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Noaonewsletter NOAO Newsletter NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY ISSUE 106 — SEPTEMBER 2012 Director’s Corner Performance of pODI in 2013A: What to Expect ........................... 27 Focus on La Serena ....................................................................... 2 Instruments Offered at KPNO in 2013A ........................................ 28 Infrared Time-Series Observations with Phoenix ......................... 29 Science Highlights Availability of the CTIO Small Telescopes in 2013A ....................... 29 Gemini Catches a Disappearing Warm Debris Disk .......................... 3 Community Access to the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope ........ 30 Leo P: A Newly Discovered Local Group Candidate ......................... 4 Community Access Time Available in 2013 with CHARA ................ 30 The Yellow Supergiants in the Local Group as a Diagnostic New VO Capabilities in IRAF v2.16 ............................................... 30 of the Evolution of Massive Stars ................................................ 6 New NOAO Survey Programs Selected ......................................... 32 Needles in a Haystack: Studying Andromeda Stellar Populations What Does System User Support Do for You? ................................ 33 through Those of the Milky Way .................................................. 8 NOAO Operations & Staff System Science Capabilities NOAO Welcomes Markus Kissler-Patig LSST Project Reaches a Major Milestone ...................................... 10 as Gemini Observatory Director ................................................ 34 BigBOSS Status Update ............................................................... 10 CTIO through the Good and the Bad ............................................ 34 SAM Improves Angular Resolution over a Wide Field .................... 11 Celebrating CTIO’s 50th Anniversary ............................................ 35 KOSMOS and COSMOS Updates .................................................... 12 Students Wanted for 2013 CTIO REU Program .............................. 35 DECam Installation ..................................................................... 13 Where Art and Astronomy Meet: Latest TSIP Proposal Results ....................................................... 15 Thoughts on an Artist Residency at NOAO May 2012 .................. 36 Telescope System Instrumentation Program ............................... 15 Kitt Peak Visitor Center Activities Highlight Once-in-a-Lifetime Events ........................................................ 39 System Observing: Telescopes & Instruments Transit of Venus Event and Public Outreach on Easter Island......... 40 The Blanco ƒ/8 Secondary Mirror: 2013A NOAO Call for Proposals Due 27 September 2012 ............... 17 What Happened and Will It Return to Service? .......................... 41 System-Wide Observing Opportunities for Semester 2013A: Kitt Peak Water System Renovation ............................................ 43 Gemini, Keck, MMT, CHARA, Subaru, and AAT ............................ 18 NOAO Dark Skies Education for Multiple Audiences ...................... 44 CTIO Instruments Available for 2013A ......................................... 20 Bringing the Stars to Arizona Fifth Graders .................................. 46 Gemini Instruments Available for 2013A ..................................... 21 Dr. R. Chris Smith Switches to Full-Time AURA KPNO Instruments Available for 2013A........................................ 22 Head of Mission in Chile ........................................................... 47 Keck Instruments Available for 2013A ......................................... 23 Remembering 45 Years with KPNO .............................................. 48 MMT Instruments Available for 2013A ......................................... 23 Hector Rios Retires after 39 Years Supporting KPNO ..................... 48 AAT Instruments Available for 2013A .......................................... 23 Recent Staff Changes on Kitt Peak............................................... 49 CHARA Instruments Available for 2013 ........................................ 24 Kenneth Michael Merrill Observing with the CTIO Blanco 4-m Telescope 21 February 1947–31 March 2012 ............................................ 50 in 2013A and Beyond ............................................................... 24 Staff Changes at NOAO North and South Proposing for DECam in 2013A .................................................... 24 (16 February 2012–15 August 2012) ......................................... 51 DECam Commissioning and Science Verification .......................... 25 The DECam Ultraviolet (u) Filter .................................................. 25 Observing at WIYN in 2013A ....................................................... 26 Late Breaking News: pODI First Light The WIYN One De- gree Imager with a partially populated fo- cal plane (pODI) has Superimposed on this issue’s cover are been installed on the scenes of two recent solar events that were captured as the Sun silhouetted WIYN telescope, seen observatory facilities on Kitt Peak, first light, and commis- part of the Tohono O’odham Nation: sioning is beginning. (Background image) From a distance of 50 miles away on Mt Hopkins, Scott So far, performance Gottilla of the MMT Observatory is as predicted. In shot this spectacular view of the just a few hours of solar eclipse setting behind Kitt Peak operation (during a National Observatory on Sunday, bad monsoon year), 20 May 2012. (Image credit: Scott Gottilla, MMT Observatory.) we have seen images with FWHM as small (Foreground images: left) Venus is as ~0.7 arcsec. Read less than an hour into its transit of noise and full well ca- the Sun as viewed from the NOAO pacity are about as we Tucson patio. (Right:) Venus nears measured in the lab. the completion of its transit as the Initial measurements Sun sets behind the National Solar Unguided 30 second r' band exposure of M11, taken by T. Boroson and D. Harbeck on of sensitivity give the 6 August 2012. Central 9 detectors, covering 24-arcmin square, are shown. Observatory’s McMath-Pierce Solar following zero points Telescope on Kitt Peak. The portion of this final transit of the century for the four SDSS filters: g' is 26.68, r' is 26.56, i' is 26.11, and z' is 25.14. These are the that was visible to the United States magnitudes of an object at 1.0 airmass that give 1 detected electron per second. occurred 5 June 2012. (Image credits: (Left) Peter Marenfeld & (right) Gary More up to date information will be posted on the NOAO Web site before the 2013A Poczulp, NOAO/AURA/NSF.) proposal deadline. To share in the commissioning experience with the ODI team, take a look at their blog at podideployment.blogspot.com. Tod R. Lauer, Editor David Silva NOAO Director’s Office Tod R. Lauer Science Highlights Jane Price, Ken Hinkle NOAO System Science Center Betty Stobie Science Data Management Nicole S. van der Bliek CTIO Timothy C. Beers, Cheri Marks-Murphy KPNO Stephen Pompea Education & Public Outreach The NOAO Newsletter Dave Bell, Mia Hartman System Observing is published semi-annually by the David Sprayberry NOAO System Technology Center National Optical Astronomy Observatory William Gressler LSST Project P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726 Patricia Knezek WIYN [email protected] Production Staff Publication Notes Barbara Fraps Managing Editor Peter Marenfeld Design & Layout This Newsletter is presented with active Kathie Coil Production Support links online at www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews.html If you are receiving a paper copy but would prefer not to, please let us know at [email protected]. NOAO Newsletter September 2012 1 Director’s Corner Focus on La Serena David Silva Events in La Serena have captured my attention much of the time since coordinated and safe way has been a major challenge, but one that all the last Newsletter. have overcome jointly. Work on the DECam Community (calibration) Pipeline at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ac- Accidents that led to serious personnel injuries and equipment damage celerated and delivery of an operational system should be in time for at the Blanco 4-m telescope and one of the CTIO infrastructure improve- the commissioning and science verification. Above all this hovers the ment projects were most unfortunate reminders that safety and risk man- Dark Energy Survey, a major international, multi-agency, multi-organi- agement must remain the highest priority for all NOAO activities at all zation collaboration. Many interfaces, many meetings, and many hours times. Both accidents were promptly and thoroughly reviewed by inter- have gone toward delivering a revolutionary capability to attack major nal and external panels, whose reports were provided to NSF, the Depart- problems on the science frontier. We have learned many technical and ment of Energy, and the Chilean authorities as applicable. An exter- organizational lessons that can be applied to the Big Baryon Oscilla- nal panel also reviewed the safety process and culture within tion Spectroscopic Survey (BigBOSS) and the Large Synoptic the Blanco enclosure with a particular focus on the Dark Survey Telescope (LSST) projects. It is an exciting time for Energy Camera (DECam) installation. Many helpful rec- NOAO and its user community. ommendations emerged from these reviews, and we are in the process of applying them in Arizona and Chile. Speaking of LSST, the recent decision by the Nation- The DECam project, which has had no
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