NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY

QUARTERLY SCIENTIFIC REPORT (2) FY 2010 January 1–March 31, 2010

Left: Velocity map of 33 H II regions derived from Gemini South GMOS spectra for galaxy ESO 137-001 superposed on Chandra X-ray contours. The imprint of ESO 137-001’s disk rotation pattern can be seen in the velocity map; near-vertical dashed line runs along major axis and dotted circle (radius of 15 kpc) represents size of ESO 137-001’s tidally truncated halo. Upper right: H II velocities vs. their projected distance to major axis of galaxy. Bottom right: Velocities vs. projected distance to dashed line running between X-ray tails. (Angular scale: 30 arcsec = 9.8 kpc) These results show, for the first time, that active star formation can happen in the interstellar medium gas stripped by intracluster medium ram pressure.

Credit: Ming Sun/U. of Virginia (Reproduced by permission of the AAS)

Submitted to the National Science Foundation Pursuant to Cooperative Support Agreement No. AST-0950945, Article 3-A Cooperative Agreement No. AST-0809409

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National Optical Astronomy Observatory Quarterly Scientific Report (2) FY 2010 (January 1, 2010 – March 31, 2010)

Submitted to the National Science Foundation Pursuant to Cooperative Support Agreement No. AST-0950945 April 30, 2010

Contents

1 NOAO DIVISIONS ...... 1 1.1 NOAO South...... 1 1.1.1 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ...... 1 1.1.2 NOAO South Operations...... 2 1.2 NOAO North...... 4 1.2.1 Kitt Peak National Observatory...... 4 1.2.2 Central Facilities Operations ...... 6 1.2.3 Computer Infrastructure Services...... 7 1.2.4 Safety Report...... 8 1.3 NOAO System Science Center ...... 8 1.3.1 System User Support ...... 9 1.3.2 Science Data Management ...... 10 1.3.3 System Community Development...... 11 1.4 NOAO System Technology Center...... 12 1.4.1 System Instrumentation ...... 12 1.4.2 ReSTAR Instrumentation ...... 12 1.4.3 Telescope System Instrumentation Program ...... 13 1.4.4 LSST Technology Program...... 14 1.4.5 GSMT/ELT Technology Program...... 16

2 NOAO-WIDE PROGRAMS ...... 17 2.1 Central Administrative Services ...... 17 2.2 Office of Science...... 18 2.3 Education and Public Outreach...... 19 2.4 NOAO Director’s Office...... 21 2.5 ARRA Infrastructure Renewal...... 23

3 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTER 2010A ...... 25 3.1 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory...... 25 3.2 Kitt Peak National Observatory ...... 30

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3.3 Gemini Observatory ...... 34 3.4 Community Access to Private Telescopes...... 40 3.4.1 Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy...... 40 3.4.2 MMT Observatory ...... 41 3.4.3 Las Campanas Observatory ...... 42 3.4.4 Palomar Observatory ...... 42

4 USAGE OF ARCHIVED DATA ...... 43

5 GRANTS...... 44

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1.1 NOAO SOUTH

1.1.1 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Program Highlights On Saturday, 27 February 2010, at 3:34 am Chilean time, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded occurred in CTIO Visitor Center & CADIAS southern Chile. This magnitude 8.8 earthquake had an Summary of Visitors epicenter near Concepción and, together with the (3 months ending 3/31/10) following tsunami, caused major destruction and significant loss of life in that region. At the Cerro Tololo Group/Program # of Visitors Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) facilities in northern CADIAS Center 310 Chile, the earthquake was about a magnitude 4. None of the telescope facilities on-site suffered damage. The CADIAS Outreach 2,735 telescope buildings were evacuated during the earthquake, Tololo Guided Tours 777 but observations continued about 15 minutes after the event. All of the facilities and infrastructure (e.g., School Groups K-12 0 buildings, roads, water lines, gas lines) were inspected later that morning, and no damage was detected other than Special Tours 174 a few minor rock slides that were cleared by 7 am. An TOTAL PUBLIC 3,996 intensive effort to confirm that all of our staff were safe, including those on vacation in southern Chile, was conducted. By Monday afternoon, all staff had been accounted for as safe and unharmed. While the facilities and staff at the observatory were not directly impacted, the earthquake damaged some of the critical Chilean infrastructure, such as sea ports and the airport in Santiago, and thus impacted observatory operations significantly in a variety of ways, especially in air travel (for staff and visiting astronomers) and shipping. CTIO staff worked to minimize the problems, and most operations were fully back to normal by the end of this quarter. The transition of two senior management positions became effective January 1. The Cerro Tololo telescope operations manager, Oscar Saa, stepped down and his deputy stepped up to take over management of telescope operations, which includes support for the CTIO-operated telescopes and support for tenant telescopes on a cost-recovery basis. Saa will remain part of the team for at least this year to aid in the transition and help with the commissioning of many of the new, small telescopes being opened on Cerro Tololo, including those of the Southeastern Astronomy Research Association (0.6-m) and the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN). In La Serena, the manager of the Engineering and Technical Services (ETS) group, Dr. Brooke Gregory, stepped down and Dr. Tim Abbott took on the responsibility for leading the group. Gregory will continue to lead the installation of the NEWFIRM camera and oversee much of the infrastructure work necessary to support both NEWFIRM and DECam (see FY10 Milestones bullet below). The highlight of the second quarter of FY10 was the shipment and arrival of the NEWFIRM wide-field infrared imager from Tucson. Due to shipping delays, the camera arrived approximately 1.5 months later than planned, but the schedule was revised and commissioning should be only about a month late. The shipment arrived on Cerro Tololo (see Figure 1) in good condition, was unpacked, and is being prepared for mounting on the Blanco 4-m telescope on Cerro Tololo.

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Also in this quarter, another telescope began operations on Cerro Tololo. The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) completed the refurbishment of the Lowell 0.6-m telescope and began commissioning the new remote observation system. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Install NEWFIRM on the Blanco 4-m telescope Status: NEWFIRM arrived in Santiago, Chile on March 31 and immediately was taken to Cerro Tololo, arriving there at 3:30 pm on April 1. • Install the SOAR Adaptive Module with laser guide-star and commence commissioning on the SOAR 4.1-m telescope SIFS Status: The SIFS instrument, delivered from Brazil in the first quarter of FY10, underwent extensive work on the optical alignment and was tested thoroughly off the telescope in January. The Figure 1 NEWFIRM arrives at Blanco 4-m instrument was integrated and installed on the Telescope telescope in February and March, and first light is expected in the middle of the third quarter of FY10. Work on the SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM) continues, with the design of the beam transfer optics and laser box completed and in fabrication and fabrication of the camera nearing completion. • Complete installation of the support equipment and infrastructure for NEWFIRM and DECam Status: Construction of the clean room in the Coudé room of the Blanco 4-m telescope was completed in February, and the new facility was quickly prepared for use in the reception of NEWFIRM. Compressors for the NEWFIRM cooling system were installed, as were cooling lines up through the telescope infrastructure to deliver the coolant to NEWFIRM when mounted on the telescope.

1.1.2 NOAO South Operations Program Highlights NOAO South hosted the AURA Board in early February. The highlight of the meeting was the groundbreaking for the Vista Sidney Wolff on 1 February 2010. The vista is on the road to CTIO and has a beautiful view of the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) and Gemini telescopes and also of the site selected for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The construction of the vista point is a tribute to Dr. Sidney C. Wolff’s leadership in enabling the construction of these world-class facilities on Cerro Pachón, high in the Andes Mountains. Dr. Wolff served as president of the SOAR Board, first director of the Gemini Observatory, director of NOAO, and is currently president of the LSST Corporation. In further LSST-related news, NOAO South staff supported the development and signature of the LSST contract for architectural and engineering services to provide the final design and blueprints for the LSST observing facilities on Cerro Pachón. This contract will allow the design to be completed so that the moment funding is received construction can begin on the telescope and

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support buildings, allowing the project to maintain its rapid schedule from construction through commissioning. On Cerro Tololo, construction of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN) set of telescopes continued with the completion of the concrete foundations for the three 1-m telescopes and other associated structures. Several pending facility safety issues were resolved this quarter, including the repair and re- painting of all of the paved roads on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón. In addition, the required documentation was completed and official certification of the medical emergency facilities on both mountains was received as issued by the Health Secretary of the regional government. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Transition to the AURA-standard human resource and personnel system, UltiPro, including adaptation to allow for local Chilean legal and practical use differences Status: NOAO South began an in-depth analysis process to assess which capabilities of Ultipro could be adapted for practical use in the administration processes and the local human resources (HR) in general. This process will be continued throughout the next quarter when launch of a functional solution of core human resource management system features—except that of payroll—is expected. This can be used for the benefit of local Operations (including both expatriate and Chilean hires). The existing complexities involved in the management of local payroll functions (social laws, mandated withholdings, diverse income tax structures, etc.) would make it extremely difficult to use UltiPro for the purposes of the Chilean payroll activities, although further exploration of this situation is expected. • Transition to the NOAO purchase request system, Reqless, with the appropriate modifications for local Chilean use and communication with other AURA Programs (Gemini, SOAR, LSST, etc.) Status: In this quarter, the NOAO South administration staff began analysis of the Reqless system to identify the changes necessary to accept peso transactions, load account structures, and define local signature authority and workflows, not only for NOAO use but also for use of Gemini and SOAR for purchases in Chile. • Transition to the NOAO accounting systems (based on USL) with the appropriate modifications for local Chilean use and communication with other AURA Programs (Gemini, SOAR, LSST, etc.). Status: The chart of accounts for NOAO South was revised to conform to the prevailing NOAO main chart of accounts to allow for easier comparisons and account maintenance. By the third quarter of FY10, the NOAO South accounting group will send weekly data updates to be loaded into the central NOAO systems, the first step toward full integration of the data between NOAO South and the rest of NOAO. Plans were developed for a test-bed for the USL-based accounting system to be deployed in the next quarter, which will provide a training platform for NOAO South administrative staff. In meetings in March, the rates and charging algorithms were reviewed, and a decision was taken to move forward with only slight modifications to the current rate structures.

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1.2 NOAO NORTH Effective 1 January 2010, the Tucson-based Administration and Facilities program was re-organized into the following separate activities: • Human Resources (led by the Human Resources manager, reporting to the director); • Central Administrative Services (led by the chief financial officer, reporting to the director); • NOAO Office for (regulatory) Compliance (lead by the chief compliance officer, reporting to the director); • Central Facilities Operations (led by the Tucson facilities manager, reporting to the deputy director); and • Computing Infrastructure Services (led by the NOAO chief information officer, reporting to the deputy director).

1.2.1 Kitt Peak National Observatory Program Highlights The proper permits and approvals for the shipment of the NOAO Extremely Wide-Field Infrared Mosaic imager (NEWFIRM) were received and the instrument left for Chile. The 50th anniversary events came to an end with the KPNO-organized science symposia and public lectures coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the dedication of Kitt Peak National Observatory. A major snowstorm pummeled Kitt Peak January 20–23. High winds of 80 mph with reported gusts up to 150 mph on January 21 caused damage to various facilities on the mountain. This included damaged doors, water damage, and loss of electrical power to the Mayall 4-m telescope, Steward Observatory, the West Ridge, and other structures. In Figure 2: Car damaged by falling addition, an employee’s vehicle ice. (Figure 2) was damaged by ice falling from the 4-m telescope catwalk. This led to lengthy discussions about ice safety as well as some procedural changes. The WIYN 3.5-m telescope also

sustained major damage to the shutter area of the dome, several Figure 3: Repairs to WIYN 3.5-m lower base panels, and interior water damage. The shutter area telescope shutter area panels. panels (Figure 3) and lower base panels were literally blown off due to the high winds. Mountain staff worked to temporally repair the damage and had it all safely closed by the evening of January 26. Science results during the quarter included the presentation of images from the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-m telescope that confirm the detection of a binary quasar (Figure 4) and WIYN imaging of a comet/asteroid collision (Figure 5).

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Figure 4: Mayall 4-m The NOAO Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) i band image of the binary quasar on the right, with the Chandra X-ray image on the left. The X-ray image is contoured and those contours are overlaid on the i-band image. It has been assumed for some time that binary super-massive black holes (SMBH) should be common in the universe, given that galaxies regularly interact and merge and that most, if not all, galaxies contain an SMBH. Such an SMBH will only be detected as a quasar when it is accreting matter. And galaxy merging is a leading proposal to trigger such accretion. Now, the first luminous, spatially resolved binary quasar that clearly inhabits an interacting/merging galaxy pair has been reported. (SDSS J1254+0846: A Binary Quasar Caught in the Act of Merging, Green et. al., Ap. J accepted Jan. 2010). The unique properties of this system allow detailed numerical simulations to create plausible scenarios for the histories of both the host galaxies and the SMBH that inhabit them. The first spectrum confirming this binary quasi-stellar object was taken by A. Myers at the KPNO Mayall 4-m telescope using the R-C Spectrograph on 12 February 2008. Subsequent Chandra/NOAO observations (P. Green, PI) with the Mosaic imager on the Mayall 4-m—image obtained 18 March 2009 (Barkhouse, Myers observing)—revealed the existence of the tidal arms in the host galaxy, seen in the figure above.

Figure 5: Main-belt comet P/2010 A2 imaged with the WIYN 3.5-m telescope on UT 11 January 2010 by James Annis (Fermilab), Marcelle Soares-Santo (FermiLab and University of Sao Paulo), and David Jewitt (UCLA). The portion of the image shown is about 3 arcminutes in length (140,000 km at the comet). The broad band of light is sunlight scattered from dust apparently emitted from the tin, point-like object at the head of the comet (indicated by the arrows). These main belt comets, this is only the 5th known, are believed to be formed/created when two asteroids collide. Subsequent Hubble Space Telescope imaging confirmed the collisional origin of this WIYN- discovered “comet.”

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The table to the right summarizes the number of Kitt Peak Visitor Center visitors who participated in paid groups/programs at Kitt Summary of Visitors Peak during this quarter. (3 months ending 3/31/10)

Status of FY10 Milestones Group/Program # of Visitors

• Begin the upgrade of the Mosaic-1 optical imager for General public tours (paid) 2,957 the Mayall 4-m telescope. The refurbished instrument School groups K-12 404 will have new detectors and a modern controller. This project will be completed in FY11. Special tours 128 Status: Eight of the eventual nine e2v CCDs Nightly Obs. Program 2,150 purchased for the upgraded Mosaic-1, to be called Mosaic-1.1, arrived during this quarter. Eight of the Advanced Obs. Program 17 nine will be installed in the instrument with the ninth Total Visitors for All Paid 5,656 being a spare detector. The project remains on Programs schedule for installation of Mosaic-1.1 at the Mayall 4-m telescope during October 2010. • Plan and hold the science meetings and public events associated with our celebration of the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the National Observatory and our look forward to the next 50 years of operations. Events include two science meetings scheduled for March 2010. Status: The back-to-back science symposia, “From First Stars to Forming Planets” and “The Eventful Universe”with an over-lap “Celebration” meeting, were held March 14–20. Immediately following on March 22 was the final event of the 50th anniversary celebrations: a public evening that focused on the significance of Kitt Peak to the people of the Tohono O’odham Nation and on astronomy. This event, “Why Kitt Peak?”, featured Dr. Aden Meinel, first director of KPNO, and Bernard Siquieros, Curator of Education for the Tohono O’odham Cultural Center and Museum. An archive of the presented talks and photos from these events is in preparation.

1.2.2 Central Facilities Operations Program Highlights Central Facilities Operations at NOAO North continued to focus its efforts on both stimulus projects and targeted renovation/maintenance of the headquarters facility. A new Engineer was hired to focus on the various ongoing projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Several areas of the main building in Tucson were reconfigured for ongoing office needs, and asbestos-containing floor tiles were remediated. Other building maintenance issues were addressed regarding replacement of deteriorated water lines and HVAC units. Efforts to implement a new recycling program and evaluate future expansion possibilities for the east wing portion of the main building continued. During this quarter, CFO provided on-site support to Gemini North for the installation and activation of a building access control system there. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Begin to develop a long-range facilities plan to review the needs of the observatory. Status: CFO is working with the NOAO Director’s Office to identify possible needs and investigate options to expand the east wing structure of the main building in Tucson. An

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engineering firm was selected to review the structural system and evaluate the feasibility of the concept. • Replace deteriorated, leaking, landscape irrigation systems. Status: The landscape contractor completed replacement of the underground piping around the main headquarters building. Efforts now are being directed toward the irrigation systems at the facility housing Central Administrative Services. • Complete Phase II renovations to La Quinta Conference room to address issues related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and access. Status: CFO began preparing documentation for the space renovation and installation of a new Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant accessibility ramp. • Make targeted renovation and building modifications at NOAO North to address office and meeting space needs. Status: Renovation of office spaces continues to be done to accommodate the staffing needs of the National Solar Observatory, WIYN, and NOAO programs. This included remediation of asbestos-containing floor tiles in several locations. CFO also initiated efforts to develop bid documents for the work necessary to replace exterior doors, update conference room video systems, and replace conference room chairs.

1.2.3 Computer Infrastructure Services Program Highlights Computer Infrastructure Services (CIS) worked on several key tasks this quarter including two projects on Kitt Peak. A new version of dhcp-kp was installed on Kitt Peak. This machine serves as a DHCP server and monitors the mountain network via arpwatch. The Ethernet switches in the McMath-Pierce dome were upgraded to newer HP switches to support Gigabit connections. At the NOAO Tucson complex, several Apple AirportExtreme wireless access points were installed to replace older HP access points. The Apple access points feature dual-band radios and support for 802.11n. A break-in took place on the Web-server fargo.tuc.noao.edu (predominately used by NSO). Forensic studies were undertaken and the exploited weaknesses were identified. The lessons learned include the need to purge development code from active servers and to preserve log information for at least a year. A new draft version of the “NOAO CyberSecurity and Acceptable Use Policy” was issued (http://www.noao.edu/cis/secbasics/cybersec/draft_docs/cybersecurity_and_acceptableuse.html) and a “Written summary of the policies, procedures and practices employed by NOAO as part of NOAO’s IT security program” was sent to the Program Manager for NOAO at the NSF. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Upgrade the NOAO North email server to provide more robust disk storage Status: Completed. • Revamp the main network rack in the NOAO North computer lab for maintainability and reliability. “Build-out” the backbone Ethernet switch to maximum capacity. Status: In Progress.

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1.2.4 Safety Report Kitt Peak and Tucson did not have any OSHA-reportable accidents this quarter but there was a minor injury. A Shipping/Receiving (S/R) employee received a bruise on the right ring finger on January 27 while transferring materials from a damaged pallet to a good pallet. The damaged pallet gave way and clipped the employee’s finger. S/R staff now will be watching for damaged pallets and will not accept them. This accident was classified as a first aid case. An EPO employee was driving a personal vehicle down from Kitt Peak after the nightly observing program and hit a cow on the lower stretch of Highway 386. The employee was uninjured but the vehicle was totaled. This quarter, more than 200 fluorescent light bulbs, flammable liquids, old photo developer, detergent with heavy metals, mercury and sodium light bulbs, mercury-containing thermostats, R-22 refrigerant, disposal batteries, and asbestos tiles were sent to recycling for proper disposal. CFO staff assisted Gemini with the installation, setup, programming, and startup of the Gemini North Keyscan system The system is in full operation and the Gemini facilities staff are now managing their local system. A CFO staff member led a kick-off meeting on March 12 for the computer room renovations. The fire protection alternatives, ventilation modifications, and floor plan layouts were reviewed with the Computer Infrastructure Systems staff. CFO Staff and the NOAO Risk Manager have been researching and verifying code compliance and other regulatory considerations related to the project. A Central Administrative Sevices employee helped to coordinate safety training in Tucson starting with first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and use of the Automatic External Defibrillator. Future plans include offering similar classes at Kitt Peak as well as offering other safety-related topics.

1.3 NOAO SYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER

Program Highlights The NOAO System Science Center (NSSC) consists of System User Support (SUS), Science Data Management (SDM), and System Community Development (SCD), and their respective program highlights and the status of FY10 milestones are discussed separately within each of the three sections following the NSSC highlights. During the second quarter of FY10, the final management team for NSSC was defined: Knut Olsen became Head of Program for SUS and Mark Dickinson became Program Scientist for SDM. Two selected science highlights published during this period, which relied on telescope time allocated by NOAO from either time funded through the Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) or NSF-funded US Gemini time, are summarized below: First: Using NOAO-assigned TSIP nights on Keck I with HIRES in semesters 2007B and 2008B, Bakos et al. (2010, Astrophysical Journal, 710, 1724-1745, February 20 issue, “HAT-P-11b: A Super-Neptune Planet Transiting a Bright K Star in the Kepler Field”) have confirmed the planetary-mass nature of a transiting extrasolar planet discovered from a ground-based photometric survey. Radial velocities from HIRES were used to determine the mass of the transiting object, which turns out to be a Neptune-sized planet having about 25 Earth masses. This object becomes the first “hot Neptune” sized planet discovered to date by transit searches, and the accurate radial velocities provided by HIRES on Keck I were crucial in establishing this aspect of the star-planet system. Importantly for future studies, HAT-P-11b falls within the Kepler telescope field-of-view, which makes possible fruitful investigations of the detailed physical characteristics of both the planet and its parent star at unprecedented precision.

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Second: The Gemini South telescope with the Gemini Multi Object Spectrograph (GMOS) was employed by Sun et al. (2010, Astrophysical Journal, 708, 946-964, January 10 issue, “Spectacular X-Ray Tails, Intracluster Star Formation, and ULXs in A3627”) to obtain spectra of some 33 H II regions associated with the double X-ray tail of a late-type galaxy (ESO 137-001), which is a member of the closest rich cluster Abell 3627. GMOS spectra of these intracluster H II regions, which are in the apparent downstream tail of ESO 137-001, show the imprint, via their velocities, of the disk rotation of ESO 137-001. This study shows unambiguously, for the first time, that active star formation can happen in the cold interstellar medium (ISM) stripped by intracluster medium (ICM) ram pressure. This star formation may contribute a significant amount of intracluster light. It is concluded that the high pressure environment found in dense clusters of galaxies is important for intracluster star formation.

1.3.1 System User Support Program Highlights Within the organizational efforts of SUS, there was a “US Gemini Town Hall” meeting held at the January 2010 meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC. Both the NSSC Director and Gemini Director gave presentations and fielded questions from the user community, with the emphasis on future new instrument possibilities for the Gemini telescopes. In addition, the Associate Director of Development at Gemini provided an overview of current and near-future Gemini observational capabilities. The goal of this meeting was to provide information to and receive feedback from the US user community on possible near-term instrument starts for Gemini. The feedback from this meeting was included in a subsequent teleconference of the US Gemini Caucus (US members of the Gemini Board and Gemini Science Committee, plus the NOAO Gemini Science Advisory Committee). The discussions that have ensued over the second quarter of FY10 focus on the upcoming Gemini Science Committee meeting to be held 19–20 April 2010 in Annapolis, MD, which will discuss, among other topics, possible new instruments and new observational capabilities for the Gemini telescopes. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Work with the community-at-large to advertise, advocate, and advise for the broad range of System capabilities, including old and new. Status: Beginning with the March 2010 NOAO/NSO Newsletter, the advertising of US System capabilities is now grouped under one section, entitled “System Science Capabilities” (which includes all of the capabilities for KPNO (including WIYN), CTIO (including SOAR), Gemini (including exchange access with Subaru), Keck, MMT, Magellan, and Palomar/Hale. In the earlier format, the different observatories were discussed in different sections of the Newsletter. The new format provided users a more unified and simpler view of System capabilities in preparation for the semester 2010B deadline (31 March 2010) for proposals. • Maintain the historically high level of support for US Gemini programs. Status: US demand for Gemini time remains strong (with semester 2010A oversubscription factors being 4.3 for Gemini North and 1.9 for Gemini South), with 20% of US programs, which amount to 30% of US time, scheduled as classical observing runs funded by NOAO. During the second quarter of FY10 there were four Gemini site visits by NSSC staff, as well as nine US classical runs (with 19 observers). The continuing high level of NSSC staff visits to Gemini, coupled with the support of classical observing, points to substantial face-to-face interactions between combinations of NSSC astronomers, US users, and Gemini staff.

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1.3.2 Science Data Management Program Highlights A new release of the Science Data Management (SDM) End-to-End (E2E) System (v1.4) was deployed at the beginning of the 2010A observing semester. This release changed the method of data file compression from gzip to FITS tile compression for better utilization of disk space and better performance. During February and March, the uncompressed volume of raw and pipeline- reduced data (approximately 2.5 TB) compressed to less than 800 GB using the FPACK compression utility, which gave an overall compression ratio of 3.2. This is a 40% improvement over gzip, yielding an approximate 35% reduction in future storage requirements. Members of the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) Survey Image System Process Integration (SISPI) team were provided an upgraded snapshot version of the Data Transport System (DTS) for continued testing of its interface to the data acquisition system. An additional feature was delivered to SISPI where the DTS could be used as a means to simultaneously deliver data to the observer’s working environment and provide an automated full-resolution display. This ad-hoc use of DTS is currently in testing. An Interface Control Document describing the interface between the DTS and the SISPI system and the Dark Energy Survey pipeline system was written and delivered to the relevant parties for review. Members of SDM participated in the development of a joint proposal for a One Degree Imager (ODI) Science Pipeline with personnel from the Indiana University Information Technology Services (UITS) and WIYN. An SDM scientist served on the Technical Working Group and the SDM Head of Program served on the Technical Working Group and the Management Group. Technical and management reports, as well as a joint proposal for archiving and pipeline-reducing ODI data, were prepared for the WIYN Board meeting scheduled for early April. Upon approval of the proposal by the WIYN Board, SDM will participate in a detailed design review of the proposed joint archive/pipeline system. Members of SDM participated in several meetings for the Dark Energy Camera including SISPI, Community Pipeline, and Systems Interfaces Working Group teleconferences. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Continued operation of a functionally complete version of the end-to-end (E2E) data management system, including data capture, transport, archiving, pipeline processing (Mosaic and NEWFIRM), and user access. Status: The E2E v1.4 system has functioned very well since its deployment on 1 February 2010. • Development of a keyword dictionary of the NOAO FITS data headers. The dictionary will include the instrument configuration, the world coordinate system, time stamps, and detector array characteristics and will be a definitive, publicly-accessible repository of keyword definitions for the most heavily subscribed NOAO instruments available through the NOAO archive. Status: The keyword dictionary was deployed at archive.noao.edu/keyword-dictionary-webapp- 1.4-SNAPSHOT/instrument.html. After a short period of review by local staff the service will be announced to the public. • Update E2E systems to support DECam by adding support for FITS files in the Rice tile- compressed format, including enhancements to archive and ingest the DECam compressed FITS data files.

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Status: With the deployment of the E2E v1.4 system in February, full support was implemented for compressing, uncompressing, and archiving FITS files in the Rice tile-compressed format. The headers of Data Challenge 5 data delivered by the DES Data Management group were reviewed for possible keyword problems. The files were archived in the test system as part of a DECam stress test. • Develop a 64-bit implementation of IRAF for support of large-format images (greater than 2 Gigabytes) and compatibility with 64-bit operating systems. Status: An Alpha release of a 64-bit IRAF implementation was made March 2. There were more than 150 downloads this quarter and only three bug reports were received. Issues have been identified with the FITS kernel that have to be addressed, and a simple one step download procedure is in development for the Beta release expected in the summer of 2010. • Test operation of Mosaic science pipeline modules using the NOAO High-Performance Pipeline System within the Open Grid Computing Environment (OGCE) on the Indiana University Teragrid. Develop prototype science pipeline for the WIYN One Degree Imager (ODI). Status: The SDM Pipeline Scientist collaborated with Suresh Marru from Indiana University to successfully test the operation of the NOAO High-Performance Pipeline System and Mosaic pipeline within the OGCE on the Indiana Teragrid. A prototype pipeline may be built and tested within the OGCE in the next phase of the ODI NOAO/UITS/WIYN joint pipeline project.

1.3.3 System Community Development Program Highlights The plan to create a roadmap for the ground-based optical/infrared (O/IR) system was well received by the NSF AST staff. As soon as specific comments are received, the white paper will be publicized. The ReSTAR committee was asked to provide recommendations and priorities to guide the development of a proposal to fund the second phase of NOAO’s ReSTAR implementation plan. Membership of a panel to review the NOAO Survey Program has been finalized. Through the NOAO electronic newsletter, Currents, requests were solicited for NOAO scientists to visit astronomy departments and regional meetings to present and discuss the NOAO program. LSST Science NSSC staff participated in the “The Eventful Universe” meeting, held as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Kitt Peak and the National Observatory. Discussions held at this meeting were aimed at ascertaining the community’s expectations and aspirations for how time-domain research will be carried out over the next decade, into the LSST era. Subsequently, the NOAO LSST Science Working Group began discussion of an end-to-end LSST simulation experiment, in which high- cadence wide-field imaging observations would be obtained and processed, alerts would be generated, and follow-up observations would be carried out. The community would be engaged to participate in this experiment. GSMT/ELT Science During this quarter, no GSMT-related science activities took place. Optical Interferometry Science The September 2009 Observing Proposal solicitation attracted 10 proposals for 17 nights’ use of the CHARA Array, representing an oversubscription factor of 3.5. Four proposals were recommended for approval in 2010, and will be carried out at CHARA. Two each are scheduled for semesters 2010A and 2010B.

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NSSC staff are working with New Mexico Tech to plan a workshop on “Science with Optical Interferometry,” tentatively scheduled for spring 2011. The workshop objective is to familiarize the community with available interferometry facilities and to promote thinking about science opportunities enabled by opening those facilities to community access. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Initiate an effort to develop a roadmap for the ground-based O/IR system with community input and participation. Status: Informal approval was received from NSF/AST. • Undertake a study of the NOAO Survey Program, with the intent of recommending changes that would improve its effectiveness at providing useful data sets to the community. Based on these recommendations implement changes in the survey program before the next call for proposals. Status: Membership of the review panel was finalized. • For the NOAO/CHARA special Announcement of Opportunity, support TAC review and allocations, collaborate on visitor support, and prepare a “lessons learned” review. Status: The four approved programs from the previous TAC are scheduled at CHARA.

1.4 NOAO SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY CENTER

1.4.1 System Instrumentation Program Highlights System Instrumentation (SI) continued its engagement in the fabrication and assembly of parts for the WIYN One Degree Imager (ODI). The ODI work was concentrated on assembly of the complete Dewar, with the “dummy” focal plane installed, for full-system vacuum and thermal tests with heat loads applied to simulate Orthogonal Transfer Array detector operations. SI staff also led efforts to pack and ship the NOAO Extremely Wide-Field Infrared Mosaic (NEWFIRM) imager to CTIO. At quarter’s end, NEWFIRM had arrived at CTIO, and SI staff was leading work there to unpack the instrument, inspect and test it, and prepare it for installation on the Blanco 4-m telescope. Status of FY10 Milestones

• MONSOON development: complete successful Production Readiness Review for the miniaturized, energy-efficient TORRENT version. Status: Progressing. A careful analysis of project status and resources by the entire team led to a plan for the Production Readiness Review to occur in the third quarter of FY10. The team is working hard and making good progress toward the review.

1.4.2 ReSTAR Instrumentation Program Highlights Scientific use of the Hale 200-inch (5-m) telescope at Palomar by observers from the US community began during the second quarter, at the start of Semester 2010A. NOAO scientific staff provided pre- and post-observing support as called for under the agreement with Caltech Optical

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Observatories. Significant progress was made on the optical design of the Kitt Peak Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph (KOSMOS), keeping on schedule for holding the Design Review as planned in June 2010. At the end of the quarter, the new CCDs arrived from the vendor for the Mosaic-1 upgrade (now known as Mosaic-1.1), and the team was just getting underway with testing and characterization of the new detectors. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Mosaic-1 CCD and Controller Upgrade: purchase new CCDs and integrate with TORRENT controllers, to be ready for commissioning early in FY11. Status: Completed as to CCD purchase; on schedule for commissioning in October 2010. The CCDs arrived from the vendor (e2v Technologies) in late March 2010. The engineering grade CCD that was part of the purchase turned out to be near-science grade and thus will be suitable as a spare science detector if needed. Mechanical design and thermal analysis of the CCD mounting modifications is nearly complete. At the design review in January 2010, the team decided to protect the commissioning schedule by initially deploying the upgraded Mosaic with an existing MONSOON controller, and then upgrading to TORRENT controllers during FY11 when those controllers are expected to be readily available. This development path creates very little additional work for the Mosaic upgrade project as the two controller architectures are so similar, but it does allow the Mosaic upgrade to proceed on schedule with detector testing and deployment while the TORRENT development process is completed. • CTIO-Hydra CCD and Controller Upgrade: purchase a new CCD and integrate it with a TORRENT controller, to be ready for commissioning early in FY11. Status: Progressing, but falling behind schedule. The upgrade project team has been engaged in fruitful discussions with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL) about the possibility of repackaging a thick, high-resistivity LBNL CCD for use in Hydra. This device is the most scientifically desirable choice by far for the upgrade, but the required repackaging will delay its availability by about six months. The project is tentatively proceeding with preparation for and acquisition of an LBNL device, although the final schedule impacts are still under review, taking into account the required instrument modifications and the availability of needed technical personnel at CTIO.

1.4.3 Telescope System Instrumentation Program Program Highlights NOAO continued its oversight of the ongoing Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) projects: • Keck Multi-Object Spectrograph for Infrared Exploration (MOSFIRE), • Keck Next-Generation Adaptive Optics (NGAO), • Large Binocular Telescope Multi-Object Double Spectrograph (MODS), • Magellan Adaptive Secondary Mirror, • MMT System Access, and • WIYN One Degree Imager (ODI).

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Contract negotiations began for new programs awarded funds from the FY09 solicitation. NOAO signed the associated contract with Carnegie Observatories to upgrade the CCDs in the wide-field channel of the Inamori-Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (IMACS). Contract negotiations are on-going with Keck for new sub-awards for NGAO and the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI). In addition, Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) were executed between NOAO and Keck and NOAO and Carnegie for the new programs specifying the number and timing of nights to be allocated to the community as well as the award amounts in each case. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Establish an oversight process for FY09 TSIP sub-awards. Status: In progress. MOU’s between NOAO and Keck and NOAO and Carnegie were signed. Contract negotiations are underway and monthly reporting will begin in the third quarter of FY10. The contract for the IMACS upgrade was signed 16 March 2010.

1.4.4 LSST Technology Program Program Highlights Support of the LSST project has continued this quarter in both the areas of technical development and community engagement. The technical effort was focused on the contract for Architectural and Engineering (A&E) services for the summit facility, design details for the interfaces to the summit facility, and the continued testing of primary mirror support hardware. In the area of community support, the activities focused on science metrics for the operations simulator. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Site and Facility: complete the procurement process initiated in FY09 and award the contract for A&E services.

Status: The contract for A&E services of the LSST summit facility was completed and initiated this period. ARCADIS Geotecnica was awarded the contract for phased development of the design. The kick-off meeting was held in Santiago on 22 March 2010. The first phase of this design commits the effort planned in FY09. • Dome: complete the initial Dome-Facility Interface Control Document. Status: A draft document was completed and the design was progressed to allow a productive interaction with the summit facility A&E firm. Final refinement for the Preliminary Design Review will be completed in collaboration with the facility design. • Reflective Optics: collaborate with the LSST primary mirror vendor to evaluate the front surface optical processing readiness. Status: The LSST Corporation vendor started the front surface processing of the monolithic primary mirror. The primary mirror surface was generated to within 5 mm of the final optical surface and the tertiary mirror grinding was begun. Interactions have been completed on the readiness to start these phases and interactions are underway that will lead to a final readiness review in early April 2010. This review will focus on the metrology of the surfaces.

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• Reflective Optics: continue the prototype testing and design work for the primary mirror support hardware. Status: The design of the hardpoint stiffness test stand was completed and sent out for quote. The prototype electro-mechanical figure actuator test stand was designed and sent out for fabrication. An alternate pivoted actuator design concept was developed that eliminates the heavy and expensive ball decoupler in the baseline design. The analysis of the static supports was completed to determine an optimum wire rope isolator. The computer model of the as-built load spreader was completed to include final positions of the hardware on the back of the mirror. Environmental testing of the air cylinders and valves was started. • WFS Alignment and Calibration: support calibration observing runs to validate calibration plans. Status: A combined experiment was run this period as described below. • WFS Alignment and Calibration: operate LSST telescope assets to conduct calibration validation experiments. Status: A five-night observing run was completed on Kitt Peak. The run was intended to collect imaging data on Calypso with a Y filter and simultaneously collect spectroscopic data on the 2.1-m telescope. Weather hampered the start of the run and despite successful preparations, minor technical issues kept the imaging portion of the test off line. The spectrographic data was collected to support calibration tests independent of the imaging, and the data will be analyzed. • WFS Alignment and Calibration: complete designs for prototype calibration screen projectors and consult on the development and testing completed by LSST. Status: The designs for calibration screen prototypes were completed this period and test hardware was purchased to support the test plans. Prototypes for several design variations will be tested to evaluate performance of the various techniques. • Project Management: support the LSST project with oversight of image simulation efforts. Status: Personnel provided support for an LSST meeting in Seattle on 3 March 2010 to review the validation plans for the image simulation effort. LSST is planning unit testing and output tests of the image simulation code as well as the input catalog models and hardware models. • Science Mission and Requirements: provide a telescope and site representative to the LSST Science Council. Status: Personnel provided supported for an LSST meeting in Seattle on 2 March 2010 to review the Science Requirements Document (SRD). This meeting focused on the ties between the SRD and the LSST System Requirements document. • Science Mission and Requirements: evaluate simulated and on-sky data to evaluate LSST science objectives. Status: An effort to establish detailed scientific metrics to evaluate the performance of simulated survey runs was initiated this period. A kick-off to the effort occurred at an LSST collaboration meeting held in conjunction with the January AAS meeting and has been followed up with the start of algorithm and code development. These metrics will focus on details in the survey specific to the individual science collaborations.

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1.4.5 GSMT/ELT Technology Program Program Highlights The Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT) Program Office continued its monitoring of the two US-based extremely large telescope (ELT) projects: the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Both projects are continuing design work in preparation for construction on the sites they have selected. The program office continues to provide limited technical support (reimbursed) to TMT efforts, and has begun exploring the possibility of providing a similar level of support to GMT through funding from its South Korean partner. Technical support is also being provided to the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Complete the close-out of the site survey in Chile. Status: While work on the site survey was completed and data made public in the first quarter, some TMT-owned site survey equipment is in storage in Chile and will be returned when TMT determines where it should go.

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2.1 CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

Program Highlights Central Administrative Services (CAS) focused on the calendar year-end process, which included preparing audited financial statements and tax reporting. A major step toward the integration of AOSS into NOAO South was achieved when the CAS Deputy Controller and Senior Accountant visited CTIO and worked out many of the details involved in combining financial data. Staff from CTIO will travel to Tucson in the third quarter to continue the effort. During the quarter, Gemini Administration inquired if CAS would be willing to assume their payroll processing function. After negotiating with Gemini on the services required, an MOU was signed by both parties with 1 April 2010 as the effective date. As a result of the additional workload, CAS accounting will add a new Accounting Specialist to cover accounts payable duties previously performed by payroll staff. The Human Resources Department now reports directly to the NOAO Director. During the second quarter of FY10, Human Resources began an employee wellness program in Tucson, which includes on-site educational meetings and exercise classes. Human resources is working in conjunction with the payroll department to launch the employee self-service module of the UltiPro software to enable employees to access their personal information and provide updates. As illustrated in the chart below, the average monthly exchange rate of the US dollar relative to the Chilean peso increased during the quarter. The NOAO Annual Program Plan FY 2010 assumes an exchange rate of 500, while the average rate for the quarter was approximately 520. Below is a one-year chart showing the exchange rate trend.

Chart courtesy of exchange-rates.org

Status of FY10 Milestones

• CAS Business IT will focus on making revisions to the newly created Web-based budget system (WEBUD), the new AURA-wide Web-based human resources and payroll system (UltiPro), as well as expanding the current requisition system (Reqless), the grants management system, and document storage systems. This will be especially important as CTIO reintegrates the observatory services support operations formally known as AOSS.

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Status: CAS Business IT staff met with the NOAO Deputy Director to discuss changes to the WEBUD program for the FY11 budget cycle. A release of the revised program is planned for early May. The Travel Request module of Reqless was rolled out in the second quarter. Initial user input has created a number of feature requests that will be addressed in the third quarter. • General Administration and Accounting will continue to work with NOAO South operations to develop a streamlined cross-NOAO accounting and reporting system. Property reporting, tracking, and disposal operations have been transferred to Central Facilities Operations allowing for integration of operations between NOAO North and South. Status: Members of the NOAO North accounting staff traveled to CTIO in the second quarter to coordinate the transition. • The Sponsored Projects Offices will focus on executing the ARRA requirements and reporting, increasing their grants and contracts support to NOAO North and South, and supporting the transitional operations of LSST and ATST. Status: The second ARRA report for NOAO was successfully submitted this quarter. Data collection for the report was refined to insure compliance with newly released NSF guidelines.

2.2 OFFICE OF SCIENCE

Program Highlights The Office of Science (OS) activities this quarter included allocating research and meeting funds, holding interviews for the Goldberg Fellowship candidates, reviewing and adjusting the FY10 budget to ensure consistency with the planning process of last year, and initiating the planning for a mentor program. One tenure promotion review that was initiated in the last quarter continues to move through the various processes. Requests for support funding and office space for two FY11 sabbatical visitors were approved. There were 61 applicants for the Leo Goldberg Fellowship. The search committee identified a “short list” of 15 candidates for interviews, most held at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) January 2010 meeting, and offers were sent to the top candidates. The OS entered into a verbal arrangement with Indiana University to identify PhD students having interests that overlap with those of NOAO scientists. When a suitable match is identified, and if funding can be found at Indiana, the student will be offered the opportunity to spend 6–18 months in Tucson working with an NOAO staff scientist serving as a co-advisor. A meeting was held with a mentoring leader from the University of Wisconsin, and plans for implementing a program at NOAO were advanced. Additional activities for within the OS this quarter involved providing support for the symposia held in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Kitt Peak National Observatory, completing performance reviews for all six OS personnel, and defining their preliminary salary adjustments for FY10. The Interim Head of the Office of Science will be resigning from NOAO during the next report period, and training and information transfer to a successor has begun Status of FY10 Milestones

• Initiate a new mentoring program for staff career development. Status: Two NOAO scientists attended the special mentoring session at the January AAS meeting. Three NOAO scientists met with a mentoring leader from the University of Wisconsin,

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set up accounts on their mentor training distance learning site, and developed a draft startup plan for NOAO. • Recruit a Goldberg Fellow postdoc for an FY11 start. Status: The process is nearing completion after holding interviews, developing a ranked list, and making offers to several candidates.

2.3 EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH

Program Highlights

The NOAO/NSO Newsletter changed significantly Public Outreach with the March Newsletter, Issue 101, having a new Information Requests & Inquiries section organization to make the Newsletter more (3 months ending 3/31/10) useful and informative. It now will be produced only Type/Origin of Request Number twice a year, in March and September. These changes are in response to suggestions from our Information requests/inquiries about 85 User’s committees. The entire newsletter is printed astronomy/science (phone calls, e- mails, and walk-ins/requests for in full color now, and will be sent to US posters, bookmarks, brochures, etc. astronomers as well as libraries, both foreign and domestic. The Newsletter was posted online at the Requests and inquiries for use of 198 end of February, and electronic notification was sent NOAO images to over 3000 astronomers and interested individuals. TOTAL 283 Educational programming with the Tohono O’odham Nation is a high EPO department priority. Following changers in leadership in the school district on the Tohono O’odham Nation, we have spent time reestablishing connections with the Superintendent, principles, and teachers. This is starting to bear fruit: currently, there are three youth group overnight programs scheduled at the Kitt Peak Visitor Center as well as several daytime visits. An April visit to the O’odham Cultural Center and Museum was arranged for the Kitt Peak Visitor Center docents. One O’odham student will be a repeat camper in the beginning Astronomy Camp (to be held on Mt. Lemmon this year). She will receive a Kitt Peak Scholarship to attend the camp. In the AstroBITS program funded by Science Foundation Arizona, the first of several classes of teachers was recruited for 2010. Oversubscription was a factor of two, considerably higher than the fall class. The online class, consisting of 10 high school teachers from a variety of Arizona locations, began on March 5. Teachers work on modules that introduce them to image processing and the basics of spectral analysis. They use software available by a free download, as well as some provided by EPO, which can be duplicated as much as they want. Teachers who complete at least three of the six modules will be eligible to spend the night at Kitt Peak on April 17. A recent high note for this program was that almost all of the astronomy projects at the Southern Arizona Science & Engineering Fair in March were by students whose teachers have been in the AstroBITS class. Over 40% of the 56 EPO activities during the second quarter of FY10 were dark skies education events with presentations at two major conferences, including the Communicating Astronomy with the Public meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, in March. There were three training workshops on dark skies education for educators, and nine nighttime dark skies activity sessions were given at the Cooper Environmental Center in Tucson for local teachers There were four classroom visits on dark skies activities, including a visit to the Baboquivari High School in Sells, Arizona. The worldwide citizen-science campaign on GLOBE at Night took place March 3–16 and was hosted by the EPO

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staff at NOAO. There was a magazine article on GLOBE at Night in the online version of Sky and Telescope, a television segment on GLOBE at Night on Tucson station KOLD, and two podcasts on 365daysofastronomy.org. Over 17,000 measurements were contributed to the GLOBE at Night campaign by the end of March. The EPO undergraduate student outreach cadre helped with more than half of all EPO activities, assisting with nine dark skies activity sessions at Camp Cooper, four classroom visits, three workshop sessions and the GLOBE at Night star party. The cadre also assisted with four other star parties, including the Arizona Capitol star party in Phoenix on March 24 and a star party at the San Xavier Recreation Center on the Tohono O’odham reservation. They also led eight Boys & Girls Club sessions on astronomy at the Jim and Vicki Click Clubhouse in South Tucson. The Hands-On Optics Arizona program (funded by Science Foundation Arizona) held training programs at the Boys & Girls Club in Bisbee, Arizona and at Discovery Park near Safford, Arizona. On January 14, at the Math Moves You event on the University of Arizona campus, 500 students built Galileoscopes. Another major event was the fifth annual Tucson city-wide Optics Festival on February 18 where NOAO staff ran the “Hit the Target” competition and hands-on optics experiments for students. March 24 was the Arizona Galileoscope Star Party in Phoenix at the state capitol complex, which was organized by NOAO. Students from Tucson, South Tucson, Sahuarita, Sells, Catalina, and Phoenix attended. Development work continues on the “Teaching With Telescopes” Web site (teachingwithtelescopes.org). This NOAO Web site will provide support for Galileoscope users both in Arizona and around the country. Media Releases Release Date News Topic January 26 Caught in the Act: A Merging Binary QSO January 27 Former Kitt Peak Director Geoff Burbidge Passes Away February 15 Dr. Sidney Wolff Honored at Chilean Dedication February 22 Nearby Galaxy Shows Spectacular X-ray Tails with Embedded Active Star Formation March 1 National Observatory Holds Special Presentation for Public: Celebrated Astronomer to Speak March 3 GLOBE at Night 2010 Builds toward Breaking the Record Set During the International Year of Astronomy March 10 The History of Iolkam Du’ag and the Birth of Kitt Peak National Observatory to Be Explored on March 22nd

Status of FY10 Milestones

• Lead national efforts related to the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), particularly program coordination with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC). Take full advantage of related IYA opportunities in Chile. Status: The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) programs are largely concluded and were judged highly successful. Three of the four awards for the International Year of Astronomy 2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach went to US projects, with “From Earth to the Universe,” a US project, receiving the top award. The Chile program for IYA2009 was far reaching and many Galileoscopes and Dark Skies teaching kits were used in professional development programs.

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• Provide support to programs related to maximizing the educational value of the Galileoscope telescope kit (with over 100,000 Galileoscopes now in circulation) and related optics education. Status: A teaching Web site was created (teachingwithtelescopes.org) and new content continues to be added. Thousands of Galileoscopes have been sent under the Edelman donation program of the American Astronomical Society to Project ASTRO sites and to workshop sites of the National Earth Science Teachers Association. • Create a wide-ranging, dark skies awareness program for southern Arizona and Chile. Provide support to the IYA Dark Skies Education program developed at NOAO. Status: A wide-ranging program based on the Cooper Environmental Center (Tucson) and on the GLOBE at Night program (Chile) was created and successfully involved teachers and students at a large number of locations in our dark skies education program. GLOBE at Night is used nationally and internationally to educate citizen scientists about dark skies –related issues. • Continue to grow outreach activity and programs with the Tohono O’odham, including participation in Kitt Peak Astronomy Camps. Status: Outreach activities with the Tohono O’odham Nation are at a high level, as described above in Program Highlights. • Continue our support for Hands-On Optics teaching centers in Arizona (and across the nation as funding permits) established under the original NSF informal science grant. Status: A new site in Flagstaff at Lowell Observatory was established under the Science Foundation Arizona grant and all of the Arizona sites are being supported with professional development on an as-needed basis. The program to replenish Hands-On Optics consumables at these sites is well underway. This quarter, EPO worked with the kit provider to ensure continued availability of the kits from a commercial vendor.

2.4 NOAO DIRECTOR’S OFFICE

Program Highlights The NOAO director and deputy director attended the January 2010 AAS meeting in Washington, DC. At the meeting, both people interacted with the US community while standing at the NOAO booth. The annual NOAO Town Hall was held, where the director made a 30-minute presentation and then answered questions from the floor for another 30 minutes. While at the AAS meeting, the director participated in a roundtable discussion sponsored by Nature magazine about Astro2010, the 2010 decadal survey. The director became a member of the WIYN Corporation Board of Directors and remains a member of the LSST Corporation Board of Directors. During the current reporting period, the director visited Chile twice and the deputy director visited once. The first trip by the director was motivated by an AURA Board meeting in La Serena in early February. In late March, the director returned to Chile for meetings in Santiago with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Project, European Southern Observatory/Santiago, and the Astronomy Department of the Universidad de Chile (Cerro Calán). After those meetings, he spent two days in La Serena. During the same time period, the deputy director visited La Serena to engage Chilean staff and discuss the recently completed 2010-2011 collective bargaining agreement process.

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The NOAO director and all Tucson-based senior managers participated in the March meeting of the AURA Observatory Council in Tucson. The main focus of this meeting was to review the current status of the NOAO program and the draft Long-Range Plan for FY 2010–2014. Immediately following this meeting, the NOAO senior management team participated in a one-day seminar on how to be more effective leaders. The director and deputy director participated in various events associated with the 50th anniversary of the US national observatory. The anniversary was observed in March 2010 and included science symposia and a retrospective look at KPNO, CTIO, and NOAO. The director presented the annual State of NOAO address to all-hands meetings in La Serena and Tucson. The director also made a public presentation to the San Marino City Club in January. The director continues to coordinate the upcoming SPIE conference Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems with A. Peck (ALMA) and B.T. Soifer (Caltech). Weekly telecons continue between the NOAO director and the AST program officer responsible for NOAO. The AURA president attends these weekly meetings frequently. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Deliver a revised Long-Range Plan by the end of the second quarter in FY10. Status: A draft Long-Range Plan (LRP) was delivered to the AURA Observatory Council (OC) for their review in mid-March 2010. After the OC provides final comments and approval, a new draft will be created and delivered to the NSF Program Review Panel for their review in late April. Per previous agreement with NSF, the final NOAO LRP will be delivered via FastLane by 15 May 2010. • With AURA and NSF, and as funding permits, develop a more comprehensive NOAO-wide Risk Management Program. Status: This is in progress, but awaiting the final FY10 budget. • With the associate director for NOAO South, ensure a smooth integration of the former AURA Observatory Support Services (AOSS) team into NOAO. Status: The initial integration is complete. Activity this quarter focused on merging/converting Chile-based financial tracking and reporting processes into Tucson-based processes. • With the associate director for KPNO, seek a major world-class science capability development program for the Mayall 4-m telescope. Status: Received on 1 March 2010 was one Letter of Intent to propose for such an opportunity. A Request for Proposal was issued to that group. The proposal submission deadline is no later than 1 October 2010. • With the associate director for NSSC and head of program for NSTC, continue to advocate new science capabilities at the Gemini Observatory, perhaps through a joint NOAO/Gemini instrument development program. Status: This is in progress, but awaiting the final FY10 budget and outcome of the March 2010 Gemini Board of Directors strategic retreat. • With the associate director of Administration and Facilities, develop a training program for the NOAO senior management team. Status: The responsibility for training program development was shifted to the Human Resources group. During this quarter, all available senior managers attended a one-day

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seminar on how to be an effective leader. The next seminar is scheduled for July 2010 and will cover coaching, mentoring, and team building. • Commission an internal review of the entire NOAO complement of engineering and technical staff and then re-assess head counts and skill mix needed to support mountain operations as well as future technology development activities. Status: An assessment was begun and is being coordinated by the head of the NOAO System Technology Center. The expectation is to complete it by the end of the third quarter of FY10 in order to influence budget planning for FY11. • Continue, in coordination with AURA, to work on broadening participation in the NSF science enterprise by engaging individuals, institutions, and geographical areas “…that do not participate in NSF research programs at rates comparable to others.” (Quote from the Executive Summary of Broadening Participation at the National Science Foundation: A Framework for Action, August 2008). Status: At the January 2010 AAS meeting, one of the NOAO diversity advocates (Norman) chaired two special sessions entitled, “Mentoring Astronomers: Students to Faculty I and II” and co-lead a group discussion following the screening of “Hubble’s Diverse Universe,” a 45- minute film featuring nine African-American and Hispanic-American astrophysicists, their research, the role of NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope in their careers, and discussion of diversity issues in astronomy. She also (co-)authored two articles for the AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy newletter SPECTRUM (January 2010). Both diversity advocates and the NOAO director made presentations to the AURA Workforce and Diversity Committee in Tucson. They also served on two search committees for new scientific staff members.

2.5 ARRA INFRASTRUCTURE RENEWAL

Program Highlights NOAO hired a new civil engineer to work on stimulus projects on Kitt Peak and in Tucson. She began work for Central Facilities Operations in January 2010. Progress was made on major initiatives at Kitt Peak National Observatory, the Tucson main office, and at NOAO South. The Kitt Peak progress affects the water system renovation, visitor center elevator, and instrument handling facility. A contract for design work on the water system renovation project was signed; the visitor center elevator was installed and is awaiting final inspection; and a site was selected for the instrument handling facility, and surveying of the site was begun. In Tucson, planning and design work was begun on the electrical distribution system renovation. In Chile, significant progress was made on the Coudé room improvement project to transform it into an instrument handling facility. Preliminary design work began on the Cerro Pachón dinning facility, and the emergency generator for the Cerro Pachón dormitory was ordered. Status of FY10 Milestones

• Complete the design specifications and request for proposals to perform the work required to complete the major sub-contracted projects funded by the ARRA (see work package descriptions below).

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Status: CTIO ARRA Projects (Year 1): Helium lines and compressors are being installed in the Blanco Coudé room as part of the conversion into an instrument handling facility. All capital purchases have been ordered for this project. Preliminary planning on the Cerro Pachón dinning/kitchen facility was begun including some conceptual layouts. KPNO ARRA Projects (Year 1): A contract for design work on the KPNO water system renovation was signed with an environmental engineering firm. The site was chosen for the KPNO instrument handling facility and survey work was begun. Tucson ARRA Projects (Year 1): The Tucson computer room upgrade is in the design stage;,mechanical drawings are being prepared. The Tucson electrical distribution system is in the planning stage; an evaluation is being done with a contractor. Planning was begun for the Tucson facility environmental controls upgrade. • Initiate capital purchases under work packages [as described in the NOAO Annual Program Plan FY 2010], including vehicle replacement for La Serena, UPS and generators for Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón, and two CNC machines. Status: CTIO ARRA Projects (Year 1): A UPS was ordered for the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope and a backup generator for the Cerro Pachón dormitory was ordered as well. Equipment was purchased for the CTIO electronics lab. La Serena ARRA Projects (Year 1): A CNC machine was purchased for Chile; delivery is expected in April 2010. Equipment was purchased for the La Serena electronics lab. Tucson ARRA Projects (Year 1): A CNC machine was installed and is operating in Tucson. • Complete the Blanco coating chamber repair. Status: Equipment for this project was ordered including vacuum pumps and control valves. • Purchase and install a Kitt Peak Visitor Center elevator. Status: The elevator was installed and is awaiting final inspection.

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3 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTER 2010A

3.1 CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY

CTIO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (44), and US Theses (22) ♦ Telescope Nights

K. Allers (Bucknell U.), M. Liu (U. of Hawai’i): “A Novel Approach to Finding New Brown CT-4m 2 Dwarfs in Ophiuchus” B. Anthony-Twarog, B. Twarog (U. of Kansas): “Extended Stromgren Photometry in the CT-0.9m 5 Intermediate-age Open Cluster, NGC 5822” B. Barlow (G) (U. of North Carolina), S. Geier (Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg), P. Maxted SOAR 4 (Keele University), U. Heber (Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg), T. Marsh (University of Warwick), R. Oestensen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), A. Tillich (G), S. Mueller (U), T. Kupfer (U) (Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg), B. Gaensicke (University of Warwick), R. Napiwotzki (University of Hertfordshire): “HYPER-MUCHFUSS – Follow up” J. Bauer, A. Mainzer (JPL), T. Grav (Johns Hopkins U.), T. Team (JPL): “Physical SOAR 4 Characterization of WISE Discoveries” B. Biller, K. Allers (U. of Hawai’i): “A Systematic Survey for Very Young Planetary Mass CT-4m 2 Objects” H. Bond (STScI): “SMARTS Monitoring of the Exotic Variable Star V838 Monocerotis” CT-1.5m-SVC 0.5 CT-1.3m 1.6 R. Campbell, R. Students (U), R. Smith, N. van der Bliek (CTIO): “CTIO REU/PIA CT-1.0m 8 Observations: Photometry of Polars” B. Cobb (UC Berkeley), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), J. Bloom (UC Berkeley): “Optical/IR Follow-Up CT-1.3m 3 of Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS” A. Crotts (Columbia U.): “The Echo from Supernova 1987A” CT-0.9m-SVC 2 N. Elias-Rosa (O), S. Van Dyk (O) (SSC): “Observations of Core-Collapse Supernovae with CT-1.3m 1.4 Candidate Progenitor Identifications” SOAR-TOO H. Flohic (UC Irvine), M. Eracleous (Pennsylvania State U.), K. Lewis (Dickinson College): CT-1.5m-SVC 2.8 “Determining the Structure of an AGN Accretion Disk through Spectroscopic Monitoring of a Double-Peaked Emitter” L. French (Illinois Wesleyan U.), S. Lederer (Cal State San Bernadino), R. Stephens (O) CT-0.9m-SVC 4.5 (Riverside Astronomical Society): “Phase Curves of Jovian Trojan Asteroids” D. Gies, S. Williams (G), R. Matson (G) (Georgia State U.): “Massive Eclipsing Binary Stars” CT-1.5m-SVC 5 M. Hanson (U. of Cincinnati), P. Massey (Lowell Observatory), N. Melena (U) (U. of Arizona), CT-1.3m 2.5 L. Penny (College of Charleston): “Massive Binaries in the Local Group’s Most Massive Young Cluster” T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.), G. Benedict, T. Barnes (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Feast CT-0.9m-SVC 0.5 (University of Cape Town): “An Astrometric Calibration of Population II Distance Indicators” P. Hartigan, J. Palmer (G) (Rice U.), B. Blue (General Atomics), M. Douglas (LANL), A. Frank CT-4m 8 (U. of Rochester), J. Foster, P. Rosen (AWE): “Star Formation, Globules, Outflows and Clusters in Carina OB1”

♦ Key: (T) = Thesis Student; (G) = Graduate; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other

25 NOAO QUARTERLY REPORT FY 2010 (2)

CTIO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (44), and US Theses (22) ♦ Telescope Nights

L. Hebb, K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), D. Pollacco (Queens University Belfast), A. Cameron CT-1.0m 7 (University of St. Andrews), J. Pepper (Vanderbilt U.), S. Fleming (G) (U. of Florida): “Calibrating Stellar Evolution Models and Defining the Radius-Activity and -Metallicity Relations for M dwarfs” K. Hinkle (NOAO), F. Fekel (Tennessee State U.), R. Joyce (NOAO): “Orbital Survey of Red CT-1.5m-SVC 4 Giant - White Dwarf SNe Ia Progenitors” A. Landolt, J. Clem (Louisiana State U.): “Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star Fields: CT-1.0m 26 CTIO” S. Lepine (American Museum of Natural History), K. Cruz (Hunter College), I. Reid (STScI): CT-4m 1 “Completing the Inventory of the Nearest 20pc: Spectral Classification of 1,301 candidate Nearby Stars” K. Long (STScI), P. Rodriguez-Gil (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), L. Schmidtobreick CT-1.3m 1 (ESO), B. Gaensicke (University of Warwick): “Fighting for Accretion: the Origins of Low States in Cataclysmic Variables” J. Mauerhan (California Institute of Technology), S. Van Dyk (IPAC), P. Morris (NASA SOAR 2 Herschel Science Center): “Obscured Massive Stellar X-ray Sources in the Galactic Plane” S. Meibom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Barnes (Lowell Observatory), R. CT-4m-PRE 2 Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin Madison): “The Connections between Binarity, Circumstellar Disks, and Stellar Rotation” T. Metcalfe (HAO), T. Henry (Georgia State U.), D. Soderblom (STScI), S. Basu (Yale U.), P. CT-1.5m-SVC 4.4 Judge, M. Knolker, M. Rempel (HAO): “Activity Cycles of Southern Asteroseismic Targets” C. Miller (CTIO), P. Gomez (Gemini Observatory), N. Miller (Johns Hopkins U.), G. Morrison CT-4m 1 (U. of Hawai’i): “Near-Infrared Survey of the Abell 1882 Super-Group” M. Norris, S. Kannappan (U. of North Carolina): “Unified Analysis of Spheroid and Disk SOAR 6 Dynamics in S0s” A. Rest (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Becker (U. of Washington), M. CT-4m 8 Bergmann (None), S. Blondin (ESO), P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), G. Damke (G) (CTIO), R. Foley, A. Garg (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Huber (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. Matheson (NOAO), D. Minniti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), K. Olsen (NOAO), J. Prieto (Ohio State U.), B. Sinnott (G) (McMaster University), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), D. Welch (McMaster University), M. Wood-Vasey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Echoes of Historical Supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy” A. Rivkin (Johns Hopkins U.): “Quantifying Rotational Variation on the Dwarf Planet Ceres” CT-1.5m-SVC 1 K. Sahu, H. Bond, J. Anderson (STScI), M. Dominik (University of St. Andrews), A. Udalski CT-1.3m 3 (Warsaw University Observatory), P. Yock (University of Auckland): “Detecting Isolated Black Holes through HST Astrometry and SMARTS Photometry of Microlensing Events” S. Sakai (UCLA), L. van Zee (Indiana U.), J. Lee (Carnegie Observatories), R. Kennicutt, Jr CT-1.0m 9 (University of Cambridge), J. Funes (Vatican Observatory): “Surface Photometry of Local Volume Galaxies” A. Sarajedini (U. of Florida), S. Kanbur (SUNY at Oswego), K. Kinemuchi (U. of Florida), C. CT-1.0m 10 Ngeow (National Central University): “Unlocking the Secrets of the Oosterhoff Effect: A Period-Amplitude-Color Analysis of RR Lyrae Variables”

26 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTER 2010A

CTIO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (44), and US Theses (22) ♦ Telescope Nights

M. Schwamb (G), M. Brown (California Institute of Technology): “Monitoring Cometary CT-1.5m-SVC 6.5 Activity in the Centaur Population” CT-1.3m 3.6 CT-0.9m-SVC 10 S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): “A Survey SOAR 0.5 for L5 Neptune Trojans” CT-4m 3 S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), J. Elliot (MIT), S. Kern (STScI), C. Zuluaga CT-0.9m-SVC 4.2 (G), A. Gulbis (MIT): “Precise Astrometry for Predicting Kuiper Belt Object Occultations” J. Stauffer (IPAC), M. Morales-Calderon, L. Rebull (SSC), K. Covey (Cornell U.), L. Allen CT-1.3m 4 (NOAO), J. Carpenter (California Institute of Technology), D. Ciardi (NEXScI), K. Wood (University of St. Andrews), P. Plavchan (NEXScI), B. Whitney (Space Science Institute): “Synoptic Monitoring of Star-Forming Cores” J. Stauffer, P. Plavchan, M. Morales-Calderon, L. Rebull (California Institute of Technology), B. SOAR 3 Whitney (Space Science Institute): “New Constraints for YSO Inner Accretion Disks with Spitzer and Spartan” G. Stringfellow, J. Bally (U. of Colorado), R. Probst, L. Allen (NOAO): “A Deep Emission Line CT-4m 10 Study of the Ophiuchus Cloud” A. Tokovinin (CTIO): “Complete Census of Wide Companions to Nearby Stars” CT-1.3m 2.8 D. Trilling, C. Thomas (Northern Arizona U.), J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for SOAR 2 Astrophysics), B. Penprase (Pomona College), J. Emery (U. of Tennessee), J. Kistler (G) CT-0.9m 7 (Northern Arizona U.), T. Spahr (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “High Quality Optical Photometry of NEOs in Support of a Warm Spitzer Program” D. Tucker (FNAL), D. Depoy (Texas A&M U.), R. Schmidt (O) (CTIO), B. Flaugher (FNAL), J. CT-1.0m 7 Smith (Austin Peay State University), S. Allam (FNAL): “Calibration and Characterization of Stars, Galaxies, and Quasars in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) grizy Filter System” S. Veilleux, M. Trippe, R. Swaters (U. of Maryland), D. Rupke (U. of Hawai’i), A. McCormick CT-4m 5 (G) (U. of Maryland): “Deep Emission-Line Imaging of Local Galactic Winds with NEWFIRM” S. Wachter (California Institute of Technology), S. Van Dyk, J. Mauerhan, D. Hoard (SSC), P. SOAR 3 Morris (NASA Herschel Science Center): “The Nature of Mid-Infrared Circumstellar Shells Discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope” A. Walker (CTIO), G. Bono (University of Rome Tor Vergata), A. Calamida (ESO), P. Stetson CT-4m 1 (National Research Council of Canada): “Accurate and Precise IR Photometry of Omega Centauri” P. Winkler (Middlebury College), K. Long (STScI), W. Blair (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Smith CT-4m 5 (CTIO): “Young SNRs, Nonradiative Shocks, and Cosmic Rays: Measuring the Expansion of SN 1006 and RCW 86”

US Thesis Programs (22) ♦ L. Allen (NOAO), T. Megeath (U. of Toledo), L. Bronfman (Universidad de Chile), R. Probst CT-4m 7 (NOAO), S. Willis (T) (Iowa State U.), L. Chavarria (Universidad de Chile), M. Marengo (Iowa State U.), G. Stringfellow, J. Bally (U. of Colorado), S. Carey (SSC): “The Fourth Galactic Quadrant: NEWFIRM Imaging of Southern Massive Star Forming Regions”

♦ Key: (G) = Graduate; (O) = Other; (T) = Thesis Student; (U) = Undergraduate

27 NOAO QUARTERLY REPORT FY 2010 (2)

CTIO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (44), and US Theses (22) ♦ Telescope Nights

J. Bornak (T), T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.), K. Gordon (STScI): “Evolution of Classical CT-1.0m 4 Novae Dust Shells” J. Carlin (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), R. Munoz (Yale U.): “Fixing the Extragalactic CT-4m 3 Reference Frame for the Proper Motion of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal” S. Dieterich (T), T. Henry (Georgia State U.): “Probing Stellar Physics at the Bottom of the Main SOAR 4 Sequence: Continuing to Map the Optical Color Space for Spectral Types M6V to L5” B. Donehew (T), S. Brittain (Clemson U.): “Balmer Discontinuity Veiling as a Measure of Mass CT-1.5m-SVC 4.5 Accretion Rates in Herbig Ae/Be Stars” E. Ellingson, E. Zekis (T) (U. of Colorado), T. Webb (McGill University), R. Yan, H. Yee CT-4m 4 (University of Toronto), A. Muzzin (Yale U.), D. Gilbank (University of Waterloo): “A Wide- Field Multi-Wavelength Study of RCS Galaxy Clusters: Tracing Star Formation from the Field to Cluster Cores” L. Esch (T), C. Bailyn, S. Basu (Yale U.): “Determining the Helium Abundance of Pulsating SOAR 3 Blue Subdwarfs in Clusters through Asteroseismology” J. Faherty (G) (American Museum of Natural History), D. Looper (T) (U. of Hawai’i), S. CT-1.3m 1 Mohanty (Imperial College London), A. Burgasser (UC San Diego): “Deciphering the Classical T Tauri Phase in Very Low Mass Stars: Photometric Monitoring of TWA30AB” J. Faherty (T) (American Museum of Natural History), A. Burgasser (UC San Diego), N. van der CT-4m 4 Bliek (CTIO), K. Cruz (Hunter College), F. Vrba (US Naval Observatory), S. Schmidt (G) (U. of Washington), M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History), A. West (Boston U.), J. Bochanski (MIT): “The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project: Parallaxes for Southern Low Luminosity Brown Dwarfs” A. Fraisse (T) (Princeton U.), A. Magalhaes (IAGUSP), D. Spergel (Princeton U.), R. Patterson, CT-0.9m 10 S. Majewski (U. of Virginia): “Towards a Complete View of the High Galactic Latitude Dust Polarization Pattern” E. Gawiser, J. Walker-Soler (T), N. Bond (Rutgers U.), C. Gronwall, R. Ciardullo, A. Matkovic CT-4m 4 (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Feldmeier (Youngstown State U.), L. Guaita (G), H. Francke, N. Padilla (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), P. Kurczynski, M. Berry (G) (Rutgers U.): “Ly-α Emitting Galaxies at z = 2.1: Characterizing the Progenitors of Typical Present-Day Galaxies” J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Crook (T) (MIT), T. Jarrett CT-1.5m-SVC 4 (IPAC), K. Masters (University of Portsmouth), L. Macri (Texas A&M U.): “Mapping the Nearby Universe: The 2MASS Redshift Survey” R. Hynes, C. Britt (T) (Louisiana State U.), P. Jonker (Space Research Institute), G. Nelemans CT-4m 8 (Radboud University Nijmegen), D. Steeghs (University of Warwick), T. Maccarone (University of Southampton), C. Bassa (University of Manchester), V. Mikles, L. Gossen (U) (Louisiana State U.): “Eclipsing and Variable X-ray Binaries in the Galactic Bulge Survey” B. Mason, W. Hartkopf (US Naval Observatory), T. Henry, W. Jao (Georgia State U.), J. CT-4m-PRE 3 Subasavage (CTIO), A. Riedel (T), J. Winters (T) (Georgia State U.): “Nearby Dwarf Stars: Duplicity, Binarity, and Masses” N. Richardson (T), D. Gies (Georgia State U.): “Spectroscopic Monitoring of Luminous Blue CT-1.5m-SVC 4.9 Variables”

28 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTER 2010A

CTIO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (44), and US Theses (22) ♦ Telescope Nights

J. Song (T), J. Mohr, S. Desai, R. Armstrong (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), C. Stubbs CT-4m 12 (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Carlstrom, R. Keisler (T) (U. of Chicago), B. Holzapfel (UC Berkeley), A. Zenteno (G) (Loyola Marymount University): “Optical/NIR Studies of South Pole Telescope Galaxy Clusters and Point Sources” R. Stevenson (T) (UCLA), H. Hsieh (Queens University Belfast), D. Jewitt (UCLA), Y. SOAR 3 Fernandez (University of Central Florida): “Albedos of Small Hilda Asteroids” R. Stevenson (T), D. Jewitt (UCLA): “The Thermal History of the Themis Family” SOAR 3 D. Tytler, D. Kirkman, C. Zeisse, D. Lubin, A. Day (T), J. Lee (G), B. Ou (U) (UC San Diego): CT-4m 3 “QSO Light on New Physics” B. Zuckerman, D. Rodriguez (T) (UCLA), C. Melis (UC San Diego), I. Song (U. of Georgia): CT-4m 6 “Hunting the Coolest Substellar Dwarfs” R. de Propris (NOAO), P. Lah (Australian National University), J. Chengalur (NCRA), F. CT-4m 7 Briggs, J. Rhee (T) (Australian National University), M. Colless (Anglo-Australian Observatory), O. Le Fevre (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille), B. Garilli (INAF), M. Pracy (Swinburne University): “Gas in Galaxies at Redshift z ~ 0.32” P. van Dokkum, R. Bezanson (T), G. Brammer (T) (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden Observatory), G. CT-4m 12 Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), M. Kriek (Princeton U.), I. Labbe (Carnegie Observatories), B. Lundgren, D. Marchesini, A. Muzzin (Yale U.), R. Quadri (Leiden Observatory), G. Rudnick (U. of Kansas), T. Tal (T), D. Wake, K. Whitaker (T) (Yale U.): “The NEWFIRM Medium Band Survey II: Hunting Monster Galaxies”

CTIO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Foreign Programs (18), and Foreign Theses (1) ♦ Telescope Nights

P. Aguirre (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) SOAR 2 L. Barrera (UMCE) SOAR 2.5 M. Catelan (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) SOAR 4 A. Day-Jones (Universidad de Chile) SOAR 1 G. Folatelli (LCO) SOAR 2.5 H. Francke (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) CT-4m 4 M. Hempel (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) CT-4m 4 R. Kurtev (Universidad de Valparaíso) SOAR 2 J. Lee, J. Lee (G) (Sejong University), Y. Lee, S. Han (G) (Yonsei University), B. Carney, B. CT-1.0m 10 Pohl (G) (U. of North Carolina): “Globular Clusters as Galaxy Building Blocks” P. Lira (Universidad de Chile) CT-4m 2 C. Ngeow (National Central University), S. Kanbur (SUNY at Oswego), L. Macri (Texas A&M CT-0.9m-SVC 15 U.): “Observations of Southern Galactic Cepheids in Sloan Filters” N. Padilla (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) CT-4m 4 M. Rabus (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) CT-4m 2

♦ Key: (G) = Graduate; (O) = Other; (T) = Thesis Student; (U) = Undergraduate

29 NOAO QUARTERLY REPORT FY 2010 (2)

CTIO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Foreign Programs (18), and Foreign Theses (1) ♦ Telescope Nights

T. Richtler (Universidad de Concepción) CT-4m 2 T. Richtler (Universidad de Concepción) CT-4m 2 A. Scholz (University of St. Andrews), R. Jayawardhana, V. Geers, K. Muzic (University of CT-4m 4 Toronto): “SONYC: The Bottom of the IMF in the Lupus Star Forming Region” S. Sharma (Universidad de Valparaíso) CT-4m 2 E. Valenti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) CT-4m 3

Foreign Thesis Programs (1) L. Malo (T), R. Doyon, E. Artigau, D. Lafreniere (University of Montreal): “Lithium Test of CT-4m 4 Low-Mass Candidate Members of Nearby Young Associations”

3.2 KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY

KPNO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (41), and US Theses (19) ♣ Telescope Nights

D. An (California Institute of Technology), J. Stauffer (SSC): “Pleiades-like Stars in the KP-4m 4.5 Hipparcos Catalog” T. Boroson (NOAO), M. Eracleous (Pennsylvania State U.): “A Systematic Search for the KP-4m 6 Dynamical Signature of Close Supermassive Binary Black Holes” F. Bresolin (U. of Hawai’i), R. Kennicutt, Jr (University of Cambridge): “Testing for azimuthal KP-4m 3 abundance gradients in spiral galaxies: M101” M. Briley (U. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh), G. Smith (University of California Observatories): KP-4m 4.5 “Observational Constraints on Deep Mixing in Globular Red Giants” E. Bubar, E. Mamajek, M. Pecaut (G) (U. of Rochester): “Tracing Supernova Enrichment of the KP-4m 3 Nearest Young Star Forming Complex with High Resolution Stellar Spectroscopy” D. Ciardi (NEXScI), M. Deleuil (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille), S. Howell WIYN 3 (NOAO), S. Kane, K. Von Braun (NEXScI), H. Deeg (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), E. Horch (SCSU), D. Rouan (Observatoire de Paris): “High Spatial Resolution Observations of CoRoT Exo-planetary Candidates” R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Feldmeier (Youngstown State U.), G. Jacoby (NOAO), WIYN 4 C. Mihos (Case Western Reserve U.), K. Herrmann (Lowell Observatory): “The Kinematics of Virgo’s Intracluster Stars” K. Covey (Cornell U.), J. Stauffer (SSC), E. Winston (University of Exeter), R. Gutermuth KP-4m 7 (Smith College), P. Plavchan (California Institute of Technology), L. Rebull, M. Morales- Calderon (SSC), B. Whitney (Space Science Institute): “Testing Models of YSO Disk Heating via Accretion Shocks” I. Dell’Antonio, R. Cook (G), P. Huwe (G), V. Dao (G) (Brown U.): “OPTIC Observations of WIYN 3 Clusters: Testing PSF-Induced Biases in OT Guided Weak Lensing Analyses”

♣ Key: TOO: Target of Opportunity scheduling; (G): Graduate; (O): Other; (T): Thesis Student; (U): Undergraduate

30 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTER 2010A

KPNO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (41), and US Theses (19) ♣ Telescope Nights

D. Deming, J. Jennings (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), P. Sada (Unviersidad de KP-2.1m 6.5 Monterrey): “An Exoplanet Radius and Transit Timing Survey” A. Dey, N. Reddy (NOAO), M. Prescott (UC Santa Barbara), L. Xu (G) (U. of Arizona), M. KP-4m 4 Brodwin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Probing the Low-Mass End of the Galaxy Mass Function at z~2: A Survey for Low-z Ly(alpha) Emitters” M. Dietrich (O), S. Mathur (O) (Ohio State U.): “Probing early stages of AGN evolution: KP-4m 3 Narrow-Line Seyfert 1s and Broad Absorption Line Quasars” E. Freeland (Texas A&M U.), L. Chomiuk (G), R. Keenan (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison), T. KP-4m 3 Nelson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “Confirmation of an End-On Bar in NGC-6503”

R. Gutermuth (Smith College), J. Stauffer (IPAC), K. Covey (Cornell U.), P. Plavchan KP-4m 4 (California Institute of Technology), M. Morales-Calderon (SSC), T. Megeath (U. of Toledo): “Synoptic Monitoring of YSOs in Four Young Custers with FLAMINGOS and Spitzer” L. Hebb, K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), D. Pollacco (Queens University Belfast), A. Cameron KP-2.1m 7 (University of St. Andrews), J. Pepper (Vanderbilt U.), S. Fleming (G) (U. of Florida): “Calibrating Stellar Evolution Models and Defining the Radius-Activity and -Metallicity Relations for M dwarfs” K. Herrmann (Lowell Observatory), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Feldmeier KP-4m 3 (Youngstown State U.): “The Stellar Kinematics of Outer Disks: Evidence for Halo Substructure?” S. Howell (NOAO), W. Sherry (National Solar Observatory), E. Horch (SCSU), L. Doyle (SETI KP-2.1m 5 Institute/NASA Ames Research Center): “Speckle Imaging and Spectroscopy of Kepler Exo- KP-4m 4 planet Transit Candidate Stars” WIYN 4 G. Jacoby (NOAO), E. Kaplan (U) (Vassar College): “Spectroscopic Confirmation of Very Old WIYN 3.5 Planetary Nebula Candidates” W. Keel (University of Alabama), K. Schawinski (Yale U.), C. Lintott (University of Oxford), V. KP-2.1m 7 Bennert (UC Santa Barbara), M. Maier (Gemini Observatory): “The Galaxy Zoo sample of AGN-ionized clouds - history and obscuration” B. Keeney, J. Stocke, S. Penton, J. Green (U. of Colorado), B. Savage (U. of Wisconsin WIYN 7 Madison): “Gax and Galaxies in the Cosmic Web: A Galaxy Redshift Survey around HST/COS Target Sight Lines” A. Landolt, J. Clem (Louisiana State U.): “Faint UBVRI Photometric Standard Star fields: KP-2.1m 31.5 KPNO” R. Mandelbaum (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Nakajima (UC Berkeley), G. Bernstein (U. of KP-4m 7 Pennsylvania), M. Donahue (Michigan State U.), C. Keeton, J. Hughes (Rutgers U.), N. Bahcall (Princeton U.), T. Schrabback (Leiden University), N. Padmanabhan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), S. Miyazaki (NAOJ), A. Kravtsov (U. of Chicago), K. Cavagnolo (University of Waterloo): “Normalization and scatter of the mass-temperature relation for supermassive galaxy clusters” P. Massey (), B. Jannuzi (), R. Joyce (), D. Harmer (O) (), N. Melena (U) (): “Long-term KP-2.1m 4 Monitoring of the Spectrum of the Nght Sky over Kitt Peak” R. McMillan, J. Scotti (O) (U. of Arizona), J. Larsen (US Naval Academy), A. Mainzer, J. KP-4m-TOO Masiero (JPL): “Astrometric Search and Recovery of Asteroids and Comets Discovered by WISE”

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KPNO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (41), and US Theses (19) ♣ Telescope Nights

S. Meibom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Howell (NOAO), S. Barnes WIYN 3 (Lowell Observatory), R. Gilliland (STScI): “Resolving and characterizing stars in the cores of NGC6819 and NGC6791” S. Meibom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Barnes (Lowell Observatory), R. WIYN 2 Mathieu, A. Geller (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison), J. Hartman, M. Holman (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “The connections between binarity, circumstellar disks, and stellar rotation” B. Mueller (PSI), T. Farnham (U. of Maryland), N. Samarasinha (PSI), M. A’Hearn (U. of KP-2.1m 11 Maryland): “Imaging of the Stardust target, comet 81P/Wild 2 at its best perigee in 60 years: A unique opportunity.” T. Oswalt (Florida Institute of Technology), J. Zhao (National Astronomical Observatory of KP-4m 4.5 China), J. Holberg (U. of Arizona): “An Investigation of Post-main-sequence Mass Loss Using Wide Binary Stars” J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), L. Jones (U. of Washington), J. Petit, P. Rousselot WIYN 3 (Observatoire de Besancon): “Scrutinizing the Extreme TNO 2009 MS9” M. Reed (Missouri State University), S. O’Toole (Anglo-Australian Observatory), J. Bean (U) KP-4m 4 (Missouri State University): “Constraining the evolution of the pulsating subdwarf B star Feige 48 (KL UMa).” J. Rhee, M. Fink (U) (Purdue U.): “Search for r-Process Enhanced Very Metal-Poor Stars” KP-4m 5.5 I. Roederer (G), C. Sneden (U. of Texas, Austin): “Characterizing the Age and Chemical WIYN 4 Enrichment of the Heaviest Elements in Globular Cluster M92” S. Sakai (UCLA), L. van Zee (Indiana U.), J. Lee (Carnegie Observatories), R. Kennicutt, Jr KP-0.9m 10 (University of Cambridge), J. Funes (Vatican Observatory): “H(alpha) and Optical Imaging of Local Volume Galaxies in the Northern Hemisphere” M. Shara, D. Zurek (O), J. Faherty (G) (American Museum of Natural History): “Old Nova KP-4m 5.5 Shells around Z Cam Dwarf Novae: A Prediction of the Hibernation Scenario” A. Sheffield (Vassar College), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), R. Wagner-Kaiser (Vassar College): KP-4m 4.5 “Exploring the Chemical Nature and Origin of Potential Galactic Substructures” L. Strolger, S. Wolff (U), A. Pease (U) (Western Kentucky U.): “Tests of Environmental Effects KP-4m 4 on SN Ia Production” M. Trippe (U. of Maryland), D. Crenshaw (Georgia State U.): “Variability of Seyfert Type and KP-2.1m 4.5 the Nature of Seyfert 1.8 and 1.9 Galaxies” M. Trueblood (O) (NOAO), R. Crawford (O) (Rincon-Ranch Observatory), L. Lebofsky (U. of KP-2.1m 3 Arizona): “Extended Follow-up of Near Earth Objects” K. Von Braun (California Institute of Technology), G. Schaefer (Georgia State U.), G. Van Belle KP-0.9m 3 (ESO), D. Ciardi (California Institute of Technology), M. Lopez-Morales (Carnegie Institution of WIYN 4 Washington): “Distances to Eclipsing M-Dwarf Binary Systems” R. Wade (Pennsylvania State U.): “Early F dwarfs with hidden hot subdwarf companions” KP-2.1m 4.5

S. Williams (G), D. Gies, R. Matson (G) (Georgia State U.): “Spectroscopic Orbits for Eclipsing KP-4m 4 Binaries Among the NASA Kepler Observatory Targets”

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US Thesis Programs (19) G. Bryngelson (T), M. Leising (Clemson U.), P. Milne (U. of Arizona), A. Updike (G) (Clemson KP-4m 5 U.): “Physics of Supernovae Ia at Late Epochs” G. Bryngelson (T), M. Leising (Clemson U.), P. Milne (U. of Arizona), A. Updike (G) (Clemson KP-4m 1 U.): “Physics of Supernovae Ia at Late Epochs” D. Capellupo (T), F. Hamann (U. of Florida), J. Shields (Ohio U.): “Probing Quasar Outflows via KP-2.1m 5 Short-Time Variability” J. Coughlin (T), T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.), M. Lopez-Morales (Carnegie Institution of KP-2.1m 6.5 Washington), J. Rogers (G) (Johns Hopkins U.): “Near-Infrared Secondary Eclipse Measurements of Multiple Transiting Exoplanets” S. Dhital (T) (Vanderbilt U.), A. West (Boston U.), K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.): “Measuring the KP-2.1m 6.5 Magnetic Activity and Dynamical Evolution of M dwarfs” K. Erickson (T), B. Wilking (U. of Missouri St. Louis), M. Meyer (ETH), W. Sherry (National WIYN 4 Solar Observatory), S. Kim (U. of Arizona): “Spectroscopic Confirmation of Young Stars in the Serpens Molecular Cloud: Placing Spitzer and Chandra in Context” J. Ge, B. Lee, S. Fleming (T), P. Jiang (T), N. De Lee, J. Wang (T), J. Xie (T) (U. of Florida): KP-2.1m 16 “Follow-up studies of SDSS-III MARVELS survey planet candidates” A. Geller (T), R. Mathieu, N. Gosnell (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison), D. Latham (Harvard- WIYN 7 Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “A Study Of Anomalous Stars and Binary Populations Within Open Clusters: Tests Of Theoretical Models” J. Hargis (T), K. Rhode (Indiana U.): “Mosaic Imaging of Globular Cluster Systems in the Outer KP-4m 5 Regions of Elliptical Galaxies” W. Keel, A. Manning (T) (University of Alabama), B. Holwerda (University of Cape Town), C. WIYN 4 Lintott (University of Oxford): “Dust in backlit galaxies - completing the UV sample” P. Kelly (T) (Stanford U.), D. Burke (SLAC), A. Von Der Linden (Stanford U.): “Shifting KP-2.1m 8.5 Standards: SN Ia Calibration Across Host Environments” M. Koss (T) (U. of Maryland), R. Mushotsky (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), S. Veilleux KP-4m 4 (U. of Maryland), L. Winter (U. of Colorado), C. Reynolds (U. of Maryland), N. Gehrels (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “Near-IR Spectroscopy of AGN from the SWIFT BAT Survey” S. Lepine (American Museum of Natural History), P. Bergeron, M. Limoges (T) (University of KP-2.1m 7 Montreal), A. Gianninas (), N. Giammichele (University of Montreal): “A complete census of KP-4m 4 Galactic white dwarfs to 40 parsecs of the Sun.” G. Liu (T), D. Calzetti (U. Mass): “Exploring the Scaling Laws of Star Formation: the High KP-2.1m 6.5 Density Centers of Galaxies” L. Macri, S. Hoffmann (T) (Texas A&M U.): “Cepheids and Long-Period Variables in NGC WIYN 3 4258” R. Mallery (T), R. Rich (UCLA), J. Deharveng (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille): KP-4m 4 “Star Formation Feedback and Radiative transfer of Ly(alpha)” E. Moran (Wesleyan U.), M. Eracleous (Pennsylvania State U.), R. Becker (Lawrence Livermore KP-4m 7 National Laboratory), L. Kay (Barnard College), J. Bechtold, H. Sugarman (G) (U. of Arizona), A. Langford (T) (Wesleyan U.): “Black Holes in the Milky Way’s Backyard” J. Wing (T), E. Blanton (Boston U.): “Radio Selected Clusters of Galaxies at High Redshift” KP-4m 4

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A. Zezas (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), P. Boumis, I. Leonidaki (T) (National KP-4m 3.5 Observatory of Athens): “Investigation of Supernova Remnants in nearby galaxies”

KPNO Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Foreign Programs (7), and Foreign Theses (1) Telescope Nights J. Davies (Cardiff University), R. Minchin (Arecibo Observatory), M. Disney, L. Cortese KP-4m 3.5 (Cardiff University): “H(alpha) observations of NGC4254 and its surrounding regions.” A. De Luca (INAF): “A Deep Chandra/NOAO Investigation to Identify the Counterpart of an KP-4m 1 old pulsar discovered in Gamma Rays” O. De Marco (Macquarie U.), T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.), G. Jacoby (NOAO), M. Moe (G) WIYN 4.5 (Harvard U.), D. Frew (Macquarie U.): “Do most planetary nebulae come from binaries?” A. Kawka, S. Vennes (Astronomicky ustav): “Properties of high proper motion white dwarfs” KP-4m 4 T. Sakamoto (Japan Spaceguard Association), T. Hasegawa (Gunma Astronomical KP-2.1m 5.5 Observatory): “Stellar dynamics in the Milky Way out to the solar radius” T. Vaccaro (Francis Marion University), S. Vennes, A. Kawka (Astronomical Institute): “Low KP-4m 5 Mass Eclipsing Binaries” J. Van Eymeren, R. Beswick (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics), J. Gallagher (U. of WIYN 3 Wisconsin Madison), A. Lopez-Sanchez (Australia Telescope National Facility), J. Meaburn (O) (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics): “The kinematics of ionised gas shells in nearby irregular dwarf galaxies”

Foreign Thesis Programs (1) R. Ibata, A. Varghese (T) (Observatoire de Strasbourg), M. Irwin (University of Cambridge), G. KP-4m 4.5 Lewis (U. of Sydney), S. Chapman (University of Cambridge): “What is the nature of the dark matter: cold or warm? Imprints on the tidal stream of Pal 5”

3.3 GEMINI OBSERVATORY

Gemini Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Programs for US Time (55), and Theses (15) + Telescope Nights P. Allen (Franklin & Marshall College), L. Close (U. of Arizona): “A Multi-Epoch Survey for GEM-NQ 1.8 Faint, Close, Low-Mass Tertiaries to Nearby Spectroscopic Binaries: The Second Epoch” G. Bakos, G. Torres, D. Latham, R. Noyes, J. Hartman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for GEM-K 0.5 Astrophysics): “Confirmation spectroscopy of HATNet transiting exoplanet candidates using Keck-I/HIRES” J. Bock (California Institute of Technology), S. Oliver (University of Sussex): “First Science GEM-NQ 2 from HerMES: the final starbursts in massive galaxies at 0.5

+ Key: GEM-NQ = Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini S Queue; GEM-N = Gemini N classical; GEM-S = Gemini S classical; GEM-K = Gemini/Keck time exchange; GEM-Su = Gemini/Subaru time exchange; * = poor weather program; (T) = Thesis student; (G) = Graduate student; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other

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Gemini Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Programs for US Time (55), and Theses (15) + Telescope Nights J. Carson, C. Thalmann (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), M. Janson (University of GEM-NQ 0.5 Toronto), M. Goto (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), M. McElwain (Princeton U.), M. Feldt, T. Henning (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), M. Tamura (NAOJ): “Coldest Imaged Companion of a Sun-Like Star” B. Cobb, J. Bloom, B. Cenko, D. Perley (UC Berkeley), H. Chen (U. of Chicago), J. Prochaska GEM-SQ 0.3 (UC Santa Cruz), K. Glazebrook (Swinburne University), C. Matzner (University of Toronto), S. Lopez (Universidad de Chile), M. Pettini (University of Cambridge), A. Bunker (University of Oxford), A. Morgan, M. Modjaz, D. Poznanski (UC Berkeley), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), E. Ramirez- Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz), N. Butler, A. Miller (UC Berkeley): “Exceptional Swift and Fermi GRBs: Gemini South Targets of Opportunity” B. Cobb, J. Bloom, B. Cenko, D. Perley (UC Berkeley), H. Chen (U. of Chicago), J. Prochaska GEM-NQ 0.58 (UC Santa Cruz), K. Glazebrook (Swinburne University), C. Matzner (University of Toronto), S. Lopez (Universidad de Chile), M. Pettini (University of Cambridge), A. Bunker (University of Oxford), A. Morgan, M. Modjaz, D. Poznanski (UC Berkeley), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), E. Ramirez- Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz), N. Butler, A. Miller (UC Berkeley): “Exceptional Swift and Fermi GRBs: Gemini North Targets of Opportunity” A. Cochran (U. of Texas, Austin), N. Russo, R. Vervack (Johns Hopkins U.), W. Harris (UC GEM-K 0.5 Davis), H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins U.), W. Jackson (UC Davis): “Keck HIRESb Observations of Comet 81P/Wild2: Unraveling the Chemistry of Comets” A. Constantin (James Madison University), A. Seth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for GEM-NQ 0.3 Astrophysics), M. Cappellari (University of Oxford), J. Shields (Ohio U.): “Deciphering the * least luminous AGN-like LINER and constraining the MBH-σ relation” J. Cook, C. Olkin, L. Young (Southwest Research Institute): “Searching for Gaseous CO in GEM-S 1.5 Pluto’s Atmosphere” D. Crenshaw (Georgia State U.), T. Bergmann (UFRGS), S. Kraemer (Catholic U. of America), GEM-NQ 0.6 H. Schmitt (Naval Research Laboratory), R. Riffel (UFRGS), T. Fischer (G) (Georgia State U.): “The Connection Between Fueling Flows and Outflows in Active Galaxies: The Case of Markarian 3” A. Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), G. Smith (UC Santa Cruz), J. Strader GEM-S 3 (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Sleuthing the Abundance of Helium in Omega Centauri” E. Egami, A. Lisetsky, J. Portouw (U) (U. of Arizona): “Gemini/Palomar Near-IR Spectroscopy GEM-NQ 2.3 of Powerful H2 Emission from Brightest Cluster Galaxies” D. Fox (Pennsylvania State U.), B. Schmidt (Australian National University), E. Berger GEM-SQ 0.31 (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology), K. Roth (Gemini Observatory), R. Rutledge (McGill University), P. Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford), M. Dopita (Australian National University), A. Soderberg (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Gal-Yam (California Institute of Technology), C. Wolf (University of Oxford), B. Penprase (Pomona College), R. Foley (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Gamma-Ray Bursts: From Progenitors to Probes”

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Gemini Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Programs for US Time (55), and Theses (15) + Telescope Nights D. Fox (Pennsylvania State U.), B. Schmidt (Australian National University), E. Berger GEM-NQ 0.34 (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology), K. Roth (Gemini Observatory), R. Rutledge (McGill University), P. Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford), M. Dopita (Australian National University), A. Soderberg (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Gal-Yam (California Institute of Technology), C. Wolf (University of Oxford), B. Penprase (Pomona College), R. Foley (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Gamma-Ray Bursts: From Progenitors to Probes” A. Frebel, A. Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), G. Meynet (Geneva GEM-SQ 1.1 Observatory): “Testing for the existence of massive Population III stars with stellar archaeology” A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), D. Leonard (San Diego State U.), D. Fox GEM-NQ 0.1 (Pennsylvania State U.): “Identifying progenitors of core-collapse supernovae” B. Gerke (SLAC), J. Comerford (UC Berkeley), R. Griffith (O), D. Stern (JPL), M. Cooper (U. GEM-SQ 2 of Arizona), J. Newman (U. of Pittsburgh), M. Davis (UC Berkeley): “Follow-up of candidate dual-SMBH galaxies with long-slit spectroscopy” B. Gerke (SLAC), J. Comerford (UC Berkeley), R. Griffith (O), D. Stern (JPL), M. Cooper (U. GEM-NQ 4 of Arizona), J. Newman (U. of Pittsburgh), M. Davis (UC Berkeley): “Follow-up of candidate dual-SMBH galaxies with long-slit spectroscopy” T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.), O. De Marco, D. Frew (Macquarie University): “Determining the GEM-SQ 1 System Parameters for Poorly Studied Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Spectroscopy” K. Hinkle, US Lead Scientist for D. Yong, A. Karakas (Australian National University), K. GEM-SQ 0.37 Hinkle (NOAO), J. Melendez (Universidade do Porto), C. Kobayashi (Australian National University), J. Lee (Sejong University): “Fluorine abundances in thin and thick disk stars” D. Howell (UC Santa Barbara), M. Sullivan (University of Oxford), P. Nugent (Lawrence GEM-SQ 0.65 Berkeley National Laboratory), R. Ellis (California Institute of Technology), A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), I. Hook (University of Oxford): “UV and Early-time Studies of the Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae” D. Howell (UC Santa Barbara), M. Sullivan (University of Oxford), P. Nugent (Lawrence GEM-NQ 0.7 Berkeley National Laboratory), R. Ellis (California Institute of Technology), A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), I. Hook (University of Oxford): “UV and Early-time Studies of the Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae” B. Hrivnak (Valparaiso U.), K. Hinkle (NOAO): “Testing the Binary Hypothesis for Bipolar GEM-SQ 1.5 Proto-Planetery Nebulae” W. Jao, T. Henry, R. White, A. Riedel (G) (Georgia State U.): “The Dancing Partners of Seven GEM-SQ 1.7 Dwarfs” D. Jewitt (UCLA), H. Hsieh (Queens University Belfast), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): “Ice GEM-SQ 0.74 Near the Sun: The Main Belt Comets” J. Liu, J. McClintock (SAO), J. Bregman (U. of Michigan), L. Ho (Carnegie Observatories): GEM-NQ 2.1 “The first direct mass measurement for the black hole in an ultraluminous X-ray source” B. Macintosh, US Lead Scientist for C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), B. GEM-SQ 1 Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. Patience (University of Exeter), J. Roy (Gemini Observatory), I. Song (U. of Georgia), T. Barman (Lowell Observatory), B. Zuckerman (UCLA), D. Lafreniere, R. Doyon (University of Montreal): “IDPS: a direct imaging survey of Jovian planets around young and close massive stars.”

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Gemini Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Programs for US Time (55), and Theses (15) + Telescope Nights T. Matheson (NOAO), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Blondin GEM-NQ 0.88 (ESO), P. Mazzali (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik), E. Pian (INAF), M. Modjaz (UC Berkeley): “Revealing the Heart of the Explosion: Nebular-Phase Spectroscopy of Type I Supernovae” K. Meech (U. of Hawai’i), O. Hainaut (ESO), D. Prialnik (Tel Aviv University), G. Sarid (U. of GEM-S 3 Hawai’i): “Investigating the Early Solar System with Distant Comet Nuclei” W. Merline (Southwest Research Institute), J. Drummond (AFRL), A. Conrad (Keck), P. GEM-S 1 Tamblyn (Southwest Research Institute), B. Carry (Observatoire de Paris), C. Chapman (Southwest Research Institute), J. Christou (Gemini Observatory), C. Dumas (ESO): “High- Resolution AO Imaging of Asteroids/Satellites” W. Merline (Southwest Research Institute), J. Drummond (AFRL), A. Conrad (Keck), P. GEM-N 2 Tamblyn (Southwest Research Institute), B. Carry (Observatoire de Paris), C. Chapman (Southwest Research Institute), J. Christou (Gemini Observatory), C. Dumas (ESO): “High- Resolution AO Imaging of Asteroids/Satellites” J. Mulchaey (Carnegie Observatories), H. Chen (U. of Chicago): “Casting Light on the Warm- GEM-NQ 0.1 Hot Intergalactic Medium” GEM-N 2 J. Mulchaey, US Lead Scientist for M. Balogh, S. McGee (G) (University of Waterloo), L. GEM-SQ 1.4 Parker (McMaster University), R. Bower (University of Durham), J. Mulchaey (Carnegie Observatories), A. Finoguenov, D. Wilman, J. Connelly (G) (Max-Planck Institut für extraterrestrische Physik): “The transition of galaxy groups from an invigorating environment to a suffocating one” J. Xavier Prochaska, US Lead Scientist for S. Ellison (University of Victoria), J. Hennawi (Max GEM-NQ 1.3 Planck Institut für Astronomie), S. Lopez (Universidad de Chile), J. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz): “Accurate redshifts for distant quasars: probing massive galaxies through QSO absorption lines” S. Ravindranath (IUCAA), J. Rajagopal, S. Ridgway (CTIO): “Mid-IR Mapping of Nuclear GEM-S 1 Rings: Does Star Formation proceed by Sequential Triggering?” M. Reynolds (U. of Michigan), P. Callanan, D. Hurley (G) (University College Cork), J. Miller GEM-NQ 1 (U. of Michigan): “The Mass of the Black Hole in the Galactic Microquasar GRS 1915+105”

H. Roe (Lowell Observatory), E. Schaller (U. of Arizona), M. Brown (California Institute of GEM-SQ 1 Technology), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): “Titan’s Methane Weather post-Equinox: Seasonal climate change and surface geology” A. Saha (NOAO), G. Fiorentino, E. Tolstoy (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute), A. Cole GEM-N 3 (University of Tasmania): “The Ancient stellar population of Leo A.” K. Schawinski (Yale U.), E. Treister (U. of Hawai’i), C. Urry (Yale U.), M. Sarzi (University of GEM-SQ 1.1 Hertfordshire): “Deep spectroscopy of a sample of local obscured AGN” K. Sellgren (Ohio State U.), K. Cunha, R. Blum (NOAO), S. Ramirez (NEXScI), V. Smith GEM-S 4 (NOAO): “Stellar Abundances within 2 pc of the Central Black Hole in the Galactic Center” A. Seth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), N. Neumayer (ESO), N. Caldwell GEM-NQ 2.05 (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Cappellari (University of Oxford), V. Debattista (University of Central Lancashire), K. Olsen (NOAO), R. McDermid (Gemini Observatory), N. Bastian (IfO Cambridge), R. Blum (NOAO), T. Puzia (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), A. Stephens (Gemini Observatory): “Surveying Nearby Nuclear Star Clusters”

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Gemini Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Programs for US Time (55), and Theses (15) + Telescope Nights S. Sheppard, US Lead Scientist for C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), S. Sheppard (Carnegie GEM-NQ 1.1 Institution of Washington), E. Schaller (U. of Arizona): “Primordial Solar System Ices” J. Simpson, A. Cotera (SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center), M. Burton, M. GEM-SQ 0.6 Cunningham (University of New South Wales), I. Bains (Swinburne University), N. Lo (CEA): “G333.466-0.163 (IRAS 16175-5002) - A Cluster of Massive Young Stellar Objects” N. Smith, W. Li, A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley): “Late-time Photometry of Recent Optical GEM-SQ 0.2 Transients” N. Smith, W. Li, A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley): “Late-time Photometry of Recent Optical GEM-NQ 1.8 Transients” K. Stapelfeldt, D. Mawet (JPL), P. Plavchan (California Institute of Technology), D. Koerner GEM-SQ 2.25 (Northern Arizona U.): “Coronagraphic Imaging Survey of a New Spitzer Debris Disk Sample” L. Trafton (U. of Texas, Austin), S. Kim (Kyunghee University), T. Geballe (Gemini GEM-NQ 1.5 Observatory): “Search for Enhancement of Unidentified Titan Absorption Features over Xanadu and for Titan CH4 Humidity Gradients” D. Trilling, C. Thomas (Northern Arizona U.), J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for GEM-SQ 0.31 Astrophysics), B. Penprase (Pomona College), J. Emery (U. of Tennessee), J. Kistler (G) (Northern Arizona U.), T. Spahr (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “High quality optical photometry of NEOs in support of a Warm Spitzer program” D. Trilling, C. Thomas (Northern Arizona U.), J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for GEM-NQ 0.24 Astrophysics), B. Penprase (Pomona College), J. Emery (U. of Tennessee), J. Kistler (G) (Northern Arizona U.), T. Spahr (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “High quality optical photometry of NEOs in support of a Warm Spitzer program” G. Wilson (UC Riverside), H. Yee (University of Toronto), A. Muzzin (Yale U.), M. Balogh GEM-NQ 1.9 (University of Waterloo), K. Blindert (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik), D. Burke (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Bursick (UC Riverside), R. Demarco (Universidad de Concepción), E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado), J. Gardner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Gilbank (University of Waterloo), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), A. Hicks (Michigan State U.), H. Hoekstra (Leiden Observatory), M. Lacy (NRAO), S. Majumdar (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research), A. Rettura (UC Riverside), J. Surace (SSC), T. Webb (McGill University), R. Yan (University of Toronto): “The Gemini Cluster Astrophysics Spectroscopic Survey (GCLASS)” G. Worseck, X. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz), J. O’Meara (St. Michael’s College), S. Ellison GEM-SQ 0.6 (University of Victoria), A. Meiksin (University of Edinburgh), S. Lopez (Universidad de Chile), M. Murphy (Swinburne University), G. Becker (University of Cambridge), B. Menard (University of Toronto), F. Hamann (U. of Florida): “Surveying the Post-Reionization Universe with Quasar Spectroscopy” G. Worseck, X. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz), J. O’Meara (St. Michael’s College), S. Ellison GEM-NQ 2.8 (University of Victoria), A. Meiksin (University of Edinburgh), S. Lopez (Universidad de Chile), M. Murphy (Swinburne University), G. Becker (University of Cambridge), B. Menard (University of Toronto), F. Hamann (U. of Florida): “Surveying the Post-Reionization Universe with Quasar Spectroscopy” L. Young (Southwest Research Institute), H. Roe (Lowell Observatory), E. Young, J. Cook GEM-SQ 1.5 (Southwest Research Institute): “Pluto’s Atmospheric CH4: Variations in time, space, and altitude”

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Gemini Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Programs for US Time (55), and Theses (15) + Telescope Nights A. Young, D. Worrall (University of Bristol), B. Fosbury (Space Telescope European GEM-SQ 2 Coordinating Facility), R. Morganti (ASTRON), C. Tadhunter (University of Sheffield): “The Jet-Cloud Interaction of PKS B2152-699” A. Zabludoff (U. of Arizona), Y. Yang (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), D. Eisenstein, R. GEM-N 2 Dave (U. of Arizona): “Resolving the Nature of Newly Discovered Lyman-(alpha) Blobs in the NOAO Boötes Field”

Thesis Programs +

L. Close (U. of Arizona), D. Apai (STScI), I. Pascucci (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Skemer (T) (U. of GEM-S 2 Arizona): “The First Thermal Images of the Planetary Mass Prototype Object 2M1207b: Does it have an Edge-On Disk?” A. Fruchter, US Lead Scientist for N. Tanvir (University of Leicester), A. Levan (University of GEM-NQ 0.08 Warwick), A. Fruchter (STScI), K. Wiersema (University of Leicester), E. Rol (University of Amsterdam), J. Graham (T) (STScI), D. Reichart (U. of North Carolina), D. Bersier (Liverpool John Moores University), P. Jakobsson (University of Iceland), P. O’Brien (University of Leicester), J. Rhoads (Arizona State U.), J. Hjorth (University of Copenhagen): “Investigating gamma-ray bursts and their use as cosmological probes” A. Fruchter, US Lead Scientist for N. Tanvir (University of Leicester), A. Levan (University of GEM-SQ 0.09 Hertfordshire), K. Wiersema (University of Leicester), A. Fruchter (STScI), E. Rol (University of Amsterdam), D. Reichart (U. of North Carolina), J. Graham (T) (STScI), D. Bersier (Liverpool John Moores University), P. Jakobsson (University of Iceland), J. Greiner (Max- Planck Institute fürextraterrestrische Physik), J. Rhoads (Arizona State U.), J. Hjorth (University of Copenhagen): “Rapid observations of gamma-ray bursts with Gemini-S” D. Hanes, US Lead Scientist for D. Hanes, A. Campbell (T) (Queen’s University), K. Gebhardt GEM-SQ 0.55 (U. of Texas, Austin), D. Forbes (Swinburne University), T. Bridges (Queen’s University), J. Forte, F. Faifer (Universidad Nacional de la Plata), R. Sharples (University of Durham), M. Norris (U. of North Carolina), S. Zepf (Michigan State U.): “Dynamical Modelling of the Dark Halo, Black Hole, and Orbital Structure in NGC4649” N. Indriolo (T), B. McCall (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), T. Geballe (Gemini GEM-SQ 0.4 + Observatory), T. Oka (U. of Chicago), K. Hinkle (NOAO): “Using H3 Observations to Estimate the Interstellar H2 Temperature” M. Kasliwal (T), S. Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology): “Transients in the Local GEM-SQ 0.7 Universe” D. Law, US Lead Scientist for K. Glazebrook (Swinburne University), P. McGregor (Australian GEM-NQ 1.5 National University), R. Abraham (University of Toronto), D. Law (UCLA), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Observatories), K. Roth (Gemini Observatory), A. Green (T), G. Poole (Swinburne University), I. Damjanov (G) (University of Toronto), R. McDermid (Gemini Observatory): “Resolving the kinematics of high-redshift galaxy assembly”

+ Key: GEM-NQ = Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini S Queue; GEM-N = Gemini N classical; GEM-S = Gemini S classical; GEM-K = Gemini/Keck time exchange; GEM-Su = Gemini/Subaru time exchange; * = poor weather program; (T) = Thesis student; (G) = Graduate student; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other

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Gemini Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled Programs for US Time (55), and Theses (15) + Telescope Nights B. Macintosh, US Lead Scientist for J. Patience, R. De Rosa (T) (University of Exeter), C. GEM-NQ 0.23 Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), B. Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. Graham (UC Berkeley), I. Song (U. of Georgia), R. Doyon (University of Montreal), M. Bessell (Australian National University): “Resolving the A-star Binary Population with Gemini AO” R. Matson (T), D. Gies, N. Richardson (G) (Georgia State U.): “The Structure of Mass Loss GEM-NQ 5 from Massive Stars” J. Newman (U. of Pittsburgh), B. Weiner, C. Willmer (U. of Arizona), A. Tyson, D. Wittman GEM-Su 2 (UC Davis), M. Strauss (Princeton U.), M. Ashby (SAO), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), S. Schmidt (UC Davis), S. Kahn (SLAC), D. Matthews (T) (U. of Pittsburgh): “Y-band Imaging in the Extended Groth Strip” T. Oka (U. of Chicago), T. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), M. Goto (Max Planck Institut für GEM-S 4 Astronomie), N. Indriolo (T), B. McCall (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “Exploring the + Central Molecular Zone by H3 and CO Spectroscopy along New Sight lines” B. Peterson, C. Grier (T) (Ohio State U.), M. Bentz (UC Irvine), K. Dasyra (IPAC), L. Ferrarese GEM-NQ 1.11 (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), P. Martini, R. Pogge (Ohio State U.), L. Tacconi (Max- Planck Institute fürextraterrestrische Physik), L. Watson (G) (Ohio State U.): “The High Mass End of the Black Hole Mass - Stellar Velocity Dispersion Relation in AGNs” T. Rawle, US Lead Scientist for J. Lucey (University of Durham), T. Rawle (U. of Arizona), R. GEM-NQ 0.9 Smith (University of Durham), M. Norris (U. of North Carolina), G. Pender (T) (University of Durham): “The origin of S0 discs in the dense cluster environment” J. Rhoads, US Lead Scientist for A. Levan (University of Warwick), N. Tanvir (University of GEM-NQ 2 Leicester), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (Arizona State U.), M. Bremer, E. Stanway (University of Bristol), K. Wiersema (University of Leicester), J. Fynbo (University of Copenhagen), P. Jakobsson (University of Iceland), A. Fruchter (STScI), J. Hjorth (University of Copenhagen), K. Svensson (T) (University of Warwick): “Lyman-alpha imaging of a known z=8.2 field” M. Richardson (T), E. McLinden (T), S. Malhotra, J. Rhoads (Arizona State U.): “Metallicities GEM-N 2 and kinematics of Lyman-alpha Galaxies at z=3.1”

3.4 COMMUNITY ACCESS TO PRIVATE TELESCOPES

3.4.1 Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy

CHARA Telescope: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (2) Telescope Nights S. Ragland (Keck), W. Danchi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), L. Hillenbrand CHARA 2 (California Institute of Technology), S. Ridgway (NOAO), W. Traub (JPL): “Multi-color interferometric investigations of YSO disks” M. Simon (SUNY, Stony Brook), G. Schaefer (The CHARA Array of Georgia State CHARA 3 University): “Angular Diameters of Stars in the Beta Pic Moving Group”

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CHARA Telescope: 2010A Scheduled Foreign Programs (2) Telescope Nights S. Csizmadia (German Aerospace Center), T. Borkovits (Baja Astronomical Observatory), Z. CHARA 1.6 Paragi (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe), L. Mosoni (Konkoly Observatory), J. Cabrera (German Aerospace Center): “3D Orbits in the Hierarchical Triple System Lambda Tauri” M. Kishimoto (Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie), R. Antonucci (UC Santa Barbara), R. CHARA 0.8 Barvainis (NSF), S. Hoenig, F. Millour, K. Tristram, G. Weigelt (Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie): “Probing the innermost infrared emission in the brightest Type 1 AGN with the CHARA array”

3.4.2 MMT Observatory

MMT Telescope: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (3), and US Theses (1) ♦ Telescope Nights K. Long (STScI): “The Luminous Supernova Remnant in NGC4449: Charting the Fughre for SN MMT 1 1987A” B. Twarog, B. Anthony-Twarog (U. of Kansas), C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), A. Szentgyorgyi MMT 1 (SAO): “Probing Stellar Structure and Evolution via Li Abundances” J. Wright (Pennsylvania State U.): “Determining Distance, Age, and Activity in a New MMT 1 Benchmark Cluster: Ruprecht 147”

US Thesis Programs (1) R. Maderak (T), C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), A. Szentgyorgyi (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for MMT 1 Astrophysics): “Oxygen Abundances at the Extremes of the Open Cluster Metallicity Range: NGC 2506”

MMT Telescope: 2010A Scheduled Foreign Programs (2) Telescope Nights J. Farihi (University of Leicester), S. Redfield (Wesleyan U.), D. Koester (Universitat Kiel), M. MMT 1 Barstow (University of Leicester), N. Hambly (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh), R. Napiwotzski (University of Hertfordshire): “The Origin of Metals in Cool White Dwarfs: Disrupted Minor Planets or Interstellar Gas?” E. Peng (Peking University), L. Ferrarese, J. Blakeslee, P. Cote (Herzberg Institute of MMT 2 Astrophysics), P. Durrell (Youngstown State U.), J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), C. Mihos (Case Western Reserve U.), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), N. Ball (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), S. Courteau (Queen’s University), P. Duc (CEA), A. Jordan (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), E. Emsellem (CRAL), A. Lancon (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg), C. Liu (Peking University), L. Macarthur, A. McConnachie (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), D. McLaughlin (Keele University), T. Puzia (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), N. Caldwell (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Yanny (FNAL): “NGVS-S: A Comprehensive Spectroscopic Survey of Virgo”

♦ Key: (G) = Graduate; (O) = Other; (T) = Thesis Student; (U) = Undergraduate

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3.4.3 Las Campanas Observatory

Magellan Telescopes: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (1), and US Theses (2) Telescope Nights R. de Propris (CTIO), S. Schuler (NOAO), A. Frebel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Magellan-II 3 Astrophysics), F. D’Antona, P. Ventura (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), G. Piotto, A. Milone (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova): “The triple sequence of NGC 2808: exploring the stellar abundances”

US Thesis Programs (2) V. Kulkarni, D. Som (T) (U. of South Carolina), C. Peroux (Observatoire Astronomique de Magellan-II 1 Marseille-Provence), J. Meiring, J. Lauroesch (U. of Louisville), P. Khare (Utkal University), D. York (U. of Chicago): “Metals, Molecules, and Star Formation in Sub-Damped Lyman-alpha Quasar Absorbers” B. Lee, K. Colon (T), E. Ford (U. of Florida), C. Blake (Princeton U.), S. Mahadevan Magellan-I 1 (Pennsylvania State U.): “High precision differential photometry of planet transits with the MMTF”

3.4.4 Palomar Observatory

Hale Telescope: 2010A Scheduled US Programs (3), and US Theses (1) ♦ Telescope Nights T. Boroson (NOAO), M. Eracleous (Pennsylvania State U.): “A Systematic Search for the Hale 4 Dynamical Signature of Close Supermassive Binary Black Holes” X. Fan, L. Jiang (U. of Arizona), F. Walter (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie), J. Kurk (Max Hale 2 Planck Institut für Astrophysik), M. Vestergaard (University of Copenhagen), B. Kelly (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): “Probing Black Hole Growth in the Earliest Luminous Quasars” G. Stringfellow (U. of Colorado), V. Gvaramadze (Sternberg Astronomical Institution): “The Hale-PRE 1 Search for New Luminous Blue Variable Stars: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Stars with 24 micron Shells”

US Thesis Programs (1) E. Moran (Wesleyan U.), M. Eracleous (Pennsylvania State U.), R. Becker (Lawrence Hale 2 Livermore National Laboratory), L. Kay (Barnard College), J. Bechtold, H. Sugarman (G) (U. of Arizona), A. Langford (T) (Wesleyan U.): “Black Holes in the Milky Way’s Backyard”

♦ Key: (G) = Graduate; (O) = Other; (T) = Thesis Student; (U) = Undergraduate

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4 USAGE OF ARCHIVED DATA

The first two tables below illustrate access to and usage of reduced data in the NOAO Science Archive (R2) from NOAO Survey programs. The table on the left shows the data download volume in gigabytes, the number of files retrieved and the number of unique visitors (for that month) who downloaded archive data through the ftp site. The table on the right shows the Web activity logged from the NOAO Science Archive Web site. It includes users (visitors) collecting additional information before or after downloading data, as well as visualization of the data online.

Archive Data Retrieval Activity (ftp) NOAO Science Archive Web Site Activity Bandwidth Files Unique Bandwidth Pages Unique Date (GB) Retrieved Visitors Date (GB) Viewed Visitors Jan 2010 77.76 1,060 26 Jan 2010 243.15 62,011 763 Feb 2010 7.64 117 27 Feb 2010 37.97 12,388 809 Mar 2010 24.53 1,155 22 Mar 2010 157.61 17,886 1,056 Total: 109.93 2,332 75 Total: 438.73 92,285 2,628

The NOAO SkyNode provides access to catalogs and is complementary to the NOAO Science Archive, which provides access to images. SkyNode receives a simple SQL query and passes it to a backend database engine. The result is then passed back through the Web server. The most important number in the table below is “Unique Visitors.”

Tucson NOAO SkyNode Bandwidth Pages Unique Date (MB) Viewed Visitors Jan 2010 37.82 3,323 398 Feb 2010 27.35 2,252 253 Mar 2010 38.92 2,676 279 Total: 104.09 8,251 930

The NOAO Portal provides principal investigators (PIs) access to their raw data from all instruments and to pipeline-reduced products from the Mosaic instruments at the CTIO and KPNO 4-meter telescopes and the NEWFIRM instrument. The metadata are stored in a searchable Archive, which allows discovery and retrieval from the NOAO Portal (portal-nvo.noao.edu). After the requisite proprietary period (usually 18 months), the data become accessible to the general public.

Portal Data Retrieval Activity (ftp + Web) Portal Data Retrieval Web Pages Viewed Bandwidth Files Unique Bandwidth Pages Unique Date (GB) Retrieved Visitors Date (MB) Viewed Visitors Jan 2010 87.07 3,118 4 Jan 2010 786.08 10,793 548 Feb 2010 223.08 3,892 24 Feb 2010 1,015.85 17,758 443 Mar 2010 222.48 21,635 20 Mar 2010 500.87 20,846 539 Total: 532.63 28,645 48 Total: 2,302.80 49,397 1,530

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5 GRANTS

The following table lists the grants received by NOAO staff from non-NSF agencies during the second quarter of FY 2010.

Principle Budget Period of Investigator Awarding Agency Title Amount Performance

Mike Belton STScI Determining the Rotational Phase of Comet $18,103 3/1/2010– 9P/Tempel 1 in Support of the StardustNExT 2/29/2012 Mission Arjun Dey JPL The Origin of Low Red-shift (z<2) Lyman Alpha $13,500 2/2/2010– Emitting Galaxies 1/14/2012 Mark Dickinson STScI Tracing the Emergence of the Hubble Sequence $69,470 2/1/2010– Among the Most Luminous and Massive Galaxies 1/31/2011 Greg Doppmann Research Corporation Benchmarking the Evolutionary State of Young $14,000 1/1/2010– (Arizona Partners in Stars with Photometric Observations 12/31/2012 Science Award)

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