NOAO Annual Fiscal Report FY09 · 2009-12-01 · AURA/NOAO ANNUAL FISCAL REPORT FY 2009 Submitted to the National Science Foundation November 15, 2009 Image of M82 galactic wind using

AURA/NOAO ANNUAL FISCAL REPORT

FY 2009

Submitted to the National Science Foundation November 15, 2009

Image of M82 galactic wind using data gathered with NEWFIRM on KPNO Mayall 4-m telescope and reduced using the NOAO NEWFIRM Science Pipeline v1.0.

Image Credit: Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland)

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NOAO ANNUAL FISCAL REPORT FY 2009 Submitted to the National Science Foundation

November 15, 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOAO MISSION STATEMENT ................................................................................................................... 1

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................. 2

1 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND FINDINGS ..................................................................................... 3 1.1 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory................................................................................. 3

The Origin of the Galactic Bulge...................................................................................................................................3 A Variable Initial Mass Function...................................................................................................................................3 Hidden Populations in Globular Clusters ......................................................................................................................4 Mass Downsizing in Galaxies........................................................................................................................................5 The Expanding Ejecta of a Supernova...........................................................................................................................6

1.2 Kitt Peak National Observatory................................................................................................... 6 H-alpha Complex in Virgo.............................................................................................................................................6 Deep Near-IR Survey of High-Redshift Galaxies .........................................................................................................7 High-Redshift Cluster Survey in Boötes Void ..............................................................................................................7 Warm Molecular Hydrogen around M82......................................................................................................................7

1.3 NOAO Gemini Science Center ..................................................................................................... 8 ALTAIR Direct Imaging of Planets Orbiting Star HR 8799 ........................................................................................8 Monitoring Long-Term Weather Patterns on Titan Using the Gemini Queue.............................................................8 A High Stellar Velocity Dispersion in a Compact Galaxy at z = 2.186........................................................................9

2 GROUND-BASED O/IR OBSERVING SYSTEM............................................................................. 11 2.1 Strategy and Goals ...................................................................................................................... 11 2.2 CTIO Telescopes ......................................................................................................................... 11

Blanco 4-m Telescope..................................................................................................................................................12 Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope...............................................................................................................14 SMARTS Consortium Operations of the CTIO Small Telescopes ............................................................................15 Tenant Observatories and Projects...............................................................................................................................16 Infrastructure and Support............................................................................................................................................16 Site Protection...............................................................................................................................................................17

2.3 KPNO Telescopes ........................................................................................................................ 17 Mayall 4-m Telescope..................................................................................................................................................18 2.1-m Telescope ...........................................................................................................................................................19 WIYN 3.5-m Telescope ...............................................................................................................................................20 San Juan Fire Suppression............................................................................................................................................20 Relations with the Tohono O’odham Nation...............................................................................................................21 The National Observatory Celebrates 50 Years ..........................................................................................................21 Operations and Instrumentation Partnerships..............................................................................................................22 Site Protection...............................................................................................................................................................22 Kitt Peak Visitor Center Usage....................................................................................................................................22

2.4 The Gemini Observatory ............................................................................................................ 23 Support of US Gemini Users and Proposers................................................................................................................23 Providing US Scientific and Operational Input to Gemini..........................................................................................23 US Gemini Instrumentation Program ..........................................................................................................................24

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2.5 System Development....................................................................................................................25 ReSTAR .......................................................................................................................................................................25 ALTAIR .......................................................................................................................................................................26

2.6 System Implementation................................................................................................................28 Telescope System Instrumentation Program...............................................................................................................29 Telescope Time Allocation ..........................................................................................................................................29

2.7 System Instrumentation ..............................................................................................................30 SOAR Adaptive Optics Module ..................................................................................................................................30 MONSOON Detector Controller.................................................................................................................................32

2.8 Science Data Management ..........................................................................................................33 Data Management Systems Operations.......................................................................................................................33 Data Management Systems Development...................................................................................................................35 Science Data Processing (IRAF) .................................................................................................................................35 Science User Support ...................................................................................................................................................36 Community Efforts (NVO)..........................................................................................................................................36

2.9 Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope..............................................................................37 Management Support ...................................................................................................................................................37 Telescope and Site........................................................................................................................................................37 Science Collaboration and Community Support .........................................................................................................38

2.10 Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Program Office................................................................39 Staffing .........................................................................................................................................................................39 Web Site .......................................................................................................................................................................39 GSMT Science Activities.............................................................................................................................................39 GSMT Technical Activities .........................................................................................................................................40

3 NOAO-WIDE PROGRAMS.................................................................................................................42 3.1 Education and Public Outreach..................................................................................................42

Education Outreach......................................................................................................................................................42 Public Outreach............................................................................................................................................................46

3.2 Administration Services ..............................................................................................................46 NOAO North................................................................................................................................................................46 NOAO South................................................................................................................................................................47

3.3 Facilities Operations ....................................................................................................................47 NOAO North................................................................................................................................................................47 NOAO South................................................................................................................................................................48

3.4 Computer Infrastructure and Network Services ......................................................................48 NOAO North................................................................................................................................................................48 NOAO South................................................................................................................................................................49

APPENDICES

A NOAO Scientific Staff Activity B FY09 Budget Information by Program C NOAO Scientific Staff Publications FY09 D Key Management and Scientific Personnel Changes FY09 E Publications Using Data from NOAO Telescopes F Observing Programs and Investigators Semesters 2009 A/B G New Organizational Partners and Collaborations in FY09 H Diversity and Broader Participation within NOAO I Fourth Quarter Site Safety Report J Scientific Program Orders and Amendments

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NOAO MISSION STATEMENT

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) is the US national research and development center for ground-based nighttime astronomy. In particular, NOAO is enabling the development of the US Ground-based Optical-Infrared (O/IR) System (the System), an alliance of public and private observatories allied for excellence in scientific research, education, and public outreach.

The core mission of NOAO is to provide public access for qualified professional researchers, via peer review, to forefront scientific capabilities on telescopes operated by NOAO and other telescopes within the System. Today, these telescopes range in aperture size from 2- to 10-m. NOAO is participating in the development of telescopes with aperture sizes of 20 m and larger as well as a unique 8-m telescope (the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) that will make a 10-year movie of the Southern Hemisphere sky.

In support of this mission, NOAO is engaged in programs to develop the next generation of telescopes, instruments, and software tools necessary to enable exploration and investigation throughout the observable Universe, from planets orbiting other stars to the most distant galaxies in the Universe.

To communicate the excitement of such world-class scientific research and technology development, NOAO has developed a nationally recognized Education and Public Outreach (EPO) program. The main goals of the EPO program are to inspire young people to become explorers in science and research-based technology and to reach out to groups and individuals who have been historically underrepresented in the physics and astronomy science enterprise.

The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) operates NOAO under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF).


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This is the NOAO Annual Report for FY 2009. This report fulfills requirements established in the Cooperative Agreement between NSF and AURA.

NOAO continued to operate and improve 2 – 4-m class facilities at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). Current science capabilities at these observatories continue to enable a broad range of forefront scientific research.

Major new science capabilities arrived at the SOAR 4.1-m telescope while significant progress was made towards the completion of the One Degree Imager for the WIYN 3.5-m, the Dark Energy Camera for the Blanco 4-m, and the Adaptive Optics Module and high-spatial resolution imager for the SOAR 4.1-m. Planning started for a new medium-resolution optical spectrograph and a Mosaic imager upgrade at the Mayall 4-m telescope. Facilities infrastructure support was provided to a broad range of tenant and partner facilities at both sites. Behind the scenes, NOAO completed several significant infrastructure renewal projects at KPNO and CTIO.

In terms of nights, the Gemini Observatory provided the most US community access at the 6- to 10-m level and the NOAO Gemini Science Center continued to be the US gateway to Gemini. NOAO provided US community access to additional large-aperture nights at the Keck, Magellan, and MMT observatories as a return for NSF investment in instrumentation projects at those observatories through the NOAO-managed Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP). The Access to Large Telescopes for Astronomical Instruction and Research (ALTAIR) committee completed their work and delivered recommendations for how to meet anticipated community needs within the current constellation of 6- to 10-m US telescopes.

Looking further into the future, NOAO remained engaged in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project as the project leader for telescope system and site development. Science engagement in such areas as community participation, operations simulations, and calibration planning also continued. NOAO continued to act as the program manager for NSF Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope development and community engagement activities.

The NOAO Education and Public Outreach program carried out a broad and varied program that touched on many aspects of the NSF goals of broadening the participation of under-represented individuals, groups, and institutions.

Scientific demand as measured by oversubscription rates remained strong for the facilities NOAO operated or to which NOAO provided access. There is a clear trend that modern, world-class instruments are in more demand. Scientific productivity measured by number of papers published by the community-at-large and the NOAO staff in particular also remained strong.

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1 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND FINDINGS

1.1 CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY

The Origin of the Galactic Bulge

Our Galaxy is the one galaxy we can know in exquisite detail, but our position inside the Galaxy means that we are not able to have a “bird’s eye” view of the structure. Instead, we must disentangle complex effects of projection and obscuration from our observations. An example is the relatively recent discovery in 1995 that the Milky Way is a barred spiral. Further work on the structure of the Milky Way has been undertaken by a team led by R. Michael Rich at UCLA. The team has been carrying out a radial velocity survey of the Galactic Bulge (BRAVA—Bulge Radial Velocity Assay) to explore its internal dynamics using the Hydra multi-fiber spectrograph on the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope.

Dynamics can reveal details of the bulge structure and formation. Many of the properties of the bulge suggest it is an old, dynamically hot system, but the presence of a bar implies a form of secular evolution where the bulge may be produced by buckling of an unstable stellar disk. The results of the BRAVA survey, reported by Howard et al. (ApJ Letters, in press), clearly show that the Galactic Bulge is a cylinder in solid body rotation (see Figure 1). This resolves an old controversy on the structure of the Galaxy. The Milky Way appears to possess a pseudo-bulge formed by disk secular evolution. However, it is difficult to understand the evidence for very old ages and high enrichment in this scenario, so further work is needed to understand how these new results fit into the global model of the Galaxy.

A Variable Initial Mass Function

The Initial Mass Function (IMF) of stars is an essential ingredient in simulations and spectral synthesis models. The shape of the IMF, especially at its top (massive) end affects the colors of distant galaxies, the physics of the interstellar medium and the chemical evolution of galaxies. Based on data from open and globular clusters as well as the local stars, it is conventionally assumed that the IMF is universal. For massive stars this is a difficult measurement, because their lifetime is very short and the IMF is sparsely sampled (given their relative rarity).

Figure 1: Rotation and velocity dispersion of stars in the Galactic Bulge, demonstrating cylindrical rotation. (Image credit: from Howard et al., ApJ Letters in press.)


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A team led by Dr. Gerhard Meurer of Johns Hopkins University has compared GALEX images of nearby galaxies (which probe the vacuum ultraviolet (UV) and, therefore, star formation from the most massive objects) and Hα images (which are better correlated with the averaged star formation) from the CTIO 1.5-m telescope (Figure 2). The purpose is to show that the ratio between star formation derived from the far ultraviolet and the Hα implies that the IMF is not universal for massive stars but depends on environment. This has of course important implications for the evolution of low-mass galaxies.

Hidden Populations in Globular Clusters

Globular clusters were generally regarded as simple objects, composed of a single stellar population of stars formed at the same time and with the same chemical composition. The complex abundance and age patterns observed in ω Centauri were regarded as an exception, possibly due to the hypothesis that this cluster originally resided at the center of a much larger system, since disrupted.

It is now clear that massive clusters host a number of stellar generations, likely formed from the material ejected (and enriched) by massive stars originally present in the clusters. For example, NGC 2808 has a triple main sequence. In NGC 1851, a splitting is observed on the subgiant branch (see Figure 3).

Using Stromgren photometry on the SMARTS 1-m telescope, Lee et al. (2009, ApJ, 679, L78) show that the splitting of the subgiant branch is due to a chemical inhomogeneity in the CNO abundances. This suggests that the polluting populations have undergone “hot bottom burning” where the temperatures in the shells were high enough to drive the CNO cycle to completion. It implies that massive stars were present among the objects that produced the new stellar generation.

Figure 2: A composite color picture of two nearby face-on spirals from GALEX data and CTIO 1.5-m telescope imaging.

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Mass Downsizing in Galaxies

The most luminous and massive galaxies in the universe also appear to have the oldest stellar populations. There is a clear trend, called downsizing, for the mean ages of galaxies to decrease as a

function of luminosity. This is of course unexpected in a model where galaxies are formed hierarchically, because mergers should induce star formation and should produce objects with a considerable spread in ages.

One possible solution is that massive galaxies form in over-dense regions, and that star formation is suppressed in such regions. The mergers that make up the more luminous objects will therefore tend to take place between galaxies that are already composed of old stars. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible that the stellar mass is assembled late, even if the mean stellar age is apparently old.

Using infrared and optical imaging from the CTIO 4-m Blanco telescope together with imaging from the Spitzer Space Telescope, Marchesini et al. (2009, ApJ, 701, 1765) show that even when stellar mass functions are considered, there is a downsizing effect (see Figure 4). In other words, not only do more massive galaxies form their stars earlier, but

Figure 3: Splitting of the subgiant branch on NGC 1851 (Milone et al. 2008).

Figure 4: Evolution of the stellar mass function as a function of redshift (from Marchesini et al. 2009).


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they also assemble their stellar mass earlier, something that was previously observed in clusters of galaxies. This suggests that the hierarchical model of galaxy formation is incorrect. This project also shows how ground-based facilities can supplement space observatories and realize important synergies in the resulting scientific investigation.

The Expanding Ejecta of a Supernova

After nearly twenty years of labor, a very long proper motion program on the CTIO 0.9-m telescope by Winkler et al. (2009, ApJ, 692, 1489) concluded the study of the ejecta of supernova remnant G292.0+1.8. Using a series of narrowband filters to isolate the emission lines, Winkler et al. isolated expanding filaments of ionized gas from the remnant and traced their motion in space (see Figure 5).

Study of the filament expansion shows that the supernova explosion from which G292.0+1.8 originated was bipolar and took the form of two jets. This is similar to that observed for Cassiopeia A and is a mechanism proposed to account for Gamma Ray Bursters, via beamed jets from massive supernovae.

1.2 KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY

Some selected science highlights follow, beginning with a result from the wide-field optical imager Mosaic-1, one of the older KPNO instruments, which continues to produce impressive results.

H-alpha Complex in Virgo

Jeff Kenney (Yale University) and colleagues used the combination of the Mayall 4-m telescope Mosaic-1 wide-field imaging and the WIYN 3.5-m telescope spectroscopy with SparsePak to study a previously unsuspected high-speed collision between two galaxies in the Virgo cluster. Their results are presented in their FY09 paper (Kenney et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, 69L), “A Spectacular H-alpha Complex in Virgo: Evidence for a Collision between M86 and NGC 4438 and Implications for the Collisional ISM Heating of Ellipticals.” The image in Figure 6 was taken with the wide-field Mosaic-1 optical imager on the Mayall 4-m telescope at KPNO using a filter that reveals the light from H-alpha emission, the image and related spectroscopic measurements of the filament provide striking evidence of a previously unsuspected high-speed collision between the two galaxies. The red filaments in the image show H-alpha emission with low velocities (similar to the velocities of the two colliding galaxies M86 and NGC 4438). The green filaments, seen near the edge-on spiral

Figure 5: The ejecta from G292.0+1.8. The measured proper motions are extrapolated forward 1000 years from the time of observation.

Figure 6: A deep new image of part of the Virgo cluster reveals monumental tendrils of ionized hydrogen gas 400,000 light-years long connecting the elliptical galaxy M86 (right) and the disturbed spiral galaxy NGC 4438 (left). (Image credit: Tomer Tal and Jeffrey Kenney/Yale University and NOAO/AURA/NSF.)


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galaxy in the lower right (NGC 4388), show H-alpha emission with much higher velocities, suggesting that this galaxy might not be related to M86.

Deep Near-IR Survey of High-Redshift Galaxies

The van Dokkum (Yale University) et al. “NEWFIRM Medium Band Survey” uses custom, medium-band, near-IR filters to allow precision (uncertainty in the redshift on order of 0.02) photometric redshifts of tens of thousands of galaxies in the redshift range of 1.5 to 3.5. In six accepted or submitted papers, the van Dokkum et al. team has presented their initial results, including a description of their survey (van Dokkum et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 2) and the determination of a clear bimodal color distribution of galaxies out to redshift of 2.5 (Brammer et al. 2009, ApJL, in press). Another submitted paper by the team studies the growth of massive galaxies since redshift 2, tracing the build-up of the outer envelope of massive galaxies since redshift 2 (van Dokkum et al. ApJ submitted). Impressively, the team is on track to release their final images in June 2010, 12 months after taking their last image, and to release their catalogs in December 2010.

High-Redshift Cluster Survey in Boötes Void

With NEWFIRM and conventional broadband near-IR filters, Gonzalez (University of Florida) et al. completed their “NEWFIRM Survey of the Boötes Field,” imaging an approximately 9-square-degree field previously observed by numerous surveys, including the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (a past NOAO Survey program of optical and near-IR imaging) and the Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey (SDWFS). Providing the deepest images yet taken of this large area, the new combined multi-wavelength data set enables the detection and characterization of clusters of galaxies out to redshifts as high as 3. The survey will also be used to select rare objects like high-redshift quasars and brown dwarfs. Their first science paper has been submitted, reporting the detection of the first candidate Y dwarf, i.e., the coldest brown dwarfs (Eisenhardt et al. 2009). Other science results from this team are expected in FY10. This survey team also has completed their data processing and delivered their final images to the NOAO Archive.

Warm Molecular Hydrogen around M82

Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland), Rupke (University of Hawai’i), and Rob Swaters (University of Maryland) used narrowband filters, NEWFIRM, and space-based observations to make the first detection of warm molecular hydrogen in the extended wind of galaxy M82. The results have appeared in ApJL (Veilleux, Rupke, and Swaters, 2009, ApJL, 700, L149) and are summarized in the September 2009 issue of the NOAO/NSO Newsletter. Figure 7 is an image adapted from the paper and shows the molecular hydrogen emission. The data used for this impressive result were processed using the NOAO NEWFIRM Science Pipeline v1.0 (Swaters et al. 2009).

Figure 7: Molecular Hydrogen emission in M82. (Left) “Pure” H2 emission on a false-color scale. (Right) H2 (red) + K continuum (blue) emission. (Image credit: adapted from Veilleux et al. 2009.)


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1.3 NOAO GEMINI SCIENCE CENTER

ALTAIR Direct Imaging of Planets Orbiting Star HR 8799

Images taken with the Gemini North telescope and its Near InfraRed Imager (NIRI) and adaptive optics (AO) system ALTAIR made the first direct-imaging detection of multiple planets around another star. The discovery image of two planets around the star HR 8799 is shown in Figure 8. The international team consisted of astronomers from Canada, the US, and the UK, with about half of the observing time coming from the US (Marois, et al. 2009, Science, 322, 1348, “Direct Imaging of Multiple Planets Orbiting the Star HR 8799”). Continuing observations from Keck II found a third planet orbiting even closer to the star; these data constitute the first direct images of a multiple-planet system around another star. The host star, HR 8799 (a young, 1.5-solar-mass star), is about 40 pc away from Earth. Comparison of multi-epoch data show that the three planets are all moving with, and orbiting around, the star, proving that they are associated with it rather than just being unrelated background objects coincidentally aligned in the image.

The planets, which formed about sixty million years ago, are young enough that they are still glowing from heat released as they contracted. Analysis of the brightness and colors of the first two objects (at multiple wavelengths) shows that these are planets having about seven and ten times the mass of Jupiter. As in our solar system, these giant planets orbit in the outer regions of this system—at roughly 25 AU, 40 AU, and 70 AU. In some ways, this planetary system seems to be a scaled-up version of our solar system orbiting a larger and brighter star.

Monitoring Long-Term Weather Patterns on Titan Using the Gemini Queue

A team of US astronomers, over the last several years, has used the AO systems on the Gemini North telescope to obtain high-spatial resolution images of Titan in order to monitor clouds and the weather patterns that they trace. This program exploits variations in the atmospheric methane and hydrogen opacities at different wavelengths to view Titan through its atmosphere all the way down to its surface. Although the Cassini spacecraft is currently orbiting Saturn, it only flies by Titan once every six weeks or so. This makes continuous, ground-based monitoring important for studying shorter-term features, such as rapidly varying cloud patterns or storms.

Most recently, this group (Schaller et al. 2009, Nature, 460, 873, “Storms in the Tropics of Titan”) announced the discovery of a significant new cloud formation (about three million square kilometers) within the moon’s tropical zone near its equator, a region where no significant cloud formation had ever before been observed (see Figure 9). This activity in Titan’s tropics and mid-latitudes also seems to have triggered subsequent cloud development at the moon’s south pole, where it was considered improbable due to the Sun’s seasonal angle relative to Titan. This new work comes

Figure 8: Gemini Observatory discovery image using the ALTAIR adaptive optics system on the Gemini North telescope with the Near-Infrared Imager (NIRI). Shown are two of the three confirmed planets, indicated as “b” and “c.” The “b” planet is an ~7-Jupiter-mass planet orbiting at about 70 AU, while “c” is an ~10-Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the star at about 40 AU.


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from using a combination of the Gemini North telescope and NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). Frequent observations with IRTF provide an overall level of cloud activity and if this activity increases, it triggers a target-of-opportunity program on Gemini North in queue mode. Typically, AO images can be obtained the next night on Gemini North to provide detailed images of cloud structure and location. During a three-week episode, clouds forming at about 30 degrees south latitude were observed, followed several days later by clouds closer to the equator and at the moon’s south pole. The apparent connection between the cloud formations is caused by atmospheric waves created by the initial large storm; these waves then generated clouds at other latitudes. These same phenomena occur in the Earth’s atmosphere and are caused by planetary Rossby waves. This very large atmospheric disturbance probably triggered “rainfall,” where the “rain” is liquid methane, which is what caused the streambeds and channels that have been observed by both the Cassini orbiter and the Huygens lander.

A High Stellar Velocity Dispersion in a Compact Galaxy at z = 2.186

Three astronomers from the US and The Netherlands used the Gemini Near-IR Spectrograph (GNIRS) on Gemini South to obtain the spectrum of a distant (z = 2.186), compact galaxy in order to measure the stellar velocity dispersion within this galaxy that lies some 11 billion light years away (van Dokkum, et al. 2009, Nature, 460, 717, “A High Stellar Velocity Dispersion for a Compact Massive Galaxy at Redshift z = 2.186”). It has been noted that luminous galaxies in the early universe appear to be surprisingly compact, being roughly five times smaller in size than present-day luminous galaxies. The compact sizes of these distant galaxies, which inhabited the early universe, suggest that luminous galaxies must have grown in size over the past 10 billion years. If the early compact galaxies are really both massive and small in spatial size, the velocities of stars within these systems should be much higher than those of stars in present-day galaxies.

A total exposure time of 29 hours was used to obtain a spectrum of a faint, high-redshift compact galaxy, designated 1255-00; the resultant spectrum is shown in Figure 10. The galaxy was observed at a wavelength of ~1.7 μm, however the spectrum shown in the figure has been shifted to the rest frame of the galaxy. The target galaxy has been known to harbor an evolved stellar population, and the velocity dispersion was determined from comparing the broadened stellar absorption lines with template spectra. The derived dispersion of 510 km/s is very large and confirms that 1255-00 is very massive (~2 x 1011 solar masses), despite its diminutive size (~1 kpc). The extreme compactness of a

Figure 9: Left panel: An AO image of Saturn and Titan taken with Gemini North and NIRI using the ALTAIR AO system. Right panel: Close-up of Titan, with the bright spot being the recent “storm” that was monitored in the southern tropics of Titan. (Image credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA; Henry Roe, Lowell Observatory; Emily Schaller, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaií)


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massive, high-redshift galaxy is qualitatively consistent with models in which the central parts of massive galaxies form early via highly dissipative processes.

Figure 10: GNIRS spectrum used to measure the velocity dispersion in 1255-00. The light-grey line shows the actual spectrum with a resolution of 5 Å, while a smoothed spectrum (at a resolution of 25 Å) is shown in black. The strongest absorption features are H-beta at 4861 Å and Mg I at 5172 Å. The best-fitting stellar population model, with a velocity dispersion of 510 km/s is shown in red. The inset illustrates Monte Carlo simulations to determine the uncertainties in the velocity dispersion solutions.

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2 GROUND-BASED O/IR OBSERVING SYSTEM

2.1 STRATEGY AND GOALS

The concept of an NSF-supported optical-infrared (O/IR) astronomy base program was first articulated by the 2001 decadal survey report and affirmed by the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences Senior Review Committee in 2006. Moreover, the Senior Review report asserted that this NSF base program should be led by NOAO. Within the US community-at-large, this base program is more commonly known as the US O/IR System or the System.

The key NOAO scientific mission for the System is clear: deliver community access to an optimized suite of high-performance telescopes with apertures in the range of 2–10 m and compelling instrumentation with broad capabilities. To do that, NOAO is working with US and international observatories as well as NSF to develop an open access system of ground-based facilities that spans a balanced range of telescope aperture size and scientific capability. Continued operation of KPNO and CTIO at a robust level is central to System development for the immediate future. Furthermore, NOAO wants to enhance the System on behalf of the community-at-large through participation in the development of new, major facilities such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT). NOAO participation can come in several ways, but the main goal is to assure that the requirements of the community-at-large are satisfied by whatever major facilities seek NSF funding and later reach fruition.

This section and its subsections describe the NOAO FY09 activities aimed at fulfilling these missions. Activities included maintenance and improvement of the existing facilities, development work for future facilities, and community engagement activities to understand how the community can most efficiently use the current set of System capabilities and how the community wants the System to evolve in the future. In general, the same types of needs for new and existing capabilities must be addressed system-wide: the renewal of infrastructure to modern standards, the ongoing development of high-performance capabilities, and the management of open access to the federal facilities and non-federal facilities made available through various types of partnerships. Thus, the discussion below is divided into subsections that describe the programmatic work accomplished at the federal facilities (sections 2.2, 2.3, and 0), the activities aimed at harnessing community discussion into a viable plan that addresses community needs (section 2.5), and the suite of activities needed for implementing this plan, including programs focused on NOAO management and oversight (section 2.6), and larger programs focused on the actual production of new capabilities for the community (sections 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, and 2.10).

2.2 CTIO TELESCOPES

In the late 1990s, activities were expanded to the higher site on nearby Cerro Pachón, where, soon after, the Gemini South 8.0-m and the SOAR 4.1-m telescopes were constructed. Cerro Tololo hosts more than 15 telescopes and additional specific projects. During FY09, activities at CTIO emphasized infrastructural improvements and upgrades, in preparation for a wide variety of new instrumentation on the Blanco 4-m and the SOAR 4.1-m telescopes, as well as for preparation and installation of new tenant facilities. These activities were accompanied by significant changes in the management structure, with the naming of a new CTIO director (R. Chris Smith) and new deputy director (Nicole van der Bliek). Additional changes in the organizational structure were also announced, as AURA decided to integrate the currently independent AURA Observatory Support Services (AOSS) group back into CTIO in response to a finding by the independent business review of NSF facilities held in


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FY08. Although the integration officially takes place as of FY10, significant effort was devoted to planning and coordination of the integration during FY09.

Blanco 4-m Telescope

In April and May of FY09, the Blanco telescope saw its longest and most thorough shutdown since its commissioning in 1974. The primary motivation was to resolve a long-term problem with separating radial supports that resulted in the primary mirror moving around in its cell, which had deleterious consequences on image quality. Resolving this issue is part of CTIO’s commitment towards preparing

for the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) and its need for the best possible image quality that the Blanco can be made to deliver. The greater part of the work involved re-siting the radial supports around the circumference of the mirror using a newly designed attachment to more evenly distribute the loads from the gravity-driven radial supports. The radial supports themselves were also modified to improve free play in the system, which, although counter-intuitive, actually increased its static stability. All bearings were replaced and great care was taken to ensure the best possible tuning of this very complex system. Upon reassembly, it was established that the primary mirror motions in its cell are an order of magnitude smaller than before the shutdown and appear to be largely deterministic, which will facilitate the effective use of the hexapod being built into DECam. Optical tests are ongoing, but initial results are very promising. Most importantly, and for the first time in memory, the telescope has gone several months without breaking off any radial supports.

In a second major work package towards preparing for DECam, the telescope control system is being completely replaced using modern components and optical tape encoders on each axis. At the end of FY09, the new system was entering its final few months of development where it may be operated, during the day, in parallel with the old system. The new system incorporates the now-industry-standard Wallace Telescope Control System (TCS) kernel and drives the telescope via network-enabled, permanent magnet alternating current (PMAC) motor-controllers. Mode-switching the drive will be retired and the new system will calculate optimal trajectories for slews, thus allowing pointing changes for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) to match, or beat, DECam’s readout time. The group responsible for this new TCS also developed the TCS for SOAR; the upgraded Blanco TCS is essentially the prototype for LSST. The intention is that their underlying commonalities will make support, maintenance, and upgrade of all three TCSs more efficient.

DECam will also require an advanced instrument maintenance facility, incorporating a cleanroom. To that end, the room to the west of the telescope, which was originally intended to house a Coudé spectrograph, is being converted. This room and its annex must house the cleanroom, compressors for DECam and the NEWFIRM wide-field infrared imager, and various handling gear, as

Figure 11: The primary mirror of the CTIO Blanco 4-m being removed from the telescope 20 April 2009 (Image Credit: T. Abbot NOAO/AURA/NSF)

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well as act as a storage area for instruments when not in use. The design is complete, all major purchases have been made, and the room is being prepared.

In other work preparing for DECam, interaction between CTIO and Fermilab/DECam staff is being ramped up with the development of the f/8 handling station, which will revolutionize the methods used for switching foci by allowing the removal of the secondary mirror from the telescope when it is not in use. Designs are being developed for the runs of high pressure gases and cryogens for both DECam and NEWFIRM. In the near future, the expectation is to improve thermal equilibration of the telescope, renovate the aluminizing chamber, and upgrade the computer and control rooms.

During FY09, the decision was made to bring NEWFIRM from the Mayall Telescope on Kitt Peak to the Blanco telescope in February 2010 with 1.5 years of observations to begin in May 2010. While this was always the intended plan for this instrument, the timing takes advantage of the relative calm at CTIO before the storm of DECam’s arrival, otherwise it would have to wait for at least another two years to make the journey.

Blanco Telescope Instrumentation

Mosaic 2: The Mosaic imager at prime focus continues to be our most popular instrument on the Blanco. The camera suffered a minor setback with the loss of one-half of one CCD when used in 16-amplifier mode. Fortunately, full coverage can still be obtained when used in 8-amplifier mode but with a concomitant increase in readout time, and, otherwise, it remains a most effective instrument. A systematic program of testing and repairing spare electronic boards has been undertaken to ensure that the system, which relies upon many parts that are no longer available on the market, can continue to be operated effectively through its planned replacement with DECam in 2011.

ISPI: The Infrared Side Port Imager (ISPI) has been in use at the Blanco for the last six years and has been, up until the operation of the European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy commenced, the widest-field large-telescope IR imager in the Southern Hemisphere, covering 10.25 arcminutes square with a sampling rate of 0.33 arcseconds per pixel over a wavelength range of 1–2.4 microns. This complements the small-field, high angular resolution near-IR imaging capability soon to be available with the Spartan IR Imager at SOAR and the infrared instrumentation at Gemini South. ISPI will remain in Blanco’s instrument complement even after NEWFIRM comes to Chile because of the latter’s temporary residence.

Hydra-CTIO: Hydra is the third component of the Blanco wide-field instrument complement, with 138 fibers that can cover a field of view of 40 arcminutes in diameter. It can be installed on the telescope concurrently with Mosaic and ISPI. Although Hydra continues to require careful maintenance and upkeep, it performed reliably during the FY09. In order to extend its utility in the face of competition from similar facilities at the Anglo-Australian Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, options are being explored to upgrade this instrument with new detectors and controllers and possibly extending its reach into the near-infrared.

RC Spectrograph: The Ritchey-Chrétien (RC) Spectrograph, a medium-dispersion long-slit spectrograph, continued to be popular in FY09 despite the growing availability of its intended replacement, the Goodman spectrograph on SOAR. The limited amount of time available on SOAR to the US community (30 percent) has not allowed for the Goodman to meet the community’s demand for the work horse capability of long-slit spectroscopy on 4-m-class


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facilities in the Southern Hemisphere. As a result, plans are being developed for its renovation or, possibly, replacement pending availability of funding.

Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope

During FY09, the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope achieved a significant milestone of 80 percent of its time scheduled for science, while performing at a reliably high standard and delivering high-quality imaging and spectroscopic performance in the optical and near-IR. Commissioning activities were, like last year, focused on commissioning of new instruments, particularly the Spartan Infrared Imager, and continued characterization of the Goodman spectrograph.

SOAR Telescope Instrumentation

SOI: The SOAR Optical Imager, built at CTIO, has been regularly used on SOAR for commissioning and science activities. The instrument performed reliably during the whole of FY09. While the imager is currently a mosaic of two 2K×4K detectors, substantial progress has been made on an upgrade to the instrument to replace these two detectors with a single 4K×4K system. As of the end of FY09, the dewar and detector system had been prepared, and they will be integrated and commissioned early in FY10.

OSIRIS: The Ohio State Infrared Imager and Spectrometer, which is fitted with a CTIO 1K×1K Rockwell HgCdTe array, was moved to SOAR after several years of use on the Blanco 4-m telescope and was successfully commissioned in FY05. It continues to reliably provide both an imaging and a modest-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy capability (up to R = 3000) for the NOAO and SOAR communities.

The Goodman High Throughput Spectrograph: The Goodman Spectrograph with a Fairchild 4K×4K CCD camera was successfully commissioned in two of its three modes during FY08: imaging and single-slit spectroscopy. During FY09, these two modes were available for users, while detailed characterization and enhancements to the observing software continued in parallel. The laser-cutting machine, which allows cutting of masks for the Goodman Spectrograph multi-object mode and also for GMOS on Gemini South, was purchased in FY08 and brought into full operation in FY09. Software to operate the multi-slit mode of Goodman was developed during FY09, and it is anticipated that commissioning of the multi-slit mode will take place during the first half of FY10.

Spartan Infrared Imager: The Spartan 4K×4K IR imager (Figure 12), constructed by Michigan State University arrived at SOAR at the very end of FY08. During the first half of FY09, the Spartan imager was commissioned with the engineering grade arrays and a broadband filter set. In July 2009, the engineering grade arrays were replaced by the science grade arrays and a set of narrowband filters was added to the Spartan filter complement. Commissioning of the imager will continue during to the first half of FY10, including characterizing the science grade arrays and measuring the throughput of the instrument and all its filters.

Figure 12: Spartan at SOAR.


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Other SOAR Instruments: The Brazilian-built Integral-Field-Unit Spectrograph (SIFS) is not expected to arrive at SOAR before early FY10, with the high-resolution SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES) to follow. NOAO is providing engineering support for some of the STELES design work.

SAM: The SOAR Adaptive Module, being built at CTIO as part of the NOAO System Instrumentation program, saw first light in the Natural Guide Star mode. The instrument and its status are described in “System Instrumentation,” section 2.7.

SMARTS Consortium Operations of the CTIO Small Telescopes

The Small and Moderate Aperture Telescope Research System (SMARTS) Consortium continued to operate four small telescopes at CTIO in FY09. The Consortium continues to be sound financially, although the membership regularly changes as specific projects (and funding) are finished and new projects enter the group. The instrumentation and operations mode remain an attractive complement of imagers and spectrographs with classical, service, and queue operational modes available. A new capability, high-resolution spectroscopy using the ex-Blanco Echelle in fiber-fed mode on the CTIO 1.5-m telescope, was developed in collaboration with Debra Fischer from San Francisco State University in FY08. This new facility drove the oversubscription rate on the CTIO 1.5-m telescope to levels above the Blanco and even Gemini South for two semesters, due to the combination of general demand for the new capability combined with the smaller slice of time available as a result of Fischer’s extensive use of the telescope and instrument for her project. With an Iodine cell, the instrument is stable enough for planet searches on bright stars using the radial velocity method, achieving radial velocity precision down to 1 meter per second in combined exposures.

NOAO users averaged approximately 25 percent of the scheduled time on the SMARTS telescopes over the course of FY09.

SMARTS Telescopes and Instrumentation

CTIO 1.5-m: The CTIO 1.5-m telescope has been designated as the SMARTS spectroscopic facility, hosting two complementary spectrographs. The new fiber-fed Echelle spectrograph provides high-resolution spectroscopy for bright targets. Two staged upgrades are planned for this instrument, including an initial upgrade of the detector controller system, a project started in FY09 to be finished by the first quarter of FY10, and a more extensive upgrade of both the spectrograph optics and detector system to be implemented by the first quarter of FY11. The 1.5-m Cassegrain spectrograph continues to be available, and it is possible to switch between the two spectrographs in less than 30 minutes. Both instruments are available only in service mode observing.

CTIO 1.3-m: The A Novel Double-Imaging Camera (ANDICAM) instrument on the CTIO 1.3-m provides simultaneous optical and near-IR imaging in full service, limited queue mode. The optical imager relies upon a 2K×2K CCD, and the IR capability is based upon a 1Kx1K detector. The maximum time per night per project is set at three hours in order to support the wide range of astronomical monitoring projects that are supported by this unique combination of telescope, instrument, and observing mode.

CTIO 0.9-m: The CTIO 0.9-m telescope supports a fixed 2K×2K optical imager, with observations scheduled alternatively in one week of classical mode and one week of service. This facility is the cornerstone of a major astrometric project, led by Todd Henry of Georgia State University, which relies upon the long-term stability of the instrument and telescope.


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Yale 1.0-m: The 1.0-m telescope at CTIO belongs to Yale University and is also operated by the SMARTS Consortium. This telescope supports a 4K×4K optical imager used only in classical mode. It is a popular platform for student training and observing runs.

Tenant Observatories and Projects

CTIO continues to offer a unique platform providing US groups and institutions access to the skies of the Southern Hemisphere. CTIO hosts a total of 15 telescopes and several additional projects studying

a wide range of phenomena, from the Earth’s own atmosphere to distant gamma ray bursts (GRBs). In FY09, one new project began operations and another began clearing a site for construction.

The Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper (WHAM) project (lead institution University of Wisconsin) removed its robotic telescope from Kitt Peak in FY08 and installed it at Cerro Tololo in early FY09 (Figure 13). With support from local staff, the site was prepared and ready when the shipment of the largely self-contained observatory arrived, and the instrument team achieved first light within two weeks of opening the shipping containers.

The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN) was assigned a site for their facility, which consists of two to four 1.0-m

telescopes and four to six 0.4-m telescopes. The site was cleared and prepared for construction in FY09. Installation and commissioning of these telescopes is expected to begin in early FY10.

The University of North Carolina Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT) project consists of six small telescopes that rapidly follow up gamma-ray bursts discovered by the Swift satellite and subsequently trigger a target-of-opportunity interrupt at SOAR. At other times, the telescopes will make observations as part of an extensive education and outreach program in North Carolina. Full science operations for four of the telescopes began at the start of FY06, and the facility has successfully made GRB follow-up observations during the past two years.

US institutions operate two other telescopes on Cerro Tololo. The University of Michigan operates the 0.6/0.9-m Curtis Schmidt telescope, which is used part-time in a NASA-funded project to catalog space debris in geosynchronous orbits. The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy Corporation reached an agreement with Lowell Observatory to roboticize the 0.4-m Lowell telescope. During FY09, the telescope was extensively refurbished and prepared for operations, which are planned to begin in early FY10.

CTIO also continues to host a Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) station; the Portable Ionospheric Camera and Small-Scale Observatory (PICASSO) imager project, operated by the University of Illinois to study the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere; and a lunar scintillometer and transient camera belonging to the Advanced Liquid-mirror Probe for Astrophysics, Cosmology and Asteroids (ALPACA) project (lead institution Columbia University).

Infrastructure and Support

In FY09, CTIO continued to build upon the FY08 infrastructure funds granted to NOAO for CTIO telescope and facility upgrades that resulted from the NSF Senior Review recommendations. Planning for the key project undertaken with these funds, a new cleanroom in the Blanco 4-m telescope was done in FY08, and the project was undertaken in FY09 after the completion of the radial mirror

Figure 13: WHAM installed on Cerro Tololo.


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support upgrade (discussed above). Additional funding was used for improvements in the Blanco 4-m control room, specifically in the area of networking. Both of these infrastructure investments are crucial to the support of the next generation of instruments, specifically NEWFIRM and DECam, which are arriving starting in early FY10.

Site Protection

The Office for the Protection of the Sky of Northern Chile (OPCC) was created by the Chilean Environment Protection Agency (CONAMA) and the professional optical observatories operating in Chile (CTIO, Gemini, SOAR, ESO, LCO) in May 2000, with the primary objectives as follows: (1) informing and sensitizing the public, authorities, and companies about the justifications of protecting the night sky in northern Chile as a distinctive environmental heritage; (2) providing information and monitoring compliance of the light pollution standard (Supreme Decree No. 686, DS696) and other related legislation, including providing support to the enforcement agencies; and (3) providing technical support for replacing or adopting illumination systems to comply with the light pollution standard for municipalities and companies. The office is funded by all of the above-mentioned observatories and consists of two people: the head and a technical assistant. CTIO provides administrative support to the OPCC, while both Gemini and CTIO provide small amounts of scientific and technical support for activities in Region IV of Chile, within which the AURA property is situated. LCO and ESO provide similar support for activities in Regions IIi and II of Chile, respectively.

For FY09, the OPCC and CTIO concentrated significant effort on working directly with the 11 municipalities in Region IV to complete the process of changing over their lighting fixtures to those compliant with the DS696 standard. This milestone was achieved, and the focus was shifted to working with the larger cities of Coquimbo and La Serena to change over their lighting fixtures in the next few years. Additional effort was spent helping to force regularization of the bid process for lighting fixture replacement in the Region II city of Antofagasta.

In addition, the “dark skies” element of our local outreach program promoted the 2009 international Globe at Night program in collaboration with the NOAO/Tucson Education and Public Outreach group. All the above activities are designed to keep the skies above the professional observatories in their present pristine state for many decades to come, despite the considerable increase in population over the past 20 years, coupled with the development of the La Serena region as a popular tourist destination.

2.3 KPNO TELESCOPES

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) operates the Mayall 4-m and the 2.1-m telescopes. Additionally, KPNO operates the WIYN 3.5-m in partnership with the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Yale University. The Kitt Peak telescopes of the National Solar Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (the VLBA) receive direct operational support or maintenance services from KPNO in addition to the shared mountain facilities provided for all of the tenant observatories on the mountain. In 2008, KPNO began a five-year program to modernize and improve its facilities. The process of addressing issues of deferred maintenance for the entire site also was begun. During FY09, KPNO continued to prepare the WIYN 3.5-m telescope and dome to receive the One Degree Imager (ODI), a new wide-field optical imager, in 2010.

Significant steps were made in FY09 to keep KPNO telescopes equipped with forefront instruments, to broaden the involvement of young astronomers in the use and development of new instruments, and to support exciting and world-class research activities. NEWFIRM, the new wide-field near- IR imager continued routine science operations at the Mayall 4-m telescope. The new, high spatial resolution, near-IR imager WHIRC went into general service at the WIYN 3.5-m telescope.

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instruments for the Mayall 4-m telescope. Mosaic-1 was successfully repaired in August and resumed nominal operations. The combined down time due to technical problems for the Mayall 4-m telescope, WIYN 3.5-m, and 2.1-m telescopes (including instruments) was six percent, significantly higher than the less than three percent of FY08, and was due largely to problems with Mosaic-1 and the control of the secondary at the Mayall 4-m telescope. Both of these problems were solved and there should be improved performance in FY10. Time lost due to poor weather was 24 percent, close to the historical average.

Mayall 4-m Telescope

During a late summer shutdown of the Mayall, significant maintenance work was successfully completed that included replacement of the floor chiller system (important for the thermal regulation of the telescope environment, a requirement for maintaining excellent image quality) and major repairs to cracked rails that support the dome. The repairs of the dome rails should be completed during FY10.

Mayall Instrumentation

Mosaic-1: The Mosaic imager, the widest field optical imager currently offered at KPNO, is used at the prime focus of the Mayall. In May 2009, significant problems developed with the electronic control system for the detectors. During July and August, these problems were successfully redressed through a productive collaboration between KPNO and CTIO technicians and engineers. Mosaic-1 continues to be in high demand at both the Mayall 4-m and the WIYN 0.9-m telescopes. During FY09, NOAO submitted to NSF a successful proposal (ReSTAR) that has secured funding to be used in FY10 and FY11 to upgrade the detectors and controller of the Mosaic-1.

NEWFIRM: This newest instrument on the Mayall, a wide-field (27' by 27' field-of-view) near-IR imager was in high demand in FY09. NEWFIRM will be transferred to the Blanco 4-m at CTIO in early 2010 and will return to KPNO in late 2011.

Simultaneous Quad IR Imager (SQIID): This near-IR imager allows simultaneous J, H, and K-pass band imaging and is a favorite of proposers who need multiband data over a modest field of view. This instrument is available at both the Mayall and 2.1-m telescopes.

FLAMINGOS IR Imaging Spectrometer: The first cryogenic multi-slit near-IR imaging spectrograph in the world, FLAMINGOS was built by Richard Elston and his colleagues at the University of Florida with modest assistance with the detector and initial funding from NOAO/KPNO. The instrument is showing its age and could use some refurbishment, but it is still breaking new ground with the aid of a new integral field unit provided by Steve Eikenberry and the University of Florida.

InfraRed Multi-Object Spectrograph (IRMOS): John Mackenty and his colleagues at Goddard Space Flight Center built this groundbreaking near-IR spectrograph to test micro-mirror technology for future space missions as an alternative to multiple cold slit masks for cryogenic near-IR spectroscopy. IRMOS now provides KPNO observers with a flexible near-IR multi-object spectrograph.

Multi-Aperture Red Spectrometer (MARS) and RC Spectrograph: These two low to moderate optical spectrographs continue in service, although upgrades to the guiders, detectors, and controllers are desirable. The MARS nod-and-shuffle observing mode, which allows improved sky-background subtraction, continues to be offered.


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Echelle: The venerable Echelle Spectrograph continues to be offered. Over the past year, several of the highest ranked proposals by the NOAO TAC have requested this instrument. During FY09, NOAO’s successful ReSTAR proposal to the NSF secured partial funding support for the upgrade of the detector and controller of the Echelle during FY10 and FY11.

Visitor Instruments: Scientists continue to bring visitor instruments to test innovative technologies and observing modes (e.g., visiting Speckle Camera).

2.1-m Telescope

In addition to supporting general observing programs, the 2.1-m telescope continues to be a test-bed for new instruments. As noted in the NOAO FY08 annual report, IRMOS and FLAMINGOS were extensively commissioned and tested at the 2.1-m. These two near-IR spectrographs were used to pioneer new technologies now being used in new instruments for 8-m telescopes and space observatories. D. Figer (RIT) used the 2.1-m to test the on-sky performance of silicon pin-diode detectors, devices being considered for the LSST. A. Szymkowiak and his colleagues at Yale used the 2.1-m to commission a new high-throughput optical spectrograph. While developing new technologies for astronomy, these groups have been able to use the 2.1-m to undertake astronomical research and involve students in the process of developing the next generation of astronomical instrumentation.

J. Ge and his University of Florida colleagues are further examples of visiting scientists using the 2.1-m as a test-bed for the development of new instruments. They had multiple successful science runs with their innovative, high-precision, radial velocity, fiber-fed, bench spectrograph called the Exoplanet Tracker (ET). The optics project a fringe pattern from a Michelson interferometer at nearly right angles to the absorption features on the widened stellar spectrum. The recorded phase of the interference fringes is then extremely sensitive to small velocity shifts. The Florida team was able to obtain 3.5-m/s repeatability, following a series of upgrades that provided significantly improved thermal stability. Very high throughput was achieved by acquisition of a larger diameter collimator and by implementing both beams of the interferometer. Use of the instrument on the 2.1-m now provides stable measurements on stars of 8th and 9th magnitude. The work on ET and its soon to be successor “EXPERT,” has been the core of three PhD dissertations to date.

During a late summer shutdown, numerous general maintenance projects were undertaken, including some minor renovations of the control room.

2.1-m Instrumentation

CCD Imager

Simultaneous Quad IR Imager (SQIID): See description under Mayall Instrumentation

FLAMINGOS IR Imaging Spectrometer: See description under Mayall Instrumentation

GoldCam CCD Spectrograph: An aging optical spectrograph that is still in demand by KPNO users.

Exoplanet Tracker (ET): Built by J. Ge and his colleagues at the University of Florida, this instrument, funded in part by NSF grants to the University of Florida, has been available to the community through proposals to the NOAO TAC under an agreement with J. Ge and the University of Florida.


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WIYN 3.5-m Telescope

The WIYN Observatory consists of the WIYN 3.5-m and 0.9-m telescopes. KPNO and NOAO are partners in the consortium (including University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Yale University) that operates the WIYN 3.5-m, the most modern of the telescopes operated on Kitt Peak.

Work continues to complete the One Degree Imager (ODI). A special meeting within a meeting focusing on the science to be done with ODI was held at the June 2009 AAS meeting. Scientists from across the partnership and the community met to discuss their plans for exploiting the unique properties of ODI to enable major science programs like those to be studied by the Yale/WIYN Survey (astro.yale.edu). The science requirements document for a pipeline and archive system for ODI were finished in FY09. The completed instrument is currently scheduled for first light in late 2010.

A large number of maintenance and repair projects were conducted during FY09 in order to continue the high level of operations expected from the WIYN facility.

WIYN 3.5-m Instrumentation

Hydra + Bench Spectrograph: This multi-fiber spectroscopic capability remains very popular with the university partners of the WIYN Observatory. WIYN completed a major upgrade to the Bench Spectrograph during FY09. Led by M. Bershady (University of Wisconsin), P. Knezek (WIYN), J. Glaspey (NOAO/KPNO), and M. Hunten (NOAO/SI), the total system throughput and sensitivity were improved by the modifications and new components commissioned during FY09.

SparsePak3 + Bench Spectrograph: This is an integral field fiber feed alternative to the Hydra multi-object spectrograph.

MiniMosaic Imager (MIMO): This aging facility instrument remains the main optical imager available at WIYN.

U. Hawai’i OPTIC Camera (OPTIC): This optical imager (built by John Tonry, University of Hawai’i, and colleagues) uses innovative orthogonal transfer CCDs to enable improved delivered image quality and rapid read-out observing modes. This optical imager, available intermittently when not in use in Hawai’i, provides WIYN observers with a high spatial resolution optical imaging capability that is a nice complement to the wide field-of-view imaging enabled by the Mosaic 1 camera on the Mayall.

WIYN High Resolution Infrared Camera (WHIRC): Built by Margaret Meixner (STScI), Ed Churchwell (University of Wisconsin) and colleagues at JHU, STScI, WIYN Observatory, and NOAO/KPNO, this near-IR imager provides very high spatial resolution, near-IR imaging over a 3.3' × 3.3' field of view. During FY09, instrument scientist R. Joyce (NOAO) and colleagues successfully commissioned the use of the WIYN Tip-Tilt Module (WTTM) with this instrument. When used together, WTTM and WHIRC have yielded 0.3″ FWHM images.

San Juan Fire Suppression

Two years after the “Alambre” fire was contained (13 July 2007), KPNO again had to restrict access to Kitt Peak while firefighters protected the observatories and facilities on the mountain. The “San Juan” fire began on Tuesday, July 14. It took the rest of the week to contain the fire. This fire posed a major threat to the observatories, getting to within one mile of MDM Observatory. KPNO is grateful to the efforts of the 109 members of both the Tohono O’odham Nation’s Fire Response Team and Darrel Miller’s Type 3 response crew in containing the fire.

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Relations with the Tohono O’odham Nation

Improving communication between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the observatory continues to be a major focus of the KPNO Director’s Office with support from the Education and Public Outreach program (EPO). KPNO is working to build on its strong relationships with many segments of the Nation’s government to further mutual interests. KPNO hosted and supported the 2009 Summer Horse Camp of the Boys & Girls Club of Sells, hosted nighttime observing sessions of school children and adults from the Nation, and supported the educational programs of EPO. In 2009, Dr. Don McCarthy brought his well known Astronomy Camps to Kitt Peak, supported by EPO, KPNO, Steward Observatory, and the Arizona Radio Observatories. Three Tohono O’odham children participated in the camps supported by scholarships from NOAO (see September 2009 NOAO/NSO Newsletter for details). KPNO staff worked closely with representatives of the Tohono O’odham Natural Resources Office as they worked to better understand the ecology of Kitt Peak, known as Iolkam Duag to many of the Tohono O’odham Nation. A successful working relationship continued with the Tohono O’odham Department of Public Safety, as evidenced by the joint success dealing with the wildfire threat during the summer of 2009, the third year in a row for such a threat. Also in 2009, the Schuk Toak District passed a resolution supporting the flying of their District flag on observatory grounds. During FY10, KPNO will seek support from the Tohono O’odham Legislative Council to fly the flag of the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The National Observatory Celebrates 50 Years

The NSF announced its decision to create a national observatory for the support of optical astronomy research open to all qualified researchers based on the merit of their proposals in March 1958. The observatory on Kitt Peak was dedicated in March 1960. Starting in 2008 and continuing through 2010, NOAO will recognize the 50th anniversary of the National Observatory with a variety of events. To kick of the celebration in September 2008, the largest gathering of people ever held on Kitt Peak took place, an Open House for the Tohono O’odham Nation, with over 1,000 attendees.

Celebrations of the anniversary were minimal during FY09 while the focus was instead on helping to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. However, time was taken to mark a significant 50th anniversary in April 2009 (Figure 14). Dr. Arlo Landolt of Louisiana State University, the first visiting observer at the National Observatory when he observed from Kitt Peak in 1959, returned to Kitt Peak to use the 2.1-m telescope. His observing run marked the start of a new multi-year observing program to develop a new set of photometric standards suitable for use with large telescopes and modern CCD cameras. Dr. Landolt has been observing from Kitt Peak for 50 years and this remarkable accomplishment was recognized during his observing run at the 2.1-m in April 2009.

Anniversary events will resume in October 2009 and culminate with several meetings in March 2010, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the site of Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Figure 14: Buell Jannuzi (left) presents Arlo Landolt (right) an award in April 2009 for 50 years of observing at KPNO. Landolt was the first observer of the National Observatory in 1959.


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Operations and Instrumentation Partnerships

During FY09, the three-year Mayall 4-m operations partnership with Clemson University and the six-year instrumentation partnership with the University of Maryland were concluded. The funding provided by Clemson helped support operations of the Mayall 4-m telescope. Clemson used their observing time to further the research activities of their faculty and students, including several groups of undergraduates who participated in their first astronomical research activities. The partnership with University of Maryland, through both their cash contributions and software expertise, helped ensure the successful start of normal science operations with NEWFIRM, assisted with the development of the NOAO Science Archive through work with the NOAO Science Data Management program (formerly call Data Products Management), and furthered the development of ODI for the WIYN 3.5-m telescope.

Site Protection

The outreach efforts of KPNO to the Maricopa Association of Governments during the Fall of 2008 led to the creation, with the support of the 22 mayors of cities and towns in Maricopa County, of a Maricopa Association of Governments Dark Sky Stakeholders Group (MAG DSSG). Composed of city planners, government staffers, and representatives of the astronomy community of Arizona, the group meets monthly and is working to find ways for the governments and observatories of Arizona to work together to protect the quality of Arizona’s dark skies for astronomical research while enabling necessary growth and development. This new group held its first meeting 3 March 2009 and has since met monthly, with KPNO participation, with the purpose of developing a model outdoor lighting code that can be used by all of the Maricopa communities to help protect Arizona’s dark skies for astronomical research. This work is scheduled to culminate in the presentation of a model outdoor lighting code in early FY10.

The KPNO director continues to serve on the Pima County and City of Tucson outdoor lighting code committee and is chair of the subcommittee that is revising and updating the code to address the new generation of lighting, most notably fixtures using blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The assistant to the KPNO director, E. Alvarez, J. Glaspey of KPNO, and C. Walker of EPO continue to represent KPNO and NOAO at numerous general, public, governmental, and professional meetings (local, national, and international) promoting the protection of dark skies for astronomical research and education.

Kitt Peak Visitor Center Usage

The Kitt Peak Visitor Center (KPVC) is now (as of 1 January 2009) administered as part of Kitt Peak National Observatory. In addition to the operations of the mountaintop visitor center and gift store, KPVC runs the nightly observing program (NOP) and advanced observing program (AOP). These internationally known programs allow public visitors to the mountain to experience observing the wonders of the Universe with modern, small telescopes at one of the world’s best sites, surrounded by working research observatories. This is a unique experience for those that participate and communicates the excitement of astronomy to the general public. The table at the right provides usage statistics for the KPVC for FY09 with a comparison to the FY08 numbers. There is no FY08 comparison for the Total General Visitors estimate as the number used in the FY08 annual report was the number of

Kitt Peak Visitor Center FY09 Program Attendance

and General Visitors [vs. FY08]

Guided Public Tours 9,798 [6,814]

School Groups K-12 1,213 [823]

Special Tours 402 [221]

Nightly Observing Program 7,483 [7,001]

Advanced Observing Program 196 [249]

Total General Visitors (est.) >40,000 [NA]


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people (many counted multiple times) entering the visitor center. The FY09 number is a more accurate estimate of the annual number of visitors to the observatory.

2.4 THE GEMINI OBSERVATORY

Support of US Gemini Users and Proposers

The NOAO Gemini Science Center (NGSC) is the operations service provider and user interface for US community access to the Gemini Observatory’s two 8.1-m telescopes. NGSC deals with operational issues but has no management authority over Gemini. The operational support work includes informing the US community of Gemini observing opportunities, answering questions from US proposers and users about all aspects of Gemini, performing technical reviews for all Gemini proposals submitted to the NOAO Time Allocation Committee (TAC), providing assistance with US Phase-II submissions for programs selected for Gemini telescope time, interfacing with Gemini on the implementation of US programs, and providing certain types of operational support for Gemini.

The Gemini observing process requires the submission of a Phase II file once an observing program is approved. NGSC staff perform reviews of all US program Phase II submissions. The Phase II file must describe an observation completely and be error free, because the commands in this file are uploaded directly to the telescope and instrument when the observation is executed; any errors in the execution would result in lost telescope time. Few users submit a correct Phase II initially, so this critical and complex process usually requires multiple iterations and communications between the NGSC staff contact and the program PI.

NGSC organized a booth for the January 2009 AAS meeting held in Long Beach, California. The booth featured displays on how to propose for Gemini observing time, details of all of the available instruments, and tutorials by NGSC staff with users on preparing Phase II programs. There was also a significant NGSC presence at the June 2009 AAS meeting in Pasadena, California, with considerable interaction between NGSC staff and US Gemini users.

Staff members from NGSC attended and participated in the first joint Gemini and Subaru science conference held 18–22 May 2009 in Kyoto, Japan. The five-day meeting provided an opportunity for participants to share a wide range of research topics spanning studies of our solar system and exoplanets to cosmology and the high redshift universe. Participants discussed observing techniques, unique collaborations, and looked toward the future of both observatories, as well as how the two astronomical communities might work together to better serve their users.

One recommendation of the Access to Large Telescopes for Astronomical Instruction and Research (ALTAIR) committee report was to increase the amount of US observing time that was scheduled as classical observing runs on Gemini. In order to implement this recommendation for semesters 2009A and 2009B, V. Smith contacted the PIs of US Gemini programs that might be well-suited to classical observing. For classical observing runs on Gemini, NOAO pays the travel expenses for up to two observers. As a result of these efforts, during 2009A 23 percent of programs of US Gemini PIs were carried out as classical runs, with these programs accounting for 34 percent of US Gemini time. In semester 2009B the corresponding percentages were 20 percent and 32 percent. A report on the “classical experience” with Gemini will be prepared and posted on the NOAO Web site.

Providing US Scientific and Operational Input to Gemini

NGSC is an active participant and advocate for US interests in a number of committees, including the Gemini Science Committee (GSC), the Operations Working Group, (OpsWG) and the Gemini International TAC (ITAC). NGSC Director V. Smith serves as US representative on the OpsWG and the ITAC. The OpsWG met twice in FY09, first in La Serena, Chile, 30–31 January 2009 and again in Warwick, England, 29–30 July 2009. The ITAC for semester 2009A met in Tucson, 24–25 November


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2008 (hosted by NOAO/NGSC) and for semester 2009B in Kyoto, Japan, 19 May 2009 (during the Joint Gemini/Subaru Science Meeting).

The US Gemini Science Advisory Committee (SAC), which serves as the community-based advisory committee for NGSC met twice during FY09, both times in Tucson, 1–2 October 2008 and 23–24 June 2009. During these meetings, the SAC was briefed on the status of the Gemini telescopes and instruments, the US instrumentation effort, and current scientific and technical issues. In addition, future observational and scientific opportunities on Gemini were discussed, while the SAC considered how the priorities of the US community should be presented to the Gemini leadership. The current SAC membership list can be found at www.noao.edu/usgp/staff.html.

The US SAC also interacts, via both meeting and membership overlaps with the NOAO Users Committee and the GSC. Two members of the SAC serve on the NOAO Users Committee, whose meetings overlap those of the SAC in order to increase communication and interaction between these two NOAO committees. In addition to Users Committee/SAC overlap, two SAC members serve on the GSC. The attempt to retain some membership overlap between these various committees, some of which are NOAO committees while others are Gemini, is an effort to help ensure effective communication links between Gemini and the US community. The GSC met in Hilo, HawaiÍ, 6–7 October 2008. As then-chair of the OpsWG, V. Smith attended the GSC meeting.

In preparation for future planning, both for instruments and the upcoming renewal of the Gemini partnership sometime before the end of 2012, NOAO/NGSC organized (at the behest of the NSF) a face-to-face meeting of the NOAO SAC with US members of the GSC and Gemini Board and representatives from the NSF and NOAO. This meeting was held 14–15 April 2009 at the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport. A wide-ranging discussion took place that focused primarily on future instruments for the Gemini telescopes in the light of the ALTAIR committee report. As a result of this meeting, the group representing various committees and agencies has held roughly quarterly telecons, and largely as a result of these discussions, a partner-wide meeting of GSC and Gemini Observatory representatives is planned for October 2009 to discuss future Gemini instruments. A Town Hall was also organized for the January 2010 AAS meeting with the main topic being a community discussion on future Gemini instruments.

The importance of effective communications with the US user community and gathering their input for future planning, one of the key issues discussed above concerning the various committee memberships, was highlighted by the decision of the Gemini Board to end the Aspen instrument program in FY09. One of the agenda items discussed during the Gemini Board meeting held 12–13 May 2009 was a report from the Gemini Observatory concerning the results of design studies for the Wide-Field Multi-Object Spectrograph (WFMOS). Due primarily to the issue of cost, the Board was forced to decide not to proceed with construction of WFMOS. The Board also officially terminated the Aspen program of future instruments, leaving the Gemini Planet Imager as the remaining instrument under development as part of the Aspen program. This decision was communicated to the US user community at the June 2009 AAS meeting, as well as via the September 2009 NOAO/NSO Newsletter (article available on-line at http://www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/sep09/pdf/99ngsc.pdf).

US Gemini Instrumentation Program

FLAMINGOS-2, the near-infrared multi-object spectrograph and imager for the Gemini South telescope, images a 6.1-arcminute field in imaging mode and provides a 6.1×2 arcminute field for multi-object spectroscopy. It can also be used with the Gemini South Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics system when that becomes available. The University of Florida built FLAMINGOS-2 under the leadership of PI S. Eikenberry. In FY09, FLAMINGOS-2 finished Acceptance Testing during the week of 4 May 2009 at the University of Florida at Gainesville. The instrument was then shipped to Chile in June 2009, where it was reassembled at Gemini South on Cerro Pachón. During September 2009, FLAMINGOS-2 saw first light, and it is currently undergoing commissioning on the Gemini South telescope. It is considered likely that FLAMINGOS-2 will be offered for general user proposals in semester 2010B.

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2.5 SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

The program called System Development is the core of the effort aimed at understanding what the community needs and how it might be provided. The FY09 activities in this area were dominated by two extensive community-based processes: Renewing Small Telescopes for Astronomical Research (ReSTAR) and Access to Large Telescopes for Astronomical Instruction and Research (ALTAIR).

ReSTAR

The ReSTAR process was based on a committee report fully described in the NOAO Annual Report FY 2008. The ReSTAR committee report (www.noao.edu/system/restar) was used to build a proposal for funding in FY09. The proposal was submitted to NSF in November 2008.

This proposal was designed as a Phase 1 implementation aimed at beginning to address the ReSTAR committee recommendations. The overall ReSTAR implementation plan envisions three phases, each with a three-year duration and each comprising roughly $10M in funding from NSF.

The Phase 1 proposal requested $12.3M over three years and encompassed seven projects:

Observing infrastructure renewal at NOAO facilities

Three instrument projects

Two telescope partnerships for community access on non-NOAO facilities

Design studies for 2-m-class telescope time-domain capabilities

The first item was considered the highest priority in the proposal. This activity included upgrades to existing instrument detector/controller systems and ensuring safe and reliable operation of NOAO telescopes. The instrument projects and telescope partnerships were considered roughly equal priority with choices to be made based on actual funding. The last item was considered the lowest priority among the seven, but with important aspects that could be undertaken if funding were provided.

The instrument projects included a copy of the Cornell TripleSpec near-infrared spectrometer for the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope, a copy of the Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph (OSMOS) for the KPNO Mayall 4-m telescope, and an optical echelle spectrograph for the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) at Lowell Observatory. An option for a second copy of OSMOS for the Blanco telescope was included.

The telescope partnerships proposed were for up to 50 nights per year on the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory and 100 nights on the DCT at Lowell. The Palomar partnership focused on access to optical and near-infrared spectroscopy—high priority capabilities from the ReSTAR report.

Design studies were proposed for 2-m-class telescopes to be integrated into the time domain network of telescopes being developed by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN). Also proposed were studies for accessing time on current optical interferometers (in the aperture range of 1 m) and developing adaptive optics for small telescopes.

NSF had the proposal reviewed by a panel of independent experts. Their reviews were quite positive on many aspects of the proposal, but raised concerns on other aspects. Following this initial review, NOAO was invited to NSF to answer questions about the proposal. In effect, this was a presentation for a revised proposal that took into account the concerns of the initial reviewers. In May 2009, the NOAO director, NOAO deputy director, and head of program for System Instrumentation went to NSF and gave a face-to-face presentation of the revised proposal to a second panel of reviewers (which included some of the original reviewers). The revised proposal provided more detail

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on each of the original seven items and, addressing key concerns over the readiness of DCT for Phase 1, re-scoped the echelle and telescope partnership with DCT.

In August 2009, NSF notified NOAO that the revised proposal was given a positive review by the panel. However, given tight budget constraints, NSF was able to fund only $3M in FY09 with no commitment to out-year funding. Consistent with the second panel’s recommendations for priority, NOAO responded with a revised scope and budget for the $3M level, which included infrastructure renewal (upgrades to one each existing detector/controller system at KPNO and CTIO), a partnership with Palomar for 25 nights per year of community access (for three years), and a single copy of the OSMOS instrument for the Mayall telescope.

NOAO has begun planning for the implementation of these three projects. An MOU with Palomar is in progress, and NOAO expects to offer the community time at Palomar in the 2010A semester. NOAO staff assigned to the OSMOS project have begun planning with Ohio State, and work on the detector/controller upgrades at KPNO (Mosaic I imager) and CTIO (Hydra spectrograph) is currently scheduled for FY10.

NOAO will continue to work with NSF to secure funding for other parts of the Phase 1 plan and continue developing plans for future phases.

ALTAIR

The ALTAIR process began in FY08 with the formation of a committee of independent and NOAO users of large-aperture telescopes. The committee met a final time in November 2009 and submitted its final report to the NOAO director in March 2009. The committee, its activities, and final report are fully described and available at www.noao.edu/system/altair. The committee’s findings were based in part on an extensive community-wide, Web-based survey that had nearly 600 respondents.

The committee summarized their work in a series of findings and recommendations. From the executive summary of the final report:

The ALTAIR committee was convened by NOAO in partial response to the NSF Senior Review, which directed NOAO to ensure that the US community’s access to astronomical facilities remains balanced across all apertures. The ALTAIR committee was charged with assessing the current use of facilities in the 6.5- to10-m aperture range, describing the community needs for instrumentation and other capabilities on large telescopes between now and the end of the 2010-2020 decade, and developing guidelines for developing and expanding the US system of large telescopes. The committee gathered input from the community of O/IR telescope users through a survey, personal interactions of committee members with individuals, on-line resources, and opinions and information solicited from the non- federal observatory directors. The committee chose to set aside consideration of LSST, as this would be a future facility with a highly directed operations mode. Here we report our findings and recommendations based on the input we collected and our committee discussions.

Findings

1. Need for Observing Resources: We find that there is a large, engaged community of large telescope users that have been productive using federal and non-federal facilities for a broad range of astrophysical investigations. Demand for observing time on large telescopes currently exceeds the available time by a factor of 3-4 for proposers both with and without institutional access to non-federal facilities. To meet its scientific aspirations, the large telescope community requires access to a broad range of instrumentation that spans a range of wavelengths (optical to mid-infrared), spectral and angular resolutions,

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fields-of-view, and includes both “workhorse” (e.g., single-object high resolution spectrographs, multi-object spectrographs) and “advanced” (e.g., those that make use of sophisticated AO systems and/or high multiplex factors) instruments (Secs. III-V).

2. Need for a Large Telescope System: Among this suite of capabilities, there is significant demand for some that are unavailable from the federal facilities (i.e., Gemini) but are available on non-federal facilities. This synergy underscores the need for a system of large telescopes comprised of federal and non-federal facilities. Instruments for large telescopes are costly and only likely to become more so as they increase in capability and complexity. It is therefore impractical, as well as operationally inefficient, for all facilities to provide access to all capabilities. Providing access to a “system” of telescopes, each with their own more restrictive instrument complement, is an attractive way to address this issue (Sec. VI).

3. Need for Expanded System Access: Given the unmet demand for observing time, we find that there is a need to increase the effective observing time (more total nights and/or more efficient instrumentation) available to the US community on large telescopes. Only a fraction of the demand for “missing” federal capabilities can be met by the current Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) time that is available on non-federal facilities. TSIP is highly valued by the astronomical community, both because it provides open access to observing nights (and the instrumentation available) on non-federal facilities and because it funds instrument development on non-federal facilities. The ability to develop advanced instrumentation is critical for the US to remain at the forefront of astronomical progress (Secs. VI, VIII).

4. Need for Changes at Gemini: Also critical to the expansion of the large telescope system is the need for greater alignment between the Gemini Observatory and US community needs. As the primary resource available to the large fraction of the US community that does not have institutional access to (the non-federal) large telescopes, the Gemini Observatory is a critical part of the large telescope system. Although Gemini is recognized for its infrared optimization, the access it affords to both hemispheres, as well as for providing some leading capabilities, there is nevertheless broad community dissatisfaction with the current Gemini Observatory. Major concerns are (1) the lack of alignment between the Gemini instrumentation suite and the needs of the US community and (2) the time burden on proposers at all stages of the process to end up with scientifically useful data. These difficulties appear to result from the very limited role that the US community has in setting scientific goals for Gemini (Sec. VII).

Recommendations

Based on the above findings, we have the following major recommendations.

1. Develop the Large Telescope System: We endorse the need for a system of large telescopes comprised of federal and non-federal facilities (Sec. VI). We recommend that NOAO take the lead in working with the US community to establish mechanisms for planning together the development of the entire U.S. system of large telescopes. Fundamental to this recommendation is that NOAO establish and maintain a transparent roadmap for the development of the large telescope system based on regular input from the US community, and that NOAO be an active advocate for the development of the large telescope system, using tools such as TSIP funding, input to the Gemini Board, and other


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methods (e.g., time purchases and trades) to achieve a balance of open access capabilities that is aligned with the research goals of the US community (Sec. V).

2. Increase Funding for TSIP: To develop and expand the large telescope system, we recommend that NSF increase the funding, to $10M per year, for an NOAO-led TSIP or TSIP-like program in order to increase the open access time available on non-federal facilities. (The current TSIP budget is zero and has ranged between approximately $2-4M per year; Sec. VIII)

3. Increase the Alignment between Gemini and the US Community: We suggest NSF consult with NOAO and the US community to explore changes to (1) the current Gemini governance structure (the role of the Gemini Director, Board, and GSC in setting scientific goals for the Observatory) and (2) the selection process and composition of US representation on the Gemini Board and the GSC, and (3) create pathways by which US community input be provided effectively to the Board in order to achieve closer alignment between Gemini and the needs of the US community as soon as is feasible. The committee believes that changes of this kind will significantly increase the value to the US community from its current $17M/yr investment in Gemini (Sec VII).

4. Consider a Larger Share in Gemini in the Post 2012 Partnership: The Gemini partnership is being renegotiated, with a new agreement taking effect in 2012. We therefore also recommend that the NSF take advantage of this opportunity to increase US participation in the Gemini Observatory, but only if the above recommendation is effectively implemented, i.e., that Gemini becomes more responsive to the US community and evolves to a suite of instrumentation, operations modes, and other services that are well aligned with the needs of the US community (Sec. VII). In FY09, NOAO began discussing the ALTAIR findings and recommendations with NSF and

the community. The results of the community survey and the committee’s report were made available through the NOAO Web pages and NOAO’s electronic newsletter, Currents. In June 2009, the NOAO director summarized the ALTAIR recommendations to the National Academy of Science Decadal Survey OIR Panel in Pasadena, CA.

NOAO began to act on the recommendations in FY09, in particular the need for improved instrumentation at Gemini. NOAO convened several meetings of the US Gemini Caucus (comprised of US Gemini Science Advisory Committee, US Gemini Science Committee, and US Gemini Board members) to focus the US Gemini perspective and lobby Gemini Observatory to quickly respond to issues related to instrumentation raised by ALTAIR. As a result, a Gemini Science Committee meeting was scheduled for September 2009 to consider near-term, “workhorse” instrument projects for Gemini. NOAO completed a second Web-based survey of the US community to get input on three workhorse concepts. These include an optical echelle, a near-infrared echelle, and a broad wavelength coverage moderate resolution spectrograph similar in capability to the ESO XShooter instrument that covers optical and near-infrared pass bands in a single exposure. The results of the survey were presented to the community and the Gemini Science Committee at the September meeting.

2.6 SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION

Some of the activities that enable broad System access or availability of new capabilities require scientific management. Currently, these programs comprise the Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) and the NOAO Telescope Time Allocation Process. In FY10, management of the programs that address ReSTAR or ALTAIR recommendations will be included as well (see section 2.5, System Development, for the status of ReSTAR and ALTAIR activities through FY09).


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Telescope System Instrumentation Program

TSIP has the goal of strengthening the system of public and private optical/IR facilities by funding the development of facility instruments for large private telescopes, and thereby broadening community access to these telescopes. For the 2009 observing semesters, the two Keck telescopes, the MMT, and the Magellan telescopes were available for community access.

The program was established in FY02 as a $4M-per-year program administered and coordinated by NOAO for NSF. In FY09, a call for proposals was issued in June, and NOAO received six letters of intent for new projects. This included one System Access proposal and five System Improvement proposals. Proposals were to be submitted by 18 September 2009. The proposal review will take place 20–21 October 2009 (i.e., in FY10).

The following table shows the current summary of TSIP allocations and the system access they have provided to the broad US astronomical community. Refer to Appendix J, SPO #5 for a list of the projects currently being managed by the NOAO TSIP program.

TSIP Funding and Time Allocation Summary: 2002–Present

Year Awards Instrument

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Millions Nights Telescope Cost/night Cost/night per sq m

Start of Time

Allocated 2002 CARA OSIRIS $2.75 29 Keck $47,400 $604 2003A CARA KIRMOS $1.14 12 Keck $47,400 $604 2003A 2003 Harvard SAO MMIRS $2.50 54 MMT/Magellan $23,000 $693 2004A? CARA KIRMOS $1.10 12 Keck $45,800 $583 2004A 2005 CARA MOSFIRE $2.45 24 Keck $51,000 $649 2006B WIYN ODI $1.64* 40 WIYN $12,300 $1,278 †

2006 CARA MOSFIRE $4.90 48 Keck $51,000 $649 2007A Ohio State MODS $2.60 25 LBT $52,000 $517 2007A‡ Carnegie Mosaic2§ $0.65 15 Magellan $21,600 $651 2007A 2007 CARA NGAO PD $2.05 20 Keck $51,184 $652 2008B Steward AOM2 $1.00 22 Magellan $22,181 $668 2008B

Steward System Access $0.80 28 MMT $28,606 $862 2008B

Harvard SAO MMIRS $0.95 25 MMT/Magellan $24,888 $750 2008B Totals $24.53 354 * Over 3 yrs. † Nights to be taken with ODI, which is not yet completed. ‡ Planned start. § New CCD mosaic for the IMACS instrument at Magellan.

Telescope Time Allocation

Allocation of NOAO-coordinated observing time is managed by the Telescope Time Allocation Process. Observing proposals in FY09 were accepted for the Gemini North and South telescopes, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (including SOAR), Kitt Peak National Observatory (including WIYN), and community access time. NOAO continues to coordinate the time allocation process for telescope time that is made available to the broad community on the large, private telescopes through TSIP and its predecessor, the Facility Instrumentation Program (FIP). In FY09, community access proposals were accepted for MMT, Keck, Magellan, joint NOAO-NASA time, and the NOAO Survey Program.


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MMT Observatory In the late 1990s, the NSF Facility Instrumentation Program granted instrument funds to groups associated with the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). In return, the MMT Observatory agreed to schedule 162 nights at a nominal rate of 26 nights per year, and the HET agreed to carry out observations equivalent to 101 clear nights at a nominal rate of 17 nights per year for telescope programs approved by the NOAO Time Allocation Committee (TAC). The HET program was discontinued in semester 2008B. A TSIP award in 2007 added more nights to be allocated from MMT.

In semesters 2009A plus B, NOAO allocated 24 nights of community time at MMT from a total of 50 nights requested, an oversubscription factor of two.

W.M. Keck Observatory In both 2009 semesters, time from TSIP awards was available to the community at Keck. In 2009A and 2009B, 13.5 and 15 nights, respectively, were allocated on the Keck 10-m telescopes. For those semesters, a total request of 186 nights was made by community proposers. The resulting over-subscription rate was about 6.6.

Magellan Observatory In semesters 2009A plus B, 17 nights were allocated to the community for observations on the Magellan telescopes. Forty-seven nights were requested for the year resulting in an oversubscription rate of 2.8.

Joint NOAO-NASA Time Allocation NOAO has organized several ad-hoc programs to address the needs of projects that require time on ground-based telescopes associated with observations made on one of NASA’s Great Observatories, i.e., Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and Spitzer, as well as the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The goal of these arrangements is to eliminate the double jeopardy of two peer reviews for proposals that require both sets of observations to accomplish their objectives. In 2009, eight Chandra proposals were approved for NOAO observations totaling 21 nights, including 0.5 nights on Gemini and 1 night on the MMT. Two HST proposals that requested NOAO time were also approved for a total of 3.4 nights. Nine nights were approved for three proposals from Fermi.

NOAO Survey Programs The NOAO Survey Program has been very successful, with 23 surveys undertaken since inception in 1999. The surveys tend to be multi-year projects and often are aimed at generating complete data sets. The most recent survey opportunity was for projects beginning in semester 2009B. NOAO received 11 proposals requesting Survey status in 2009, and one was approved for observations with the NEWFIRM instrument on the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-m telescope.

2.7 SYSTEM INSTRUMENTATION

SOAR Adaptive Optics Module

The SOAR 4.1-m telescope on Cerro Pachón produces very high-quality images over a field of view 10 arcminutes square. The SOAR Adaptive Optics Module (SAM) is designed to enhance this image quality by correcting the turbulence in the first 5–10 km of atmosphere, reducing the image size by half during appropriate atmospheric conditions, which are expected to be available about half the time. SAM will incorporate an ultraviolet laser guide star working in Rayleigh backscatter mode, with laser pulses and shutter timings coordinated to select the altitude of the reflection used for the wavefront correction. SAM is being implemented in two overlapping phases: the first phase for the main Adaptive Optics (AO) module, and the second phase for the Laser Guide Star (LGS) system.


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Figure 16: SAM results from the second engineering run. The plots at the top and the four images along the right show results obtained on the 0.33-arcsecond-separation binary HU 295. The four images are short exposures that show the stability of the PSF over time. The image at bottom center is a longer exposure of the 0.41-arcsecond-separation binary I 22, which illustrates the cleanliness of the PSF.

Commissioning for the main AO module began in August 2009, with the LGS system to follow about 1 year later.

FY09 began with the AO module in the final stages of integration in the La Serena optics lab. The last remaining subsystems—the turbulence simulator needed for daily calibration, and the steerable offset probes for tracking tip-tilt guide stars—were installed, aligned, and tested in the lab during the first quarter of FY09. Upon completion of the lab integration, the AO module was disassembled for minor rework, followed by anodizing and painting, which was completed by about the end of the second quarter. During the following four months, the team reassembled the AO module and prepared it for delivery to the SOAR telescope. The module was delivered and installed at SOAR during the first week of August 2009. See Figure 15.

SAM saw first light on its first engineering night 6 August 2009. Despite struggling with thick clouds and very poor (~3 arcseconds) seeing, the team was able to close the AO loop on Alpha Centauri, one of the brightest stars in the southern sky, shortly after 9:00 pm local time. Conditions were somewhat better during the second engineering run, 31 August 31–3 September when the results shown in Figure 16 were obtained. Not only did SAM compensate for the atmospheric turbulence, it yielded very smooth, round, Point Spread Functions (PSFs) that will yield very stable and precise images during science operations.

Integration and commissioning of the AO module will continue throughout FY10 as the different SAM features are implemented and connected to the appropriate telescope controls. During the

remaining engineering runs, the calibration routines will be verified and streamlined, the tip-tilt sensors will be tested, and the software connections will be established to allow SAM to off-load large tip-tilt and focus corrections to the telescope itself. The natural guide star mode being used during these commissioning runs is not a supported science mode for SAM, and there are no plans to offer it to the SOAR community.

The SAM team also continued developing the LGS system. A Preliminary Design Review for the revised design for the Laser Launch Telescope (LLT) was held 14 January 2009. The review panel found that the

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revised design adequately addressed the concerns raised in the original design review for the entire LGS system, and they made several useful recommendations about alignment procedures. Based on this review, the SAM team ordered the LLT optics shortly thereafter. Unfortunately, the optics fabricator advised the team in July 2009 that the company was shutting down all operations and going out of business; therefore, they would not complete the fabrication contract. NOAO lost no money, because the contract called for payment in full upon delivery, but the delivery of the LLT optics has been delayed by at least six months by this vendor default. The LLT optics were not on the critical path for the LGS phase before this default, but they may become the pacing items if a new fabrication contract cannot be obtained with a sufficiently short delivery time. At the close of FY09, the team was collecting bids from alternate fabricators and preparing to make a selection.

Other aspects of the LGS development were proceeding normally. The laser itself was received in La Serena early in FY09 and was tested in the optics lab during the time that the AO module was undergoing rework. The laser, an industrial off-the-shelf product, performs fully within specifications. The detailed design of the LGS system is underway, and fabrication of mechanical components was just beginning as FY09 ended. Apart from the concerns about the LLT optics, the LGS phase is still on schedule for delivery to SOAR about the end of FY10, although there is very little if any contingency time left.

MONSOON Detector Controller

The MONSOON image acquisition system is the NOAO solution for scalable, multi-channel, high-speed image acquisition systems required for next-generation projects. MONSOON is designed to be flexible enough to support CCD, CMOS, and IR diode imaging arrays in a wide variety of uses, including science instruments, acquisition and guide cameras, and wavefront sensors. MONSOON is under development jointly by staff at both NOAO North in Tucson, Arizona, and NOAO South in La Serena, Chile.

Throughout FY09, the MONSOON team was primarily devoted to a project of repackaging the MONSOON circuitry into a form factor that makes it useful as a plug-in replacement for a variety of aging controllers at CTIO and KPNO. This repackaging effort, nicknamed TORRENT, sacrifices the infinite scalability of the original MONSOON, which is needed only for very large focal planes, and in return achieves a much smaller form factor, lower power consumption, and lower cost while retaining most of the original circuitry and all of the original software. The team completed two working prototypes of the TORRENT device during FY09. As FY09 ended, the prototypes were being tested in both La Serena and Tucson, and the testing is expected to lead to some modifications to the design. Following that, there will be a formal “production readiness review” with members of the engineering and scientific staffs of Cerro Tololo and Kitt Peak to identify any remaining issues with the system prior to production of units for deployment. This review is expected in December of 2009. Assuming a successful outcome, production and deployment will occupy the remainder of FY10, and probably continue beyond that. During FY09, the MONSOON team also responded to requests from outside entities for additional MONSOON systems and components,

Figure 17: Side-by-side comparison of the existing MONSOON CCD controller system with its power supply (left) and the open chassis of the repackaged TORRENT system (right) with its power supply (small black “brick” in the foreground). The dollar bill is included to provide a physical scale.


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supplied a system to CTIO for use on the refurbished echelle spectrograph, and supported deployed systems on Kitt Peak including NEWFIRM, WHIRC, and the WIYN Bench Spectrograph.

During FY09, the MONSOON team carried out an engineering student clinic project through the clinic program at Harvey Mudd College. Working under the guidance of engineers from the MONSOON team, the students designed and assembled prototype hardware for implementing an ultra-low-noise CCD front-end circuit that can be incorporated into the TORRENT design or the original MONSOON. As FY09 ended, the team was launching a follow-up clinic project to develop the firmware and software needed to complete the implementation of the ultra-low-noise oversampling scheme. It is expected that this second clinic project will complete the development of this technology. This second project is scheduled for completion in May 2010.

2.8 SCIENCE DATA MANAGEMENT

Science Data Management (SDM), formerly Data Products Program (DPP), has the following overall mission:

Data Management Systems Operations (SDM-O) − Raw data capture and storage for all current NOAO telescopes − Wide-field imager data processing for NOAO 4-m telescopes − Operation of the existing NOAO Archive for raw and reduced data retrieval in preparation

for Dark Energy Camera (DECam)

Data Management Systems Development (SDM-D) − System and archive development for DECam − Support for the Dark Energy Survey DECam Community Pipeline

Science Data Processing − Legacy IRAF support including release and platform support − Applications support for DECam

Science User Support − Data Handbook updates, Data Dictionaries, NEWFIRM Data Reduction Guide − Help Desk management

SDM focused on the continued development and operation of its integrated data management and processing system, the End-to-End (E2E) Data Management System, which provides efficient access to NOAO data and data products for the astronomical community. The core components of the E2E system include the NOAO Data Transport System (DTS), the NOAO Science Archive, the NOAO science pipelines, and the NOAO Virtual Observatory (VO) portal. During FY09, the E2E system was enhanced to archive and ingest metadata from all NOAO facility instruments as well as the reduced data products from the Mosaic and NEWFIRM science pipelines. Several documents, including the “NOAO Data Handbook” and the “NEWFIRM Data Reduction Guide,” were made available online to assist observers with the use of the system.

Data Management Systems Operations

The Operations Group (SDM-O) continues to provide the day-to-day services for managing the software tools and services that they deploy for use by astronomers. SDM-O responsibilities also include: moving thousands of images each day from all of NOAO’s instruments and telescopes into


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safe storage, the continuous ingestion of image metadata into the NOAO Archives, operating science pipelines, serving NOAO raw and reduced data to PIs, managing the NOAO Help Desk and interacting with users and instrument teams, and defining and deploying the hardware needed to support all of these tasks.

Archive SDM continued operations of the NOAO Science Archive for NOAO Survey data sets. This archive supports long-term access to data from NOAO Survey programs and contains high-level reduced data products from over 15 different surveys. The NOAO Science Archive receives steady community use with more than 100 unique visits per month.

In FY09, an updated version of the NOAO Archive was deployed. This new version provides access to raw data from all NOAO instruments and most instruments on NOAO partner telescopes (e.g., SOAR, SMARTS, and WIYN). The Archive also provides access to pipeline reduced Mosaic and NEWFIRM data sets. All data are secured by the use of a VO-compliant Single-Sign-On (SSO) mechanism, which was developed in coordination with R. Plante and B. Baker at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois.

Portal The user interface to the NOAO Archive is the NOAO VO Portal, which also was updated in FY09. The NOAO VO Portal saw a significant increase in community use in FY09. In 60 percent of Tier 1 and 2 domains, at least 20 to 100 percent of the users who tried the Portal once returned to use it multiple times.

Current Pipelines The NEWFIRM wide-field infrared imager was used heavily at the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-m telescope throughout semesters 2009A and B. This use included the entire month of February and half of the available Mayall 4-m telescope time from March through June 2009.

The NEWFIRM instrument data acquisition system is aided by a quick-reduce data processing pipeline (QRP) developed by SDM that gives observers extra insight into the quality of the ongoing observations. The NEWFIRM science pipeline, developed from FY08–FY09, was based loosely on the QRP. The science pipeline was deployed for science verification in the spring of 2009. At the same time, the QRP on the mountain was upgraded.

The NEWFIRM science pipeline was deployed in full operation mode September 2009. It processes data by observing run: removing instrument signatures, calibrating astrometry and photometry, and measuring data quality (e.g., image seeing and photometric depth). This new pipeline now runs routinely on all NEWFIRM data taken at the KPNO Mayall 4-m telescope (see Figure 18).

Figure 18: (Left) A single 60-second raw J-band exposure taken with NEWFIRM on the Mayall 4-m telescope. (Middle) A single reduced frame where the instrument signature and sky background have been removed. (Right) A stack of nine reduced frames, each with 60-second exposure times. The NEWFIRM pipeline performs this type of processing automatically with little operator intervention. All NEWFIRM data (raw, reduced frames, and stacked frames) are stored in the NOAO Archive.


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The automated data reduction for NEWFIRM was highlighted in the December 2008 NOAO/NSO Newsletter with the cover showing stacked color composites of the star-forming molecular clouds Cep OB3, MonR2, and S140. These data were taken as part of an NOAO observing program (PI R. Gutermuth, FCAD/Smith College) that took full advantage of the NEWFIRM wide field-of-view to map large areas to previously unachieved depths (see Figure 19).

In FY09, SDM reached a significant milestone; both of the Mosaic and NEWFIRM wide-field imagers have all of their raw data files processed in an automated fashion, which requires minimal operator support. The pipeline processing produces frames that have the instrument signature removed, as well as stacked mosaics where possible. Masks, weight maps, and exposure maps are also produced. All of these data products are stored in the NOAO Archive.

Data Management Systems Development

The bulk of the SDM development is in preparation for DECam. A new Data Transport System (DTS) is in development to provide high-throughput data transfer from the telescope to the archive centers in both hemispheres. New transfer protocols will enable the DTS to make more efficient use of the data link between Chile and NOAO/NCSA and to allow the bulk data transfer of DECam data to coexist with other network traffic. The first test of the new DTS is scheduled for November 2009.

SDM is preparing for the deployment of the DECam Community Pipeline within the E2E system in the summer of 2010 based on an anticipated delivery from NCSA in early summer 2010. SDM staff have participated in telecons with the DES Community Pipeline team and support review meetings of DECam Data Management.

SDM is updating the E2E system to create and accept FITS data files compressed with Rice tile compression in preparation for the DECam raw data, which will be tile-compressed before transport from the telescope. Rice tile compression will replace gzip as the compression method of choice for all other NOAO data beginning with the 2010A observing semester.

Science Data Processing (IRAF)

Version 2.0 of X11IRAF was released November 2008 and provides 24-bit display support. The NFEXTERN package for NEWFIRM reductions was also released in FY09. Work was begun on a 64-

Figure 19: A false color composite created using J-, H-, and K-band observations of four star-forming molecular clouds. These data were taken as part of Rob Gutermuth’s NOAO program (2008B-0377). The reduced stacks were produced by the NEWFIRM Quick Reduce Pipeline, which runs on NEWFIRM data in real-time at the mountaintop.


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bit implementation of IRAF for support of large-format images (greater than 1 GB) and to take advantage of 64-bit processors and operating systems.

Science User Support

The Archives and Portal maintain up-to-date user documentation via tutorials and FAQs. In addition, SDM released version 1.1 of the “NOAO Data Handbook” (DHB) May 2009. This handbook (available online at: http://archive.noao.edu/doc/NOAO_DHB/NOAO_Data_ Handbookv1.1.pdf) contains detailed information for usage of the NOAO Archive and Portal. There are chapters with descriptions of the Mosaic and NEWFIRM instruments and their raw data products as well as details for the Mosaic and NEWFIRM pipelines and descriptions of their data products (see Figure 20).

In coordination of the NEWFIRM Science Pipeline and the IRAF NFEXTERN package, SDM released the “Guide to NEWFIRM Data Reduction,” which is available at the NEWFIRM ETS Web site (http://www.noao.edu/ets/newfirm/).

Finally, SDM updated its Web-pages (www.noao.edu/sdm) to facilitate those who use the tools, services, and documentation provided by SDM.

Community Efforts (NVO)

Due to a no-cost extension to the National Virtual Observatory grant, SDM staff were able to complete some projects and work on other NVO projects that will be useful when funding for the Virtual Astronomical Observatory is received. Work was completed on an interface library to the VO Simple Applications Messaging Protocol (SAMP). The library is implemented in C allowing it to be easily wrapped for use in a variety of languages. The library is self-contained and provides a simple interface for applications to easily interact with each other so that, e.g., a science application can request that a visualization tool load an image or display or manipulate a table. SAMP is currently implemented in more than twenty VO applications and will serve as the basis for future messaging systems in the VO.

Work was begun on the development of a C-based VOTable interface library. This library (and its wrappers) will provide standard read/write support for the VOTable format in a variety of languages, most importantly for legacy languages such as Fortran that have thus far been unable to easily interact with VO data. The VOTable and SAMP libraries will be released for general use at the Fall 2009 IVOA Interop meeting in Garching.

A prototype VO Directory (formerly known as the “Registry”) interface is being developed to improve the search interface to quickly provide relevant results and suggest terms to users that may lead specifically to interesting data. Once VAO operations begin, these prototypes will be turned over to the primary developers of the Directory for inclusion in the final interface.

SDM staff continued quality assurance work—development of the Fressia Testing Tool Kit and tests for the VO Web applications—and their attendance at and participation in VO meetings and activities, e.g., October IVOA Interop meeting in Baltimore, May Interop in Strasbourg, various working groups, chairmanship of the VOEvent Working Group, and “Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe 2” conference organizer.

Figure 20: The “NOAO Data Handbook,” published May 2009, assists observers and general users in accessing data in the NOAO Archive and includes descriptions of the Mosaic and NEWFIRM instruments from a user’s perspective.

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2.9 LARGE-APERTURE SYNOPTIC SURVEY TELESCOPE

The LSST is a proposed large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based telescope designed to obtain sequential images of the entire visible sky every few nights in a ten year survey. The single database of images and data products will be designed to address many science programs across the astrophysics communities as outlined in many Astro2010 white papers, AAS posters, and a nearly complete LSST Science book (>600 pages). The project is being carried out by the LSST Corporation (LSSTC), which is a nonprofit 501-C3 corporation in the State of Arizona. NOAO is a founding member of the corporation that now has 27 member institutions active in the corporation and project. LSSTC is pursuing the design and development of the project through an NSF grant, member institution efforts, Department of Energy funding to its laboratories addressing the LSST camera design, and private funding used to address long-lead construction items and specific development initiatives.

NOAO’s effort in the project is focused in three key areas of the project. First is support to the project management, systems engineering, and leadership of the operations planning effort. Second is responsibility for the design, development, and construction of the facilities in Chile, including the telescope, enclosure, and support facilities both on the summit and in La Serena. Third is community engagement intended to support science collaborations in developing the science missions and input into the LSST Project to maximize the scientific return of the LSST Project and survey. The efforts within the telescope and site group are funded through both LSSTC design and development funds and NOAO base funds. These budgets are accounted for separately but managed as a single efficient NSF project.

Management Support

NOAO continued to provide support to the LSST Project and LSSTC independent management team. NOAO has a permanent seat on the LSSTC Board of Directors, provides the personnel for the LSST deputy project manager, and funded half of NOAO Scientist C. Claver’s time to support the role of LSST system engineer. NOAO continued to extend its expertise in observatory operations to the development of the LSST Operations Plan. This year, the LSSTC officially named the NOAO director and deputy director heads of the LSST Operations Working Group and charged them with development of the initial operations plan sufficient to support the Project preliminary design review and construction readiness.

Telescope and Site

The development activities in FY09 focused on the completion of the preliminary design and prototypes to support design tasks and risk reduction. The Preliminary Design Review was originally anticipated this year but was rescheduled for spring 2010. The development plans were adjusted to the new NSF direction to expect a 2012 construction start. A major effort this year was the successful completion of the Environmental Impact Declaration process in Chile and the acquisition of all use permits for construction and operation of LSST on the summit.

Very good progress was made on Site and Facility efforts. The summit monitoring equipment has been maintained and provided data and correlations necessary to develop summit facility specifications. A key area was in verifying boundary layer heights key to establish the building height. A study effort was completed to provide another independent cost estimate and design evaluation from a Chilean construction company. The procurement package for the summit architectural and engineering service contract was completed. The formal procurement process was initiated but delayed to later in the year to be consistent with new NSF directives to expect construction start in 2012.

The initial analysis of the dome screen position within the dome was completed. The results led to new tasks to modify the design of the dome structure to better accommodate the evolving dome screen design. Computational fluid dynamics work was initiated this period and analysis was


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completed for the largest heat sources in the dome. The work focused on completing a specification for heat load from the camera and secondary mirror systems, which are located on the upper end of the telescope

The effort in the telescope mount work package was adjusted with the new directive to plan for a 2012 start. With the additional development time, the focus was in developing the detailed specifications and to initiate purchase of a hexapod actuator. The camera support hexapod is a high-risk item in the system and this risk reduction effort will directly impact the telescope mount final design effort

Interactions with the LSST primary mirror contractor have continued this year with good success. Technical consultation was provided throughout the successful casting, cleanout, and back surface processing. The thermal control system with a highly accurate thermal monitoring system design was completed. Several support system actuator prototypes were developed and lab testing initiated. Results completed indicate more design and testing will be required in FY10. Management and technical consultation was provided to the LSST effort to develop the secondary mirror blank. The secondary mirror support optimization effort was completed and papers published in the August 2009 SPIE conference.

The calibration observing was completed at CTIO last year in two different runs. The LSST Calypso telescope operated successfully this year providing performance data necessary for both scientific planning and construction phase planning. The Active Optics System development successfully completed the next phase, but testing revealed algorithm issues that continue to be addressed. Initial designs for the multi-wavelength, monochromatic dome screen were completed to support lab testing at Harvard University.

The LSST middleware was tested on several platforms with good results. Updated abstraction layer code was completed and provided to LSST developers for use in their specific developments. The open source version of the middleware protocol was implemented and continues to undergo testing in parallel with initial prototype systems. The middleware and LabView systems included in the LSST design have been included into the CTIO Blanco telescope control system upgrade providing valuable prototype testing experience.

The initial version of the electrical and electronic standards document was completed. A review of the document provided input to enhance the content by including safety equipment standards, controller standards, and hardware standards. These additions are in progress and will be included in the next version. The contract for additional coating of monolayers and stacks was placed, samples are in production, and this development will continue.

The LSST Risk Register adopted from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array Project was completed and the telescope and site section populated with items to monitor. A project-wide LSST Safety Policy was developed to establish the foundation for safely designing, constructing, and operating the LSST. The telescope and site project scientist was the interim LSST system engineer until he was appointed officially.

Science Collaboration and Community Support

NOAO collaborated with the LSST Project and the head of the LSST science collaborations to review the submitted collaboration membership proposals. This first process was initiated in 2008 and finished in 2009, accepting 36 new members from the US community to specific collaborations. From this successful effort a second was developed and initiated to lead into FY10. Three collaboration meetings were supported at NOAO this year to bring members together to foster joint activities, common objectives, and plans

The operations simulator effort this year at NOAO met its objectives to support the project with many simulations of the survey and many tools to interact with the data. A big effort continued to go into supporting production runs using version 2.3. A new baseline simulation was completed. A standard report was developed to provide analysis and statistics of each simulation. A new analysis


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framework was developed to allow scientist access to the simulation to support custom analysis. The version 3 activity was redirected to achieve specific analytic capability in the version 2.3 system.

NOAO hosted meetings of three LSST science collaboration groups in 2009. The Galaxies group, chaired by Harry Ferguson, met May 12–13. The Stellar Populations group, chaired by Abi Saha, and the Milky Way group, chaired by Beth Wilman, met jointly August 20–21. The meetings were convened to allow the collaboration members to interact, formulate plans for developing their LSST science programs, interact with developers of the LSST data pipelines, and generally to foster communication between LSST, the science collaborations, and the NOAO staff. These meetings provided an opportunity for the first face-to-face discussions of group members, with themselves and with members of the LSST Project team (especially in the area of data management). All meeting costs were borne by the meeting participants themselves, not NOAO.

2.10 GIANT SEGMENTED MIRROR TELESCOPE PROGRAM OFFICE

During the year, the NOAO Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Program Office (GSMTPO) continued to pursue its core mission of “ensuring broad astronomical community access to a 30-meter-class telescope that will be contemporaneous with ALMA and JWST, by playing a key role in scientific and technical studies leading to the creation of the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT).”

Activities of the program office fall into three principal areas: support for GSMT science-related activities; technical and scientific monitoring of the two US-based extremely large telescope (ELT) projects on behalf of the NSF; and the final phases of the site survey work in Chile, begun several years ago.

The overall level of effort has continued to decline, as specific activities reach completion. Any new activities would be initiated following completion of the on-going Astro2010 decadal survey.

Staffing

The GSMTPO is staffed by NOAO engineers and scientists located in Tucson, Arizona, and La Serena, Chile. In addition, a former member of the New Initiatives Office (NIO) staff is acting as Systems Engineering group leader for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project, while retaining his AURA affiliation.

Web Site

The GSMTPO public Web site at www.gsmt.noao.edu provides information on ongoing GSMTPO activities. The Web site, which is updated periodically, also contains links to the sites of other ELT groups.

GSMT Science Activities

In 2008, the GSMT Science Working Group (SWG), Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), and TMT sponsored the “Science with Giant Telescopes: Public Participation in TMT and GMT” workshop, which was held in Chicago, June 15–18. One of the conclusions of this workshop was that the general astronomical community was unfamiliar with current adaptive optics capabilities on large telescopes. Accordingly, AURA organized a “meeting within a meeting” for the June 2009 AAS meeting on “Science with Adaptive Optics on Large Telescopes,” during which invited speakers gave talks focused on on-going and recent science programs carried out with adaptive optics systems at major observatories. Additional speakers summarized the capabilities now available to users in the astronomical community. Most of the presentations can be accessed through the GSMTPO Web site.

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In addition, GSMTPO staff co-authored several papers on GSMT that were submitted to the Astro2010 decadal survey:

White Paper on Status of GSMT, January 2009

GSMT: The Case for Community Access to an Extremely Large Telescope

Options for Federal Support of a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Including a Dedicated Instrument Support Program

GSMT Technical Activities

TMT and GMT Development Support and Technical Monitoring In July 2004, AURA submitted a proposal to the NSF requesting $39.4M to provide:

1. The public portion ($17.5M) of the funds needed to carry out the Design and Development Phase for a 30-m diameter segmented-mirror, optical/infrared telescope (i.e., TMT).

2. Funds ($14M) sufficient to advance to the Design and Development Phase (DDP) an alternative 20–30-m-class concept, such as the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), to the point where its performance, cost, and risk can be assessed.

3. Technology development ($2M) common to both TMT and the alternative concept.

4. $1.5M for community groups to carry out conceptual designs for two instruments: one for TMT and one for the alternative concept.

5. $3.5M to support an education and public outreach program.

6. $0.9M to support a Theory Challenge program aimed at engaging theorists in shaping the design of ELTs.

Initial funding in the amount of $1M was received at the end of FY05, $2M was received during FY06, and an additional $5M was received in each of FY07, FY08, and FY09. Portions of these funds were used to support activities by NOAO directly (less than $1M total); the remaining funds were split between TMT and GMT, on behalf of the US community. The distribution provided equal cumulative contributions to both projects, including allowance for NOAO in-kind contributions to the TMT DDP, by the end of the FY08 payments.

In addition to receiving periodic reports provided by both projects, NOAO staff attend major project reviews and other relevant meetings, including those of the relevant scientific advisory committees, as observers. Information from these meetings is transmitted to the NSF by AURA as part of the reporting process required under the award. AURA had been represented on the TMT Scientific Advisory Committee by four members, of whom three were AURA employees and the fourth, C. Telesco (U. of Florida), was from the general community. The AURA members were withdrawn in October 2006, but TMT chose to request that Telesco continue to participate as a US community representative, and Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University was added as a second community representative. GMT appointed M. Donahue of Michigan State U. as a similar representative to their Science Working Group.

Prior to the NSF-directed withdrawal from the TMT partnership at the end of 2006, NOAO was an active technical partner. Most staff were transferred to other AURA projects as part of the withdrawal, but TMT has subsequently contracted with NOAO to continue some efforts, largely related to optical modeling and systems engineering, at less than 1 FTE.

GSMT Community Assessment In order to provide an unbiased and independent assessment of the state of the two projects, NOAO proposed to the NSF, TMT, and GMT to set up a review panel of outside experts, who would


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separately review each project and provide to each project a written report, which would be shared with the NSF and with the relevant Astro2010 decadal survey Program Prioritization Panel. A particular focus of the reviews was each project’s path to readiness for a future PDR review, as required for Major Research Equipment and Facility Construction (MREFC) funding from the federal government. Both projects provided material in response to an initial questionnaire from the review panel and supplementary material in response to follow-up questions. Oral presentations from each project were made during two three-day reviews held from 27 April to 2 May 2009. The review panel reports were completed and submitted in early July 2009.

ELT Site Selection: Site Testing for the Thirty Meter Telescope Starting with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT) group in FY02, AURA played a major collaborative role in evaluating candidate sites for TMT. The list of candidate sites was narrowed by investigations of logistical issues such as land ownership, as well as by a series of remote sensing studies that have used satellite data to quantify the number of clear nights and the precipitable water vapor for each site. Each prime candidate site was modeled using computational fluid dynamics to investigate the boundary layer turbulence over the site under various wind speeds and directions. In-situ site testing equipment was developed, and multiple copies were purchased and assembled. This equipment includes weather stations, differential image motion monitors (DIMMs) capable of recording integrated seeing through the upper atmosphere and ground-layer, and multi-aperture scintillation sensors (MASS) capable of mapping turbulence profiles above candidate sites. Weather stations, DIMMs, and MASS units were deployed on five candidate sites. These were Mauna Kea (Hawaií); San Pedro Mártir (Baja California, Mexico); and Cerro Armazones, Cerro Tolonchar and Cerro Tolar (all in northern Chile).

The site testing observations are now complete; equipment has been removed from all sites except Cerro Armazones, where equipment will be removed or transferred to the host institution (Universidad Católica del Norte) in December 2009. The results indicate that all five of the sites investigated are excellent astronomical sites. The survey will therefore be of value to future large telescope projects other than TMT. Papers describing the survey methodology and results have been published, with additional papers in press or in preparation. It is planned to make the full survey dataset publicly available as well.

The survey results provided critical input to the final TMT site selection in July 2009. The TMT selected Mauna Kea as its preferred site.

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3 NOAO-WIDE PROGRAMS

3.1 EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH

NOAO’s Education and Public Outreach (EPO) group is responsible for managing and developing the NOAO efforts in formal and informal science education, with a strong emphasis on regional outreach in Arizona and Chile’s Región de Coquimbo and national service to the astronomy education community. NOAO EPO programs train teachers and astronomers to communicate scientific research principles and the latest discoveries in astronomy to pre-college students. The EPO group also supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) programs at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, and helps facilitate graduate and post-graduate opportunities at KPNO and CTIO. Additionally, EPO built on the long-time success of its REU program in both hemispheres by adding minority students and university faculty from the NSF Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education (PAARE) program to the mix of its mentorship activities; South Carolina State University is an example. FY09 highlights included major accomplishments during the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) and steady progress in Tohono O’odham outreach.

Education Outreach

Tohono O’odham Outreach EPO, in collaboration with the KPNO director, continued to explore all ways to assist in education and outreach on the Tohono O’odham (TO) Nation. “Reach for the Stars,” an attendance initiative program first proposed by the school district in Sells (IOBUSD40) and heavily supported by NOAO, concluded its second year. Members of EPO served on the school committee that met monthly to discuss ways to encourage better student attendance, which included the astronomical-themed book prizes at the school awards ceremony and gift certificates awarded by Kitt Peak and the TO Nation in the spring to students who had maintained perfect attendance. In May, the local school Board declined to renew the Superintendent’s contract, which led to considerable turmoil in the district. However, meetings with the new Superintendent, who shows considerable interest in Kitt Peak, indicate that educational outreach will continue to grow.

EPO staff averaged almost two outreach activities a month on the reservation: recreation centers, schools, and the community college. EPO staff were successful in recruiting TO students for the astronomy camp held in June at Kitt Peak: two attended the beginning camp, one attended the advanced camp. For the third year, a three-day Horse camp hosted by the Sells Boys& Girls Club was held at the summit of Kitt Peak. EPO arranged the star party on the second evening.

Outreach by Undergraduate Students Five undergraduate students assisted the EPO group with over 120 hours worth of local outreach events in FY09. The student assistants were responsible for event preparation as well. They helped with festivals; fairs and family nights; formal classroom visits to do Project ASTRO activities; star parties; teacher workshops; outreach to the Tohono O’odham Nation; and hands-on astronomy, physics, and optics activities at a local Boys & Girls Club.

In order to assist with these activities, the students were trained extensively in a variety of topics. Students learned the activities for all six of the Hands-On Optics (HOO) modules as well as how to lead Project ASTRO and Family ASTRO activities. The students also were trained in how to lead star parties using computerized go to telescopes. Students took the initiative and developed new activities for use in the Boys & Girls Club activities.

Over 1100 children and adults attended 10 festivals, fairs, and family nights, with each event lasting an average of three hours. Over 740 children and adults attended the 10 star parties this year,

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which lasted an average of 2.5 hours each. Hands-on astronomy activities were provided at three separate events for the Tohono O’odham: a star party, a four-day morning camp, and a special session at a day-long camp. Over 100 participants attended the 20 hours of those events. The student assistants helped with Galileoscope/Dark Skies sessions at three teacher workshops, which involved 120 teachers over an average of five hours of training per session. Twenty-five Boys & Girls Club sessions of 1.5 hours on average were given this year with an average of 15 children, ages 7–12 years old, at each. The student assistants took direct responsibility for planning, preparing, and executing each of those sessions. The students were responsible for building education kits for the Dark Skies Program as well as an optics kit for the Galileoscope Program and the Astronomy From the Ground Up Program. This year, the students built at least 500 kits between the three programs and maintained a storeroom of kit ingredients and activities.

IYA2009 The US Project office for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) is hosted at NOAO under the IYA coordination grant from the NSF to the AAS. NOAO also provides the leads for the Telescope Kits Working Group, which produced the Galileoscope, and the Dark Skies Awareness US and international working groups. Some highlights of IYA2009 include the creation of 13 Dark Skies Education projects under that international cornerstone and a vigorous national dark skies education program. This program includes a major teaming effort with the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning in Tucson, an informal education center for the public schools, run by the University of Arizona. For the Galileoscope, design, analysis, and testing were completed, as well as several prototypes for understanding the manufacturing process. These efforts led to the production of over 100,000 Galileoscopes in FY09. Although ordering and distribution were problematic at times (as might be expected for a largely volunteer-based project), the quality of the telescope has allowed the project to achieve its technical and educational goals. The optical and stray-light design/analysis and testing of this low-cost, high-quality Galileoscope telescope was led by NOAO in collaboration with Photon Engineering, based in Tucson. EPO staff conducted numerous workshops on using the Galileoscope at local, regional, and national workshops and developed many of the online educational materials.

During this year, the “From Earth to the Universe” image exhibition opened in over a hundred US locations including the Tucson airport, and the “100 Hours of Astronomy” project began at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. This worldwide observing event also featured broadcasts from most major observatories worldwide including NOAO North and South.

Research Based Science Education (RBSE) After twelve years as a core program, the NOAO RBSE program for high school science teachers began a hiatus. The program focuses on the acquisition of astronomical knowledge and the use of appropriate data reduction skills and computer skills to enable the teachers to lead true research projects. The RBSE Journal, our online research journal for students whose teachers have completed this program, continues to draw a steady amount of submissions.

Spitzer-RBSE Research Program for Students and Teachers This NASA-funded program, in collaboration with the NOAO RBSE program, continued this year with teachers writing research proposals as part of teacher-scientist teams for Director’s Discretionary Time. Several of the research groups presented their results at the January 2009 AAS meeting in Long Beach. Each teacher also had an obligation to provide professional development for other teachers in their district or state. The program transitioned at the end of FY09 to a program centered at the Spitzer Science Center using archival data and another program at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab associated with the NASA WISE mission. In summary, 32 teachers have received training and participated in research projects with over 1400 students participating. At AAS meetings, teachers have presented 31 posters with majority of them on the science results from their observations.


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Project ASTRO Project ASTRO expanded across Arizona while maintaining a vigorous Tucson component. Satellite sites in Phoenix and Prescott were established and all sites received training on IYA2009 events, including GLOBE at Night. Project ASTRO at NOAO has a national leadership role and new ways to involve senior citizens in Project ASTRO school programs are being planned.

In the last year, Project ASTRO continued to develop astronomer/teacher partnerships, using astronomy to enhance educational curriculum through a hands-on approach. The Winter Satellite Workshop in Prescott (January) had 12 new teams. The latest Fall Workshop (18–19 September 2009), hosted at NOAO, had 23 new partnerships consisting of 61 teachers and astronomers. In FY09, Project ASTRO focused on Dark Sky and light pollution efforts, GLOBE at Night, the International Year of Astronomy, and the Galileoscope. Our Project ASTRO outreach efforts have brought in teachers (and astronomers) from all over the state of Arizona, including Phoenix (16 this year), Prescott, Flagstaff, Green Valley, Sahuarita, Safford, Marana, Sells, Picture Rocks, and many smaller communities that often have no access to programs of this scope. Project ASTRO also puts an emphasis on reaching rural, under-funded, and minority communities. As a result, efforts for the last year established partnerships in remote and poorer communities such as Crown King, Picture Rocks, Elfrida, and Sells. This year’s Project ASTRO teachers will reach over 2000 new students, with nearly 50,000 students being impacted since program inception at NOAO in 1996.

Science Foundation Arizona: Expanding Hands-On Optics in Arizona NOAO finished year two and started year three of this program to bring the NSF-developed Hands-On Optics program to 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across Arizona, including Bisbee, Safford, Prescott, Sierra Vista, and Yuma. In FY09, EPO staff visited the Jim and Vicki Click Boys & Girls Club in Tucson 26 times. Each visit averaged 1.5 hours with, on average, 15 children present. Two or three of the trained undergraduate assistants led the optics, physics, or astronomy activities and projects done with the 7- to 12-year-old boys and girls, with the activity time totaling 37.5 hours, not including preparation time.

Science Foundation Arizona: AstroBITS In June, Building Information Technology Skills through Astronomy (AstroBITS) received its third year of funding from Science Foundation Arizona for a program that targets Arizona middle school teachers, particularly at rural and minority schools, and offers help in preparing their students for science career pathways. EPO modified the program in order to include more teachers: an online course was developed that teachers can complete during the school year, culminating in a visit to Kitt Peak for evening observing.

In June, the teachers learned about imaging and related projects and honed skills in various computer projects. They spent two nights at Kitt Peak observing and will offer their students opportunities to use modern image processing technology in the coming year. During the school year they participate in weekly videochats and share their lesson plans with each other.

Astronomy From the Ground Up With significant program direction, NOAO continued its partnership with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) and the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) in the Astronomy From the Ground Up (AFGU) program funded by NSF ISE. The project has directly trained over 200 small and medium science and nature center educators in doing better astronomy outreach using 3-week online and 2-day on-site workshops. Each participant in the AFGU workshops (both online and in person) receives a teaching kit, and NOAO has built over hundreds of the HOO Terrific Telescopes kits for the workshops with funding from the grant.

Collaboration to Advance Teaching Technology and Science The UA/NOAO Collaboration to Advance Teaching Technology and Science (CATTS) finished with its final cohort NSF GK-12 Graduate Student Fellows in June, bringing the number of Fellows to 64 for this track and 133 Fellows in the total CATTS program. These Fellows were all trained to work in

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science classes in public schools through a university course and were supervised closely to encourage their continued acquisition of classroom educational skills. Each Fellow (over 50 percent are female graduate students in science) provided 15 hours per week of educational service during their year-long fellowship. This program concluded as one of the largest and most successful programs nationwide and spawned two additional GK-12 projects at the University of Arizona.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates The NOAO NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site programs at KPNO and CTIO offer undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in challenging research activities with scientists working at the forefront of astronomy and astrophysics. Each year twelve REU students (six at NOAO North and six at NOAO South) are hired as full-time research assistants to work with NOAO staff members on selected research projects for a period of ten to twelve weeks during the summer in the respective hemispheres. As part of their research activities, REU students gain first-hand experience with state-of-the art telescopes and instrumentation, and develop expertise in the tools of data analysis specific to astronomical research. Careful matching of the expressed scientific interests of the individual applicant with the research needs and expertise of the individual REU mentor accounts for the success of previous NOAO REU site programs—as measured by the high percentage of former participants who have gone on to graduate school in astrophysics or have pursued a career in the science, education, and technology (SET) workforce, as well as the impressive number of research papers and articles published by former students.

NOAO is enhancing diversity in astronomy and astrophysics as a participant in the first major NSF-funded Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education (PAARE) program with South Carolina State University (SCSU), one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). The five-year Partnership in Observational and Computational Astronomy (POCA) program is funded by the NSF through the grant AST-0750814. NOAO’s first POCA undergraduate student, Patrick Durant from SCSU, spent the summer of 2009 at NOAO North and worked with the KPNO and NSO REU students from June through mid-August.

GSMT EPO Development Projects NOAO work on two education projects for the GSMT in FY09 reached fruition: the first project involves the development of online activities designed to guide students through the decisions related to site selection for a GSMT; the second created a module congruent with the NOAO HOO program based on the concepts of adaptive optics, though at a higher educational level than HOO. The site selection problem-based learning activities are standards-based and emphasize science process/problem-solving skills (see www.noao.edu/education/gsmt/). The key concepts in adaptive optics are outlined in a teacher’s guide that contains four adaptive optics demonstrations coupled with a kit of materials needed to conduct all of the activities and demonstrations in a classroom setting. These kits were tested; one audience for using the kits will be SPIE student chapters doing outreach.

CADIAS The CADIAS astronomy outreach center in Altovalsol, Chile, remained incredibly productive in FY09. The astronomy teaching center, supported by NOAO and Gemini, conducted teacher professional development, educational star parties, and has a mobile planetarium. CTIO outreach staff made many successful educational visits to schools with a special emphasis on observational astronomy and dark skies. A book of astronomy in Braille, Tocando Los Cielos del Norte de Chile (Reaching the North of Chile’s Sky), published by CADIAS, has been very well received and has been nationally recognized. Work continued on a Mars Garden utilizing the Mars Rover built in FY08 by an NOAO REU student.

The Hugo Schwarz robotic telescope donated to CADIAS by Las Cumbres Observatory made good progress using Universidad de La Serena students working under the supervision of CTIO engineering staff. More complete program descriptions can be found at: www.ctio.noao.edu/AURA/CADIAS.

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GLOBE at Night The GLOBE at Night 2009 campaign, held 16–18 March 2009, garnered 15,700 geographically mappable measurements of Orion, an increase of more than 7000 over the previous record of 8491 that were contributed in 2007. Only one percent of the observations in 2009 were flagged as not mappable.

Measurements were received from more than 70 countries in the 2009 campaign, with 17 countries reporting more than 100 Orion measurements. About 73 percent of the total measurements came from the United States (approximately 11,270 observations), including all 50 states and the District of Columbia, followed by Chile (about 900), the Czech Republic, Hungary, and the United Kingdom (each with over 200). Other countries reporting more than 100 observations were Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Germany, Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain, and Turkey.

In addition, 19 countries contributed another 1474 mappable digital measurements using handheld Sky Quality Meters (SQMs). Two-thirds of the SQM measurements were from the US, with nearly 200 from Chile. Romania and Mexico followed with over 70 and 60 SQM measurements, respectively. The full data set is posted for download in five different formats at: www.globe.gov/GaN/analyze.html. A map viewer that can compare GLOBE at Night data across the years is available there, too.

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3.2 ADMINISTRATION SERVICES

In F09, Central Administrative Services (CAS) provided full business services for NOAO North and South, NSO, LSSTC, SOAR, WYIN, and AURA Corporate. Major activities for CAS in FY09 included year-end processes, development of the annual program and long-range (five-year) plans, new cooperative agreement negotiations, renewal of employee medical coverage, and implementation of new budget and human resources software.

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A Web-based budget program was developed, aptly named WEBUD (Web budget). The first production version of the software was released in mid-June and used to complete the FY10 budgeting process. Further revisions and enhancements are planned for FY10. In addition, the migration of the

Education and Public Outreach Information Requests & Inquiries

(3 months ending 9/30/09)

Type/Origin of Request Number

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

208

Requests and inquiries for use of NOAO images

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TOTAL 396

Education and Public Outreach Information Requests & Inquiries

(12 months ending 9/30/09)

Type/Origin of Request Number

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

918

Requests and inquiries for use of NOAO images

652

TOTAL 1,570

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NOAO payroll system from the in-house Abra software to a commercial product, UltiPro, was completed with the start of the fourth quarter. All payrolls after July 1 were processed using the new system and commissioning will continue through FY10.

Human Resources (HR) faced an exceptionally challenging first few months of the fiscal year imposed by the budget situation, including a small reduction in force, a hiring freeze, and a hold on HR-related programs. However, staffing needs were revisited after the federal budget was approved and for FY10 budget preparation. In July, HR added a new staff member to handle benefits and compensation just in time for HR to do a full review of costs for the new cooperative agreement. Other activities supported by the HR staff included assisting in the AURA climate survey, implementing a new Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) diversity process for recruitment, assisting with the AURA Diversity Workshop, and conducting a benefits survey for the upcoming open enrollment process in November.

The Sponsored Projects Office (SPO) focused its efforts on using Web-accessed, streamlined programs in FY09 to allow principle investigators and project managers more accurate monitoring of their awards and contracts. However, SPO still emphasizes the importance of “in person relationships” by the staff providing assistance to NOAO North and South, helping to eliminate communication and procedural issues, and promoting a more collaborative relationship. The extensive end-of-year activities for SPO involved beginning support for infrastructure modernization and supporting the System through NSF funding for the ReSTAR program and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 (ARRA).

The NOAO procurement manager retired at the end of the fiscal year with the transition details completed. This included hiring a new shipping and receiving person, training the new import/export officer, and reorganizing the purchasing office. In addition, Accounting and Purchasing are continuing their work to customize and update the Reqless procurement program and complete the online signature authority change program, KPNO mountain shipping form, auto-receiving application, and travel expense reporting.

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Additional administrative services for NOAO South were provided by AURA-O through the AURA Observatory Support Services (AOSS) unit. In January 2009, AURA announced that AOSS would be merged back into NOAO operations in Chile. The transition of AOSS to NOAO began in the last quarter and should be completed within FY10.

3.3 FACILITIES OPERATIONS

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NOAO Central Facilities Operations (CFO) spent the year working on some targeted building renovations and repairs to the building infrastructure. Coordinated support was provided through the Tucson facility to Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) to allow improved long distance communications via Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which is helping to reduce costs. What had been the photo lab area was renovated into new staff office space and the La Quinta Conference room was expanded and updated to improve the availability of over-subscribed meeting space.

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Documentation was prepared to submit to the NSF for targeted demolition of an unneeded duplex building and for infrastructure repairs that would be funded from ARRA and implemented in the coming years. Furthermore, CFO staff continued to work with Gemini North staff to provide documentation and expertise to help them expand the access control system beyond their initial computer room installation.

Throughout the year, repairs were done to update the aging building air handling systems. Design documents were prepared and a major contract was issued to provide a backup cooling system for the main computer room to supplement the current 45-year-old system and allow for future renovation. The leaking primary electrical supply transformer for the main building was replaced. In an unrelated event, staff responded quickly to a break in the main water line that flooded a portion of that building’s basement (see Figure 21); this required emergency cleanup, repairs, and unanticipated corrective action.

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At NOAO South, most of the facilities and infrastructure maintenance was provided by AOSS through the end of FY09. On Cerro Tololo, AOSS and CTIO staff supported the development of infrastructure for the newly arrived Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper (WHAM) telescope, including electricity and network connections as well as a stable concrete pad for the telescope container. Additional site preparation support was provided for the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, which plans to site two to three 1.0-m telescopes on Cerro Tololo.

The dormitories and houses on Cerro Tololo saw dramatically increased use in the final quarter of FY09. Additional dormitory construction begun on Cerro Pachón forced the closure of the dormitories on that site and the movement of all dormitory users to Cerro Tololo. In preparation for this onslaught, modest renovation and maintenance was performed on the older units, particularly the five Tololo houses, including some roof repair and repainting.

In the third quarter of FY09, Cerro Tololo suffered a major transformer failure, which required operations of the mountaintop to use a diesel generator for more than one month and the purchase and installation of a new transformer.

Safety on the mountain access road continues to be a priority for all of the observatories operating on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón. In FY09, the NSF provided funding for continued deployment of guardrails along the road to the mountaintops. The $75,000 USD provided by the NSF was matched by $75,000 from CTIO, Gemini, and SOAR ($25,000 each), providing for 1,550 meters of additional guardrail along the remaining highest priority areas of the access road.

3.4 COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORK SERVICES

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A major focus during FY09 was the effort to redevelop cooling and power systems in the computer lab to improve the environment for observatory computer systems and to improve overall energy usage and space efficiency at the observatory’s Tucson main office building. The first phase of this effort was completed at the end of FY09 with the installation of a chiller system outside the building and two Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC) units in the computer lab. The second phase will continue into FY10 and should include renovations of the original cooling system and of the fire suppression system.

Figure 21: Flooding in Tucson main facility basement—the result of a broken water main.

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Multi-year efforts to upgrade the Tucson network infrastructure continued with the goal of providing multiple 1-Gigabit connections into each room backed up by multiple-Gigabit backhaul to the network core and to improve system security and reliability. During FY09, the wireless infrastructure in the NOAO Tucson complex was expanded to more locations and upgraded from the porous WEP-based security to WPA2-based security, further efforts were undertaken to restrict ssh logins directly to “interior” machines and the Domain Name System (DNS) setup for CIS North was modified to present different views to internal and to external users. Several Ethernet switches were upgraded to support Gigabit connections and several single-mode fiber runs were installed to support 10 Gigabit backhauls.

The Cisco 7204 router on Kitt Peak was upgraded with a new processing engine. A “proof of performance” experiment was successfully undertaken showing that Gigabit Ethernet connections can be made over the FDDI-era fiber plant on Kitt Peak. A test box from Indiana University was installed near our Tucson Cisco router to be used in network throughput tests between Tucson and Bloomington, IN. This is in preparation for the possible establishment of the One Degree Imager data center at Indiana University in Bloomington.

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The Yale Survey camera was successfully installed on La Silla and the data is now transiting the AURA South network. WHAM was successfully installed on Cerro Tololo and its data is being transported to the US via the AURA network

The VoIP installation is still ongoing with the following completion rates: 95 percent in La Serena, 75 percent on Cerro Tololo, and 100 percent complete on Cerro Pachón. Telephone traffic from La Serena now passes through the Tucson office for calls to the US; this has drastically decreased the NOAO South long distance phone bills.

Many of the servers such as Mail, Web, and DNS were upgraded to more capable machines with attention paid to frequent backups and recovery systems. A Barracuda filter and mail scanner is running now on the mail server. Finally, equipment was purchased to provide a public, wireless, local area network in the Main Conference Room for visitors.

Our International Internet access expires at the end of calendar year 2009 and CIS South is busy renegotiating and obtaining quotes from REN and commercial companies. The goal is to try and obtain sufficient bandwidth so that LSST can carry out realistic testing to Chile. There is also the awareness that DECam will arrive during FY2010 and will require a data rate of 36–40 Mbs daily.

A large impact on the group for FY10 will be the additional load of the dissolved AOSS group. Most of the machines are Windows platforms, and we expect to fold in existing staff to handle this.

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New appointment in FY09 Non-NSF (external) funding Term ended in FY09

FY09 Accomplishments and FY10 Plans

TIMOTHY ABBOTT, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Late stages of binary stellar evolution; instrumentation; telescope operations

FY09 Accomplishments Abbott, as deputy program manager for the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) collaboration and telescope manager for the Blanco 4-m telescope, was involved in all aspects of the development of DECam. He was particularly involved in coordination between NOAO and the other partners to ensure that the Blanco telescope is capable of providing the platform and image quality required, and that DECam itself will appropriately serve the NOAO community. As telescope manager, Abbott oversaw the longest shutdown of the Blanco telescope to date in April and May, in which the radial support system was entirely renovated with great success. As chairman of the CTIO Advisory Committee on Technical Resources, Abbott participated in the management of many aspects of project development and resource assignment at CTIO, including initiating the program to bring NEWFIRM to the Blanco telescope in 2010. Abbott continued his studies of variable stars with participation in a multi-site, multiwavelength study of an accreting millisecond pulsar and a campaign to identify the source of a historic nova.

FY10 Plans Abbott intends to continue his participation in the DECam collaboration and pursue appropriate upgrades to the Blanco telescope to support this instrument and the community-at-large through managing the CTIO Facilities Improvement Project. Abbott expects to continue his participation in overall resource management at CTIO. Abbott also will continue to pursue his scientific interests through studies of binary stars in late stages of their evolution.

HELMUT A. ABT, Astronomer Emeritus

Research Interests Formation and evolution of double stars; stellar rotation; publication statistics

FY09 Accomplishments: Abt showed that most binaries (except very close ones) do not evolve after they reach the main sequence. He found that the Barr Effect (non-random distribution of longitudes of periastron) is limited mostly to B0–B3 stars, the same ones that show some incorrect mean radial velocities. He also found that there is an inverse correlation between mean rotational velocities in open clusters and the fractions of spectroscopic binaries. Abt found that papers in virtually all journals tend to reference papers in the same journals, even though online searches allow authors to discover relevant papers elsewhere. He also found that references strongly favor ones that are available online (e.g., journals, preprints) rather than ones that are not so available (e.g., books, conference proceedings, theses).


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FY10 Plans Abt will continue exploring the frequencies of Be and “sn” stars in open clusters. He has collected data on 250 ApJ papers to explore the ratio of reviewing to revision times and other such statistics about publication. That is being done jointly with Tibor Braun in Budapest, Editor of Scientometrics and a chemistry journal. Abt will continue to oversee the construction in Tucson of a 2.4-m telescope for Thailand. He will be working with a large group to explore fundamental properties of early-type stars using a proposed month of HST time.

LORI ALLEN, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Star and planet formation; infrared astronomy

FY09 Accomplishments: Allen worked with Xavier Koenig (Harvard) as his PhD advisor; Koenig successfully defended in May 2009. Their work on disk evolution around intermediate mass stars continues; Allen hosted Koenig during two visits to NOAO between June and September. Allen continued her work on the young stellar populations in nearby molecular clouds through the Spitzer Gould’s Belt Legacy program (of which she is PI) and gave an invited talk at the June AAS meeting on the results of this and other Spitzer programs on star formation. She attended a meeting of the Gould’s Belt Legacy team July/August hosted by HIA in Victoria, BC. Allen continued work with Wilking and others on star formation in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud and with the Spitzer Legacy program on Cygnus-X, attending a science meeting in Cambridge, MA in July.

FY10 Plans Allen will continue to lead the Gould’s Belt Spitzer Legacy program, studying star formation in nearby clouds. She plans to survey massive star forming regions in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres with NEWFIRM to identify and characterize the young stars. Allen is a co-investigator on a Spitzer Exploration class warm mission program (Stauffer PI) and will provide scientific support for it. She is also co-investigator on a Herschel Key Project (HOPS) to study > 200 Spitzer-identified protostars in Orion. In FY10 she will begin designing the database for this project.

AMOKRANE BERDJA, Postdoc Research Associate

ROBERT BLUM, Associate Astronomer (Deputy Director, NOAO)

Research Interests The Galactic Center; massive star formation, high angular resolution techniques including laser guide star adaptive optics and near-infrared spectroscopy; stellar populations in the Local Group

FY09 Accomplishments Blum continued work on his investigation of GHII regions and massive young stellar objects. A second paper in a series of adaptive optics observations of UCHII regions was accepted (CO-I McGregor, Australian National University). Blum and Sellgren (Ohio State) had a very successful observing run measuring K-band alpha element features in Galactic Center AGB and supergiant stars (PI Kunha, NOAO).

FY10 Plans Blum’s Galactic Center work will continue: Kunha will analyze data obtained by Blum and Sellgren in 2009; Kunha, Sellgren, Blum, et al., will interpret the results and write them up. Blum is collaborating

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on a new project to do a large survey of UCHII with the Gemini North laser guide star system and the NIFS integral field unit spectrometer (CO-I Barbosa, Universidade do Vale do Paraiba, Brazil).

TODD BOROSON Astronomer

Research Interests Structural and physical properties of active galactic nuclei; stellar populations and their evolution; O/IR instrumentation; analysis and mining of large astronomical data sets

FY09 Accomplishments During his sabbatical in FY09, Boroson continued his work on the spectra of low-redshift quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). A spectral principal component analysis (SPCA) technique was developed to characterize the information in a sample of more than 17,000 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) QSO archive. A number of interesting outlier objects were found, including one (SDSS J1536+0441) that is a good candidate for a bound, sub-parsec supermassive black hole binary system. In collaboration with T. Lauer (NOAO), further observations of this object were obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope and the KPNO Mayall 4-m telescope. These new observations rule out one competing explanation, a chance superposition of two unrelated objects, and also provide constraints on the orbital parameters under the binary hypothesis. The SPCA technique also identified a number of objects that had been incorrectly classified as QSOs; these were removed from the subsequent version of the SDSS QSO catalog.

FY10 Plans Boroson plans to study a subset of the SDSS QSO sample having emission lines that are significantly offset in velocity from the systemic redshift. Eighty-seven such objects, possibly explained as systems with binary black holes, were identified. An alternative explanation involves complex emission line structure from a nuclear disk. With M. Eracleous (Pennsylvania State U.), spectroscopic monitoring observations are planned to distinguish, over several years, between the two hypotheses. In addition, Boroson intends to extend the SPCA work to further explore the spectroscopic properties of the entire SDSS QSO sample.

RYAN CAMPBELL, Postdoc Research Associate (CTIO Student Programs Director)

Research Interests Cataclysmic variables; cyclotron radiation; polars

FY09 Accomplishments: Campbell wrote a front-end phython suite to expedite the procedure of fitting phase-resolved cyclotron spectra. The fitting procedure is optimized using a genetic algorithm native to python called PyEvolve, which was written by Christian S. Perone. The new program computes model spectra, light curves, and polarization curves when supplied with the orbital inclination of the system. Campbell tested the program on some Hubble Space Telescope Solar Blind Channel (SBC) spectra of EF Eri obtained by P. Szkody. The paper is in the process of being written, and should be to collaborators within the next few months. To better constrain these results, Campbell applied for and was granted 10 days of telescope time to obtain polarization curves of EF Eri in collaboration with C. Rodrigues with INPE in Brazil. That observing run is scheduled for October 2009.

Campbell mentored two students, Shannon Dealaman and Owen Boberg, in connection with the SBC spectra dataset. Dealaman also reduced several phase-resolved data-sets of Polars observed with the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope and will present her results at the January AAS. A Fulbright Scholarship application was submitted for Boberg to return to Chile to continue work on this project.


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Campbell presented a poster (with Fischer and Beuermann) on phase-resolved modeling of polars, a cutting edge cyclotron code, at the January AAS in Long Beach, CA. He also attended the conference “Magnetic Fields of Stars: from the Sun to Compact Objects” in Les Diablarets, Switzerland.

FY10 Plans Campbell plans on completing the in-process paper noted above in the early part of FY10. A successful run at INPE should help nail down the source of EF Eri' UV Emission. Campbell and collaborators hope to have a proposal for spectroscopy at IRTF approved, and Campbell hopes to write a proposal with R. de Propris (NOA) for time on Gemini South. Should Boberg return to CTIO as a Fulbright Scholar, Campbell will spend a large amount of time in FY10 mentoring Boberg in connection with the SBC spectra dataset project. Campbell will continue as the CTIO student programs director managing the CTIO REU and PIA programs.

CHARLES F. CLAVER, Scientist

KATIA CUNHA, Assistant Astronomer

Research Interests High-resolution spectroscopy; Galactic and extragalactic stellar abundances; metallicity gradients; chemical evolution

FY09 Accomplishments Cunha organized the IAU Symposium 265, “Chemical Abundances in the Universe: from First Stars to Planets,” at the IAU General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro. Cunha’s research during FY09 was related to abundance determinations in stars with planets that put limits on the amount of the accretion of disk material onto the star and early chemical evolution in globular clusters.

FY10 Plans Cunha plans to edit and have the proceedings for the IAU Symposium 265 ready for publication. She also plans to continue her analysis of high-resolution spectroscopic data in different stellar populations in the Milky Way, as well as analyze abundance patterns of M giants and AGBs in the Small Magellanic Cloud and obscured fields in the inner bulge.

ROBERTO DE PROPRIS, Assistant Astronomer

Research Interests Clusters of galaxies; luminosity functions; close pairs of galaxies

FY09 Accomplishments De Propris continued to work on his main topics of research and completed two projects (papers in preparation) on the structure of the Galaxy and the structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud, as part of the Bulge survey with which he’s involved. De Propris continued supervision of graduate students in Australia and the United Kingdom. He provided support for Hydra and the Infrared Side Port Imager and scientific coordination (staff meetings, seminars) at CTIO.

FY10 Plans De Propris will continue and expand studies on the behavior of clusters and galaxies, using both archival HST data and new data to be obtained from HST and Subaru. He will continue to exploit archival data on clusters and elliptical galaxies. De Propris will also work on projects using the new


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DAVID DE YOUNG, Astronomer

Research Interests Theoretical astrophysics, especially non-linear phenomena; galaxy clusters; active galactic nuclei; extragalactic radio sources; MHD and hydrodynamic phenomena

FY09 Accomplishments De Young, in collaboration with S.M. O’Neill (U. of Maryland) and T.W. Jones (U. of Minnesota), published a paper (ApJ) that addresses the issue of AGN feedback in rich clusters of galaxies. In particular, these 3-dimensional (3D) MHD numerical simulations examine the mixing of AGN outflow material with the ambient intracluster medium (ICM) to see if significant reheating of the ICM can occur via this interaction. The results show that in fact there is little mixing of these two fluids over times of order of 100 million years. However, the results of this and similar calculations are very sensitive to the initial and boundary conditions of the calculations, and a more self-consistent study is needed that includes the propagation of outflowing AGN jets, their deceleration, and ultimate inflation of AGN debris bubbles in the ICM. De Young also completed a series of calculations that examine AGN feedback in a more general environment; where the AGN outflows from FR-I radio sources are dominant. These flows are likely to be fully turbulent, and the calculation examines the time evolution of the non-linear turbulence from the energy injection stage until the turbulence begins to dissipate, thus transferring heat to the ambient medium.

FY10 Plans De Young plans to continue the study of the detailed physics involved in the interaction of FR-I AGN outflows with the surrounding medium. This will further explore the feasibility of “Radio AGN Feedback” as a mechanism for halting star formation and solving some of the outstanding problems with current cosmological models. In addition to the turbulence calculations described above, more detailed 3D numerical simulations of these flows will be carried out. Plans are also underway to explore in collaboration with J. Bally (U. of Colorado) possible investigations of the very energetic outflows in OMC-1 in the Orion star forming region.

ARJUN DEY, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Galaxy evolution; high-redshift galaxies; large-scale structure; AGN evolution and clustering

FY09 Accomplishments During the first part of FY09, Dey concluded his work on the Conceptual Design Study for the Gemini Wide-Field Multi-Object Spectrometer (WFMOS), an instrument providing a highly multiplexed (~4800 fiber), wide-field (1.5 deg) spectroscopic capability for the Gemini community. The final concept was presented to the Gemini Observatory, but was not chosen for implementation. Dey worked with M. Dickinson on calibrating and correcting for the non-linearity of the NEWFIRM array; with R. Joyce, M. Liang, and T. Abraham on investigating wide-field design options for the Mayall 4-m telescope; and provided service to the NGSC group. Dey continued to study the clustering and evolution of galaxies. In particular, Dey spent time investigating the properties and evolutionary state of a sample of extremely luminous dusty galaxies at z ~ 2 that appear to be undergoing an active phase of star and AGN formation. These galaxies may represent a subsequent evolutionary phase of some


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sub-mm galaxies. Dey’s investigations used HST, Keck, Gemini, and the CSO. With N. Reddy, Dey also studied the nature and evolution of strong Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies at redshifts z ~ 2. Dey continued to investigate the evolution of the X-ray luminosity, mass, color, number density, and clustering of normal, early-type galaxies between 0<z<1. His thesis student, Dr. Moire Prescott, completed her dissertation and received her PhD in Astronomy from U. of Arizona in September 2009. Dey was an invited speaker at two meetings (“The Starburst-AGN Connection” October 2008 in Shanghai and “Napa Galaxy Evolution Workshop” in February 2009) and a visiting scientist at the Spitzer Science Center/Caltech during June 2009. Dey (with B. Jannuzi) was awarded the AURA Science Award for leading the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Project (NDWFS).

Dey served on the NOAO working group on the Evolution of the System of O/IR Facilities; the AURA Decadal Steering Committee; the 2008 NASA ADP grant review panel; the Cycle 6 TAC for the Spitzer Space Telescope; on the BigBOSS Steering Committee; and was co-author of three white papers submitted to the Decadal Survey, all supporting wide-field multi-object spectrometers for the US community.

FY10 Plans Dey will continue to work primarily on galaxy evolution and clustering, using the NDWFS and related survey data. He plans to continue studying the clustering and evolution of the red envelope galaxy population, investigating the growth of the central black holes in these systems, and studying the high-redshift Lyman break galaxy population. With L. Xu (U. of Arizona grad student) and N. Reddy (NOAO), Dey is beginning a search for very bright star-forming galaxies at z ~ 5. With S. Bussmann (U. of Arizona grad student), A. Pope (NOAO), J. Lotz (NOAO), and other collaborators, Dey will continue to investigate the properties of the extremely dust-obscured galaxies at redshift z ~ 2 uncovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Along with M. Prescott (UCSB), Dey is studying the space density of large Lyman-alpha emitting nebulae and the constraints they place on the formation of massive galaxies. With S. Bussmann (U. of Arizona grad student), Dey is studying the physical properties of a sample of high-redshift obscured AGN. With N. Reddy (NOAO), M. Prescott (UCSB), and M. Brodwin (CfA), Dey also is identifying and investigating a sample of z < 2 Lyman-alpha emitters in order to measure the properties and evolution of this population. Dey is collaborating with B. Jannuzi (NOAO) on the MAGES Spitzer Legacy Project and with A. Gonzalez (U. of Florida) on an NOAO NEWFIRM Survey project, both aimed at mapping the Boötes Field of the NDWFS.

As an NSSC staff member, Dey will act as the BigBOSS Liason Scientist and will create a process by which large projects can be proposed for NOAO telescopes by members of the US community at timely intervals.

MARK DICKINSON, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution; high redshift galaxies; active galactic nuclei

FY09 Accomplishments Dickinson’s research focuses on observational studies of galaxy formation and evolution from deep, multiwavelength surveys. He has been the principal investigator (PI) for two Spitzer Legacy science programs, The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), and the Far-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (FIDEL), and is now the NASA PI for the GOODS Herschel Open Time Key Program (whose program PI is D. Elbaz, CEA/Saclay, France). GOODS is the premier multiwavelength deep-field survey of the distant universe. More than 400 publications in the refereed literature have used GOODS data products; most of those papers now come from the broader astronomical community and not just from the original proposal teams. FIDEL has obtained the deepest Spitzer far-infrared (70 and 160 microns) imaging covering approximately 0.6 square degrees, including the GOODS fields, to study thermal dust emission from infrared-luminous and


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ultraluminous galaxies and active galactic nuclei at redshifts out to z = 2. FIDEL was the Spitzer precursor to the new GOODS-Herschel program, which will obtain the deepest observations of the sky at 100 to 500 microns, including an ultradeep 100-micron field within GOODS-South. GOODS-Herschel will directly measure thermal dust emission and spectral energy distributions for thousands of IR-luminous galaxies and AGN out to z = 4 or beyond. Herschel was successfully launched in May 2009 and begins science observations in September/October. The GOODS program should be executed during 2010, and Dickinson and colleagues have been preparing for the reduction and analysis of these data. In 2008–2009, Dickinson led a KPNO 4-m telescope program to obtain deep near-infrared J- and K-band imaging of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS, one of the FIDEL fields) using the NEWFIRM wide-field imager. These data, reduced using the NOAO NEWFIRM pipeline (for which Dickinson was project scientist), will enable color selection and accurate photometric redshifts for a large sample of galaxies at z > 1 with far-infrared data from FIDEL (and eventually from Herschel as well).

Dickinson was also PI for a NASA Keck program of OSIRIS observations of IR-luminous, CO-detected galaxies at z ~ 1.5. In FY09, Dickinson supervised NOAO postdoctoral researcher Samir Salim, who worked on the relation between obscured and unobscured star formation using FIDEL (and other) data. Dickinson was also the NOAO staff contact for Spitzer Fellow Alexandra Pope and Hubble Fellow Naveen Reddy. He supervised the PhD thesis research of U. of Arizona graduate student S. Juneau. Dickinson was on sabbatical in France and Italy during most of the last half of FY09.

FY10 Plans In FY10, the GOODS-Herschel program should collect most or all of its far-infrared data on the GOODS fields. Dickinson will lead the effort of the US portion of this international team toward the reduction, analysis, and scientific exploitation of the data set. New NOAO postdoctoral researcher Jeyhan Kartaltepe arrived at the end of FY09 and will work primarily on this new Herschel survey, as will another U. of Arizona graduate student. Dickinson will complete his sabbatical in early 2010.

GREGORY DOPPMANN, Research Associate

Research Interests Young stellar objects; star and planet formation: spectral synthesis modeling; infrared instrumentation

FY09 Accomplishments In May, Doppmann submitted a NASA origins proposal based on a technique he developed to measure water, OH, and organic emission in the terrestrial planet-forming regions around young stars. This proposal would secure his funding for another two to three years at NOAO. Doppmann co-authored several publications relating to his research interests. In one study, the line widths of the Ne II emission measured in AA Tau and GM Aur from high resolution spectroscopy were found to be dominated by Keplerian disk rotation, rather than by photoevaporation or turbulence (Najita et al. 2009). In another study characterizing mid-IR H2 gas emission in circumstellar disks around young stars, the warmer gas temperatures (T > 500 K) suggest that the gas and dust are thermally decoupled (Bitner et al. 2009). In a new project with J. Najita (NOAO) and J.A. Eisner (Steward Obs.), Doppmann has been analyzing ARIES/MMT data with high spatial (adaptive-optics-fed) and spectral (R = 30,000) resolution to constrain the emitting area of the detected emission. In this work, he has been mentoring a graduate student (J. Teske), providing tutoring with IRAF as an introduction to data reduction and analysis techniques needed for this project.

FY10 Plans With the detailed spectral modeling of water and OH emission in V1331 Cyg now completed, Doppmann, in collaboration with J. Najita and J. Carr (Naval Research Laboratory), will write up the


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results for publication by the end of this year. Characterizing or setting detection limits on the organic emission around V1331 Cyg and other T Tauri stars, the next phase of this project, will begin in early 2010. The spectra obtained at the MMT with ARIES in January and May 2009 of TW Hya show short-term variability in the accretion rate and continuum excess. This will be the subject of another publication in the coming year. Wrapping up a project with K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), Doppmann will submit a paper on calibration of fundamental physical properties of pre-main sequence objects using a pioneered technique with high-resolution K-band spectra. Finally, Doppmann will continue his education outreach in Tucson area schools in the 2009–2010 academic year through Project Astro.

JONATHAN H. ELIAS, Astronomer (Head of Program, GSMTPO)

Research Interests Star formation and evolution; Magellanic Clouds; supernovae and novae

FY09 Accomplishments Elias provided scientific oversight of the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Program Office (GSMTPO) as head of program. GSMTPO activities included organization of a workshop on “Science Adaptive Optics on Large Telescopes” that was held at the June AAS meeting in Pasadena, with the purpose of demonstrating the availability of adaptive optics as an observational tool. Elias also provided support to the Gemini Observatory as it repaired the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrometer (GNIRS).

FY10 Plans The scientific activities Elias plans for FY10 will be in support of GSMT and O/IR System development, including activities under both the newly formed NOAO System Science Center and NOAO System Technology Center divisions. Support for Gemini work on GNIRS repairs will continue, with return to the telescope in the second half of the fiscal year. Elias has also been designated as the NOAO project scientist for the KOSMOS spectrograph, which is an adaptation for the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-m telescope of Ohio State’s OSMOS spectrograph being built for the MDM 2.4-m telescope. This role includes coordination of NOAO scientific input to the design modifications, as well as systems engineering activities.

SEBASTIAN ELS, Research Associate

KATY GARMANY, Associate Scientist (Senior Science Education Specialist)

Research Interests Astronomy education: formal and informal; formation and evolution of massive stars

FY09 Accomplishments Garmany was appointed co-Diversity Advocate at NOAO in FY09, and serves in this capacity with Dara Norman. Major activities included monitoring the employee climate survey as well as meeting with various committees at NOAO. In addition, Garmany was appointed Editor of the NOAO/NSO Newsletter and worked to update its distribution list and move the newsletter to be published primarily online. Changes in the EPO group have led to a reduced emphasis on the Research Based Science Education program for high school teachers, although Garmany continued an observing program and online journal for students of past teachers. She managed year three of a program, funded by Science Foundation Arizona, in imaging processing and technology for Arizona high school teachers and continued her educational outreach to the Tohono O’odham Nation.


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FY10 Plans Garmany will continue activities connected with diversity, with a particular emphasis on the Tohono O’odham nation. She will head planning for a special 100th issue of the NOAO/NSO Newsletter due in December. She will continue her research and data analysis of the chemical composition of outer galactic disk B stars with K. Cunha.

JOHN GLASPEY, Visiting Scientist

Research Interests Development and optimization of optical instrumentation; physical properties of stars; spectroscopic abundance determinations

FY09 Accomplishments Glaspey assisted the WIYN staff with the completion of the Bench Upgrade Project. This involved the installation and characterization of the new STA1 CCD for the Bench, as well as the installation and alignment of the new, all-refractive collimator. Testing showed that the upgraded Bench Spectrograph is performing per expectations, providing better and more uniform optical throughput. Given the better quantum efficiency of the STA1 CCD as well, the total system throughput is much better than the old system. Documentation associated with the new system was updated and improved. An updated version of the Hydra-Bench User’s Manual was completed and published on the NOAO and WIYN Web sites. Glaspey also participated extensively in outreach programs with the Tohono O’odham Nation, where Kitt Peak is located.

FY10 Plans Glaspey will participate in the instrumentation upgrades being planned for the KPNO 2.1-m and 4-m telescopes. Glaspey will continue outreach programs with the Tohono O’odham Nation and will become more involved in site protection activities for Kitt Peak. Additionally, Glaspey will continue collaborations with K. Cunha and C. Garmany (NOAO) on spectral studies of early-type stars in the outer regions of the Milky Way.

BROOKE GREGORY, Scientist

Research Interests Infrared instrumentation; next-generation telescope design; adaptive optics

FY09 Accomplishments Gregory was involved with the design of new facilities in preparation for the installations of DECam and NEWFIRM at the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope. This included overseeing the design and construction of a new cleanroom and instrument handling facility for the Coudé lab and a cryocooler system for NEWFIRM. He particpated as the co-project scientist and management advisor for the SOAR Adaptive Module project. Gregory sketched the concept and did a preliminary optical design of a near IR multi-object spectrograph (Hybis) for the Blanco 4-m telescope. This concept will use the fiber feed provided by Hydra and a new VPH grating-based bench spectrograph and feed the ISPI HgCdTe imager as a spectrograph camera.

FY10 Plans Gregory will be the project scientist (technical) for the NEWFIRM installation on the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope. He plans to continue work begun on Hybis and hopes to see a realization of Hybis in FY10. Gregory will be enjoying partial retirement from NOAO in FY10.


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CRAIG HARRISON, Research Associate

Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution; clusters and groups of galaxies; stellar populations; AGN; computational astrostatistics

FY09 Accomplishments Harrison worked with S. E. Ridgway (NOAO) studying the environment of z ~ 1 3C radio sources. Major mergers that funnel gas to a central black hole are one possible way to produce these radio sources and would suggest that a fraction should reside in high density environments, such as clusters, where such events are common. Various density estimators were used on images of 10 radio sources that were obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope and the University of Hawaií 2.2-m telescope. The resulting conclusion being that while the environments vary, the preference is for radio galaxies to reside in environments similar to that of a poor cluster or rich group. Harrison also worked on a project with C. Miller (NOAO), A. Connolly (U. of Washington), and G. Cabrera (Universidad de Chile) to develop software to accurately deblend galaxies images.

FY10 Plans Harrison, Miller, and P. Gomez (Gemini) will use awarded time with GMOS-N to observe galaxies in two fossil groups to carry out a stellar population study and test the theory of fossil group formation. Harrison will continue his involvement with the development of the deblending software and will try to better calibrate SDSS line strengths to the Lick/IDS. As a member of a group including Miller, G. Coldwell (Universidad de La Serena), and M. Pracy and S. Brough (Anglo-Australian Observatory), Harrison plans to use the VIMOS integral field unit at the La Silla Paranal Observatory to perform a spatially resolved study of brightest cluster galaxies and brightest fossil groups galaxies to determine whether these galaxies form two distinct populations or not. In the middle of 2010, Harrison will move to the University of Michigan to continue his work with Miller on developing and publishing astrostatistical algorithms for use by the astronomical community.

STEPHEN R. HEATHCOTE, Astronomer (Director, SOAR)

KENNETH H. HINKLE, Scientist

Research Interests Peculiar and late-type stars; circumstellar and interstellar matter; molecular spectroscopy; instrumentation

FY09 Accomplishments Hinkle continued his work on AGB and post-AGB evolution. In collaboration with T. Lebzelter’s group in Vienna, Hinkle co-authored a second paper in a series on LMC AGB stars. With R. Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Hinkle published a paper on high velocity outflows from a post-AGB carbon star. In collaboration with A. García-Hernández (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) and D. Lambert (U. of Texas), Hinkle published an abundance analysis of post-AGB hydrogen deficient carbon stars. His collaboration with F. Fekel (Tennessee State U.) and R. Joyce (NOAO) on binary evolution resulted in a paper on IR spectroscopy of the much studied CH Cygni white dwarf, an AGB binary system. With N. Smith (UC Berkeley), Hinkle published a paper on the circumstellar environment and evolution of potential SN IIn progenitors. In addition, in collaboration with L. Wallace (NOAO), Hinkle continued his work on atomic and molecular spectra with a paper on the IR spectrum of Cr I.


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FY10 Plans Research on post-AGB binary systems with circumbinary disks is underway with S. Margheim (Gemini), J. Rajagopal (NOAO), and S. Brittain (Clemson). A paper with Fekel and Joyce is underway on the AGB binary systems containing Mira variables with white dwarf companions. An eighth paper in the series on M giants with white dwarf companions is also being prepared with Fekel and Joyce. A paper is planned with Lebzelter on observational tests of dynamical stellar atmospheres. Hinkle plans a publication with Wallace and M. Richter (UC Davis) on the circumstellar chemistry of ethylene. Hinkle will continue his work with Joyce, D. Jaffe (U. of Texas), and others on high-resolution, near-infrared spectrographs.

STEVE B. HOWELL, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Interacting binary stars; variable sources; exoplanets; CCD instrumentation

FY09 Accomplishments Howell successfully commissioned QUOTA, a prototype OTCCD imager, at WIYN. He continued his work with the Kepler Science Team through to the telescope launch in March 2009. He also continued a large Spitzer program on interacting binary stars. Howell completed a large IR spectroscopy project on donor stars in CVs, and he set up the Kepler Mission guest observer office at NASA/Ames.

FY10 Plans Howell will begin his Kepler Mission research on light curves, variables, and exo-planets in FY10. He also plans to begin work on LSST simulations and plans for early science observations.

GEORGE JACOBY, Astronomer

Research Interests Galaxy populations; extragalactic distance scale; planetary nebulae; Type Ia supernovae; CCD detectors; optics

FY09 Accomplishments Jacoby led a team to search for planetary nebulae (PNe) in the globular cluster system of M31. Only four PNe are known among the 150 Galactic clusters, which is too small of a sample to test the hypothesis that they must originate in close binaries, but M31 has 3–4 times as many clusters. Jacoby and collaborators identified 12 PNe in this larger sample, about as expected. With an ESO-based team (Arnaboldi, Gerhard, Doherty), Jacoby continued his work on the intracluster stars in the Virgo cluster by studying the dynamics of individual PNe in the halo of M87. They found that the stellar population of M87 is truncated at a radius of 150 kpc, that the central regions of Virgo are not yet virialized, and that the giant galaxies M86 and M87 are approaching each other for their first close passage. Jacoby continued his work with a group of amateur astronomers to survey the Galaxy for previously unknown, faint, old PNe that have escaped detection. Very patient amateurs reviewed the digital sky surveys for objects that may be PNe and Jacoby used the KPNO facilities for follow-up observations to validate the candidates.

FY10 Plans Jacoby will be working with De Marco, Bond, and Harrington to study the details of the four PNe in the Galactic globular clusters using HST imaging. With the availability of a wide-field IR imager in the south (NEWFIRM), he plans a Br γ survey of large regions near the Galactic center in an attempt to resolve the huge disparity between the number of PNe known in the Galaxy (3,000) and the number


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expected (25,000). Obscuration due to dust is the common rationale for the low count of these predominantly Galactic plane objects, but no one has ever performed a survey in a bandpass where extinction is relatively low. If the large number of PNe cannot be found, then PNe are not a common evolutionary phase for normal stars, but rather, they are a phenomenon that occurs under special circumstances (e.g., common envelope binary evolution).

BUELL T. JANNUZI, Astronomer (Director, Kitt Peak National Observatory)

Research Interests Observational cosmology; formation and evolution of large-scale structure; quasars and quasar absorption line systems; evolution of properties of galaxies; instrumentation for surveys

FY09 Accomplishments Jannuzi continued as Co-PI (with A. Dey) of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), an 18-square-degree optical and near-IR imaging survey designed to study the formation and evolution of galaxies and large-scale structure in the Universe. Over 100 refereed publications—many co-authored by Jannuzi, including 14 that appeared in print in FY09—have so far made use of these data to study a variety of astrophysical problems. Jannuzi is the PI of MAGES (MIPS AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey), a Spitzer Space Telescope Cycle 5 Legacy program that successfully executed its MIPS observations in January 2009. Imaging the Boötes Field of the NDWFS, MAGES enables the study of the properties of z < 1 LIRGS and ULIRGS, the far-IR emission of obscured and unobscured QSOs and AGN, the spectral energy distributions of IR-luminous galaxies, and the clustering of IR-selected source populations. During FY09, the new MIPS data were successfully processed and source catalogs constructed. Jannuzi continued his studies of the physical properties of Lyman-alpha absorption line systems using HST/STIS UV spectroscopy and galaxy redshift surveys. One paper from this work was submitted during the end of FY09. Jannuzi was a Co-I on successful Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope proposals for programs that will be carried out in FY10.

FY10 Plans Jannuzi will continue to study the physical properties of Lyman-alpha absorption line systems using HST/STIS UV spectroscopy of intermediate redshift quasars. Collaborating with Bechtold, Morris, Crighton, and Carswell, he will compare measurements of the spatial distribution of gas in the IGM to the distribution of galaxies in order to study the physical relationship between these two populations of baryons in the Universe. These studies will be aided by an accepted HST program to use COS to obtain improved UV spectroscopy along some of the lines-of-sight being studied. Jannuzi remains involved in analysis of the completed surveys AGES (AGN Galaxy Evolution Survey; PIs Kochaneck and Eisenstein) and the Spitzer Deep-Wide Field Survey (PI Stern). The final data products from MAGES (see above), which targets the same area of the sky as these other surveys, as well as initial science results from the analysis of these new data will be produced during the coming year. With Smith and Schmidt, Jannuzi will be involved in the groundbased observations necessary to support their successful Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope proposal to study the physics of highly polarized AGN.

RICHARD R. JOYCE, Scientist

Research Interests Late-type stars; mass loss; infrared detector and instrumentation development

FY09 Accomplishments Joyce continued a long-term project with K. Hinkle (NOAO), F. Fekel (Tennessee State U.), and P. Wood (Australian National University) to determine orbits of symbiotic stars by measurement of their radial velocities at infrared wavelengths, emphasizing the largely unstudied southern sky. The results


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for three more S-type symbiotics were written up for submission. Stars unobservable from Kitt Peak are being observed using Phoenix on Gemini South and the fiber-fed echelle on the 1.5-m telescope at CTIO operated by the SMARTS Consortium. Several final flash stars were observed through narrowband infrared filters using WHIRC on the WIYN telescope to search for emission at 1083 nanometers from He I, an emission line diagnostic of a high-velocity wind flowing from the star. Extended emission was detected around both V605 Aql and CK Vul, the latter showing a bipolar outflow morphology confirming that this object, thought to be a slow nova, is another example of a rare final flash object.

FY10 Plans Joyce will continue the infrared radial velocity measurements of the southern symbiotic stars and the abundance studies of globular cluster stars. He plans another attempt to detect He I from Sakurai’s Star, the most recent and heavily extinguished final flash object, using WHIRC with the WIYN Tip/Tilt Module to improve the detectability in the crowded stellar field.

JEYHAN KARTALTEPE, Postdoc Research Associate

TOM KINMAN, Astronomer Emeritus

Research Interests Galactic structure; galactic halo; horizontal branch stars; RR Lyrae stars

FY09 Accomplishments Kinman acquired and partly reduced 547 frames of RR Lyrae stars on 41 nights using the 32-inch Tenagra telescope. Of these, 101 were of low amplitude RR Lyrae stars at the North Galactic Pole (NGP) for which W. R. Brown (Smithsonian) obtained spectra at the MMT. Most of the supposed RRc variables were found to be eclipsing stars, and further support was found for a net inflow of the halo at the NGP at a distance of 3 kpc.

FY10 Plans Kinman hopes to continue his study of BHB stars in fields at the NGP and at l,b = (90,-45) and to use the new UCAC3 proper motions for a kinematic study of these stars. Kinman hopes to publish his work with C. Cacciari (Bologna) on the blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars and RR Lyrae stars in the Anticenter. Kinman hopes to continue further observations and reductions of the RR Lyraes and long-period red variables in Lick Survey fields with particular emphasis on the variables for which UCAC3 proper motions are now available.

PAT KNEZEK, (Deputy Director, WIYN)

TOD R. LAUER, Astronomer

Research Interests Extragalactic astronomy; normal galaxies; nuclear black holes; stellar populations; cosmology; astronomical image processing; space-based dark energy investigations

FY09 Accomplishments Lauer continues to collaborate with the HST “Nuker” Team, which has the goal of investigating the central structure and black-hole demographics of normal galaxies. Lauer and Nuker Team collaborators completed a paper comparing the stellar-dynamics measurement of the black hole mass in the galaxy NGC 4258 to the highly accurate maser determination. This validates stellar-dynamics


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black hole determinations. The Nuker Team has measured several more black hole massesd has completed a work determining the cosmic scatter intrinsic to the Mbh-sigma and Mbh-L relationships. With Phil Hopkins and his collaborators, Lauer completed two papers comparing the central structure of early-type galaxies to that formed in simulated mergers. Lauer and collaborators are investigating the structure and composition of the blue cluster of stars surrounding the M31 black hole. With Todd Boroson, Lauer discovered an excellent candidate binary black hole. Lauer (with NASA funding) led the science and engineering teams that defined the Destiny concept for the NASA and DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM). Lauer served on the JDEM Science Coordination Group to explore the possible JDEM concepts that will be developed. In terms of functional activities, Lauer continued to supervise the NOAO Survey program, served on the WIYN board, and worked to bring the LSST science collaborations into better contact with the LSST Project and NOAO.

FY10 Plans Lauer will continue to help define JDEM concepts. He hopes to complete work on HST investigations to detect the M32 main sequence and to characterize the young population of stars surrounding the M31 black hole. Lastly, he hopes to complete the analysis of adaptive optics observations obtained at Keck to search for extremely massive black holes in brightest cluster galaxies.

JENNIFER LOTZ, Research Associate (Leo Goldberg Fellow)

C. ROGER LYNDS, Astronomer Emeritus

Research Interests Galaxy evolution; galaxy mergers; cosmology

FY09 Accomplishments Lynds, with C. Simpson (Florida International U.) et al., wrote a paper on VII Zw 403 titled “HI Structure in a Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy.” Lynds continued his study of the merging processes in NGC 6745, including partially successful new images with the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak.

FY10 Plans Lynds plans on submitting the VII Zw 403 paper (see above) for publication in FY10. He also plans to complete his research on NGC 6745—including the VLA 21-cm HI (already published, in part) and continuum observations.

THOMAS MATHESON, Assistant Astronomer

Research Interests Supernovae; novae; gamma-ray bursts; cosmology

FY09 Accomplishments Matheson was a co-author on nine refereed publications in FY09. One paper used GALEX spectroscopy to suggest that Type II supernovae (SNe) are generally uniform in the ultraviolet. Another paper used nebular-phase spectra of core-collapse SNe to show that double-peaked emission lines are relatively common, suggesting some asphericity. Circumstellar interaction that also showed evidence for asphericity was the subject of another paper. One paper used Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy to study the ultraviolet properties of Type Ia SNe. A paper revealed the second case of variable Na I D lines in a Type Ia supernova (SN). Another paper was a reanalysis of an interacting SN (1994W). Publications from the ESSENCE project continued with a paper analyzing the first four


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years of spectroscopy. Another paper looked at using Type II SNe as distance indicators. Finally, a large atlas of UBVRI light curves of Type Ia SNe from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics was published. Matheson also contributed to two Astro2010 decadal survey white papers: one on Type Ia SN science and one on the use of Type II SNe for cosmology.

FY10 Plans Matheson will continue work on low-redshift Type Ia SNe looking for spectroscopic correlations with intrinsic luminosity and work on a project with L. Dessart (OAMP) to determine a precise value of the Hubble constant using Type II SNe. His Gemini/European Southern Observatory collaboration on Type Ib/c SNe, with an emphasis on the nebular phase, will continue. Work on the light echoes of ancient SNe, including Cas A and Tycho’s SN in our galaxy, will also take up Matheson’s time in FY10.

K. MICHAEL MERRILL, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Star formation and evolution; interstellar/circumstellar dust; IR detectors; data acquisition and reduction

FY09 Accomplishments Merrill provided scientific oversight during the production, deployment, and refinement of the NEWFIRM MONSOON array controller. He was an active participant in supporting the NEWFIRM instrument at KPNO and a consultant regarding subsequent data reduction. As co-PI for the KPNO REU program at NOAO, he lectured the students on infrared (IR) astrophysics and supported their observations with SQIID on the KPNO 2.1-m telescope.

FY10 Plans Merrill will continue as co-PI for the KPNO REU program at NOAO. In an effort to further improve data quality from NEWFIRM and WHIRC, Merrill will research acquisition and post-detection techniques for improving the global DC stability of array output and develop techniques for employing the reference pixels to correct for slowly varying (in time and space) DC levels within the individual outputs. Merrill will continue to stay abreast of develops in IR array technology in support of the detector program at NOAO.

KENNETH J. MIGHELL, Associate Scientist (REU Site Director, KPNO) (NASA)

Research Interests Stellar populations in Local Group galaxies; precision stellar photometry and astrometry; parallel-processing astronomical image-analysis applications

FY09 Accomplishments As Site Director for the KPNO Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, Mighell managed six bright undergraduate students: T. DeMaio (U. of Colorado-Boulder), D. Flateau (U. of Cincinnati), E. Jones (Louisiana State U.), E. Kaplan (Vassar College), S. Messenger (U. of Missouri), and E. Montiel (U. of Arizona). Mighell worked with the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Instrument Team to improve stellar photometry and astrometry of Channels 1 and 2 of IRAC. Mighell developed an optical model for the IRAC Ch1 camera that explains the significant systematic centroid error of IRAC Ch1 point-source observations measured with standard intensity-weighted centroid algorithms. Mighell ported his cosmic-ray-rejection application CRBLASTER to the NASA NMP ST8 Dependable Multiprocessor (DM) platform as part of that project’s Technology Readiness Level 6 Technology Validation Demonstration. Mighell ported CRBLASTER to the 64-


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core Tilera Tile64 processor using a $9,975 TILExpress-20G card loaned by D. Seyoum (National Reconnaissance Office). B. Harker-Lundberg (NSO) and Mighell designed and implemented a high-speed Stokes inversion procedure for mapping solar photospheric vector magnetic fields, utilizing a massively-parallel, GPU-computing architecture to harness the different tiers of parallelism implicit in the inversion problem itself. This work is partially supported by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and utilized the AC GPU cluster at the NCSA. REU student E. Montiel (U. of Arizona) and Mighell analyzed archival Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 images of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy to find more flickering red giants in this nearby galaxy.

FY10 Plans Mighell, as PI, will start a new one-year NASA Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADP) project “Improving the Precision of Stellar Photometry and Astrometry of IRAC Channel 1 and 2 Observations” to develop new calibration procedures for IRAC Ch1 and Ch2 BCD images and test those procedures with archival observations of transiting extrasolar planets. Mighell is also the PI of a new one-year Kepler Cycle-1 Guest Observer project “A Calibration Study of Variable Stars in the Kepler Field.” Mighell will help author two articles about the stellar populations of the elliptical galaxy M32 based on deep HST ACS observations (PI: T. Lauer, NOAO). With Seyoum (NRO) and M. Malone (Draper Laboratory), Mighell will work to port CRBLASTER to the 49-core, low-power Radiation Hardened by Design MAESTRO processor, which will have its first foundry run in 2010. Harker-Lundberg and Mighell will write an article about their high-speed Stokes inversion procedure. Mighell will write and submit the 2009 annual project report for the KPNO REU Site and manage preparations for the KPNO REU 2010 program.

CHRISTOPHER J. MILLER, Assistant Astronomer

Research Interests Observational cosmology; large-scale structure; computational astrostatistics; galaxy clusters; galaxy formation and evolution; active galactic nuclei; science with large databases; virtual observatory; dark energy surveys; fossil groups

FY09 Accomplishments Miller is PI of the NOAO-XCS (NXS) Survey program which completed its original time allotment in 2008 but was granted a final extension due to time lost to weather in 2009A. As PI, Miller worked with J. Schneider (Carnegie Mellon U.) on a NASA Advanced Information Systems Research program grant to provide astrostatistical and computational algorithms to the astronomical community. These funds were used for a computer science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon U. and a post -doctoral researcher at NOAO South. Miller played an active role in the LSST Large Scale Structure science working group and was the lead author for Chapter 13.1 (“Galaxy Power Spectra: Broadband Shape on Large- Scales”) in the LSST Science Book. Along with E. Vera (Universidad de Chile), Miller organized the “Advanced Mathematical Tools for Frontier Astronomy” symposium held in Pucón, Chile, August 6–9. With PI C. Harrison (NOAO), Miller was awarded Gemini time to collect spectra for dim satellite galaxies around Fossil Groups in order to study their star-formation histories with respect to normal galaxy clusters and groups. Miller collaborated with S. Banford (U. of Portsmouth) on two separate papers. The first used modern statistical techniques to show that the H-alpha emission line distribution for SDSS galaxies has four distinct populations. The second paper used Galaxy Zoo to show how “crowd-sourced” galaxy morphological classifications can be useful for scientific analysis, specifically to study correlations between galaxy shapes and their environments. Along with the entire NXS team, Miller co-authored a Nature paper (Collins et al. 2009) on the formation and evolutionary history of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs),.finding that BCGs form rapidly in the very early Universe, as opposed to the standard picture that involves protracted hierarchical growth. Miller participated in two other NXS-related publications: Sahlen et al. (2009) used the NXS/XCS cluster


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surveys to make careful predictions on what we expect to measure for the Cosmological parameters; Hilton et al. (2009) studied the color-magnitude relation in the highest redshift (z = 1.46) cluster known to date.

FY10 Plans As PI of the NXS Survey, Miller will continue to lead a team (~20) from the US, England, and Portugal. Miller is in the process of releasing the NXS data to the public via the NOAO Science Archive. Miller will help oversee the NXS thesis effort of N. Merhtens (University of Sussex). Miller will utilize the SDSS-C4 galaxy catalog to continue his research on the BCG population. He will publish the DR7 SDSS C4 galaxy cluster catalog (after he releases the DR7 SDSS Value-Added Catalog). The final C4 catalog will contain ~2000 clusters from z = 0.03 to z = 0.2, in ~8000 square-degrees. He will use this catalog to measure the large-scale power spectrum for the SDSS C4 clusters. Along with Co-I, P. Gomez (Gemini), Miller will publish an X-ray/optical analysis of Abell 1882. Miller, S. Krughoff (Washington), and M. Bergmann will finish an analysis of the Ca III line in SDSS spectra and its ability to trace metallicity. Miller will continue his involvement with the Dark Energy Survey collaboration and actively participate in the LSST Large Scale Structure working group.

JOAN R. NAJITA, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Star and planet formation; infrared spectroscopy

FY09 Accomplishments Najita is leading a Spitzer spectroscopic study of transition objects, young stellar systems whose SEDs indicate significant disk evolution, possibly as a result of planet formation. The unusual emission line spectra of these objects suggest that the disk has evolved either chemically or physically. These results may provide insights into the processes that are responsible for disk evolution (Najita et al. 2009b). Najita also led a group that used TEXES on Gemini to study the recently discovered [Ne II] emission from T Tauri stars. As reported in Najita et al. (2009a), the line profiles they measured indicate that the emission likely arises from the planet formation region of the disk. Thus [Ne II] is a potentially powerful probe of disk dissipation. With A. Glassgold and R. Meijerink (UC Berkeley), Najita studied theoretically the formation of water in disk atmospheres. They found that mechanical heating and H2 formation on grains can increase the abundance of water formed in the atmosphere, making it unnecessary to invoke the transport of water via turbulent mixing or the migration of planetesimals to explain earlier Spitzer and ground-based observations (Glassgold et al. 2009).

FY10 Plans Najita and J. Carr (NRL) will continuing their study with the Spitzer telescope of organic molecules and water in the planet formation region of disks surrounding young stars, now in collaboration with G. Blake, E. van Dishoeck, and others. The suite of detected features (acetylene, hydrogen cyanide, carbon dioxide, the hydroxyl radical, and water) provide new clues to the chemical evolution of disks. Observations of this kind may eventually provide insights into the origin of life in planetary systems. Other major ongoing efforts will include: (1) NIR and MIR high-resolution spectroscopy of organic molecules and water observed in emission or absorption toward young stars (with Doppmann, Carr, Lacy, Richter); (2) theoretical studies of molecular abundances in disk atmospheres (with A. Glassgold and M. Adamkovics at UC Berkeley); (3) Spitzer IRS and ground-based spectroscopy of transitional disks; (4) Spitzer IRS spectroscopy of Ne II emission as a tracer of the dissipation of gaseous disks; (5) using stellar accretion rates and disk emission lines to explore the nature of transition disks (with S. Strom at NOAO and J. Muzerolle at STScI); (6) finding observational evidence for the magneto-rotational instability in disks, the process that is believed to govern disk accretion (with N. Turner and Carr).


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DARA J. NORMAN, Assistant Scientist

Research Interests Quasars and their environments; gravitational lensing; large-scale structure; low-mass companions of MS stars; cool stars

FY09 Accomplishments Norman was promoted to the position of assistant scientist this year. Her primary duties included supporting the US astronomy community in pursuit of Gemini data and being an AURA diversity co-advocate at NOAO, which included a membership on the AURA Workforce and Diversity Committee. Norman continued to organize the Friday Lunch Astronomy Science Hour (FLASH) talks. She attended the AAS meeting in Long Beach, CA, where she organized the first mentor luncheon hosted by the Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy and presented a poster on “The Quasar Luminosity Function in the Boötes field.” Norman completed a paper with R. DePropris that was accepted to ApJ for publication. Along with collaborators, she also wrote four position papers for the Astro2010 decadal survey review. Norman continued her participation in a proposal (PI: DePropris) submitted to the XMM Observatory to look for AGN signatures in merging and close pairs of galaxies. She was also a member of the LSST galaxies collaboration and attended its first fact-to-face meeting at NOAO. In FY09, Norman was renewed as a member of the AAS’s CSMA, and she was selected to chair the ASTRO section of the National Society of Black Physicists. She was also on the organizing committee for the Women in Astronomy 2009 meeting.

FY10 Plans Norman will continue projects started with collaborators and plans to complete a paper on correlations of quasars and IRAC clusters in the NDWFS Boötes field. Norman will be organizing two special sessions at the AAS 2010 meeting on mentoring.

KNUT A. OLSEN, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar populations and star formation histories of nearby galaxies; globular clusters; Magellanic Clouds

FY09 Accomplishments Olsen’s research maintained its focus on using high spatial resolution, including ground-based adaptive optics (AO), for investigating stellar populations in nearby galaxies at high spatial resolution. Olsen completed the data collection for a program to determine the star formation history from resolved stars of the M31 disk, using Gemini North and NIRI+ALTAIR AO. In a related project, Olsen used Keck LGSAO to observe M31 and M33 star clusters, which will be used to provide calibration for the star formation history calculations. Olsen continued to participate in the ACS Nearby Galaxy Treasury collaboration, which published three papers in FY09. He authored a science white paper, submitted to the Astro2010 decadal survey committee, advocating the development of ground-based facilities capable of measuring the star formation histories from resolved stars in galaxies out to ~10 Mpc. Olsen’s research also focused on stellar populations survey science. He continued analysis on a survey of the LMC’s kinematics, participated in the Outer Limits Survey of the Magellanic Clouds, collaborated on the discovery and analysis of Galactic supernova light echoes, and collaborated on research devoted to the physical properties of red supergiant stars in nearby galaxies.


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FY10 Plans Olsen will continue his research in stellar populations as described above, in particular using high spatial resolution observations and surveys to investigate the stellar populations of nearby galaxies. Olsen aims to publish papers on the evolved stellar content of the Carina dwarf, the internal dynamics of the LMC, and on the origin of M31’s 10 kpc “Ring of Fire.”

SEAN D. POINTS, Assistant Scientist

Research Interests Interstellar medium (ISM); the Magellanic Clouds; evolved stars; astronomical instrumentation

FY09 Accomplishments Points continued his work calibrating the data obtained by the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) with R. C. Smith (NOAO) and A. Rest (Harvard). Points also worked on finalizing the data reductions and calibration of the MCELS data set for anticipated public release in FY09. Points prepared a paper for submission to the Astrophysical Journal detailing an investigation of diffuse X-ray emission from Supernova Remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with M. Klimek (Rutgers/CTIO).

FY10 Plans With R. Blum and K. Olsen (NOAO), Points will work on the analysis and publication of Spitzer Space Telescope data, investigating mass loss from evolved stellar populations in the LMC to examine the effects of age and metallicity on mass loss. Points will also be involved in the commissioning of the multi-object mode of the Goodman High Throughput Spectrograph located on the SOAR Telescope. Points will begin the commissioning of the SOAR Integral Field Unit Spectrograph (SIFS) at the SOAR Telescope.

STEPHEN POMPEA, Scientist (Manager, EPO)

Research Interests Inquiry- and research-based science education; informal education program design, astronomical instrumentation

FY09 Accomplishments Pompea continued his program design and management work with the formal and informal science education communities as well as his technical work on stray light in optical systems, optical properties of surfaces for instrumentation, and astronomical optical systems analysis and optimization. In science education, Pompea supported the GLOBE at Night light pollution education program and led the Spitzer Space Telescope Teacher and Student Observing Program (a spinoff of RBSE), which has trained 32 teachers to conduct astronomical research with Spitzer. NOAO successfully sustained the now completed, NSF-funded Hands-On Optics project (Informal Science, with SPIE and OSA) for which Pompea was Co-PI and Project Director. Pompea serves as PI of the Science Foundation Arizona project to bring the Hands-On Optics project to rural Boys & Girls Clubs in Arizona. Pompea was also active as Co-PI in the NSF-funded programs: Collaboration to Advance Teaching Technology and Science (Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education) and Astronomy From the Ground Up (ISE). He worked with R. Sparks (NOAO) on GSMT education and outreach efforts on adaptive optics. Pompea leads the US International Year of Astronomy Working Group on telescope kits, which produced a low-cost, educational telescope kit (the Galileoscope) and distributed over 100,000 units thus far. He also serves as the Project Director and Co-PI for the US International Year of Astronomy project funded by NSF AST.


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FY10 Plans Pompea will continue his work to support science education efforts in Arizona and Region Coquimbo in Chile. He will support the Galileoscope and the International Year of Astronomy projects in FY10 as well as new light pollution education initiatives. The Astronomy From the Ground Up project will finish this fiscal year in its training of museum educators. Pompea will continue research on developing high contrast/low stray light imaging and spectroscopic systems and in aiding NOAO and its partners on optimizing new and existing telescopes for better stray light performance.

ALEXANDRA POPE, Research Associate (Spitzer Fellow)

Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution; submillimeter and infrared galaxies; star formation rates; active galactic nuclei; spectral energy distributions; cosmic infrared background

FY09 Accomplishments Pope continued to work with the GOODS and FIDEL surveys to study dust-obscured star formation and active galactic nucli (AGN) activity in high redshift galaxies. She co-wrote a paper on the sources of the infrared background including both observational constraints from detections and stacking as well as model estimates (Chary & Pope, ApJ submitted). Pope reduced the data and co-led the analysis for a GO-5 Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) program to obtain spectra of SHADES submillimeter galaxies (Coppin, Pope, et al., in preparation). In FY09, Pope (with help from student Jared Gabor) completed the data reduction of ~200 mid-IR spectra from the Spitzer IRS in the GOODS fields—analysis and results are in progress. Pope supervised three students working on various projects: Kyle Penner (first-year graduate student, paper in preparation), Jared Gabor (third-year graduate student, data reduction complete) and Stephen Messenger (REU summer student, paper in preparation). Pope was involved in two white papers for the Astro2010 decadal review.

FY10 Plans Pope will lead the spectral library paper for the ~200 GOODS IRS spectra (with plans to submit it to ApJS by January 2010). Several other science papers will come from this database, in particular a study of the evolution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with redshift and a study of the relationship between the radio spectral index and the mid-IR AGN presence. Pope will be involved actively in the GOODS Herschel data reduction (data expected in 2010). Pope will continue to work with U. of Arizona graduate students Kyle Penner (co-supervising with M. Dickinson) and Jared Gabor.

RON PROBST, Scientist

Research Interests Infrared instrumentation for large telescopes; star formation; extrasolar planet imaging searches

FY09 Accomplishments Probst was a co-investigator on various NEWFIRM proposals with time awards, contributing technical advice and observing support. He expanded his observational activities by initiating a monitoring program for optically variable sources in star forming regions. This used 23 nights of KPNO Director’s Time on the 0.9-m telescope for CCD imaging at approximately monthly intervals. This work was in collaboration with L. Allen (NOAO) and G. Stringfellow (U. of Colorado). Together with T. Abbott (CTIO), Probst successfully advocated a relocation of NEWFIRM to the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope to allow community exploitation of scientific opportunities in the Southern Hemisphere. He chaired the Planet Finding Scientific Working Group for Gemini, an advisory panel on planet finding science.


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FY10 Plans Probst will have a lead role in the planning and execution of the deployment of NEWFIRM CTIO in 2010–2011. He will provide user support for NOAO-allocated time on the TripleSpec IR spectrograph (Palomar 5-m telescope) and will be the US contact scientist for the Gemini instruments NICI and NIFS. He will continue his active involvement with planet-finding science by chairing the Planet Finding Scientific Working Group advisory panel. Probst expects to use NEWFIRM on the Blanco telescope for IR emission line imaging of the interstellar medium in the Magellanic Clouds and in Galactic star forming regions. He will continue his monitoring program for optical variability in star forming regions using the KPNO 0.9-m telescope.

JAYADEV RAJAGOPAL, Assistant Scientist

Research Interests Circumstellar dust, debris disks; high angular resolution techniques in optical/infrared; atmospheric turbulence

FY09 Accomplishments Rajagopal continued a study of circumstellar disks around evolved binary stars. In collaboration with S. Ridgway (NOAO), he started an observing program for these targets with the CHARA interferometer at Mt. Wilson to resolve the sizes of the disks in the near-IR. A high-resolution, mid-IR spectroscopic survey of a similar sample of southern stars was successfully completed with the Phoenix instrument on the Gemini South telescope, in collaboration with K. Hinkle (NOAO). A study of the environments of these objects will also be undertaken with NICI, the adaptive optics (AO)-coronagraph at Gemini South. Rajagopal is also working with N. van der Bliek (NOAO) on a systematic study of the clustering of Herbig-Ae/Be stars using data from an ongoing survey, augmented with observations using the new Spartan IR camera on SOAR.

FY10 Plans Rajagopal plans to continue research on the theme of hot circumstellar disks at high resolution. He will attempt to bring to completion the study of post-AGB binaries. He also plans to use the newly commissioned IR camera and soon-to-be available optical AO system at SOAR for the Herbig Ae/Be program with high-resolution techniques.

NAVEEN A. REDDY, Research Associate (Hubble Fellow)

Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution; multiwavelength star formation indicators; stellar populations; evolution of the intergalactic medium at high redshift; feedback processes in starburst galaxies

FY09 Accomplishments Reddy’s principle interests are aimed at understanding the history of star formation and buildup of stellar mass in the Universe as quantified through large samples of high redshift galaxies. Reddy recently completed (and is about to submit) a paper on the dust extinction of typical star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2 and the utility of the UV slope as a dust indicator. Correlations of metallicity with UV slope and dust attenuation are also investigated and reveal important information on the dust-to-gas ratios of high redshift galaxies and their relation to local populations. Reddy is also involved in an extensive analysis of the Lyman-alpha and interstellar absorption line properties of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) and how such features correlate with UV slope, dust attenuation, metallicity and bolometric luminosity. In addition to research, Reddy refereed five papers in FY09 and was an external referee for the Subaru Time Allocation Committee in semesters 2009A and 2009B. He was a


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member of the Demographics Study Group of the Astro2010 decadal survey. Reddy was invited or gave contributed talks at five institutions/conferences.

FY10 Plans Reddy will be undertaking several new projects in FY10. These include an analysis of the dependence of Lyman-alpha emission and interstellar absorption line strengths on the dust attenuation and bolometric luminosity of Lyman break galaxies. He will continue leading an effort to measure the stellar masses of z ~ 1.9 Lyman-alpha selected galaxies and compare with continuum-selected populations at similar redshifts. Reddy will also be undertaking an analysis of the mass-to-light ratios of continuum-selected galaxies as a function of redshift for spectroscopic samples at z ~ 2, 3, 4, and 5 and investigate the implications for the low mass slope of the stellar mass function. Finally, Reddy will be leading an extensive effort to obtain spectroscopy of UV-faint galaxies (which dominate the star formation density) to understand their role in stellar mass buildup and enrichment of the intergalactic medium.

STEPHEN T. RIDGWAY, Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar physics and exoplanetary systems; high contrast imaging; high angular resolution techniques; application of infrared methods to astronomy

FY09 Accomplishments Ridgway concentrated his research efforts in the area of optical interferometry, including studies of stars and circumstellar environments, working primarily with collaborators at the Center for High Angular Resolution (CHARA) and Keck observatories. He was PI of a small contract to plan and define application of the Space Interferometry Mission for studies complementary to ground-based measurements. He worked with the United States Interferometry Consortium to develop a series of white papers for Astro2010. He participated in a design study for an adaptive optics design for small telescopes, applicable to ground-based interferometers.

FY10 Plans He plans to continue work in high angular resolution stellar measurements by interferometry and development of related measurement techniques.

SUSAN E. RIDGWAY, Assistant Astronomer

ABHIJIT SAHA, Astronomer (Head of Program, LSST)

Research Interests Variable stars; stellar populations in nearby galaxies; distance scale; absolute calibration of Type Ia supernovae as distance indicators; galactic structure; assembly and star formation history in nearby galaxies

FY09 Accomplishments Saha continued to lead the NOAO “Outer Limits” survey collaboration of the Magellanic Clouds, a research collaboration across several institutions. Observations are nearly complete, and all data obtained are fully processed. The LMC is seen to possess a much extended disk, which extends past 12 scale lengths, a discovery that is thus far unprecedented for any galaxy. An early serendipitous result is the discovery that the globular cluster NGC 1851 has a 500-parsec halo; again, an unprecedented result in need of a theoretical explanation. Saha was a collaborator in the detection of RR Lyrae stars in M32


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(with HST, PI: Fiorentino) and, in a separate collaboration, in the discovery of RR Lyrae stars in M33 (with Gemini data, PI: Pritzl). Work on the variable stars in the ultra metal-poor dwarf Izw18 was completed. Work on the recalibration of ACS photometry was also concluded, with a paper in progress.

FY10 Plans Saha will primarily focus on finishing the NOAO “Outer Limits” survey, delivering data products, and pursuing the analysis on the extent, structure, and chemical abundance distribution of the outer parts of the LMC/SMC. Saha was a member of the Science Oversight Committee for WFC3, an instrument which was successfully deployed on HST recently. He will be analyzing early release science data from this instrument, addressing stellar populations problems in diverse select objects with currently ongoing star formation.

SAMIR SALIM, Research Associate (NASA)

NALIN SAMARASINHA, Associate Scientist (NASA)

SIMON SCHULER, Research Associate (Leo Goldberg Fellow)

Research Interests High-resolution spectroscopy; stellar physics; stellar abundances; Galactic chemical evolution

FY09 Accomplishments Schuler continued work with collaborators J. King and L.-S. The (Clemson Univ.) on the light element abundances of open clusters stars. Results from an analysis of CNO abundances in Hyades dwarfs and giants were published in the Astrophysical Journal and presented at the August International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A paper on Li and K abundances of dwarf stars in the Pleiades open cluster also was accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. A paper on the Fe abundances of the same Pleiades dwarfs, work done in collaboration with A. Plunkett (Middlebury College) as part of the 2008 CTIO REU program, was submitted to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. A poster related to this work was presented in October 2008 at the Ages of Stars conference in Baltimore, MD. Schuler mentored undergraduate student D. Flateau (U. of Cincinnati) as part of the 2009 NOAO REU program; Flateau worked on the chemical abundances of planetary host stars. This work was done as part of a larger project to investigate the formation process of exoplanetary systems; the submission of a manuscript to the Astrophysical Journal describing this work is expected in the near future. A related paper in collaboration with L. Ghezzi (Observatório Nacional), K. Cunha, and V. Smith (NOAO) was published in the Astrophysical Journal.

FY10 Plans Schuler will continue analyzing the large amount of data obtained during FY07–09. He will continue his work with a Pleiades long-term observing program, studying possible correlations between Li line strength and activity variations, with hopes of coauthoring the first publication to result from this project. Work with the carbon-enhanced metal poor (CEMP) star collaboration will also continue, focusing on completing the analysis of 19F in CEMP stars and obtaining more data for the λ8727 [C I] study. He will also continue to work on the abundances of open cluster dwarfs, including the CNO project in collaboration with J. King and L.-S. The, and on the abundances of exoplanetary host stars with REU student D. Flateau. Schuler plans to present research results at the 11th Nuclei in the Cosmos conference in Heidelberg, Germany, and the 215th AAS meeting in Washington, DC.


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RICHARD A. SHAW, Scientist

Research Interests Late stages of stellar evolution; planetary nebulae; Magellanic Clouds; astrophysical plasmas; astronomical software and data standards

FY09 Accomplishments Shaw was engaged in a study of the physical and chemical properties of Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae (PNe) and their central stars. With T.-H. Lee (W. Kentucky U.), L. Stanghellini (NOAO), and others, Shaw derived the most accurate gas-phase abundances to date of a sample of SMC PNe using a combination of high-dispersion optical and space-based IR spectra, which enabled a novel validation of commonly-used ionization correction factors, and confirmed that anomalously low sulfur abundances in Galactic PNe, relative to H II regions, persist at low metallicities. An analysis of new C abundances in SMC PNe, with Stanghellini and Lee, resulted in a most detailed comparison to predicted chemical yields of AGB stellar evolution in a very metal poor environment. Shaw and collaborators A. Rest and G. Damke (Harvard U.) continued a study of variability of LMC PNe and their central stars. The fraction of Galactic PNe with variable central stars (which is often a strong indicator of binarity) is unknown, and the LMC offers both a large and complete sample to address this question. Variability was easily detected in many PNe, yielding a sample for further study that is comparable in size to that in the Galaxy.

FY10 Plans Shaw and collaborators T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.) and A. Rest (Harvard U.) will continue their study of variability of planetary nebulae and their central stars with follow-up, confirmatory CCD photometry to determine accurate periods. Shaw will work on collaboration with A. Manchado and V. Luridiana (IAC) to update and extend the popular “nebular” analysis package and to port it to a popular programming environment for distribution to the community. Shaw, with PI L. Stanghellini (NOAO) and others, will analyze an extensive imaging and spectroscopic survey of angularly small Galactic PNe using new HST images and Spitzer IRS spectra in an effort to understand the earliest phase of PN evolution and, in particular, the evolution of dust properties. In collaboration with L. Stanghellini and T.-H. Lee, Shaw will complete a detailed abundance analysis of LMC PNe, which will greatly improve the accuracy of the extant chemical analyses of these objects.

William H. Sherry, Research Associate (50% NOAO)

Research Interests Young stars and clusters; variable stars; OB associations; extrasolar planets

FY09 Accomplishments Sherry, working with S. Howell (NOAO), participated in speckle interferometric follow-up observations of Kepler hot Jupiter candidates. These ground-based observations are the best way to eliminate false-positives due to background eclipsing binaries that are blended with a foreground Kepler target star in the 6-arcsecond Kepler PSF. Sherry also completed optical and near-IR observations of his deep photometric survey of Orion OB1b. This survey aims to compare the observed spatial distribution of brown dwarfs with the spatial distributions predicted by several competing models of brown dwarf formation. Sherry wrote a pipeline for data that will be produced by a monitoring program for selected solar-type members of the Pleiades.

FY10 Plans Sherry plans to analyze the data from his photometric survey of Orion OB1b with the intent to publish the results in 2010 or 2011. While working with S. Howell, Sherry will continue his participation in


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ground-based follow-up of planet candidates found by the NASA Kepler mission. Sherry, with Howell and K. Mighell (NOAO), will begin working on Kepler photometry of variable stars. These observations will result in light curves of variable stars with unprecedented precision. These observations will also be used to calibrate Kepler light curves to ensure that they are free of instrumental artifacts.

DAVID SILVA, Senior Scientist (Director, NOAO)

Research Interests Formation and evolution of early-type galaxies; extragalactic stellar populations; observatory operations; end-to-end data management systems

FY09 Accomplishments With various collaborators, Silva continued his study of the coolest stellar components in early-type galaxies through observations of near-IR spectral features. In an ApJ Letters contribution, E. Marmol Queralt (U. Comp. de Madrid) et al. argued that low-mass galaxies in low-density environments contain a larger dispersion in mean giant branch metallicity and relative fraction of younger, TP AGB stars in these galaxies relative to similar galaxies in high-density environments. By implication, the cluster galaxies truncate global star formation earlier or undergo fewer late stage accretion events than field. To better connect the observations of near-IR integrated spectral features to resolved color-magnitude diagrams as well as predicted integrated colors and spectral features, M. Lyubenova (ESO/Garching) et al. obtained integral field unit spectroscopy of a small sample of well-studied globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In Astronomy & Astrophysics, Silva and collaborators confirmed the expected age/metallicity dependencies of spectral features near 2 μm except for CO, which becomes less strong in younger populations, contrary to predictions. They attributed this empirical effect to the presence of carbon giant stars. CO 2.36 μm continues to be challenging to interpret in integrated spectra. In a different area, Silva continued to collaborate with P. Massey (Lowell Obs.) et al. in the study of red supergiant stars in different environments throughout the Local Group (see recent paper in the Astrophysical Journal).

FY10 Plans H. Kuntschner (ESO/Garching) and Silva plan to finish and publish their investigation of the radial behavior of near-IR spectral features in early-type galaxies. This investigation complements their previously published investigation of such features between early-type galaxies. Lyubenova et al. will extend their study of globular clusters to W3 in NGC 7252. With R. Hanuschik (ESO/Garching) and others, Silva will publish a digital library of high spectral resolving power spectra obtained with VLT/UVES for more than 300 stars previously observed at low spectral resolving power with HST STIS.

MALCOLM G. SMITH, Astronomer

Research Interests Global environmental impact of light pollution; the early Universe; quasars/active galactic nuclei

FY09 Accomplishments Smith started 2009 with an invited “Commentary” about protection against light pollution—published in the special 1 January issue of Nature magazine, marking the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). He also published three collaborative papers associated with the IYA. He presented Resolution B5 to the full General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) for protection of the nocturnal environment. Resolution B5 carried unanimously and marks a specific step forward in IAU support for initiatives by astronomers to work world-wide—alongside biologists, medics, lighting


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engineers, and others—to secure UNESCO support for increased protection of the natural, nighttime environment, including the night sky above some of the world’s major observatories. Smith was invited to three international observatories in Chile and one in the Canary Islands; this allowed him to work on his nightscape imaging project, which is providing documentation for this UNESCO work.

FY10 Plans Smith expects to delay his retirement, moving instead to half-time pay with NOAO, as of the beginning of FY10. Following on from the IYA, he expects to initiate a long-term project directly with biologists and other astronomers that will be aimed at characterizing and mitigating the ecological consequences of artificial night lighting in the regions around several major observatories as a contribution to the UNESCO “Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative.” This work will aid in the long-term protection of these observatories against light pollution, thereby gaining decades of additional, useful scientific life for each of them. Smith also expects to continue his exploration of the environment around triplets of quasars with several collaborators; he will be involved in providing samples for spectroscopy of faint, high-redshift quasars with 8-m-class telescopes, which will provide further information on the number density of quasars at redshifts z > 4.8.

R. CHRIS SMITH, Astronomer (Director, CTIO)

Research Interests Supernovae; optical transients; supernova remnants; the interstellar medium

FY09 Accomplishments Smith took on the position of Director of CTIO in November 2008. The following March, he took on the additional responsibility of AURA Head of Mission in Chile. Scientifically, Smith continued participating in the study of light echoes of Galactic supernovae discovered by a large-scale observational project targeted at young Galactic supernova remnants (Rest et al., 2008, ApJL). Smith also continued participation in a new NOAO survey led by A. Saha, the Outer Limits Survey (OLS), to investigate the stellar populations at the extremities of the Magellanic Clouds.

FY10 Plans Smith will continue participation in various NOAO survey projects, wrapping up work on OLS and working to get the results of the SuperMACHO and ESSENCE surveys into the NOAO Science Archive. He also plans to push forward in mining the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) data set, extracting new samples of supernova remnants and planetary nebulae, and investigating the evolution of these objects. He will continue to participate in the search for light echoes from ancient supernovae, in particular in our own Galaxy.

VERNE V. SMITH, Astronomer (Director, NOAO Gemini Science Center)

Research Interests High-resolution spectroscopy; cosmochemistry; nuclear astrophysics; chemical evolution; stellar populations; stellar atmospheres; stellar evolution

FY09 Accomplishments Smith’s primary scientific efforts in FY09 were working on projects that involved chemical evolution in various stellar or galactic populations. One of those projects involved probing abundance distributions and using these to “chemically tag,” for the first time, stellar streams in the Galactic halo. Smith and collaborators use the chemical abundance distributions to demonstrate that these tidally captured populations are from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, while also probing the so-called Monoceros ring in order to investigate its origins: is it a warp of the Galactic disk, or is it the remnants


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of a captured satellite galaxy. A second project involved using high-resolution IR spectroscopy to study field red giants in the SMC, focusing on both chemical evolution as well as internal stellar nucleosynthesis. A third project conducted very detailed abundance analyses of samples of stars with and without planets to determine if there are measurable differences between the chemistry of stars harboring large planets versus those that do not.

FY10 Plans Smith’s goals in FY10 are to continue to pursue an active research program in cosmochemistry, as described above. Analyses in the coming year will involve obscured fields—which can be probed using only IR spectroscopy—lying in the Galactic bulge, as well as samples of red giants in the inner disk that are about 3 kpc out from the Galactic center. This will be part of a larger program that will ultimately probe detailed chemical abundances across a large fraction of the Milky Way. Smith is also participating in one program of the third extension of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS III) that is called the Apache Point Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). This project will use high-resolution near-IR spectroscopy (in the H-band) to measure abundances in ~100,000 red giants, with emphasis on the inner thin and thick disks, and the bulge.

DAVID SPRAYBERRY, Senior Scientist (Head of Program, System Instrumentation)

Research Interests Instrumentation and observing techniques; galaxy formation and evolution; early universe

FY09 Accomplishments Sprayberry led the System Instrumentation Program’s efforts to submit and support NOAO’s unsolicited proposal to the NSF for supplemental funding to implement the ReSTAR program, resulting in a one-time grant of $3M, which was awarded on 29 August 2009. As FY09 ended, Sprayberry was actively involved in planning the work to carry out the ReSTAR program. Sprayberry also led the group through the delivery of the main module for the SOAR Adaptive Optics Module (SAM) to the SOAR telescope in August 2009 and the start of on-sky commissioning for the main module. Other accomplishments included the construction of two prototypes for the TORRENT miniaturized version of the MONSOON detector controller to be used as a replacement for aging systems at CTIO and KPNO. Finally, Sprayberry continued to act as AURA Technical Representative in AURA’s funding of technology risk reduction for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) as an Alternative Giant Segmented-Mirror Telescope Technology program.

FY10 Plans Sprayberry plans to lead the efforts for design studies to implement the instrumentation components of the ReSTAR program, including an optical spectrograph to be built in partnership with The Ohio State University and CCD and controller upgrades for one existing instrument each at KPNO and CTIO. These design studies should be completed and the fabrication work launched during FY10. Sprayberry also plans to oversee the assembly and integration of the remaining phase of the SAM instrument, namely the Laser Guide Star system. Finally, Sprayberry will lead the MONSOON team through a production readiness review for the miniaturized TORRENT version, and oversee initial deployment of TORRENT systems at CTIO and KPNO.

LETIZIA STANGHELLINI, Associate Astronomer (on sabbatical)

Research Interests Stellar structure and evolution; Galactic and extragalactic planetary nebulae (PNe); stellar populations


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FY09 Accomplishments Stanghellini and collaborators completed the acquisition and basic analysis of a large number (~200) of Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph spectra (Cycle 5) of compact Galactic PNe; a catalog of these spectra is in the advanced stage of preparation. Stanghellini (with R. Shaw and E. Villaver) started acquiring narrow- and broad-band Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3 (Cycle 17) images of compact Galactic PNe to explore the relations between morphological types and dust, and to frame the role of dust in PN ejection and evolution. Stanghellini, with L. Magrini and Villaver, acquired and analyzed hundreds of spectra of bright PNe and HII regions in M81 with the MMT Hectospec. The abundance and plasma analysis of the PNe shows that the PNe trace a metallicity gradient across the M81 disk similarly to what was found in M33. Stanghellini, with Shaw and collaborators, completed two papers on Magellanic Cloud PN abundances, based on ground- and space-based spectra, with the aim of exploring the effects of stellar evolution in low metallicity environments.

FY10 Plans Stanghellini plans to explore the large space-based database of Galactic disk PNe that she and her co-investigators recently acquired with Spitzer and HST to study the origins of dust formation and its role in PN evolution. This major project will include the completion of the data catalogs, the study of all individual objects, the analysis of the Spitzer spectra in terms of solid-state features and emission lines with plasma and abundance analysis, and the study of the Galactic disk metallicity gradient. Stanghellini, with M. Haywood (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon), recently started a study of metallicity gradients based on Galactic PNe to explore their role in Galaxy formation and evolution and also plans to explore the models of gas infall and outfall that best fit all available alpha-element metallicity gradients, both for young and old stellar populations.

STEPHEN STROM, Astronomer Emeritus

Research Interests Formation of stars and planetary systems

FY09 Accomplishments Strom completed a study of disk evolution among intermediate mass stars in collaboration with S. Wolff and L. Allen (NOAO), X. Koenig (CfA) and L. Rebull (SSC). Major results of the study indicated: (1) disk lifetimes for intermediate mass stars are 1/10 those of solar-type stars; and (2) observed spectral energy distributions (SED) reveal four distinct categories: (a) optically thick; (b) optically thin; (c) optically thin inner disk, optically thick outer disk; and (d) empty inner disk, optically thick outer disk. Strom and collaborators relate these SED types to a variety of possible outcome planetary systems.

FY10 Plans Strom will complete two papers describing disk evolution among intermediate mass stars. He also plans to complete ongoing research regarding giant planet formation among solar-type stars.

ANDREI TOKOVININ, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Statistics and formation of binary and multiple stars; adaptive optics; site testing

FY09 Accomplishments Tokovinin, in collaboration with Mason and Hartkopf from USNO, completed Speckle-interferometry observations on the CTIO Blanco and SOAR telescopes and fully reduced the data, which resulted in accurate measurements of 1,182 binary and multiple systems and discovery (first resolution) of 42 new


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pairs. Tokovinin continued to work on the SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM) (characterization of UV laser, design of the laser launch telescope, and first light at the telescope) and prepared the conceptual design of the new echelle spectrometer (CHIRON) for the CTIO 1.5-m telescope.

FY10 Plans Tokovinin will start work on a large project on the high-multiplicity in the solar neighborhood. He will continue to work on the SAM instrument (commissioning and laser system) and on the design and construction of the new echelle spectrometer, CHIRON.

FRANCISCO VALDES, Scientist

Research Interests Cosmology; gravitational lensing; stellar spectroscopy; astronomical software

FY09 Accomplishments Valdes continued leading a team developing science pipelines for the NOAO Mosaic imagers and the NEWFIRM wide-field infrared imager. The Mosaic pipeline became available in FY07 and the NEWFIRM Quick-Reduce Pipeline was released in FY08. Both pipelines were in routine operation in FY09. Valdes began a sabbatical to data mine and catalog moving and lensed sources in public NOAO Mosaic camera data.

FY10 Plans Valdes plans to develop automated pipeline software to accomplish his data mining research project for moving and lensed sources in wide-field Mosaic camera data. By the end of his sabbatical, the goal will be to produce a paper presenting the discoveries from the survey. He also plans to be involved in pipelines for the CTIO Dark Energy Camera and the WIYN One Degree Imager.

NICOLE S. VAN DER BLIEK, Scientist (Deputy Director, CTIO)

Research Interests Instrumentation; young stars and cool stars

FY09 Accomplishments van der Bliek led the SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM) project through the integration and testing phase of the main module. The SAM main module was brought to the telescope at the beginning of August; SAM saw first light August 6 and the adaptive optics loop was closed using a natural guide star. van der Bliek continued the collaboration with B. Rodgers (Gemini Observatory), S. Thomas (Lick Observatory) and G. Doppmann (NOAO) on the multiplicity of Herbig Ae/Be stars, a spectroscopic and photometric study of a large sample of Herbig Ae/Be (HAEBE) stars to detect close companions and investigate their properties. The frequency and degree of multiplicity of HAEBE systems will provide new constraints on their formation mechanism. Together with S. Heathcote (SOAR) and CTIO PIA student J. Seron, van der Bliek started an observational project to study the environments of HAEBE stars, searching for evidence of outflows and Herbig Haro objects. Together with J. Rajagopal (NOAO) and CTIO REU student W. Flanagan, van der Bliek started a project to study the degree of clustering around HAEBE stars.

FY10 Plans van der Bliek will continue to study the multiplicity of HAEBE stars. The search for close binaries is being extended to the Southern Hemisphere, and for previously identified northern HAEBE multiples, near-infrared spectroscopic observations are being taken to spectral type the companions and confirm physical association with the primaries. In addition, van der Bliek will continue the study of the


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surroundings of HAEBE stars, searching for evidence of star clusters as well as Herbig Haro outflows associated with the primaries.

ALISTAIR R. WALKER, Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar populations; the Magellanic Clouds; the distance scale; astronomical instrumentation

FY09 Accomplishments As a member of a team led by W. Gieren (Universidad de Concepción, Chile), Walker published a definitive distance modulus for the Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 247, based on the discovery of 23 Cepheid variables. This provided strong confirmation that the Sculptor Group, the nearest such structure to our Local Group, is extended greatly in the line-of-sight. Studies of the local group galaxy IC10, and two papers on the galactic globular clusters NGC 2808, Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae, were also published with G. Bono (Rome Observatory), P. Stetson (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), and others.

FY10 Plans Under the leadership of R. O’Connell (U. of Virginia), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee, of which Walker is a member, will analyze 200 orbits of HST observations of both nearby and distant galaxies, with the aim of demonstrating the scientific capabilities of the new panchromatic camera. In a long-term project with J. Nemec (Victoria, Canada) and Y-B Jeon (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Korea), Walker will continue to monitor secular period changes in the RR Lyrae populations of several Large Magellanic Cloud globular clusters. Despite very poor luck with weather in 2008 and 2009, observations of a few galactic globular clusters were made in a program (Walker, PI) to investigate the spatial variation of the stellar luminosity function as a function of globular cluster mass. These results will be combined with archival measurements of the RR Lyrae variables in the same clusters for a study of the dependence of the horizontal branch morphology on the physical parameters of these core helium-burning stars.

CONSTANCE E. WALKER, Associate Scientist (Senior Science Education Specialist)

Research Interests Magnetic fields of sunspots; millimeter/submillimeter-wave spectroscopy of galaxies at various epochs

FY09 Accomplishments Walker chaired two International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) Dark Skies working groups: one for the US and another for the global Cornerstone Project “Dark Skies Awareness.” With the working group, she completed the planning and implementation of a dozen different Dark Skies programs worldwide for IYA2009. With the staff from UCAR’s GLOBE program, she continued for a fourth year the two-week GLOBE at Night program to promote social awareness of the dark sky by measuring light pollution and submitting results online. Over 15,700 measurements from 70 countries were contributed. This included meter measurements, which, for a third year, were used to measure quantitatively the sky brightness in magnitude/square arcsecond. Walker gave a multitude of oral presentations on GLOBE at Night and IYA Dark Skies during the year, as well as a number of workshops on both subjects. The workshops were given in innovative ways: as an online forum and a blog, a telecon with 150 people, podcasts, and international videoconferences using Skype. Two GLOBE at Night training sessions were at the March and September Project ASTRO workshops for local teachers and their astronomer partners. Walker served on the City of Tucson and Pima County planning committee for Earth Hour. She gave an invited talk, “Lighting and Astronomy,” on modeling uplight at the International Commission on Lighting (CIE) in May. Walker continued managing the


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NOAO North part of the ASTRO-Chile program. She coordinated a Family ASTRO presence for three summer events at Family Astronomy Night at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. She organized and ran booths on optics and light during the three-day annual Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair FunFest at the Tucson Convention Center. Walker coordinated the weekly hands-on astronomy, optics, and physics sessions at the Jim and Vicki Click Boys & Girls Clubs in Tucson as well as five days of astronomy summer camp and a star party for the Tohono O’odham. For the sixth year in a row, she organized and co-convened a couple of sessions at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference on teacher professional development programs promoting authentic science in the classroom. To help prepare for and give these programs and events, Walker managed a group of undergraduate assistants who spent more than 120 hours hosting the events for over 2600 children and adults. Walker also gave a number of talks and workshops at professional conferences, e.g., AGU, AAS, NSTA, IAU, CIE, ASP, and the European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky in the areas mentioned, as well as visited classrooms, wrote a half-dozen published papers, and sat on an advisory board.

FY10 Plans Walker plans to continue to align her responsibilities with the restructured directive for the EPO group. In that light, she will concentrate on educational outreach in Tucson, Arizona, and Chile focusing on dark sky education programs in particular, building on the legacy of the IYA Dark Skies Awareness cornerstone project and GLOBE at Night. As an outcome of that legacy, she will continue to develop the recently created Dark Skies Rangers program for teachers and students in Arizona to raise the awareness of the effects of light pollution on astronomy as well as on human health, wildlife, energy, cost, and safety.

LLOYD WALLACE, Astronomer Emeritus

Research Interests Planetary atmospheric structure, stellar atmospheres

FY09 Accomplishments Both HCl and HF atmospheric amounts above Kitt Peak have been tracked since 1978 as minor absorptions in solar spectra by Wallace and Livingston, HCl at 3.417 microns and HF at 2.475 microns. While a maximum in the HCl amount between 1993 and 1997 was previously reported, analysis of the less-well observed HF was extended. A similar decrease in HF was expected, but the observations showed a steady, slow increase of about 5 percent per year. Work by Hinkle and Wallace on detecting weak lines of ethylene in IRC +10216 in the 10.5 micron region was completed using high signal-to-noise spectra. Eighteen narrow and weak lines were detected, which suggest an excitation temperature of ~80 Kelvin. An analysis of high-precision infrared spectra of chromium, based on archival NSO Fourier transform spectra, was completed. The analysis presents precision wavelengths, wavenumbers, and energy levels for 1963 Cr I lines and will be useful in the analysis of infrared astronomical spectra.

FY10 Plans Wallace and Hinkle hope to complete the production of an infrared solar spectral atlas using material produced by the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer on board the Canadian satellite SCISAT. The spectral range, of 700 to 4430 cm-1, is the same as has been obtained by instruments flown on space shuttle missions but the signal-to-noise ratio is substantially improved and weaker lines can be picked out. Solar spectra obtained by Livingston with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope since the 1970’s will be reviewed for the purpose of obtaining more accurate measurements of the depths and equivalent widths of instrinsic solar features. Current limitations seem to set the uncertainties to ~0.5 percent whereas ~0.1 percent should be attainable.


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SIDNEY C. WOLFF, Astronomer Emerita

Research Interests Star formation; early evolution of angular momentum; large optical/infrared telescopes; astronomy and space science education

FY09 Accomplishments Wolff, working with S. Strom, L. Rebull, and others continued work on the evolution of disks around pre-main-sequence intermediate mass stars. They find that the lifetimes of disks decrease sharply with increasing age. They also find four types of spectral energy distributions (SEDS): optically thick disks (Herbig AeBe stars), optically thin disks, disks with inner holes, and disks with optically thick emission in the IRAC bands and optically thin emission at 24 microns. This last type of SED is what is expected if a Jupiter-mass planet has formed. Wolff also continued to serve as Editor of the Astronomy Education Review, seeing the journal through its transfer to the American Astronomical Society with publication by the American Institute of Physics and serving as chair of the successful search for a new editor, who will take over in January 2010.

FY10 Plans Wolff and collaborators plan to publish the results of their study of disks in IC 1805 and offer an explanation of the four types of SEDs in terms of various physical processes, including planet formation and photo-evaporation. They will also put the observations of the intermediate-mass stars in the context of observations of lower-mass stars, including especially IC 348, and discuss the implications for planet formation across a wide-mass range.

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APPENDIX B FY09 BUDGET INFORMATION BY PROGRAM

FY09 Expenses and Revenue

The Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) show how resources map into the programs over the course of the proposal period. This structure lets NOAO track KPNO and CTIO operations, NGSC Gemini support operations, development of system capabilities and support, administration and infrastructure for NOAO North and South, major projects such as LSST, and NOAO-wide programs such as EPO and Science Research Support. Table B-1, from the NOAO Annual Program Plan FY 2009 shows the budget/revenue that was planned for each program at the beginning of the fiscal year.

Table B-2 shows the actual gross expense figures at the end of FY09 for each program as well as

the carry-forward funds. The following key provides descriptions for the work packages in Table B-1 and Table B-2.

Program Divisions Total

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 7,394,161 7,394,161Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) 6,006,854 6,006,854NOAO Gemini Science Center (NGSC) 1,225,061 74,001 1,299,062System Division 5,598,044 1,986,268 7,584,312

System Development (SD) 618,860System Instrumentation (SI) 1,923,686 818,633

Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Program Office (GSMTPO) 1,005,602 412,824Data Products Program (DPP) 2,049,896 754,811

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) 3,461,558 405000 3,866,558Science Research Support (SRS) 1,485,218 371,056 1,856,274Public Affairs and Educational Outreach (PAEO) 2,519,350 308,044 2,827,394Admin and Infrastructure 5,176,362 2,190,460 7,366,822

NOAO Director's Office (NDO) 1,023,563 130,539Central Administrative Services (CAS) 1,884,305 846,221

Central Facilities Operations (CFO) 1,620,198 497,088Computer Infrastructure Services (CIS) 648,296 716,612

AURA Fee 982,050Net Subtotal NOAO (including revenue) 26,859,754 10,936,683 39,183,487

FY09 NSF Base Allocation 27,686,400Difference between NSF Base and NOAO Program Budget 11,497,087Other Revenue including the LSST Supplement and Modernization Supplement not including FY08 program carryforward (9,551,235)

FY08 Carryforward Required to Balance Budget for FY09 18,444,232 9,878,491 (1,945,852)

Other revenue does not include HST and NASA, which are non program supporting.

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Table B-1FY09 NOAO Budget Summary


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Key to Work Packages

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)

Operational and mountain support costs for KPNO including personnel, travel, miscellaneous equipment, tenant support, Site Director’s office, user support, NSO support, instrumentation and modernization upgrades, and other mountain facilities costs. Includes costs of telescope operation and maintenance and partnerships. Does not include NOAO-wide administrative costs.

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)

Operational and mountain support costs for CTIO including personnel, travel, miscellaneous equipment, AOSS mountain operations, Site Director’s office, user support, instrumentation and modernization upgrades, and other mountain facilities costs. Includes costs of telescope operation and maintenance, partnerships, and some ETS support to Gemini and other users. Does not include NOAO-wide administrative costs.

NOAO Gemini Science Center (NGSC)

Personnel, travel, support, and equipment for NGSC to provide U.S. community access and user support to the two Gemini Telescopes. Support is provided for in NOAO North and South. Science research time for scientific staff that have NGSC functional responsibilities, the NGSC AURA fellowship, and NGSC postdoc support.

System Development (SD) Cost of Telescope Allocation Committee and activities, including periodic meetings of NOAO user constituencies, other informational workshops and committees, the annual meeting of the survey teams, the new system development office, and administration/oversight costs of the TSIP.

System Instrumentation (SI) Operations and management of the instrumentation program supporting NOAO, the System, and the community. Also includes MONSOON and other instrumentation support.

Program Divisions Total

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 7,953,180 7,953,180Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) 5,687,832 5,687,832NOAO Gemini Science Center (NGSC) 860,818 356,513 1,217,331System Division 3,897,802 1,172,443 5,070,245

System Development (SD) 574,777Systems Instrumentation (SI) 1,621,629 644,410

Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Program Office (GSMTPO) 240,333 162,065Data Products Program (DPP) 1,461,063 365,968

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) 2,904,302 2,904,302Science Research Support (SRS) 886,773 81,415 968,188Public Affairs and Educational Outreach (PAEO) 829,653 133,033 962,687Admin and Infrastructure 5,202,076 1,655,662 6,857,738

NOAO Director's Office (NDO) 1,187,802 116,686Central Administrative Services (CAS) 1,846,464 706,095

Central Facilities Operations (CFO) 1,495,721 255,694Computer Infrastructure Services (CIS) 672,089 577,188

AURA Fee 671,044Total FY09 NOAO Base Program Expenditures 22,534,605 9,086,898 32,292,546FY09 NSF Base Allocation (25,591,947)FY08 Carry-forward Applied to NOAO Base Programs (1,980,905)FY09 Program Outside Revenue (Table B-3) (5,111,955)FY08 Supplemental Expenditure Support Revenue (Table B-3) (1,575,383)FY09 Carry-forward without Supplemental Carry-Forward (1,967,644)

FY09 Supplemental Carry-forward (Table B-4) (9,742,278)FY09 NOAO NSF Base Funding (Including Supplemental Support) Carry-forward (11,709,922)

FY09 SPO Carry-forward (Table B-4) (11,031,287)FY09 NASA and Other Outside Research Grant Carry-forward (Table B-4) (1,011,415)Total FY09 NOAO Carry-forward (23,752,624)

Table B-2FY09 NOAO Actual Expenitures and Carry-Forward

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Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Program Office (GSMTPO)

Management of the GSMT program office to support the community’s interest in and access to future ELTs. Includes GSMT SWG and other community interactions. Includes oversight of the NSF award-funded effort with the TMT and GMT projects, reporting to NSF, and site-testing work in Chile.

Data Products Programs (DPP)

(Name changed to Science Data Management [SDM] November 2008.) Planning and management of SDM North and South, development and operation of the End-to-End Data Management System, user support, and data management for other initiatives. Includes community involvement and data in the NVO.

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

Support to move through the final stages of development into construction for the LSST program. NOAO emphasis is on telescope design and site support. Includes support for design and development effort until MREFC funding begins. Provides scientist contribution during construction era, ramping up of data products participation, and the development of an NOAO role in operations era.

Science Research Support (SRS)

Direct support to science staff, including administrative support, colloquia, travel, page charges, and conference/workshops. Also includes salary support for fellowships and those science staff on sabbatical or directly supporting the SRS activity.

Public Affairs and Educational Outreach (PAEO)

(Name changed to Education and Public Outreach [EPO] in November 2008.) NOAO North and South educational and public outreach programs, REU programs, public affairs, and graphic arts.

NOAO Director’s Office (NDO)

Activities of the NOAO director, deputy director, administrative support staff, risk management, library, and safety coordination. Also includes these functions as provided by the CTIO director for NOAO South.

Central Administrative Services (CAS)

NOAO-wide human resources, accounting/financial management, procurement, payroll, shipping/receiving and export control, AURA corporate and other AURA centers, and LSSTC support. Also includes NOAO South general administrative costs to include AOSS per person costs to cover La Serena administration.

Central Facilities Operations (CFO)

NOAO North facilities operation costs of non-mountaintop building maintenance, roads and grounds, utilities, vehicles, and the computer network in Tucson. NOAO South includes the costs for AOSS support to facilities in La Serena, building remodeling, and CTIO vehicle maintenance and replacement.

Computer Infrastructure Services (CIS)

Computer system support for both NOAO North and South, including network maintenance and software support. Includes system security and access.

AURA Fee AURA support to NOAO and the AURA Facilities & Administration (F&A) for new funds and carry-forward from non-expended FY09 funds. The AURA management fee is calculated based on a General & Administrative (G&A) indirect rate of 2.11 percent including a negotiated fee of $98K.

Total FY09 NOAO Base Program Expenditures

Total NOAO base program expenditures.

FY09 NSF Base Allocation Actual FY09 NSF funding provided to NOAO for base programming.

FY08 Carry-forward Applied to NOAO Base Programs

FY08 carry-forward that was applied to the FY09 program.

FY 09 Program Outside Revenue

FY09 NSF base program revenue applied to the FY09 program (from Table B-3).


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FY 08 Supplemental Expenditure Support Revenue

This includes the FY 2008 NOAO supplemental support for FY 2009 expenditures from the LSST Design and Development project, KPNO and CTIO modernization projects, and guardrails for NOAO South (from Table B-3).

FY09 Carry-forward without Supplemental Carry-forward

Unexpended available carry-forward that can be applied to the FY10 program.

FY09 Supplemental Carry-forward

Unexpended available carry-forward from restricted supplements including ReSTAR, ARRA, LSST Design and Development, and modernization support (from Table B-4).

FY09 NOAO NSF Base Funding (Including Supplement Support) Carry-forward

Total NSF base program and supplemental carry-forward.

FY09 SPO Carry-forward Remaining restricted unexpended carry-forward from other NOAO SPOs including REU, TSIP, AODP, LSST, and GSMT and NSF-supported science research (from Table B-4).

FY09 NASA and Other Outside Research Grant Carry-forward

Remaining restricted unexpended funds on non-NSF-funded grant research (from Table B-4).

Total FY09 NOAO Carry-forward

Total amount of unexpended carry-forward from all NOAO programs.

The pie chart below breaks down the NOAO program by division and major program. The

numbers represented include the actual cost of activities funded by the NSF base plus the LSST supplement. They do not include TSIP sub-awards. Note that the salary cost of the time that scientific staff spends on research is included in each program; the Research Support category comprises the salaries of Goldberg Fellows (who have no functional duties) and the support for research activities (page charges, travel to scientific meetings, sabbaticals, etc.) provided to the scientific staff. The System includes: System Development, System Instrumentation, Data Products Program, and Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Program Office. Administration and Infrastructure (Admin & Infra) includes: NOAO Director’s Office, Central Administration Services (North & South), Central Facilities Operations (North & South), and Computer Infrastructure Support (North & South).

KPNO24%

CTIO18%

NGSC4%

System Div.16%

LSST9%

Admin & Infra21%

AURA Fee2%

Research Support3%

PAEO3%

KPNOCTIONGSCSystem Div.LSSTResearch SupportPAEOAdmin & InfraAURA Fee


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Sources of FY09 Incremental Funds

Table B-3 and Table B-4 are summaries of FY09 revenue.

Effort of Scientific Staff by Budgeted Program

Table B-5 shows the FY09 effort by each scientific staff member within the NOAO functional programs. This table may be compared with Table 17 in the NOAO Annual Program Plan FY 2009, in which the predictions at the start of the year are listed. Scientific staff fill out biweekly timecards indicating the hours spent on each activity. These hours are converted to fractions of a pay period, taking charges to grants and functional activities first, then research, up to the 80 hours per pay period limit. The nominal allocation for research is shown with a code after the staff member’s name as follows: Director, Deputy Director, and Associate Director (D): max of 20% Head of Program (H): max of 20% Full, Associate, and Assistant Astronomer (A): max of 50% Full, Associate, and Assistant Scientist (S): max of 20% EPO Scientist and Associate Scientist (PS): max of 10% Postdocs and Goldberg Fellows (P): max of 100%

Source of Funds KPNO CTIO NGSC EPO NOAO LSST TOTALIndirects 111,285 281,740 126,818 1,923,964 2,443,807 WIYN Partners 421,344 - - - 421,344 Tenants/Observer Fees; External Work Revenue 32,826 212,794 - - 74,910 320,530 Community Project Assistance 37,345 37,345 Grant Funds: - - 158,820 158,820 Revenue: KPVC & Fees from Public Programs 652,961 - - - 652,961 Grant Funds: VAO - - - 140,828 140,828 Instrumentation Partnerships 220,351 220,351 Mountain Ops 711,645 711,645 TSIP Administrative Funding (NSF) - - - 4,324 4,324

Subtotal FY 2009 Program Outside Revenue 2,187,757$ 494,534$ -$ 285,638$ 2,144,026$ -$ 5,111,955$ FY08 NSF Modernization Supplement 76,172 152,959 - 229,131 FY08 LSST Supplement (NSF) 1,271,250 1,271,250 FY08 Guard Rail Supplement 75,000 75,000

Subtotal FY08 Supplemental Expenditure Support Revenue 76,172$ 1,499,209$ -$ -$ -$ -$ 1,575,381$ Total Program Outside Supplmental Revenue 2,263,929$ 1,993,743$ -$ 285,638$ 2,144,026$ -$ 6,687,336$

Source of Funds KPNO CTIO NGSC EPO NOAO LSST TOTALFY08 Modernization Carry-forw ard 80,171 (16,203) 6,900 70,868 FY09 ARRA Carry-forw ard 2,758,475 2,841,525 5,600,000 FY09 LSST Supplement Carry-forw ard - - - - - 1,125,085 1,125,085 FY09 ReSTAR Carry-forw ard 2,946,326 2,946,326

Subtotal Supplemental Carry-forward 80,171$ 2,742,273$ -$ -$ 5,794,750$ 1,125,085$ 9,742,278$

FY09 TSIP Carry-forw ard 4,184,325 4,184,325 FY09 LSST SPO 9 Carry-forw ard 1,830,032 1,830,032 FY09 Grant Funds: REU 64,099 165,576 - - 229,675 FY09 Other EPO Program Carry-forw ard 40,701 40,701 FY09 AODP Carry-forw ard 78,463 78,463 FY09 NOAO North Research Carry-forw ard 3,885 3,885 FY09 GSMT SPO 10 Carry-forw ard - 4,664,206 4,664,206

Subtotal SPO Carry-forward 64,099$ 165,576$ -$ 40,701$ 8,930,879$ 1,830,032$ 11,031,287$

Subtotal NASA and Other Outside Research Grant Carry-forward 889,507.00$ 121,908.00$ 1,011,415$ Total Supplemental, SPO, and Other Outside Research Grant Carry-forward 21,784,980$

Carry-forward includes FY08/09 Revenue shown above less expenses incurred in FY09

Table B-4: Carry-forward after FY 2009 Expenditures(From Supplmental Support and Other SPOs)

Table B-3: Incremental Funds to FY 2009 NSF Base Budget Allocation(From Partner Contributions, Tenant Fees, External Grants, etc.)


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Table B-5 FY09 Fractional Division of Effort of NOAO Scientific Staff

by Budgeted Programs (FY09 NSF-Allocated Funds Only)

SYSTEM DIVISION

Name Research CTIO KPNO NGSC SYS DEV SDM SI GSMTPO LSST SRS EPO DIR Non-NSF Total

Abbott, Timothy (S) 0.03 0.97 1.00

Allen, Lori E (S) * 0.48 0.02 0.50

Blum, Robert D (DD) 0.04 0.90 0.06 1.00

Boroson, Todd (A) 0.89 0.09 0.02 1.00

Cunha, Katia M (A) † 0.33 0.25 0.04 0.00 0.38 1.00

De Propris, Roberto (A) 0.64 0.36 1.00

Dey, Arjun (A) 0.33 0.02 0.39 0.01 0.25 1.00

De Young, David S (A) 0.26 0.57 0.17 1.00

Dickinson, Mark E (A) 0.41 0.40 0.02 0.17 1.00

Elias, Jonathan H (H) 0.05 0.07 0.02 0.86 1.00

Garmany, Catharine D (PS) 0.07 0.60 0.16 0.17 1.00

Glaspey, John W ‡ 0.03 0.92 0.02 0.03 1.00

Gregory, Brooke (S) 0.12 0.79 0.02 0.01 0.06 1.00

Hinkle, Kenneth H (S) 0.10 0.83 0.07 1.00

Howell, Steve B (S) 0.04 0.51 0.04 0.05 0.36 1.00

Jacoby, George H (A) 0.28 0.72 1.00

Jannuzi, Buell T (D) 0.01 0.99 1.00

Joyce, Richard R (S) 0.17 0.64 0.11 0.05 0.03 1.00

Lauer, Tod R (A) 0.56 0.08 0.01 0.11 0.06 0.18 1.00

* Lori Allen was hired 1 April 2009. † Katia Cunha, an astronomer, is a half-time employee. ‡ John Glaspey is in a special visiting scientist position with a one-year appointment and as such receives no research allocation.


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SYSTEM DIVISION


Matheson, Thomas D (A) 0.47 0.04 0.49 1.00

Merrill, Kenneth M (S) 0.02 0.98 1.00

Mighell, Kenneth J (S) § 0.34 0.66 1.00

Miller, Christopher J (A) 0.29 0.71 1.00

Najita, Joan R (A) 0.38 0.62 1.00

Norman, Dara J (S) 0.12 0.66 0.22 1.00

Olsen, Knut (A) 0.59 0.35 0.01 0.05 1.00

Points, Sean D (S) 0.04 0.96 1.00

Pompea, Stephen M (PS) 0.01 0.31 0.68 1.00

Probst, Ronald G (S) 0.18 0.13 0.58 0.08 0.02 0.01 1.00

Rajagopal, Jayadev (S) 0.15 0.59 0.20 0.06 1.00

Ridgway, Susan E (A) 0.46 0.54 1.00

Ridgway, Stephen T (A) 0.29 0.69 0.02 1.00

Saha, Abhijit (A) 0.25 0.03 0.71 0.01 1.00

Shaw, Richard A (S) 0.26 0.72 0.02 1.00

Silva, David (D) 1.00 1.00

Smith, Malcolm G (A) 0.48 0.52 1.00

Smith, Robert C (D) 0.92 0.07 0.01 1.00

Smith, Verne V (D) 0.14 0.86 1.00

Sprayberry, David (H) 0.09 0.75 0.05 0.11 1.00

Stanghellini, Letizia (A) 0.47 0,28 0.25 1.00

Tokovinin, Andrei (A) 0.34 0.20 0.41 0.05 1.00

Valdes, Francisco (S) 0.10 0.90 1.00

van der Bliek, Nicole S (DD) 0.21 0.40 0.39 1.00

§ Kenneth Mighell is 100% grant-funded with 25% coming from the KPNO REU grant and the remaining 75% from outside sources.


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Walker, Constance (PS) 0.11 0.57 0.32 1.00

Walker, Alistair R (A) 0.51 0.46 0.01 0.02 1.00

FTE Totals 10.32 6.30 5.27 4.83 0.37 3.39 1.78 0.99 0.90 1.81 1.88 3.25 3.42 44.50

Posdoc Associates NOAO North/South

Berdja, Amokrane (P) ** 0.91 0.91

Brodwin, Mark (P) 1.00 1.00

Campbell, Ryan K (P) 0.52 0.13 0.35 1.00

Doppmann, Greg (P) 1.00 1.00

Els, Sebastian (P) †† 0.17 0.62 0.79

Harrison, Craig (P) 1.00 1.00

Kartaltepe, Jeyhan (P) ‡‡ 0.08 0.08

Lotz, Jennifer M (P) 1.00 1.00

Reddy, Naveen A. (P) 1.00 1.00

Salim, Samir (P) §§ 0.91 0.91

Schuler, Simon C (P) 1.00 1.00

Postdoc FTE Totals 2.69 0.13 0.62 6.25 9.69

** Amokrane Berdja was hired 1 November 2008. †† Sebastian Els was terminated 18 July 2009. ‡‡ Jayhan Kartaltepe was hired 1 September 2009. §§ Samir Salim was terminated 31 August 2009.

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APPENDIX C NOAO SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY09

(TOTAL = 251)

Abt, H.A. 2007, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, eds. T. Hockey, et al. (Springer), 143, “Bohlin, Karl Petrus Teodor”

Abt, H.A. 2007, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, eds. T. Hockey, et al. (Springer), 602, “Joy, Alfred Harrison”

Abt, H.A. 2007, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, eds. T. Hockey, et al. (Springer), 752, “Mayall, Nicholas Ulrich”

Abt, H.A. 2007, IAU Symp. 240, eds. W.I. Hartkopf, E.F. Guinan, P. Harmanec (Cambridge), 414, “Observed Orbital Eccentricities”

Abt, H.A. 2009, AJ, 138, 28, “Why Are There Normal Slow Rotators among A-Type Stars?”

Abt, H.A. 2009, ApJS, 180, 117, “MK Classifications of Spectroscopic Binaries”

Abt, H.A. 2009, ASP Conf. 404, eds. B. Soonthornthum, et al. (ASP), 209, “The Difference between Metal-Poor and Metal-Rich Binaries”

Abt, H.A. 2009, PASP, 121, 248, “Evidence that Most Binaries Do Not Evolve after the Primaries Reach the Main Sequence”

Abt, H.A. 2009, PASP, 121, 544, “Reference Sources in Research Literature”

Abt, H.A. 2009, PASP, 121, 73, “Do Astronomical Journals Still Have Extensive Self-Referencing?”

Abt, H.A. 2009, PASP, 121, 811, “The Spectral-Type Limits of the Barr Effect”

Alexander, D.M., …, Pope, A., …, Dickinson, M., …, Reddy, N.A., et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, 835, “Reliable Identification of Compton-Thick Quasars at z ~ 2: Spitzer Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of HDF-oMD49”

Allende Prieto, C., …, Cunha, K., …, Smith, V., et al. 2008, Astronomische Nachrichten, 329, 1018, “APOGEE: The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment”

NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2009

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Aloisi, A., …, Saha, A., et al. 2008, IAU Symp. 255, eds. L.K. Hunt, S. Madden, R. Schneider (Cambridge), 387, “A New Age and Distance for I Zw 18, the Most Metal-Poor Galaxy in the Nearby Universe”

Appelton, P.N., …, Pope, A., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 3, “Lifting the Cosmic Veil on the Co-Evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: The Role of Far-Infrared Spectroscopy from Space”

Ashby, M.L.N., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, 428, “The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey”

Aufdenberg, J., Ridgway, S., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 8, “Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics Revealed at Very High Angular Resolution”

Baines, E.K., …, Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, 154, “Eleven Exoplanet Host Star Angular Diameters from the Chara Array”

Bamford, S.P., …, Miller C.J., et al. 2008, MNRAS, 391, 607, “Revealing Components of the Galaxy Population through Non-parametric Techniques”

Bamford, S.P., …, Miller, C.J., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 393, 1324, “Galaxy Zoo: The Dependence of Morphology and Colour on Environment”

Basu-Zych, A.R., …, Salim, S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1307, “Studying Large- and Small-Scale Environments of Ultraviolet Luminous Galaxies”

Beers, T.C., Silva, D. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Position Papers, 5, “The Ground-Based O/IR National Observatory: A Roadmap to 2020”

Bell, E., …, Dey, A., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 106, “Understanding the Astrophysics of Galaxy Evolution: The Role of Spectroscopic Surveys in the Next Decade”

Berendsen, M., …, Pompea, S.M., …, Walker, C., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 400, eds. M.G. Gibbs, et al. (ASP), 404, “Amateur Astronomers as Champions of IYA”

Bitner, M.A., …, Doppmann, G.W., Najita, J.R., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 1326, “The TEXES Survey for H2 Emission from Protoplanetary Disks”

Black, D.T.R., …, Abbott, T., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 401, ed. A. Evans, M.F. Bode, T.J. O’Brien, M.J. Darnley (ASP), 351, “Search of the Remnant of the Nova of 1437”

Blondin, S., …, Matheson, T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 207, “A Second Case of Variable Na I D Lines in a Highly Reddened Type Ia Supernova”

NOAO SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY09

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Bluck, A.F.L., …, Dickinson, M., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 394, L51, “A Surprisingly High Pair Fraction for Extremely Massive Galaxies at z ~ 3 in the GOODS NICMOS Survey”

Blum, R.D., et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 489, “High Angular Resolution Imaging Spectroscopy of the Galactic Ultracompact H II Region K3-50A”

Boroson, T.A., Lauer, T.R. 2009, Nature, 458, 53, “A Candidate Sub-Parsec Supermassive Binary Black Hole System”

Borucki, W.J., …, Howell, S., et al. 2009, Science, 325, 709, “Kepler’s Optical Phase Curve of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b”

Boyajian, T.S., …, Ridgway, S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 1243, “Angular Diameters of the Hyades Giants Measured with the CHARA Array”

Brand, K., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 340, “The Origin of the 24 μm Excess in Red Galaxies”

Brittain, S.D., Najita, J.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 85, “Tracing the Inner Edge of the Disk around HD 100546 with Rovibrational CO Emission Lines”

Brodwin, M., Dey, A., …, Pope, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, L65, “Clustering of Dust-Obscured Galaxies at z ~ 2”

Brodwin, M., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 399, eds. T. Kodama, T. Yanada, K. Aoki (ASP), 322, “A Large Population of High Redshift Galaxy Clusters in the IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey”

Brown, M.J.I., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 150, “Active Galactic Nuclei and the Truncation of Star Formation in K+A Galaxies”

Buitrago, F., …, Dickinson, M., et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, L61, “Size Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies at 1.7 < z < 3 from GOODS NICMOS Survey Imaging”

Bussmann, R.S., Dey, A., Lotz, J., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 750, “Hubble Space Telescope Morphologies of z ~ 2 Dust Obscured Galaxies. I. Power-Law Sources”

Caballero-Nieves, S.M., …, Howell, S.B., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, 1895, “The Ultraviolet Spectrum and Physical Properties of the Mass Donor Star in HD 226868 = Cygnus X-1”

Cahoy, K., …, Ridgway, S., et al. 2009, SPIE Proc. 7440, ed. S.B. Shaklan (SPIE), “Science Performance of the Pupil-Maping Exoplanet Coronagraphic Observer (PECO)”

Carpenter, K.G., …, Mighell, K., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Technology Development Papers, 47, “Technology Development for Future Sparse Aperture Telescopes and Interferometers in Space”


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Chen, C.H., …, Najita, J.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, 1367, “Solar System Analogs around IRAS-Discovered Debris Disks”

Clayton, G.C., …, Olsen, K., et al. 2009, IAU Symp. 256, ed. J.T. Van Lon (Cambridge), 411, “Dust around Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds”

Cole, A.A., …, Smith, V.V., et al. 2009, IAU Symp. 256, ed. J.T. Van Lon (Cambridge), 263, “Breaking the Age–Metallicity Degeneracy: The Metallicity Distribution and Star Formation History of the Large Magellanic Cloud”

Collins, C.A., …, Miller, C.J. 2009, Nature 458, 603, “Early Assembly of the Most Massive Galaxies”

Cooray, A., …, Brodwin, M., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 54, “A New Era in Extragalactic Background Light Measurements: The Cosmic History of Accretion, Nucleosynthesis and Reionization”

Coppin, K.E.K., …, Dickinson, M., …, Reddy, N., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 395, 1905, “A Submillimetre Galaxy at z = 4.76 in the LABOCA Survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South”

Covey, K.R., …, Olsen, K., Saha, A., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 57, “Measuring Stellar Ages and the History of the Milky Way”

Crampton, D., Simard, L., Silva, D. 2009, Science with the VLT in the ELT Era, ed. A.F. Moorwood (Springer), 279, “TMT Science and Instruments”

Creech-Eakman, M., …, Ridgway, S., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Position Papers, 8, “Operational Funding for Optical and Infrared Interferometers”

Croom, S.M., …, De Propris, R., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 392, 19, “The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The Spectroscopic QSO Catalogue”

Daddi, E., …, Dickinson, M., …, Pope, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 694, 1517, “Two Bright Submillimeter Galaxies in a z = 4.05 Protocluster in Goods-North, and Accurate Radio-Infrared Photometric Redshifts”

Daddi, E., …, Dickinson, M., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 396, eds. J.G. Funes and E.M. Corsini (ASP), 405, “ULIRGs at z = 1.5 as Scaled Up Spiral Disks”

Daddi, E., …, Dickinson, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, L176, “A CO Emission Line from the Optical and Near-IR Undetected Submillimeter Galaxy GN10”

Dai, X., …, Brodwin, M., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 506, “Mid-Infrared Galaxy Luminosity Functions from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey”


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Dalcanton, J.J., …, Olsen, K., et al. 2009, ApJS, 183, 67, “The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury”

Dannerbauer, H., …, Dickinson, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, L178, “Low Milky-Way-Like Molecular Gas Excitation of Massive Disk Galaxies at z ~ 1.5”

Desai, V., …, Dey, A., …, Brand, K., …, Brodwin, M., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 1190, “Strong Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission from z ≈ 2 ULIRGs”

Dessart, L., …, Matheson, T., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 394, 21, “SN 1994W: An Interacting Supernova or Two Interacting Shells?”

Dickinson, M. 2008, ASP Conf. 399, eds. T. Kodama, T. Yanada, K. Aoki (ASP), 161, “Galaxy Mass Assembly”

Dobek, J., …, Walker, C., et al. 2009, Spark: The AAS Education Newsletter, 5, 10, “The Project ASTRO National Network: A Community That Can Help Your Education Programs Find a Wider Audience”

Doherty, M., …, Jacoby, G.H., et al. 2009, A&A, 502, 771, “The Edge of the M 87 Halo and the Kinematics of the Diffuse Light in the Virgo Cluster Core”

Eisner, J.A., …, Najita, J., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 309, “Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Sub-AU-Sized Regions of T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be Disks”

Elias, J., …, Blum, B., …, Joyce, R., …, Probst, R., …, Sprayberry, D., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Position Papers, 12, “Developing Future Generations of Instrument Builders”

Elias, J., Blum, B., Najita, J., Silva, D., Sprayberry, D., Smith, V., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Position Papers, 11, “GSMT: The Case for Community Access to an Extremely Large Telescope”

Els, S.G., et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 527, “Thirty Meter Telescope Site Testing. VI: Turbulence Profiles”

Els, S.G., et al. 2009, PASP,121, 922, “Four Years of Optical Turbulence Monitoring at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)”

Ferguson, H., …, Dickinson, L., …, Lotz, J., …, Norman, D., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 79, “Science Frontiers in Galaxy Evolution: Deep-Wide Surveys”

Ferguson, H., …, Miller, C., …, Smith, C., Smith, V., …, Valdes, F., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Position Papers, 15, “Astronomical Data Reduction and Analysis for the Next Decade”


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Foley, R.J., Matheson, T., …, Rest, A., …, Smith, R.C., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3731, “Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the Essence Project: The First Four Years”

Fraknoi, A., Wolff, S., et al. 2009, ASP Conf. 400, eds. M.G. Gibbs, et al. (ASP), 380, “IYA Programs Can Benefit from Evaluation, Research, and Publication in Astronomy Education Review”

Frogel, J.A., …, Silva, D., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Position Papers, 16, “Frontier Science and Adaptive Optics on Existing and Next Generation Telescopes”

Galametz, A., …, Brodwin, M., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 694, 1309, “The Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxy Clusters”

Gal-Yam, A., …, Matheson, T., et al. 2008, ApJ, 685, L117, “GALEX Spectroscopy of SN 2005ay Suggests Ultraviolet Spectral Uniformity among Type II-P Supernovae”

Garcia-Hernandez, D.A., Hinkle, K.H., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 1733, “CNO Abundances of Hydrogen-Deficient Carbon and R Coronae Borealis Stars: A View of the Nucleosynthesis in a White Dwarf Merger”

García-Lario, P., …, Stanghellini, L., …, Shaw, R.A., et al. 2008, IAU Symp. 251, eds. S. Kwok and S. Sanford (Cambridge), 217, “Dust Properties in the Circumstellar Shells of Evolved Stars: Observational Constraints from ISO and Spitzer Infrared Spectroscopy”

García-Varela, A., …, Walker, A., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 1770, “The Araucaria Project: The Distance to the Sculptor Group Galaxy NGC 247 from Cepheid Variables Discovered in a Wide-Field Imaging Survey”

Geisler, D., …, Smith, V., et al. 2009, Globular Clusters—Guides to Galaxies, eds. T. Richtler and S. Larsen (Springer), 133, “LMC Cluster Abundances and Kinematics”

Georgakakis, A., …, Lotz, J.M., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 397, 623, “Host Galaxy Morphologies of X-Ray Selected AGN: Assessing the Significance of Different Black Hole Fuelling Mechanisms to the Accretion Density of the Universe at z ~ 1”

Ghez, A., …, Salim, S., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 89, “The Galactic Center: A Laboratory for Fundamental Astrophysics and Galactic Nuclei”

Ghez, A.M., Salim, S., et al. 2008, ApJ, 689, 1044, “Measuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way’s Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits”

Ghezzi, L., Cunha, K., Smith, V.V., …, Schuler, S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 451, “Measurements of the Isotopic Ratio 6Li/7Li in Stars with Planets”


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Giavalisco, M., …, Dickinson, M., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 93, “The Quest for a Physical Understanding of Galaxies across the Cosmic Time”

Glassgold, A.E., …, Najita, J.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, 142, “Formation of Water in the Warm Atmospheres of Protoplanetary Disks”

Gogarten, S.M., …, Olsen, K., et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 115, “The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury. II. Young Stars and Their Relation to Hα and UV Emission Timescales in the M81 Outer Disk”

Gordon, K.D., …, Blum, R.D., …, Olsen, K., …, Points, S., et al. 2009, IAU Symp. 256, ed. J.T. Van Lon (Cambridge), 184, “Early Results from the SAGE-SMC Spitzer Legacy”

Greene, T., …, Ridgway, S., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 102, “Discovering and Characterizing the Planetary Systems of Nearby Stars”

Greve, T.R., Pope, A., et al. 2008, MNRAS, 389, 1489, “A 1200-μm MAMBO Survey of the GOODS-N Field: A Significant Population of Submillimetre Dropout Galaxies”

Grocholski, A.J., …, Smith, V.V., et al. 2009, IAU Symp. 256, ed. J.T. Van Lon (Cambridge), 287, “Metallicity and Kinematics of a Large Sample of LMC and SMC Clusters”

Guieu, S., …, Strom, S.E., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 787, “The North American and Pelican Nebulae. I. IRAC Observations”

Gültekin, K., …, Lauer, T.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, 1577, “A Quintet of Black Hole Mass Determinations”

Gültekin, K., …, Lauer, T.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 198, “The M-σ and M-L Relations in Galactic Bulges, and Determinations of Their Intrinsic Scatter”

Guyon O., …, Ridgway, S., et al. 2009, SPIE Proc. 7440, ed. S.B. Shaklan (SPIE), “Detecting and Characterizing Exoplanets with a 1.4-m Space Telescope: The Pupil Mapping Exoplanet Coronagraphic Observer (PECO)”

Harbeck, D., Jacoby, G., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 399, eds. T. Kodama, T. Yanada, K. Aoki (ASP), 489, “The WIYN One Degree Imager”

Harper, G.M., …, Hinkle, K.H., et al. 2009, Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ed. E. Stempels (AIP), 868, “UV, IR, and mm Studies of CO Surrounding the Red Supergiant α Orionis (M2 Iab)”

Harrison, T.E., …, Howell, S.B., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4061, “Infrared Photometry and Spectroscopy of VY Aqr and EI Psc: Two Short-Period Cataclysmic Variables with Curious Secondary Stars”


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Harsono, D., De Propris, R. 2009, AJ, 137, 3091, “The Luminosity Function of Galaxies to MBgVriz ~ -14 IN z ~ 0.3 Clusters”

Hicken, M., …, Matheson, T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 331, “CfA3: 185 Type Ia Supernova Light Curves from the CfA”

Hickox, R.C., …, Jannuzi, B.T., Dey, A., …, Brodwin, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 891, “Host Galaxies, Clustering, Eddington Ratios, and Evolution of Radio, X-Ray, and Infrared-Selected AGNs”

Hilton, M., …, Miller C.J., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 436, “The XMM Cluster Survey: Galaxy Morphologies and the Color-Magnitude Relation in XMMXCS J2215.9-1738 AT z = 1.46”

Hinkle, K.H., …, Joyce, R.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 1360, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Symbiotic Stars. VII. Binary Orbit and Long Secondary Period Variability of CH Cygni”

Hinkle, K.H., Wallace, L., et al. 2008, IAU Symp. 251, eds. S. Kwok and S. Sanford (Cambridge), 161, “Ethylene in the Circumstellar Envelope of IRC+10216”

Hoard, D.W., …, Howell, S., et al. 2009, ASP Conf. 404, eds. B. Soonthornthum, et al. (ASP), 234, “What’s Cool about Hot Stars? Cataclysmic Variables in the Mid-Infrared”

Hoard, D.W., …, Howell, S.B., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 236, “Observations of V592 Cassiopeiae with the Spitzer Space Telescope—Dust in the Mid-Infrared”

Hoffman, J.L., …, Matheson, T., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 1186, “The Dual-Axis Circumstellar Environment of the Type IIn Supernova 1997eg”

Hopkins, P.F., …, Lauer, T.R., et al. 2009, ApJS, 181, 135, “Dissipation and Extra Light in Galactic Nuclei. II. ‘Cusp’ Ellipticals”

Hopkins, P.F., …, Lauer, T.R., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 398, 898, “Compact High-Redshift Galaxies Are the Cores of the Most Massive Present-Day Spheroids”

Hopkins, P.F., Lauer, T.R., et al. 2009, ApJS, 181, 486, “Dissipation and Extra Light in Galactic Nuclei. III. ‘Core’ Ellipticals and ‘Missing’ Light”

Hovhannisyan, L.R., …, Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 251, “Spitzer 24 μm Excesses for Bright Galactic Stars in Boötes and First Look Survey Fields”

Howard, C.D., …, De Propris, R., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 1060, “The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA). I. Sample Selection and a Rotation Curve”

Howell, D., …, Matheson, T., et al. 2009, Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 135, “SN Science 2010-2020”


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Howell, S.B. 2008, Astronomische Nachrichten, 329, 259, “A Tale of Four Surveys: What Have We Learned about the Variable Sky?”

Howell, S.B. 2008, Short-period Binary Stars: Observations, Analyses, and Results, eds. E.F. Milone, D.A. Leahy, D.W. Hobill (Springer), 147, “The Cool Components in Cataclysmic Variables: Recent Advances and New Puzzles”

Howell, S.B., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 2541, “Optical and Infrared Observations of Two Magnetic Interacting Binaries: Tau 4 (RXJ0502.8+1624) & SDSS J121209.31+013627.7”

Howell, S.B., et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 16, “Behind the Iron Curtain: The Environments of the Iron Stars AS 325 and XX Oph”

Huang, J.-S., …, Dickinson, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 183, “Infrared Spectrograph Spectroscopy and Multi-wavelength Study of Luminous Star-Forming Galaxies at z ≃ 1.9”

Iannicola, G., …, Walker, A.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, L120, “On the Radial Distribution of Horizontal Branch Stars in NGC 2808”

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APPENDIX D KEY MANAGEMENT AND SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL CHANGES FY09

Key Management FY09

David Silva, NOAO Director

Rober Blum, NOAO Deputy Directory

Buell Jannuzi, Director, KPNO/Associate Director, NOAO

R. Chris Smith, Director, CTIO/Associate Director, NOAO

Verne V. Smith, Director, NGSC/Associate Director, NOAO

Jonathan Elias, Head of Program, GSMT Program Office

Abi Saha, Head of Program, LSST

Elizabeth Stobie, Interim Head of Program, SDM

David Sprayberry, Head of Program, System Instrumentation

Karen Wilson, Associate Director for Administration and Facilities

Scientific Personnel Changes FY09

New Appointments

Site Transfers

Date Name Location

01/01/2009 Simon Schuler NOAO SOUTH to NOAO NORTH

Date Name Position Location

10/01/2008 Ryan Campbell Research Associate NOAO SOUTH

11/01/2008 Amokrane Berdja Research Associate NOAO SOUTH

04/01/2009 Lori Allen Associate Scientist NOAO NORTH

09/01/2009 Jeyhan Kartaltepe Research Associate NOAO NORTH


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Departures

Changed Status

Date Name Position Location

12/29/2008 Mark Brodwin Research Associate NOAO NORTH

03/02/2009 Nalin Samarasinha Associate Scientist NOAO NORTH

07/17/2009 Sebastian Els Research Associate NOAO NORTH

Date Name Position Change Location

10/01/2008 Jayadev Rajagopal Assistant Scientist Promoted from Research Associate

NOAO SOUTH

11/10/2008 Alistair Walker Astronomer Tenure Reassignment due to end of appointment as CTIO Director

NOAO SOUTH

11/10/2008 Elizabeth Stobie Interim Head of Program, SDM

Appointed Interim Head NOAO NORTH

11/10/2008 R. Chris Smith Director,CTIO Promoted to CTIO Director

NOAO SOUTH

01/01/2009/ Todd Lauer Astronomer Tenure Full Astronomer NOAO NORTH

02/01/2009 Dara Norman Assistant Scientist Promoted from Research Associate

NOAO NORTH

03/06/2009 Robert Blum Deputy Director Promoted from Interim Deputy Director

NOAO NORTH

05/01/2009 Nicole van der Bliek Deputy Director, CTIO

Promoted to CTIO Deputy Director

NOAO South

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APPENDIX E PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Telescopes at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

In FY09, 100 publications used data taken at the CTIO telescopes:

Abate, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, p. 603, “Shear-Selected Clusters from the Deep Lens Survey. III. Masses from Weak Lensing”

Baldner, C.S., Basu, S. 2008, ApJ, 686, p. 1349, “Solar Cycle Related Changes at the Base of the Convection Zone”

Bally, J., Walawender, J., Reipurth, B., Megeath, T. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 3843, “Outflows and Young Stars in Orion’s Large Cometary Clouds L1622 and L1634”

Barentine, J.C., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 393, ed. A. Frebel, J.R. Maund, J. Shen, M.H. Siegel (ASP), p. 179, “Distances to the High Velocity Clouds: A Forty-Year Mystery on the Way to Solution”

Barlow, B.N., Dunlap, B.H., Rosen, R., Clemens, J.C. 2008, ApJ, 688, L95, “Two New Variable Hot DQ Stars”

Barrientos, L.F. and the QbC Collaboration 2008, ASP Conf. 396, ed. J.G. Funes, S.J., E.M. Corsini (ASP), p. 131, “Probing Cluster Galaxies with Background QSOs”

Black, D.T.R., … Abbott, T., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 401, ed. A. Evans, M.F. Bode, T. J. O’Brien, M.J. Darnley (ASP), p. 351, “Search of the Remnant of the Nova of 1437”

Bond, H.E., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, L154, “The 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 300”

Book, L.G., Chu, Y-H., Gruendl, R.A., Fukui, Y. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 3599, “Star Formation around Supergiant Shells in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

Bornak, J., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, L110, “A Possible Period for the K-Band Brightening Episodes of GX 17+2”

Butters, O.W., Norton, A.J., Mukai, K., Barlow, E.J. 2009, A&A, 498, L17, “RXTE Confirmation of the Intermediate Polar Status of IGR J15094-6649”

Cargile, P.A., James, D.J., Platais, I. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 3230, “A New X-Ray Analysis of the Open Cluster Blanco 1 Using Wide-Field BVIc Photometric and Proper Motion Surveys”

Carraro, G., Costa, E. 2009, A&A, 493, p. 71, “Searching for Spiral Features in the Outer Galactic Disk. The Field towards WR38 and WR38a”

Chatterjee, R., et al. 2008, ApJ, 689, p. 79, “Correlated Multi-Wave Band Variability in the Blazar 3C 279 from 1996 to 2007”

Author Name in bold = NOAO scientific staff member; Author Name underlined = Undergraduate student in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program or Practica de Investigación en Astronomía (PIA) program


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Chen, C.-H.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, p. 511, “Spitzer View of Young Massive Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud H II Complex N 44”

Chené, A-N., St-Louis, N. 2008, IAU Symp. 250, ed. F. Bresolin, P.A. Crowther, J. Puls, p. 139, “The First Determination of the Rotation Rates of Wolf-Rayet Stars”

Chené, A.-N., St-Louis, N., Moffat, F.J. 2008, ASP Conf. 388, ed. A. Koter, L. Smith, R. Waters (ASP), p. 157, “Large-Scale Wind Variability of WR1 (HD 4004); Towards the Rotation Rate of Wolf-Rayet Stars”

Chiappini, C., Górny, S.K., Stasińska, G., Barbuy, B. 2009, A&A, 494, p. 591, “Abundances in the Galactic Bulge: Results from Planetary Nebulae and Giant Stars”

Crowther, P.A., Lennon, D.J., Walborn, N.R., Smartt, S.J. 2008, ASP Conf. 388, ed. A. de Koter, L. Smith, R. Waters (ASP), p. 109, “Properties of Galactic B Supergiants”

Cruz, K.L., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 384, ed. G.T. van Belle (ASP), p. 119, “A New Population of Young Brown Dwarfs”

D’Orazi, V., Randich, S. 2009, A&A, 501, p. 553, “Chemical Composition of the Young Open Clusters IC 2602 and IC 2391”

Els, S.G., et al. 2009, PASP,121, p. 922, “Four Years of Optical Turbulence Monitoring at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)”

Foley, R.J., … Matheson, T., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 3731, “Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the Essence Project: The First Four Years”

García-Varela, A., … Walker, A., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, p. 1770, “The Araucaria Project: The Distance to the Sculptor Group Galaxy NGC 247 from Cepheid Variables Discovered in a Wide-Field Imaging Survey”

Gladman, B., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, L91, “Discovery of the First Retrograde Transneptunian Object”

Gonidakis, I., et al. 2009, A&A, 496, p. 375, “Structure of the SMC Stellar Component Distribution from 2MASS Data”

González Hernández, I., Scherrer, P., Hill, F. 2009, ApJ, 691, L87, “A New Way to Infer Variations of the Seismic Solar Radius”

Green, P.J., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, p. 644, “A Full Year’s Chandra Exposure on Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars from the Chandra Multiwavelengths Project”

Gruendl, R.A., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, L9, “Discovery of Extreme Carbon Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

Gruendl, R.A., Chu, Y-H. 2009, ApJS, 184, p. 172, “High-and Intermediate-Mass Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

Guillard, P., Boulanger, F., Pineau des Forêts., Appleton, P.N. 2009, A&A, 502, p. 515, “H2 Formation and Exitation in the Stephan’s Quintet Galaxy-Wide Collision”

Hernández, J., et al. 2008, ApJ, 686, p. 1195, “A Spitzer View of Protoplanetary Disks in the γ Velorum Cluster”

6BPUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

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Hernández-Martínez, L., Peña, M. 2009, A&A, 495, p. 447, “Emission Line Objects in NGC 6822. New Planetary Nebula Candidates”

Herrmann, K.A., Ciardullo, R. 2008, ASP Conf. 396, ed. J.G. Funes, S.J., E.M. Corsini (ASP), p. 69, “Studies of Six Nearby Galaxias: Is the Disk Mass-to-Light Ratio Constant?”

Herrmann, K.A., Ciardullo, R., Sigurdsson, S. 2009, ApJ, 693, L19, “Kinematic Evidence for Halo Substructure in Spiral Galaxies”

Herrmann, K.A., Ciardullo, R. 2009, ApJ, 703, p. 894, “Planetary Nebulae in FACE-On Spiral Galaxias. II. Planetary Nebula Spectroscopy”

Homan, J., Kaplan, D.L., van den Berg, M, Young, A.J. 2009, ApJ, 692, p. 73, “A Variable Near-Infrared Counterpart to the Neutron-Star Low-Mass X-Ray Binary 4U 1705-440”

Howard, C.D., … De Propris, R., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, p. 1060, “The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA). I. Sample Selection and a Rotation Curve”

Howard, C.D., … De Propris, R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, L153, “Kinematics at the Edge of the Galactic Bulge: Evidence for Cylindrical Rotation”

Hughes, J., Wallerstein, G., Bossi, A. 2008, AJ, 136, p. 2321, “The Age and Metallicity of the Boötes I System”

Ideue, Y., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, p. 971, “Environmental Effects on the Star Formation Activity in Galaxias at z ≈ 1.2 in the Cosmos Field”

Irwin, J., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 392, p. 1456, “The Monitor Project: Rotation Periods of Low-Mass Stars in M50”

Jacobson, H.R., Pilachowski, C.A., Friel, E.D. 2008, ASP Conf. 396, ed. J.G. Funes, S.J., E. M. Corsini (ASP), p. 73, “Exploring the Milky Way Disk Abundance Transition Zone RGC ~ 10 kpc with Open Clusters”

Jao, W-C., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 3800, “Cool Subdwarf Investigations. II. Multiplicity”

Johnson, C.I., Pilachowski, C.A., Rich, R.M., Fulbright, J.P. 2009, ApJ, 698, p. 2048, “A Large Sample Study of Red Giants in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139)”

Kennicutt, Jr., R.C., et al. 2008, ApJS, 178, p. 247, “An Hα Imaging Survey of Galaxies in the Local 11 Mpc Volume”

Kim, C., Moon, B.-K. 2009, PASP, 121, p. 478, “A Photometric Study of ZZ Microscopium”

Kirkpatrick, J.D., et al. 2008, ApJ, 689, p. 1295, “A Sample of Very Young Field L Dwarfs and Implications for the Brown Dwarf ‘Lithium Test’ at Early Ages”

Kong, X., Fang, G., Arimoto, N., Wang, M. 2009, ApJ, 702, p. 1458, “Classification of Extremely Red Objects in the Cosmos Field”

Kornei, K.A., McCrady, N. 2009, ApJ, 697, p. 1180, “A Young Super Star Cluster in the Nuclear Region of NGC 253”


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Kowalski, M., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2008, ApJ, 686, p. 749, “Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Data Sets”

Krisciunas, K., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 34, “Do the Photometric Colors of the Type II-P Supernovae Allow Accurate Determination of Host Galaxy Extintion?”

Laine, S., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 396, ed. J.G. Funes, S.J., E.M. Corsini (ASP), p. 277, “An Imaging Survey of Satellite Galaxies”

Landolt, A.U. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 4186, “UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars around the Celestial Equator: Updates and Additions”

Larsen, J.A., Humphreys, R.M., Cabanela, J.E. 2008, ApJ, 687, L17, “Mapping the Asymmetric Thick Disk: The Hercules Thick-Disk Cloud”

Lee Powell Jr., W., Wilhelm, R.J., Carrell, K. 2008, ASP Conf. 393, ed. A. Frebel, R. Maund, J. Shen, M.H. Siegel (ASP), p. 251, “An Investigation of the Canis Major Over-Density”

Lee, J.C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, p. 1305, “Dwarf Galaxy Starbust Statistics in the Local Volume”

Lee, J.-W., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, L78, “Chemical Inhomogeneity in Red Giant Branch Stars and RR Lyrae Variables in NGC 1851: Two Subpopulations in Red Giant Branch”

Lee, S.-K., et al. 2009, ApJS, 184, p. 100, “Biases and Uncertainties in Physical Parameter Estimates of Lyman Break Galaxies from Broadband Photometry”

Lépine, S., Simon, M. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 3632, “Nearby Young Stars Selected by Proper Motion. I. Four New Members of the β Pictoris Moving Group from the Tycho-2 Catalog”

Levenson, N.A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, p. 390, “Isotropic Mid-Infrared Emission from the Central 100 pc of Active Galaxies”

Levesque, E.M., Massey, P., Plez, B., Olsen, K.A.G. 2009, AJ, 137, p.4744, “The Physical Properties of the Red Supergiant WHO G64: The Largest Star Known?”

Maitra, D., Bailyn, C.D. 2008, ApJ, 688, p. 537, “Outburst Morphology in the Soft X-Ray Transient Aquila X-1”

Marchesini, D., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, p. 1765, “The Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function of Galaxias from z = 4.0 and the First Comprehensive Analysis of Its Uncertainties: Evidence for Mass-Dependent Evolution”

Martínez-García, E.E., González-Lópezlira, R.A., Bruzual-A, G. ApJ, 694, p.512, “Spiral Density Wave Triggering of Star Formation in SA and SAB Galaxies”

Masetti, N., et al. 2009, A&A, 495, p. 121, “Unveiling the Nature of INTEGRAL Objects through Optical Spectroscopy. VII. Identification of 20 Galactic and Extragalactic Hard X-Ray Sources”

Mauerhan, J.C., Van Dyk, S.D., Morris, P.W. 2009, PASP, 121, p. 591, “12 New Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars Identified via 2MASS + Spitzer/GLIMPSE”

Meurer, G.R., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, p. 765, “Evidence for a Nonuniform Initial Mass Function in the Local Universe”


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Mignoli, M., et al. 2009, A&A, 493, p. 39, “The zCOSMOS Redshift Survey: The Three Dimensional Classification Cube and Bimodality in Galaxy Physical Properties”

Miller, E.D., Bregman, J.N., Wakker, B.P. 2009, ApJ, 692, p.470, “High-Velocity Clouds in the Nearby Spiral Galaxy M 83”

Mobasher, B., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, p.1074, “Relation between Stellar Mass and Star-Formation Activity in Galaxies”

Muzzin, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, p. 1934, “Spectroscopic Confirmation of Two Massive Red-Sequence-Selected Galaxy Clusters at z ~ 1.2 in the SpArcs-North Cluster Survey”

Nakos, Th., et al. 2009, A&A, 494, p. 579, “A Multiwavelength Survey of AGN in the XMM-LSS Field. I. Quasar Selection via the KX Technique”

Nysewander, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, p. 1417, “PROMPT Observations of the Early-Time Optical Afterglow of GRB 060607A”

Ojha, R., et al. 2009, AJ, 138, p. 845, “Photometric Observations of Selected, Optically Bight Quasars for Space Interferometry Mission and Other Future Celestial Reference Frames”

Pastorello, A., et al. 2009, A&A, 500, p. 1013, “SN 1999ga: A Low-Luminosity Linear Type II Supernova?”

Pedani, M. 2009, PASP, 121, p. 778, “Sky Surface Brightness at Mount Graham: UBVRI Science Observations with the Large Binocular Telescope”

Pence, W.D., Seaman, R., White, R.L. 2009, PASP, 121, p. 414, “Lossless Astronomical Image Compression and the Effects of Noise”

Penner, K., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 393, ed. A. Frebel, J.R. Maund, J. Shen, M.H. Siegel (ASP), p. 247, “The Brightest Serendipitous X-Ray Sources in ChaMPlane”

Piatti, A.E., Geisler, D., Sarajedini, A., Gallart, C. 2009, A&A, 501, p. 585, “Washington Photometry of Five Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

Ramos Almeida, C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, p. 1127, “The Infrared Nuclear Emission of Seyfert Galaxies on Parsec Scales: Testing the Clumpy Torus Model”

Rangwala, N., Williams, T.B., Stanek, K.Z. 2009, ApJ, 691, “Fabry-Pérot Absorption Line Spectroscopy of the Galactic Bar. I. Kinematics”

Rangwala, N., Williams, T.B. 2009, ApJ, 702, p. 414, “Fabry-Pérot Absorption Line Spectroscopy of the Galactic Bar. II. Stellar Metallicities”

Rauw, G., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 398, p. 1582, “Optical Spectroscopy of X-Mega Targets in the Carina Nebula. VII. On the Multiplicity of Tr 16-112, HD 93343 and HD 93250”

Salvato, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, p. 1250, “Photometric Redshift and Classification for the XMM-Cosmos Sources”

Schaefer, B.E., Rabinowitz, D.L., Tourtellotte, S.W. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 129, “The Diverse Solar Phase Curves of Distant Icy Bodies. II. The Cause of the Opposition Surges and Their Correlations”


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Schwamb, M.E., Brown, M.E. Rabinowitz, D.L. 2009, ApJ, 694, L45, “A Search for Distant Solar System Bodies in the Region of Sedna”

Shara, M.M., et al. 2009, AJ, 138, p. 402, “A Near-Infrared Survey of the Inner Galactic Plane for Wolf-Rayet Stars. I. Methods and First Results: 41 New WR Stars”

Slesnick, C.L., Hillenbrand, L.A., Carpenter, J.M. 2008, ApJ, 688, p. 377, “A Large-Area Search for Low-Mass Objects in Upper Scoprpius. II. Age and Mass Distributions”

Smith, M.G., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 400, ed. M.G. Gibbs, J. Barnes, J.G. Manning, B. Partridge (ASP), p. 152, “Simple Night-Sky Measurements for “Globe at Night” in Chile with Sky-Quality Meters (SQMs) and Illustrated with Digital Photography – A Prototype for the IYA”

Smith Castelli, A.V., Faifer, F. R., Richtler, T., Bassino, L.P. 2008, MNRAS, 391, p. 685, “Galaxy Populations in the Antlia Cluster . II. Compact Elliptical Galaxy Candidates”

Smith, M. 2008, Nature, 457, p. 27, “Time to Turn of the Lights”

St-Louis, N., Chené, A-N., de la Chevrotière, A., Moffat, A.F.J. 2008, ASP Conf. 388, ed. A. de Koter, L. Smith, R. Waters (ASP), p. 79, “Measuring Rotation Rates and Magnetic Fields of Wolf-Rayet Stars”

Subasavage, J.P., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 4547, “The Solar Neighborhood. XXI. Parallax Results from the CTIOPI 0.9 m Program: 20 New Members of the 25 Parsec White Dwarf Sample”

Tapia, M., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, p. 4127, “The Intermediate-Mass Embedded Cluster GM 24 Revisited: New Infrared and Radio Obervations”

Tokovinin, A., Cantarutti, R. 2008, PASP, 120, p. 170, “First Speckle Interferometry at SOAR Telescope with Electron-Multiplication CCD”

Travouillon, T., … Els, S., et al. 2009, PASP, 121, p. 787, “Thirty Meter Telescope Site Testing VII: Turbulence Coherence Time”

Treister, E., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, p. 1713, “Optical Spectroscopy of X-Ray Sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South”

Wallerstein, G. 2008, ASP Conf. 401, ed. A. Evans, M.F. Bode, T.J. O’Brien, M.J. Darnley (ASP), p. 14, “RS Ophiuchi from 1898 to 2005”

Winkler, F., Twelker, K., Reith, C.N., Long, K.S. 2009, ApJ, 692, p. 1489, “Expanding Ejecta in the Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8: Direct Measurement through Proper Motions”

Telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory

In FY09, 171 publications used data taken at the KPNO telescopes:

Abate, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 603, “Shear-Selected Clusters from the Deep Lens Survey. III. Masses from Weak Lensing”

Author Name in bold = NOAO scientific staff member; Author Name underlined = Undergraduate student in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program


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Abia, C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 694, 971, “Fluorine in Asymptotic Giant Branch Carbon Stars Revisited”

Abt, H.A. 2009, ApJS, 180, 117, “MK Classifications of Spectroscopic Binaries”

Agafonov, M.I., Sharova, O.I., Richard, M.T. 2009, ApJ, 690, 1730, “Three-Dimensional Doppler Images of the Disklike and Streamlike States of U Coronae Borealis”

Allen, P.R. 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ed. E. Stempels (AIP), 824, “Low-Mass Tertiary Companions to Spectroscopic Binaries: Common Proper Motion Survey for Wide Companions Using 2MASS”

Andersen, D.R., Bershady, M.A. 2009, ApJ, 700, 1626, “The Photometric and Kinematic Structure of Face-On Disk Galaxies. II. Integrated Line Profile Characterization and the Origin of Line Profile Asymmetry”

Aragona, C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 514, “The Orbits of the Gamma-Ray Binaries LS I +61 303 and LS 5039”

Ashby, M.L.N., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, 428, “The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey”

Aspin, C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, L67, “V1647 Orionis: Reinvigorated Accretion and the Re-appearance of McNeil’s Nebula”

Atlee, D.W., Assef, R.J., Kochanek, C.S. 2009, ApJ, 694, 1539, “Evolution of the UV Excess in Early-Type Galaxies”

Boquien, M., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4561, “Collisional Debris as Laboratories to Study Star Formation”

Bornak, J., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, L110, “A Possible Period for the K-Band Brightening Episodes of GX 17+2”

Brand, K., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 340, “The Origin of the 24 μm Excess in Red Galaxies”

Brassington, N.J., et al. 2008, ApJS, 179, 142, “Deep Chandra Monitoring Observations of NGC 3379: Catalog of Source Properties”

Brodwin, M., Dey, A., … Pope, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, L65, “Clustering of Dust-Obscured Galaxies at z ~ 2”

Brodwin, M., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 399, eds. T. Kodama, T. Yamada, K. Aoki (ASP), 322, “A Large Population of High Redshift Galaxy Clusters in the IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey”

Brown, M.J.I., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 150, “Active Galactic Nuclei and the Truncation of Star Formation in K+A Galaxies”

Brozovic, M., Jacobson, R.A. 2009, AJ, 137, 3834, “The Orbits of the Outer Uranian Satellites”

Bussmann, R.S., Dey, A., Lotz, J., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 750, “Hubble Space Telescope Morphologies of z ~ 2 Dust Obscured Galaxies. I. Power-Law Sources”

Butler, S.C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 502, “Identifications of Five INTEGRAL Sources via Optical Spectroscopy”


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Caballero-Nieves, S.M., … Howell, S.B., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, 1895, “The Ultraviolet Spectrum and Physical Properties of the Mass Donor Star in HD 226868 = Cygnus X-1”

Caldú-Primo, A., Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Morisset, C. 2009, A&A, 493, 33, “Density Effect on Multiwavelength Luminosities on Star-Formation Regions in NGC 3184 and NGC 3938”

Cannon, J.M., Salzer, J.J., Rosenberg, J.L. 2009, ApJ, 696, 2104, “Quiescent Isolation: The Extremely Extended H I Halo of the Optically Compact Dwarf Galaxy ADBS 113845+2008”

Carilli, C.L., et al. 2008, ApJ, 689, 883, “Star Formation Rates in Lyman Break Galaxies: Radio Stacking of LBGs in the COSMOS Field and the Sub-μJy Radio Source Population”

Cava, A., et al. 2009, A&A, 495, 707, “WINGS-SPE Spectroscopy in the WIde-Field Nearby Galaxy-Cluster Survey”

Chapman, N.L., Mundy, L.G. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1866, “Deep JHKs and Spitzer Imaging of Four Isolated Molecular Cloud Cores”

Chapman, N.L., Mundy, L.G., Lai, S.-P., Evans, N.J. 2009, ApJ, 690, 496, “The Mid-Infrared Extinction Law in the Ophiuchus, Perseus, and Serpens Molecular Clouds”

Chiaberge, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 1103, “Low-Power Radio Galaxies in the Distant Universe: A Search for FR I at 1 < z < 2 in the Cosmos Field”

Clark, J.S., et al. 2009, A&A, 504, 429, “The P Cygni Supergiant [OMN2000] LS1—Implications for the Star Formation History of W51”

Cody, A.M., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 396, 1647, “Velocity Dispersion Measurements of Dwarf Galaxies in the Coma Cluster—Implications for the Structure of the Fundamental Plane”

Covey, K.R., et al. 2008, ApJS, 178, 339, “The ChaMP Extended Stellar Survey (ChESS): Photometric and Spectroscopic Properties of Serendipitously Detected Stellar X-Ray Sources”

Crawford, S.M., Bershady, M.A., Hoessel, J.G. 2009, ApJ, 690, 1158, “The Red-Sequence Luminosity Function in Massive Intermediate-Redshift Galaxy Clusters”

Crowl, H.H., Kenney, J.D.P. 2008, AJ, 136, 1623, “The Stellar Populations of Stripped Spiral Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster”

Cruz, K.L., Kirkpatrick, J.D., Burgasser, A.J. 2009, AJ, 137, 3345, “Young L Dwarfs Identified in the Field: A Preliminary Low-Gravity, Optical Spectral Sequence from L0 to L5”

Currie, T., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3210, “The X-Ray Environment During the Epoch of Terrestrial Planet Formation: Chandra Observations of h Persei”

Dai, X., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 506, “Mid-Infrared Galaxy Luminosity Functions from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey”

Desai, V., … Dey, A., … Brand, K., … Brodwin, M., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 1190, “Strong Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission from z ≈ 2 ULIRGs”


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Devine, D., Bally, J., Chiriboga, D., Smart, K. 2009, AJ, 137, 3993, “Giant Herbig-Haro Flows in L1228: A Second Look”

Diamond-Stanic, A.M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 699, 782, “High-Redshift SDSS Quasars with Weak Emission Lines”

Doering, R.L., Meixner, M. 2009, AJ, 138, 780, “Near-Infrared Photometric Survey of Herbig Ae/Be Candidate Stars”

Domingue, D.L., Xu, C.K., Jarrett, T.H., Cheng, Y. 2009, ApJ, 695, 1559, “2MASS/SDSS Close Major-Merger Galaxy Pairs”

Drout, M.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 441, “Yellow Supergiants in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)”

Egusa, F., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 1870, “Determining Star Formation Timescale and Pattern Speed in Nearby Spiral Galaxies”

El Bouchefry, K. 2009, MNRAS, 396, 2011, “X-Ray Identifications of FIRST Radio Sources in the XBoötes Field”

Eriksen, K.A., Arnett, D., McCarthy, D.W., Young, P. 2009, ApJ, 697, 29, “The Reddening toward Cassiopeia A’s Supernova: Constraining the 56Ni Yield”

Fekel, F.C., Boden, A.F., Tomkin, J., Torres, G. 2009, ApJ, 695, 1527, “HR 8257: A Three-Dimensional Orbit and Basic Properties”

Fekel, F.C., Tomkin, J., Williamson, M.H. 2009, AJ, 137, 3900, “New Precision Orbits of Bright Double-Lined Spectroscopic Binaries. III. HD 82191, ω Draconis, and 108 Herculis”

Fixsen, D.J., Greenhouse, M.A., MacKenty, J.W., Mather, J.C. 2009, SPIE Proc. 7249, eds. D.J. Fixsen, et al. (SPIE), “Spectroscopy using the Hadamard Transform”

Freeland, E., Cardoso, R.F., Wilcots, E. 2008, ApJ, 685, 858, “Bent-Double Radio Sources as Probes of Intergalactic Gas”

Freeland, E., Stilp, A., Wilcots, E. 2009, AJ, 138, 295, “H I Observations of Five Groups of Galaxies”

Gabor, J.M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 705, “Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxy Morphologies in COSMOS”

Galametz, A., … Brodwin, M., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, 694, 1309, “The Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxy Clusters”

Geller, A.M., Mathieu, R.D., Harris, H.C., McClure, R.D. 2009, AJ, 137, 3743, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. XXXVI. Spectroscopic Binary Orbits in NGC 188”

Gilbert, K.M., Font, A.S., Johnston, K.V., Guhathakurta, P. 2009, ApJ, 701, 776, “The Dominance of Metal-Rich Streams in Stellar Halos: A Comparison between Substructure in M31 and ΛCDM Models”

Green, P.J., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, 644, “A Full Year’s Chandra Exposure on Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars from the Chandra Multiwavelength Project”

Grillmair, C.J., Carlin, J.L., Majewski, S.R. 2008, ApJ, 689, L117, “Fishing in Tidal Streams: New Radial Velocity and Proper Motion Constraints on the Orbit of the Anticenter Stream”


E-10

Guieu, S., … Strom, S.E., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 787, “The North American and Pelican Nebulae. I. IRAC Observations”

Hales, A.S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, 75, “Iphas A-type Stars with Mid-Infrared Excesses in Spitzer Surveys”

Harrison, T.E., … Howell, S.B., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4061, “Infrared Photometry and Spectroscopy of VY Aqr and EI Psc: Two Short-Period Cataclysmic Variables with Curious Secondary Stars”

Haynes, S., Burks, G., Johnson, C.I., Pilachowski, C.A. 2008, PASP, 120, 1097, “Chemical Analysis of Five Red Giants in the Globular Cluster M10 (NGC 6254)”

Herrmann, K.A., Ciardullo, R. 2009, ApJ, 703, 894, “Planetary Nebulae in Face-On Spiral Galaxies. II. Planetary Nebula Spectroscopy”

Herrmann, K.A., Ciardullo, R., Sigurdsson, S. 2009, ApJ, 693, L19, “Kinematic Evidence for Halo Substructure in Spiral Galaxies”

Herrmann, K.A., Ciardullo, R. 2008, ASP Conf. 396, eds. J.G. Funes and E.M. Corsini (ASP), 69, “Studies of Six Nearby Galaxies: Is the Disk Mass-to-Light Ratio Constant?”

Hickox, R.C., … Jannuzi, B.T., Dey, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 891, “Host Galaxies, Clustering, Eddington Ratios, and Evolution of Radio, X-Ray, and Infrared-Selected AGNs”

Higdon, J.L., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 885, “Radio and Infrared Selected Optically Invisible Sources in the Boötes NDWFS”

Hinkle, K.H., Fekel, F.C., Joyce, R.R. 2009, ApJ, 692, 1360, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Symbiotic Stars. VII. Binary Orbit and Long Secondary Period Variability of CH Cygni”

Hole, K.T., et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 159, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. XXIV. Stellar Radial-Velocity Measurements in NGC 6819”

Horan, D., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, 596, “Multiwavelength Observations of Markarian 421 in 2005-2006”

Horch, E.P., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 5057, “Observations of Binary Stars with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument. I. Instrument Description and First Results”

Hornoch, K., et al. 2008, 492, 301, “Discovery, Photometry, and Astrometry of 49 Classical Nova Candidates in M 81 Galaxy”

Hovhannisyan, L.R., … Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 251, “Spitzer 24 μm Excesses for Bright Galactic Stars in Boötes and First Look Survey Fields”

Howell, S.B., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 2541, “Optical and Infrared Observations of Two Magnetic Interacting Binaries: Tau 4 (RXJ0502.8+1624) & SDSS J121209.31+013627.7”

Howell, S.B., Johnson, K.J., Adamson, A.J. 2009, PASP, 121, 16, “Behind the Iron Curtain: The Environments of the Iron Stars AS 325 and XX Oph”

Huang, W., Gies, D.R., McSwain, M.V. 2009, ApJ, 703, 81, “HD 69686: A Mysterious High Velocity B Star”


E-11

Ideue, Y., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 971, “Environmental Effects on the Star Formation Activity in Galaxies at z = 1.2 in the COSMOS Field”

Ilbert, O., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, 1236, “Cosmos Photometric Redshifts with 30-Bands for 2-deg2”

Izotov, Y.I., Thuan, T.X. 2009, ApJ, 690, 1797, “Luminous Blue Variable Stars in the Two Extremely Metal-Deficient Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies DDO 68 and PHL 293B”

Jacobson, H.R., Friel, E.D., Pilachowski, C.A. 2009, AJ, 137, 4753, “Abundances of Red Giants in Old Open Clusters. IV. NGC 1817, NGC 1883, NGC 2141, and NGC 2158”

Jacobson, H.R., Pilachowski, C.A., Friel, E.D. 2008, ASP Conf. 396, eds. J.G. Funes and E.M. Corsini (ASP), 73, “Exploring the Milky Way Disk Abundance Transition Zone RGC ~ 10 kpc with Open Clusters”

Jao, W-C., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3800, “Cool Subdwarf Investigations. II. Multiplicity”

Jiang, L., et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 305, “A Survey of z ~ 6 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Deep Stripe. II. Discovery of Six Quasars at zAB > 21”

Kafka, S., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 1302, “New Complexities in the Low-State Line Profiles of AM Herculis”

Kafka, S., Hoard, D.W., Honeycutt, R.K., Deliyannis, C.P. 2009, AJ, 137, 197, “Observations of V592 Cas—An Outflow at Optical Wavelengths”

Kajisawa, M., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 399, eds. T. Kodama, T. Yamada, K. Aoki (ASP), 296, “Distant Red Galaxies in the MOIRCS Deep Survey”

Kajisawa, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 1393, “MOIRCS Deep Survey. IV. Evolution of Galaxy Stellar Mass Function Back to z ~ 3”

Kautsch, S.J., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, L5, “Forming Early-Type Galaxies in Groups Prior to Cluster Assembly”

Kavelaars, J.J., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4917, “The Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey—L3 Data Release: The Orbital Structure of the Kuiper Belt”

Kennefick, J., Bursick, S. 2008, AJ, 136, 1799, “Infrared Imaging of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars: Implications for the Quasar K Correction”

Kenney, J.D., … Jacoby, G.H., et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, L69, “A Spectacular Hα Complex in Virgo: Evidence for a Collision between M86 and NGC 4438 and Implications for the Collisional ISM Heating of Ellipticals”

Kiminki, D.C., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4608, “Five More Massive Binaries in the Cygnus OB2 Association”

Kinemuchi, K., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 1921, “The Variable Stars of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: Revisited”

Kirkpatrick, C.C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 867, “A Chandra X-Ray Analysis of Abell 1664: Cooling, Feedback, and Star Formation in the Central Cluster Galaxy”

Kirkpatrick, J.D., et al. 2008 ApJ, 689, 1295, “A Sample of Very Young Field L Dwarfs and Implications for the Brown Dwarf ‘Lithium Test’ at Early Ages”


E-12

Kong, X., Fang, G., Arimoto, N., Wang, M. 2009, ApJ, 702, 1458, “Classification of Extremely Red Objects in the Cosmos Field”

Kormendy, J., Fisher, D.B., Cornell, M.E., Bender, R. 2009, ApJS, 182, 216, “Structure and Formation of Elliptical and Spheroidal Galaxies”

Kotulla, R., Fritze, U., Gallagher, J.S. 2008, ApJ, 688, L65, “Rescuing the Initial Mass Function for Arp 78”

Kowalski, M., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2008, ApJ, 686, 749, “Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Data Sets”

Kozlowski, S., Kochanek, C.S. 2009, ApJ, 701, 508, “Discovery of 5000 Active Galactic Nuclei behind the Magellanic Clouds”

Kubo, J.M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 980, “Dark Matter Structures in the Deep Lens Survey”

Lauer, T.R., Boroson, T.A. 2009, ApJ, 703, 930, “Hubble Space Telescope Images and KPNO Spectroscopy of the Binary Black Hole Candidate SDSS J153636.22+044127.0”

Lee, H.-T., Chen, W.P. 2009, ApJ, 694, 1423, “Triggered Star Formation on the Border of the Orion-Eridanus Superbubble”

Lee, J.C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 1305, “Dwarf Galaxy Starburst Statistics in the Local Volume”

Lubin, L.M., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4867, “The Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large-Scale Environments (ORELSE) Survey. I. The Survey Design and First Results on CL 0023+0423 at z = 0.84 and RX J1821.6+6827 at z = 0.82”

Mancini, C., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2009, A&A, 500, 705, “Searching for Massive Galaxies at z ≥ 3.5 in GOODS-North”

Manteiga, M., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3245, “Starmind: A Fuzzy Logic Knowledge-Based System for the Automated Classification of Stars in the MK System”

Marengo, M., Sanchez, M.C. 2009, AJ, 138, 63, “A k-NN Method to Classify Rare Astronomical Sources: Photometric Search of Brown Dwarfs with Spitzer/ IRAC”

Martínez-Delgado, D., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 955, “Discovery of a Giant Stellar Tidal Stream around The Disk Galaxy NGC 4013”

Martínez-García, E.E., Gonzalez-Lopezlira, R.A., Bruzual-A., G. 2009, ApJ, 694, 512, “Spiral Density Wave Triggering of Star Formation in SA and SAB Galaxies”

Mason, B.D., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3358, “The High Angular Resolution Multiplicity of Massive Stars”

Massey, P., Silva, D.R., … Olsen, K.A.G., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 420, “Red Supergiants in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)”

Matkovic, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 1862, “Kinematic Properties and Stellar Populations of Faint Early-Type Galaxies. II. Line-Strength Measurements of Central Coma Galaxies”


E-13

Matthews, L.D., Uson, J.M. 2008, ApJ, 688, 237, “Corrugations in the Disk of the Edge-on Spiral Galaxy IC 2233”

McNamara, B.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 594, “An Energetic AGN Outburst Powered by a Rapidly Spinning Supermassive Black Hole or an Accreting Ultramassive Black Hole”

Megeath, S.T., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4072, “Detection of Star Formation in the Unusually Cold Giant Molecular Cloud G216-2.5”

Meibom, S., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 5086, “Age and Distance for the Old Open Cluster NGC 188 from the Eclipsing Binary Member V 12”

Meibom, S., Mathieu, R.D., Stassun, K.G. 2009, ApJ, 695, 679, “Stellar Rotation in M35: Mass-Period Relations, Spin-Down Rates, and Gyrochronology”

Melandri, A., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 395, 1941, “Evidence for Energy Injection and a Fine-tuned Central Engine at Optical Wavelengths in GRB 070419A”

Melbourne, J., … Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4854, “High-Redshift Dust Obscured Galaxies: A Morphology-Spectral Energy Distribution Connection Revealed by Keck Adaptive Optics”

Meschin, I., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3619, “Cepheid Variable Stars in the Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy: Constraints on the Star Formation History”

Mignoli, M., et al. 2009, A&A, 493, 39, “The zCOSMOS Redshift Survey: The Three-Dimensional Classification Cube and Bimodality in Galaxy Physical Properties”

Miller, A.A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, 1303, “The Exceptionally Luminous Type II-Linear Supernova 2008es”

Mobasher, B., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, 1074, “Relation between Stellar Mass and Star-Formation Activity in Galaxies”

Morgan, C.W., et al. 2008, ApJ, 689, 755, “X-Ray and Optical Microlensing in the Lensed Quasar PG 1115+080”

Murphy, E.J., … Dickinson, M., … Pope, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 1380, “Balancing the Energy Budget between Star Formation and Active Galactic Nuclei in High-Redshift Infrared Luminous Galaxies”

Muzzin, A., et al. 2008, ApJ, 686, 966, “The Evolution of Dusty Star Formation and Stellar Mass Assembly in Clusters: Results from the IRAC 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 μm Cluster Luminosity Functions”

Nilsson, K.K., et al. 2009, A&A, 498, 13, “Evolution in the Properties of Lyman-α Emitters from Redshifts z ~ 3 to z ~ 2”

Oguri, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1038, “Subaru Weak Lensing Measurements of Four Strong Lensing Clusters: Are Lensing Clusters Overconcentrated?”

Oh, S.-H., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 2761, “High-Resolution Dark Matter Density Profiles of THINGS Dwarf Galaxies: Correcting for Noncircular Motions”

Owen, F.N., Morrison, G.E. 2009, ApJS, 182, 625, “The Deep Swire Field. III. WIYN Spectroscopy”


E-14

Pannella, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, L116, “Star Formation and Dust Obscuration at z ≈ 2: Galaxies at the Dawn of Downsizing”

Peters, G.J., et al. 2008, ApJ, 686, 1280, “Detection of a Hot Subdwarf Companion to the Be Star FY Canis Majoris”

Prescott, K.M., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T. 2009, ApJ, 702, 554, “The Discovery of a Large Lyα+He II Nebula at z ≈ 1.67: A Candidate Low Metallicity Region?”

Provencal, J.L., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 564, “2006 Whole Earth Telescope Observations of GD358: A New Look at the Prototype DBV”

Rachford, B.L., Foight, D.R. 2009, ApJ, 698, 786, “Chromospheric Variability in Early F-Type Stars”

Rafferty, D.A., McNamara, B.R., Nulsen, P.E.J. 2008, ApJ, 687, 899, “The Regulation of Cooling and Star Formation in Luminous Galaxies by Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback and the Cooling-Time/Entropy Threshold for the Onset of Star Formation”

Reed, M.D., et al. 2009, A&A, 493, 175, “Time-Series Spectroscopy and Photometry of the Pulsating Subdwarf B Star PG 1219+534 (KY UMa)”

Relaño, M., Kennicutt, R.C. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1125, “Star Formation in Luminous H II Regions in M33”

Richards, G.T., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3884, “Eight-Dimensional Mid-Infrared/Optical Bayesian Quasar Selection”

Robertson, J.W., Howell, S.B., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 1857, “Orbit-Resolved Photometry and Echelle Spectroscopy of the Cataclysmic Variable ST LMi during a 2007 High State”

Rossi, A., et al. 2008, A&A, 491, L29, “A Photometric Redshift of z = 1.8+0.4-0.3 for the AGILE GRB

080514B”

Sahai, R., Sugerman, B.E.K., Hinkle, K. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1015, “Sculpting an Asymptotic Giant Branch Mass-Loss Envelope into a Bipolar Planetary Nebula: High-Velocity Outflows in V Hydrae”

Salvato, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, 1250, “Photometric Redshift and Classification for the XMM-COSMOS Sources”

Salzer, J.J., Williams, A.L., Gronwall, C. 2009, ApJ, 695, L67, “A Population of Metal-Poor Galaxies with ~L* Luminosities at Intermediate Redshifts”

Schombert, J., Rakos, K. 2009, AJ, 137, 528, “Tests of Chemical Enrichment Scenarios in Ellipticals Using Continuum Colors and Spectroscopy”

Schombert, J., Rakos, K. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1530, “The Age of Ellipticals and the Color-Magnitude Relation”

Scoville, N. 2008, ASP Conf. 399, eds. T. Kodama, T. Yamada, K. Aoki (ASP), 102, “Large Scale Structure in Dark Matter and Galaxies”

Scowcroft, V., Bersier, D., Mould, J.R., Wood, P.R. 2009, MNRAS, 396, 1287, “The Effect of Metallicity on Cepheid Magnitudes and the Distance to M33”


E-15

Siopis, C., … Lauer, T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 946, “A Stellar Dynamical Measurement of the Black Hole Mass in the Maser Galaxy NGC 4258”

Slivan, S.M., et al. 2009, Icarus, 200, 514, “Spin Vectors in the Koronis Family. II. Additional Clustered Spins, and One Stray”

Stark, D.P., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 1493, “The Evolutionary History of Lyman Break Galaxies between Redshift 4 and 6: Observing Successive Generations of Massive Galaxies in Formation”

Thilker D.A., 2009, Nature, 457, 990, “Massive Star Formation within the Leo ‘Primordial’ Ring”

Tsuji, T. 2009, A&A, 504, 543, “The K Giant Star Arcturus: The Hybrid Nature of Its Infrared Spectrum”

Tsuji, T. 2008, A&A, 489, 1271, “Cool Luminous Stars: The Hybrid Nature of their Infrared Spectra”

Tyler, K.D., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 1846, “Spitzer 70/160 μm Observations of High-Redshift ULIRGs and HyLIRGs in the Boötes Field”

van Dokkum, P.G., et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 2, “The NEWFIRM Medium-band Survey: Filter Definitions and First Results”

Veilleux, S., Rupke, D.S., Swaters, R. 2009, ApJ, 700, L149, “Warm Molecular Hydrogen in the Galactic Wind of M82”

Vestergaard, M., Osmer, P.S. 2009, ApJ, 699, 800, “Mass Functions of the Active Black Holes in Distant Quasars from the Large Bright Quasar Survey, the Bright Quasar Survey, and the Color-Selected Sample of the SDSS Fall Equatorial Stripe”

Vivas, A.K., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 1645, “Spectroscopy of Bright Quest RR Lyrae Stars: Velocity Substructures toward Virgo”

Wang, J., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 47, “A Chandra Study of the Rosette Star-Forming Complex. II. Clusters in the Rosette Molecular Cloud”

Wang, T.G., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4002, “X-Ray Absorption and Optical Extinction in the Partially Obscured Seyfert Nucleus in Mrk 1393”

Washuettl, A., Strassmeier, K.G., Weber, M. 2009, 330, 366, “The Chromospherically Active Binary Star EI Eridani: II. Long-term Doppler Imaging”

Watson, C.R., … Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 2206, “The Star Formation and Nuclear Accretion Histories of Normal Galaxies in the Ages Survey”

Westmoquette, M.S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 192, “The Optical Structure of the Starburst Galaxy M82. I. Dynamics of the Disk and Inner-wind”

Williams, K.A., Bolte, M., Koester, D. 2009, ApJ, 693, 355, “Probing the Lower Mass Limit for Supernova Progenitors and the High-Mass End of the Initial-Final Mass Relation from White Dwarfs in the Open Cluster M35 (NGC 2168)”

Williams, S.J. 2009, AJ, 137, 3222, “System Parameters for the Eclipsing B-Star Binary HD 42401”


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Williams, S.J., Gies, D.R., Matson, R.A., Huang, W. 2009, ApJ, 696, L137, “The Evolutionary State of the Massive Interacting Binary BD+36°4063”

Wolf, M.J., Sheinis, A.I. 2008, AJ, 136, 1587, “Host Galaxies of Luminous Quasars: Structural Properties and the Fundamental Plane”

Yamauchi, C., Yagi, M., Goto, T. 2008, MNRAS, 390, 383, “E+A and Companion Galaxies - I. A Catalogue and Statistics”

Yang, Y., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 1579, “Extended Lyα Nebulae at z = 2.3: An Extremely Rare and Strongly Clustered Population?”

Yoshikawa, T., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 399, eds. T. Kodama, T. Yamada, K. Aoki (ASP), 214, “Rest-Optical Spectroscopic Properties of Luminous Infrared Galaxies at z ~ 2”

Young, L.M., Bendo, G.J., Lucero, D.M. 2009, AJ, 137, 3053, “Mid- to Far-Infrared Emission and Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies”

Gemini Telescopes (NOAO Gemini Science Center)

In FY09, 59 publications used data taken at the Gemini telescopes:

Berger, E. 2008, ApJ, 690, 231, “The Host Galaxies of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: Luminosities, Metallicities, and Star Formation Rates”

Bitner, M.A., …, Doppman, G., Najita, J.R., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 1326, “The TEXES Survey for H2 Emission from Protoplanetary Disks”

Bloom, J.S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 737, “Observations of the Naked-Eye GRB 080319B: Implications of Nature’s Brightest Explosion”

Bordalo, V., Plana, H., Telles, E. 2009, ApJ, 696, 1668, “The Internal Kinematics of the H II Galaxy II Zw 40”

Brittain, S.E., Najita, J.R., Carr, J.S. 2009, ApJ, 702, 85, “Tracing the Inner Edge of the Disk around HD 100546 with Rovibrational CO Emission Lines”

Brown, M.E., et al. 2009, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L01103, “Discovery of Lake-Effect Clouds on Titan”

Chen, C.H., Fitzgerald, M.P., Smith, P.S. 2008, ApJ, 689, 539, “A Possible Icy Kuiper Belt around HD 181327”

Collins, K.A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 557, “HD 100453: A Link between Gas-Rich Protoplanetary Disks and Gas-Poor Debris Disks”

Crockett, R.M., et al. 2008, MNRAS, 391, L5, “The Type IIb SN 2008ax: The Nature of the Progenitor”

Author Name in bold = NOAO scientific staff member; Author Name underlined = Undergraduate

student in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program


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Cushing, M.C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 986, “2MASS J06164006–6407194: The First Outer Halo L Subdwarf”

Damjanov, I., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, 101, “Red Nuggets at z ~ 1.5: Compact Passive Galaxies and the Formation of the Kormendy Relation”

Deloye, C.J., Heinke, C.O., Taam, R.E., Jonker, P.G. 2008, MNRAS, 391, 1619, “Optical Observations of SAX J1808.4-3658 During Quiescence”

Dupuy, T.J., Liu, M.C., Ireland, M.J. 2009, ApJ, 699, 168, “Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Monitoring of the M8+L7 Binary LHS 2397aAB: First Dynamical Mass Benchmark at the L/T Transition”

Eisner, J.A.; Monnier, J.D.; Tuthill, P.; Lacour, S. 2009, ApJ, 698:L169-L173, “Spatially Resolved Mid-Infrared Imaging of the SR 21 Transition Disk”

Finklestein, S.L., Papovich, C., Rudnick, G., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 376, “Turning Back the Clock: Inferring the History of the Eight O’clock Arc”

Foley, R.J., Matheson, T., …, Rest, A., …, Smith, R.C., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3731, “Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First Four Years”

Garcia-Hernandez, D.A., Hinkle, K.H., Lambert, D.L., Eriksson, K. 2009, ApJ, 696, 1733, “CNO Abundances of HdC and RCB Stars: A View of the Nucleosynthesis in a White Dwarf Merger”

Geballe, T.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, 844, “Spectroscopic Detection of Carbon Monoxide in Two Late-Type T Dwarfs”

Ghezzi, L., Cunha, K., Smith, V.V., …, Schuler, S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 451, “Measurements of the Isotopic Ratio 6Li/7Li in Stars with Planets”

Gomboc, A., et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, 443, “Multiwavelength Analysis of the Intriguing GRB 061126: The Reverse Shock Scenario and Magnetization”

Grady, C.A., Schneider, G., Sitko, M.L. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1822, “Revealing the Structure of a Pre-transitional Disk: The Case of the Herbig F Star SAO 206462 (HD 135344B)”

Graham, J.F., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 1620, “GRB 070714B – Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short Burst Redshift”

Greiner, J., Clemens, C., Kruhler, T. 2009, A&A, 498, 89, “The Redshift and Afterglow of the Extremely Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 080916C”

Greiner, J., Kruhler, T., Fynbo, J.P.U. 2009, ApJ, 693, 1610, “GRB 080913 at Redshift 6.7”

Hrivnak, B.J., Smith, N., Su, K.Y.L, Sahai, R. 2008, ApJ, 688, 327, “A Study of H2 Emission in Three Bipolar Proto-Planetary Nebulae: IRAS 16594-4656, HEN 3-401, and Rob 22”

Indriolo, N., Hobbs, L.M., Hinkle, K.H., McCall, B. J. 2009, ApJ, 703, 252, “Interstellar Metastable Helium Absorption as a Probe of the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate”

Jensen, E.L., Cohen, D.H., Gagné, M. 2009, ApJ, 703, 252, “No Transition Disk? Infrared Excess, PAH, H2, and X-Rays from the Weak-Lined T Tauri Star DoAr 21”

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Johns-Krull, C.M., Greene, T.P., Doppmann, G.W., Covey, K.R. 2009, ApJ, 700, 1440, “First Magnetic Field Detection on a Class I Protostar”

Kirkpatrick, J.D., et al. 2008, ApJ, 689, 1295, “A Sample of Very Young Field L Dwarfs and Implications for the Brown Dwarf ‘Lithium Test’ at Early Ages”

Kriek, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 221, “An Ultra-Deep Near-Infrared Spectrum of a Compact Quiescent Galaxy at z = 2.2”

Lagos, P., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 5068, “On the Compact H II Galaxy UM 408 as Seen by GMOS-IFU: Physical Conditions”

Lederer, M.T., …, Hinkle, K.H., et al. 2008, A&A, 502, 913, “The puzzling Dredge-Up Pattern in NGC 1978”

Levenson, N.A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 390, “Isotropic Mid-Infrared Emission from the Central 100 pc of Active Galaxies”

Liu, X., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 1098, “Host Galaxies of Luminous Type 2 Quasars at z ~ 0.5”

Luhman, K.L., Mamajek, E.E., Allen, P.R., Cruz, K.L. 2009, ApJ, 703, 399, “An Infrared/X-Ray Survey for New Members of the Taurus Star-Forming Region”

MacLeod, C.L., Kochanek, C.S., Agol, E. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1578, “Detection of a Companion Lens Galaxy Using the Mid-Infrared Flux Ratios of the Gravitationally Lensed Quasar H1413+117”

Marois, C., et al. 2008, Science, 322, 1348, “Direct Imaging of Multiple Planets Orbiting the Star HR 8799”

Maund, J.R., Smartt, S.J. 2009, Science, 324, 486, “The Disappearance of the Progenitors of Supernovae 1993J and 2003gd”

Modjaz, M., …, Matheson, T. 2008, ApJ, 687, L9, “Double-Peaked Oxygen Lines Are Not Rare in Nebular Spectra of Core-Collapse Supernovae”

Modjaz, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 226, “From Shock Breakout to Peak and Beyond: Extensive Panchromatic Observations of the Type Ib Supernova 2008D Associated with Swift X-Ray Transient 080109”

Mohanty, S., Stassun, K.G., Mathieu, R.D. 2009, ApJ, 697, 713, “Circumstellar Environment and Effective Temperature of the Young Substellar Eclipsing Binary 2MASS J05352184–0546085”

Mothé-Diniz, T., Nesvorny, D. 2008, A&A, 492, 593, “Tirela: An Unusual Asteroid Family in the Outer Main Belt”

Muzzin, D., et al. 2009, ApJ, 698, 1934, “Spectroscopic Confirmation of Two Massive Red-Sequence-Selected Galaxy Clusters at z ~ 1.2 in the SpARCS-North Cluster Survey”

Najita, J.R., Doppmann, G.W., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 957, “High-Resolution Spectroscopy of [Ne II] Emission from AA Tau and GM Aur”

Oguri, M., Hennawi, J.F., Gladders, M.D. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1038, “Subaru Weak Lensing Measurements of Four Strong Lensing Clusters: Are Lensing Clusters Overconcentrated?”


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Page, K. L., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 395, 328, “The Unusual X-Ray Light Curve of GRB 080307: The Onset of the Afterglow?”

Perley, D.A., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 470, “GRB 071003: Broadband Follow-up Observations of a Very Bright Gamma-Ray Burst in a Galactic Halo”

Perley, D. A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 1871, “GRB 080503: Implications of a Naked Short Gamma-Ray Burst Dominated by Extended Emission”

Prochaska, J. X., Hennawi, J. F. 2008, ApJ, 690, 1558, “Quasars Probing Quasars. III. New Clues to Feedback, Quenching, and the Physics of Massive Galaxy Formation”

Ramos Almeida, C., Levenson, N.A., Rodríguez Espinosa, J.M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 1127, “The Infrared Nuclear Emission of Seyfert Galaxies on Parsec Scales: Testing the Clumpy Torus Models”

Rossi, A., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Ferrero, P. 2008, A&A, 491, L29, “A Photometric Redshift of z = 1.8+0.4-0.3

for the AGILE GRB 0800514B”

Schaller, E.L., Roe, H.G., Schneider, T., Brown, M.E. 2009, Nature, 460, 873, “Storms in the Tropics of Titan”

Schuler, S.C., …, Smith, V.V., Cunha, K., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 2244, “Carbon Abundances of Three Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars from High-Resolution Gemini-S/bHROS Spectra of the λ8727 [C I] Line”

Seth, A.C., Blum, R.D., et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, 997, “The Rotating Nuclear Star Cluster in NGC 4244”

Smith, N., Hinkle, K.H., Ryde, N. 2009, AJ, 173, 3558, “Red Supergiants as Potential Type IIn Supernova Progenitors: Spatially-Resolved 4.6 μm CO Emission around VY CMa and Betelguese”

Stephens, D.C., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 154, “The 0.8–14.5 μm Spectra of Mid-L to Mid-T Dwarfs: Diagnostics of Effective Temperature, Grain Sedimentation, Gas Transport, and Surface Gravity”

van Dokkum, P.G., Kriek, M., Franx, M. 2009, Nature, 460, 717, “A High Stellar Velocity Dispersion for a Compact Massive Galaxy at Redshift z = 2.186”

Zheng, W., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 1907, “Bright Strongly Lensed Galaxies at Redshift z ~ 6–7 behind the Clusters Abell 1703 and CL0024+16”

Zhu, Z., … Hinkle, K., et al. 2009, ApJ, 694, L64, “The Differential Rotation of FU Ori”


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W.M. Keck Observatory: Keck I and II

In FY09, 7 publications used data taken at the Keck telescopes:

Bakos, G.A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 1950, “HAT-P-10b: A Light and Moderately Hot Jupiter Transiting A K Dwarf”

Cruz, K.L., Kirkpatrick, J.D., Burgasser, A.J. 2009, AJ, 137, 3345, “Young L Dwarfs Identified in the Field: A Preliminary Low-Gravity, Optical Spectral Sequence from L0 to L5”

Howard, A.W., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 75, “The NASA-UC Eta-Earth Program. I. A Super-Earth Orbiting HD 7924”

Mace, G.N., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3487, “The Highly Eccentric Pre-main-Sequence Spectroscopic Binary RX J0529.3+1210”

Pál, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 783, “Independent Confirmation and Refined Parameters of the Hot Jupiter XO-5b”

Peek, K.M.G., et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 613, “Old, Rich, and Eccentric: Two Jovian Planets Orbiting Evolved Metal-Rich Stars”

Sato, B., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 671, “A Substellar Companion in a 1.3 yr Nearly Circular Orbit of HD 16760”

HET and MMT

In FY09, 6 publications used data taken at the HET and MMT telescopes:

Kafka, S., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 1302, “New Complexities in the Low-State Line Profiles of AM Herculis”

Kane, S.R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 290, “Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Solar-Type Star TYC 2534-698-1”

Luhman, K.L., Mamajek, E.E., Allen, P.R., Curz, K.L. 2009, ApJ, 703, 399, “An Infrared/X-Ray Survey for New Members of the Taurus Star-Forming Region”

Magrini, L., Stanghellini, L., Villaver, E. 2009, ApJ, 696, 729, “The Planetary Nebula Population of M33 and its Metallicity Gradient: A Look into the Galaxy’s Distant Past”

Massey, P., Silva, D.R., …, Olsen, K.A.G., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 420, “Red Supergiants in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)”

Shafter, A.W., et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, 1148, “M31N 2007-11d: A Slowly Rising, Luminous Nova in M31”

Time allocation from Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) award or Facilities Instrumentation Program (FIP).


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Magellan

In FY09, 1 publication used data taken at the Magellan telescopes:

Meiring, J.D., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 393, 1513, “New Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle Observations of z < 1.5 Sub-damped Lyman α Systems”

NOAO Science Archive

In FY09, 24 publications used data stored in the NOAO Science Archive:

Ashby, M.L.N., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 701, 428, “The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey”

Atlee, D.W., Assef, R.J., Kochanek, C.S. 2009, ApJ, 694, 1539, “Evolution of the UV Excess in Early-type Galaxies”

Brand, K., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 340, “The Origin of the 24 μm Excess in Red Galaxies”

Brodwin, M., Dey, A., …, Pope, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2008, ApJ, 687, L65, “Clustering of Dust-Obscured Galaxies at z ~ 2”

Brodwin, M., et al. 2008, ASP Conf. 399, eds. T. Kodama, T. Yamada, K. Aoki (ASP), 322, “A Large Population of High Redshift Galaxy Clusters in the IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey”

Brown, M.J.I., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 150, “Active Galactic Nuclei and the Truncation of Star Formation in K+A Galaxies”

Bussmann, R.S., Dey, A., Lotz, J., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 750, “Hubble Space Telescope Morphologies of z ~ 2 Dust Obscured Galaxies. I. Power-Law Sources”

Dai, X., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 506, “Mid-Infrared Galaxy Luminosity Functions from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey”

Desai, V., …, Dey, A., …, Brand, K., …, Brodwin, M., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 1190, “Strong Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission from z ≈ 2 ULIRGs”

El Bouchefry, K. 2009, MNRAS, 396, 2011, “X-Ray Identifications of FIRST Radio Sources in the XBoötes Field”

Galametz, A., …, Brodwin, M., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, 694, 1309, “The Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxy Clusters”

Hickox, R.C., …, Jannuzi, B.T., Dey, A., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 891, “Host Galaxies, Clustering, Eddington Ratios, and Evolution of Radio, X-Ray, and Infrared-Selected AGNs”

Time allocation from Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) award or Facilities Instrumentation Program (FIP).


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Higdon, J.L., et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 885, “Radio and Infrared Selected Optically Invisible Sources in the Boötes NDWFS”

Hovhannisyan, L.R., …, Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 251, “Spitzer 24 μm Excesses for Bright Galactic Stars in Boötes and First Look Survey Fields”

Kozlowski, S., Kochanek, C.S. 2009, ApJ, 701, 508, “Discovery of 5000 Active Galactic Nuclei behind the Magellanic Clouds”

Marengo, M., Sanchez, M.C. 2009, AJ, 138, 63, “A k-NN Method to Classify Rare Astronomical Sources: Photometric Search of Brown Dwarfs with Spitzer/ IRAC”

Melbourne, J., …, Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4854, “High-Redshift Dust Obscured Galaxies: A Morphology-Spectral Energy Distribution Connection Revealed by Keck Adaptive Optics”

Prescott, K.M., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T. 2009, ApJ, 702, 554, “The Discovery of a Large Lyα+He II Nebula at z ≈ 1.67: A Candidate Low Metallicity Region?”

Relaño, M., Kennicutt, R.C. 2009, ApJ, 699, 1125, “Star Formation in Luminous H II Regions in M33”

Thilker D.A., 2009, Nature, 457, 990, “Massive Star Formation within the Leo ‘Primordial’ Ring”

Tyler, K.D., …, Dey, A., …, Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 1846, “Spitzer 70/160 μm Observations of High-Redshift ULIRGs and HyLIRGs in the Boötes Field”

Watson, C.R., …, Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 2206, “The Star Formation and Nuclear Accretion Histories of Normal Galaxies in the Ages Survey”

Williams, K.A., Bolte, M., Koester, D. 2009, ApJ, 693, 355, “Probing the Lower Mass Limit for Supernova Progenitors and the High-Mass End of the Initial-Final Mass Relation from White Dwarfs in the Open Cluster M35 (NGC 2168)”

Yang, Y., et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 1579, “Extended Lyα Nebulae at z = 2.3: An Extremely Rare and Strongly Clustered Population?”

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APPENDIX F OBSERVING PROGRAMS AND INVESTIGATORS SEMESTERS 2009 A/B

States of Origin of U.S. Investigators of Approved Observing Programs Semesters 2009A/B (Excludes NOAO Scientific Staff)

† Top 10 institutions with the most unique investigators (not including NOAO staff) among the 2009A/B observing progrrams: University of Arizona (44); Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (35); University of California, Berkeley (28); California Institute of Technology (27); Space Telescope Science Institute (27); University of Florida (22); University of Wisconsin, Madison & Yale University (tied with 19); Indiana University (18); Johns Hopkins University & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (tied with 17); University of California, Los Angeles (16).

Annual Summary DataU.S. Observing Programs for Semesters 2009 A/B

Number of U.S. observing programs scheduled on NOAO telescopes (includes programs under TSIP/FIP on private telescopes)†

482

Number of U.S. investigators (PIs + Co-Is) associated with approved observing programs (excl. NOAO scientific staff)

848

Number of Ph.D. thesis observers 85

Number of non-thesis graduate students 64

Number of discrete institutions represented 163

Number U.S. states represented (including District of Columbia) 42

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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

Blanco 4-m: 90% of time available to public through NOAO TAC; 10% to Chilean proposers

CTIO Small Telescopes: NOAO has access to 25% time on each of the four telescopes now operated by the SMARTS consortium: CTIO 1.5-m, 1.3-m (former 2MASS), 1.0-m, and 0.9-m telescopes.

Semester 2009A

CTIO – Semester 2009A – Scheduled US Programs (incl. US Thesis Programs) ♦ Tel. Nights

G. Aldering (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), M. Childress (G) (UC Berkeley), R. Thomas, S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): “Host Galaxies of Hubble Flow Type Ia Supernovae”

SOAR 3

M. Andersen, H. Sung, J. Rho (California Institute of Technology): “Optical Spectroscopy of Candidate Pre-Main Sequence Stars in the Trifid Nebula: Disk Properties in a Massive Star-Forming Environment”

CT-4m 3

T. Beck (STScI), C. Aspin (U. of Hawai’i), J. Bary (Colgate U.): “Investigating Hot Water in YSO Disks using Cross Dispersed IR Spectroscopy”

SOAR 3

B. Biller, K. Allers (U. of Hawai’i): “A Systematic Survey for Very Young Planetary Mass Objects”

CT-4m 1

H. Bond (STScI): “The Luminous Galactic Cepheid RS Puppis: A Geometric Distance from Its Nested Light Echoes”

CT-1.3m 0.95

H. Bond (STScI): “SMARTS Monitoring of Luminous Red Transients” CT-1.3m 2.1

D. Burke (Stanford U.), T. Axelrod (LSST), C. Claver (NOAO), D. Depoy (Texas A&M U.), A. Saha (NOAO), R. Smith (CTIO), C. Stubbs (Harvard U.), D. Tucker (FNAL): “Towards Precision Photometry for Large Scale Surveys”

CT-1.5m-SVC 2.2

R. Campbell, R. Students (U), R. Smith, N. van der Bliek (CTIO), T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.): “CTIO REU/PIA Observations: Photometry of Polars”

CT-1.0m 7

R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Feldmeier (Youngstown State U.), G. Jacoby (NOAO): “The Distance to the Antennae Galaxy”

CT-4m 3

D. Clowe (Ohio U.), M. Ulmer (Northwestern U.): “Applying Weak Lensing Tomography to EDisCS”

CT-4m 7

B. Cobb (UC Berkeley), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), J. Bloom (UC Berkeley): “Optical/IR Follow-Up of Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS”

CT-1.3m 7.2

A. Cotera (SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center), S. Stolovy, J. Mauerhan (IPAC), H. Dong (G), D. Wang (U. Mass): “Massive Stars in the Galactic Center: NIR Spectroscopy of Newly Discovered Emission Line Stars”

SOAR 3

A. Crotts (Columbia U.): “The Echo from Supernova 1987A” CT-0.9m-SVC 2

D. Depoy (Texas A&M U.), D. Tucker (FNAL), R. Schmidt (O) (CTIO), B. Flaugher (FNAL): “Engineering Tests and Initial Calibration of DECam CCDs”

CT-1.0m 6

♦ Key: (G) = Graduate; (O) = Other; (T) = Thesis Student; (U) = Undergraduate

7BOBSERVING PROGRAMS AND INVESTIGATORS SEMESTERS 2009 A/B

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G. Duchene (UC Berkeley), W. Dent (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh), B. Montesinos (LAEX-CAB): “Optical/Infrared Ancillary Photometry of Young Stars for the Herschell Key Project GASPS”

CT-1.3m 1.4

L. French (Illinois Wesleyan U.), S. Lederer (Cal State San Bernadino): “Photometric Survey of L5 Trojan Asteroids”

CT-0.9m-SVC 6

J. Grindlay (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Completing the Galactic Bulge Latitude Survey”

CT-4m 5

J. Grindlay, P. Zhao, S. Laycock, M. Van Den Berg, J. Hong, X. Koenig (G) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), H. Cohn, P. Lugger (Indiana U.): “ChaMPlane II: Optical Spectra and IR Imaging Identification of ChaMPlane X-ray Sources”

CT-4m 8

T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.): “An Astrometric Calibration of Population II Distance Indicators”

CT-0.9m-SVC 0.6

T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.), B. Chaboyer (Dartmouth College), G. Benedict (U. of Texas, Austin), A. Sarajedini (U. of Florida), R. Campbell (CTIO): “The Ages of Globular Clusters and the Population II Distance Scale”

CT-0.9m-SVC 0.2

G. Herczeg (California Institute of Technology): “Constraining the Effects of High Energy Photons on Photo-Planetary Disk Chemistry and Evolution”

CT-1.5m-SVC 1.8

T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.), O. De Marco (American Museum of Natural History), D. Frew (G) (Perth Observatory): “Determining the System Parameters for Poorly Studied Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae”

CT-1.3m, CT-0.9m-SVC

6 5

K. Hinkle (NOAO), F. Fekel (Tennessee State U.), R. Joyce (NOAO): “Orbital Survey of Red Giant - White Dwarf SNe Ia Progenitors”

CT-1.5m-SVC 5.5

P. Jonker (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Completing the Galactic Bulge Survey”

CT-4m 3

S. Kane, K. Von Braun (California Institute of Technology), G. Laughlin (UC Santa Cruz): “Photometric Monitoring of Known Southern Exoplanets for Transit Signatures”

CT-1.0m 14

D. Kaplan (UC Santa Barbara), B. Posselt (SAO), G. Anderson (G) (U. of Sydney), J. Mauerhan (IPAC), P. Slane (SAO), B. Gaensler (U. of Sydney): “Chicago: Chasing the Identification of ASCA Galactic Objects - Near-IR Spectroscopy”

SOAR 2

A. Landolt, J. Clem (Louisiana State U.): “Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star fields: CTIO”

CT-1.0m 24

S. Lepine (American Museum of Natural History), I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (California Institute of Technology): “Completing the Inventory of the Nearest 20 pc: Spectral Classification of 1,178 Candidate Nearby Stars”

CT-4m 2

J. Meiring, J. Lauroesch (U. of Louisville), D. York (U. of Chicago), V. Kulkarni (U. of South Carolina), L. Haberzettl (U. of Louisville), P. Khare (Utkal University): “Searching for the Host Galaxies of Sub-Damped Lyman-α Systems.”

SOAR 4

T. Metcalfe (HAO), T. Henry (Georgia State U.), D. Soderblom (STScI), S. Basu (Yale U.), P. Judge, M. Knolker, M. Rempel (HAO): “Activity Cycles of Southern Asteroseismic Targets”

CT-1.5m-SVC 5

M. Montgomery (U. of Texas, Austin), J. Provencal, S. Thompson, H. Shipman (U. of Delaware), M. Reed (SW Missouri State U.): “Measuring Convection on the Surface of a Pulsating White Dwarf”

SOAR 4


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M. Norris, S. Kannappan (U. of North Carolina): “Unified Analysis of Spheroid and Disk Dynamics in S0s”

SOAR 4

B. Posselt (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), C. Motch (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg), P. Slane (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), F. Haberl (Max-Planck Institute für extraterrestrische Physik), A. Pires (G) (IAGUSP), F. Walter (SUNY, Stony Brook): “Constraining the Radius of the Neutron Star RX J0806.4-4123”

CT-0.9m 7

A. Rest (Harvard U.), D. Welch (McMaster University), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), M. Huber (Johns Hopkins U.), G. Damke (U), S. Points (CTIO), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory): “Geometric Distances to Cepheids with Light Echoes”

SOAR 1.5

A. Rest (Harvard U.), A. Becker (U. of Washington), M. Bergmann (Gemini Observatory), S. Blondin, P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Clocchiatti (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), G. Damke (U) (CTIO), R. Foley, A. Garg (G) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Huber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. Matheson (NOAO), D. Minniti (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Olsen (NOAO), J. Prieto (G) (Ohio State U.), R. Smith (NOAO), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), D. Welch (McMaster University), M. Wood-Vasey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Echoes of Historical Supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy”

CT-4m 8

J. Rho, M. Andersen, T. Jarrett, W. Reach (California Institute of Technology), J. Hewitt (Northwestern U.): “Near-Infrared Imaging of Spitzer Detected Supernova Remnants: Molecular Hydrogen and Dust Destruction”

SOAR 2

S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), J. Elliot (MIT), S. Kern (STScI), C. Zuluaga (G), A. Gulbis (MIT): “Precise Astrometry for Predicting Kuiper Belt Object Occultations”

CT-0.9m-SVC 3.5

S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): “A Survey for L5 Neptune Trojans”

SOAR, CT-4m 0.5, 3

N. Smith (UC Berkeley): “IR Variability of Eta Carinae: The 2009 Event” SOAR 1.5

K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), L. Hebb, E. Stempels, A. Cameron (U. of St. Andrews): “Fundamental Properties of a New Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Eclipsing Binary System”

CT-1.5m-SVC 0.7

A. Tokovinin (CTIO), B. Mason, W. Hartkopf (US Naval Observatory): “Orbital Spins in Multiple Stars”

SOAR 3

P. Tzanavaris (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Hornschemeier (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), S. Gallagher (University of Western Ontario), J. Charlton, C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), C. Oliveira (IAGUSP), K. Johnson (U. of Virginia), J. Young (G) (Pennsylvania State U.), D. Szathmary (G) (University of Western Ontario): “Groups around Groups: Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Hickson Compact Groups”

CT-4m 2

S. Van Dyk, N. Elias-Rosa (SSC): “Light Curves for Core-Collapse Supernovae” CT-1.3m 1.9

S. Wachter (California Institute of Technology), S. Van Dyk, S. Carey, D. Hoard, P. Morris (SSC): “The Nature of Mid-Infrared Circumstellar Shells Discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope”

SOAR 3

A. Walker (CTIO), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), S. Cassisi (Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo), M. Monelli (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), M. Dall’Ora (University of Naples), G. Andreuzzi (TNG), P. Stetson (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “Luminosity Functions of Evolved Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters”

CT-4m 3


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P. Weissman, S. Lowry (CalTech-JPL): “CCD Photometry of Comet-Asteroid Transition Object 107P/Wilson- Harrington”

CT-0.9m-SVC 4

T. Williams, J. Sellwood (Rutgers U.), K. Spekkens (Royal Military College of Canada): “Cold Dark Matter and the Structure of Spiral Galaxies”

CT-0.9m-SVC 1

Y. Yang, A. Zabludoff, R. Dave, D. Eisenstein (U. of Arizona): “Determining the Nature of Extended Lyman Alpha Nebulae”

CT-4m 4

US Thesis Programs ♦

M. Bayliss (T), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago): “A Continuing Targeted Search for Strongly Lensed u-band Dropout Galaxies”

SOAR 4

T. Beers (Michigan State U.), S. Rossi (IAGUSP), N. Christlieb (Heidelberg University), S. Schuler (CTIO), V. Placco (T) (IAGUSP), C. Kennedy (T) (Michigan State U.), T. Sivarani (U. of Florida): “A Survey for Unrecognized Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Galactic Halo”

SOAR 6

M. Brown, M. Bannister (T) (California Institute of Technology): “Icy Dwarf Planets in the Southern Skies”

CT-1.3m 0.5

A. Burgasser (MIT), J. Faherty (T) (SUNY, Stony Brook), N. van der Bliek (CTIO), K. Cruz (California Institute of Technology), F. Vrba (US Naval Observatory), S. Schmidt (G) (U. of Washington), B. Swift (G) (U. of Arizona), A. West (UC Berkeley), J. Bochanski (G), S. Hawley (U. of Washington), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona), I. Reid (STScI), M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History): “The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project: Parallaxes for Southern Low Luminosity Brown Dwarfs”

CT-4m 6

R. Cohen (T), A. Sarajedini (U. of Florida): “Blue Straggler Variability in Galactic Globular Clusters”

CT-1.0m 4

K. Collins (T) (U. of Louisville), M. Sitko (U. of Cincinnati), C. Grady (Eureka Scientific), G. Williger (U. of Louisville): “Disk Wall Variability in Pre-Main Sequence Disks”

CT-1.3m 0.1

D. Gies, S. Williams (T), R. Matson (G) (Georgia State U.): “Massive Eclipsing Binary Stars” CT-1.5m-SVC 7

J. Greissl (T), M. Meyer (U. of Arizona), R. Blum (NOAO): “Probing the IMF Beyond the Milky Way: Spectroscopy of Two Young Super-Star Clusters in NGC 5253 and NGC 4038/9”

SOAR 3

J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Crook (T) (MIT), T. Jarrett (IPAC), K. Masters (University of Portsmouth), L. Macri (Texas A&M U.): “Mapping the Nearby Universe: The 2MASS Redshift Survey”

CT-1.5m-SVC 4

C. Johnson (T), C. Pilachowski (Indiana U.), M. Rich (UCLA), J. Fulbright (Johns Hopkins U.): “Chemical Evolution in Omega Centauri”

CT-4m 3

A. Skemer (T), L. Close (U. of Arizona), B. Biller (U. of Hawai’i), J. Eisner (U. of Arizona): “The Periodicity of Extinction Events in VV Ser: A Map of Dust Structures in the Inner-Rim of a Herbig Be Disk”

CT-1.3m 1.3

R. Stevenson (T), D. Jewitt (U. of Hawai’i): “Hydrated Hildas - The Search for Liquid Water in the Early Solar System”

SOAR 1

T. Tal (T), J. Kenney (Yale U.): “Hα Observations of Gravitationally Interacting Ellipticals” CT-4m 3



F-6


B. Zuckerman, C. Melis (T) (UCLA), I. Song (U. of Georgia): “Hunting the Coolest Substellar Dwarfs”

CT-4m 6

CTIO – Semester 2009A – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) ♦ Tel. Nights

M. Orio (Osservatorio Astrofísico di Torino): “CP Puppis, a Template for the Secular Evolution of Novae”

CT-4m 3

A. Scholz (University of St. Andrews), J. Bouvier (LAOG), J. Eisloeffel (Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenberg), J. Irwin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “The Rotation of Brown Dwarfs: Photometric Monitoring in NGC2547”

CT-4m 4

K. Zwintz (Universität Wien (University of Vienna)), T. Bohm (Observatoire de Midi-Pyrenees), T. Kallinger (Universität Wien (University of Vienna)), W. Weiss (Universität Wien (University of Vienna)): “Watching Stellar Evolution in ‘Real Time’: the Case of HR 5999”

CT-1.0m 14

Foreign Thesis Programs

P. Nkundabakura (T), P. Meintjes (University of the Free State): “Identification for Possible High Energy Blazars among the Unidentified EGRET Objects: Determination of the Redshift of 3EG 0706-3837 and 3EG J0821-5814 Using the Goodman SOAR Spectrograph”

SOAR 0.5

A. Parker, A. Kovacevic (T) (Macquarie University), G. Jacoby (NOAO): “A New Galactic Bulge Planetary Nebulae Luminosity Function”

CT-4m 5

Semester 2009B

CTIO – Semester 2009B – Scheduled US Programs (incl. US Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

G. Aldering (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), M. Childress (G) (UC Berkeley), R. Thomas, S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): “Host Galaxies of Hubble Flow Type Ia Supernovae”

CT-4m 3

S. Benecchi, K. Noll (STScI), W. Grundy (Lowell Observatory): “Correlating Color and Composition in the Kuiper Belt”

CT-4m 4

H. Bond (STScI): “SMARTS Monitoring of Luminous Red Transients” CT-1.5m-SVC CT-1.3m

1 3.3

J. Charlton (Pennsylvania State U.), A. Hornschemeier (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), S. Gallagher (University of Western Ontario), P. Tzanavaris (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), C. Oliveira (IAGUSP), K. Johnson (U. of Virginia), J. Young (G) (Pennsylvania State U.), D. Szathmary (G) (University of Western Ontario), I. Konstantopoulis (Pennsylvania State U.): “Groups around Groups: Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Hickson Compact Groups”

CT-4m 6

Y. Chu, M. Schoenoff (U) (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Points (CTIO), R. Chen (U. of Virginia), R. Gruendl (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “Nature of Blue Stars with IR Excesses: Young or Evolved”

CT-4m 7



F-7


G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), J. Tohline (Louisiana State U.), F. Herwig (University of Victoria), C. Fryer (LANL): “A Study of the 18O/16O Ratio of R Coronae Borealis Stars in the in Magellanic Clouds”

SOAR 4

D. Clowe (Ohio U.), D. Johnston, M. Ulmer (Northwestern U.), C. Adami (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille), T. Schrabback (Leiden University), J. Annis (FNAL): “Photometric Redshifts for Weak Lensing Tomography of Galaxy Clusters”

SOAR 5

B. Cobb (UC Berkeley), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), J. Bloom (UC Berkeley): “Optical/IR Follow-Up of Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS”

CT-1.3m 5

A. Crotts (Columbia U.), B. Sugerman (Goucher College), S. Lawrence (Hofstra University), S. Heathcote (SOAR): “Evolution of Supernova Remnant 1987A”

CT-4m 2

A. Crotts (Columbia U.): “The Echo from Supernova 1987A” CT-0.9m-SVC 4

A. Day-Jones SOAR 2

D. Depoy (Texas A&M U.), D. Tucker (FNAL), R. Schmidt (O) (CTIO), B. Flaugher (FNAL): “Engineering Tests and Initial Calibration of DECam CCDs”

CT-1.0m 7

G. Duchene (UC Berkeley), W. Dent (ALMA), B. Montesinos (LAEFF): “Optical/infrared ancillary photometry of young stars for the Herschell Key Project GASPS”

CT-1.3m 0.2

N. Elias-Rosa (O), S. Van Dyk (O) (SSC): “Light Curves for Core-Collapse Supernovae.” CT-1.3m, SOAR-TOO

1.4,

Y. Fernandez, H. Campins (University of Central Florida), J. Licandro (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), M. Kelley (U. of Maryland): “Studying the Nucleus of Nearly-Dead Comet 107P/Wilson-Harrington”

CT-0.9m-SVC 1.6

H. Flohic (UC Irvine), M. Eracleous (Pennsylvania State U.), K. Lewis (Dickinson College): “Determining the Structure of an AGN Accretion Disk through Spectroscopic Monitoring of a Double-Peaked Emitter”

CT-1.5m-SVC 5

J. Grindlay, P. Zhao, S. Laycock, M. Van Den Berg, J. Hong, X. Koenig (G) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), H. Cohn, P. Lugger (Indiana U.): “ChaMPlane II: Optical spectra and IR imaging identification of ChaMPlane X-ray sources”

CT-4m 3

M. Hempel (U. of Florida) CT-4m 4

S. Hoyer (Universidad de Chile) SOAR 3

J. Hughes, F. Menanteau (Rutgers U.), L. Infante, J. Juin, F. Barrientos (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile): “Mass Calibration of Nearby SZE Galaxy Clusters”

CT-4m 1

J. Irwin (Harvard U.), J. Bouvier (LAOG), L. Hebb (Vanderbilt U.), A. Scholz (U. of St. Andrews), K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.): “Rotation periods of solar-mass stars in NGC 2547 and NGC 2516”

CT-1.0m 14

B. Keeney, J. Stocke, S. Penton, J. Green (U. of Colorado): “Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web: A Galaxy Redshift Survey around HST/COS Target Sight Lines”

CT-4m 6

M. Lacy (California Institute of Technology), S. Ridgway (CTIO), T. Urrutia (California Institute of Technology), C. Harrison (CTIO), A. Petric (California Institute of Technology): “The evolution of luminous obscured quasars”

SOAR 3


F-8


M. Lacy (California Institute of Technology), S. Oliver (University of Sussex), M. Jarvis (University of Hertfordshire), R. Norris (ACSRO), C. Lonsdale (NRAO), G. Wilson (UC Riverside), C. Maraston (University of Portsmouth), E. Middelberg (Ruhr Universitat, Bochum), D. Farrah (University of Sussex), J. Surace (California Institute of Technology), J. Pforr (G), C. Tonini (University of Portsmouth), M. Vaccari (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova): “Optical imaging of southern extragalactic fields with multiwavelength coverage”

CT-4m 2

A. Landolt, J. Clem (Louisiana State U.): “Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star fields: CTIO”

CT-1.0m 24

S. Lepine (American Museum of Natural History), I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (California Institute of Technology): “Completing the inventory of the nearest 20pc: spectral classification of 1,178 candidate nearby stars.”

CT-1.5m-SVC 7.5

P. Massey (Lowell Observatory), M. Drout (U) (U. of Iowa), K. Olsen (NOAO), B. Skiff (O) (Lowell Observatory), N. Przybilla (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg), G. Meynet, A. Maeder (Geneva Observatory): “A Census of Yellow Supergiants in the SMC: Testing Massive Star Evolutionary Models at Low Metallicities”

CT-4m 5

F. Menanteau, J. Hughes (Rutgers U.), L. Infante, J. Juin, F. Barrientos (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), T. Marriage (Princeton U.), M. Hilton, R. Warne (G), K. Moodley (University of KwaZulu-Natal): “Testing the Selection Function of Galaxy Clusters in the New SZE Surveys”

SOAR 4

T. Metcalfe (HAO), T. Henry (Georgia State U.), D. Soderblom (STScI), S. Basu (Yale U.), P. Judge, M. Knolker, M. Rempel (HAO): “Activity Cycles of Southern Asteroseismic Targets”

CT-1.5m-SVC 4.5

C. Ngeow (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Kanbur (SUNY at Oswego), L. Macri (Texas A&M U.), D. An (G) (Ohio State U.): “Observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheids in Sloan Filters”

CT-0.9m-SVC 25

M. Norris, S. Kannappan (U. of North Carolina): “Unified Analysis of Spheroid and Disk Dynamics in S0s”

SOAR 4

T. Okajima (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), T. Goto (U. of Hawai’i), J. Tueller, R. Mushotzky (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “Redshift Measurement of the New Cluster of Galaxies Discovered by Swift”

CT-4m 1

E. Olszewski (U. of Arizona), A. Saha (NOAO), T. Axelrod (U. of Arizona): “An Efficient Search for Extratidal Structure in Globular Clusters”

CT-4m 3

B. Posselt (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), C. Motch (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg), P. Slane (SAO), F. Haberl (Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), A. Pires (G) (IAGUSP): “Constraining the radius of the neutron star RX J0806.4-4123”

CT-1.0m 7

J. Rhee (Purdue U.), W. Rhee (O) (West Lafayette Junior High School): “Purdue Ultra Metal-Poor Star Survey (PUMPSS). Discovery of Very Metal- Poor Stars in the Galaxy”

CT-4m 4

R. Rich, C. Howard (G), D. Reitzel (UCLA), H. Zhao (U. of St. Andrews), K. Kuijken (Leiden University), A. Robin (Observatoire de Besançon), R. De Propris (CTIO), K. Griest (UC San Diego), A. Koch (UCLA), P. Frinchaboy (U. of Wisconsin Madison), M. Soto (Leiden University), W. Clarkson (STScI), C. Johnson (G) (Indiana U.), J. Fulbright (Johns Hopkins U.), W. Clarkson (UCLA): “The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay: Extension toward the Plane and the Inner Halo”

CT-4m 4

A. Roman-Lopez CT-4m 1


F-9


A. Saha (NOAO), E. Olszewski (U. of Arizona), R. Smith (CTIO), A. Subramaniam (Indian Institute of Astrophysics), A. Dolphin (U. of Arizona), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), A. Rest (CTIO), P. Seitzer (U. of Michigan), J. Harris (U. of Arizona), D. Minniti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), K. Olsen (CTIO), P. Knezek (WIYN): “The Outer Limits Survey: Stellar Populations at the Extremities of the Magellanic Clouds”

CT-0.9m 4

S. Sakai (UCLA), L. van Zee (Indiana U.), J. Lee (Carnegie Observatories), R. Kennicutt, Jr (University of Cambridge), J. Funes (Vatican Observatory): “Surface Photometry of Local Volume Galaxies”

CT-0.9m-SVC 12

R. Shaw (O) (NOAO), T. Hillwig (O) (Valparaiso U.), A. Rest (O) (Harvard U.): “LMC Planetary Nebulae with Binary Progenitors”

SOAR 5

S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), J. Elliot (MIT), S. Kern (STScI), C. Zuluaga (G), A. Gulbis (MIT): “Precise Astrometry for Predicting Kuiper Belt Object Occultations”

CT-0.9m-SVC 4

J. Smith (Austin Peay State University), D. Tucker (FNAL), C. Ngeow (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), M. Butner (U) (Austin Peay State University), J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Allam (FNAL): “Stellar Content of the Blanco Cosmology Survey Field”

CT-1.0m 8

N. Smith (UC Berkeley): “IR Variability of Eta Carinae: The 2009 Event” SOAR 0.5

J. Stauffer (IPAC), M. Morales-Calderon (LAEFF), L. Rebull (IPAC), K. Covey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), L. Allen (NOAO), J. Carpenter (California Institute of Technology), D. Ciardi (NEXScI), B. Whitney (Space Science Institute), K. Wood (U. of St. Andrews), P. Plavchan (NEXScI): “Synoptic Monitoring of Star Forming Cores”

CT-1.3m 4

D. Trilling, S. Jones (U) (Northern Arizona U.), B. Penprase (Pomona College), J. Emery (U. of Tennessee), A. Harris (DLR Institute of Planetary Research), T. Spahr (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Delbo (Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur): “Visible Photometry of NEOs in Support of a Warm Spitzer Program”

CT-0.9m-SVC 6

J. Vieira (G), J. Carlstrom, M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), A. Gonzalez (U. of Florida), M. Malkan (UCLA), M. Ashby, M. Brodwin (SAO), D. Marrone, T. Crawford (U. of Chicago): “A New Population of Strongly-Lensed High-Redshift Sub-Millimeter Galaxies”

SOAR 4

A. Walker (CTIO), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), S. Cassisi (Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo), M. Monelli (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), M. Dall’Ora (University of Naples), G. Andreuzzi (TNG), P. Stetson (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “Luminosity Functions of Evolved Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters”

CT-4m 3

T. Williams, J. Sellwood (Rutgers U.), K. Spekkens (Royal Military College of Canada): “Cold Dark Matter and the Structure of Spiral Galaxies”

CT-0.9m-SVC 0.75

G. Wilson, R. Demarco (UC Riverside), A. Rettura (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Muzzin (Yale U.), H. Yee (University of Toronto), J. Surace, M. Lacy (SSC), E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado), A. Hicks (Michigan State U.), H. Hoekstra (Leiden University), M. Balogh, D. Gilbank (University of Waterloo), T. Webb (McGill University), K. Blindert (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), R. Yan (University of Toronto), S. Majumdar (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research), S. Bursick (G) (U. of Arkansas), J. Gardner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago): “Galaxy Evolution in Rich Clusters at z > 1”

CT-4m 6


F-10


B. Woodgate (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Bonfield (University of Hertfordshire), D. Lindler (O) (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Jarvis (University of Hertfordshire), D. Smith (Liverpool John Moores University), C. Grady (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “Extreme Emission-Line Galaxies at High Redshift”

CT-4m 8

US Thesis Programs ♦

D. Batuski, M. Batiste (T), N. Meek (G) (U. of Maine), C. Balkowski, D. Proust (Observatoire de Paris): “Imaging the Aquarius and Microscopium Superclusters of Galaxies”

CT-1.0m 7

A. Burgasser (MIT), J. Faherty (T) (SUNY, Stony Brook), N. van der Bliek (CTIO), K. Cruz (California Institute of Technology), F. Vrba (US Naval Observatory), S. Schmidt (G) (U. of Washington), B. Swift (G) (U. of Arizona), A. West (UC Berkeley), J. Bochanski (G), S. Hawley (U. of Washington), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona), I. Reid (STScI), M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History): “The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project: Parallaxes for Southern Low Luminosity Brown Dwarfs”

CT-4m 6

J. Davidson, Jr (T), K. Bjorkman (U. of Toledo), J. Wisniewski (U. of Washington), A. Magalhaes (University of Sao Paulo), J. Bjorkman, U. Vijh (U. of Toledo): “The First Spectropolarimetric View of Potential Extragalactic Protoplanetary Disk Systems”

CT-4m 3

S. Dieterich (T), T. Henry (Georgia State U.): “Probing Stellar Physics at the Bottom of the Main Sequence: Populating the Optical Color Space for Spectral Types M6V to L6”

SOAR 6

E. Gawiser, J. Walker-Soler (T), N. Bond (Rutgers U.), R. Ciardullo, C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Feldmeier (Youngstown State U.), P. Kurczynski (Rutgers U.), L. Guaita (G), H. Francke, N. Padilla (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile): “Finding Our Birth Parents: Searching for Milky Way Progenitors at z = 2.1”

CT-4m 4

J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Crook (T) (MIT), T. Jarrett (IPAC), K. Masters (University of Portsmouth), L. Macri (Texas A&M U.): “Mapping the Nearby Universe: The 2MASS Redshift Survey”

CT-1.5m-SVC 5

B. Mason, W. Hartkopf (US Naval Observatory), T. Henry, W. Jao, J. Subasavage, A. Riedel (T), J. Winters (T) (Georgia State U.): “Nearby Dwarf Stars: Duplicity, Binarity, and Masses”

CT-4m 3

N. Richardson (T), D. Gies (Georgia State U.): “Spectroscopic Monitoring of Luminous Blue Variables”

CT-1.5m-SVC 3.6

A. Saha, K. Olsen (NOAO), E. Tolstoy, T. De Boer (T) (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute), G. Battaglia (ESO), A. Cole (University of Tasmania), M. Shetrone (U. of Texas, Austin): “Deep Imaging of Nearby Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies”

CT-4m 5

J. Song (T), A. Zenteno (T), S. Desai, J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), C. Stubbs (Harvard U.), J. Carlstrom (U. of Chicago), W. Holzapfel (UC Berkeley): “Optical/NIR Confirmation and Photo-z’s for South Pole Telescope SZE Selected Galaxy Clusters”

CT-4m 17

R. Stevenson (T), D. Jewitt (U. of Hawai’i): “Investigating Potential Main Belt Comets” CT-4m 3

S. Williams (T), D. Gies, R. Matson (G) (Georgia State U.), L. Penny (College of Charleston): “Weighing the Most Massive Stars of the Magellanic Clouds”

CT-4m 5



F-11


A. Zenteno (T) (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), R. Fassbender (Max-Planck Institute für extraterrestrische Physik), J. Song (T), J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), H. Bohringer (Max-Planck Institute für extraterrestrische Physik): “ISPI H-Band Imaging of Distant X-ray Selected Galaxy Cluster Candidates”

CT-4m 4

CTIO – Semester 2009B – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) ♦ Tel. Nights

M. Altmann, U. Bastian (Universitat Heidelberg): “Ground-based observations for Gaia`s calibrations: Creating initial test fields at the ecliptic poles”

CT-4m 1

M. Catelan (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) SOAR 2

W. Corradi, W. Reis (G), G. Franco (UFMG): “Interstellar Dust and Magnetic Field towards the Orion-Eridanus Superbubble”

CT-0.9m 7

H. Francke (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) CT-4m 3

L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) CT-4m 2

J. Lee (Sejong University), B. Carney (U. of North Carolina), J. Lee (G) (Sejong University): “Chemical Self-Enrichment History of 47 Tuc (NGC 104)”

CT-4m 3

J. Lee, J. Lee (G) (Sejong University), B. Carney (U. of North Carolina), Y. Lee (Yonsei University): “Ca uvby Photometry of Globular Clusters”

CT-1.0m 7

P. Lira (Universidad de Chile) SOAR 1

M. Monelli, A. Aparicio (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), C. Gallart (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), N. Patat (ESO), A. Walker (CTIO): “Constraints on the Formation of the Halo of Dwarf Galaxies”

CT-4m 3

M. Mouhcine (Liverpool John Moores University), R. Ibata (Observatoire de Strasbourg), M. Rejkuba (ESO), E. Small (G), D. Bersier (Liverpool John Moores University): “The Panoramic View of Spiral Galaxies: The Nature of the Outskirts of Spirals”

CT-4m 4

J. Nemec (Camosun College), A. Walker (CTIO), Y. Jeon (KASI): “Physical Characteristics of Variable Stars in LMC Halo Globular Clusters: NGC1841”

CT-0.9m 9

N. Padilla (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) CT-4m 4

P. Pietrukowicz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) SOAR 1

P. Rojo (Universidad de Chile) SOAR 1.5

A. Scholz (U. of St. Andrews), J. Bouvier (LAOG), J. Eisloeffel (Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenberg), J. Irwin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “The Rotation of Brown Dwarfs: Photometric Monitoring in NGC2264”

CT-4m 6

A. Seifahrt, J. Bean (University of Goettingen,), T. Henry (Georgia State U.): “Rotation Periods and Activity of Low Mass Stars: Supporting a Large Near- Infrared Radial Velocity Campaign”

CT-1.3m CT-1.0m-PRE

1.25 5


N. Degenaar (T), D. Maitra, R. Wijnands (University of Amsterdam): “Identification of Optical/Near-IR Counterparts of Very-Faint X-ray Transients”

CT-1.3m 0.3



F-12

CTIO – Semester 2009B – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) ♦ Tel. Nights

M. Drinkwater, B. Griffen (T) (University of Queensland), W. Harris, R. Anderson (T) (McMaster University), E. Wehner (University of Utrecht), S. Phillipps, A. Huxor (University of Bristol), B. Jones (Queen Mary College): “The Formation of Globular Clusters and Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies”

CT-4m 2

R. Leaman (T) (University of Victoria), J. Hughes (Seattle U.), A. Cole (University of Tasmania), K. Venn (University of Victoria): “Mapping the Metallicity Gradient in the Dwarf Galaxy WLM”

CT-4m 4


F-13

Kitt Peak National Observatory

Mayall 4-m: The U.S. community has access to 80% of science time on the Mayall; 20% is assigned to the U. of Maryland.

WIYN 3.5-m Telescope: The U.S. community has access to approximately 40% of WIYN time.

Kitt Peak Small Telescopes: KP 2.1-m (100% community access) and the KP 0.9-m (10%).

Semester 2009A

KPNO – Semester 2009A – Scheduled US Programs (Incl. US Thesis) ♣ Tel. Nights

E. Berger (Harvard U.), M. Giampapa, W. Sherry (National Solar Observatory): “The Lifetime of Magnetic Fields in Fully Convective Brown Dwarfs”

KP-4m 1.5

E. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin, S. Allam, J. Kubo, T. Diehl, D. Tucker, D. Kubik (O), J. Annis (FNAL): “An Imaging and Spectroscopic Survey of Bright Strongly-Lensed Galaxies in the SDSS”

KP-4m WIYN

4 3

R. Buta (U. of Alabama), E. Laurikainen, H. Salo (University of Oulu), J. Knapen (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias): “A Study of Bar Strengths in Early-Type Disk Galaxies”

KP-2.1m 3.5

D. Deming, D. Jennings (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), P. Sada (Universidad de Monterrey): “An Exoplanet Radius and Transit Timing Survey”

KP-2.1m 7

M. Dickinson, M. Brodwin (NOAO), C. Conselice (University of Nottingham), E. Daddi (CEA), A. Dey (NOAO), S. Faber (UC Santa Cruz), B. Jannuzi (NOAO), J. Lee (Carnegie Observatories), K. Nandra (Imperial College London), C. Papovich (Texas A&M U.), N. Reddy, S. Salim (NOAO), B. Weiner, C. Willmer (U. of Arizona): “Deep Near-Infrared Imaging of the Extended Groth Strip”

KP-4m 5

J. Feldmeier (Youngstown State U.), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby (NOAO), P. Durrell (Youngstown State U.): “Searching for Planetary Nebulae in Ursa Major: Studies of the Tully- Fisher Relation and Intracluster Light”

KP-4m 5

A. Gonzalez (U. of Florida), M. Brodwin (NOAO), D. Stern, J. Bock (CalTech-JPL), M. Brown (Monash University), S. Bussman (G) (U. of Arizona), A. Cooray (UC Irvine), A. Dey, M. Dickinson (NOAO), P. Eisenhardt (CalTech-JPL), B. Jannuzi (NOAO), Y. Lin (Princeton U.), A. Mainzer (CalTech-JPL), S. Stanford (UC Davis), I. Sullivan (California Institute of Technology), M. Zemcov (CalTech-JPL), S. Kautsch (U. of Florida): “A NEWFIRM Survey of the SDWFS/NDWFS Field”

KP-4m 22.5

P. Green (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Two to Tango? Binary Quasars, Their Environments, and the Merger Hypothesis”

KP-4m 3


KP-4m 6.5

K. Herrmann (Lowell Observatory), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.): “The Stellar Kinematics of Outer Disks: Evidence for Halo Substructure?”

WIYN 2

♣ Key: WIYN-SYN: Synoptic/Queue; ToO: Target of Opportunity scheduling; (T): Thesis Student; (G): Graduate; (U) Undergraduate


F-14


J. Holberg (U. of Arizona), S. Howell, K. Mighell (NOAO), W. Sherry (National Solar Observatory), M. Everett (PSI): “Calibrating Observations Made with the NASA Kepler Discovery Mission”

KP-2.1m KP-0.9m

5 4

S. Howell (NOAO), E. Horch (SCSU), W. Sherry (National Solar Observatory): “Speckle Imaging of Kepler Exo-planet Transit Candidate Stars”

WIYN 3

R. Joyce, K. Hinkle (NOAO): “Narrowband IR Imaging of Final Flash Stars” WIYN 2

B. Keeney, J. Stocke, S. Penton, J. Green (U. of Colorado): “Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web: A Galaxy Redshift Survey around HST/COS Target Sight Lines”

KP-0.9m WIYN

2 6

A. Landolt, J. Clem (Louisiana State U.): “Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star Fields: KPNO”

KP-2.1m 14.5

R. Lynds (NOAO), E. O’Neil (O) (Raytheon AKA Hughes Aircraft Corporation): “Precursors to Galaxy Merging”

KP-4m 1

R. Mandelbaum (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Nakajima (UC Berkeley), G. Bernstein (U. of Pennsylvania), M. Donahue (Michigan State U.), C. Keeton, J. Hughes (Rutgers U.), N. Bahcall (Princeton U.), T. Schrabback (Leiden University), N. Padmanabhan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), S. Miyazaki (NAOJ), A. Kravtsov (U. of Chicago), K. Cavagnolo (University of Waterloo): “Normalization and Scatter of the Mass-Temperature Relation for Supermassive Galaxy Clusters”

KP-4m 4

S. McGaugh, M. Zagursky (U) (U. of Maryland), R. De Naray (UC Irvine), J. Schombert (U. of Oregon), S. Zhu (G) (U. of Maryland): “Photometry and Kinematics of Dynamically Interesting Galaxies”

KP-2.1m KP-4m WIYN

6.5 4 7

D. McIntosh (U. of Missouri, Kansas City), A. Pasquali, F. Van Den Bosch (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie): “In Search of Remnants from Gas-Rich Major Mergers”

WIYN 3

S. Meibom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Barnes (Lowell Observatory), R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin Madison), J. Hartman, M. Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “The Connections between Binarity, Circumstellar Disks, and Stellar Rotation”

WIYN 2

M. Montgomery (U. of Texas, Austin), J. Provencal, S. Thompson, H. Shipman (U. of Delaware), M. Reed (SW Missouri State U.): “Measuring Convection on the Surface of a Pulsating White Dwarf”

KP-2.1m 6.5

J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), B. Gladman (University of British Columbia), J. Kavelaars (National Research Council of Canada), J. Petit (Observatoire de Besançon), L. Jones (U. of Washington): “Resonance in the Kuiper Belt: The History of the Outer Solar System”

WIYN 3

C. Pryor (Rutgers U.), S. Piatek (New Jersey Institute of Technology), E. Olszewski (U. of Arizona): “Search for QSOs and AGNs behind Dwarf Galaxies of the Milky Way”

KP-4m 3

C. Reynolds, M. Koss (G) (U. of Maryland), L. Winter (U. of Colorado), R. Mushotzky (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), W. Baumgartner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “Determining the Redshift and Type of Unknown AGN from the 22-Month SWIFT BAT Survey”

KP-2.1m 6.5

C. Reynolds, M. Koss (G) (U. of Maryland), R. Mushotsky (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland): “Near-IR Spectroscopy of AGN from the SWIFT BAT Survey”

KP-4m 5.5


F-15


J. Rhee (Purdue U.), W. Rhee (O) (West Lafayette Junior High School): “Purdue Ultra Metal-Poor Star Survey (PUMPSS). Discovery of Very Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy”

KP-2.1m 5.5

A. Rivkin (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Trilling (U. of Arizona), C. Thomas (G) (MIT): “Small Koronis-Family Asteroids as a Probe of Space Weathering”

KP-2.1m 6

J. Rosenberg (George Mason U.), A. West (MIT): “Determining the Baryonic Properties of Low Redshift Galaxies”

KP-4m 3

E. Schmidt (U. of Nebraska): “The Nature of Small Amplitude Cepheid-Like Variable Stars” KP-2.1m 4.5

A. Shapley (UCLA), R. Quadri (Leiden Observatory), C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology), P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), N. Reddy (NOAO): “Unveiling the Red Proto-Cluster Population at z = 2.3”

KP-4m 6

C. Sneden (U. of Texas, Austin), A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta, R. Gratton, S. Lucatello (INAF): “Searching for Abundance Anomalies in the Old, Metal-Rich Open Cluster NGC 6791”

WIYN 2

R. Swaters, S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland): “Star Formation in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies”

KP-2.1m 1

R. Swaters (U. of Maryland): “Extreme Star Formation: The Outermost Parts of Dwarf and LSB Galaxies”

KP-2.1m 5

B. Wilking, K. Erickson (G) (U. of Missouri St. Louis), M. Meyer (U. of Arizona), W. Sherry (National Solar Observatory), S. Kim (U. of Arizona): “Spectroscopic Confirmation of Young Stars in the Serpens Molecular Cloud: Placing Spitzer and Chandra in Context”

WIYN 4

D. Zaritsky (U. of Arizona), J. Ge, S. Fleming (G) (U. of Florida): “Exploring Possible Variations in the Fine Structure Constant”

KP-2.1m 1

US Thesis Programs ♣

J. Dowell (T), L. Van Zee (Indiana U.): “Deciphering the Origins of Unusually Extended HI Disks and Their Connection to Damped Lyman-alpha Systems”

KP-2.1m 4.5

J. Ge, S. Fleming (T), B. Lee, S. Mahadevan, J. Wang (T), P. Jiang (T), J. Xie (T) (U. of Florida): “Follow-up of Planet Candidates from the SDSS-III MARVELS Planet Survey”

KP-2.1m 21.5

A. Geller (T), R. Mathieu, N. Gosnell (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison), D. Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “A Study of Anomalous Stars and Binary Populations within Open Clusters: Tests of Theoretical Models”

WIYN 7

P. Howell (T), T. Brainerd (Boston U.): “Angular Momentum Correlation between Hosts and Satellites of Isolated SDSS Disk Galaxies”

KP-2.1m 8

M. Jackson (T), D. Hunter (Lowell Observatory), V. Rubin (Carnegie Institution of Washington): “The Stellar Structure of Dwarf Galaxies”

KP-4m 4.5

P. Kelly (T) (Stanford U.), D. Burke (U. of Chicago), M. Allen, S. Allen, D. Applegate, P. Burchat, A. Von Der Linden (Stanford U.): “Photometric Calibration of Subaru Massive Cluster Survey Fields”

KP-2.1m 4

M. Keremedjiev (T), S. Eikenberry (U. of Florida): “On-Sky Demonstration of Speckle Stabilization for SPIFS”

KP-2.1m 6.5



F-16


C. Miller (CTIO), S. Stanford (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. West (U. of Hawai’i), K. Sabirli (G) (Carnegie Mellon U.), K. Romer (University of Sussex), R. Nichol (University of Portsmouth), P. Viana (Universidade do Porto), M. Davidson (G) (University of Edinburgh), C. Collins, M. Hilton (Liverpool John Moores University), S. Kay (University of Oxford), A. Liddle (University of Sussex), B. Mann (University of Edinburgh), N. Mehrtens (T) (University of Sussex): “Optical Follow-up of the XMM Cluster Survey: The XCS-NOAO Survey”

KP-4m 8

J. Parejko (T), M. Vogeley, D. Pan (G), A. White (U) (Drexel U.): “Investigating the Properties of Interacting Void Galaxies from the SDSS”

KP-2.1m 4.5

R. Stevenson (T), D. Jewitt (U. of Hawai’i): “Hydrated Hildas: The Search for Liquid Water in the Early Solar System”

KP-2.1m 4

P. Van Dokkum, D. Marchesini, G. Brammer (T), K. Whitaker (T) (Yale U.), G. Rudnick (NOAO), M. Kriek (Princeton U.), G. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), R. Quadri (Leiden University), I. Labbe (Carnegie Observatories), M. Franx (Leiden University), K. Lee, A. Muzzin (Yale U.): “The NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey: Accurate Redshifts for 40,000 K-Selected Galaxies”

KP-4m 35

S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (Arizona State U.), M. McDonald (T), H. Krug (T) (U. of Maryland), O. Team Members (California Institute of Technology): “The Dark Ages Survey: Probing Structure Formation and Reionization at z > 7 with NEWFIRM. Season #2”

KP-4m 11

S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (Arizona State U.), M. McDonald (T), H. Krug (T) (U. of Maryland), J. Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney), P. Capak (California Institute of Technology), A. Dey, M. Dickinson (NOAO), S. Ellis (Anglo-Australian Observatory), S. Finkelstein (Arizona State U.), S. Furlanetto (Yale U.), I. Iliev (ETH), B. Jannuzi (NOAO), B. Mobasher (UC Riverside), N. Pirzkal (STScI), R. Probst (NOAO), D. Rupke (U. of Maryland), D. Sanders (U. of Hawai’i), N. Scoville (California Institute of Technology), H. Spinrad (UC Berkeley), R. Swaters (U. of Maryland), S. Tilvi (Arizona State U.), J. Wang (University of Science & Technology of China), R. Windhorst (Arizona State U.): “The Dark Ages Survey: Probing Structure Formation and Reionization at z > 7 with NEWFIRM. Season #2”

KP-4m 2.5

B. Yang (T), D. Jewitt (U. of Hawai’i): “U-band Photometry of Jovian Trojan Asteroids” KP-2.1m 3.5

KPNO – Semester 2009A – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) ♣ Tel. Nights

E. Flaccomio (INAOE): “V2129: a Close Look at a CTTS” KP-4m 3.5

D. Nestor (University of Cambridge), D. Turnshek, S. Rao (U. of Pittsburgh), M. Pettini, P. Hewett (University of Cambridge): “An Unbiased Survey of Galactic Superwind Environments at 0.4 < z < 0.8”

WIYN 3

S. Oyabu (JAXA), D. Ishihara (University of Tokyo), T. Wada (JAXA), Y. Ohyama (ASIAA), S. Takaita (G), H. Matsuhara (JAXA), T. Onaka (University of Tokyo), H. Kataza (JAXA), M. Im (Seoul National University), M. Malkan (UCLA): “New Survey for Active Galactic Nuclei Using AKARI Mid-Infrared All Sky Survey”

KP-2.1m 4.5

T. Sakamoto (Japan Spaceguard Association), T. Hasegawa (Gunma Astronomical Observatory): “Stellar Kinematics of Galactic Disk: Short-Period Mira Stars”

KP-2.1m 5.5



F-17

KPNO – Semester 2009A – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) ♣ Tel. Nights

T. Vaccaro (Francis Marion University), S. Vennes (Florida Institute of Technology): “Low Mass Eclipsing Binaries and LP133-373’s Tertiary White Dwarf”

KP-4m 4


K. Kawara, N. Ienaga (T), H. Sameshima (G), N. Asami (G), Y. Mastuoka (G) (University of Tokyo), S. Oyabu (ISAS): “Cosmic Optical Background”

KP-0.9m 4

Semester 2009B

KPNO – Semester 2009B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis) ♣ Tel. Nights

S. Alberts (G), D. Calzetti (U. Mass): “Hα Observations of Star Forming Regions in XUV Disks: Breaking the IMF - Age Degeneracy”

KP-4m 2

P. Allen (Pennsylvania State U.), L. Close (U. of Arizona): “Wide Ultracool Companions to Spectroscopic Binaries: Testing Star Formation Simulations”

KP-4m 4.5

D. Ciardi (NEXScI), M. Deleuil (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille), S. Howell (NOAO), S. Kane, K. Von Braun (NEXScI), H. Deeg (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), E. Horch (SCSU), D. Rouan (Observatoire de Paris): “High Spatial Resolution Observations of CoRoT Exoplanetary Candidates”

WIYN 3

D. Clowe (Ohio U.), D. Johnston, M. Ulmer (Northwestern U.), C. Adami (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille), T. Schrabback (Leiden University), J. Annis (FNAL): “Photometric Redshifts for Weak Lensing Tomography of Galaxy Clusters”

WIYN 13

I. Dell’Antonio, R. Cook (G), P. Huwe (G), V. Dao (G) (Brown U.): “OPTIC Observations of Clusters: Testing PSF-Induced Biases in OT Guided Weak Lensing Analyses”

WIYN 3

D. Deming, J. Jennings (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), P. Sada (Unviersidad de Monterrey): “An Exoplanet Radius and Transit Timing Survey”

KP-2.1m 6.5

D. Devine (University of San Diego): “Monitoring Mega-Year T Tauri Stars With Disks: Which Ones Blow?”

KP-0.9m 6

A. Dey, N. Reddy (NOAO), M. Prescott (G), L. Xu (G) (U. of Arizona), M. Brodwin (SAO): “Probing the Low-Mass End of the Galaxy Mass Function at z ~ 2: A Survey for Low-z Lyα Emitters”

KP-4m 4

S. Finkelstein (Texas A&M U.), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra, E. McLinden (Arizona State U.): “Luminosity Function and Evolution of Lyman-alpha Galaxies at z ~ 2.1”

KP-4m 2

R. Finn (Siena College), K. Rines (Western Washington U.), J. Lee (Carnegie Observatories), D. Dale (U. of Wyoming), D. Zaritsky (U. of Arizona), E. OMalley (Siena College), D. Just (G) (U. of Arizona), J. Pater (Siena College): “Hα Narrow-Band Imaging of z ~ 0.8 Galaxy Clusters”

KP-4m 3.5



F-18



KP-4m 2

P. Hartigan, I. Cleeves (U) (Rice U.): “Young Stars in the Cygnus OB2 Association” KP-4m 7.5

K. Herrmann (Lowell Observatory), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.): “The Stellar Kinematics of Outer Disks: Evidence for Halo Substructure?”

WIYN 4

T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.), D. Frew, O. De Marco (Macquarie University), S. Schaub (U) (Valparaiso U.): “Determining the Nature of EGB1 and Its Central Star”

KP-4m 3

S. Howell (NOAO), E. Horch (SCSU), W. Sherry (National Solar Observatory): “Speckle Imaging of Kepler Exo-planet Transit Candidate Stars”

WIYN 3

G. Jacoby (NOAO), E. Kaplan (U) (Vassar College): “Spectroscopic Confirmation of Very Old Planetary Nebula Candidates”

WIYN 4

B. Jannuzi, H. Schweiker (NOAO): “Imaging Data with MOSAIC” KP-4m 5.5

L. Jiang, X. Fan (U. of Arizona), J. Annis (FNAL), S. Jester (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), H. Lin (FNAL), R. Lupton (Princeton U.), G. Richards (Drexel U.), M. Strauss (Princeton U.): “Identifying Faint Quasars at Redshift ~6 in the SDSS Deep Stripe: Improve i-Band Photometry of i-Dropout Objects”

WIYN 3

D. Kelson, P. McCarthy, A. Dressler, J. Mulchaey, S. Shectman, A. Oemler (Carnegie Observatories), H. Yan (Ohio State U.): “The Carnegie Spitzer IMACS Survey”

KP-4m 10.5

E. Lada, N. Marinas (U. of Florida), J. Levine (Mt. Holyoke College), B. Ferreira (U. of Florida): “Constraining the Star Forming History in Monoceros: A Study of Embedded Cluster Ages and Spatial Structure”

KP-4m 7.5

A. Landolt, J. Clem (Louisiana State U.): “Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star Fields: KPNO”

KP-2.1m 21

J. Lee (Carnegie Observatories), C. Ly (G) (UCLA), S. Salim (NOAO), D. Dale, C. Moore (G) (U. of Wyoming), R. Finn (Siena College), M. Ouchi, I. Momcheva (G) (Carnegie Observatories): “Extending Deep Wide Hα Galaxy Surveys to Higher Redshift with NEWFIRM”

KP-4m 9.5

S. Lepine (American Museum of Natural History): “Calibrating the Metallicity Scale of Low-Mass Halo Stars Using Wide Binaries”

KP-4m 4

K. Long (STScI), P. Winkler (Middlebury College): “UV Lightbulbs behind Young Supernova Remnants”

KP-2.1m 5

B. Madore, W. Freedman (Carnegie Observatories), V. Scowcroft (G) (Liverpool John Moores University): “Calibrating the Metallicity Sensitivity of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation at Near-Infrared Wavelengths”

WIYN 3

R. Mandelbaum (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Nakajima (UC Berkeley), G. Bernstein (U. of Pennsylvania), M. Donahue (Michigan State U.), C. Keeton, J. Hughes (Rutgers U.), N. Bahcall (Princeton U.), T. Schrabback (Leiden University), N. Padmanabhan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), S. Miyazaki (NAOJ), A. Kravtsov (U. of Chicago), K. Cavagnolo (University of Waterloo): “Normalization and Scatter of the Mass-Temperature Relation for Supermassive Galaxy Clusters”

KP-4m 6


F-19


P. Massey (Lowell Observatory), B. Jannuzi, R. Joyce, D. Harmer (O) (NOAO), N. Melena (U) (Lowell Observatory): “Long-Term Monitoring of the Spectrum of the Nght Sky over Kitt Peak”

KP-2.1m 2

S. Meibom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Barnes (Lowell Observatory), R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin Madison), J. Hartman, M. Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Geller (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison): “The Connections between Binarity, Circumstellar Disks, and Stellar Rotation”

WIYN 2

B. Mueller (PSI), Y. Fernandez (U. of Central Florida), N. Samarasinha (PSI), L. Woodney, B. Schultze (U) (Cal State San Bernadino), P. Tricarico (PSI): “Confirmation of the Change in Rotation Period of Comet 2P/Encke”

KP-2.1m 9.5

M. Povich (G), E. Churchwell (U. of Wisconsin Madison), L. Townsley (Pennsylvania State U.), B. Whitney (Space Science Institute), E. Feigelson (Pennsylvania State U.): “The Initial Mass Function and Star Formation Rates in Obscured Galactic Massive Open Clusters”

WIYN 4

R. Probst, D. Harmer (O), L. Allen (NOAO): “Science Images during Engineering Time” KP-4m 1

A. Rest (Harvard U.), A. Becker (U. of Washington), M. Bergmann (None), S. Blondin, P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), G. Damke (G) (AURA, Inc.), R. Foley, A. Garg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Huber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. Matheson (NOAO), D. Minniti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Olsen (NOAO), J. Prieto (Ohio State U.), B. Sinnott (G) (McMaster University), R. Smith (NOAO), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), D. Welch (McMaster University), M. Wood-Vasey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Echoes of Historical Supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy”

KP-4m 8.5


KP-4m 2


KP-2.1m 9

J. Rhee (Purdue U.), W. Rhee (O) (West Lafayette Junior High School): “Purdue Ultra Metal-Poor Star Survey (PUMPSS). Discovery of Very Metal- Poor Stars in the Galaxy”

KP-2.1m 6

A. Rivkin (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Trilling (Northern Arizona U.), C. Thomas (MIT), M. Enga (Northern Arizona U.): “Small Koronis-Family Asteroids as a Probe of Space Weathering”

KP-2.1m 6.5

S. Sakai (UCLA), L. van Zee (Indiana U.), J. Lee (Carnegie Observatories), R. Kennicutt, Jr (University of Cambridge), J. Funes (Vatican Observatory): “Surface Photometry of Local Volume Galaxies”

KP-2.1m 3

S. Schuler (G) (Clemson U.), C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), J. King (Clemson U.), S. Kafka (CTIO), S. Barnes (Lowell Observatory): “The Striking Li Dispersions in Pleiades G & K Dwarfs: Real or Illusory?”

WIYN 2

W. Sherry (National Solar Observatory), F. Walter (SUNY, Stony Brook), S. Brittain (Clemson U.), J. Kim (U. of Arizona): “Photometric Survey of Intermediate Mass Members of the Orion OB1 Association”

KP-0.9m 3


F-20


W. Sherry (National Solar Observatory), S. Brittain (Clemson U.), F. Walter (SUNY, Stony Brook), J. Kim (U. of Arizona): “A Census of Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets in the Orion OB1b Sub- Association”

KP-4m 3

J. Stauffer, L. Rebull (IPAC), J. Carpenter (California Institute of Technology), L. Hartmann (U. of Michigan), T. Megeath (U. of Toledo), D. Ciardi (NEXScI), L. Hillenbrand (California Institute of Technology–Astronomy Dept.), B. Whitney (Space Science Institute), M. Morales-Calderon (LAEFF-INTA): “Synoptic Monitoring of YSOs in Orion with Flamingos and Spitzer”

KP-2.1m 10.5

M. Trueblood (O) (NOAO), R. Crawford (O) (Rincon-Ranch Observatory), L. Lebofsky (U. of Arizona): “Near Earth Object Follow-up”

KP-2.1m 2.5

R. Wade (Pennsylvania State U.): “F Dwarfs with Hidden Hot Subdwarf Companions” KP-2.1m 5

W. Waller (Tufts U.), L. Allen (NOAO), M. Marengo (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), E. Rosolowsky (University of British Columbia), R. Gehrz (U. of Minnesota): “Star-Forming Environments in M33: A Near-Infrared Emission-Line Imaging Survey with NEWFIRM”

KP-4m 5

P. Winkler (Middlebury College), K. Long (STScI), W. Blair (Johns Hopkins U.): “Tycho’s Supernova Remnant: Deep Imaging, Proper Motions, and a Direct Distance Measurement”

WIYN 2

U.S. Thesis Programs ♣

R. Beaton (T), S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), J. Bullock (UC Irvine), J. Kalirai (STScI), K. Gilbert (U. of Washington): “Exploring the Merger History of M31”

KP-4m 5

W. Bhatti (T), H. Ford (Johns Hopkins U.), L. Petro (STScI), M. Richmond (Rochester Institute of Technology): “Follow-up Observations of M-Dwarf Eclipsing Binary Candidates in SDSS Stripe 82”

KP-2.1m 7

J. Bilikova (T), Y. Chu, R. Gruendl (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), K. Su (U. of Arizona): “High-Dispersion Spectroscopic Investigation of Hot WDs and CSPNs with IR Excesses”

KP-4m 4.5

G. Bryngelson (T), M. Leising (Clemson U.), P. Milne (U. of Arizona), A. Updike (G) (Clemson U.): “Physics of Supernovae Ia at Late Epochs”

KP-4m 3

A. Cody (T), L. Hillenbrand (California Institute of Technology): “A Spectroscopic Census of the Sigma Orionis Cluster”

WIYN 2

S. Fleming (T) (U. of Florida), S. Engle (G) (Villanova U.), J. Ge (U. of Florida), E. Guinan (Villanova U.), J. Pepper (Vanderbilt U.), A. Prsa (Villanova U.), K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), R. Ballouz (U), K. Conroy (U) (Villanova U.), J. Devor (Cisco Systems): “This Is for the BiRDS: Binary Science with EXPERT/ET”

KP-2.1m 9.5

A. Geller (T), R. Mathieu, N. Gosnell (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison), D. Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “A Study of Anomalous Stars and Binary Populations within Open Clusters: Tests of Theoretical Models”

WIYN 8



F-21


L. Hebb, K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), A. Collier-Cameron (University of St. Andrews), D. Pollacco (Queens University Belfast), J. Pepper (Vanderbilt U.), S. Fleming (T) (U. of Florida), J. Barnes (University of Hertfordshire): “Establishing the Effects of Metallicity and Activity on the Fundmental Properties of M Dwarfs Using Eclipsing Binaries”

KP-2.1m 6.5

M. Jackson (T), D. Hunter (Lowell Observatory), V. Rubin (Carnegie Institution of Washington): “The Stellar Structure of Dwarf Galaxies”

KP-4m 7

M. Keremedjiev (T), S. Eikenberry (U. of Florida): “On-Sky Demonstration of Speckle Stabilization for SPIFS: Part II Loop Closure”

KP-2.1m 5.5

S. Lepine (American Museum of Natural History), P. Bergeron, M. Limoges (T), A. Gianninas (University of Montreal): “A Complete Census of Galactic White Dwarfs to 40 parsecs of the Sun.”

KP-2.1m KP-4m

6.5 5

G. Liu (T), D. Calzetti (U. Mass): “Exploring the Scaling Laws of Star Formation: the High Density Centers of Galaxies”

KP-2.1m 3.5

N. Mahmud (T) (Rice U.), C. Crockett (T) (Lowell Observatory), C. Johns-Krull (Rice U.), L. Prato (Lowell Observatory), P. Hartigan (Rice U.), D. Jaffe (U. of Texas, Austin): “Brown Dwarf and Giant Planet Companions to Young Stars in Taurus”

KP-4m 8

T. Megeath, E. Allgaier (T) (U. of Toledo), J. Kainulainen (G) (University of Helsinki), T. Henning (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), L. Allen (NOAO): “NEWFIRM Extinction Mapping of the Orion Molecular Cloud”

KP-4m 1.5

M. Otsuka, M. Meixner (STScI), M. Barlow, B. Ercolano, J. Fabbri (T), R. Wesson (University College London), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), B. Sugerman (Goucher College), J. Andews (T), J. Gallagher (Louisiana State U.), M. Matsuura (University College London), B. Ferguson (STScI), K. Romita (Vassar College): “A Comprehensive Study of Dust Formation in Type II Supernovae: The Case of SN 2004et”

WIYN 1.5

S. Patel (T), B. Holden, G. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), D. Kelson (Carnegie Observatories): “The Environmental Dependence of Star Formation Rates in the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters at z = 0.8”

KP-4m 3

S. Schmidt, D. Wittman, J. Tyson (UC Davis), I. Dell’Antonio (Brown U.), R. Ryan (UC Davis), P. Thorman (T) (U. of New Mexico), A. Choi (T), B. Ascaso, W. Dawson (T) (UC Davis): “A Near Infrared View of DLS”

KP-4m 5

R. Stevenson (T), D. Jewitt (U. of Hawai’i): “Investigating Potential Main Belt Comets” KP-2.1m KP-4m

6.5 2

G. Stringfellow, J. Bally (U. of Colorado), X. Koenig (T) (SAO), A. Ginsburg (G) (U. of Colorado), L. Allen, R. Probst (NOAO), R. Swaters (U. of Maryland), F. Valdes (NOAO): “A Definitive Test of Triggered-Sequential Star Formation in the Massive Star Forming Regions W3/4/5”

KP-4m 7

J. Wing (T), E. Blanton (Boston U.): “Radio Selected Clusters of Galaxies at High Redshift” KP-4m 4

J. Wisniewski, A. Kowalski (T), S. Schmidt (T), S. Hawley, P. Kundurthy (G) (U. of Washington): “M Dwarf Flares: Exoplanet Implications”

KP-2.1m KP-0.9m

5.5 3


F-22

KPNO – Semester 2009B – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) ♣ Tel. Nights

A. Baran (Cracow Pedagogical University), M. Reed, J. Gilker (U) (Missouri State U.): “RATJ0455+1305—a Prominent Candidate for Probing the Interiors of Subdwarf B Stars”

KP-2.1m 7

A. Ferguson (University of Edinburgh), P. Barmby (University of Western Ontario), P. Cote (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), W. Harris (McMaster University), A. Huxor (University of Bristol), D. Mackey (University of Edinburgh), T. Puzia (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “Radial Velocity and Metallicity Determinations for Remote Globular Clusters in M31 and M33”

KP-4m 4.5

Y. Ohyama, J. Lim, I. Ho (ASIAA): “Deep [Fe II] 1.644 μ Imaging and Excitation Mechanism of Huge Nebula around NGC 1275 = Per A”

WIYN 3

M. Walker, V. Belokurov, M. Irwin (University of Cambridge), M. Smith (IoA, Cambridge), D. Zucker (Macquarie University), M. Wilkinson (University of Leicester): “New Milky Way Satellites: Survival of the Densest”

KP-4m 7


C. Briceno, J. Downes (T), J. Hernandez (Centro de Investigación de Astronomía): “A Deep Synoptic JHK Survey for Brown Dwarfs in Orion OB1”

KP-4m 7.5

A. Zijlstra (University of Manchester), Q. Parker (Macquarie University), R. Corradi (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), D. Frew (Macquarie University), L. Guzman (T) (University of Manchester), D. Cristobal Hornillos (G) (Instituto de Astronomía), K. Viironen (G) (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia): “Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Planetary Nebulae Candidates from the IPHAS Survey”

KP-2.1m 6.5



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Gemini Telescopes (Programs Administered by NGSC)

Gemini North and Gemini South. The U.S. community has access to approximately 50% of the science time on each of the 8-m Gemini telescopes.

Semester 2009A

Gemini Telescopes—2009A—Scheduled Programs for US TIme (incl. Thesis Programs) + Tel. Nights

P. Allen (Pennsylvania State U.), L. Close (U. of Arizona): “A Survey for Faint, Close, Low-Mass Tertiaries to Nearby Spectroscopic Binaries”

GEM-NQ 1.53

J. Bary (Colgate U.), S. Matt (NASA Ames Research Center), W. Fischer (U. Mass): “A Phoenix Variability Study of the He I 1.083 μm Accretion/Outflow Signature in a 10 Myr T Tauri Star”

GEM-SQ 0.76

T. Beck (STScI), J. Bary (Colgate U.): “Spatially Resolving Molecular Hydrogen Emission in Planet-forming Disks”

GEM-NQ 2

F. Bian (G), X. Fan, L. Jiang (U. of Arizona), A. Dey (NOAO), R. Green (U. of Arizona): “Clustering of z ~ 3 Lyman Break Galaxies in NOAO Deep Wide Field: Tracing the Evolution of the Large Scale Structure”

GEM-NQ 2

J. Bloom (UC Berkeley), H. Chen (U. of Chicago), J. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz), K. Glazebrook (Swinburne University), S. Lopez (Universidad de Chile), M. Pettini (IoA, Cambridge), P. Hall (York University), A. Bunker (Anglo-Australian Observatory), D. Perley, B. Cobb, M. Modjaz, D. Poznanski (UC Berkeley), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz), N. Butler, A. Miller, J. Shiode, B. Cenko (UC Berkeley): “Concerted Follow-up of Swift and Fermi GRBs (Gemini South)”

GEM-SQ 0.7

J. Cook, C. Olkin, L. Young (Southwest Research Institute): “Searching for Gaseous CO in Pluto’s Atmosphere”

GEM-SQ 2

K. Cruz (California Institute of Technology), D. Looper (G) (U. of Hawai’i), L. Prato (Lowell Observatory), J. Kirkpatrick (IPAC): “Confirming Cluster Membership for Nearby Young Brown Dwarfs”

GEM-SQ 2.5

K. Cunha (NOAO), K. Sellgren (Ohio State U.), R. Blum (NOAO), S. Ramirez (IPAC), V. Smith (NOAO): “Chemical Evolution within 2 pc of the Central Galactic Black Hole”

GEM-S 4

K. Davidson (U. of Minnesota), J. Martin (U. of Illinois, Springfield), R. Humphreys (U. of Minnesota), F. Hamann (U. of Florida), G. Ferland (U. of Kentucky), K. Ishibashi (Northwest Research Associates, Inc.): “Eta Carinae’s Continuing Instability and Recovery—The 2009 ‘Event’”

GEM-SQ 1

A. Dey (NOAO), M. Prescott (G) (U. of Arizona), B. Jannuzi (NOAO): “The Temperature, Ionization, and Metallicity of a Protogalactic Lyman Alpha ‘Blob’”

GEM-N 2

R. Dupke (U. of Michigan), C. Oliveira, C. Oliveira (IAGUSP), E. Rykoff (UC Santa Barbara): “An Extensive Study of the Fossil Groups of Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 2.1

A. Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), G. Smith (UC Santa Cruz), J. Strader (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Fast Winds from Stars in M4”

GEM-S 3

+Abbreviations and symbols: GEM-NQ = Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini S Queue; GEM-N = Gemini N classical; GEM-S =

Gemini S classical; GEM-K = Gemini/Keck time exchange; GEM-Su = Gemini/Subaru time exchange; * = poor weather program; (T) = Thesis student; (G) = Graduate student; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other; = Special Call program


F-24


M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), P. Kalas, G. Duchene, H. Maness (G), J. Graham (UC Berkeley): “Tracing Asymmetries in a Newly Discovered Debris Disk”

GEM-SQ 1.33

H. Ford, W. Zheng, L. Bradley (Johns Hopkins U.), T. Broadhurst (Tel Aviv University): “Spectroscopy of an Exceptionally Bright Candidate Galaxy at z ~ 6 in Abell 1703”

GEM-NQ 1

A. Fruchter, US Lead Scientist for N. Tanvir (University of Leicester), A. Levan (University of Hertfordshire), D. Reichart (U. of North Carolina), J. Graham, A. Fruchter (STScI), D. Bersier (Liverpool John Moores University), P. Jakobsson (University of Iceland), P. O’Brien, E. Rol (University of Leicester), J. Rhoads (Arizona State U.), J. Hjorth (University of Copenhagen), K. Wiersema (University of Leicester): “Rapid Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts”

GEM-NQ 0.29

A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), D. Leonard (San Diego State U.), D. Fox (Pennsylvania State U.): "Identifying Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae"

GEM-NQ 0.1

K. Gebhardt, US Lead Scientist for T. Bridges (Anglo-Australian Observatory), K. Gebhardt (U. of Texas, Austin), F. Faifer (Universidad Nacional de la Plata), D. Forbes (Swinburne University), J. Forte (Universidad Nacional de la Plata), D. Hanes (Queen’s University), M. Norris (U. of North Carolina), R. Sharples (University of Durham), S. Zepf (Michigan State U.): “Dynamical Modelling of the Dark Halo, Black Hole, and Orbital Structure in NGC 4649”

GEM-NQ 0.6

J. Graham (UC Berkeley), C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), P. Kalas, E. Chiang (UC Berkeley), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “L-prime Imaging of an Exoplanet Candidate”

GEM-NQ 0.7

K. Hinkle (NOAO), F. Fekel (Tennessee State U.), R. Joyce (NOAO): “Orbital Survey of Red Giant - White Dwarf SNe Ia Progenitors”

GEM-SQ 0*

H. Kobulnicky, B. Uzpen (G) (U. of Wyoming): “Establishing the Missing Link: Validating New Transition/Debris Disk Objects”

GEM-SQ 1.2

K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.): “Estimating the Mass of a Young Substellar Companion” GEM-SQ 0.25

K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.): “Improving the Mass Estimates of Young Brown Dwarfs” GEM-S 2

B. Macintosh, US Lead Scientist for C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), B. Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. Patience (University of Exeter), T. Barman (Lowell Observatory), D. Lafreniere (University of Toronto), R. Doyon (University of Montreal), B. Zuckerman (UCLA), I. Song (IPAC): “A Volume-Limited Direct Imaging Exoplanet Survey of Young & Nearby Early-Type Stars (IDPS Survey).”

GEM-NQ 0.55

S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), R. Muñoz (Yale U.), S. Sohn (California Institute of Technology), R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), K. Johnston (Columbia U.), C. Palma (Pennsylvania State U.): “A New Problem for Lambda-CDM on Small Scales: Too Many Tidally Disrupting dSphs?”

GEM-N 3

T. Matheson (NOAO), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Blondin (ESO), P. Mazzali (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik), E. Pian (INAF), M. Modjaz (UC Berkeley): “Revealing the Heart of the Explosion: Nebular-Phase Spectroscopy of Type I Supernovae”

GEM-NQ 1.27

T. Matheson (NOAO), L. Dessart (Princeton U.), S. Blondin, B. Leibundgut (ESO), D. Hillier (U. of Pittsburgh), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Schmidt (Australian National University): “Constraining the Hubble Constant with a Type II Supernova”

GEM-NQ 1.2

K. Meech, J. Pittichova (U. of Hawai’i), M. A’Hearn (U. of Maryland): “Rotation Period for Comet P/Hartley 2, Support for the EPOXI Mission”

GEM-SQ 1.6


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J. Mulchaey, US Lead Scientist for M. Balogh, S. McGee (G) (University of Waterloo), L. Parker (McMaster University), R. Bower (University of Durham), J. Mulchaey (Carnegie Observatories), A. Finoguenov, D. Wilman, J. Connelly (G) (Max-Planck Institute für extraterrestrische Physik): “The Transition of Galaxy Groups from an Invigorating Environment to a Suffocating One”

GEM-NQ 1

C. Packham (U. of Florida), T. Diaz-Santos (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia), A. Alonso-Herrero (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), L. Colina (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia), J. Espinosa (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), R. Mason, J. Radomski (Gemini Observatory): “High Spatial Resolution Mid-Infrared Observations of LIRGs”

GEM-SQ 1.5

C. Papovich, S. Finkelstein (Texas A&M U.), G. Rudnick (U. of Kansas), C. Willmer, E. Egami, M. Rieke (U. of Arizona), J. Rigby (Carnegie Observatories), J. Smith (U. of Toledo): “Survey of Pa-alpha in High Redshift Galaxies”

GEM-N 3

M. Perrin (UCLA), G. Duchene (UC Berkeley), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), C. Pinte (University of Exeter): “Resolved Imaging of Two New Protoplanetary Disks around Young Fe Stars”

GEM-NQ GEM-SQ

0.4 0.2

A. Rest (Harvard U.), M. Bergmann (Gemini Observatory), D. Welch (McMaster University), A. Becker (U. of Washington), S. Blondin, P. Challis (O) (Harvard U.), A. Clocchiatti (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), G. Damke (CTIO), R. Foley (G) (UC Berkeley), A. Garg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Huber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. Matheson (NOAO), D. Minniti (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Olsen (NOAO), J. Prieto (Ohio State U.), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), M. Wood-Vasey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Echoes of Historic Milky Way Supernovae: Spectroscopy of the Kepler, RCW 86, and SN1006 SNe at Maximum Light”

GEM-SQ 0.4

S. Ridgway (CTIO), M. Lacy (SSC): “Deep Rest-Frame Optical Imaging of Type 2 Quasar Host Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 0.8

N. Roche, M. Bernardi, J. Hyde (G) (U. of Pennsylvania): “Kinematics of Extremely High Velocity Dispersion E/S0 Galaxies in the SDSS”

GEM-NQ 4.3

H. Roe (Lowell Observatory), E. Schaller (U. of Hawai’i), M. Brown (California Institute of Technology), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): “Titan Methane Weather at Equinox: Seasonal Climate Change and Surface Geology”

GEM-NQ 1

A. Saha (NOAO), G. Fiorentino, E. Tolstoy (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute), A. Cole (University of Tasmania): “The Ancient Stellar Population of Leo A.”

GEM-N 3

D. Sand (U. of Arizona), M. Graham (G) (University of Victoria), D. Zaritsky (U. of Arizona), C. Pritchet (University of Victoria), H. Hoekstra (Leiden University), S. Herbert-Fort (G), D. Just (G), S. Sivanandam (G) (U. of Arizona): “Spectroscopy of Hostless Supernovae Candidates”

GEM-NQ 0.7

A. Seth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), R. Blum (NOAO), N. Neumayer (ESO), V. Debattista (University of Central Lancashire), M. Cappellari (University of Oxford), R. McDermid (Gemini Observatory), K. Olsen (NOAO), N. Bastian (IfO Cambridge), N. Caldwell (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Stephens (Gemini Observatory), T. Puzia (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “Surveying Nearby Nuclear Star Clusters”

GEM-NQ 2.05

O. Shemmer (U. of North Texas), B. Trakhtenbrot (G) (Tel Aviv University), S. Anderson (U. of Washington), N. Brandt (Pennsylvania State U.), A. Diamond-Stanic (G), X. Fan (U. of Arizona), P. Lira (Universidad de Chile), H. Netzer (Tel Aviv University), G. Richards (Drexel U.), D. Schneider (Pennsylvania State U.), M. Strauss (Princeton U.): “Lineless Quasars at High Redshift: Extremely High Accretion Rate Sources?”

GEM-NQ 0.6

N. Smith (UC Berkeley): “Dust in the SN1987A-analog SBW1 in Carina” GEM-SQ 1.4


F-26


A. Stanford, US Lead Scientist for J. Stott, C. Collins (Liverpool John Moores University), A. Stanford (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A. Edge (University of Durham), M. Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal), K. Romer (University of Sussex), M. Swinbank (University of Durham), C. Miller (CTIO), B. Mann (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh), E. Lloyd-Davies (University of Sussex), R. Nichol (University of Portsmouth), A. Liddle (University of Sussex): “The XCS/DXS Search for the Highest Redshift Galaxy Clusters”

GEM-NQ 0.63

M. Torres (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Gaensicke (University of Warwick), P. Rodriguez-Gil (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), K. Long (STScI), T. Marsh, D. Steeghs (University of Warwick), T. Muñoz-Darias (G), T. Shahbaz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), L. Schmidtobreick (ESO), M. Schreiber (Valparaiso U.): “The Primary Role of the SW Sextantis Stars in the Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables”

GEM-NQ 0.4

G. Wilson (UC Riverside), H. Yee (University of Toronto), A. Muzzin (Yale U.), M. Balogh (University of Waterloo), R. Demarco (UC Riverside), E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado), J. Gardner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Gilbank (University of Waterloo), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), H. Hoekstra (Leiden Observatory), M. Lacy (SSC), S. Majumdar (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research), J. Surace (SSC), T. Webb (McGill University), R. Yan (University of Toronto): “The Gemini Cluster Astrophysics Spectroscopic Survey (GCLASS)”

GEM-NQ 1.6

J. Wisniewski (U. of Washington), K. Bjorkman (U. of Toledo), M. Clampin, R. Barry (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), H. Bond (STScI), S. Hawley, A. Kowalski (G), S. Schmidt (G) (U. of Washington), M. Sitko (U. of Cincinnati): “New Dust Production in V838 Monocerotis”

GEM-SQ 0.17

D. Zaritsky (U. of Arizona), D. Christlein (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik): “The Mysterious Case of MCG -01-31-002”

GEM-S 2

S. Zepf, M. Steele (G) (Michigan State U.), K. Rhode, J. Salzer (Indiana U.), T. Maccarone (University of Southampton), A. Kundu (Michigan State U.): “A GMOS Study [of the Optical Spectrum] of the Black Hole Hosting Globular Cluster RZ2109”

GEM-NQ 0.75

Thesis Programs +

J. Andrews (T), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), M. Barlow (University College London), B. Sugerman (Goucher College), M. Meixner (STScI), D. Welch (McMaster University): “A Comprehensive Study of Dust Formation in Type II Supernovae with HST, Spitzer and Gemini”

GEM-SQ 2.45

K. Barnes (T), L. Van Zee (Indiana U.), E. Skillman (U. of Minnesota): “Star Formation Activity in the Outer Disk of a Sample of ‘Normal’ Spiral Galaxies”

GEM-NQ 1

J. Bilikova (T), Y. Chu, R. Gruendl (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), K. Su (U. of Arizona), O. De Marco (American Museum of Natural History): “IR Excesses of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae”

GEM-N 2

D. Caputo (T), A. Speck (U. of Missouri, Columbia), K. Volk (Gemini Observatory): “NIRI/Altair Imaging of PAH Bands around Carbon Stars: Determining the Formation and Processing Mechanisms of Organic Molecules.”

GEM-N 2

L. Close (U. of Arizona), D. Apai (STScI), I. Pascucci (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Skemer (T) (U. of Arizona): “The First Thermal Images of the Planetary Mass Prototype Object 2M1207b: Does It Have an Edge-On Disk?”

GEM-SQ 2

+Abbreviations and symbols: GEM-NQ = Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini S Queue; GEM-N = Gemini N classical; GEM-S = Gemini S classical; GEM-K = Gemini/Keck time exchange; GEM-Su = Gemini/Subaru time exchange; * = poor weather program; (T) = Thesis student; (G) = Graduate student; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other; = Special Call program


F-27


I. Crossfield (T), B. Hansen (UCLA), T. Barman (Lowell Observatory): “Thermal Emission from a Non-transiting Extrasolar Planet”

GEM-SQ 1.4

S. Dieterich (T), T. Henry (Georgia State U.), D. Golimowski (STScI): “GJ 433: Resolving a Suspected Binary Near the Stellar/Substellar Boundary”

GEM-NQ 0.06

E. Ellingson, US Lead Scientist for T. Webb, A. Faloon (T), D. O’Donnell (O), A. Noble (T) (McGill University), H. Yee (University of Toronto), E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado), A. Muzzin (Yale U.), F. Barrientos (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), R. Yan (University of Toronto), D. Gilbank (University of Waterloo), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago): “Spectroscopy of Infrared Galaxies in Clusters to z = 1”

GEM-NQ 1.18

E. Ellingson, US Lead Scientist for T. Webb, A. Faloon (T), D. O’Donnell (O), A. Noble (T) (McGill University), H. Yee (University of Toronto), E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado), A. Muzzin (Yale U.), F. Barrientos (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), R. Yan (University of Toronto), D. Gilbank (University of Waterloo), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago): “Spectroscopy of Infrared Galaxies in Clusters to z = 1”

GEM-SQ 1.33

C. Gerardy (Florida State U.), J. Parrent (T), R. Fesen (Dartmouth College), P. Hoflich (Florida State U.): “Mapping the Kinematic Structure of Radioactive Ejecta in Type Ia Supernovae”

GEM-NQ GEM-SQ

0.68 0.36

D. Gies (Georgia State U.), W. Huang (U. of Washington), R. Matson (T), S. Caballero-Nieves (G) (Georgia State U.): “Angular Momentum of Newborn Massive Stars in M17”

GEM-NQ 0.5

J. Hennawi (UC Berkeley), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), M. Oguri (Stanford U.), B. Koester, M. Bayliss (T) (U. of Chicago), H. Dahle (University of Oslo), P. Natarajan (Yale U.): “Spectroscopy of Giant Arcs behind the Strongest Lenses in the Universe”

GEM-NQ 4

N. Indriolo (T), B. McCall (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), K. Hinkle (NOAO), T. Oka (U. of Chicago): “Investigating the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate near Supernova Remnants Using H3

+”

GEM-SQ 1.2

L. Jones, US Lead Scientist for A. Parker (T) (University of Victoria), L. Jones (U. of Washington), B. Gladman (University of British Columbia), J. Kavelaars (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), E. Lin (National Central University), J. Margot (Cornell U.), O. Mousis (Observatoire de Besançon), J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), J. Petit, P. Rouselot (Observatoire de Besançon): “Weighing KBOs: Characterizing Kuiper Belt Binaries”

GEM-NQ 0.82

P. Marshall, US Lead Scientist for K. Thanjavur (T) (University of Victoria), M. Swinbank (University of Durham), P. Marshall (UC Santa Barbara), J. Kneib (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille), D. Crampton (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), J. Willis (University of Victoria), M. Collaboration (O) (Observatoire de Midi-Pyrenees): “The Relative Distribution of Visible and Dark Matter in Galaxy Groups Selected by Gravitational Lensing”

GEM-NQ 1.47

W. Merline (Southwest Research Institute), J. Drummond (AFRL), A. Conrad (Keck), P. Tamblyn (Southwest Research Institute), C. Dumas, B. Carry (T) (ESO), C. Chapman (Southwest Research Institute): “High-Resolution AO Imaging of Asteroids/Satellites”

GEM-N 2

A. Miller (T), R. Chornock (G), A. Filippenko, J. Bloom, N. Smith, D. Perley (G), W. Li, B. Cenko, D. Poznanski, N. Butler, M. Modjaz, B. Cobb, J. Silverman (G), M. Ganeshalingam (G) (UC Berkeley), A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science): “Late-time Observations of the Extremely Luminous Supernova 2008es”

GEM-NQ 0.9

M. Norris , US Lead Scientist for J. Lucey, T. Rawle (T), R. Smith, R. Sharples (University of Durham), M. Norris (U. of North Carolina): “The Origin of S0 Disks in the Dense Cluster Environment”

GEM-NQ 0.6


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T. Oka (U. of Chicago), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), M. Goto (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), N. Indriolo (T), B. McCall (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “The Physical Extent of the Diffuse Gas in the Central Molecular Zone from H3

+ and CO Spectroscopy”

GEM-S 4

M. Pettini, B. Zych (T) (University of Cambridge): “The Most Metal-Poor DLAs as Probes of Early Nucleosynthesis”

GEM-K 1

A. Rest, US Lead Scientist for B. Sinnott (T), D. Welch (McMaster University), A. Rest (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), P. Sutherlalnd (McMaster University), M. Bergmann (Gemini Observatory): “Optical Spectroscopy of the Light Echo System of SN1987A”

GEM-SQ 0.2

M. Richter, A. Kruger (T) (UC Davis): “Dust Emission in Edge-on Protoplanetary Disks” GEM-SQ 0.95

M. Richter, A. Kruger (T) (UC Davis): “CO Fundamental Absorption in Edge-on Protoplanetary Disks”

GEM-SQ 1.8

P. Thorman (T), D. Loomba (U. of New Mexico): “Identifying High-z QSOs in the Deep Lens Survey”

GEM-NQ 0.7

M. Troutman (T), S. Brittain (Clemson U.), J. Najita (NOAO): “Using Spectro-Astrometry to Trace Gas in the Inner Disk of Young Intermediate-Mass Stars”

GEM-S 1

F. Walter, J. Faherty (T) (SUNY, Stony Brook): “Space Motions of Nearby Field Brown Dwarfs”

GEM-S 2

Semester 2009B

Gemini Telescopes—2009B—Scheduled Programs for US Time (incl. Thesis Programs) + Tel. Nights

P. Allen (Pennsylvania State U.), L. Close (U. of Arizona): “A Survey for Faint, Close, Low-Mass Tertiaries to Nearby Spectroscopic Binaries”

GEM-NQ 1.4

J. Bally (U. of Colorado), N. Cunningham (U. of Nebraska), D. Field (University of Aarhus), D. Johnstone (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), S. Fischer (Gemini Observatory), R. Stelter (U) (U. of Colorado): “AO Imaging of the Explosive Orion OMC1 Outflow”

GEM-NQ 2

J. Bary (Colgate U.), G. Herczeg (Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), A. Brown (U. of Colorado): “Constraining the Effects of High Energy Photons on Proto-Planetary Disk Chemistry and Evolution”

GEM-NQ 0.55

T. Beck (STScI), J. Bary (Colgate U.): “Spatially Resolving Molecular Hydrogen in Planet-Forming Disks”

GEM-NQ 2.21

M. Brown, M. Schwamb (G) (California Institute of Technology): “Sedna and the Birth of the Solar System”

GEM-NQ 0.36

P. Butler (Carnegie Institution of Washington), S. Vogt, G. Laughlin, E. Rivera (UC Santa Cruz), N. Haghighipour (U. of Hawai’i): “The Search for Terrestrial Mass Planets”

GEM-K 1

+Abbreviations and symbols: GEM-NQ = Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini S Queue; GEM-N = Gemini N classical; GEM-S =

Gemini S classical; GEM-K = Gemini/Keck time exchange; GEM-Su = Gemini/Subaru time exchange; * = poor weather program; (T) = Thesis student; (G) = Graduate student; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other; = Special Call program


F-29


K. Cruz (California Institute of Technology), D. Looper (G) (U. of Hawai’i), L. Prato (Lowell Observatory), J. Kirkpatrick (IPAC): “Determining Cluster Membership for Nearby Young Brown Dwarfs”

GEM-S 3

K. Cunha, V. Smith (NOAO): “Chemical Evolution in the Inner Galactic Disk: Abundances in Red Giants of the Massive Cluster GLIMPSE13”

GEM-SQ 2.4

R. Da Silva (G), J. Prochaska, D. Rosario (UC Santa Cruz), T. Cox (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Shining Light on a Pair of Merging Galaxies”

GEM-SQ 0.27

K. Davidson (U. of Minnesota), J. Martin (U. of Illinois, Springfield), R. Humphreys (U. of Minnesota), F. Hamann (U. of Florida), G. Ferland (U. of Kentucky), K. Ishibashi (Northwest Research Associates, Inc.): “Eta Carinae’s Continuing Instability and Recovery—The 2009 ‘Event’”

GEM-SQ 0.25

J. De Buizer (USRA), A. Bartkiewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center), M. Szymczak (Nicholas Copernicus Astronomical Center), H. van Langevelde (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe): “Searching for the Massive Stars Associated with Methanol Maser Rings (Altair/NIRI)”

GEM-NQ 0.23

J. De Buizer (USRA), A. Bartkiewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center), M. Szymczak (Nicholas Copernicus Astronomical Center), H. van Langevelde (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe): “Searching for the Massive Stars Associated with Methanol Maser Rings (T-ReCS)”

GEM-SQ 0.62

J. De Buizer (USRA): “Determining the Origin of Spitzer’s Green Fuzzy Emission” GEM-NQ 0.93

S. Dodson-Robinson (NEXScI), A. Tanner (IPAC): “Planet Formation around Massive Stars” GEM-SQ 1.5

G. Duchene (UC Berkeley), S. Correia, T. Ratzka (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): “Probing the Nature of Optically Obscured Companions to Young Stars”

GEM-SQ 0.45

G. Duchene (UC Berkeley), M. Perrin (UCLA), C. McCabe (IPAC), C. Pinte (University of Exeter): “Probing Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks: Scattered Light Imaging of Edge-On Disks in the Mid-Infrared”

GEM-NQ 0.34

D. Fox (Pennsylvania State U.), B. Schmidt (Australian National University), E. Berger (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology), K. Roth (Gemini Observatory), R. Rutledge (McGill University), P. Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford), M. Dopita (Australian National University), A. Soderberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), C. Wolf (University of Oxford), B. Penprase (Pomona College), E. Westra (Australian National University), R. Foley, C. Thoene (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Gamma-Ray Bursts: From Progenitors to Probes”

GEM-NQ 0.83

A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), D. Leonard (San Diego State U.), D. Fox (Pennsylvania State U.): “Identifying Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae”

GEM-NQ 0.1

J. Gallagher (U. of Wisconsin Madison), L. Smith (STScI), G. Trancho (Gemini Observatory), M. Westmoquette (University College London), E. Zweibel (U. of Wisconsin Madison): “Spectroscopic Study of Young Star Clusters in the Outskirts of NGC 1275 (Perseus A)”

GEM-NQ 1

P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), R. Nichol (University of Portsmouth), J. Gallagher (Louisiana State U.), M. Sako (U. of Pennsylvania), J. Frieman (U. of Chicago), D. Cinabro (Wayne State U.): “Social Insecurity: What Influences Stellar Death in Old Populations?”

GEM-NQ 1.79

N. Gorlova (U. of Florida), A. Lobel (OMA): “Post-Outburst Dust Formation in Warm Hypergiant Rho Cassiopeiae”

GEM-NQ 0.25


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C. Harrison, C. Miller (CTIO), P. Gomez (Gemini Observatory), K. Romer (University of Sussex), J. Stott (Liverpool John Moores University): “A Spectroscopic Analysis of the Stellar Populations of Fossil Groups”

GEM-NQ 1.4

D. Howell (UC Santa Barbara), M. Sullivan (University of Oxford), P. Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), R. Ellis (California Institute of Technology), A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), I. Hook (University of Oxford): “UV and Early-Time Studies of the Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae”

GEM-NQ 0.4

D. Howell (UC Santa Barbara), M. Sullivan (University of Oxford), P. Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), R. Ellis (California Institute of Technology), A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), I. Hook (University of Oxford): “UV and Early-Time Studies of the Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae”

GEM-SQ 0.4

B. Hrivnak (Valparaiso U.), K. Hinkle (NOAO), F. Kerber (ESO): “Testing the Binary Hypothesis for Bipolar Proto-Planetery Nebulae”

GEM-SQ 0.7

Z. Ivezic (U. of Washington), K. Vivas (Centro de Investigación de Astronomía), B. Sesar (G) (U. of Washington): “The Most Distant Sub-structure in the Galactic Halo”

GEM-S 3

L. Jones, US Lead Scientist for A. Parker (G) (University of Victoria), L. Jones (U. of Washington), B. Gladman (University of British Columbia), J. Kavelaars (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), E. Lin (National Central University), J. Margot (Cornell U.), O. Mousis (Observatoire de Besançon), J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), J. Petit, P. Rouselot (Observatoire de Besançon): “Weighing KBOs II: Continued Charaterization Kuiper Belt Binaries”

GEM-NQ 0.46

M. Kassis (Keck), R. Shuping (USRA), M. Morris (UCLA), N. Smith (UC Berkeley), J. Bally (U. of Colorado): “Early Evolution of Photoevaporating Protoplanetary Disks: Mid-Infrared Spectra of the Orion Nebula Proplyds”

GEM-NQ 1.06

K. Kwitter (Williams College), B. Balick (U. of Washington), R. Henry (U. of Oklahoma), L. Stanghellini (NOAO): “The Light Metals in the Oldest PN Population of M31”

GEM-N 3

M. Lacy, US Lead Scientist for A. Verma (University of Oxford), M. Lacy (SSC), R. Norris (ACSRO), M. Jarvis (University of Hertfordshire), S. Oliver (University of Sussex), C. Lonsdale (NRAO), G. Wilson (UC Riverside): “SuprimeCam-SERVS: A Search for Optical Counterparts of High-z Galaxies and Quasars”

GEM-Su 1

D. Lambert, US Lead Scientist for K. Venn (University of Victoria), D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), T. Puzia (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “Search for Circumstellar Material around the Ultra Metal-Poor Stars”

GEM-SQ 0.8

T. Lebzelter (Universitat Wien (University of Vienna)), K. Hinkle (NOAO), O. Straniero (INAF), M. Lederer (G) (Universitat Wien (University of Vienna)): “A Taste of the Interior: Oxygen Abundances in Cluster Red Giants”

GEM-S 3

N. Levenson (U. of Kentucky), C. Ramos Almeida (G), J. Espinosa (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), C. Packham (U. of Florida), R. Mason, J. Radomski (Gemini Observatory), A. Alonso-Herrero (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), M. Elitzur (U. of Kentucky), T. Diaz Santos (University of Crete): “Testing AGN Unification through IR Spectral Energy Distributions—North”

GEM-NQ 0.67

N. Levenson (U. of Kentucky), C. Ramos Almeida (G), J. Espinosa (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), C. Packham (U. of Florida), R. Mason, J. Radomski (Gemini Observatory), A. Alonso-Herrero (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), M. Elitzur (U. of Kentucky), T. Diaz Santos (University of Crete): “Testing AGN Unification through IR Spectral Energy Distributions—South”

GEM-SQ 0.17


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K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.): “Searching for Proto-Brown Dwarfs” GEM-NQ 0.59

K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.): “Searching for the Bottom of the Initial Mass Function” GEM-NQ 1.6

B. Macintosh, US Lead Scientist for C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), B. Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. Roy (Gemini Observatory), J. Patience (University of Exeter), T. Barman (Lowell Observatory), B. Zuckerman (UCLA), I. Song (U. of Georgia), D. Lafreniere (University of Toronto), R. Doyon (University of Montreal): “HR 8799 and the Search of Jupiter-Like Planets around Young & Nearby Early-Type Stars”

GEM-NQ 1.3

B. Macintosh, US Lead Scientist for C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), B. Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. Roy (Gemini Observatory), J. Patience (University of Exeter), T. Barman (Lowell Observatory), B. Zuckerman (UCLA), I. Song (U. of Georgia), D. Lafreniere (University of Toronto), R. Doyon (University of Montreal): “A NICI Search of Jupiter-Like Planets around HR 8799 and Young & Nearby Stars”

GEM-SQ 1

T. Matheson (NOAO), S. Blondin (ESO), L. Dessart (Princeton U.), B. Leibundgut (ESO), D. Hillier (U. of Pittsburgh), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Schmidt (Australian National University): “Constraining the Hubble Constant with Type II Supernovae”

GEM-NQ 1.2

T. Matheson (NOAO), S. Jha, B. Dilday (Rutgers U.), R. Kirshner, R. Foley, A. Rest (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “CluLeSS: Cluster and Lensed Supernova Search”

GEM-NQ GEM-SQ

1.1 1.52

J. Melbourne (California Institute of Technology), L. Armus, J. Howell, J. Surace (SSC), J. Mazzarella (IPAC): “Resolving Sources of Mid-IR Flux in Luminous Infrared Disk Galaxies”

GEM-SQ 3

W. Merline (Southwest Research Institute), J. Drummond (AFRL), A. Conrad (Keck), P. Tamblyn (Southwest Research Institute), C. Dumas (ESO), B. Carry (G) (Observatoire de Paris), C. Chapman (Southwest Research Institute), J. Christou (Gemini Observatory): “High-Resolution AO Imaging of Asteroids/Satellites”

GEM-SQ 1

G. Orton, L. Fletcher (CalTech-JPL), T. Encrenaz (Observatoire de Paris), H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), A. Mainzer (CalTech-JPL): “First Thermal Maps of the Stratosphere of Uranus: Follow-Up to Detection of Rotational Variability by the Spitzer IRS”

GEM-SQ 0.6

J. Rajagopal (CTIO), E. Bakker (New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology): “The Circumbinary Disk and Environs of Post-AGB Stars at High Resolution and Deep Contrast”

GEM-SQ 0.5

A. Rest (Harvard U.), M. Bergmann (None), D. Welch (McMaster University), A. Becker (U. of Washington), S. Blondin, P. Challis (O) (Harvard U.), A. Clocchiatti (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), G. Damke (CTIO), R. Foley (G) (UC Berkeley), A. Garg (Harvard U.), M. Huber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. Matheson (NOAO), D. Minniti (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Olsen (NOAO), J. Prieto (Ohio State U.), B. Sinnott (McMaster University), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), M. Wood-Vasey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Echoes of Historic Milky Way Supernovae: Spectroscopy of the Cas A, Tycho, 3C 58, and Crab SNe at Maximum Light.”

GEM-NQ 1.2

R. Rich, US Lead Scientist for A. McConnachie (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), S. Chapman (University of Cambridge), R. Ibata (Observatoire de Strasbourg), M. Irwin (University of Cambridge), T. Davidge (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), G. Lewis (University of Sydney), N. Martin (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), P. Cote, T. Puzia (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), R. Rich (UCLA), A. Ferguson (University of Edinburgh): “The Dynamics of the Andromeda Sub-group: Spectroscopy of Two New Dwarf Galaxies around M31”

GEM-NQ 0.2


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S. Ridgway (CTIO), M. Lacy, T. Urrutia, A. Petric (California Institute of Technology): “Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of High Redshift Obscured Quasars”

GEM-N 3

H. Roe (Lowell Observatory), E. Schaller (U. of Hawai’i), M. Brown (California Institute of Technology), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): “Titan Methane Weather at Equinox: Seasonal Climate Change and Surface Geology”

GEM-NQ GEM-SQ

0.6 0.4

R. Sahai (CalTech-JPL), K. Hinkle (NOAO), B. Sugerman (Goucher College): “Caught in the Act I: Mapping the Collimated Outflows in V Hya, an AGB Star Evolving into a Bipolar Planetary Nebula”

GEM-SQ 0.6

R. Sahai (CalTech-JPL), K. Hinkle (NOAO): “Caught in the Act II: A High-Velocity Outflow in π1 Gru, an S-type AGB Star Evolving into a Bipolar Planetary Nebula”

GEM-SQ 3

S. Salimbeni (U. Mass): “GOODS-South Field: Large Scale Structure and Forming Clusters at z = 2.3”

GEM-S 3

J. Scott (Towson U.), G. Kriss (STScI), J. Shull (U. of Colorado), L. Wisotzki (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam), G. Worseck (UC Santa Cruz), C. Fechner (Universitat Potsdam), H. Ferguson (STScI): “Star Forming Galaxies in the Field of the UV Bright QSO HE2347-4342”

GEM-SQ 0.7

S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): “The First Known Equal Sized Plutino Binary”

GEM-NQ 0.3

S. Sheppard, US Lead Scientist for C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), E. Schaller (U. of Arizona): “Primordial Solar System Ices”

GEM-NQ 1.1

E. Skillman, US Lead Scientist for S. Ellison (University of Victoria), E. Skillman (U. of Minnesota), A. Chung (NRAO): “Chemical Abundances in Virgo Cluster Spirals—What Drives the Environmental Dependence of Galaxy Metallicity?”

GEM-`NQ 0.24

N. Smith (UC Berkeley): “IR Variability of Eta Carinae: The 2009 Event” GEM-SQ 1.2

A. Soderberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “A New Search for Supersoft Source Ionization Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds”

GEM-SQ 0.65

I. Song (U. of Georgia), C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), J. Patience, B. Zuckerman (University of Exeter), B. Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. Barman (Lowell Observatory), D. Lafreniere (University of Toronto), R. Doyon (University of Montreal): “Resolving the Asteroid Belt of HR 8799”

GEM-NQ 0.62

S. Thomas, US Lead Scientist for B. Rodgers (Gemini Observatory), S. Thomas (University of California Observatories), N. van der Bliek (CTIO), G. Doppmann (NOAO): “Expanding Herbig Ae/Be Multiplicity Survey to Southern Hemisphere”

GEM-SQ 0.59

A. Tokovinin (CTIO), M. Hartung, T. Hayward (Gemini Observatory): “Sub-systems with Low-Mass Companions in Nearby Multiple Stars”

GEM-SQ 2

J. Valenti (STScI), G. Herczeg (Max-Planck Institute für extraterrestrische Physik), S. Edwards (Smith College), C. Johns-Krull (Rice U.), D. Ardila (SSC), F. Walter (SUNY, Stony Brook): “Simultaneity of Accretion and Outflow in Young Stars”

GEM-SQ 0.49

J. Vieira (G), J. Carlstrom, M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), A. Gonzalez (U. of Florida), M. Malkan (UCLA), M. Ashby, M. Brodwin (SAO), D. Marrone, T. Crawford (U. of Chicago): “A New Population of Strongly-Lensed High-Redshift Sub-Millimeter Galaxies”

GEM-SQ 1.15


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G. Wilson (UC Riverside), H. Yee (University of Toronto), A. Muzzin (Yale U.), M. Balogh (University of Waterloo), K. Blindert (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), D. Burke (SAO), S. Bursick (U. of Arkansas), R. Demarco (UC Riverside), E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado), J. Gardner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Gilbank (University of Waterloo), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), A. Hicks (Michigan State U.), H. Hoekstra (Leiden Observatory), M. Lacy (SSC), S. Majumdar (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research), A. Rettura (Johns Hopkins U.), J. Surace (SSC), T. Webb (McGill University), R. Yan (University of Toronto): “The Gemini Cluster Astrophysics Spectroscopic Survey (GCLASS)”

GEM-SQ 1.7

D. Wooden (NASA Ames Research Center), C. Woodward (U. of Minnesota), D. Harker (UC San Diego), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), E. Young (Southwest Research Institute), D. Goldstein (U. of Texas, Austin), T. Colaprete, J. Heldmann (NASA Ames Research Center), S. Sugita (University of Tokyo): “Catching the LCROSS Impact Excavation of Lunar Dust+Ice at K-band with NIFS”

GEM-NQ 0.2

Y. Yang, A. Zabludoff, R. Dave, D. Eisenstein (U. of Arizona): “Galaxy Formation in Action: Resolving the Nature of Newly Discovered Lyman-α Blobs in the Chandra Deep Field South”

GEM-SQ 2.72

Thesis Programs +

J. Andrews (T), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), M. Barlow (University College London), B. Sugerman (Goucher College), M. Meixner (STScI), D. Welch (McMaster University), J. Gallagher (Louisiana State U.): “A Comprehensive Study of Dust Formation in Type II Supernovae with HST, Spitzer and Gemini”

GEM-SQ 1.02

K. Barnes (T), L. van Zee (Indiana U.), E. Skillman (U. of Minnesota): “Star Formation Activity and Stellar Populations in the Outer Disk of a Sample of ‘Normal’ Spiral Galaxies”

GEM-NQ GEM-SQ

3 3.5

E. Berger (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), K. Roth (Gemini Observatory), C. Stubbs, A. Soderberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), G. Narayan (T) (Harvard U.), W. Fong (T), R. Foley (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Rest (Harvard U.), D. Sand (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Exotic Explosions and Eruptions: Exploring a New Transient Phase-Space with Pan-STARRS”

GEM-NQ 0.6

E. Berger (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), K. Roth (Gemini Observatory), C. Stubbs (Harvard U.), A. Soderberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), G. Narayan (T) (Harvard U.), W. Fong (T), R. Foley (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Rest (Harvard U.), D. Sand (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Exotic Explosions and Eruptions: Exploring a New Transient Phase-Space with Pan-STARRS”

GEM-SQ 0.6

J. Bilikova (T), Y. Chu, R. Gruendl (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), K. Su (U. of Arizona), O. De Marco (Macquarie University): “The Nature of IR Excess of CSPN NGC 6804”

GEM-NQ 0.13

D. Caputo (T), A. Speck (U. of Missouri, Columbia), K. Volk (STScI), M. Barlow (University College London), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.): “PAH Formation around Carbon Stars and the Limit of the Hot Companion”

GEM-N 2

S. Dieterich (T), T. Henry (Georgia State U.): “Probing Stellar Physics at the Bottom of the Main Sequence: Connecting Masses to Photospheric Observables”

GEM-NQ 0.88

R. Fadely (T), C. Keeton (Rutgers U.): “Testing CDM with Substructure Gravitational Lensing” GEM-N 2

+Abbreviations and symbols: GEM-NQ = Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini S Queue; GEM-N = Gemini N classical; GEM-S = Gemini S classical; GEM-K = Gemini/Keck time exchange; GEM-Su = Gemini/Subaru time exchange; * = poor weather program; (T) = Thesis student; (G) = Graduate student; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other; = Special Call program


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K. Gebhardt, J. Adams (T) (U. of Texas, Austin), T. Lauer (NOAO), D. Richstone (U. of Michigan), S. Tremaine (Institute for Advanced Study), S. Faber (UC Santa Cruz), R. Van Den Bosch (U. of Texas, Austin), K. Gultekin (U. of Michigan): “Black Hole Mass and Orbital Structure in NGC 507 and NGC 741”

GEM-NQ 1.65

K. Gebhardt, US Lead Scientist for D. Hanes, T. Bridges (Queen’s University), F. Faifer (Universidad Nacional de la Plata), D. Forbes (Swinburne University), J. Forte (Universidad Nacional de la Plata), K. Gebhardt (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Norris (U. of North Carolina), A. Schembri (T) (Queen’s University), R. Sharples (University of Durham), S. Zepf (Michigan State U.): “Globular Clusters as Probes of Galaxy Formation: The Isolated Elliptical NGC 720”

GEM-SQ 0.34

L. Helton (T), C. Woodward (U. of Minnesota): “Michelle and T-ReCS Monitoring of Classical Novae”

GEM-SQ 1.3

S. Hong (T), D. Calzetti (U. Mass), J. Gallagher (U. of Wisconsin Madison), M. Westmoquette (University College London): “The Structure of Shock Fronts in Starburst Galaxies”

GEM-N 4

N. Indriolo (T), B. McCall (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), T. Oka (U. of Chicago), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), K. Hinkle (NOAO): “Using H3

+ Observations to Estimate the H2 Temperature”

GEM-SQ 0.9

M. Kasliwal (T), S. Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology): “Transients in the Local Universe”

GEM-SQ 0.3

T. Lebzelter (Universitat Wien (University of Vienna)), H. Richter (T) (Universitat Wien (University of Vienna)), A. Bressan (INAF), K. Hinkle (NOAO): “The Role of Stellar Variability in Mid-IR Circumstellar Spectra”

GEM-SQ 1.8

X. Liu (T) (Princeton U.), N. Zakamska (Institute for Advanced Study), J. Greene, M. Strauss (Princeton U.): “Stellar Populations in the Host Galaxies of Luminous Obscured Quasars”

GEM-NQ 2.73

D. Marchesini, P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), I. Labbe (Carnegie Observatories), G. Brammer (G), K. Whitaker (T) (Yale U.), R. Quadri (Leiden Observatory), A. Muzzin, K. Lee (Yale U.), G. Rudnick (U. of Kansas), R. Williams (Leiden Observatory), M. Kriek (Princeton U.), M. Franx (Leiden Observatory), G. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), R. Bezanson (G) (Yale U.): “Measuring the Evolution of the Size-Mass Relation Using a Complete, Mass-Limited Sample of Galaxies at 1.5 <z < 2.5”

GEM-NQ 2.3

R. Matson (T), D. Gies, N. Richardson (G) (Georgia State U.): “The Structure of Mass Loss from Massive Stars”

GEM-N 1

J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Stanford (UC Davis), A. Gonzalez (U. of Florida), R. Foley (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Zenteno (T), J. Song (T) (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), C. Stubbs, A. Rest, W. High (T) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Carlstrom, T. Crawford (U. of Chicago): “Spectroscopic Confirmation and Dynamical Mass Estimates of South Pole Telescope SZE Selected Galaxy Clusters”

GEM-SQ 4.26

C. Poteet (T), T. Megeath, W. Fischer (U. of Toledo), J. Muzerolle (STScI), L. Allen (NOAO), D. Watson (U. of Rochester), N. Calvet (U. of Michigan): “The Orion Protostar Survey: NIRI Spectroscopy of Spitzer Identified Protostars in the Orion Complex”

GEM-NQ 3

M. Richter, A. Kruger (T) (UC Davis): “Dust Emission in Edge-On Protoplanetary Disks” GEM-NQ 0.63

A. Skemer (T), L. Close (U. of Arizona), T. Greene (NASA Ames Research Center), P. Hinz (U. of Arizona), T. Beck (STScI): “Resolved Silicate Emission in T Tauri Binaries: Determining the Parameters that Lead to Planet Formation”

GEM-NQ 0.4


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Community Access to the Private Telescopes

Under the Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP), access to the telescopes of the major private observatories has been expanded to include, currently: the two Keck telescopes, the MMT, and the Magellan telescopes. However, not every one of these telescopes is available to the public in every semester, and only about a dozen nights are available on each telescope in any given semester.

Multi-Mirror Telescope (MMT)

Semester 2009A

MMT – Semester 2009A – Scheduled US Programs (Incl. US Thesis Programs) ♦ Tel. Nights

G. Doppmann, J. Najita (NOAO), J. Eisner, D. McCarthy, C. Kulesa (U. of Arizona): “Origin of the Hot Compact Excess in Circumstellar Disks”

MMT 2

K. Long (STScI): “The Luminous Supernova Remnant in NGC 4449” MMT 1

R. Marzke (San Francisco State U.), A. Hornschemeier (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), R. Smith (University of Durham), N. Miller (Johns Hopkins U.), M. Hudson (University of Waterloo), H. Ferguson (STScI), T. Bridges (Anglo-Australian Observatory), J. Lucey (University of Durham), R. Tully (U. of Hawai’i), D. Carter, M. Mouhcine (Liverpool John Moores University), N. Trentham (IoA, Cambridge), N. Caldwell (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “The Faint End of the Red Sequence in the Coma Cluster: A Comprehensive Spectroscopic Survey from the Core to the Virial Radius”

MMT 2

M. Reynolds (U. of Michigan), P. Callanan (University College Cork), D. McCarthy, C. Kelusa (U. of Arizona): “K-Band Photometry of XTE J1118+480 in Quiescence”

MMT 1

US Thesis Programs

V. Kulkarni, D. Som (T) (U. of South Carolina), S. Lopez (Universidad de Chile), S. Ellison (University of Victoria), L. Torres (G) (U. of South Carolina): “Structure of Interstellar Matter in Distant Galaxies”

MMT 3

MMT – Semester 2009A – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) Tel. Nights

E. Peng (Peking University), J. Blakeslee, P. Cote (National Research Council of Canada), S. Courteau (Queen’s University), P. Duc (CEA), P. Durrell (Youngstown State U.), E. Emsellem (CRAL), L. Ferrarese (National Research Council of Canada), A. Jordan (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile), A. Lancon (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg), D. McLaughlin (Keele University): “A Deep Spectroscopic Survey of the Virgo Cluster Core”

MMT 2.5

Semester 2009B

MMT – Semester 2009B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), A. Szentgyorgyi (SAO), R. Jeffries, B. Smalley (G), R. Jackson (G) (Keele University): “Do Young Stars Accrete Rocky Planetary Material?”

MMT 0.5



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MMT – Semester 2009B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

P. Massey (Lowell Observatory), E. Levesque (G) (U. of Hawai’i), A. Maeder, G. Meynet (Geneva Observatory), K. Olsen, D. Silva (NOAO): “Massive Star Evolution as a Function of Metallicity: Closing the Loop in the Local Group”

MMT 3

R. Mathieu, A. Geller (G), N. Gosnell (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison), A. Szentgyorgyi (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “The Formation and Evolution of Blue Stragglers in Open Clusters”

MMT 2.5

S. Moran, T. Heckman (Johns Hopkins U.), B. Catinella (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik), D. Schiminovich (Columbia U.), G. Kauffmann (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik): “A Comprehensive Picture of Star Formation, HI Content, and Dynamics for Galaxies across the Blue to Red Transition: Resolved Spectroscopy of Galaxies in GASS, the GALEX-Arecibo-SDSS Survey”

MMT 4

J. Wright (Cornell U.): “Determining Distance, Age, and Activity in a New Benchmark Cluster: Ruprecht 147”

MMT 0.5

L. van Zee (Indiana U.), A. Marble, C. Englebracht (U. of Arizona), E. Skillman (U. of Minnesota): “Dust Properties, Star Formation, and Chemical Enrichment of Low Luminosity Galaxies”

MMT 2

U.S. Thesis Programs ♦

T. Allen (T), T. Megeath (U. of Toledo), J. Pipher (U. of Rochester), R. Gutermuth (Smith College), E. Winston, T. Naylor (University of Exeter), G. Furecz, S. Wolk (SAO), F. Adams (U. of Michigan), R. Jeffries (Keele University): “Hectospec and Hectochelle Spectroscopy of the Cep OB3b Cluster”

MMT 1



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W.M. Keck Observatory: Keck I and II

Semester 2009A

Keck – Semester 2009A — Scheduled US Programs (Incl. US Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

P. Butler (Carnegie Institution of Washington), S. Vogt, G. Laughlin, E. Rivera (UC Santa Cruz): “The Search for Terrestrial Mass Planets”

Keck-I 2

N. Dello Russo, R. Vervack, H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins U.), W. Harris (UC Davis), H. Kawakita, H. Kobayashi (G) (Kyoto Sangyo University), D. Bockelee-Morvan, J. Crovisier, N. Biver (Observatoire de Paris): “The Volatile Chemistry of Comets C/2007 N3 Lulin and 22P/Kopff”

Keck-II 1

A. Dey (NOAO), M. Prescott (G) (U. of Arizona), B. Jannuzi (NOAO): “The Temperature, Ionization, and Metallicity of a Protogalactic Lyman Alpha ‘Blob’”

Keck-I 1

E. Egami, L. Jiang (U. of Arizona), T. Morokuma, N. Kashikawa (NAOJ), T. Nagao (Ehime University), M. Ouchi (Carnegie Observatories), K. Ota (Riken Accelerator Research Facility): “Identifying z ~ 7 Galaxies in the Subaru Deep Field Ultra-Deep z’-Band Image”

Keck-II 2

S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), R. Muñoz (Yale U.), S. Sohn (California Institute of Technology), R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), K. Johnston (Columbia U.), C. Palma (Pennsylvania State U.): “A New Problem for Lambda-CDM on Small Scales: Too Many Tidally Disrupting dSphs?”

Keck-II 2

J. O’Meara (St. Michael’s College), J. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz), J. Howk (U. of Notre Dame), N. Kanekar (NRAO), M. Fumagalli (G) (UC Santa Cruz): “LRIS Imaging of z > 2.3 Damped Lyman-α Systems”

Keck-I 1

J. Pott, J. Woillez (Keck), M. Malkan (UCLA), R. Schodel (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia), M. Elitzur (U. of Kentucky): “Studying Seyfert AGN at Highest Angular Resolution with the Keck Interferometer”

Keck-I Keck-II

0.5 0.5

J. Winn (MIT), J. Johnson (U. of Hawai’i): “Measurement of Exoplanetary Spin-Orbit Angles” Keck-I 0.5

Keck – Semester 2009A – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

E. Daddi (CEA), M. Dickinson (NOAO), G. Morrison (CFHT), M. Giavalisco (U. Mass), H. Dannerbauer (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), D. Elbaz (CEA), S. Ravindranath (IUCAA): “Gas Rich Massive Disk Galaxies at z = 1.5 in GOODS-North: Spatially Resolved H-alpha Kinematics”

Keck-II 1.5

J. Farihi (University of Leicester), S. Redfield (Wesleyan U.), D. Koester (Universitat Kiel), M. Barstow (University of Leicester), N. Hambly (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh), R. Napiwotzski (University of Hertfordshire): “The Origin of Metals in Cool White Dwarfs: Disrupted Minor Planets or Interstellar Gas?”

Keck-I 2


M. Pettini, B. Zych (T) (University of Cambridge): “The Most Metal-Poor DLAs as Probes of Early Nucleosynthesis”

Keck-I 1


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Semester 2009B

Keck – Semester 2009B – Scheduled US Programs (Incl. US Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

G. Bakos, G. Torres, D. Latham, R. Noyes, J. Hartman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Confirmation spectroscopy of HATNet transiting exoplanet candidates using Keck-I/HIRES”

Keck-I 1.5

S. Brittain (Clemson U.), J. Najita (NOAO), J. Carr (Naval Research Laboratory), G. Doppmann (NOAO): “Oxygen Isotope Ratios in Protoplanetary Disks”

Keck-II 1

P. Butler (Carnegie Institution of Washington), S. Vogt, G. Laughlin, E. Rivera (UC Santa Cruz), N. Haghighipour (U. of Hawai’i): “The Search for Terrestrial Mass Planets”

Keck-I 1

C. Gelino (IPAC), A. Burgasser (MIT), K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.), D. Looper (G) (U. of Hawai’i), J. Faherty (G) (American Museum of Natural History), A. West (MIT), J. Kirkpatrick (IPAC): “Hidden Gems: Resolving M/L Dwarf + T Dwarfs Binaries”

Keck-II 1

B. Jannuzi (NOAO), J. Bechtold, A. Strom (U) (U. of Arizona), N. Crighton, S. Morris (University of Durham), R. Dave (U. of Arizona): “Comparing the Distribution of the IGM and Galaxies using a Triple QSO System”

Keck-II 1

J. O’Meara (St. Michael’s College), J. Prochaska, M. Fumagalli (G) (UC Santa Cruz), J. Howk (U. of Notre Dame), N. Kanekar (NRAO): “LRIS Imaging of z > 2.3 Damped Lyman-α Systems”

Keck-I 2

J. Pott, J. Woillez (Keck), M. Malkan (UCLA), R. Schodel (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia), M. Elitzur (U. of Kentucky): “Studying Seyfert AGN at highest angular resolution with the Keck Interferometer”

Keck-I Keck-II

0.5 0.5

G. Schaefer (Georgia State U.), L. Prato (Lowell Observatory), M. Simon (SUNY, Stony Brook): “Precise Masses of Young Stars in Taurus”

Keck-II 1.5

S. Schuler (NOAO), M. Asplund (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik), T. Sivarani (U. of Florida), V. Smith, K. Cunha (NOAO), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), S. Margheim (Gemini Observatory): “How Carbon Enhanced are Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars?”

Keck-I 1

Keck – Semester 2009B– Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) Tel. Nights

M. Janson, D. Lafreniere, R. Jayawardhana (University of Toronto), H. Zinnecker (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): “Deep high-contrast imaging of an exceptional planet-search target”

Keck-II 0.5

A. McConnachie (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), S. Chapman (University of Cambridge), R. Ibata (Observatoire de Strasbourg), R. Rich (UCLA), M. Irwin (University of Cambridge), M. Fardal (U. Mass), J. Dubinski (University of Toronto), J. Penarrubia (University of Cambridge), L. Widrow (Queen’s University), A. Ferguson (University of Edinburgh): “A direct measure of the dark mass of M31”

Keck-II 1


M. Pettini (IoA, Cambridge), R. Cooke (T) (Institute of Astronomy): “The Most Metal-Poor DLAs as Probes of Early Nucleosynthesis”

Keck-I 1

J. Radigan (T), R. Jayawardhana, D. Lafreniere (University of Toronto): “Complementary Keck LGS AO Observations of T-dwarfs Targeted in a Variability Monitoring Program”

Keck-II 0.5

P. Tremblay (T) (University of Montreal), J. Kalirai (STScI), P. Bergeron (University of Montreal): “Direct Detection of Helium in Cool DA White Dwarfs”

Keck-I 1


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Magellan Telescopes

Semester 2009A

Magellan – Semester 2009A – Scheduled US Programs (Incl. US Thesis Programs Tel. Nights

D. Tytler, D. Kirkman, M. Gleed (G), D. Lubin, C. Zeisse (UC San Diego): “Measuring Winds from Galaxies Using Absorption in Pairs of QSOs”

Magellan-II 2

P. Winkler (Middlebury College), K. Long (STScI), W. Blair (Johns Hopkins U.): “Searching for Young Supernova Remnants in the Most Fertile Galaxies”

Magellan-I 2

US Thesis Programs

S. Chung (T), A. Gonzalez (U. of Florida), D. Clowe (Ohio U.): “Star Formation in the Bullet Cluster”

Magellan-I 1

J. Gauthier (T), H. Chen (U. of Chicago), J. Tinker (UC Berkeley): “Probing the Gaseous Halos of SDSS Galaxies at z < 0.4”

Magellan-II 2

Semester 2009B

Magellan – Semester 2009B – Scheduled US Programs (Incl. US Thesis Programs Tel. Nights

S. Finkelstein (Texas A&M U.), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (Arizona State U.), C. Papovich (Texas A&M U.), E. Scannapieco (Arizona State U.): “Spectroscopy of Population III Hosting Galaxies at z ~ 3.1 and Lyman Alpha Galaxies at z ~ 4.5”

Magellan-I 2

V. Kulkarni, D. Som (G) (U. of South Carolina), J. Meiring (U. of Louisville), C. Peroux (Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille-Provence), D. York (U. of Chicago), J. Lauroesch (U. of Louisville), P. Khare (Utkal University): “Metals, Molecules, and Star Formation in Sub-Damped Lyman-alpha Quasar Absorbers”

Magellan-II 2

J. O’Meara (St. Michael’s College), J. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz): “The Optical Depth of the Universe and the Search for Missing Metals at 2.5 < z < 3.4”

Magellan-II 2

G. Wilson, R. Demarco (UC Riverside), A. Rettura (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Muzzin (Yale U.), H. Yee (University of Toronto), J. Surace, M. Lacy (SSC), E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado), A. Hicks (Michigan State U.), H. Hoekstra (Leiden University), M. Balogh, D. Gilbank (University of Waterloo), T. Webb (McGill University), K. Blindert (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), R. Yan (University of Toronto), S. Majumdar (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research), S. Bursick (G) (U. of Arkansas), J. Gardner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago): “Galaxy Evolution in Rich Clusters at z>1”

Magellan-I 2

Magellan – Semester 2009B – Scheduled Foreign Programs (Incl. Foreign Thesis) Tel. Nights

H. Bouy (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), E. Martin (University of Central Florida), D. Navascues (LAEX-CAB), J. Stauffer (IPAC): “A definitive census of the IMF of a nearby young massive cluster”

Magellan-I 2

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APPENDIX G NEW ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS AND COLLABORATIONS IN FY09

New Partnerships and Collaborations

California Institute of Technology—Palomar Hale 200-in telescope partnership

Renewed Partnerships and Collaborations

None in FY 2009

Ongoing Partnerships and Collaborations

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Corporation, Inc. – Partnership to design, construct, and operate the LSST, its camera, and the associated data processing, archiving, cataloging, and alerting software (www.lsst.org/About/LSSTcorp.shtml)

Dark Energy Survey (DES) Consortium – CTIO/Science Data Management program partnership to design, construct, and commission the Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco 4-m telescope along with associated data pipelines and archives (www.darkenergysurvey.org/)

Small and Medium Aperture Research Telescope System (Smarts) – CTIO partnership to operate the 1.5-m, 1.3-m, and 0.9-m telescopes on Cerro Tololo (www.astro.yale.edu/smarts/)

Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) – Partnership to implement and operate a virtual astronomical observatory in the US

The Ohio State University – ReSTAR Phase 1 implementation partner

Harvey Mudd College – Collaboration through their Clinic Program to develop and characterize modifications for the MONSOON array controller

Vanderbilt University/Fisk University – Proposed PAARE partnership to establish joint program to enhance graduate opportunities for minority students (proposal submitted)

South Carolina State University – PAARE partnership to establish joint mentoring program for minority undergraduate and graduate students

University of Maryland – KPNO partnership to support instrument development at KPNO (ended during FY09)

Clemson University – KPNO partnership to support operations of the Mayall 4-m telescope (ended during FY09)

University of Illinois – CTIO partnership to support operations of the Blanco 4-m telescope (ended during FY09)

Yonsei University – CTIO partnership to support operations of the Blanco 4-m telescope (ended during FY09)

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APPENDIX H DIVERSITY AND BROADER PARTICIPATION WITHIN NOAO

NOAO is committed to foster, encourage, and enhance geographic, gender, ethnic, and racial diversity among its employees and programs in promoting astronomical research. NOAO is proud to assist in preparing diverse, globally engaged science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities. Our focus is to broaden participation from underrepresented groups, institutions that do not have access to activities in astronomy (especially smaller institutions and institutions with high percentages of underrepresented groups), and geographic areas that have not had the opportunity to participate in the overall field of astronomy.

Diversity Co-Advocates

NOAO’s activities in this area are spearheaded by NOAO Diversity Co-Advocates K. Garmany and D. Norman, who were appointed January 2009. They helped edit and administer the AURA-wide Climate Survey to all NOAO employees. A preliminary analysis of the survey was presented at the AURA Diversity Workshop in Tucson, AZ, April 21–22. The co-advocates fielded many workforce-climate-related questions from staff. The pair worked with the other AURA center diversity advocates on maximizing the AURA presence at various societal events where opportunities for under-represented minorities in the astronomy enterprise can be highlighted. They worked closely with the interim head of program for Science Research Support on pipeline and mentoring activities within NOAO. Highlights of the co-advocates activities in FY09 are listed below:

AURA Activities

Planned for the workplace satisfaction survey workshop and workshop on diversity issues held 21–22 April 2009 in Tucson. Participated in the Diversity Workshop, which included giving a presentation to the AURA member representatives on the role and charge to the Workforce and Diversity Committee (WDC).

Investigated with the AURA president and Bob Sheppard of Science and Engineering Alliance (SEA) opportunities to work with SEA on an engineering internship at NOAO.

Submitted to AURA the NOAO Center short- and long-term goals for the AURA homepage.

Planned workshop agenda for the AURA diversity meeting August 17–18 and attended the WDC meeting at STScI August 26 where the advocates’ role in the WDC was discussed with the AURA president.

NOAO Activities

Organized a luncheon for NOAO North and South female employees in February with a video connection between the two sites.

Discussed instrumentation at NOAO and diversity with the NOAO director and head of program for System Instrumentation. Increasing diversity in instrumentation was a topic of interest at the National Society of Black/ Hispanic Physicists meeting (and elsewhere).

Requested feedback from all NOAO staff who had attended meetings of the Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers, National Society of Black Engineers, and/or Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans (SACNAS).


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Provided results from the Workplace climate survey for posting on the NOAO Web site.

Gave presentations: on broadening participation in hiring and promotion to a CTIO search committee, about NOAO staff diversity and broadening participation to the Observatory Visiting Committee in Tucson, and summarizing the climate survey results to the NOAO Executive Committee.

Outreach Activities

Cohosted and chaired (Norman) the AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (CSMA) luncheon on Mentoring New Generations of Minority Astronomers at the January 2009 AAS meeting.

Attended and gave a science talk in February at the Physics Diversity Summit and the 2009 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists in Nashville.

Submitted a successful proposal for two joint CSMA/Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) special sessions on mentoring titled “Mentoring Astronomers: Students to Faculty I & II.”

Planned for a booth and a workshop at the SHPE 2009 conference to be held October 28–November 1 in Washington, DC.

Teleconferenced in July with girls from the Universe Qwest program in Oakland, CA. The program, run by Carl Pennypacker, is designed to interest girls in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and math, and particularly in astronomy.

Accepted (Norman) a position on the Women in Astronomy and Space Science 2009: Meeting the Challenges of an Increasingly Diverse Workforce organizing committee.

Publications

Submitted three position papers (38–40) to the Astro2010 decadal review on increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in astronomy at various levels of education (see Appendix C for citations).

Published in the June issue of Spectrum, the AAS CSMA newsletter, “Significantly Increasing the Numbers of Minorities in Astronomy in the Next 10 Years: A Paper of Recommendations to the Decadal Survey Review” and “Mentoring New Generations of Minority Astronomers: Discussions at the CSMA Luncheon in Long Beach,” (both by Norman) (csma.aas.org/spectrum_files/spectrum_Jun09.pdf).

NOAO’s Workforce

Changes to NOAO workforce demographics in FY09 are represented in the following tables. Women or minorities accounted for 37 percent of the staff promotions. A diverse mix of 21 new staff members was hired in FY09, comprising 9 women (43 percent) and 7 minority group members (33 percent). Recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce is at the forefront of the NOAO staffing plan. Hiring preference is given to the Tohono O’odham Nation due to our location on Kitt Peak and Tucson’s proximity to the reservation. NOAO sends recruitment notices to the tribal organization TERO, and there are bi-annually meetings to work out procedures and keep the communication lines open.

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Native Native TOTAL Male Female Minorities Black Asian Amer. White Hispanic Black Asian Amer. White Hispanic

Exec/Sr Officials & Mgrs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0First/Mid Officials & Mgrs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Scientific Staff 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0Professionals 8 5 3 3 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 1 1 1Technicians 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0Sales Workers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Admin Support Workers 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1Craft Workers 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0Service Workers 4 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1

Total New Hires 21 12 9 7 0 0 1 9 2 0 0 1 5 3% of New Hires 57.1% 42.9% 33.3% 4.8% 42.9% 9.5% 4.8% 23.8% 14.3%

Native Native TOTAL Male Female Minorities Black Asian Amer. White Hispanic Black Asian Amer. White Hispanic

7 5 2 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 # promotionsExec/Sr Officials & Mgrs 22 16 6 2 0 2 0 14 0 0 0 0 6 0 # incumbents

1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 # promotionsFirst/Mid Officials & Mgrs 60 52 8 2 0 0 0 52 0 1 1 0 6 0 # incumbents

2 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 # promotionsScientific Staff 51 36 15 12 0 5 0 30 1 1 4 0 9 1 # incumbents

6 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 # promotionsProfessionals 114 83 31 24 1 7 4 67 4 2 1 2 23 3 # incumbents

1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 # promotionsTechnicians 57 47 10 7 2 1 0 42 2 0 0 1 8 1 # incumbents

2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 # promotionsAdmin Support Worker 33 6 27 7 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 3 20 4 # incumbents

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 # promotionsSkill Craft/Trade Worker 17 17 0 8 1 0 4 9 3 0 0 0 0 0 # incumbents

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 # promotionsOperatives 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 # incumbents

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 # promotionsService Workers 6 2 4 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 # incumbents

Total Promotions 19 11 8 3 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 0 7 0Total Incumbents 362 261 101 65 5 15 8 222 11 4 6 7 75 9

% of Population 72.1% 27.9% 18.0% 1.4% 4.1% 2.2% 61.3% 3.0% 1.1% 1.7% 1.9% 20.7% 2.5%% Promoted 5.2% 4.2% 7.9% 4.6% 13.3% 4.1% 25.0% 9.3%

NOAO NEW HIRES

NOAO PROMOTIONS

10/01/2008 to 09/30/2009

(Excluding Temporary Employees)

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APPENDIX I FOURTH QUARTER SITE SAFETY REPORT

OSHA Recordable Occupational Injuries, Illnesses and Other Incidents

None reported this quarter!

Safety and Health

Safety, Health, and Environmental Action Plans were prepared for the Kitt Peak 4-m dome rail repairs and the WIYN mirror (Figure 22) re-aluminization that started in August 2009. Safety oversight was provided for critical tasks of both projects and a third party inspected the Kitt Peak cranes in preparation for the critical lifts during the shutdown. The WIYN primary dome crane was modified and certified by a Professional Engineer to eliminate the chance of lateral loading.

Some of the emergency equipment at the Tucson facility and on Kitt Peak were updated and retrofitted this fourth quarter. Hand sanitizer stations were strategically placed in the buildings, and other minor preparations were made for the flu season. Two additional Automatic External Defibulators (AEDs) were added at the Tucson facility, one at front hallway and the other at the rooftop buildings.

C. Gessner presented and participated in the ATST Global Interlock System Senior Design Review on September 24.

Fire Protection and Prevention

After the threat to Kitt Peak from the Elk Horn Fire in June, another fire was spotted burning at the western base of Kitt Peak on July 14. Again, the NOAO/NSO Business Contingency Plan was exercised as the San Juan fire burned on the west side of Kitt Peak (Figure 23) from July 14 to July 21. Guy Acuna from the Tohono O’odham Department of Public Safety initially responded to the fire; the fire incident command was later managed by Darrel Miller’s Type 3 response crew. There were approximately 109 firefighters who worked to contain the fire. A helicopter was stationed at the Kitt Peak helipad as well as other heavy equipment. The mountain was evacuated on July 15, however a limited number of staff stayed on the mountain to help firefighters with Kitt Peak facility activities. The fire was human-caused, and it is estimated that at least 9,200 acres were burned. The fire threat to Kitt Peak

Site safety reports for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fiscal quarters are published in the respective NOAO Quarterly Reports.

Figure 22: WIYN primary mirror being removed for re-aluminization. (Image credit: Mike Fleming.)


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was minimized by July 20, and limited shutdown activities were started. Heavy rains during the early evening were a welcome relief, and the observatory opened to the public the next day.

Insurance

In July, transportation insurance for the WIYN primary mirror was obtained during its transport for re-aluminizing. The mirror was valued at $7 million, and the insurance premium was $8600 for this year.

In September, K. Ray and C. Gessner completed all applications for insurance for AURA, WIYN, SOAR, and LSST. Information was received from all AURA Centers in a timely manner—thanks to all those who helped—and all insurance was bound October 1.

Director’s and Officers insurance quotes were received for the newly formed Virtual Astronomical Observatory LLC and were submitted to AURA Corporate.

Environmental

Tucson was visited by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to inspect the underground fuel tanks on July 22. No citations were issued.

Figure 23: San Juan fire burnin on west side of Kitt Peak 16 July 2009. (Image credit: Dawn Clemons.)

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APPENDIX J SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM ORDERS AND AMENDMENTS

SPO #5 AST-0335461 Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP)

NOAO continued oversight activities for the active TSIP programs in the fourth quarter of FY09: One Degree Imager for WIYN; MOSFIRE, a cryogenic multi-object spectrograph (MOS) for Keck; MODS2, an optical MOS for LBT, and an adaptive secondary for Magellan.

The TSIP FY09 call for proposals, issue in May 2009, resulted in the receipt of five proposals. The proposal review meeting is scheduled for 20–21 October 2009.

The TSIP annual report covering the period of June 2008 to May 2009 was submitted 31 May 2009 and can be found at: www.noao.edu/news/spo.php.

SPO #6 AST-0336888 Adaptive Optics Development Program

The AODP annual report covering the period of July 2008 to June 2009 was submitted 30 June 2009 to the NSF and is available at: www.noao.edu/news/spo.php. Updates on the sub-awards follow:

Sub-Award #C33002T “Development of the Next Generation Optical Detectors for Wavefront Sensing.” The collaboration effort with Starfire Optical Range (SOR) and TMT was finalized with the cost of the wafer run being split 50/50 with SOR and TMT contributing $140K. The new wafer design is planned on being completed in December 2009 and the wafer run at MIT/LL to occur in January 2010.

Sub-Award #C33003T “Pulsed Fiber Laser for Guide Stars.” After receiving the new fiber from Nufern and testing it, all three 938-nm amplifiers were rebuilt with the new fiber. Last year the 938- nm leg was producing only about 6 W, but now it is producing greater than 10 W. Even higher power levels are expected with further tuning. By early November 2009, it is expected to achieve 10 W of 589- nm light.

Sub-Award #C33005T “Compact Modular Scalable Versatile LGS Architecture for 8–100-m Telescopes.” In the third quarter of FY09, the system was reassembled onto the one 4 ft. by 6 ft. and the 1064- nm side was reassembled and tested to achieve good power levels. This quarter, the 1319 side was assembled and re-aligned. Final testing and a final review were to occur prior to contract end 30 September 2009. A few hours prior to the final test, the 1319-nm NPRO Master Oscillator quit. The review was held, but final results cannot be obtained until the NPRO is repaired. Contract negotiations are underway to complete the project. It is expected that this can be completed by the end of the calendar year 2009. Funding was not included in this contract to have the breadboard laser shipped and set up at an observatory.

SPO #7 AST-0432601 Support for Conferences, Symposia, Workshops and Other Meetings

No activity to report for the fourth quarter of FY09. The annual report for SPO #7 covering the period of June 2009 to May 2009 was submitted to the NSF 31 May 2009 and is available at: www.noao.edu/news/spo.php.

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SPO #9 AST-0551161 Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project

The full LSST project report for FY09, submitted to the NSF 30 August 2009, can be found at: www.noao.edu/news/spo.php.

SPO #10 AST-0443999 Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Project

The GSMT project annual report for SPO #10 was submitted to the NSF 14 July 2009 and can be found at: www.noao.edu/news/spo.php.

SPO #11 AST-0647604 CTIO Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

There are no activities for report for the fourth quarter of FY09.

SPO #13 AST-0754223 KPNO Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

In the fourth quarter of FY09, the six 2009 KPNO Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) students worked on their various projects (see below). They will present posters on those projects at the January 2010 AAS in Washington, DC. In terms of diversity, there were two women and four men (one African-American woman and one Hispanic man) in the 2009 KPNO REU program. REU Student Affiliation Mentors Project

Tahlia De Maio University of Colorado-Boulder(resident of Colorado)

William Sherry “Low Mass Pre Main Sequence Members of the 25 Orionis Cluster”

Davin Flateau University of Cincinnati (resident of Ohio)

Simon Schuler “Elemental Abundances in Solar Type Stars with Planets”

Erica Jones Louisiana State University (resident of Louisiana)

Jennifer Lotz “Near IR Light Profiles of Massive Elliptical Galaxies at z ~ 1”

Evan Kaplan Vassar College (resident of New York)

George Jacoby “The Search for Planetary Nebulae in M31 Globular Clusters”

Stephen Messenger University of Missouri (resident of Missouri)

Alexandra Pope and Arjun Dey

“A Template-Independent Technique for Obtaining Photometric Redshift Estimates for Dusty, Star-forming Galaxies”

Edward Montiel University of Arizona (resident of Virginia)

Kenneth Mighell “Flickering Giants in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

The KPNO REU 2008 annual report for SPO #13 was submitted to NSF 30 March 2009 and is

available at: www.noao.edu/education/reu/kpnoreu2008ar.pdf.



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