New Surveys to Begin

Todd Boroson

NOAO makes available for surveys up to 20% of the time on the telescopes to which it provides access. Our second solicitation for surveys yielded 17 proposals for new programs. A cross-disciplinary survey panel evaluated the new proposals as well as progress reports on the five ongoing surveys. Following the discipline panel evaluation of the standard proposals, the merging TAC discussed the recommended new survey proposals in comparison with the merged ranked lists. The five continuing surveys are:

• Deep Imaging Survey of Nearby Star-Forming Clouds , PI: John Bally (Colorado)

• In Search of Nearby Stars: A Parallax Program at CTIO , PI: Todd Henry (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

• The NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey, PI: Buell Jannuzi and Arjun Dey (NOAO)

• Deep Lens Survey, PI: Anthony Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

• A Fundamental Plane Peculiar Velocity Survey of Rich Clusters within 200 h^-1 Mpc, PI: Michael Hudson (Waterloo)

The new surveys that were recommended for scheduling are:

• ChaMPlane: Measuring the Faint X-ray Binary and Stellar X-ray Content of the Galaxy, PI: Josh Grindlay (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

• Toward a Complete Near-Infrared Spectroscopic and Imaging Survey of Giant Molecular Clouds, PI: Elizabeth Lada (Florida)

• The Resolved Stellar Content of Local Group Galaxies Currently Forming Stars, PI: Phil Massey (NOAO)

• Star Formation in HI Selected Galaxies, PI: Gerhardt Meurer (Johns Hopkins)

• Southern Standard Stars for the u´g´r´i´z´ System, PI: Allyn Smith (Michigan)