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Cycle 16 Approved Programs Cycle 16 Approved Programs First Name Last Name Type Phase II ID Institution Country Science Category Title Brigham Young Searching For Unresolved Binary Brown Jacob Albretsen AR 11238 USA Cool Stars University Dwarfs Using Point Spread Functions Fermi National A Unique High Resolution Window to Two Sahar Allam GO 11167 Accelerator USA Cosmology Strongly Lensed Lyman Break Galaxies Laboratory (FNAL) New Sightlines for the Study of Intergalactic University of Quasar Absorption Scott Anderson GO 11215 USA Helium: Dozens of High-Confidence, UV- Washington Lines and IGM Bright Quasars from SDSS/GALEX Rutgers the State Unresolved Stellar NICMOS imaging of submillimeter galaxies Andrew Baker GO 11143 University of New USA Populations with CO and PAH redshifts Jersey University of ISM and Bruce Balick GO 11122 USA Expanding PNe: Distances and Hydro Models Washington Circumstellar Matter Identifying Atomic and Molecular Absorption Travis Barman AR 11239 Lowell Observatory USA Cool Stars in an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere University of Texas at George Benedict GO 11210 USA Cool Stars The Architecture of Exoplanetary Systems Austin University of Texas at Resolved Stellar An Astrometric Calibration of Population II George Benedict GO 11211 USA Austin Populations Distance Indicators Space Telescope Monitoring the Giant Flare of HST-1 in the John Biretta GO 11216 USA AGN/Quasars Science Institute M87 Jet Roger Blandford AR 11288 Stanford University USA Cosmology PASS: Paying Attention to the Small Structure Space Telescope ISM and Howard Bond GO 11217 USA The Light Echoes around V838 Monocerotis Science Institute Circumstellar Matter Space Telescope Resolved Stellar Snapshot Survey for Planetary Nebulae in Howard Bond SNAP 11218 USA Science Institute Populations Globular Clusters of the Local Group Smithsonian Institution A NICMOS Survey for Proplyds in the RCW Tyler Bourke GO 11123 USA Star Formation Astrophysical 38 Massive Embedded Cluster Observatory University of Building on the Significant NICMOS Rychard Bouwens GO 11144 California - Santa USA Cosmology Investment in GOODS: A Bright, Wide-Area Cruz Search for z>=7 Galaxies Quasar Absorption The Origin of QSO Absorption Lines from David Bowen GO 11124 Princeton University USA Lines and IGM QSOs Marusa Bradac GO 11099 Stanford University USA Cosmology A "silver bullet" for the sources of reionization Two new `bullets' for MOND: revealing the Marusa Bradac GO 11100 Stanford University USA Cosmology properties of dark matter in massive merging clusters Netherland The IMF in the Hidden Galactic Starburst Bernhard Brandl GO 11168 Universiteit Leiden Star Formation s W49A University of A comprehensive study of the low-mass Wolfgang Brandner GO 11193 California - Los USA Star Formation stellar population in the Galactic starburst Angeles region NGC 3603 Resolved Stellar Joel Bregman GO 11125 University of Michigan USA The Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters Populations California Institute of Michael Brown GO 11169 USA Solar System Collisions in the Kuiper belt Technology Probing the Planet Forming Region of T Tauri Nuria Calvet GO 11145 University of Michigan USA Star Formation Stars in Chamaeleon University of ISM in External The Role of Stellar Feedback in Galaxy Daniela Calzetti GO 11146 USA Massachusetts Galaxies Evolution University of The Relevance of Mergers for Fueling AGNs: Gabriela Canalizo GO 11101 USA AGN/Quasars California - Riverside Answers from QSO Host Galaxies Active Galactic Nuclei in nearby galaxies: a Osservatorio Alessandro Capetti SNAP 11219 Italy AGN/Quasars new view of the origin of the radio-loud radio- Astronomico di Torino quiet dichotomy? Carnegie Institution of Unresolved Stellar The Origin of Diffuse UV Light from Spiral Rupali Chandar GO 11147 USA Washington Populations Disks University of Eugene Chiang AR 11240 USA Star Formation Mass Loss From Hot Jupiters California - Berkeley Resolved Stellar Kristin Chiboucas GO 11126 University of Hawaii USA Resolving the Smallest Galaxies Populations UV Imaging of the Martian Corona and the John Clarke GO 11170 Boston University USA Solar System Escape of Hydrogen Beyond the Bullet: Direct Detection of Dark Douglas Clowe GO 11194 Ohio University USA Cosmology Matter in Merging Galaxy Clusters University of Mapping the FUV Evolution of Type IIn Jeff Cooke GO 11220 USA Cosmology California - Irvine Supernovae IR Background Fluctuations in NICMOS Ultra University of Asantha Cooray AR 11241 USA Cosmology and Hubble Fields and the Surface Density of California - Irvine First-Light Galaxies IR Background Intensity, Anisotropy, and University of Asantha Cooray AR 11242 USA Cosmology Lyman-alpha Sources in Large Volume California - Irvine Simulations of Reionization Georgia State Determining the Inclinations of AGN using D. Crenshaw AR 11243 University Research USA AGN/Quasars Narrow-Line Region Kinematics Foundation Columbia University in ISM in External Confirming Light Echoes from SN 2006X in Arlin Crotts GO 11171 USA the City of New York Galaxies M100 Columbia University in Resolved Stellar Defining Classes of Long Period Variable Arlin Crotts GO 11172 USA the City of New York Populations Stars in M31 Columbia University in Resolved Stellar Completing an Accurate Map of M31 Arlin Crotts GO 11173 USA the City of New York Populations Microlensing Commissariat a A Spitzer/X-ray candidate cluster at z>2: Emanuele Daddi GO 11174 l'Energie Atomique France Cosmology NICMOS imaging (CEA) University of Julianne Dalcanton GO 11221 USA Cosmology A Dark Core in Abell 520 Washington Mapping the nebula surrounding the CNR, Istituto di Andrea De Luca GO 11127 Italy Hot Stars enigmatic X-ray source at the center of the Astrofisica Spaziale Vela Jr SNR University of Imke de Pater GO 11102 USA Solar System HST as a Jovian Climate Satellite California - Berkeley Carnegie Institution of ISM and John Debes GO 11148 USA High Contrast Imaging of Dusty White Dwarfs Washington Circumstellar Matter National Optical Morphologies of the Most Extreme High- Unresolved Stellar Arjun Dey GO 11195 Astronomy USA Redshift Mid-IR-luminous Galaxies II: The Populations Observatories, AURA `Bump' Sources Resolved Stellar Andrew Dolphin AR 11244 Raytheon Company USA WFPC2 CTE and Photometric Zero Points Populations A Snapshot Survey of The Most Massive Harald Ebeling SNAP 11103 University of Hawaii USA Cosmology Clusters of Galaxies Resolved Stellar Peter Edmonds AR 11245 Eureka Scientific Inc. USA Mining the Rich Archive for 47 Tucanae Populations Characterizing the Stellar Populations in Eiichi Egami GO 11149 University of Arizona USA Cosmology Lyman-Alpha Emitters and Lyman Break Galaxies at 5.7<z<7 in the Subaru Deep Field The Pennsylvania Direct Detection and Mapping of Star Forming Michael Eracleous GO 11222 USA AGN/Quasars State University Regions in Nearby, Luminous Quasars State University of Unresolved Stellar An Ultraviolet Survey of Luminous Infrared Aaron Evans GO 11196 New York at Stony USA Populations Galaxies in the Local Universe Brook University of UV Imaging to Determine the Location of Unresolved Stellar Sandra Faber GO 11175 California - Santa USA Residual Star Formation in Galaxies Recently Populations Cruz Arrived on the Red Sequence University of Evolution in the Dark Matter Properties of Christopher Fassnacht AR 11246 USA Cosmology California - Davis Strong Lenses through Weak Lensing ISM and Light Element Nucleosynthesis through Steven Federman AR 11247 University of Toledo USA Circumstellar Matter Measurements of Interstellar Boron University of Resolved Stellar Alex Filippenko AR 11248 USA The Local Environments of Supernovae California - Berkeley Populations Arizona State ISM in External Dust Enhancement of the Lyman Alpha Steven Finkelstein AR 11249 USA University Galaxies Equivalent Width at z ~ 4.5 in the CDF-S University of Texas at Unresolved Stellar Time Scales Of Bulge Formation In Nearby David Fisher GO 11128 USA Austin Populations Galaxies University of Shedding Light on Feedback: The Interaction Adam Frank AR 11250 USA Star Formation Rochester of YSO Outflows in L1551 University of ISM and Beyond the Textbook: Temporal Systematics Adam Frank AR 11251 USA Rochester Circumstellar Matter of Planetary Nebula Evolution Space Telescope Location and the Origin of Short Gamma-Ray Andrew Fruchter GO 11176 USA Cosmology Science Institute Bursts University of Ultraluminous X-ray sources in elliptical Unresolved Stellar Elena Gallo AR 11252 California - Santa USA galaxies and the X-ray binary/globular cluster Populations Barbara connection California Institute of Avishay Gal-Yam GO 11104 USA AGN/Quasars The nature of radio transients Technology California Institute of Resolved Stellar The LBV progenitor of SN 2005gl - a new key Avishay Gal-Yam GO 11105 USA Technology Populations to massive star evolution puzzles University of Notre Sweeping Away the Dust: Reliable Dark Peter Garnavich GO 11197 USA Cosmology Dame Energy with an Infrared Hubble Diagram Rutgers the State Sizes and Morphology of z=3.1 Lyman Alpha Eric Gawiser AR 11253 University of New USA Cosmology Emitting Galaxies in the Extended CDF-S Jersey Georgia State Douglas Gies SNAP 11212 University Research USA Hot Stars Filling the Period Gap for Massive Binaries Foundation Space Telescope Analysis of Red Giant Oscillations from a 27 Ronald Gilliland AR 11254 USA Cool Stars Science Institute Day ACS/WFC Time-Series on NGC 6397 Unresolved Stellar Pure Parallel Imaging in the NDWFS Bootes Anthony Gonzalez GO 11198 University of Florida USA Populations Field University
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