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Cycle 19 Approved Programs Cycle 19 Approved Programs Phase II Firstname Lastname Institution Country Sci Cat Type Title Mapping Recent Star Formation and Dust in University of California - 12526 Katherine Alatalo USA AGN GO NGC 1266, a Local Example of AGN-driven Berkeley Feedback Dark Interactions: New Constraints on Self 12654 Steven Allen Stanford University USA COS AR Interacting Dark Matter THE ULTIMATE CATALOG OF OMEGA Space Telescope Science 12656 Jay Anderson USA RSP AR CENTAURI: 15-BAND PHOTOMETRY AND Institute PROPER MOTIONS Physics and Chemistry of Condensate Clouds 12550 Daniel Apai University of Arizona USA CS SNAP across the L/T Transition - A SNAP Spectral Mapping Survey Imaging Disk-Planet Interactions in the Beta 12551 Daniel Apai University of Arizona USA ISM GO Pictoris Disk Virginia Polytechnic The contribution of quasar outflows to 12653 Nahum Arav Institute and State USA AGN AR cosmological structure formation University University of Colorado at Warm Coronal Rain on the young sun EK 12566 Thomas Ayres USA CS GO Boulder Draconis? University of Colorado at 12567 Thomas Ayres USA HS GO Bridging STIS's Neutral Density Desert Boulder Determining the Atmospheric Properties of 12511 Travis Barman Lowell Observatory USA EXO GO Directly Imaged Planets Verifying the White Dwarf Mass-Radius 12606 Martin Barstow University of Leicester UK HS GO relation with Sirius B and other resolved Sirius-like systems The Origins of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor 12554 Timothy Beers Michigan State University USA CS GO Stars Carnegie Institution of Orbital Refinement and Characterization of 12535 Susan Benecchi USA SS GO Washington New Horizons KBO candidates Restoring the POS mode Astrometric University of Texas at 12629 George Benedict USA RSP AR Precision of FGS-1r and a Definitive Velocity Austin Dispersion for M35 1 6/8/11 Cycle 19 Approved Programs Phase II Firstname Lastname Institution Country Sci Cat Type Title University of California - The Co-Evolution of Black Holes and Their 12625 Vardha Bennert USA COS AR Santa Barbara Host Galaxies Measuring the Exoplanet Mass Function 12541 David Bennett University of Notre Dame USA EXO GO Beyond the Snow-Line Uppsala Astronomical A novel approach to find Lyman continuum 12539 Nils Bergvall Sweden COS GO Observatory leaking galaxies at z~0.3 with COS Modeling the Star Formation Histories and 12632 Gurtina Besla Harvard University USA RSP AR Kinematics of the Magellanic Clouds Universidad Nacional Quasar Ton 34 with steepest far-UV break 12510 Luc Binette Autonoma de Mexico Mexico AGN GO known has entered new bal QSO phase (UNAM) The Johns Hopkins Stellar Life and Death in M83: A Hubble- 12513 William Blair USA RSP GO University Chandra Perspective HST Observations of Astrophysically Space Telescope Science 12598 Howard Bond USA HS GO Important Visual Binaries: Calibrating Sirius Institute and Procyon Space Telescope Science 12599 Howard Bond USA ISM GO The Light Echoes around V838 Monocerotis Institute The Johns Hopkins Probing ISM in the Stellar Disk of Dwarf 12467 Sanchayeeta Borthakur USA ISM GO University Galaxy GQ1042+0747 University of California - Testing feedback with z=1 star-forming 12522 Nicolas Bouche USA COS GO Santa Barbara galaxies QSO Absorption Line Systems from Dwarf 12486 David Bowen Princeton University USA QAL GO Galaxies California Institute of WISE-Selected Lyman-alpha Blobs: An 12481 Carrie Bridge USA COS GO Technology Extreme Dusty Population at High-z California Institute of Interpreting the Escape of Ionizing Radiation 12631 Alyson Brooks USA USP AR Technology from Galaxies: Results from Simulations Space Telescope Science The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint 12549 Thomas Brown USA RSP GO Institute Dwarf Galaxies Shy Dimwits: A Search for Cold and Distant University of California - 12649 Adam Burgasser USA CS AR Brown Dwarfs in WFC3 Near-Infrared Slitless San Diego Grism Archival Data 2 6/8/11 Cycle 19 Approved Programs Phase II Firstname Lastname Institution Country Sci Cat Type Title Understanding Stellar Velocity Dispersion in University of California - 12626 Gabriela Canalizo USA USP AR Dusty and Dynamically Non-Quiescent Riverside Galaxies Fundamental Parameters of the SHIELD 12658 John Cannon Macalester College USA RSP GO Galaxies Associated Universities, Characterizing a gravitational lens in the 12480 Chris Carilli USA COS GO Inc. molecular Einstein ring SMG 18423+5938 The State of High Ionization Gas in 11 The Pennsylvania State 12466 Jane Charlton USA QAL GO Intermediate Redshift Galaxies and Their University Surroundings The Pennsylvania State Archival COS Survey of Analogs of Weak MgII 12644 Jane Charlton USA QAL AR University Absorbers in the Present Space Telescope Science Are Dust Grains in Debris Disks Porous 12630 Christine Chen USA EXO AR Institute Aggregates? Absorption Line Analysis to Interprete and New Mexico State 12646 Christopher Churchill USA QAL AR Constrain Cosmological Simulations of University Galaxy Evolution with Feedback Detection of Hot (Escaping?) Hydrogen in the 12538 John Clarke Boston University USA SS GO Martian Atmosphere Louisiana State University The UV Interstellar Extinction Properties in 12562 Geoffrey Clayton USA IEG GO and A & M College the Super-Solar Metallicity Galaxy M31 Dissecting the integrated light of a massive 12523 Charlie Conroy Harvard University USA USP GO elliptical galaxy with pixel-to-pixel fluctuations: is the IMF bottom-heavy? Lawrence Livermore 12476 Kem Cook USA COS GO Measuring the Hubble Flow Hubble Constant National Laboratory Measuring the Star-Formation Efficiency of University of California - 12547 Michael Cooper USA SF GO Galaxies at z > 1 with Sizes and SFRs from Irvine HST Grism Spectroscopy A Massive Star Census of the Starburst 12465 Paul Crowther University of Sheffield UK HS GO Cluster R136 3 6/8/11 Cycle 19 Approved Programs Phase II Firstname Lastname Institution Country Sci Cat Type Title Confirming Ultra-cold (Teff < 500K) Brown 12544 Michael Cushing Jet Propulsion Laboratory USA CS GO Dwarf Suspects Identified with WISE NASA Ames Research 12478 Jeffrey Cuzzi USA SS GO The Mysterious Redness of Saturn's Rings Center University of California - On the Triggering of Quasars During First 12555 Robert da Silva USA AGN GO Santa Cruz Passage University of Colorado at Exploring the Galactic Damped Lyman alpha 12641 Charles Danforth USA QAL AR Boulder Absorber with Antipodal Sight Lines University of California - 12633 Fabio De Colle USA SF AR On the structure and origin of HH jets. Santa Cruz Instituto Universitario de Imaging the Crab nebula when it is flaring in 12491 Andrea De Luca Italy HS GO Studi Superiori Pavia gamma-rays NASA Goddard Space Near-IR Spectroscopy of the Hottest Known 12495 Drake Deming USA EXO GO Flight Center Exoplanet, WASP-33b Relative atmospheric compositions and 12482 Jean-Michel Desert Harvard University USA EXO GO metallicities of a multi-planet system Beyond the Hydrogen-burning limit: Deep IR University of 12602 Andrea Dieball UK RSP GO observations of the Globular Clusters M4 Southampton and NGC6397 Carbon and Nitrogen Enrichment Patterns in 12600 Reginald Dufour Rice University USA ISM GO Planetary Nebulae 12563 Trent Dupuy Harvard University USA CS GO Very Low-Mass Pleiades Binaries Thermal emission from the famous double 12494 Martin Durant University of Florida USA HS GO pulsar J0737-3039 California Institute of 12498 Richard Ellis USA COS GO Did Galaxies Reionize the Universe? Technology The Pennsylvania State 12595 Michael Eracleous USA AGN GO Unraveling the LINER Conspiracy University University of Wisconsin - The Bottom of the Iceberg: Faint z~2 12471 Dawn Erb USA QAL GO Milwaukee Galaxies and the Enrichment of the IGM University of Illinois at Anatomy of Starbursts in Extragalactic Giant 12651 Jessica Evans USA RSP AR Urbana - Champaign HII Regions 4 6/8/11 Cycle 19 Approved Programs Phase II Firstname Lastname Institution Country Sci Cat Type Title Probing Population III Star Formation in a 12487 Xiaohui Fan University of Arizona USA COS GO z=7 Galaxy Constraining Planet Formation in the Unique 12548 Jay Farihi University of Leicester UK EXO GO Evolved Binary HR 637 (GJ 86) COSMIC-LAB: Double BSS sequences as 12516 Francesco Ferraro Universita di Bologna Italy HS GO signatures of the Core Collapse phenomenon in star clusters. COSMIC-LAB: Hunting for optical 12517 Francesco Ferraro Universita di Bologna Italy RSP GO companions to binary MSPs in Globular Clusters Imaging the Distribution of Iron in SN 1885 in 12609 Robert Fesen Dartmouth College USA IEG GO M31 University of California - Early-Time UV Spectroscopy of a Stripped- 12530 Alex Filippenko USA HS GO Berkeley Envelope Supernova: A New Window University of California - Tracking the Continuing Evolution of SN 12531 Alex Filippenko USA HS GO Berkeley 1993J with COS and WFC3 University of California - The Local Environments of Supernovae from 12623 Alex Filippenko USA USP AR Berkeley Archival HST Images Smithsonian Institution Understanding the Progenitor Systems, 12592 Ryan Foley Astrophysical USA HS GO Explosion Mechanisms, and Cosmological Observatory Utility of Type Ia Supernovae Constraints on the Mass Assembly and Early Max-Planck-Institut fur 12578 N. Forster Schreiber Germany COS GO Evolution of z~2 Galaxies: Witnessing the extraterrestrische Physik Growth of Bulges and Disks Ionization in the Magellanic Stream: A Case 12604 Andrew Fox University of Cambridge UK ISM GO Study of Galactic Accretion Project MUSCLES: Measuring the Ultraviolet University of Colorado at 12464 Kevin France USA EXO GO
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