |
| NIFS | 14 | 20 | 11.7 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.6 | |
| NIRI | 18 | 26 | 12.1 | 1.4 | 12 | 0.5 | |
| SuprimeCam | 2 | 2 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 100 | 1.5 | |
| TEXES | 12 | 13 | 6.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.5 | |
| VIS | 2 | 2 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.5 | |
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 | 103 | 169 | 120.1 | 27.9 | 23 | 0.7 | |
| DSSI | 9 | 9 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.5 | |
| Flamingos2 | 12 | 19 | 10.5 | 0.7 | 7 | 0.6 | |
| GMOSS | 38 | 58 | 44.0 | 26.4 | 60 | 0.8 | |
| GPI | 22 | 36 | 11.5 | 0.9 | 8 | 0.3 | |
| GSAOI | 15 | 25 | 15.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.6 | |
| PHNX | 13 | 22 | 24.9 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.1 | |
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 | 19.0 | 9.0 | 47 | 3.8 | |
| AAOmega | 4 | 4 | 16.0 | 9.0 | 56 | 4.0 | |
| UCLES | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.0 | |
CHARA |
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| Telescope/Instrument | Proposals | "Runs" | Total Nights | Dark Nights | Percentage Dark |
Average Nights/Run |
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| CHARA | 11 | 13 | 22.9 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.8 | |
| Classic | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.0 | |
| Climb | 6 | 7 | 13.8 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.0 | |
| JouFLU | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.0 | |
| MIRC | 2 | 2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.3 | |
| VEGA | 1 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.3 | |
NOAO Approved Programs for 2016A
Approved NOAO Survey Programs
| PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen, Lori | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | The DECam NEO Survey | 2013B-0536 | CTIO | 4m | 10 |
| 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 | 4.5 |
| Moskovitz, Nicholas | Lowell Observatory | Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) | 2013B-0270 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.65 |
| Moskovitz, Nicholas | Lowell Observatory | Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) | 2013B-0270 | KPNO | 4m | 5 |
| Nidever, David | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History - SMASH | 2013B-0440 | CTIO | 4m | 9.5 |
| Schlegel, David | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | The DECam Legacy Survey of the SDSS Equatorial Sky | 2014B-0404 | CTIO | 4m | 13 |
| 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 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bechtol, Keith | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Magellanic Satellites Survey: The Search for Hierarchical Structures within the Local Group | 2016A-0366 | CTIO | 4m | 6 |
| 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 | 1 |
| Ghez, Andrea | University of California, Los Angeles | Using MCAO to Enable Unique Test of General Relativity at the Galactic Center | 2014A-0457 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.72 |
| von der Linden, Anja | Stanford University | Weighing the f_ gas Giants | 2015A-0121 | CTIO | 4m | 1.5 |
| von der Linden, Anja | KIPAC / Stanford University | Setting the Scale: Determining the Absolute Mass Normalization and Scaling Relations for Clusters at z~0.1 | 2016A-0397 | CTIO | 4m | 6 |
Approved Regular Programs
| PI | Institution | Proposal Title | Prop. ID | Site | Tel. | Nts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abia, Carlos | University of Granada | Extragalactic AGB carbon stars as probes to test the origin of fluorine in the universe. | 2016A-0228 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 2.03 |
| Albrecht, Simon | Aarhus University, DK | Orientation of stellar spin-axes: A new method to probe star and planet formation | 2016A-0193 | CHARA | 0.5 | |
| Allers, Katelyn | Bucknell University | Completing the Census of the Nearest Star-Forming Region | 2016A-0232 | CTIO | 4m | 2 |
| Ammons, S. Mark | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | The Best Parallaxes and a Limit on the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate for Nearby T Dwarf Hosts | 2016A-0416 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.42 |
| Angeloni, Rodolfo | Gemini Observatory North | Spectroscopic follow-up of puzzling OGLE sources: a new class of variable stars? | 2016A-0156 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.5 |
| Bachelet, Etienne | LCOGT | Cool bound Neptunes and Free-Floating planets from K2/Campaign 9 | 2016A-0097 | KPNO | WIYN | 10 |
| Bahramian, Arash | University of Alberta | Determining the nature of donor stars in sub-luminous transient X-ray binaries | 2016A-0205 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.76 |
| Barlow, Brad | High Point University | The EREBOS Project: Determining the Influence of Substellar Objects on Stellar Evolution | 2016A-0259 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
| Bary, Jeffrey | Colgate University | High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Orbitally-Modulated Accretion Activity in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries | 2016A-0282 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 1.1 |
| Beatty, Thomas | Pennsylvania State University | A New Method to Measure the H-Ks Color of the Daysides of Hot Jupiters | 2016A-0320 | KPNO | WIYN | 1 |
| Beck, Tracy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Understanding protostellar jet launching in Herbig Stars | 2016A-0207 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.25 |
| Bowler, Brendan | California Institute of Technology | Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Planetary Companion ROXs12 b | 2016A-0112 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.7 |
| Bowler, Brendan | Caltech | Identifying New Intermediate-Mass Members of Young Moving Groups | 2016A-0322 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 2 |
| Brandt, Timothy | Institute for Advanced Study | Imaging the Only Known White Dwarf with a >8 Msun Progenitor | 2016A-0217 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.15 |
| Britt, Christopher | Texas Tech University | Spectroscopic evolution of a Black Hole X-ray Transient | 2016A-0250 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 4.1 |
| Carlin, Jeffrey L. | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Recreating the chemical evolution of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal from its tidal debris | 2016A-0125 | GEM-N | GEM-N-SVC | 3.76 |
| Carrasco, Rodrigo | Gemini Observatory North | Investigating galaxy structure and mass assembly at z>3 with GeMS/GSAOI | 2016A-0132 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2 |
| Carrasco, Rodrigo | Gemini Observatory North | Studying the matter distribution in the bimodal lensing group SA78-SA790 | 2016A-0150 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.9 |
| Castro, Genaro Suarez | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | Toward a Complete Photometric Initial Mass Function of the 25 Orionis Group Down to Planetary Masses | 2016A-0337 | CTIO | 4m-CP | 0.1 |
| Cauley, Paul Wilson | Wesleyan University | Measuring pre-transit absorption around the hot planets GJ 436 b and KELT-3 b | 2016A-0182 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
| Chatelain, Joseph | Georgia State University | Photometric observations of the brightest Jupiter Greeks. | 2016A-0339 | CTIO | 0.9m | 7 |
| Chies Santos, Ana | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) | Probing Assembly Histories of MASSIVE Survey Galaxies from their Globular Cluster Colors | 2016A-0432 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.6 |
| Cobb, Bethany | The George Washington University | Optical/IR Follow-Up of Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS | 2016A-0186 | CTIO | 1.3m | 1.4 |
| Cody, Ann Marie | NASA Ames Research Center | The effect of binarity on protoplanetary disk dissipation and accretion | 2016A-0263 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 3 |
| Cody, Ann Marie | NASA Ames Research Center | Time domain interferometry of a variable young star: Revealing the inner disk | 2016A-0371 | CHARA | 1.6 | |
| Colon, Knicole | Bay Area Environmental Research Institute | Characterizing K2 Exoplanet Candidates with High-Precision Near-Infrared Transit Photometry | 2016A-0090 | KPNO | WIYN | 6 |
| Cooke, Jeff | Swinburne University | Deeper, Wider, Faster: Optical counterparts to the fastest bursts in the sky | 2016A-0095 | CTIO | 4m | 3 |
| Crnojevic, Denija | Texas Tech University | Environment and the evolution at low-mass galactic scales: clues from the Cen A group | 2016A-0148 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2.21 |
| Curtin, Chris | Swinburne University | Enabling the discovery and real time study of the highest redshift superluminous supernovae with u-SUDSS | 2016A-0402 | CTIO | 4m | 1 |
| Curtis, Jason | Penn State | Contemporaneous K2 and WIYN/Hydra measurements of stellar rotation and magnetic activity of 3 Gyr Sun-like stars in Ruprecht 147 | 2016A-0298 | KPNO | WIYN-CP | 4 |
| Curtis, Jason | Penn State | Membership of Ruprecht 147 to support the K2 Survey | 2016A-0305 | KPNO | WIYN-CP | 5 |
| de Kleer, Katherine | UC Berkeley (Astronomy) | Linking Io's Volcanic Activity to Plasma Torus Variability | 2016A-0058 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 2 |
| de Kleer, Katherine | UC Berkeley (Astronomy) | Observing Io's volcanoes in eclipse: Eruption temperatures and SO gas content | 2016A-0063 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.3 |
| Deboer, Thomas | University of Cambridge | Mapping the star formation of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy and stream | 2016A-0068 | CTIO | 4m | 2.5 |
| Defr�re, Denis | University of Arizona (Astronomy) | The first image of an exozodiacal dust disk | 2016A-0275 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 1 |
| den Brok, Mark | University of Utah | Massive black holes in small galaxies | 2016A-0253 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.95 |
| Dey, Arjun | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | The DECam Legacy Survey North Galactic Pole Extension for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey | 2016A-0190 | CTIO | 4m | 7 |
| Do, Tuan | UC Los Angeles | Measuring the orbital history of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Hercules with GSAOI | 2016A-0235 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.05 |
| Dong, Ruobing | UC Berkeley (Astronomy) | Planet-drive spiral arms in SAO 206462: a direct test of dynamical model predictions | 2016A-0265 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.25 |
| Espaillat, Catherine | Boston University | Footprints of the Magnetosphere: the Star-Disk Connection in T Tauri Stars | 2016A-0321 | CTIO | 1.3m | 4.5 |
| Esplin, Taran | Pennsylvania State University | Searching for the bottom of the IMF in Ophiuchus and RCrA | 2016A-0139 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.27 |
| Esplin, Taran | Pennsylvania State University | Searching for the bottom of the IMF in Ophiuchus and RCrA | 2016A-0139 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.32 |
| Esplin, Taran | The Pennsylvania State University | Searching for the bottom of the IMF in Ophiuchus and RCrA | 2016A-0157 | CTIO | 4m | 5 |
| Fang, Min | University of Arizona (Astronomy) | Spectroscopic observations of faint young stars in Orion nebula cluster | 2016A-0292 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | |
| Finkbeiner, Douglas | Harvard/CfA | Mapping Dust in 3D with DECam: A Galactic Plane Survey | 2016A-0327 | CTIO | 4m | 8 |
| French, L | Illinois Wesleyan University | In Search of the Trojan Spin Barrier | 2016A-0302 | CTIO | 4m | 5 |
| Frye, Brenda | University of Arizona (Astronomy) | Spectroscopic redshifts of the lenses producing the brightest high-z sources in the Planck all-sky survey | 2016A-0199 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1 |
| Garnavich, Peter | University of Notre Dame | Return to the Heart of Darkness: An Unbiased Survey of Void Galaxies | 2016A-0301 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.3 |
| Geha, Marla | Yale University | The SAGA Project: A Machine Learning Search for Dwarf Galaxy Satellites Around Milky Way Analogs | 2016A-0294 | SSO | AAT | 3 |
| Giampapa, Mark | National Solar Observatory | Contemporaneous WIYN/Hydra and K2 Measurements of the Magnetic Properties of Sun-like Stars | 2015B-0180 | KPNO | WIYN | 2 |
| Gianninas, Alexandros | University of Oklahoma | Searching for Pulsations in Mixed Atmosphere Extremely Low-mass White Dwarfs | 2016A-0075 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.2 |
| Gladders, Michael | University of Chicago | Time delays for the sextuply-lensed quasar SDSS J2222+2745 from GMOS | 2016A-0323 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.38 |
| Gonzalez, Anthony | University of Florida | A Metallicity Determination for the Diffuse Emission around NGC 4874 in the Coma Cluster | 2016A-0324 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.17 |
| Graham, Melissa L. | University of California, Berekely | Understanding the Power Source in Type Ia Supernovae with Nebular Phase Spectroscopy | 2016A-0046 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2.39 |
| Greenbaum, Alexandra | Johns Hopkins University | Probing the inner regions of HD142527 and HD100546 | 2016A-0226 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.45 |
| Greene, Jenny | Princeton University (Astrophysics) | Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift | 2016A-0127 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.1 |
| Grindlay, Jonathan | Harvard University - CfA | Identification of a CygX-1 Black Hole HMXB Progenitor | 2016A-0427 | CTIO | 1.3m | 3 |
| Grindlay, Jonathan | Harvard University - CfA | Identification of a CygX-1 Black Hole HMXB Progenitor | 2016A-0427 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 3 |
| Hamann, Fred | University of Florida | Feedback vs Cold Mode Accretion: Accurate Velocities for Complex Infall/Outflow Gas Near Redshift 3 Quasars | 2016A-0077 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.17 |
| Hamann, Fred | University of Florida | A Remarkable New Transient Outflow in the Quasar PG1411+442 | 2016A-0346 | GEM-N | GEM-N-SVC | 0.13 |
| Hamann, Fred | University of Florida | Outflows & Feedback in Extremely Red Quasars | 2016A-0435 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 3 |
| Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin | University of Toledo | Planet Occurrence around Mid-M Dwarfs in the Kepler Field | 2016A-0328 | KPNO | WIYN | 5 |
| Hargreaves, Robert | Old Dominion University | Hydrocarbon emission in the polar regions of Jupiter | 2016A-0116 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 1.67 (DD) |
| Harrison, Thomas | New Mexico State University | Quantification of the 13^C Abundance in the Secondary Stars of Cataclysmic Variables | 2016A-0012 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.18 |
| Hartman, Joel | Princeton University | Secondary Eclipse Observations of Hot Jupiters with WHIRC | 2016A-0233 | KPNO | WIYN | 3.5 |
| Henry, Todd | RECONS / Georgia State University | Searching for Companions to Nearby Stars on Solar System Scales | 2016A-0214 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 2.5 |
| Herczeg, Gregory | KIAA/Peking University | Accretion and the formation of very low mass objects | 2016A-0362 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.78 |
| Herczeg, Gregory | KIAA/Peking University | Accretion and the formation of very low mass objects | 2016A-0362 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.52 |
| Hinkle, Kenneth | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Imaging the Expanding Debris Cloud around Sakurai's Object | 2016A-0110 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.1 |
| Hirsch, Lea | University of California, Berkeley | Planets in Binary Systems | 2016A-0055 | KPNO | WIYN | 3 |
| Horch, Elliott | Southern Connecticut State University | Towards a True Population II Mass-Luminosity Relation | 2016A-0255 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 0.53 |
| Howell, Steve | NASA | Validation, Radius Determination, and Host Star Binarity of K2 Exoplanets | 2016A-0050 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
| Howell, Steve | NASA | Validation, Radius Determination, and Host Star Binarity of K2 Exoplanets | 2016A-0159 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 5 |
| Hsieh, Henry | Planetary Science Institute | The (Slow?) Rotation Rate of Active Asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS | 2016A-0340 | CTIO | SOAR | 1 |
| Hsieh, Henry | Planetary Science Institute | Main-Belt Comet Activity and Nucleus Characterization | 2016A-0380 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.2 |
| Hsieh, Henry | Planetary Science Institute | Main-Belt Comet Activity and Nucleus Characterization | 2016A-0380 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.7 |
| Hughes, John | Rutgers University | On the Trail of the Most Massive Galaxy Clusters in the Universe | 2016A-0271 | KPNO | 4m | 3.5 |
| Hummel, Christian | European Southern Observatory | An interferometric calibration of fundamental parameters of double-lined eclipsing binaries | 2016A-0099 | CHARA | 0.6 | |
| Jha, Saurabh | Rutgers University | Spectroscopy of Type Iax Supernovae | 2016A-0349 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.199 |
| Johnson, Sean | The University of Chicago | The Circum-galactic Medium of obscured Active Galactic Nuclei hosts | 2016A-0103 | CTIO | 4m | 2 |
| Kaleida, Catherine | CTIO/NOAO | CTIO REU/PIA Student Observations: Targets of Opportunity | 2016A-0370 | CTIO | 0.9m | 2 |
| Kilic, Mukremin | University of Oklahoma | The Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs in SDSS DR10 | 2016A-0057 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 2.245 |
| Kilic, Mukremin | University of Oklahoma | The Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs in SDSS DR10 | 2016A-0057 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.32 |
| Kilic, Mukremin | University of Oklahoma | A Benchmark Pulsating White Dwarf Companion to PSR J1738+0333 | 2016A-0060 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.9 |
| Kishimoto, Makoto | Kyoto Sangyo University | Scrutinizing AGN thermal emission at the highest spatial resolution | 2016A-0091 | CHARA | 2 | |
| Knight, Matthew | Lowell Observatory | Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of activity | 2016A-0242 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.02 |
| Kong, Albert | National Tsing Hua University | A Spectroscopic Study of the Black Hole Binary MAXI J1659-152 in Quiescence | 2016A-0153 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.23 |
| Krafton, Kelsie | Louisiana State University | Late-Time Dust Formation in Core-Collapse Supernovae | 2016A-0130 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.04 |
| Kraus, Adam | The University of Texas at Austin | The Planetary Systems of Young Massive Stars | 2016A-0382 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.74 |
| Lee, Kyoung-Soo | Purdue University | Witnessing the Earliest Stage of Cluster Formation at Z=3.78 | 2016A-0185 | KPNO | 4m | 3.5 |
| Lee, Ting-Hui | Western Kentucky University | Chemical Abundances of Compact Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Disk | 2016A-0272 | CTIO | SOAR | 3 |
| Leggett, Sandy | Gemini Observatory North | Near-Infrared Imaging of our 250K Neighbor | 2016A-0042 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 2.4 |
| Levesque, Emily | University of Washington | Red Supergiants in the Extremely Metal Poor Sextans Galaxies: Local Analogs of Massive Stars in the Early Universe | 2016A-0243 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 2 |
| Levesque, Emily | University of Washington | Rapid Spectroscopy of SN 2010da: Observing a Neutron Star + Luminous Blue Variable Binary in Outburst | 2016A-0269 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.3 |
| Lin, Dacheng | University of New Hampshire | Measuring the Distance to an Intermediate-mass Black Hole with Gemini | 2016A-0400 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.39 |
| Liss, Sandra | University of Virginia | Star Clusters in Interacting Dwarf Galaxies | 2016A-0310 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.16 |
| Liu, Guilin | VIrginia Tech | IFU mapping of the most energetic BALQSO outflows | 2016A-0306 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.72 |
| Liu, Tingting | University of Maryland | Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Variability Selected Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidates | 2016A-0316 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.16 |
| Liu, Guilin | VIrginia Tech | Signposts of Quasar Feedback in the High-Redshift Universe | 2016A-0376 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.5 |
| Liu, Xin | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Hunting for Massive Binary Black Holes with Continued Quasar Spectroscopic Monitoring | 2016A-0383 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.2 |
| Ma, Bo | University of Florida | A Multiplicity Survey of Solar-type Stars with Brown Dwarf Companions | 2016A-0188 | KPNO | WIYN | 2 |
| Ma, Bo | University of Florida | Confirming the Planet-Metallicity Correlation For Small Planets | 2016A-0284 | KPNO | WIYN | 7 |
| Malhotra, Sangeeta | Arizona State University | Lyman Alpha Galaxies at z ~ 7 with DECam | 2016A-0386 | CTIO | 4m | 3 |
| Mamajek, Eric | University of Rochester | ARCoIRIS Survey of DECam Brown Dwarf Candidates in the Nearest OB Association | 2016A-0378 | CTIO | 4m | 1 |
| Mann, Andrew | University of Texas at Austin | Clusters with K2: systematics from membership and binarity | 2016A-0247 | KPNO | WIYN | 5 |
| Mauerhan, Jon | UC Berkeley (Astronomy) | GeMS narrowband imaging of the massive star factory Sagittarius B | 2016A-0149 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.42 |
| McCarthy, Don | University of Arizona | Advanced Teen Astronomy Camp 2016 | 2016A-0424 | KPNO | 0.9m | 5 |
| McCleary, Jacqueline | Brown University | The low-redshift end of the cluster mass substructure function | 2016A-0384 | CTIO | 4m | 4 |
| McCollum, Bruce | Catholic Univ. of America | Identifying the Progenitor Star for a New Red Transient | 2016A-0345 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.34 |
| McMillan, Robert | Univ. Az. | Early Followup Astrometry of Freshly Discovered High Priority Near-Earth Objects | 2016A-0023 | KPNO | 4m | 4 |
| Meshkat, Tiffany | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Occurrence of giant planets in the dustiest new WISE debris disk systems | 2016A-0312 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.6 |
| Mirabel, Felix | Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio (IAFE) | STAR FORMATION TRIGGERED BY MICROQUASAR JETS | 2016A-0016 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.1 |
| Montet, Benjamin | Caltech Astronomy | Fundamental Parameters of Young M Dwarfs | 2016A-0224 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 0.73 |
| Moskovitz, Nicholas | Lowell Observatory | Rotational Characterization of Hayabusa2 Mission Target Asteroid 1999 JU3 | 2016A-0071 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
| Nagasawa, Daniel | Texas A&M University | Metallicity of M-dwarf Exoplanet Hosts through F/G/K+M Common Proper Motion Binary Pair Analysis | 2016A-0088 | KPNO | WIYN | 6 |
| Niida, Mana | Ehime University | Quasar Evolution in the Early Universe: Down-sizing or Up-sizing? | 2016A-0395 | CTIO | 4m | 4 |
| Oka, Takeshi | University of Chicago | Probing the Galactic Center's Molecular Gas using H3+ and CO | 2016A-0128 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 4.26 |
| Olszewski, Edward | Arizona | Southern DA White Dwarf Calibration Standards | 2016A-0052 | CTIO | SOAR | 5 |
| Origlia, Livia | INAF - Bologna Observatory | MIRA STARS AS PROBES OF THE STAR FORMATION HISTORY OF THE COMPLEX STELLAR SYSTEM TERZAN 5 | 2016A-0136 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 0.6 |
| Pavlov, George | Pennsylvania State University | Confirming the nature of the knot near pulsar B1951+32 | 2016A-0281 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.22 |
| Piskorz, Danielle | Caltech (Geo. and Planetary) | Imaging Friends of Hot Jupiters | 2016A-0062 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 0.08 |
| Provencal, Judith | University of Delaware | Asteroseismology of the Highest Amplitude Rapidly Oscillating Ap Star | 2016A-0165 | CTIO | 0.9m | 6 |
| Rajan, Abhijith | Arizona State University | Characterizing the Atmosphere of the Lowest-mass Directly Imaged Planet 51 Eri b | 2016A-0421 | GEM-N | GEM-N-PRE | 1 |
| Redfield, Seth | Wesleyan University | Rayleigh Scattering in Exoplanet Atmospheres | 2016A-0166 | KPNO | WIYN | 4 |
| Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions | 2016A-0189 | CTIO | 4m | 11 |
| Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions | 2016A-0189 | KPNO | 4m | 2 |
| Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Photometric Time Series of Carinae's Great Eruption | 2016A-0191 | CTIO | 4m | 4 |
| Rest, Armin | Space Telescope Science Institute | Spectrophotometric Time Series of Eta Carinae’s Great Eruption | 2016A-0350 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2.26 |
| Rettura, Alessandro | Caltech IPAC | The Gemini survey of the most distant galaxy clusters in the ~100deg2 Spitzer-SPT Deep Field | 2016A-0344 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 1.3 |
| Riaz, Basmah | MPE | The lowest luminosity Externally Irradiated HH Jets | 2016A-0108 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
| Salim, Samir | Indiana University | Metallicity calibrations for high-redshift galaxies | 2016A-0329 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 3.1 |
| Sand, David | Texas Tech University | The first high quality Mg II reverberation lag measurement | 2016A-0078 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.1 |
| Sand, David | Texas Tech University | The first high quality Mg II reverberation lag measurement | 2016A-0078 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2.22 |
| Sardane, Gendtih | University of Pittsburgh | Mapping cool, metal-rich gas around z < 0.08 galaxies | 2016A-0428 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.4 |
| Schambeau, Charles | University of Central Florida | Investigating Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Activity Variability in High- Perihelion Jupiter Family Comets | 2016A-0273 | KPNO | 0.9m | 14 |
| Schlaufman, Kevin | Carnegie Institution for Science | The Most Promising Search for the Galaxy's Oldest Stars | 2016A-0086 | SSO | AAT | 2 |
| Schlaufman, Kevin | The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science | An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-poor Stars | 2016A-0175 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 7.94 |
| Schlaufman, Kevin | The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science | An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-poor Stars | 2016A-0175 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 7.4 |
| Seth, Anil | University of Utah | A GNIRS Survery of the Nearest Nuclear Star Clusters | 2016A-0221 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.31 |
| Sheppard, Scott | Carnegie Institution of Washington | The Inner Oort Cloud Population | 2016A-0401 | CTIO | 4m | 3 |
| Sheppard, Scott | Carnegie | The Inner Oort Cloud Population | 2016A-0407 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.2 |
| Simpson, Janet | SETI Institute | Characterizing the Candidate Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Center with Gemini GNIRS | 2016A-0431 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.1 |
| Smith, Nathan | University of Arizona (Astronomy) | [Fe II] Kinematics of Galactic Luminous Blue Variables | 2016A-0287 | GEM-S | GEM-S-SVC | 2 |
| Smith, Verne | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Accurate Stellar Characterization for Kepler Extended Mission (K2) Exoplanet Host Stars | 2016A-0293 | KPNO | WIYN | 6 |
| Sonnett, Sarah | JPL / CalTech | Determining Orbits and Sizes of Near-Earth Objects Discovered by NEOWISE | 2016A-0084 | CTIO | 4m-TOO | |
| Sonnett, Sarah | JPL/CalTech | Confirming Binary Asteroid Candidates to Constrain the Dynamical Evolution of the Solar System | 2016A-0087 | CTIO | SOAR | 5 |
| Stern, Jonathan | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy | Spatially Resolving the Kinematics of the ~100 uas Quasar Broad Line Region Using Spectroastrometry | 2016A-0117 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 1.5 |
| Strauss, Michael A. | Princeton University (Astrophysics) | Spectroscopic identification of new low-luminosity quasars at z > 6 | 2016A-0048 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 2.79 |
| Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | Spectral Confirmation of New Galactic LBV and WN Stars Associated With Mid-IR Nebulae | 2016A-0417 | CTIO | 1.3m | 1.6 |
| Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | Spectral Confirmation of New Galactic LBV and WN Stars Associated With Mid-IR Nebulae | 2016A-0417 | CTIO | SOAR | 3 |
| Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | LBVs - Caught in the Act! | 2016A-0423 | CTIO | 1.3m | 0.96 |
| Stringfellow, Guy | University of Colorado | LBVs - Caught in the Act! | 2016A-0423 | CTIO | 1.5m-SVC | 3.06 |
| Sullivan, Mark | University of Southampton | SUDSS: Survey Using Decam for Superluminous Supernovae | 2016A-0104 | CTIO | 4m | 6 |
| Thomas, Cristina | PSI/USRA/NASA GSFC | Search for a Differentiated Asteroid Family | 2016A-0405 | CTIO | SOAR | 2 |
| Tofflemire, Benjamin | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Accretion in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries | 2016A-0248 | CTIO | 1.3m | 3.83 |
| Tokovinin, Andrei | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Dynamics of resolved triple systems and ``fast'' binaries | 2016A-0005 | CTIO | SOAR | 0.5 |
| Tremblay, Grant | Yale University | A Multi-Wavelength Approach to AGN Feedback and Star- Formation | 2016A-0201 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 2 |
| Treu, Tommaso | University of California, Los Angeles | High-resolution imaging confirmation of gravitationally lensed quasars discovered in STRIDES | 2016A-0107 | CTIO | SOAR | 3 |
| Valenti, Stefano | University of California, Davis | Nebular observations of SNe type II | 2016A-0061 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.46 |
| Valenti, Stefano | University of California, Davis | Nebular observations of SNe type II | 2016A-0061 | GEM-S | GEM-SQ | 0.69 |
| van Velzen, Sjoert | Johns Hopkins University | Reverberation mapping of stellar tidal disruption flares | 2016A-0359 | GEM-N | GEM-NQ | 0.62 |
| Vivas, Kathy | Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory | Improving the Distance Determination to the New Dwarf Galaxies around the Milky Way | 2016A-0196 | CTIO | SOAR | 4 |
| Willman, Beth | Steward Observatory | The Stellar Halos and Dwarf Satellites of LMC-mass Analogs | 2016A-0290 | GEM-N | GEM-N | 2 |
Updated on February 14, 2023, 5:47 am