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NOAO Approved Programs for 2012A

Approved NOAO Survey Programs

PI Institution Prop. ID Site Tel. Nts.

Proposal Title

Grundy, William Lowell Observatory 2011A-0017 GEM-N GEM-NQ 2.5

Mutual Orbits and Masses of Kuiper Belt Binaries and Multiple Systems

Prsa, Andrej Villanova University 2011A-0022 KPNO 4m 7

Towards Unprecedented Accuracy of Fundamental Parameters for Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars

Salzer, John Indiana University 2011A-0030 KPNO 2.1m 11.5

Making Hay with ALFALFA: The Star-Formation Properties of an HI-Selected Galaxy Sample

Stubbs, Christopher Harvard University 2011A-0034 GEM-S GEM-SQ 3.83

Spectroscopy of Galaxies in Massive Clusters: Galaxy Properties and Dynamical Cluster Mass Calibration

van Dokkum, Pieter Yale University 2010A-0015 KPNO 4m 11.5

The NEWFIRM Medium Band Survey II: Hunting Monster Galaxies

PI	*Institution*	*Prop. ID*	*Site*	*Tel.*	*Nts.*
*Proposal Title*

Grundy, William	Lowell Observatory	2011A-0017	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	2.5
Mutual Orbits and Masses of Kuiper Belt Binaries and Multiple Systems

Prsa, Andrej	Villanova University	2011A-0022	KPNO	4m	7
Towards Unprecedented Accuracy of Fundamental Parameters for Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars

Salzer, John	Indiana University	2011A-0030	KPNO	2.1m	11.5
Making Hay with ALFALFA: The Star-Formation Properties of an HI-Selected Galaxy Sample

Stubbs, Christopher	Harvard University	2011A-0034	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	3.83
Spectroscopy of Galaxies in Massive Clusters: Galaxy Properties and Dynamical Cluster Mass Calibration

van Dokkum, Pieter	Yale University	2010A-0015	KPNO	4m	11.5
The NEWFIRM Medium Band Survey II: Hunting Monster Galaxies

Approved Chandra Programs

PI Institution Prop. ID Site Tel. Nts.

Proposal Title

Jonker, Peter Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0112 GEM-S GEM-SQ 3

Completing the Galactic Bulge Survey: categorizing the plethora of faint X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge

Jonker, Peter Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0186 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.2

The unique opportunity to determine the mass of an accreting neutron star: the eclipsing accretion powered X-ray pulsar SWIFT J1749.4-2807

Jonker, Peter Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2011B-0649 CTIO SOAR 4

Completing the Galactic Bulge Survey

Tomsick, John University of California, San Diego 2010B-0918 CTIO 4m-TBD 1

Census of the Normal Spiral Arm Region

Tomsick, John University of California, San Diego 2010B-0918 CTIO SOAR 3

Census of the Normal Spiral Arm Region

PI	*Institution*	*Prop. ID*	*Site*	*Tel.*	*Nts.*
*Proposal Title*

Jonker, Peter	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0112	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	3
Completing the Galactic Bulge Survey: categorizing the plethora of faint X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge

Jonker, Peter	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0186	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.2
The unique opportunity to determine the mass of an accreting neutron star: the eclipsing accretion powered X-ray pulsar SWIFT J1749.4-2807

Jonker, Peter	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2011B-0649	CTIO	SOAR	4
Completing the Galactic Bulge Survey

Tomsick, John	University of California, San Diego	2010B-0918	CTIO	4m-TBD	1
Census of the Normal Spiral Arm Region

Tomsick, John	University of California, San Diego	2010B-0918	CTIO	SOAR	3
Census of the Normal Spiral Arm Region

Approved Long Term Programs

PI Institution Prop. ID Site Tel. Nts.

Proposal Title

Bond, Howard Space Telescope Science Institute 2012A-0388 CTIO 1.3m 0.7

Intermediate-Luminosity Red Transients: SMARTS Monitoring

Bond, Howard Space Telescope Science Institute 2012A-0388 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 0.95

Intermediate-Luminosity Red Transients: SMARTS Monitoring

Dhital, Saurav Vanderbilt University 2011B-0300 KPNO 4m 5

Calibrating the Relative Metallicity Scale of M Subdwarfs Using Wide, Common Proper Motion Binaries

Liu, Jifeng Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 2012A-0352 CTIO 1.3m 5

In search of black hole binaries in quiescence and low state

Metcalfe, Travis High Altitude Observatory 2011B-0001 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 4.3

Activity Cycles of Southern Asteroseismic Targets

Phillips, Mark Carnegie Institution of Washington 2011B-0262 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1

Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Followup of Type Ia Supernovae in the Hubble Flow

Saha, Abhijit National Optical Astronomy Observatory 2011A-0459 KPNO WIYN 2

Confirming the binarity of the RR Lyrae star TU UMa

Sahu, Kailash Space Telescope Science Institute 2011B-0485 CTIO 1.3m 3.8

Detecting Isolated Black Holes through HST Astrometry and SMARTS Photometry of Microlensing Events

Wilson, Paul Anthony University of Exeter 2012A-0432 CTIO 1.3m 6.7

Monitoring the Stellar Activity of Transit-Hosting Stars II: supporting HST exoplanet atmosphere observations

PI	*Institution*	*Prop. ID*	*Site*	*Tel.*	*Nts.*
*Proposal Title*

Bond, Howard	Space Telescope Science Institute	2012A-0388	CTIO	1.3m	0.7
Intermediate-Luminosity Red Transients: SMARTS Monitoring

Bond, Howard	Space Telescope Science Institute	2012A-0388	CTIO	1.5m-SVC	0.95
Intermediate-Luminosity Red Transients: SMARTS Monitoring

Dhital, Saurav	Vanderbilt University	2011B-0300	KPNO	4m	5
Calibrating the Relative Metallicity Scale of M Subdwarfs Using Wide, Common Proper Motion Binaries

Liu, Jifeng	Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory	2012A-0352	CTIO	1.3m	5
In search of black hole binaries in quiescence and low state

Metcalfe, Travis	High Altitude Observatory	2011B-0001	CTIO	1.5m-SVC	4.3
Activity Cycles of Southern Asteroseismic Targets

Phillips, Mark	Carnegie Institution of Washington	2011B-0262	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1
Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Followup of Type Ia Supernovae in the Hubble Flow

Saha, Abhijit	National Optical Astronomy Observatory	2011A-0459	KPNO	WIYN	2
Confirming the binarity of the RR Lyrae star TU UMa

Sahu, Kailash	Space Telescope Science Institute	2011B-0485	CTIO	1.3m	3.8
Detecting Isolated Black Holes through HST Astrometry and SMARTS Photometry of Microlensing Events

Wilson, Paul Anthony	University of Exeter	2012A-0432	CTIO	1.3m	6.7
Monitoring the Stellar Activity of Transit-Hosting Stars II: supporting HST exoplanet atmosphere observations

Approved Regular Programs

PI Institution Prop. ID Site Tel. Nts.

Proposal Title

Allen, Peter University of Pennsylvania 2012A-0195 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.61

A Multi-Epoch Survey for Faint, Close, Low-Mass Tertiaries to Nearby Spectroscopic Binaries: Follow-up Confirmation

Aller, Monique University of South Carolina 2012A-0254 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.61

A Multi-Wavelength Optical Imaging Study of a Unique Star-Forming Environment: Polar Rings

Andrews, Jennifer University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012A-0223 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.87

Dust Formation and Circumstellar Medium Interaction in Two Massive, Bright Core-Collapse SNe, 2010jl and 2011fh

Austerberry, David Creighton University 2012A-0521 KPNO 4m 3

Constraining BALQSO Kinetic Luminosity with CIII* Absorption

Badenes, Carles University of Pittsburgh 2012A-0488 KPNO 4m 4.5

Spectroscopic follow-up of the SWARMS survey

Baines, Ellyn Naval Research Laboratory 2012A-0075 CHARA 1

Measuring Potential Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Host K Giant Stars

Barkhouse, Wayne University of North Dakota 2012A-0552 KPNO 2.1m 4

Optical Counterparts to ChaMPx Extended Sources

Bartlett, James California Institute of Technology--JPL 2012A-0430 GEM-S GEM-SQ 5

Planck SZ Clusters: Follow-up of the Planck Galaxy Cluster Catalog

Bastien, Fabienne Vanderbilt University 2012A-0212 KPNO WIYN 2

Identifying Photometric and Chromospheric Activity Correlations of Kepler Stars

Bauer, James California Institute of Technology--JPL 2012A-0085 CTIO SOAR 2

A WISE Long Period Comet Survey

Beers, Timothy National Optical Astronomy Observatory 2012A-0092 GEM-S GEM-SQ

A Survey for Unrecognized Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy

Benecchi, Susan Carnegie Institution of Washington 2012A-0136 CTIO SOAR 1

Resolved Lightcurves of Cold Classical Transneptunian Binaries and One Mutual Event

Bentz, Misty Georgia State University 2012A-0163 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.4

A Stellar Dynamical Black Hole Mass for the Reverberation-Mapped Active Galaxy NGC6814

Berger, Edo Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0194 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.6

Exotic Explosions and Eruptions: Exploring a New Transient Phase-Space with Pan-STARRS

Berger, Edo Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0197 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.6

Exotic Explosions and Eruptions: Exploring a New Transient Phase-Space with Pan-STARRS

Bianco, Federica University of California, Santa Barbara 2012A-0548 CTIO SOAR 2

Multiband monitoring of light echoes from the historical eruptions of Eta Carinae

Bowler, Brendan University of Hawaii 2012A-0492 GEM-S GEM-SQ 2.2

An Efficient Search for Young Wide Planetary-Mass Companions

Britt, Christopher Louisiana State University 2012A-0424 CTIO 1.0m 7

Photometric Calibration and Bright Variables in the Chandra Galactic Bulge Survey

Brittain, Sean Clemson University 2012A-0344 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.05

HI emission lines on young stars: accretion or ejection tracers? A spectro-astrometric survey with GEMINI/NIFS

Brown, Alexander University of Colorado 2012A-0332 MMT MMT 4

MMT Hectochelle Spectral Variability of Active Late-type Stars in the Kepler Field (2012A)

Bryngelson, Ginger Clemson University 2012A-0540 KPNO 4m 7

Physics of Supernovae Type Ia at Late Epochs

Bussmann, Robert Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0268 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.78

Longslit Spectroscopy of Lensing Galaxies Discovered in the Herschel-ATLAS

Chiang, Poshih National Central University 2012A-0565 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.5

Young planetary objects in the Ophiuchi dark cloud

Ciardullo, Robin Pennsylvania State University 2012A-0282 KPNO 4m 8

An Imaging Survey for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Clayton, Geoffrey Louisiana State University 2012A-0222 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.29

The Natural Coronographs of R Coronae Borealis Stars

Cobb, Bethany George Washington University 2012A-0156 CTIO 1.3m 3.6

Optical/IR Follow-Up of Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS

Cobb, Bethany George Washington University 2012A-0198 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.15

Late-time Observations of Exceptional Swift and Fermi GRBs: Gemini South Standard Targets of Opportunity

Cooke, Ryan Institute of Astronomy 2012A-0274 GEM-N GEM-N 2

The Physical Properties of Near-Pristine Gas at High Redshift

Cote, Patrick Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics 2012A-0365 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.86

The Origin of Low-Mass, Early-Type Galaxies: A GMOS/IFU Survey of the Virgo Cluster

Crotts, Arlin Columbia University 2012A-0475 CTIO 0.9m-SVC 3.5

SN 1987A's Vacuum UV/Optical Light Echo Evolution

Cucchiara, Antonino University of California, Santa Cruz 2012A-0261 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.5

Exceptional Swift and Fermi GRBs: Gemini South Rapid Targets of Opportunity

Curtis, Jason Pennsylvania State University 2012A-0315 CTIO 4m-TBD 2

Ruprecht 147: Membership and Chromospheric Activity Survey of the Closest Old Cluster

Cushing, Michael University of Toledo 2012A-0355 GEM-N GEM-NQ 2.41

Northern Hemisphere Follow-Up Observations of WISE Brown Dwarf Candidates

Dell'Antonio, Ian Brown University 2012A-0382 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.7

A Strong Lensing Measurement in the Anomalous Cluster Abell 781D

Deming, Drake University of Maryland 2012A-0496 KPNO 2.1m 6.5

A Near-infrared Exoplanet Transit and Eclipse Survey

Desert, Jean-Michel Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0497 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.8

Relative atmospheric compositions of a multiplanet system

Dey, Arjun National Optical Astronomy Observatory 2012A-0353 MMT MMT 2

Mapping the Cosmic Web at z~2.7

Do, Tuan University of California, Irvine 2012A-0439 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.5

Determining the physical properties and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster with NIFS

Dong, Hui National Optical Astronomy Observatory 2012A-0545 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.7

Isolated massive star formation in the Galactic Center: Constraining key stellar properties with high-resolution NIR spectroscopy

Drake, Andrew California Institute of Technology--Ctr for Advanced Computing Research 2012A-0247 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.9

Supernovae in Extreme Environments

Eisner, Joshua University of Arizona 2012A-0057 CHARA 3

Imaging Sub-AU-Sized Regions of Protoplanetary Disks in the near-IR

Fadely, Ross Haverford College 2012A-0148 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.26

Searching for Our Faintest Neighbors: Deep Imaging of Candidate Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Satellites

Faherty, Jacqueline Universidad de Chile 2012A-0265 CTIO 4m-TBD 4

The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project: Disentangling How Dust and Age Effect Brown Dwarf and Exoplanet Data

Fine, Stephen University of Durham 2012A-0238 MMT MMT 3

Reverberation mapping of ~1000 QSOs

Foley, Ryan Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0320 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.35

The Most Precise Distances to Type Ia Supernovae

Fox, Derek Pennsylvania State University 2012A-0241 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.2

Gamma-Ray Bursts: Progenitors, Physics, and Cosmology

Geballe, Thomas Gemini Observatory 2012A-0095 GEM-N GEM-NQ

Additional Probes of the Galactic Center's Interstellar Medium - continuation

Gelino, Christopher California Institute of Technology--IPAC 2012A-0279 CTIO SOAR 5

Photometric Follow-up of WISE Brown Dwarf Candidates

Giammichele, Noemi University of Montreal 2012A-0285 KPNO 4m-PRE 4

Understanding the Spectral Evolution of Helium-Line DB White Dwarfs

Ginsburg, Idan Dartmouth College 2012A-0257 KPNO WIYN 4

Detecting Photometric Variability of Hypervelocity Stars

Gizis, John University of Delaware 2012A-0423 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.9

L Dwarf Variability: Clouds or Spots?

Gonzalez, Anthony University of Florida 2012A-0204 CTIO SOAR 5

A WISE Search for the Most Massive High Redshift Galaxy Clusters

Gonzalez, Anthony University of Florida 2012A-0204 KPNO WIYN 2

A WISE Search for the Most Massive High Redshift Galaxy Clusters

Grise, Fabien University of Iowa 2012A-0397 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.67

A direct test on the nature of the optical emission in an ultraluminous X-ray source

Haggard, Daryl Northwestern University 2012A-0093 GEM-S GEM-SQ 3.1

X-ray Binary Candidates Along Omega Centauri's Annomolous Subgiant Branch

Haines, Christopher University of Arizona 2012A-0412 KPNO 0.9m 7

KPNO 0.9m H(alpha) Imaging Survey of ``Transforming Galaxies" in Local Galaxy Groups

Hargis, Jonathan Indiana University 2012A-0155 KPNO 4m 5

Probing Giant Galaxy Formation with Mosaic Imaging of Globular Cluster Systems

Hillen, Michel Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2012A-0383 CHARA 1

Resolving the Roche lobe filling giant in the recurrent nova T CrB: a solution to the ``continually embarrassing problem'' of symbiotic binaries?

Hillwig, Todd Valparaiso University 2012A-0184 CTIO 1.3m 7

Detecting Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Faint Target Photometry

Hillwig, Todd Valparaiso University 2012A-0184 CTIO SOAR 4

Detecting Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Faint Target Photometry

Hillwig, Todd Valparaiso University 2012A-0184 KPNO 2.1m 4.5

Detecting Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Faint Target Photometry

Hinkle, Kenneth National Optical Astronomy Observatory 2012A-0258 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.1 (DD)

Imaging the debris cloud around the final flash star IRAS15154-5258

Howard, Andrew University of California, Berkeley 2012A-0557 KPNO 0.9m 2

Properties and Ephemeris of HD 97658b

Howell, Steve NASA Ames Research Center 2012A-0048 KPNO 4m 7.5

Spectroscopy of Kepler Exo-planet Transit Candidate Stars

Howell, Steve NASA Ames Research Center 2012A-0049 KPNO WIYN 6

Speckle and Lucky Imaging of Kepler Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars

Howell, D. Andrew University of California, Santa Barbara 2012A-0546 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1

Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae to reveal progenitors

Howell, D. Andrew University of California, Santa Barbara 2012A-0556 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.5

Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae to reveal progenitors

Hsiao, Eric Y. Carnegie Institution of Washington 2012A-0295 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.47

Late-time near-infrared spectroscopy of SN 2011fe

Hsieh, Henry National Tsing Hua University 2012A-0104 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.05

Searching for High Velocity Jets in DCE185 - The Only VeLLO with H_2 Jet Detection

Hsieh, Henry University of Hawaii 2012A-0461 CTIO SOAR 2

Nucleus Characterization of Main-Belt Comet P/Garradd

Hsieh, Henry University of Hawaii/IfA-CFHT 2012A-0464 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.6

The Sublimation-Driven Nature of Main-Belt Comet Activity

Jacobson, Seth University of Colorado 2012A-0255 KPNO 2.1m 5

Directly detecting the BYORP effect and further characterization of near- Earth asteroid binaries

James, Bethan Space Telescope Science Institute 2012A-0127 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.1

The True Abundances of Star-Forming Galaxies: Ionized Gas with GMOS-IFU vs Neutral Gas with HST-COS

Janson, Markus Princeton University 2012A-0064 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.55

Follow-up of young planet and brown dwarf candidates in the Sco-Cen region

Jha, Saurabh Rutgers University 2012A-0200 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.12

Adding to the Treasury: Spectroscopic Classification of High-Redshift Supernovae Discovered by HST

Jha, Saurabh Rutgers University 2012A-0200 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.12

Adding to the Treasury: Spectroscopic Classification of High-Redshift Supernovae Discovered by HST

Johnson, Christian University of California, Los Angeles 2012A-0428 CTIO 4m-TBD 2

Exploring the Population of Galactic Bulge Globular Clusters

Kaleida, Catherine Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 2012A-0594 CTIO 1.0m 1

CTIO REU/PIA Observations: Lyman-Alpha Blob Candidates and RR Lyrae Variables

Kannappan, Sheila University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2012A-0550 CTIO SOAR 3

Toward a Cosmic Mass Census: An Early Science Velocity Function for the RESOLVE Survey

Kasliwal, Mansi Carnegie Institution of Washington 2012A-0493 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.45

Rapid Spectroscopy of Elusive Transients and Young Supernovae

Kasliwal, Mansi Carnegie Institution of Washington 2012A-0494 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.45

Rapid Spectroscopy of Elusive Transients and Young Supernovae

Keel, William University of Alabama 2012A-0472 KPNO 2.1m 6.5

Extended dust in dwarf galaxies - solving an energy-budget paradox?

Keeney, Brian University of Colorado 2012A-0039 KPNO WIYN 5

Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web: A Galaxy Redshift Survey around HST/COS Target Sight Lines

Keeney, Brian University of Colorado 2012A-0311 GEM-N GEM-NQ 2.3

Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web: II. Associations of Galaxies with O VI Absorbers

Kepler, S.O. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sol 2012A-0214 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.8

The Most Massive Pulsating White Dwarf Stars

Kepler, S.O. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sol 2012A-0343 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.8

Are all high mass white dwarf stars magnetic? A test via GMOS Spectroscopy.

Kilic, Mukremin University of Oklahoma 2012A-0046 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.5

Gravitational Waves from the 12 minute Orbital Period Binary White Dwarf J0651+2844

Kilic, Mukremin University of Oklahoma 2012A-0055 Hale 4

The ELM Survey: Finding the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs

Kirkpatrick, Allison University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012A-0314 GEM-N GEM-NQ 2.25

Determining what drives outflows in high redshift galaxies

Kishimoto, Makoto Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie 2012A-0187 CHARA 1.2

Resolving the innermost dusty accretion in the brightest Type 1 AGN with the CHARA array

Kong, Albert National Tsing Hua University 2012A-0179 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.1

Spectroscopic confirmation of a compact binary system within a supernova remnant

Krane, Thomas University of Pennsylvania 2012A-0319 KPNO 2.1m 4

Photometric Imaging and Richness Analysis of High Redshift X-ray Bright Galaxy Clusters

Kriek, Mariska Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0437 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.75

Physical Properties of z~1.5 Galaxies as a Function of Spectral Type

Landolt, Arlo Louisiana State University 2012A-0006 KPNO 2.1m 26

Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star fields: KPNO

Lee, Kyoung-Soo Yale University 2012A-0454 KPNO 4m 3.5

Unveiling the Most Massive Structure at z=3.78

Lena, Davide Rochester Institute of Technology 2012A-0385 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.7

Mapping sub-kiloparsec gas flows in nearby AGN

Levan, Andrew University of Warwick 2012A-0181 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.49

The late time behaviour of a relativsitic tidal disruption event

Levitan, David California Institute of Technology-Dept of Physics, Math, Astronomy 2012A-0490 KPNO 4m 2

Classification of PTF-identified Outbursting Galactic Sources

Li, Dan University of Florida 2012A-0477 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.32

Probing the protoplanetary disk of TW Hya with T-ReCS

Lonsdale, Carol National Radio Astronomy Headquarters 2012A-0480 CTIO SOAR 4

Young and Highly Obscured Radio Feedback Candidates in the WISE Survey

Lotz, Jennifer Space Telescope Science Institute 2012A-0242 CTIO 1.0m 3

The Evolutionary Paths of Nearby Green Galaxies

Luhman, Kevin Pennsylvania State University 2012A-0060 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.06

Confirmation of an Edge-on Disk around a Brown Dwarf

Luhman, Kevin Pennsylvania State University 2012A-0133 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.09

Spectroscopy of a New T dwarf Companion to a Nearby Star

Ly, Chun Space Telescope Science Institute 2012A-0373 KPNO 4m 2

Galaxy Evolution with a Complete Photometric Redshift Census at z~2-3

Ma, Bo University of Florida 2012A-0511 KPNO 2.1mQ 7

Follow-up of an unbiased binary (brown dwarf) sample using EXPERT

Mack, Claude Vanderbilt University 2012A-0572 MMT MMT 1

Detailed chemical abundance analysis of planet-hosting wide binaries

Mandelbaum, Rachel Carnegie Mellon University 2012A-0272 KPNO 4m 4

Normalization and scatter of the mass-temperature relation for supermassive galaxy clusters

Maqueo Chew, Yilen Gomez Vanderbilt University 2012A-0172 KPNO 4m 3

Homogeneous Characterization of Transiting Exoplanet Systems

Martin, Eduardo University of Florida 2012A-0213 KPNO 4m 4

A spectroscopic follow-up of ultracool dwarf candidates in the Kepler field of view

Mason, Rachel Gemini Observatory 2012A-0469 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.9

NIR spectroscopy of Palomar emission-line galaxies

Mauerhan, Jon University of Arizona 2012A-0528 CTIO 1.3m 2.25

A Search for Eclipses from Three Extraordinary Massive Colliding-Wind Binaries

Mauerhan, Jon University of Arizona 2012A-0592 CTIO 1.3m 4.9

Photometric Monitoring of a New Sample of Candidate Luminous Blue Variables

McConnell, Nicholas University of California, Berkeley 2012A-0582 GEM-S GEM-SQ 1.8

A Southern Hemisphere Survey of Black Holes

McDermid, Richard Gemini Observatory 2012A-0451 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.5

Characterizing the Near-Infrared SEDs of Early-Type Galaxies with Atlas3D: Answering the TP-AGB Question

McMillan, Robert University of Arizona 2012A-0182 KPNO 4m 1.5

Astrometry and Multicolor Taxonomic Photometry of Near-Earth Objects Detected by WISE

Meibom, Soren Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0138 KPNO WIYN 1

The connections between binarity, circumstellar disks, and stellar rotation

Melis, Carl University of California, San Diego 2012A-0400 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.02

The Amazing Disappearing Disk

Menanteau, Felipe Rutgers University 2012A-0312 GEM-S GEM-S 1

Mass Calibration of a Sample of ACT SZE-Selected Galaxy Clusters

Metchev, Stanimir State University of New York, Stony Brook 2012A-0583 GEM-S GEM-SQ 2.1

A Sensitive Search for Exozodi Across the Ten-Micron Silicate Feature

Milisavljevic, Dan Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0389 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.36

Resolving SN Ejecta Asymmetries with High-Dispersion Spectra

Miller, Adam University of California, Berkeley 2012A-0473 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 0.5

The Automated Detection of R Cor Bor Stars - Spectroscopic Confirmation

Modjaz, Maryam New York University 2012A-0345 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.6

Host Galaxy Spectra of Stripped SN from the Palomar Transient Factory: SN Progenitor Diagnostics and the SN-GRB Connection

Mortazavi, S Alireza Johns Hopkins University 2012A-0322 KPNO WIYN 2

SparsePak Kinematics of Tidally Interacting Galaxy Pairs

Mueller, Beatrice Planetary Science Institute 2012A-0106 KPNO 2.1m 7.5

The rotational evolution of comet 10P/Tempel 2

Myers, Adam University of Wyoming 2012A-0398 GEM-S GEM-SQ 2

Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium of Low and High Mass Galaxies with Close Quasar Pairs

Najarro, Paco Consejo Superior de Investigacions Cientificas 2012A-0391 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.6

Metallicity in the Quintuplet Cluster and the Galactic Center: Evidence for a top-heavy star formation history?

Najita, Joan National Optical Astronomy Observatory 2012A-0099 CTIO 4m-TBD 2

Transition Objects: Photoevaporation, Grain Growth, or Planet-Forming Disks?

Naud, Marie-Eve University of Montreal 2012A-0310 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.3

A Planet Search around Young-associations M dwarfs (PSYM survey)

Oluseyi, Hakeem Florida Institute of Technology 2012A-0246 CTIO 0.9m-SVC 3

Multi-Color Photometry of New SX Phe Stars

Papics, Peter Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2012A-0348 MMT MMT 3

Core overshooting and rotation inside main-sequence B pulsators: an intensive spectroscopic follow-up in quest of mode identification from line profile variations

Papovich, Casey Texas A & M University 2012A-0574 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.45

H-alpha Narrow Band Imaging of a Forming Cluster at z=2.2

Patterson, Maria New Mexico State University 2012A-0185 KPNO 4m 4

Continuing Observations of Stellar Streams and Star Formation in the Outskirts of HALOGAS Spiral Galaxies

Pepper, Joshua Vanderbilt University 2012A-0325 KPNO 2.1mQ 8

Follow-up and Confirmation of Transiting Planet Candidates From the KELT Survey

Perlmutter, Saul Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2012A-0308 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.41

Galaxy Cluster Supernovae at z~0.5: Dissecting the Hubble Diagram

Petersen, Eric University of Florida 2012A-0558 KPNO 2.1mQ 7

Spectroscopic Verification of Stellar Parameters for a Subsample of Metal-Poor MARVELS Stars

Prochaska, Jason Xavier University of California, Santa Cruz 2012A-0052 Hale 4

Quasars Probing Quasars: New Constraints on the Quasar Phenomenon from the Transverse Proximity Effect

Quinn, Samuel Georgia State University 2012A-0549 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.5

Close visual companions to transiting exoplanet host stars

Reed, Mike Missouri State University 2012A-0161 KPNO 2.1m 12

Testing theoretical models of subdwarf B stars using multicolor photometry

Rest, Armin Space Telescope Science Institute 2012A-0419 KPNO 4m 7

Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions

Rhoads, James Arizona State University 2012A-0581 KPNO 4m 3.5

Narrow-band search for Redshift 7.7 Lyman-(alpha) Galaxies

Richardson, Noel Georgia State University 2012A-0216 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 3.75

The Effects of Multiplicity on Luminous Blue Variables

Romani, Roger Stanford University 2011B-0092 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 2.5

The Radial Velocity Curve of a Gamma-ray Binary

Rothberg, Barry George Mason University 2012A-0224 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.8

Unveiling the Young Central Stellar Disk in the Advanced LIRG Arp 193: An In-Depth, Multi-Wavelength Case Study

Rudnick, Gregory University of Kansas 2012A-0289 KPNO 4m 3

The Suppression of Star Formation in the Infall Regions of Clusters

Rupke, David Rhodes College 2012A-0270 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1

QSO Feedback in Action: The Inner Structure of a Large-Scale QSO Wind

Rupke, David Rhodes College 2012A-0288 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.3

QSO Feedback in Action: Surveying Large-Scale QSO Winds in Major Mergers

Sahu, Kailash Space Telescope Science Institute 2012A-0520 GEM-S GEM-SQ 2.1

Discovery of Isolated Black Holes and Neutron Stars through Astrometric Microlensing

Satyapal, Shobita George Mason University 2012A-0275 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.25

The Lowest Mass Supermassive Black Hole in the Universe? The Gemini View of NGC 4178

Schechtman-Rook, Andrew University of Wisconsin, Madison 2012A-0360 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.8

Stellar Populations in Edge-on Spiral Disks

Schuler, Simon National Optical Astronomy Observatory 2012A-0484 GEM-N GEM-N 1

C/O Ratios of Stars with Transiting Hot Jupiters: Connecting Stars to Planets

Seth, Anil University of Utah 2012A-0367 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.81

VCC 1254: A fat black hole in a wimpy galaxy?

Sheffield, Allyson Columbia University 2012A-0305 KPNO 4m 3.5

Exploring the Origin of M Giant Stars in the Nearby Galactic Halo

Sheppard, Scott Carnegie Institution of Washington 2012A-0072 CTIO 0.9m-SVC 8.5

Precise Astrometry for Predicting Kuiper Belt Object Occultations

Sheppard, Scott Carnegie Institution of Washington 2012A-0569 KPNO 4m 5

Beyond the Kuiper Belt Edge

Stocke, John University of Colorado 2012A-0038 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.5

Highly Obscured Radio-Loud Quasars

Strauss, Michael Princeton University 2012A-0208 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.5

Rest-Frame Optical Spectra of High-Redshift Obscured Quasars

Stringfellow, Guy University of Colorado 2012A-0580 KPNO 4m 9.5

Star Formation Within the Giant HII Region W80

Stringfellow, Guy University of Colorado 2012A-0589 CTIO 1.3m 1

Confirming LBV Candidates Through Variability: A Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring Study

Stringfellow, Guy University of Colorado 2012A-0589 CTIO 1.5m-SVC 1.5

Confirming LBV Candidates Through Variability: A Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring Study

Sullivan, Mark University of Oxford 2012A-0189 GEM-N GEM-NQ 2.38

The Host Galaxies of Local PTF Type Ia Supernovae

Tanvir, Nial University of Leicester 2012A-0205 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.3

Late-time Observations of Exceptional GRBs: Gemini North Standard Targets of Opportunity

Tejos, Nicolas University of Durham 2012A-0176 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.55

Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web

Tejos, Nicolas University of Durham 2012A-0180 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.35

Gas around Galaxies over the last 7 billion years

Telesco, Charles University of Florida 2012A-0100 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.27

Mid-IR Exploration of an Edge-On Protoplanetary Disk

Thomas, Cristina Northern Arizona University 2012A-0575 KPNO 4m 3

Physical Characterization of the Near-Earth Object Population

Tobin, John National Radio Astronomy Observatory 2012A-0435 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.04

Probing the Youngest Proto-Planetary Disks: Mid-Infrared Scattered Light Imaging at High Resolution

Trippe, Margaret University of Maryland 2012A-0463 CTIO SOAR 4

Understanding the Activation of Local Dual AGN

Trueblood, Mark National Optical Astronomy Observatory 2012A-0056 KPNO 2.1m 4.5

Long Term Follow-up of Near Earth Objects

Trujillo, Chadwick Gemini Observatory 2012A-0287 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.5

Water Ice on Outer Satellites of the Giant Planets

Tsai, Chao-Wei California Institute of Technology--IPAC 2012A-0427 CTIO SOAR 2

Searching for Mid-IR Bright, Low-Metallicity Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies

Tucker, Brad Australian National University 2012A-0096 GEM-N GEM-NQ 1.2

Catching Supernovae in the Act with KISS (Kepler International Supernova Search)

Vanderbeke, Joachim European Southern Observatory 2012A-0356 CTIO 1.0m 7

Finishing Off The Galactic Globular Cluster System

Veilleux, Sylvain University of Maryland 2012A-0256 KPNO 4m 5

Neutral Winds in Local Quasar-Dominated Mergers

Veilleux, Sylvain University of Maryland 2012A-0507 GEM-N GEM-N 1

Spectroscopic Follow-up of z ~ 8 Ly(alpha) Emitters in the COSMOS Field

Wang, Junfeng Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 2012A-0489 GEM-N GEM-NQ 0.26

Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of an AGN Pair in a Nearby Spiral Galaxy

Williams, T Rutgers University 2012A-0090 KPNO 2.1m 8

Cold Dark Matter and the Structure of Spiral Galaxies

Williams, Stephen Georgia State University 2012A-0132 KPNO 4m 6

Spectroscopic Orbits for Kepler FOV Eclipsing Binaries

Winter, Lisa University of Colorado 2012A-0386 CTIO SOAR 3

Optical Outflows and Emission Line Properties in X-ray Obscured AGNs

Winters, Jennifer Georgia State University 2012A-0102 CTIO 0.9m 5

Finding Friends for 1200 Red Dwarfs

Worseck, Gabor University of California, Santa Cruz 2012A-0084 KPNO 4m 5

A dedicated quasar survey to identify the sources of He2 reionization

Zepf, Steve Michigan State University 2012A-0440 GEM-S GEM-SQ 0.6

A Search for Optical Emission Lines from the Globular Cluster Black-Hole Source CXOU1229410+075744

Zhao, Ping Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2012A-0226 CTIO 4m-TBD 3

The Mass Function of a New Candidate of Quiescent Low-Mass X-ray Binary

PI	*Institution*	*Prop. ID*	*Site*	*Tel.*	*Nts.*
*Proposal Title*

Allen, Peter	University of Pennsylvania	2012A-0195	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.61
A Multi-Epoch Survey for Faint, Close, Low-Mass Tertiaries to Nearby Spectroscopic Binaries: Follow-up Confirmation

Aller, Monique	University of South Carolina	2012A-0254	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	1.61
A Multi-Wavelength Optical Imaging Study of a Unique Star-Forming Environment: Polar Rings

Andrews, Jennifer	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	2012A-0223	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.87
Dust Formation and Circumstellar Medium Interaction in Two Massive, Bright Core-Collapse SNe, 2010jl and 2011fh

Austerberry, David	Creighton University	2012A-0521	KPNO	4m	3
Constraining BALQSO Kinetic Luminosity with CIII Absorption*

Badenes, Carles	University of Pittsburgh	2012A-0488	KPNO	4m	4.5
Spectroscopic follow-up of the SWARMS survey

Baines, Ellyn	Naval Research Laboratory	2012A-0075		CHARA	1
Measuring Potential Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Host K Giant Stars

Barkhouse, Wayne	University of North Dakota	2012A-0552	KPNO	2.1m	4
Optical Counterparts to ChaMPx Extended Sources

Bartlett, James	California Institute of Technology--JPL	2012A-0430	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	5
Planck SZ Clusters: Follow-up of the Planck Galaxy Cluster Catalog

Bastien, Fabienne	Vanderbilt University	2012A-0212	KPNO	WIYN	2
Identifying Photometric and Chromospheric Activity Correlations of Kepler Stars

Bauer, James	California Institute of Technology--JPL	2012A-0085	CTIO	SOAR	2
A WISE Long Period Comet Survey

Beers, Timothy	National Optical Astronomy Observatory	2012A-0092	GEM-S	GEM-SQ
A Survey for Unrecognized Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy

Benecchi, Susan	Carnegie Institution of Washington	2012A-0136	CTIO	SOAR	1
Resolved Lightcurves of Cold Classical Transneptunian Binaries and One Mutual Event

Bentz, Misty	Georgia State University	2012A-0163	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.4
A Stellar Dynamical Black Hole Mass for the Reverberation-Mapped Active Galaxy NGC6814

Berger, Edo	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0194	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.6
Exotic Explosions and Eruptions: Exploring a New Transient Phase-Space with Pan-STARRS

Berger, Edo	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0197	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.6
Exotic Explosions and Eruptions: Exploring a New Transient Phase-Space with Pan-STARRS

Bianco, Federica	University of California, Santa Barbara	2012A-0548	CTIO	SOAR	2
Multiband monitoring of light echoes from the historical eruptions of Eta Carinae

Bowler, Brendan	University of Hawaii	2012A-0492	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	2.2
An Efficient Search for Young Wide Planetary-Mass Companions

Britt, Christopher	Louisiana State University	2012A-0424	CTIO	1.0m	7
Photometric Calibration and Bright Variables in the Chandra Galactic Bulge Survey

Brittain, Sean	Clemson University	2012A-0344	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.05
HI emission lines on young stars: accretion or ejection tracers? A spectro-astrometric survey with GEMINI/NIFS

Brown, Alexander	University of Colorado	2012A-0332	MMT	MMT	4
MMT Hectochelle Spectral Variability of Active Late-type Stars in the Kepler Field (2012A)

Bryngelson, Ginger	Clemson University	2012A-0540	KPNO	4m	7
Physics of Supernovae Type Ia at Late Epochs

Bussmann, Robert	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0268	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.78
Longslit Spectroscopy of Lensing Galaxies Discovered in the Herschel-ATLAS

Chiang, Poshih	National Central University	2012A-0565	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.5
Young planetary objects in the Ophiuchi dark cloud

Ciardullo, Robin	Pennsylvania State University	2012A-0282	KPNO	4m	8
An Imaging Survey for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Clayton, Geoffrey	Louisiana State University	2012A-0222	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.29
The Natural Coronographs of R Coronae Borealis Stars

Cobb, Bethany	George Washington University	2012A-0156	CTIO	1.3m	3.6
Optical/IR Follow-Up of Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS

Cobb, Bethany	George Washington University	2012A-0198	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.15
Late-time Observations of Exceptional Swift and Fermi GRBs: Gemini South Standard Targets of Opportunity

Cooke, Ryan	Institute of Astronomy	2012A-0274	GEM-N	GEM-N	2
The Physical Properties of Near-Pristine Gas at High Redshift

Cote, Patrick	Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics	2012A-0365	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.86
The Origin of Low-Mass, Early-Type Galaxies: A GMOS/IFU Survey of the Virgo Cluster

Crotts, Arlin	Columbia University	2012A-0475	CTIO	0.9m-SVC	3.5
SN 1987A's Vacuum UV/Optical Light Echo Evolution

Cucchiara, Antonino	University of California, Santa Cruz	2012A-0261	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.5
Exceptional Swift and Fermi GRBs: Gemini South Rapid Targets of Opportunity

Curtis, Jason	Pennsylvania State University	2012A-0315	CTIO	4m-TBD	2
Ruprecht 147: Membership and Chromospheric Activity Survey of the Closest Old Cluster

Cushing, Michael	University of Toledo	2012A-0355	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	2.41
Northern Hemisphere Follow-Up Observations of WISE Brown Dwarf Candidates

Dell'Antonio, Ian	Brown University	2012A-0382	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.7
A Strong Lensing Measurement in the Anomalous Cluster Abell 781D

Deming, Drake	University of Maryland	2012A-0496	KPNO	2.1m	6.5
A Near-infrared Exoplanet Transit and Eclipse Survey

Desert, Jean-Michel	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0497	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.8
Relative atmospheric compositions of a multiplanet system

Dey, Arjun	National Optical Astronomy Observatory	2012A-0353	MMT	MMT	2
Mapping the Cosmic Web at z~2.7

Do, Tuan	University of California, Irvine	2012A-0439	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.5
Determining the physical properties and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster with NIFS

Dong, Hui	National Optical Astronomy Observatory	2012A-0545	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.7
Isolated massive star formation in the Galactic Center: Constraining key stellar properties with high-resolution NIR spectroscopy

Drake, Andrew	California Institute of Technology--Ctr for Advanced Computing Research	2012A-0247	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.9
Supernovae in Extreme Environments

Eisner, Joshua	University of Arizona	2012A-0057		CHARA	3
Imaging Sub-AU-Sized Regions of Protoplanetary Disks in the near-IR

Fadely, Ross	Haverford College	2012A-0148	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.26
Searching for Our Faintest Neighbors: Deep Imaging of Candidate Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Satellites

Faherty, Jacqueline	Universidad de Chile	2012A-0265	CTIO	4m-TBD	4
The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project: Disentangling How Dust and Age Effect Brown Dwarf and Exoplanet Data

Fine, Stephen	University of Durham	2012A-0238	MMT	MMT	3
Reverberation mapping of ~1000 QSOs

Foley, Ryan	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0320	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	1.35
The Most Precise Distances to Type Ia Supernovae

Fox, Derek	Pennsylvania State University	2012A-0241	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.2
Gamma-Ray Bursts: Progenitors, Physics, and Cosmology

Geballe, Thomas	Gemini Observatory	2012A-0095	GEM-N	GEM-NQ
Additional Probes of the Galactic Center's Interstellar Medium - continuation

Gelino, Christopher	California Institute of Technology--IPAC	2012A-0279	CTIO	SOAR	5
Photometric Follow-up of WISE Brown Dwarf Candidates

Giammichele, Noemi	University of Montreal	2012A-0285	KPNO	4m-PRE	4
Understanding the Spectral Evolution of Helium-Line DB White Dwarfs

Ginsburg, Idan	Dartmouth College	2012A-0257	KPNO	WIYN	4
Detecting Photometric Variability of Hypervelocity Stars

Gizis, John	University of Delaware	2012A-0423	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.9
L Dwarf Variability: Clouds or Spots?

Gonzalez, Anthony	University of Florida	2012A-0204	CTIO	SOAR	5
A WISE Search for the Most Massive High Redshift Galaxy Clusters

Gonzalez, Anthony	University of Florida	2012A-0204	KPNO	WIYN	2
A WISE Search for the Most Massive High Redshift Galaxy Clusters

Grise, Fabien	University of Iowa	2012A-0397	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.67
A direct test on the nature of the optical emission in an ultraluminous X-ray source

Haggard, Daryl	Northwestern University	2012A-0093	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	3.1
X-ray Binary Candidates Along Omega Centauri's Annomolous Subgiant Branch

Haines, Christopher	University of Arizona	2012A-0412	KPNO	0.9m	7
KPNO 0.9m H(alpha) Imaging Survey of ``Transforming Galaxies" in Local Galaxy Groups

Hargis, Jonathan	Indiana University	2012A-0155	KPNO	4m	5
Probing Giant Galaxy Formation with Mosaic Imaging of Globular Cluster Systems

Hillen, Michel	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	2012A-0383		CHARA	1
Resolving the Roche lobe filling giant in the recurrent nova T CrB: a solution to the ``continually embarrassing problem'' of symbiotic binaries?

Hillwig, Todd	Valparaiso University	2012A-0184	CTIO	1.3m	7
Detecting Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Faint Target Photometry

Hillwig, Todd	Valparaiso University	2012A-0184	CTIO	SOAR	4
Detecting Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Faint Target Photometry

Hillwig, Todd	Valparaiso University	2012A-0184	KPNO	2.1m	4.5
Detecting Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Faint Target Photometry

Hinkle, Kenneth	National Optical Astronomy Observatory	2012A-0258	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.1 (DD)
Imaging the debris cloud around the final flash star IRAS15154-5258

Howard, Andrew	University of California, Berkeley	2012A-0557	KPNO	0.9m	2
Properties and Ephemeris of HD 97658b

Howell, Steve	NASA Ames Research Center	2012A-0048	KPNO	4m	7.5
Spectroscopy of Kepler Exo-planet Transit Candidate Stars

Howell, Steve	NASA Ames Research Center	2012A-0049	KPNO	WIYN	6
Speckle and Lucky Imaging of Kepler Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars

Howell, D. Andrew	University of California, Santa Barbara	2012A-0546	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1
Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae to reveal progenitors

Howell, D. Andrew	University of California, Santa Barbara	2012A-0556	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.5
Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae to reveal progenitors

Hsiao, Eric Y.	Carnegie Institution of Washington	2012A-0295	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.47
Late-time near-infrared spectroscopy of SN 2011fe

Hsieh, Henry	National Tsing Hua University	2012A-0104	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.05
Searching for High Velocity Jets in DCE185 - The Only VeLLO with H_2 Jet Detection

Hsieh, Henry	University of Hawaii	2012A-0461	CTIO	SOAR	2
Nucleus Characterization of Main-Belt Comet P/Garradd

Hsieh, Henry	University of Hawaii/IfA-CFHT	2012A-0464	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.6
The Sublimation-Driven Nature of Main-Belt Comet Activity

Jacobson, Seth	University of Colorado	2012A-0255	KPNO	2.1m	5
Directly detecting the BYORP effect and further characterization of near- Earth asteroid binaries

James, Bethan	Space Telescope Science Institute	2012A-0127	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.1
The True Abundances of Star-Forming Galaxies: Ionized Gas with GMOS-IFU vs Neutral Gas with HST-COS

Janson, Markus	Princeton University	2012A-0064	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.55
Follow-up of young planet and brown dwarf candidates in the Sco-Cen region

Jha, Saurabh	Rutgers University	2012A-0200	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.12
Adding to the Treasury: Spectroscopic Classification of High-Redshift Supernovae Discovered by HST

Jha, Saurabh	Rutgers University	2012A-0200	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	1.12
Adding to the Treasury: Spectroscopic Classification of High-Redshift Supernovae Discovered by HST

Johnson, Christian	University of California, Los Angeles	2012A-0428	CTIO	4m-TBD	2
Exploring the Population of Galactic Bulge Globular Clusters

Kaleida, Catherine	Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory	2012A-0594	CTIO	1.0m	1
CTIO REU/PIA Observations: Lyman-Alpha Blob Candidates and RR Lyrae Variables

Kannappan, Sheila	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	2012A-0550	CTIO	SOAR	3
Toward a Cosmic Mass Census: An Early Science Velocity Function for the RESOLVE Survey

Kasliwal, Mansi	Carnegie Institution of Washington	2012A-0493	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.45
Rapid Spectroscopy of Elusive Transients and Young Supernovae

Kasliwal, Mansi	Carnegie Institution of Washington	2012A-0494	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.45
Rapid Spectroscopy of Elusive Transients and Young Supernovae

Keel, William	University of Alabama	2012A-0472	KPNO	2.1m	6.5
Extended dust in dwarf galaxies - solving an energy-budget paradox?

Keeney, Brian	University of Colorado	2012A-0039	KPNO	WIYN	5
Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web: A Galaxy Redshift Survey around HST/COS Target Sight Lines

Keeney, Brian	University of Colorado	2012A-0311	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	2.3
Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web: II. Associations of Galaxies with O VI Absorbers

Kepler, S.O.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sol	2012A-0214	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.8
The Most Massive Pulsating White Dwarf Stars

Kepler, S.O.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sol	2012A-0343	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.8
Are all high mass white dwarf stars magnetic? A test via GMOS Spectroscopy.

Kilic, Mukremin	University of Oklahoma	2012A-0046	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.5
Gravitational Waves from the 12 minute Orbital Period Binary White Dwarf J0651+2844

Kilic, Mukremin	University of Oklahoma	2012A-0055		Hale	4
The ELM Survey: Finding the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs

Kirkpatrick, Allison	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	2012A-0314	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	2.25
Determining what drives outflows in high redshift galaxies

Kishimoto, Makoto	Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie	2012A-0187		CHARA	1.2
Resolving the innermost dusty accretion in the brightest Type 1 AGN with the CHARA array

Kong, Albert	National Tsing Hua University	2012A-0179	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.1
Spectroscopic confirmation of a compact binary system within a supernova remnant

Krane, Thomas	University of Pennsylvania	2012A-0319	KPNO	2.1m	4
Photometric Imaging and Richness Analysis of High Redshift X-ray Bright Galaxy Clusters

Kriek, Mariska	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0437	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.75
Physical Properties of z~1.5 Galaxies as a Function of Spectral Type

Landolt, Arlo	Louisiana State University	2012A-0006	KPNO	2.1m	26
Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star fields: KPNO

Lee, Kyoung-Soo	Yale University	2012A-0454	KPNO	4m	3.5
Unveiling the Most Massive Structure at z=3.78

Lena, Davide	Rochester Institute of Technology	2012A-0385	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.7
Mapping sub-kiloparsec gas flows in nearby AGN

Levan, Andrew	University of Warwick	2012A-0181	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.49
The late time behaviour of a relativsitic tidal disruption event

Levitan, David	California Institute of Technology-Dept of Physics, Math, Astronomy	2012A-0490	KPNO	4m	2
Classification of PTF-identified Outbursting Galactic Sources

Li, Dan	University of Florida	2012A-0477	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.32
Probing the protoplanetary disk of TW Hya with T-ReCS

Lonsdale, Carol	National Radio Astronomy Headquarters	2012A-0480	CTIO	SOAR	4
Young and Highly Obscured Radio Feedback Candidates in the WISE Survey

Lotz, Jennifer	Space Telescope Science Institute	2012A-0242	CTIO	1.0m	3
The Evolutionary Paths of Nearby Green Galaxies

Luhman, Kevin	Pennsylvania State University	2012A-0060	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.06
Confirmation of an Edge-on Disk around a Brown Dwarf

Luhman, Kevin	Pennsylvania State University	2012A-0133	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.09
Spectroscopy of a New T dwarf Companion to a Nearby Star

Ly, Chun	Space Telescope Science Institute	2012A-0373	KPNO	4m	2
Galaxy Evolution with a Complete Photometric Redshift Census at z~2-3

Ma, Bo	University of Florida	2012A-0511	KPNO	2.1mQ	7
Follow-up of an unbiased binary (brown dwarf) sample using EXPERT

Mack, Claude	Vanderbilt University	2012A-0572	MMT	MMT	1
Detailed chemical abundance analysis of planet-hosting wide binaries

Mandelbaum, Rachel	Carnegie Mellon University	2012A-0272	KPNO	4m	4
Normalization and scatter of the mass-temperature relation for supermassive galaxy clusters

Maqueo Chew, Yilen Gomez	Vanderbilt University	2012A-0172	KPNO	4m	3
Homogeneous Characterization of Transiting Exoplanet Systems

Martin, Eduardo	University of Florida	2012A-0213	KPNO	4m	4
A spectroscopic follow-up of ultracool dwarf candidates in the Kepler field of view

Mason, Rachel	Gemini Observatory	2012A-0469	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.9
NIR spectroscopy of Palomar emission-line galaxies

Mauerhan, Jon	University of Arizona	2012A-0528	CTIO	1.3m	2.25
A Search for Eclipses from Three Extraordinary Massive Colliding-Wind Binaries

Mauerhan, Jon	University of Arizona	2012A-0592	CTIO	1.3m	4.9
Photometric Monitoring of a New Sample of Candidate Luminous Blue Variables

McConnell, Nicholas	University of California, Berkeley	2012A-0582	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	1.8
A Southern Hemisphere Survey of Black Holes

McDermid, Richard	Gemini Observatory	2012A-0451	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.5
Characterizing the Near-Infrared SEDs of Early-Type Galaxies with Atlas3D: Answering the TP-AGB Question

McMillan, Robert	University of Arizona	2012A-0182	KPNO	4m	1.5
Astrometry and Multicolor Taxonomic Photometry of Near-Earth Objects Detected by WISE

Meibom, Soren	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0138	KPNO	WIYN	1
The connections between binarity, circumstellar disks, and stellar rotation

Melis, Carl	University of California, San Diego	2012A-0400	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.02
The Amazing Disappearing Disk

Menanteau, Felipe	Rutgers University	2012A-0312	GEM-S	GEM-S	1
Mass Calibration of a Sample of ACT SZE-Selected Galaxy Clusters

Metchev, Stanimir	State University of New York, Stony Brook	2012A-0583	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	2.1
A Sensitive Search for Exozodi Across the Ten-Micron Silicate Feature

Milisavljevic, Dan	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	2012A-0389	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.36
Resolving SN Ejecta Asymmetries with High-Dispersion Spectra

Miller, Adam	University of California, Berkeley	2012A-0473	CTIO	1.5m-SVC	0.5
The Automated Detection of R Cor Bor Stars - Spectroscopic Confirmation

Modjaz, Maryam	New York University	2012A-0345	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.6
Host Galaxy Spectra of Stripped SN from the Palomar Transient Factory: SN Progenitor Diagnostics and the SN-GRB Connection

Mortazavi, S Alireza	Johns Hopkins University	2012A-0322	KPNO	WIYN	2
SparsePak Kinematics of Tidally Interacting Galaxy Pairs

Mueller, Beatrice	Planetary Science Institute	2012A-0106	KPNO	2.1m	7.5
The rotational evolution of comet 10P/Tempel 2

Myers, Adam	University of Wyoming	2012A-0398	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	2
Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium of Low and High Mass Galaxies with Close Quasar Pairs

Najarro, Paco	Consejo Superior de Investigacions Cientificas	2012A-0391	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.6
Metallicity in the Quintuplet Cluster and the Galactic Center: Evidence for a top-heavy star formation history?

Najita, Joan	National Optical Astronomy Observatory	2012A-0099	CTIO	4m-TBD	2
Transition Objects: Photoevaporation, Grain Growth, or Planet-Forming Disks?

Naud, Marie-Eve	University of Montreal	2012A-0310	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.3
A Planet Search around Young-associations M dwarfs (PSYM survey)

Oluseyi, Hakeem	Florida Institute of Technology	2012A-0246	CTIO	0.9m-SVC	3
Multi-Color Photometry of New SX Phe Stars

Papics, Peter	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	2012A-0348	MMT	MMT	3
Core overshooting and rotation inside main-sequence B pulsators: an intensive spectroscopic follow-up in quest of mode identification from line profile variations

Papovich, Casey	Texas A & M University	2012A-0574	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.45
H-alpha Narrow Band Imaging of a Forming Cluster at z=2.2

Patterson, Maria	New Mexico State University	2012A-0185	KPNO	4m	4
Continuing Observations of Stellar Streams and Star Formation in the Outskirts of HALOGAS Spiral Galaxies

Pepper, Joshua	Vanderbilt University	2012A-0325	KPNO	2.1mQ	8
Follow-up and Confirmation of Transiting Planet Candidates From the KELT Survey

Perlmutter, Saul	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	2012A-0308	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.41
Galaxy Cluster Supernovae at z~0.5: Dissecting the Hubble Diagram

Petersen, Eric	University of Florida	2012A-0558	KPNO	2.1mQ	7
Spectroscopic Verification of Stellar Parameters for a Subsample of Metal-Poor MARVELS Stars

Prochaska, Jason Xavier	University of California, Santa Cruz	2012A-0052		Hale	4
Quasars Probing Quasars: New Constraints on the Quasar Phenomenon from the Transverse Proximity Effect

Quinn, Samuel	Georgia State University	2012A-0549	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.5
Close visual companions to transiting exoplanet host stars

Reed, Mike	Missouri State University	2012A-0161	KPNO	2.1m	12
Testing theoretical models of subdwarf B stars using multicolor photometry

Rest, Armin	Space Telescope Science Institute	2012A-0419	KPNO	4m	7
Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions

Rhoads, James	Arizona State University	2012A-0581	KPNO	4m	3.5
Narrow-band search for Redshift 7.7 Lyman-(alpha) Galaxies

Richardson, Noel	Georgia State University	2012A-0216	CTIO	1.5m-SVC	3.75
The Effects of Multiplicity on Luminous Blue Variables

Romani, Roger	Stanford University	2011B-0092	CTIO	1.5m-SVC	2.5
The Radial Velocity Curve of a Gamma-ray Binary

Rothberg, Barry	George Mason University	2012A-0224	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.8
Unveiling the Young Central Stellar Disk in the Advanced LIRG Arp 193: An In-Depth, Multi-Wavelength Case Study

Rudnick, Gregory	University of Kansas	2012A-0289	KPNO	4m	3
The Suppression of Star Formation in the Infall Regions of Clusters

Rupke, David	Rhodes College	2012A-0270	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1
QSO Feedback in Action: The Inner Structure of a Large-Scale QSO Wind

Rupke, David	Rhodes College	2012A-0288	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.3
QSO Feedback in Action: Surveying Large-Scale QSO Winds in Major Mergers

Sahu, Kailash	Space Telescope Science Institute	2012A-0520	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	2.1
Discovery of Isolated Black Holes and Neutron Stars through Astrometric Microlensing

Satyapal, Shobita	George Mason University	2012A-0275	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.25
The Lowest Mass Supermassive Black Hole in the Universe? The Gemini View of NGC 4178

Schechtman-Rook, Andrew	University of Wisconsin, Madison	2012A-0360	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.8
Stellar Populations in Edge-on Spiral Disks

Schuler, Simon	National Optical Astronomy Observatory	2012A-0484	GEM-N	GEM-N	1
C/O Ratios of Stars with Transiting Hot Jupiters: Connecting Stars to Planets

Seth, Anil	University of Utah	2012A-0367	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.81
VCC 1254: A fat black hole in a wimpy galaxy?

Sheffield, Allyson	Columbia University	2012A-0305	KPNO	4m	3.5
Exploring the Origin of M Giant Stars in the Nearby Galactic Halo

Sheppard, Scott	Carnegie Institution of Washington	2012A-0072	CTIO	0.9m-SVC	8.5
Precise Astrometry for Predicting Kuiper Belt Object Occultations

Sheppard, Scott	Carnegie Institution of Washington	2012A-0569	KPNO	4m	5
Beyond the Kuiper Belt Edge

Stocke, John	University of Colorado	2012A-0038	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.5
Highly Obscured Radio-Loud Quasars

Strauss, Michael	Princeton University	2012A-0208	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	1.5
Rest-Frame Optical Spectra of High-Redshift Obscured Quasars

Stringfellow, Guy	University of Colorado	2012A-0580	KPNO	4m	9.5
Star Formation Within the Giant HII Region W80

Stringfellow, Guy	University of Colorado	2012A-0589	CTIO	1.3m	1
Confirming LBV Candidates Through Variability: A Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring Study

Stringfellow, Guy	University of Colorado	2012A-0589	CTIO	1.5m-SVC	1.5
Confirming LBV Candidates Through Variability: A Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring Study

Sullivan, Mark	University of Oxford	2012A-0189	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	2.38
The Host Galaxies of Local PTF Type Ia Supernovae

Tanvir, Nial	University of Leicester	2012A-0205	GEM-N	GEM-NQ	0.3
Late-time Observations of Exceptional GRBs: Gemini North Standard Targets of Opportunity

Tejos, Nicolas	University of Durham	2012A-0176	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.55
Gas and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web

Tejos, Nicolas	University of Durham	2012A-0180	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.35
Gas around Galaxies over the last 7 billion years

Telesco, Charles	University of Florida	2012A-0100	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.27
Mid-IR Exploration of an Edge-On Protoplanetary Disk

Thomas, Cristina	Northern Arizona University	2012A-0575	KPNO	4m	3
Physical Characterization of the Near-Earth Object Population

Tobin, John	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	2012A-0435	GEM-S	GEM-SQ	0.04
Probing the Youngest Proto-Planetary Disks: Mid-Infrared Scattered Light Imaging at High Resolution

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