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Cycle 14 Approved Programs Cycle 14 Approved Programs as of 04/05/05 Science First Name Last Name Type Phase II ID Institution Country Title Category Physical Processes in Orion's Veil: A High Resolution Nicholas Abel AR 10636 University of Kentucky USA Star Formation UV Absorption Study of the Line of Sight Towards the Trapezium University of Eric Agol GO 10486 USA Cosmology A Cosmic String Lens Candidate Washington University of Eric Agol AR 10637 USA Cool Stars Finding Terrestrial Planets with HST Washington Space Telescope NGC 4449: a Testbed for Starbursts in the Low- and Alessandra Aloisi GO 10585 Science Institute - USA Galaxies High-Redshift Universe ESA Space Telescope The Rosetta Stone without a Distance: Hunting for Alessandra Aloisi GO 10586 Science Institute - USA Galaxies Cepheids in the "Primordial" Galaxy I Zw 18 ESA University of Timing Studies of the X-ray Binary Populations in Scott Anderson GO 10615 USA Hot Stars Washington Globular Clusters The Johns Hopkins A Search for Debris Disks in the Coeval Beta Pictoris David Ardila GO 10487 USA Star Formation University Moving Group University of Colorado Thomas Ayres AR 10638 USA Cool Stars StarCAT at Boulder Studies of Europa's Plasma Interactions and Gilda Ballester AR 10639 University of Arizona USA Solar System Atmosphere with HST/STIS FUV Images Edward Baltz GO 10543 Stanford University USA Galaxies Microlensing in M87 and the Virgo Cluster University of HST Observations of MilliJansky Radio Sources from the Robert Becker AR 10640 USA Galaxies California - Davis VLA FIRST Survey European Southern Stellar Exploring the Bottom End of the White Dwarf Cooling Luigi Bedin GO 10500 Observatory - Germany Populations Sequence in the Galactic Open Cluster NGC2158 Germany University of Texas at Astrometric Masses of Extrasolar Planets and Brown George Benedict GO 10610 USA Cool Stars Austin Dwarfs University of Texas at Precise Distances to Nearby Planetary Nebulae - George Benedict GO 10611 USA Hot Stars Austin Finishing Up in Cycle 14 University of Notre Stellar Resovled Images of LMC Microlensing Events Observed David Bennett GO 10544 USA Dame Populations by a Telescope at 2 AU from Earth Carnegie Institution of Gotcha! Using Swift GRBs to Pinpoint the Highest Edo Berger GO 10616 USA Galaxies Washington Redshift Galaxies Carnegie Institution of Looks Matter: Tracing Galaxy Evolution Through the Edo Berger AR 10641 USA Galaxies Washington Morphologies of GRB Host Galaxies Science First Name Last Name Type Phase II ID Institution Country Title Category University of The Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe: Color- Mariangela Bernardi SNAP 10488 USA Galaxies Pennsylvania Gradients and Texture Space Telescope HST / Chandra Monitoring of a Dramatic Flare in the John Biretta GO 10617 USA AGN/Quasars Science Institute M87 Jet Massachusetts Measuring the Mass Dependence of Early-Type Galaxy Adam Bolton SNAP 10587 Institute of USA Galaxies Structure Technology Interstellar and Space Telescope The Light Echoes around V838 Monocerotis: MHD in 3 Howard Bond GO 10618 USA Intergalactic Science Institute Dimensions, Circumstellar Mapping, and Dust Physics Medium Space Telescope Dynamical Masses and Third Bodies in the Sirius Howard Bond GO 10619 USA Hot Stars Science Institute System Instituto de Astrofisica Herve Bouy GO 10559 Spain Cool Stars Astrometric monitoring of binary L and T dwarfs de Canarias University of Michael Brotherton SNAP 10588 USA AGN/Quasars The Host Galaxies of Post-Starburst Quasars Wyoming University of Colorado Alexander Brown GO 10489 USA Star Formation Imaging Extended UV H2 Emission Around T Tauri at Boulder California Institute of Michael Brown GO 10545 USA Solar System Icy planetoids of the outer solar system Technology Canada-France- The highest redshift Einstein ring: probing a dark matter Remi Cabanac GO 10589 Hawaii Telescope USA Cosmology halo at z=1 and galaxy morphology at z=3.8 Corporation Space Telescope Calibrating Star Formation: The Link between Feedback Daniela Calzetti GO 10522 USA Galaxies Science Institute and Galaxy Evolution INAF, Osservatorio Measurements of Surface Brightness Fluctuations Michele Cantiello AR 10642 Astronomico di Italy Galaxies Gradients in Normal and Peculiar Early-type Galaxies Teramo Louisiana State Interstellar and Digging for Interstellar Rare Elements in Archival UV Stefan Cartledge AR 10643 University and A & M USA Intergalactic Spectra College Medium Space Telescope Stellar Extending the Heritage: Clusters, Dust, and Star Rupali Chandar GO 10501 USA Science Institute Populations Formation in M51 Quasar New Mexico State Morphologies and MgII/CIV Absorption in 85 Christopher Churchill AR 10644 USA Absorption University Intermediate Redshifts Galaxies Lines and IGM ACS Imaging of the Uranus Aurora and Hydrogen John Clarke GO 10502 Boston University USA Solar System Corona Science First Name Last Name Type Phase II ID Institution Country Title Category Kapteyn Astronomical Netherland Stellar Star-Formation History of an Unmerged Fragment: the Andrew Cole GO 10590 Institute s Populations Leo A Dwarf Galaxy NASA Ames Massive Star Formation and the Proper Motions of the Sean Colgan GO 10620 USA Star Formation Research Center OMC-1 Molecular Hydrogen Fingers Interstellar and University of Colorado Si III Absorption as a Sensitive Probe of the High- Joseph Collins AR 10645 USA Intergalactic at Boulder Velocity Cloud Population Medium University of Marked Correlation Functions and Understanding the Andrew Connolly AR 10646 USA Cosmology Pittsburgh Evolution of Galaxies The Star Formation Histories of Early Type Dwarf Australian National Stellar Gary Da Costa GO 10503 Australia Galaxies in Low Density Environments: Clues from the University Populations Sculptor Group High-Redshift Galaxies in GOODS: Simulations vs. Romeel Dave AR 10647 University of Arizona USA Galaxies Observations Space Telescope The Halo Shape and Metallicity of Massive Spiral Roelof de Jong SNAP 10523 USA Galaxies Science Institute Galaxies Interstellar and The Pennsylvania Confirming Planetary Candidates in the Stellar John Debes GO 10560 USA Intergalactic State University Graveyard with NICMOS Medium National Optical ACS Observations of the Galaxies in A Giant Ly-alpha Arjun Dey GO 10591 Astronomy USA Galaxies Nebula at z~2.7 Observatories, AURA University of Andrea Dieball GO 10561 UK Hot Stars A deep UV imaging survey of the Globular Cluster M 30 Southampton University of Wales, Mike Disney GO 10562 College of Cardiff UK Galaxies Validating a dark galaxy (UWCC) Stellar Andrew Dolphin GO 10621 University of Arizona USA ACS Zero Point Verification Populations Stellar Andrew Dolphin GO 10622 University of Arizona USA ACS Photometric Calibration from Faint Standards Populations Michigan State A Snapshot Survey of a Complete Sample of X-ray Megan Donahue SNAP 10490 USA Cosmology University Luminous Galaxy Clusters from Redshift 0.3 to 0.7 A Search for the Missing Baryons in Nearby Cosmic Renato Dupke AR 10648 University of Michigan USA AGN/Quasars Filaments II - Sources of Bias Interstellar and Probing the Circumstellar Environment and Shock Vikram Dwarkadas AR 10649 University of Chicago USA Intergalactic Interaction in SN 1987A and Cas A Medium Science First Name Last Name Type Phase II ID Institution Country Title Category University of Wales, Accurate dark-matter mass profiles in 3 elliptical galaxies Simon Dye GO 10563 College of Cardiff UK Cosmology as a test of CDM (UWCC) A Snapshot Survey of the most massive clusters of Harald Ebeling SNAP 10491 University of Hawaii USA Cosmology galaxies University of Colorado On the Road to Coma: A "Longitudinal Study" of Galaxy Erica Ellingson AR 10650 USA Galaxies at Boulder Cluster Evolution California Institute of Characterizing the Sources Responsible for Cosmic Richard Ellis GO 10504 USA Galaxies Technology Reionization Universitaet Bonn, A detailed study of the mass properties for the galaxy Thomas Erben GO 10492 Inst fur Astrophysik Germany Cosmology cluster RX J1347-1145 und Extraterrestris State University of An ACS Survey of a Complete Sample of Luminous Aaron Evans GO 10592 New York at Stony USA Galaxies Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe Brook State University of HST Optical Snapshot Survey of Intermediate Redshift Aaron Evans SNAP 10623 New York at Stony USA Galaxies Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies Brook Smithsonian Institution Nancy Evans GO 10593 USA Cool Stars The Dynamical Mass of the Bright Cepheid Polaris Astrophysical Observatory University of Sandra Faber AR 10651 California - Santa USA Cosmology The Stellar Mass Function of Disks and Bulges at z = 1 Cruz University of Andrew Fabian GO 10546 UK Cosmology The Filaments of NGC1275 Cambridge Gemini Observatory, Jay Farihi GO 10564 USA Cool Stars Resolving Ultracool White Dwarf Binaries Northern Operations Numerical simulations of time-variable AGN emission Gary Ferland AR 10652 University of Kentucky USA AGN/Quasars and absorption line regions Interstellar and Dynamical flows in PNe: interpreting HST images on a Gary Ferland AR 10653 University of Kentucky USA Intergalactic physical basis Medium Stellar Blue Stragglers: a key stellar population to probe internal Francesco R. Ferraro GO 10524 Bologna University Populations cluster dynamics Absolute Spectrophotometric Calibration to 1% from the David Finley AR 10654 Eureka Scientific Inc. USA Cosmology FUV through the near-IR Science First Name Last Name Type Phase II ID Institution Country Title Category Interstellar and A SNAP Program to Obtain Complete Wavelength Edward Fitzpatrick SNAP 10547 Villanova
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