| Program Number | Principal Investigator | Program Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11153 | Sangeeta Malhotra, Arizona State University | The Physical Nature and Age of Lyman Alpha Galaxies |
| 11233 | Giampaolo Piotto, Universita di Padova | Multiple Generations of Stars in Massive Galactic Globular Clusters |
| 11360 | Robert W. O'Connell, The University of Virginia | Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies |
| 11536 | James C. Green, University of Colorado at Boulder | COS-GTO: Sleuthing the Source of Distant Cometary Activity |
| 11556 | Marc W. Buie, Southwest Research Institute | Investigations of the Pluto System |
| 11557 | Gabriela Canalizo, University of California - Riverside | The Nature of low-ionization BAL QSOs |
| 11564 | David L. Kaplan, University of California - Santa Barbara | Optical and Ultraviolet Photometry of Isolated Neutron Stars |
| 11567 | Charles R. Proffitt, Computer Sciences Corporation | Boron Abundances in Rapidly Rotating Early-B Stars. |
| 11568 | Seth Redfield, Wesleyan University | A SNAPSHOT Survey of the Local Interstellar Medium: New NUV Observations of Stars with Archived FUV Observations |
| 11570 | Adam Riess, The Johns Hopkins University | Narrowing in on the Hubble Constant and Dark Energy |
| 11591 | Jean-Paul Kneib, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille | Are Low-Luminosity Galaxies Responsible for Cosmic Reionization? |
| 11594 | John M. O'Meara, Saint Michaels College | A WFC3 Grism Survey for Lyman limit absorption at z=2 |
| 11597 | S. Adam Stanford, University of California - Davis | Spectroscopy of IR-Selected Galaxy Clusters at 1 < z < 1.5 |
| 11598 | Jason Tumlinson, Space Telescope Science Institute | How Galaxies Acquire their Gas: A Map of Multiphase Accretion and Feedback in Gaseous Galaxy Halos |
| 11620 | William C. Keel, University of Alabama | A Quasar Light Echo in the Local Universe? |
| 11637 | Nathan Smith, University of California - Berkeley | A Closeup View of a Twin of SN 1987A Before Explosion |
| 11644 | Michael E. Brown, California Institute of Technology | A dynamical-compositional survey of the Kuiper belt: a new window into the formation of the outer solar system |
| 11657 | Letizia Stanghellini, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, AURA | The population of compact planetary nebulae in the Galactic Disk |
| 11663 | Mark Brodwin, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory | Formation and Evolution of Massive Galaxies in the Richest Environments at 1.5 < z < 2.0 |
| 11664 | Thomas M. Brown, Space Telescope Science Institute | The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History, and Planets |
| 11666 | Adam J. Burgasser, University of California - San Diego | Chilly Pairs: A Search for the Latest-type Brown Dwarf Binaries and the Prototype Y Dwarf |
| 11696 | Matthew A. Malkan, University of California - Los Angeles | Infrared Survey of Star Formation Across Cosmic Time |
| 11698 | Mary E. Putman, Columbia University in the City of New York | The Structure and Dynamics of Virgo's Multi-Phase Intracluster Medium |
| 11699 | Thomas Rauch, Universitat Tubingen, Institut fur Astronomie & Astrophysik | On the evolutionary status of extremely hot helium stars - are the O{He} stars successors of the R CrB stars? |
| 11702 | Hao-Jing Yan, The Ohio State University Research Foundation | Search for Very High-z Galaxies with WFC3 Pure Parallel |
| 11704 | Brian Chaboyer, Dartmouth College | The Ages of Globular Clusters and the Population II Distance Scale |
| 11719 | Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington | A Calibration Database for Stellar Models of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars |
| 11720 | Patrick Dufour, Universite de Montreal | Detailed analysis of carbon atmosphere white dwarfs |
| 11732 | C. S. Kochanek, The Ohio State University Research Foundation | The Temperature Profiles of Quasar Accretion Disks |
| 11737 | David M. Meyer, Northwestern University | The Distance Dependence of the Interstellar N/O Abundance Ratio: A Gould Belt Influence? |
| 11740 | Frederic J. Pont, University of Bern | A Complete Optical and NIR Atmospheric Transmission Spectrum of the Exoplanet HD189733b |
| 11742 | Gabor Worseck, University of California - Santa Cruz | Probing HeII Reionization with GALEX-selected Quasar Sightlines and HST/COS |
| 11788 | George Fritz Benedict, University of Texas at Austin | The Architecture of Exoplanetary Systems |
| 11838 | Herman L. Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Completing a Flux-limited Survey for X-ray Emission from Radio Jets |
| 12012 | Gregory R. Sivakoff, The University of Virginia | Binary Formation in the Sparse Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 3201 |
| 12018 | Andrea H. Prestwich, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory | Ultra-Luminous x-Ray Sources in the Most Metal-Poor Galaxies |
GO 11153: The Physical Nature and Age of Lyman Alpha Galaxies
Composite optical/X-ray/IR imaging of a high-redshift Lyman-alpha blob
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Simple galaxy formation models envisage a period of extensive star formation at the earliest epochs. That activity is likely to be accompanied by substantial Lyman alpha emission, generated by ionising photons from short-lived, high-mass stars. The degree of such activity, however, and its duration remain matters of some conjecture, which can be addressed through deep, high resolution investigations of the underlying morphology of high-redshfit Lyman-alpha emitters. The higher angular resolution and increased sensitivity of HST offer significant advantages in characterising these systems. The present proposal is using HST to obtain follow-up F110W/F160W (J/H) images of 35 spectroscopically confirmed 4.5 < z < 6.5 Ly-alpha emitters. Initial observations were with NICMOS, and the progrma has moved to using WFC3 following SM4. These systems also have mid-IR data, taken using the IRAC camera on Spitzer. The observations will be used to fully characterise the spectral energy distributions and morphologies of these sources. |
GO 11556: Investigations of the Pluto System
Hubble Space Telescope image of Pluto, Charon and the two new moons, Nix & Hydra |
Pluto, one of the largest members of the Kuiper Belt and, until recently (still, for some), the outermost planet in the solar system, has been in the news over the last year or two. Besides the extended "planet"/"dwarf planet" debate, Pluto is the primary target of the New Horizons Mission, and Hubble observations in 2005 led to the discovery of two small moons. Together with Charon, itself only discovered in 1978, these additions make Pluto a 4-body system. Christened Nix and Hydra, the two new moons are 5,000 fainter than Pluto itself, implying diameters as small as ~30-50 km if the surface composition is similar to Pluto itself. The present program aims to better characterise these bodies through multicolour observations with WFC3. The observations are phased with a cadence that samples the different orbital periods: 6.4 days for Pluto/Charon; 24.9 days for Nix/Pluto; and 38 days for Hydra/Pluto. The goal is toidentify systematic photometric variations that might probe the rotation period, testing whether these moons are in synchronous rotation with Pluto itself. |
GO 11594: A WFC3 Grism Survey for Lyman limit absorption at z=2
HRC grism image of SN 1987A, as displayed in the Hubble Legacy Archive
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Grisms are optical components with finely ruled gratings that canbe introduced into the beam of an imaging camera to produce low-resolution spectra of objects within the field of view. Wide Field Camera 3 on HST has three such components: an ultraviolet grism, G280, providing spectroscopy from ~2100 to 3900 Angstroms; and two grisms, G102 and G141, for use at near-infrared wavelengths. The present program aims to use the UV grism to search for galaxies at redshifts in the range 1.8 < z < 2.5. The observations target 64 quasars, drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, that have absorption features that are characteristic of that redshift range. Those features are likely due to foreground galaxies, whose extended gaseous halos absorb light from the QSO. The grism data will used to search for sources with emission lines that indciate that they are at the appropriate redshift. |
GO 11702: Search for Very High-z Galaxies with WFC3 Pure Parallel
The ACS optical/far-red image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
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Galaxy evolution in the early Universe is a discipline of astronomy that has been transformed by observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. The original Hubble Deep Field, the product of 10 days observation in December 1995 of a single pointing of Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, demonstrated conclusively that galaxy formation was a far from passive process. The images revealed numerous blue disturbed and irregular systems, characteristic of star formation in galaxy collisions and mergers. Building on this initial progam, the Hubble Deep Field South (HDFS) provided matching data for a second southern field, allowing a first assessment of likely effects due to field to field cosmic variance, and the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (UDF) probed to even fainter magitude with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The highest redshift objects found in the UDF have redshifts approaching z~7. Pushing to larger distances, and greater ages, demands observatons at near-infrared wavelengths, as the characteristics signatures of star formation are driven further redward in the spectrum. Wide Field Camera 3, installed in Servicing Mission 4, is well suited to these observations, and a number of programs are in place in Cycle 17 that address these issues. Indeed, WFC3 is employed in pure parallel mode by several programs. These take advantage of other science programs, usually with COS, that involve 2-5 orbit pointings on sources at high galactic latitude. The WFC3 pointing is unplanned, since it depends on the orientation adopted for the prime observations, but 2-5 orbits of IR imaging can reach galaxies at redshifts exceeding z=7 (potentially even z~8) in high latitude fields. This is one of two such programs in the cycle 17 portfolio. |