0 Assigned ID: 1007 ----- Attempting Submission 1 (Fri Apr 11 23:03:40 GMT 2014) ----- HST Phase I Proposal 1007 (felobals_apt2) successfully submitted. ----- Attempting Submission 2 (Fri Apr 11 23:29:58 GMT 2014) ----- ORBITAL VISIBILITY OVERRUN ORBITAL VISIBILITY OVERRUN ORBITAL VISIBILITY OVERRUN ORBITAL VISIBILITY OVERRUN Visits 1, 4, 5, and 8 each have visibility overruns of 2 seconds. Our question to the CS about this overrun did not get an answer. Based on that, and the fact that it appears as a warning instead of an error, we assume that this small overrun is within acceptable tolerances. -2133265935 ----- Attempting Submission 1 (Mon Jul 21 18:47:49 GMT 2014) ----- Visits 1, 4, 5, and 8 each have visibility overruns of 2 seconds. Our question to the CS about this overrun did not get an answer. Based on that, and the fact that it appears as a warning instead of an error, we assume that this small overrun is within acceptable tolerances. Testing the Youth and Transition Object Status of FeLoBAL Quasars A popular paradigm for massive galaxy evolution has emerged in which mergers of gas-rich galaxies trigger both intense bursts of star formation and the growth of a central super-massive black hole. The transition from dusty starburst (e.g., ULIRG) to visibly luminous quasar is marked by a blowout of gas and dust that shuts down the star formation and unveils the central quasar. FeLoBAL quasars (with extreme low-ionization Broad Absorption Line outflows) are candidate young objects in the transition phase based on their dust reddened colors, large infrared luminosities (indicating ULIRG-like star formation rates), and exceptionally powerful outflows that appear strong enough to a drive galaxy-wide blowout. We propose to test the youth and transition object status of FeLoBAL quasars by comparing their host galaxy morphologies and merger signatures to matched samples of 1) normal blue non-BAL quasars (that "should" be older), and 2) non-AGN galaxies at the same redshift and stellar mass. We will specifically obtain WFC3/IR F160W images of 10 FeLoBALs at redshift z ~ 0.8, supplemented by equivalent imaging data for normal blue quasars in our own cycle 21 program (PI Villforth) and for non-AGN galaxies from archival HST programs such as CANDELS. This will be the first HST imaging survey of FeLoBAL quasars and the first HST study of any transition object candidates to use matched control samples. Our results will uniquely test i) the alleged youth of FeLoBALs compared to normal quasars and non-AGN galaxies based on their merger status, and ii) the significance of mergers/interactions for quasar triggering based on comparisons to an equivalent non-AGN galaxy sample. We will obtain new WFC3/IR F160W images for 10 FeLoBAL and use similar archival data for comparisons. The F160W images (at ~8800A in the rest frame) will measure the host galaxy morphologies and merger/interaction status with minimal contamination from the central quasar point source. We request one orbit per object, for a total of 10 orbits. All of our observations will employ a 9-point dither pattern to improve the spatial resolution and remove detector anomalies. The individual exposures will be ~250 sec in order to maximize use of the visibility time. One important consideration is saturation of the quasar point source causing persistence of this point source in subsequent exposures. Published H magnitudes of some of our quasars (Farrah et al. 2012) in the WFC3/IR ETC indicate that these sources will start to saturate the detector after 50-200 seconds in the F160W exposures. We will circumvent this problem in our F160W data by taking multiple non-destructive reads during each ~250 sec exposure. The log/linear interval sequence defined by STEP50 (Table 7.8 in the WFC3 Instrument Handbook) will yield 6-8 detector reads prior to PSF saturation and a total of 10 reads during our ~250 sec exposures. To mitigate the persistence issue, we will use a large dither throw (several arcsecs) to move the persistent quasar image away from the host galaxy in the subsequent exposure. The resulting dither pattern will still involve the standard 1/2-pixel subsampling, but we will add integer numbers of pixels to those shifts to extend the throw to several arcseconds. Another consideration is subtraction of the quasar point spread function (PSF). We elect not to devote valuable HST time to our own observations of PSF stars. Such observations would have only marginal value anyway because of focus changes in the telescope, unless we made the very costly choice to observe a PSF star with every visit to our targets. Our experience with F160W images from CANDELS and our ongoing cycle 21 program shows that a sufficient economical approach is to use stars that might lie accidently in our quasars fields, as well as archival stellar images, to construct PSFs that are a hybrid between these empirical ones and synthetic PSF from. AGN/QUASARS Default false false false false false SUPPORTED GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 GALAXY QSO QUASAR J2000 J2000 WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W WFC3/IR Imaging No No F160W POS-TARG DITHER DITHER 3 12.183 WFC3-IR-DITHER-LINE-3PT false true 12.605 3 41.859 POS-TARG WFC3-IR-DITHER-BLOB 131.788 1 true The scheduling data was generated by CASM 22.2. CASM was run in Phase II mode. 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