AURA/NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY 2004 Submitted to the National Science Foundation Via Fastlane November 1, 2004

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AURA/NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY 2004 Submitted to the National Science Foundation via FastLane November 1, 2004

Three-color composite image of spiral galaxy NGC4402 taken at the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope on Kitt Peak using the WIYN Tip-Tilt module, an adaptive optics device that uses a movable mirror to provide first-order compensation for the jittery motion of the incoming image caused by variable atmospheric conditions and telescope vibrations. NGC4402 is interacting with the intergalactic medium of the Virgo Cluster. Photo Courtesy: H. Crowl (Yale University) and WIYN/NOAO/AURA/NSF NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND FINDINGS...... 1 1.1 NOAO Gemini Science Center, 1 A Luminous Lyman-α Emitting Galaxy at Redshift z=6.535, 1 Accretion Signatures in Massive Star Formation, 1 1.2 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), 3 The Halo of Our Galaxy: Structured, Not Smooth, 3 Science with ISPI at the Blanco, 3 1.3 Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), 4

2 THE NATIONAL GROUND-BASED O/IR OBSERVING SYSTEM ...... 6 2.1 The Gemini Telescopes, 6 Support of U.S. Gemini Users and Proposers, 6 Providing U.S. Scientific Input to Gemini, 7 U.S. Gemini Instrumentation Program, 7 2.2 CTIO Telescopes, 8 Blanco 4-Meter Telescope, 8 SOAR 4-m Telescope, 9 Blanco Instrumentation, 9 SOAR Instrumentation, 10 SMARTS Consortium and Other Small Telescopes, 10 2.3 KPNO Telescopes, 11 Performance Upgrades at WIYN, 11 New Instrument and Upgrades, 12 New Major Tenant for KPNO, 12 Site Protection, 13 2.4 Enhanced Community Access to the Independent Observatories, 13 MMT Observatory and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, 13 W. M. Keck Observatory and the Magellan Telescopes, 14 2.5 Joint NOAO-NASA Time Allocation, 14 2.6 NOAO Survey Programs, 14 2.7 NOAO Data Products Program, 15

3 MAJOR INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM ...... 16 3.1 Gemini Instruments, 16 Gemini Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (GNIRS), 16 Gemini Next-Generation Instrument Design and Feasibility Studies, 16 3.2 NOAO Instruments, 17 NOAO Extremely Wide-Field IR Imager (NEWFIRM), 17 3.3 SOAR Adaptive Optics Module (SAM), 17 SOAR Optical Imager, 18 Monsoon Detector Controller, 18

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4 IMPLEMENTING THE DECADAL SURVEY ...... 19 4.1 Site Characterization for New, Large Facilities, 19 4.2 AURA New Initiatives Office, 20 4.3 Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), 24 4.4 National Virtual Observatory (NVO), 26 4.5 Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP), 26 4.6 Adaptive Optics Development Program (AODP), 27

5 PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH ...... 29 5.1 Educational Outreach (EO), 29 Teacher Leaders in Research-Based Science Education, 29 Project ASTRO-Tucson, 30 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), 31 Astronomy Education Review (AER), 31 Other Educational Outreach Highlights, 32 5.2 Public Outreach, 33 Kitt Peak Visitor Center, 33 Other Public Outreach, 34 Coordination with the External Community, 34 5.3 Media and Public Information, 34 Press Releases and Image Releases, 34 Special Information Products, 36 Web-based Outreach, 36 Image and information Requests, 37 5.4 Education and Public Outreach at NOAO South ...... 37 REU Site Program at CTIO, 37 Support of Local K-12 Science Education, 37 ASTRO in Chile, 38 Video Lectures to U.S. Teachers, 38 Observatory Tours, 38 Ongoing Efforts to Control Light Pollution, 38

6 COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORK SERVICES ...... 40 6.1 Tucson, 40 6.2 Kitt Peak, 40 6.3 NOAO South – La Serena, 41 6.4 NOAO South – Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón (SOAR and Gemini Support), 43

APPENDICES A Key Management and Scientific Personnel Changes B New Organizational Partners in FY04 C NOAO Scientific Staff D Scientific Staff Publications FY04 E Observing Programs and Investigators F Publications Based on Data from NOAO Telescopes G Activities Encouraging Diversity within NOAO H Site Safety Report: 4th Quarter 2004: Tucson and Kitt Peak

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FY 2004 was the year in which the Gemini Observatory became the main attraction for astronomers proposing to observe at NOAO facilities. In semester 2004A, for the first time, observing proposals to the NOAO Gemini Science Center (131) exceeded those for Kitt Peak National Observatory, and for semester 2005A, NOAO received more proposals for Gemini (217) than KPNO and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory combined. This marks yet another milestone in the progress of Gemini from NOAO concept, through construction and instrumentation, to productive science. NGSC has begun its re-organization to cater to our new users, so that Gemini will progress to the next stages of discovery, publication, and leadership in the international and national 8-meter telescope arena. Deputy Director Verne Smith and Assistant Astronomer Tom Matheson, joined the NGSC scientific staff in 2004. GNIRS, the facility infrared spectrograph built by NOAO, was commissioned in 2004. U.S. science verification programs involved: candidate young brown dwarfs; SDSS Type II quasar candidates; the reddest quasars; dust and ice chemistry in quiescent molecular clouds; η Carinae; T Tauri binaries; VV and S CrA and their planet-forming disks; ice and hydrocarbons in NGC 4418; the central black hole of Centaurus A; molecular emission from accretion disks; LMC obscured stars; excitation conditions in Herbig-Haro objects; and Pre Main Sequence Binaries. The availability of an integral field unit on GNIRS in 2005 will increase the instrument’s versatility still further. Design studies for the second generation of Gemini instruments commenced in 2004. The SOAR 4.2-meter telescope was dedicated in April 2004. SOAR is the Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research, and a collaboration of NOAO with University of North Carolina, Michigan State University, and LNA Brazil. Like WIYN, SOAR is a successful public- private partnership, and both WIYN and SOAR serve as models for the public-private partnership envisioned for the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT). The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project established its headquarters in Pasadena, California in 2004. The partners for the design and development phase are Caltech, the University of California, ACURA, and AURA. (Similar in concept to AURA, ACURA is the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy.) Also in 2004, AURA submitted proposals to the NSF for design and development work for both GSMT (including an alternate design) and LSST, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Such is the confluence on the NSF of proposals for implementing projects from the 2001–2010 decadal survey, that the astronomy division has requested assistance from NOAO in road-mapping future OIR facilities. This is to be done in 2004/5 by a Long Range Planning Committee chaired by past-President of the AAS, Caty Pilachowski. NOAO public affairs and educational outreach (PAEO) accomplishments reached new heights in 2004 with facility-like oversubscription of the exemplary Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE) program. Also, 12 TLRBSE graduates will receive observing time jointly from Kitt Peak and the Spitzer Science Center. New educational materials were a further popular highlight of our nationally prominent PAEO program in the year past.

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1.1 NOAO GEMINI SCIENCE CENTER

A Luminous Lyman-α Emitting Galaxy at Redshift z=6.535 A team of U.S. astronomers led by J. Rhoads (STSci) reported the discovery of extremely high rates of star formation in one of the most distant known galaxies in the Universe (2004, ApJ, 611, 59). LALA J142442.24+353400.2 lies at a redshift of 6.535, which puts it 12.8 billion light-years away. Thus, we are seeing this galaxy as it looked about 850 million years after the Big Bang. This faint, distant galaxy has a star formation rate of more than 11 solar masses per year, a very high rate among galaxies at this distance and epoch in the early Universe. Rhoads and collaborators traced the galaxy’s starburst activity by measuring emission in the Lyman-α emission line, using deep multi-object spectroscopy conducted at Gemini Observatory with GMOS-North (see Figure 1). The galaxy was first identified in the Large Area Lyman Alpha (“LALA”) survey, a deep imaging survey conducted at the Kitt Peak National Observatory using the CCD Mosaic Imager at the 4-m Mayall Telescope. LALA is one of the largest surveys to search for very distant galaxies via their Lyman-α emission lines, the signpost of hydrogen that is ionized by hot, young stars in these galaxies. Such emission-line galaxies are identified by comparing their images in narrow bandpass filters from the LALA survey to broad-band filter images from both LALA and the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. The properties of the Lyman-α line can be used to study the reionization of the Universe because neutral intergalactic hydrogen should FIGURE 1 Spectrum of LALA J142442.24+353400.2, scatter Lyman-α light. The authors explore obtained with the GMOS spectrograph on Gemini North. whether unusual effects in the gas within or The solid histogram shows the measured flux, and the around LALA J142442.24+353400.2 could dotted line shows the 1-sigma flux uncertainties. facilitate the escape of Lyman-α emission. For example, if the line is Doppler-shifted to longer wavelengths before it reaches the intergalactic gas, either by a drift velocity of the emitting galaxy or by interaction with gas internal to that galaxy, the intergalactic scattering can be reduced. Nonetheless, the properties of LALA J142442.24+353400.2 are most easily understood if the Universe is already mostly ionized at z = 6.5.

Accretion Signatures in Massive Star Formation Massive stars (those of spectral types O and early B) synthesize and eject significant fractions of many of the elements heavier than helium, as well as deposit large quantities of energy, into the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Galaxy. These O and B stars play a significant role in the ongoing chemical evolution of the Milky Way and in the dynamics of its ISM. The character of stellar

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nucleosynthesis and the energetics of supernovae explosions are strong functions of the mass of the star. Quantifying the physical processes that drive the formation of massive stars is thus an important step in understanding what sets the masses of these objects which have such a strong influence on the structure and evolution of our Galaxy. In order to probe the formation of massive stars, Blum, Barbosa, Damineli, Conti, and Ridgway (2004, ApJ, in press) have obtained high-resolution infrared (IR) spectra of four massive, young stars that are members of clusters that power Galactic giant H II regions. The new spectra were obtained with the NOAO-provided Phoenix high-resolution infrared spectrograph on Gemini South. Blum and collaborators used the Phoenix spectra to investigate the circumstellar environment of these young stars. All objects show emission in the 2.3 µm CO 2-0 vibrational-rotational bandhead, with a range of velocity broadened profiles. Figure 2 shows the CO 2-0 bandhead emission for Source 268 in M17: the insert shows the intrinsic emission-line profile for a single line (υ=2-0, J=51-50). The smooth curve in this figure represents a model for the emission profile from a circumstellar disk, and the comparison between model and observed spectrum is excellent. In addition to the CO spectra, emission lines from hydrogen Brackett-γ and, for one source, also Br-α, were observed. Unlike the spatially unresolved CO emission, the H Brackett lines were spatially resolved along the slit. The additional constraints provided by the hydrogen lines allow Blum and collaborators to model the circumstellar geometries of these massive young stars. In three of the four stars, the CO emission is well-fit as arising from Keplerian circumstellar disks viewed from various inclination angles. A fourth star, #48 in NGC 3576, is better fit by a more complicated geometry, with an expanding cavity that is being broken up, as well as a more compact accretion torus. These results demonstrate the usefulness of high-resolution IR spectroscopy providing the velocity resolution, coupled to high-quality spatial resolution along the spectrograph slit. Blum et al. (2004) show conclusively that stars in the mass

range of 10-30 MSun form with accretion disks, just as for lower mass stars. These results increase our understanding of the star formation FIGURE 2 The CO first overtone rotational-vibrational process for masses of stars that band for Source 268 in M17. The smooth curve is a ultimately have an enormous influence model fit from a Keplerian disk. The observed spectrum on the chemical and dynamical consists of two grating settings, with the insert showing evolution of the Milky Way. the emission-line profile from a single CO line.

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1.2 CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY (CTIO)

The Halo of Our Galaxy: Structured, Not Smooth! The classical picture of the halo of our galaxy as being a rather homogeneous structure composed only of stars and globular clusters that are as old as the galaxy itself has radically changed in the last decade. Star counts from the all-sky photographic surveys with large Schmidt cameras resulted in the discovery of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy that is presently colliding with, and being disrupted by, our own Galaxy. In particular, the 2MASS and SDSS surveys have produced large well- calibrated catalogs that are the basis for quantitative follow-up studies of the distribution, kinematics, ages, and composition of stars throughout much of the halo. Such studies are the focus of research by S. Majewski (U. Virginia) and collaborators using the Hydra multi-object spectrograph on the Blanco telescope and the Cassegrain spectrograph on the 1.5- m telescope. First, by combining the 2MASS and SDSS databases in order to maximize the depth reached, they identified several distant halo overdensities beyond 50 kpc, which, using radial velocities from the Blanco, are now proven to be distant tidal stream structures. These structures are consistent with being distant parts of a fully-wrapped trailing tail from the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy. Combined with the leading arm tail wrapped in the inner Galaxy, the Sgr tails apparently reach some 700 degrees circular in extent. Further work will prove whether the two distant structures are indeed connected, will measure the extent and mass of the Sgr dwarf, and will characterize the galactic potential. A related study uses the recently published Grid Giant Star Survey (GGSS), which provides a database of 70,000 halo and thick disk giant and horizontal branch star candidates and is ideal for studying the structure of the Galaxy out to a distance of more than 50 Kpc. This catalog, a preparation for the NASA SIM mission, has significant contributions from CTIO observations made from a team led by V. Smith (U. Texas; NOAO) and D. Geisler (U. Concepción). Majewski and collaborators have already used this database to identify stars that are representatives of a tidal debris stream roughly consistent with the Sagittarius leading arm mentioned above. In FY04, they embarked on an ambitious project to probe about 10% of the 1302 GGSS fields, focusing initially on high latitude regions to begin mapping halo substructure and tying this to small-scale variations of the metallicity distribution function. A pilot survey very successfully demonstrated that the techniques efficiently detect networked streams.

Science with ISPI at the Blanco The Infrared Side Port Imager (ISPI) is currently the largest near-infrared focal plane in the Southern hemisphere (10′ FOV). Observers are now taking advantage of this fact and the good image quality (typically 0.6 ″ at K with 0.3″ pixel sampling) provided at the Blanco 4-m to make deep follow-up observations for cutting edge space-based missions and ground-based optical surveys. B. Mobasher (STScI) and collaborators are using ISPI to obtain near-infrared data to Ks ~ 21 magnitudes in a two degree equatorial field set by the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) project, COSMOS. This intensive HST Treasury project seeks to connect studies of large-scale structure and galaxy evolution at redshifts beyond z = 2. The ISPI images will be critical in selecting different galaxy subsets from the two million COSMOS galaxies including extremely red objects (EROs) and the most massive galaxies at high z.

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M. Haas (University of Bochum) is using ISPI to follow up on an intriguing new set of objects found in the Infrared Space Observatory ISOCAM 6 micron parallel survey. The ISOCAM data, in combination with other ground-based surveys, suggests this new population may be very red AGN with substantial mid infrared (MIR) emission. The team is using ISPI to take deep images of these MIR AGN which have no 2MASS counterparts. D. Norman (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at CTIO) and collaborators have used the Blanco 4-m Deep Lens Survey (DLS) taken with the prime focus imager MOSAIC II to do a follow-on study of quasars in regions of massive dark matter peaks. Norman’s team is obtaining deep ISPI images of a unique sample of DLS shear selected galaxy clusters to search for quasar candidates in an unbiased way. Ultimately, the sample of ISPI quasars found in the DLS clusters will be used to test hierarchical models for cluster formation and specifically, their assumptions on the relative spatial distributions of quasars and dark matter halos. On the other end of the distance scale, K. Luhman (CfA/SAO) and collaborators are using ISPI to survey the Chamaeleon I and Ophiuchus star-forming regions. Combining deep ISPI images with I-band data from Magellan and IRAC (3-8 micron) imaging from the Spitzer Space Telescope, Luhman’s team will be able to trace the initial mass function in these young (1 Myr) clusters to approximately 1 Jupiter mass. A similar project based on a Spitzer Legacy Project is also using ISPI (combined with Blanco MOSAIC II imaging) to detect near Jupiter mass objects in and around nearby molecular clouds. This project is led by K. Allers in collaboration with D. Jaffe at University of Texas.

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Stellar Clockwork Distinguishing among models of pre-main sequence stellar evolution requires a high level of precision in measured stellar parameters. Normally, the accuracy of determinations of stellar mass or radius is limited for pre-main sequence stars by uncertainties in the distances to the recently formed stellar associations. One certain path to improvement in precision is time coverage of an eclipsing spectroscopic binary system. The combination of a high accuracy light curve and double radial velocity curve allows distance-independent determination of masses and radii for the two components. K. Stassun (Vanderbilt), R. Mathieu (U. Wisconsin), L. R. Vaz (U.F. de Minas Gerais), N. Stroud (U. Wisconsin), and F. Vrba (USNO, Flagstaff) reported in the April, 2004, Astrophysical Journal Supplement on the discovery, measurement, and analysis of a spectroscopic binary in the Orion OB1 association. They used a combination of 1-meter class telescopes for regular photometric monitoring over two years, including particularly the WIYN 0.9-m and the CTIO 0.9-m. They obtained monitoring spectra with WIYN Hydra and through TSIP time on the HET echelle spectrograph. The resulting light curve was fitted, including a model for starspot modulation. The combination of light curve and velocity curves allowed a determination of masses and radii to 1% accuracy—the primary having 1.01 solar mass, and the secondary 0.73, the lowest value ever measured in a pre-main sequence binary. The high-dispersion spectra also allowed spectral typing, resulting in effective temperatures, then luminosities. Comparison with a range of current models showed that no one set of models adequately described the H-R diagram locations and mass-radius relations, particularly when combined with data from other measured systems in the literature. One important trend was noted with respect to the surface lithium abundance. The initial Li is easily destroyed in low-temperature

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fusion reactions; the residual amount is very sensitive to the efficiency of convection and depth of the convection zone. The empirical measurements of Li abundance in the binary pair in Orion combined with those of other measured systems as a function of mass very strongly favor models with inefficient convection in the interior, even though higher efficiency is required to fit the abundance observed in the Sun. This new, high precision dual mass determination will point the way toward models of pre-main sequence evolution with higher reliability and consistency.

What Are Those Damped Lyman α Absorbers Anyway? Quasar sightlines frequently show intervening absorption systems with sufficient neutral hydrogen column that radiation damping wings appear on the Lyman α line. The statistics of the frequency of such systems suggest that they contained as much neutral hydrogen in the early Universe as is found in stars in the present-day Universe. The question is: what are these absorbers? Are they the progenitors of massive galaxies with huge disks of gas, or are they sub-luminous, much less massive galaxies, perhaps on their way to coalescence in building up a larger, modern galaxy? One discriminant between those two choices is a measurement of the tendency of damped Lyman α hosts to cluster with other galaxies. More massive hosts would be in denser environments with higher clustering amplitudes, while less massive hosts would be more uniformly distributed. Early studies on narrow fields around a few individual objects have not yielded decisive results. N. Bouché (U. Mass Amherst) and J. Lowenthal (Smith College) reported in the Astrophysical Journal of July 10, 2004, about their attack on this problem. They used the KPNO Mayall 4-meter telescope + CCD Mosaic camera to measure the association of three damped Lyman α absorbers with surrounding galaxies at similar redshifts of ~3. The galaxies in the environment local to the absorber were distinguished by the break in their observed spectral energy distributions caused by the nearly opaque absorption of intervening neutral hydrogen clouds (the Lyman α forest) at that redshift, as Lyman Break Galaxies. They took images covering 1 sq. deg. around each quasar probe with a damped system in 4 filter bands from ultraviolet through near-infrared (I). Those colors were sufficient to estimate redshifts accurately to ~0.06/(1+z) in an area 65 Mpc on a side. By taking a redshift slice of width 0.15 centered on the redshift of each absorber, they were able to identify an average of ~75 Lyman Break Galaxies in each field. The completeness limit of fainter than 24th magnitude in I guarantees that galaxies as faint as L* are well covered. By a detailed statistical analysis, Bouché and Lowenthal showed that the Damped Lyman α absorber was correlated with the surrounding Lyman Break Galaxies at the 95% significance level, with the signal strongest on a scale of 5-10 Mpc. The formal amplitude of the clustering was greater than that measured for Lyman Break Galaxies with themselves, suggesting that the Damped Lyman α hosts are more massive than the typical Lyman Break Galaxy. On the other hand, simulations by the same authors suggest that the DLA’s should be slightly less massive, and the amplitude determination has a large uncertainty. The correlation length is 5 ± 4.5 Mpc for a Hubble constant of 100, similar to that for fairly massive galaxies at lower redshifts. Although this early investigation did not yet yield a definitive answer for the relative masses of Damped Lyman α galaxies compared to Lyman Break Galaxies, it laid the groundwork for a robust statistical approach to answering the question and expanding our insight into the era of galaxy formation and coalescence.

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2.1 THE GEMINI TELESCOPES

Support of U.S. GEMINI Users and Proposers The NOAO Gemini Science Center (NGSC) supports the U.S. community’s use of the state-of-the-art Gemini 8-meter telescopes. This support work includes informing the U.S. community of Gemini scientific observing opportunities, answering U.S. proposers’ and users’ queries, performing technical reviews of U.S. Gemini observing proposals, applying the NOAO TAC process to the U.S. Gemini observing proposals, interfacing with Gemini on the implementation of the selected U.S. Gemini proposals, providing assistance with and checking of the U.S. Phase-II submissions, and selected operational support to Gemini. The NGSC saw a strong response from the U.S. community to the Gemini Call for Proposals for semester 2004B. On Gemini North for 2004B, 84 proposals were received: 45 for GMOS-North, 18 for NIRI alone, 5 for NIRI with the Altair adaptive optics system, and 17 for Michelle (some proposals requested more than one instrument). Ninety-three U.S. proposals requested Gemini South: 29 for GNIRS, 28 for T-ReCS, 28 for GMOS-South, 9 for Phoenix, and 2 for the Acquisition Camera. In total, 161 U.S. Gemini proposals sought 371 nights on the two Gemini telescopes. The U.S. community responded enthusiastically to the Gemini Call for Proposals for semester 2005A. Overall, U.S. proposers submitted 217 proposals for 2005A, which represents a 35% increase over the number submitted in 2004B. On Gemini North for 2005A, 121 proposals were received: 60 for GMOS-North, 35 for NIRI alone, 12 for NIRI with the Altair adaptive optics system, and 22 for Michelle (some proposals requested more than one instrument). One hundred fourteen U.S. proposals requested Gemini South: 39 for GNIRS, 34 for GMOS-South, 24 for Phoenix, 23 for T-ReCS, and 1 for the Acquisition Camera. In total, 217 U.S. Gemini proposals sought 475 nights on the two Gemini telescopes. The numbers of U.S. Gemini proposals and nights requested represent all-time highs. The oversubscription factors of 5.1 at Gemini North and 4.2 at Gemini South demonstrate healthy community engagement. The Gemini observing process requires the submission of a Phase-II program once an observing program is The NGSC booth at the Atlanta AAS meeting in January approved. NGSC staff performed Phase-II 2004 featured displays on how to propose for Gemini review, and related proposer interactions, observing, brochures on available Gemini instruments, for U.S. Gemini proposals. Because the and a tutorial on preparing Phase II programs. Phase-II submission must describe an

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observation completely and conform to numerous rules and conventions, few users submit a correct Phase-II initially. Usually, multiple iterations and communications with the P.I. are required. In order to see the powerful capabilities of GNIRS on Gemini South exploited for major scientific initiatives, NOAO is conducting a pilot program to enable observations with high scientific potential that require significant blocks of time. This “GNIRS Key Science Opportunity” was initiated for semester 2004B and continued in semester 2005A. In order to help inform the community, NGSC created a Web site on the GNIRS Key Science Opportunity. The site has links to GNIRS information and features a form to allow interested parties to indicate their interest to persons forming science teams. In addition, NGSC held a Webcast on the GNIRS Key Science Opportunity on March 16, 2004. During the proposal review process for semester 2004B, NOAO selected the first program for GNIRS Key Science: “A Near-Infrared Kinematic Survey of Nearby Galaxies: Black Holes, Bulges, and the Fundamental Plane” by Karl Gebhardt (University of Texas) and colleagues. NGSC provided observing support and maintenance of the NOAO-built Phoenix high- resolution infrared spectrograph on Gemini South. NGSC staff members K. Hinkle, R. Blum, et al. observed with Phoenix on Gemini South for community queue science programs during FY 2004. NGSC regularly sends staff to the Gemini telescopes to provide assistance with queue observing and for training on Gemini observing procedures. Witnessing firsthand how the Gemini telescopes, instruments, and queue observing function is essential to supporting the U.S. community. NGSC Staff have also participated in instrument commissioning and system verification at the Gemini telescopes. During FY 2004, NGSC Staff helped support 205 nights of observing and/or testing at the two Gemini telescopes.

Providing U.S. Scientific Input to Gemini The U.S. Gemini Science Advisory Committee (SAC), which serves as NGSC’s community-based advisory committee, met by teleconference and had numerous e-mail discussions during FY 2004. T. Armandroff briefed the committee on the status of the Gemini telescopes and instruments, the U.S. instrumentation effort, and current scientific and technical issues. The U.S. Gemini SAC discussed the current state of observing capabilities on Gemini, future opportunities, and how the priorities of the U.S. Gemini community should be enunciated. Membership of the U.S. Gemini SAC is described at www.noao.edu/usgp/staff.html. Six members from this group participated in the Gemini Science Committee meeting in La Serena, Chile on October 13- 14, 2003. T. Armandroff represented the United States at the Gemini Operations Working Group meetings in February 2004 in Waikoloa, Hawaii and in August 2004 in Sydney, Australia.

U.S. Gemini Instrumentation Program One component of the U.S. Gemini Instrumentation Program consists of instruments being built by NOAO for use on Gemini. GNIRS is such an NOAO-built instrument and is described below in the Major Instrumentation Program section of this report. The other class of U.S. Gemini instruments consists of those being built at other U.S. institutions under an AURA contract awarded by NOAO, with NGSC technical and managerial oversight. Progress on two such instruments is described below.

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NICI, the Near Infrared Coronagraphic Imager, will provide a 1-5 micron dual-beam coronagraphic imaging capability on the Gemini South telescope. Mauna Kea Infrared (MKIR) in Hilo is building NICI, under the leadership of Doug Toomey. During FY 2004, the NICI team achieved the following major milestones: completion of fabrication and procurement of major NICI components; integration of the NICI components into the NICI dewar; assembly, integration, and testing of the electronics associated with the NICI cold mechanisms and detectors; successful vacuum test and first cold test; and continuing progress on developing the NICI adaptive optics system. At the close of FY 2004, the second cold test of NICI with the first readout of the integrated detector system was imminent. By the end of FY 2004, MKIR reported that approximately 93% of the work to NICI final acceptance had been completed. NICI is expected to be deployed on Gemini South in 2005. FLAMINGOS-2 is a near-infrared multi-object spectrograph and imager for the Gemini telescopes; it will be commissioned at Gemini North and used there for some period before being relocated to Gemini South. FLAMINGOS-2 will cover a 6.1-arcminute-diameter field at the standard Gemini f/16 focus in imaging mode, and will provide multi-object spectra over a 6.1×2- arcminute field. It will also provide a multi-object spectroscopic capability for Gemini South’s multi-conjugate adaptive optics system. The University of Florida is building FLAMINGOS-2, under the leadership of principal investigator Steve Eikenberry. During FY04, the FLAMINGOS-2 team was in the fabrication phase and accomplished the following major milestones: fabrication and procurement of major FLAMINGOS-2 components; fabrication, test fitting, and vacuum testing of both the main camera dewar and the smaller (MOS) dewar that contains the masks for multi-object spectroscopy; and the first software Beta release. At the close of FY 2004, approximately 59% of the work to FLAMINGOS-2 final acceptance had been completed.

2.2 CTIO TELESCOPES

In FY04, CTIO telescope activities were concentrated in two main areas: (1) operating a suite of wide-field instruments on the Blanco telescope, and (2) integration and commissioning efforts at SOAR. In addition, an Announcement of Opportunity was issued soliciting partners in the development of a major new instrument for the Blanco telescope in exchange for observing time. CTIO continues to be a favorable site for Southern hemisphere projects, with two new initiatives undertaken in FY04. Also in FY04, the SMARTS consortium ramped up to a four-telescope suite.

Blanco 4-m Telescope The future Blanco instrumentation plan features NEWFIRM, a wide-field 4K imager being built at NOAO, to be shared, beginning in 2007, between the Mayall 4-m on Kitt Peak and the Blanco. Following staff and User Committee discussion, an Announcement of Opportunity was issued for the development of a major new instrument for the Blanco telescope. No restrictions were placed on the type of instrument that could be proposed, though prospective proposers were encouraged to build on the wide-field capability of the prime or RC foci of the telescope and to take a System-wide view of facilities available to the U.S. community, in particular those in the Southern hemisphere. A single proposal was received from a consortium led by Fermilab, including the Universities of Illinois, Chicago, and Berkeley/LBNL The consortium proposed a four-pronged project to study Dark Energy

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for which they would build a very wide-field CCD imager and conduct a 5-year survey starting in 2009, using 30% of the telescope time. The project includes a new prime focus cage with 500 Gpixel camera and five-element prime focus corrector with 1.1-m diameter front element, data pipelines, archive, and data products. External reviews for both Fermilab and NOAO have recommended that the project go ahead.

SOAR 4-m Telescope The SOAR optics and mirror support assemblies were delivered in January 2004 and rapidly installed; an engineering first light image showing star profiles that matched the sub-arcsecond site seeing at the time was available by the official dedication ceremony on April 17, 2004. With help from the other SOAR partners—Brazil, Michigan State University, and the University of North Carolina— CTIO staff have almost completely taken over from SOAR project staff in the integration and commissioning of the telescope and its instrumentation. CTIO is also building the instrument adaptors and calibration facilities for the two Nasmyth platforms; the first assembly was delivered in mid-2004. Work has concentrated on characterizing the primary mirror active optics system; some defects in the design of the radial support system were identified and an improved system is being designed. Full science operation is now expected for semester 2005-B, with an early science program in 2005-A.

Blanco Instrumentation • MOSAIC 2: The Mosaic imager at prime focus continues to be the most popular Blanco instrument. Failure of one of the CCDs necessitated operation with only seven CCDs for a few months until a replacement was located and successfully installed. The new CCD, loaned by University of North Carolina, is well-matched to the others, thus restoring the instrument to its full potential.

• ISPI: The Infrared Side Port Imager is presently the widest field large-telescope IR imager in the Southern hemisphere, covering 11 arcminutes square with 0.33 arcsec per pixel sampling at 1–2.4 microns. This complements the small-field, high angular resolution near-IR imaging capability soon to be available at SOAR, and the infrared spectroscopic instrumentation, GNIRS and T- Recs, at Gemini South. Following commissioning of ISPI in FY03, the instrument has been heavily scheduled in FY04 for a variety of survey and targeted programs.

• HYDRA-CTIO: HYDRA is the third Blanco wide-field instrument; it can be installed perma- nently together with Mosaic and ISPI. It had an extensive upgrade during FY03; performance and reliability were significantly improved and the instrument saw significant use in FY04.

• RC and Echelle Spectrographs: These spectrographs were scheduled in severely blocked mode throughout FY04; plans to retire them were put on hold for a year given slippage in the SOAR telescope schedule and delays in the delivery of Gemini instruments.

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SOAR Instrumentation • Optical Imager: This instrument, built at CTIO, was delivered to SOAR. Two E2V CCDs were installed due to the long delays in delivery of the Lincoln Labs CCDs. The Optical Imager is the commissioning instrument for the SOAR telescope, and appears to fully meet or exceed its specifications. In particular, transmission through two ADC prisms and four focal reducer elements was very high; the Solgel coatings were deposited at CTIO using a facility developed for that purpose.

• OSIRIS: The Ohio State Infrared Imager and Spectrometer, which is fitted with a CTIO 1K × 1K Rockwell HgCdTe array, was moved to SOAR after several years of use on the Blanco telescope. It will be used to commission the infrared “side” of SOAR, and will provide modest-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy (up to R=3000) for the NOAO and SOAR community.

• Other SOAR Partner Instruments: CTIO is building dewars and integrating the CCD focal planes for both the University of North Carolina Goodman High-Throughput Spectrograph and the University of Sao Paulo Integral Field-Unit Spectrograph. Substantial progress was made on both projects in FY04, although completion was hampered by delay in the delivery of the Lincoln Labs CCDs that are specified for both focal planes.

SMARTS Consortium and Other Small Telescopes The Small and Moderate Aperture Telescope Research System (SMARTS) consortium entered year two of the three-year project. NOAO users averaged 30% of the time on the 0.9-m, 1.3-m, and 1.5- m telescopes over the course of FY04. In April 2004, the 1.0-m was added to the suite of telescopes, with a CCD imager built by Ohio State University, initially with a 512 CCD, to be replaced at the end of 2004 with a 4K CCD. The deployment of the U. Montreal 2K IR Imager on the 1.5-m was re- scheduled to 2005, due to delays in completion of the instrument. Operations have run very smoothly, with the fraction of useful time on the sky remaining high, and service observing is now an option on all telescopes (mandatory on the 1.3-m). There is strong interest among consortium members in renewing the present agreement (i.e., SMARTS II) after its expiration in January 2006. The University of North Carolina Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT) project consists of six small telescopes that rapidly follow-up Gamma Ray Bursts discovered by the SWIFT satellite and subsequently trigger a target-of-opportunity interrupt at SOAR. At other times, the telescopes will make observations as part of an extensive education and outreach program in North Carolina. Ground-breaking commenced for this facility, located between the GONG station and the 1.3-m telescope on Cerro Tololo, towards the end of FY04. Agreement was reached between the Ruhr University at Bochum (RUB), Germany and AURA to install the Bochum 1.5-m hexapod telescope at CTIO. This unusual high-tech telescope will initially be tested and operated by RUB, and may later become a part of SMARTS II. U.S. institutions operate two other telescopes on Cerro Tololo. The 0.6/0.9-m Curtis Schmidt telescope is operated by the U. Michigan, now open part-time in a NASA-funded project to catalog space debris in geosynchronous orbits. The 0.4-m Lowell telescope remains closed to general users, although it is occasionally operated by the Lowell Observatory.

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2.3 KPNO TELESCOPES

FY04 efforts concentrated on WIYN, with aluminizing of the optics and completion of the Hydra fiber positioner construction and installation. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Space Telescope Science Institute successfully assembled and integrated their IR Multi-Object Spectrograph for a stunning first-light commissioning run on the 2.1-m, while progress continued on development of the high-precision radial velocity spectrograph, the Exoplanet Tracker. The battle to preserve dark skies continued in the local political arena.

Performance Upgrades at WIYN The year’s technical efforts were focused largely on WIYN. It was time in the cycle for re- aluminizing the optics, particularly the primary. That deadline forced the issue of completing some long-needed improvements to the mirror handling cart. New drive screws with higher precision control made the jacking motion much smoother. With the usual cautious approach, the cart was tested with concrete road barriers and verified prior to handling of the valuable primary itself. The entire operation went smoothly and with much less stress than in previous removals. Site Engineer Charles Corson’s routine maintenance of the mirror support system was worthwhile in identifying and replacing some misbehaving components. The resulting performance since reinstallation and realignment has been superb. Typical rms wavefront errors delivered to the sensor are under 100 nm, leading to regular imaging performance with 0.3”-0.4” FWHM. During the year, a dedicated team led by Pat Knezek worked on design, fabrication and integration of a replacement for the Hydra fiber positioner. Some key components of the original positioner could no longer be replaced, leading to the risk of catastrophic failure. In addition, several improvements had been made to the design when implementing Hydra II for CTIO, which were desirable upgrades for WIYN performance. In the course of testing and commissioning the new positioner, several aspects of the long-frozen software control were brought to fully working order. During the full month of WIYN shutdown, the old positioner was removed, its gripper mechanism was transferred to the new system, and the new positioner was installed with a precision realignment scheme on the telescope. The first scheduled shared-risk science run was a complete operational success. Further improvements planned for FY05 will bring the performance to a level superior to its predecessor, while offering a maintainable system for a further ten years of active use. Major progress was made in advancing the technology to produce wide-field CCD cameras with zonal fast guiding on-chip. George Jacoby leads WIYN in a collaboration with John Tonry and the PanSTARRS group at the University of Hawaii to develop Orthogonal Transfer Arrays of CCDs. These 4K × 4K devices allow fast read-out of individual 512 square cells; the centroided position of a guide star can be fed back to clock adjacent cells and move charge vertically or horizontally in either direction to achieve local fast guiding. WIYN is working with Dick Bredthauer of the commercial firm STA in close collaboration with PanSTARRS source Barry Burke at MIT Lincoln Labs. Both groups staged initial foundry runs, which were largely successful. The MITLL OTA has been demonstrated to image with its full format. The STA foundry devices will enter the testing phase before the end of CY04. The NSF ATI program granted WIYN the money to produce an 8K × 8K camera with OTA CCDs, QUOTA, planned for first light in 2006. All these steps are critical successes along the way to the production of a One-Degree Imager (32K x 32K) of OTA CCDs, planned for science operations in 2009.

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New Instruments and Upgrades John MacKenty (STScI) delivered the IR Multi-Object Spectrograph for a successful first-light commissioning run on the 2.1-m in September. IRMOS was produced for KPNO by Space Telescope Science Institute and the JWST project at Goddard Space Flight Center. The instrument employs a commercial digital micro-mirror array as a cold, programmable multi-slit mask. KPNO fabricated the optical bench, and designed and fabricated the telescope mounting interfaces and handling cart. The instrument was on sky the first night of the run, and was successfully exercised for throughput and geometric calibration. Custom “slit” configurations were programmed for multiple stars in an open cluster and for a flared long-slit to maintain constant S/N in a nearby galaxy. With further development efforts planned for FY05, the control system will allow the user to image a field, then design a slit configuration from the image, dial in the grating of choice, and immediately take multi- object near-IR spectra. First public access through proposals is anticipated for semester 2005B. Jian Ge and his Penn State/U. of Florida colleagues had several successful test runs with their technically developing precision radial velocity fiber-fed bench spectrograph. The optics project a fringe pattern from a Michelson interferometer at nearly right angles to the absorption features on the widened stellar spectrum. The recorded phase of the interference fringes is then extremely sensitive to small velocity shifts. They were able to obtain 3.5 m/s repeatability, following a series of upgrades that provided significantly improved thermal stability. Very high throughput was achieved by acquisition of a larger diameter collimator and implementing both beams of the interferometer. Use of the instrument on the 2.1-meter should afford stable measurements on stars of 8th and 9th magnitude. The next step in improving long-term stability is to provide an interferometer with full passive thermal compensation, very similar to the design used in the GONG network. The intention is to make the Exoplanet Tracker available to NOAO proposers sometime next year. The software control system for the CCD Mosaic camera also received a much-needed refurbishment. Bob Marshall, the Mountain Programming Group lead, essentially hid the Sun OS data acquisition machine as a buried controller, addressable through a window in a modern Linux system. Observers have enjoyed the enormous increase in processing power for data reductions and much improved bandwidth for taping data. The physical camera also received thorough maintenance, including tune-up and fixing of the pneumatic filter track that has restored fully reliable performance.

New Major Tenant for KPNO Because of site approval difficulties near Mt. Hopkins, the VERITAS project chose a site on Kitt Peak for their development. This observatory is the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System. Its scientific goal is to detect and characterize the extremely high energy gamma rays that are produced by quasars, supernova explosions, and other compact objects by the optical flashes emitted when the gamma-ray photons smash into the Earth's atmosphere. This project received high priority in the astronomy decadal survey. It is led by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, PI Trevor Weekes, and includes a consortium of universities: Purdue, Iowa State, Washington - St. Louis, Chicago, Utah, UCLA, McGill, Dublin Ireland, and Leeds in the UK. The US partners are funded by the Smithsonian Institution, Department of Energy, and NSF. The observatory will ultimately consist of seven 12-meter (36-foot) optical imaging telescopes, each with 315 mirror segments, and a 3.5-deg field of view. The final array configuration is planned to be a filled hexagon with sides of 265 feet. The initially funded configuration consists of 4

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telescopes. The telescope array does not need access to the horizons but does need protection from ground-level lights. The project identified a bowl area just above our “lake” suitable for placing the telescopes, support structures, and control building. They received approval for sublease of a dedicated site of ~20 acres. An Environmental Assessment with a finding of no significant impact was completed in March, allowing site preparation to begin. The Tohono O’odham Utility Authority ran utility lines to the site and the project’s contractor has completed grading of the pads and roads. The VERITAS Observatory is on track to become the major tenant on Kitt Peak and will be a high visibility international scientific facility.

Site Protection The rapid growth of the Tucson metropolitan area requires a proactive approach to minimize the impact of light pollution on the operation of the Observatory. In FY03, the KPNO Director made several appearances at the State Legislature to speak on behalf of a bill that required new State construction projects to adopt a set of defined light pollution control standards or to abide by the relevant standards from the local government, whichever were more stringent. That bill was ultimately approved with a strong majority and signed by the Governor into law. In FY04, the major issue in light pollution has been with Pima County and its attempt to settle disputes with the billboard industry over numerous violations of County code. The KPNO Director was asked by the County Board of Supervisors to serve on a Citizen’s Advisory Committee to develop terms for a settlement that represented astronomy and community interests. The goal is to gain long-term acceptance by the billboard industry of the principle that the County and State have authority to regulate; the benefit will be voluntary compliance with light pollution control ordinances, which will be very effective when observed.

2.4 ENHANCED COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE TELESCOPES OF THE INDEPENDENT OBSERVATORIES

NOAO continues to coordinate the time allocation process for telescope time that is made available to the broad community on the large, independent telescopes through the Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP), and its predecessor, the Facility Instrumentation Program.

MMT Observatory and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope In the late 1990s, NSF’s Facility Instrumentation Program granted instrument funds to groups associated with the MMT Observatory and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). In return, the MMT Observatory agreed to schedule 162 nights at a nominal rate of 26 nights per year and the HET agreed to carry out observations equivalent to 101 clear nights at a nominal rate of 17 nights per year for telescope programs approved by NOAO’s Time Allocation Committee (TAC). NOAO’s role in this program is limited to the time allocation and community interface activities. In the 2004A semester, NOAO did not solicit new proposals for time on the MMT due to a backlog of accepted proposals that had not been scheduled previously. In the 2004B semester, NOAO received 9 proposals for time on the MMT, requesting a total of 19.5 nights. Overall, this amounts to an oversubscription rate of about 1.5, though the split between bright time and dark time requests is not even, with dark time exceeding bright time by about two to one. This is due in part to the suite of instrumentation available on the MMT, which is heavily weighted towards dark time instruments. Five of these 9 proposals were granted time.

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In the two 2004 semesters, NOAO received 9 proposals for time on the HET, requesting a total of 18.0 nights. This amounts to an oversubscription rate of about 2.0 over the time available. Six of these proposals were granted time.

W. M. Keck Observatory and the Magellan Telescopes In both 2004 semesters, time from the Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) awards was available to the community. NOAO’s role in TSIP includes not only the distribution of telescope time, but also the management of the annual TSIP proposal peer-review process, and oversight of the instrument development activities of successful proposers. Those parts of the program are discussed below in section 4.5 of this annual report. In 2004, six nights per semester were available on each of the Keck 10-m telescopes. In the two proposal semesters, a total of 61 proposals requesting 112.5 nights were received. The resulting oversubscription rate was about 4.5. Seventeen observing proposals were granted time in these two semesters. In the 2004B semester three nights were available on each of the two Magellan 6.5-m telescopes. NOAO received 8 proposals requesting a total of 21 nights, an oversubscription rate of 3.5 Two of these proposals were granted time.

2.5 JOINT NOAO-NASA TIME ALLOCATION

NOAO has arranged several ad hoc programs to address the needs of projects that require time on ground-based telescopes associated with observations made on one of NASA’s Great Observatories, Chandra, HST, or Spitzer. The goal of these arrangements is to eliminate the double jeopardy of two peer reviews for proposals that require both sets of observations to accomplish their objectives. During FY 2004, one HST proposal and two Chandra proposals were approved for NOAO observations. With the successful initiation of Spitzer operations, a similar arrangement has been negotiated with the Spitzer Science Center, starting with cycle 2 of their General Observer program.

2.6 NOAO SURVEY PROGRAMS

The NOAO Survey Program has been very successful, with 15 surveys undertaken since inception in 1999. The surveys tend to be multi-year projects, and often are aimed at generating complete data sets. In 2003, it was realized that NOAO should make an effort to adjust its allocation of telescope time to accommodate weather and instrumental problems that survey projects have encountered, in order to improve the chances of success. Consequently, no new survey proposals were solicited in 2003 or 2004. Instead, the annual meeting of survey PIs was held with the survey panel of the NOAO TAC as audience, and the PIs were asked to address the needs of their surveys for supplemental telescope time. Those projects that were within a year of completion were given the opportunity to request a specific additional allocation, and the survey panel then met to consider these requests. In 2004, no survey projects were granted an increase to their existing allocation.

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2.7 NOAO DATA PRODUCTS PROGRAM

Following the launch of the NOAO Science Archive (NSA) in mid-2002, the Data Products Program has focused on the development of an integrated data management and processing system that will provide efficient access to NOAO data and data products to the astronomical community. The short term goal of the program is to move from the current archive holdings—limited to data products provided by the survey teams—to the storage of all raw data from all NOAO facilities, together with the pipeline reduction of a substantial fraction of that data. The intent is to provide a new channel for access to data, by making data available to the community after a proprietary period, and also to assist observers by providing a simple way to download raw or reduced data following their observing run. Thus, this system provides data transport, data safe store, and data access, and will be compatible with standards, interfaces, and tools that are being developed by the National Virtual Observatory effort. This is a large undertaking and only the first pieces are in place by the end of FY 2004. Work on the NOAO Science Archive (NSA) in FY 2004 focused on design activities for release 3, scheduled for FY 2006. This will be the release at which the “interim” NSA, put in place to serve the NOAO survey program data to the community, will be replaced by a carefully engineered, scaleable archive into which data from all NOAO telescopes and instruments will flow. A preliminary design review was held in February 2004. Work on data reduction pipelines has moved from its early focus on the CCD Mosaic Imagers to NEWFIRM, the wide-field near-IR imager that is now under construction. This development is being done with the assistance of two personnel from the University of Maryland, a scientist and a software developer. The first release of the NEWFIRM pipeline, to support commissioning of that instrument, is scheduled for July, 2005. A significant step forward was achieved in August, 2004 when the old tape-based Save-the-Bits program was superseded by a new automatic transport system that captures all the raw data streams from NOAO telescopes. Raw data repositories are currently maintained in La Serena and Tucson; these are mirrored to the other site to provide additional backup. Discussions are underway with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide a third storage site. The Data Products Program staff continued work on the Gemini IRAF development, as part of a joint Gemini-NOAO effort. Most of the system work required has been completed, and data reduction packages have been released for some of the Gemini instruments. This work is expected to complete in mid-2005.

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3.1 GEMINI INSTRUMENTS

Gemini Near-Infra-Red Spectrograph (GNIRS) The largest instrument project ever undertaken by NOAO, the Gemini Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (GNIRS), now provides the Gemini South telescope with long-slit capabilities at a range of dispersions through selectable gratings, covering the wavelength region from 0.9 micron to 5.5 microns at two pixel scales, by means of interchangeable cameras that feed a single 1024 pixel square ALADDIN-type InSb detector. It also provides options for 0.9–2.4 micron cross-dispersion, polarization analysis, and an integral field unit. The project team, under the leadership of Project Scientist J. Elias, delivered the instrument to Cerro Pachón on October 31, 2003. GNIRS was installed on Gemini South, and integration with all telescope systems was completed in December. First starlight through GNIRS was recorded in early January 2004, and on-telescope acceptance tests were completed in February, leading to formal acceptance of the instrument by Gemini. The integral field unit, built by the University of Durham, was installed in GNIRS in March and successfully commissioned shortly thereafter. GNIRS has been enthusiastically received by the Gemini science community, garnering a large number of proposals for observing time in Semester 2004B.

Gemini Next-generation Instrument Design and Feasibility Studies Following its summer 2003 workshop in Aspen, and review of the workshop results with the Gemini Science Committee and Board, Gemini published on December 19, 2003 four Calls for Proposals for new instrument studies. Two of these were calls for formal design studies, amounting to fixed-price bids to build the instrument from the study teams. The instruments to be covered by these studies were a high resolution near-infrared spectrograph (HRNIRS) and an extreme adaptive optics coronagraph (ExAO-C). The remaining two calls were for less formal feasibility studies to resolve questions about technical feasibility and cost. The instruments covered by these studies were a prime focus fiber-fed extremely wide-field optical spectrograph (GWFMOS), and a ground-layer adaptive optics system (GLAO). NOAO took part in collaborations responding to each of the four calls, and all the proposals in which NOAO took part were successful. In the end, Gemini commissioned two competing teams for each of the two design studies (HRNIRS and ExAO-C), so as to ensure there would be competing bids to build these instruments. Gemini commissioned one team for each of the feasibility studies. On HRNIRS, the NOAO Major Instrumentation Program has joined forces with the University of Florida under the organizational leadership of the NOAO Gemini Science Center. NOAO and UF

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are each devoting substantial scientific and engineering resources to preparing a conceptual design and costing to support the joint bid to build this instrument. On ExAO-C, NOAO is contributing scientific and managerial support to a design study partnership led by the University of Arizona. On GWFMOS, NOAO is participating in a large coalition (seven institutions) led by the Anglo- Australian Observatory by contributing both scientific and engineering staff. Finally, on GLAO, NOAO is part of a team led by the University of Arizona. All the studies are to be delivered to Gemini in the first half of FY 2005, with review presentations to be held a month or two after delivery.

3.2 NOAO INSTRUMENTS

NOAO Extremely Wide-Field IR Imager (NEWFIRM) NEWFIRM, a world-class capability for wide-field imaging in the near infrared, is a key element in the U.S. system of facilities provided by NOAO. It has a 27 × 27 arcmin field of view with 0.4 arcsec per pixel at 1–2.4 microns and will operate at the R-C focus on either 4-meter telescope (Mayall or Blanco). The instrument per se will be complemented by a highly automated data reduction pipeline feeding the NOAO data archive. Most of FY 2004 was devoted to completing the detailed designs for the various instrument subsystems, and critical design reviews were held for the major subsystems as they were completed. The spherical optics were received back from the vendor and found to meet or exceed specifications in all regards. A contract for the figuring and polishing of the three aspheric elements was let to the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center, and delivery of those items is expected early in FY 2005. The dewar vessel was completed by an outside vendor and delivered following acceptance testing near the end of FY 2004. Detailed mechanical design took longer than planned, but by the end of FY 2004 most major mechanical components were either in process or in queue in the Tucson and La Serena instrument shops. Fortunately both shops, especially La Serena, were able to devote considerably more resources to the fabrication effort than originally planned, so much of the time lost in the design phase should be recovered in fabrication. Electronics and software developments are proceeding well and are not pacing the schedule. Early in FY 2004, a contract was signed with Raytheon Vision Systems for a foundry run of twelve ORION II 2K × 2K InSb detector arrays. Raytheon completed the first three contract milestones in FY 2004, and delivery of the first devices is expected in the first half of FY 2005. Finally, the NOAO Data Products Program and the University of Maryland began working jointly on the data handling system and data reduction pipeline to enable rapid scientific use of the large volume of data expected from NEWFIRM. Due to delays in mechanical and optical design and fabrication, the initial delivery to the Mayall telescope is now expected in the first quarter of FY 2006 (last quarter of calendar year 2005).

SOAR Adaptive Optics Module (SAM) The SOAR 4.2-m telescope on Cerro Pachón will produce very high quality images over a field of view 10 arcminutes square (see http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~atokovin/soar). The SOAR Adaptive Optics Module (SAM) is designed to enhance this image quality by correcting the turbulence in the first 5–10 km of atmosphere, reducing the image size by half during appropriate atmospheric conditions, which are expected to be available about half the time. Following the FY 2003 Conceptual Design Review (CoDR), the team solicited and received further input from the SOAR scientific

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community about the relative priorities of the science goals. The responses stressed the priority of the wider-field laser guide star system. Based on this input, the diffraction-limited mode using natural guide stars was downgraded in importance, leading to a significant simplification of the instrument’s optical design. This simplified design was presented to a half-day “delta-CoDR” in January of 2004. The review panel wholeheartedly endorsed the revised design, applauded the team’s sharpened focus on the most important aspects of the science case, and encouraged the team to proceed full speed towards a Preliminary Design Review. Shortly after the delta-CoDR, the SOAR Board formally approved SAM as one of the two additional instruments NOAO is obligated to supply under the SOAR partnership agreement. The team finished FY 2004 hard at work developing the designs to the level required for a PDR, which is expected to be held early in FY 2005.

SOAR Optical Imager The SOAR Optical Imager, a facility class instrument being built at NOAO South and the commissioning instrument for SOAR, was delivered during FY 2004. The image is located at a bent- Cassegrain port and incorporates its own rotator, atmospheric dispersion corrector, and focal reducer, together with a tip-tilt guider capable of controlling M3 at up to 50 Hz. The focal plane consists of a 4K × 4K mini-mosaic of E2V CCDs, where were successfully integrated with an SDSU (Leach) controller and subsequently optimized. The instrument passed flexure testing and has been integrated with the SOAR telescope and software systems.

MONSOON Detector Controller The MONSOON image acquisition system is the NOAO solution for scalable, multi-channel high-speed image acquisition systems required for next-generation projects. MONSOON is designed to be flexible enough to support CCD, CMOS and IR diode imaging arrays in a wide variety of uses, including science instruments, acquisition and guide cameras, and wavefront sensors. It is under development jointly by staff at both NOAO North in Tucson and NOAO South in La Serena. FY 2004 saw significant advancement for the project. All three major hardware components—the master control board, the clock & bias board, and the data acquisition board (in both IR and CCD prototype versions)—underwent revisions based on lessons learned from optimizing the prototypes built in FY 2003. The first “production” system was delivered to the NOAO IR detector laboratory for use in testing the 2K × 2K ORION InSb arrays. Substantial progress was made on the assembly of the controller for the NEWFIRM focal plane, delivery of which is called for in FY 2005. NOAO took the first steps towards opening the MONSOON design information to the community under an “open source” licensing agreement. Finally, several other institutions expressed interest in using MONSOON controllers within their own projects, and NOAO began collaborations to supply two of them with MONSOON systems to meet their needs.

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4.1 SITE CHARACTERIZATION FOR NEW, LARGE FACILITIES

Most site characterization activities in FY04 took place in the context of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project. Toward the end of the fiscal year, the management of site testing the was transferred, via an agreement between Caltech and AURA, from the Sites Working Group to direct TMT project control. Informal collaborations continued with Cornell, Carnegie, UNAM and INAOE (Mexico), and several other groups. Liaison with ESO on site-testing equipment calibration issues was actively pursued. Site testing continued at the first northern Chile TMT site with the installation of a Multi- Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS), which provides low-resolution turbulence profiles above 0.5 km, and a Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM), which measures the integrated turbulence through the whole atmosphere, to accompany the weather station installed during FY03. This equipment functioned throughout most of FY04 and delivered valuable data on the turbulence characteristics of the atmosphere above the site. Lessons learned from this deployment, particularly concerning equipment reliability and procedures, were applied to the preparation of the equipment to be installed at several sites in Chile, Mexico, and Hawaii in early FY05. A weather station was installed on a second Chilean TMT site, while the station installed in FY01 on Cerro Honar, above ALMA, continued to operate and provide essential long-term data on this very high-altitude (5,400m) site, as did a similar weather station on nearby Cerro Negro. Further work on the sites near ALMA awaits approval of the extension of the Science Park. No measurements were made on Mauna Kea during FY04 due to delays in the permit process; however. by year-end a way forward to allow testing at the TMT north-shield site was identified and equipment should be installed early in FY05. Several months were spent on an extensive “calibration campaign” on Cerro Tololo, with multiple MASS-DIMMS, instrumented towers, weather stations, two Sound Detection and Ranging (SODAR) systems, supplemented by instrumented balloon launches and modeling of the wind flow over the terrain. The major aim of the campaign was to develop robust and accurate techniques for measuring turbulence over the first kilometer, i.e., from the ground to the free atmosphere, which is a critical need for design and operation of TMT Adaptive Optics. As part of this effort, the level of systematic error in the measurement of integrating seeing was pushed to below the 0.05 arc second level. The campaign ran to the end of FY04 and the various data sets are being reduced and reports written. A MASS unit was provided for installation at Dome C, Antarctica, during the 2003–2004 southern summer, and the instrument functioned along with a SODAR for the first part of the subsequent winter. The published results indicate that this site has significantly better seeing than any site yet tested on the planet. Identical MASS-DIMM units, constructed in FY03, are being deployed as part of the TMT campaign, on Cerro Pachón, Cerro Tololo, and by ESO at their observatory sites and in Argentina. A unit is also being deployed at Las Campanas in a collaboration with Carnegie, as part of the site testing for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). Site testing continued on the “LSST site” on Cerro Pachón, and a year of weather station data were analyzed. Installation of a MASS-DIMM between SOAR and Gemini will further help characterize this site, as will data from balloon launches obtained as part of the TMT Tololo calibration campaign, and wind flow modeling. Light pollution models for Cerro Pachón were revised using recently issued population census totals and the lowering in sky illumination produced by the

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bulk changing of lighting fixtures as a consequence of the new Chilean lighting law. A written report concluded that Cerro Pachón was a very dark site, and even under conservative assumptions, the light pollution would remain low for some decades.

4.2 AURA NEW INITIATIVES OFFICE

Based in Tucson, the AURA New Initiatives Office (NIO) is charged with ensuringbroad astronomical community access to a 30-meter-class telescope that will be contemporaneous with ALMA and NGST, by playing a key role in scientific and technical studies leading to the creation of the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope [GSMT].” As a collaboration between Gemini and NOAO, the NIO draws on the expertise of Gemini and NOAO staff in Tucson, Hilo, Hawaii, and La Serena, Chile. In FY 2004, NIO efforts focused on (1) preparation of a proposal to the National Science Foundation requesting federal support in the amount of $39M to advance two ELT concepts—one the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in which AURA is a partner (see below); the other an alternate ELT concept—and (2) active participation in the technical and scientific working groups critical to advancing the TMT concept and initiating its Design and Development Phase. The following highlights additional FY04 accomplishments in specific areas.

Staffing The NIO team, staffed primarily by NOAO engineers and scientists, also includes senior Gemini staff members filling key positions in the NIO structure. This has enabled NIO to leverage Gemini’s telescope building experience to guide the GSMT technical studies. At present, 16 FTEs support NIO efforts.

Web Site The NIO public Web site at http://www.aura-nio.noao.edu provides a tool for communicating ongoing NIO activities, including the results of the many technical studies completed by NIO staff, collaborating institutions, and subcontractors. The Web site, which is updated periodically, also contains copies of presentations and links to the sites of other Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) groups.

Science Working Group (SWG) NIO has created a community-wide GSMT Science Working Group in response to a request from the National Science Foundation. The charge of the SWG is to “advise the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences on a strategy for guiding federal investment in a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT).” Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Director of the Institute for Astronomy at the U. Hawaii is the chair of the GSMT SWG, with NOAO’s Steve Strom as vice-chair. In FY04, the science working group presented the conclusions of its first major report, Frontier Science Enabled by the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope, to the Astronomical Sciences Division of the NSF and to the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics. This report, which recommends vigorous NSF investment in the GSMT technology development program is available at: http://www.nsf-gsmt swg.noao.edu/SWG_Report/ SWG_Report_7.2.03.pdf. During FY04, the GSMT SWG (a) initiated a study to advance qualitative and quantitative understanding of the complementarity between JWST and a 20–30-m ELT; and (b) continued to provide a public forum for discussion of technical progress

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and scientific capabilities of two ongoing US ELT programs: Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The SWG also met jointly with ESO scientists to advance mutual understanding of the scientific capabilities of TMT, GMT and OWL. The SWG has also enjoyed high-level representation from the Japanese astronomical community. Several investigations of the GSMT SWG were supported by NIO staff members, who carried out technical, performance simulation, and project planning studies.

Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) Partnership In May, 2003,Letters of Intent to participate in a joint Design and Development of a 30-m class ELT were signed by AURA, the California Institute of Technology, the U. California, and the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA). The four partners have agreed to refer to the joint effort as the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) project. The Letters of Intent state that each party will solicit funding from appropriate agencies to support the Design and Development phase of the TMT project. The California Institute of Technology and the University of California—which together have formed the California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT) Development Corporation—have received funding in the amount of $35M from the Moore Foundation, while ACURA has been awarded funds from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). AURA-NIO submitted a proposal to the NSF that would provide funding in the amount of $17.5M as its share of the Design and Development Phase for TMT. Participation by AURA in TMT provides a strong voice for the US community in shaping the design of the telescope and ensuring that its capabilities meet community aspirations. The TMT partners agree that all federal investment in TMT will result in access for the US community. The TMT partners have established an Interim Board of Directors, on which Jeremy Mould serves, and a Science Advisory Committee (SAC), on which Steve Strom, Joan Najita, Buell Jannuzi, and Joe Jensen (Gemini) serve as AURA representatives. The SAC is charged with developing and updating a Science Requirements Document. By vote of the TMT Board, SAC membership will be offered to members of the broader astronomical community in order to provide direct input to the cost-performance-risk trades that will be made during the Design and Development Phase. The following NIO staff members served on TMT working groups: ⎯ Adaptive Optics Working Group: Brent Ellerbroek ⎯ Integrated Modeling Working Group: George Angeli (Chair), Konstantinos Vogiatzis ⎯ Instrumentation Working Group: David Sprayberry ⎯ Sites Working Group: Alistair Walker (co-chair); Dave DeYoung

AURA Proposal to NSF for Design and Development Phase In July 2004 AURA submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation which requests $39.4M to provide funding for (1) the public portion ($17.5M) of the funding needed to carry out the Design and Development Phase for a 30-m diameter segmented-mirror, optical/infrared telescope (TMT); (2) funding ($14M) to advance to the Design and Development (D&D) Phase for an alternative 20-30m-class concept, such as the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), to the point where its performance, cost and risk can be assessed; (3) funding for technology development common to both TMT and the alternative concept ($2M); (4) funding ($1.5M) for community groups to carry out conceptual designs for two instruments: one for TMT and one for the alternative concept; (5) $3.5M

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to support an education and public outreach program; and (6) $0.9M to support a Theory Challenge program aimed at engaging theorists in shaping the design of ELTs. The first of these investments will leverage $35M in non-federal funding (donated by the Moore Foundation to the California Institute of Technology and the University of California), plus funds requested of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and will enable AURA to participate fully on behalf of the US community in a partnership to advance TMT to a fully-costed Preliminary Design by the end of 2007. The second major investment will support a design study aimed at developing an alternate technical approach. One such example is the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT): a concept that provides the collecting area of a 21.5m telescope by combining the light from seven 8.4m mirrors. The GMT project, apartnership among the Carnegie Institution, Harvard/Smithsonian, the University of Arizona, the University of Michigan, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is currently in the midst of its Conceptual Design Phase. AURA will ensure strong community participation by both observers and theorists in shaping each of the ELT designs, so that the resulting facility performance fully meets community aspirations. This approach will allow AURA to keep apprised of the progress of both ELT programs in order to maximize transparency of technical studies, and to ensure that the imagination and technical talent in the US community is fully engaged in developing key technologies and instrument concepts. This joint approach has a precedent: the NSF support of mirror technology in the 1980s, technology development that eventually led to the successful development of the Keck, Magellan, MMT, LBT, and Gemini telescopes. In this case, however, all of the NSF funding will result directly in community access to these telescopes. Moreover, the AO and detector technology will benefit the current generation of 6-10m telescopes.

Site Testing AURA has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT) group to collaborate on evaluation of candidate sites for TMT. The list of candidate sites has been narrowed by investigations of logistical issues such as land ownership, as well as by a series of remote sensing studies that have used satellite data to quantify the number of clear nights and the precipitable water vapor for each site. Each prime candidate site has also been modeled using computational fluid dynamics to investigate the boundary layer turbulence over the site under various wind speeds and directions. In-situ site testing equipment has been developed, and multiple copies are being purchased and assembled. This equipment includes weather stations, differential image motion monitors (DIMMs) capable of recording integrated seeing through the upper atmosphere and ground-layer, and multi- aperture scintillation sensors (MASS) capable of mapping turbulence profiles above candidate sites. Weather stations, DIMM and MASS units have been deployed on several candidate sites; deployment will be complete in 2005.

Supported Technical Studies NIO has supported studies at collaborating institutions and sub-contractors within the Gemini partner countries. Studies supported in FY04 include:

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⎯ “Feasibility Study for Large Format Detector Arrays,” a study of detectors to be used for very high order adaptive optics wavefront sensors by E2V Technologies, Inc. ⎯ “Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations of Airflow around the GSMT Primary Mirror,” by Tennessee State University; ⎯ “Feasibility Studies for Large Format Volume Phase Holographic Gratings” by the Centre Spatial de Liège. ⎯ “Development of Methods and Software Tools for Analyzing Integrated Computer Models of Extremely Large Ground Based Telescopes” by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory. ⎯ “Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Prototype Mirror Segments for the Thirty-Meter Telescope” by Coorstek. ⎯ “Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Prototype Mirror Segments for the Thirty-Meter Telescope” by POCO Graphite. ⎯ “Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Prototype Mirror Segments for the Thirty-Meter Telescope” by SSG Precision Optronics. ⎯ “Feasibility Study for Production of Silicon Carbide Prototype Mirror Segments for the Thirty- Meter Telescope” by SSG Precision Optronics.

Collaborative Studies NIO is working in collaboration with a number of technical and astronomical organizations interested in helping develop technology for extremely large telescopes. These collaborations include: • U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). AFOSR has provided funding to port the parallel Gemini adaptive optics simulation code to the 260-Node Huinalu Linux cluster at the Maui High Performance Computing Center. This project will provide AFOSR with a simulation code for modeling the AEOS adaptive optics system, and provide NIO with a platform for more efficient modeling of AO systems for ELTs.

• NSF Laser Development Proposal. Gemini, CfAO, Keck Observatory, and the USAF Starfire Optical Range are continuing their collaboration to develop facility-class sodium guide star laser systems for 8-m to 10-m telescopes. The principal investigator for this collaboration is Brent Ellerbroek of NIO. During the past year, the Starfire team demonstrated a 50-watt laser in the lab, which is now being installed at the Starfire 3.5-meter telescope for on-sky tests. A second laser, developed by Coherent Technologies, Inc. for Gemini North, has already achieved 10 Watts in the lab with more improvement expected before the laser is shipped to Hilo in November. Work on the source selection for a 3rd laser system (slated for the Keck I telescope) is continuing. This effort has also funded three small R & D contracts with Coherent Technologies, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and the University of Adelaide to investigate innovative laser technologies for use in laser guide star systems on future extremely large telescopes.

Other Technical Activities of NIO and Affiliated Gemini and NOAO Staff • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) In addition to modeling wind flow over candidate observatory sites, CFD studies have been performed to quantify wind loading of the 30-m

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telescope in its enclosures: Approach has been validated by comparison to results from wind tunnel tests performed at the California Institute of Technology and the Canadian Institute for Aeronautical Research.

• Integrated Modeling. Integrated modeling simulates the performance of a complex opto- mechanical system, including active compensation of disturbances through dynamic control systems. In support of the TMT Reference Design Study, NIO has developed integrated models of two different structural configurations proposed for TMT, whose performance has been modeled when subjected to dynamic wind disturbances.

TMT Interim Tasks NIO staff contributed to interim technical development activities, in collaboration with staff from the other TMT partner institutions, in the areas of adaptive secondary mirrors, adaptive optics development, silicon carbide segments, and stressed-mirror polishing

FY 03 Technical Papers by NIO Staff and Affiliated Gemini and NOAO Staff Refereed Journals

⎯ B. L. Ellerbroek, “Linear systems modeling of adaptive optics in the spatial frequency domain,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, accepted for publication. Conference Papers: Submitted to SPIE Conference, Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 21 - 26, 2004

⎯ Brent L. Ellerbroek, “Adaptive Optics Without Borders: Performance evaluation in the Infinite Aperture Limit”

⎯ George Z. Angeli, Anna Segurson, Konstantinos Vogiatzis, Doug MacMynowski, Jennifer Dunn, Scott Roberts, Joeleff Fitzsimmons, “Modeling Tools to Estimate the Performance of the Thirty Meter Telescope: An Integrated Approach”

⎯ Konstantinos Vogiatzis, Anna Segurson, George Z. Angeli, “Estimating the Effect of Wind Loading on Extremely Large Telescope Performance Using Computational Fluid Dynamics”

⎯ Anna Segurson, George Z. Angeli, “Computationally Efficient Performance Simulations for a Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Point Design”

4.3 LARGE-APERTURE SYNOPTIC SURVEY TELESCOPE (LSST)

The Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is one of three major new ground-based facilities recommended for construction during the coming decade by the AASC. It has also been recommended as a high priority by two additional NRC decade surveys, one dealing with the interface between physics and astrophysics and the other with solar system exploration. A report by the Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP) highlighted LSST as one of three high priority facilities for characterizing dark energy.

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During FY04, the LSST Corporation, of which NOAO is a founding member, added several new members, including Harvard-Smithsonian, the University of California at Davis, the University of Illinois, and the Kavli Institute at Stanford. The chief officers of the project continued in their positions: John Schaefer from Research Corporation is President, the Director is Tony Tyson of UC Davis, and Don Sweeney from LLNL is project manager. The project scientists and project managers for the three major components of the project are also now in place. Respectively, they are Steve Kahn and Bill Althouse (Stanford/SLAC), for the DOE effort to design the camera; Chuck Claver and Victor Krabbendam (NOAO) for the telescope and associated facilities (Krabbendam is also the deputy project manager for the entire LSST project); and Tim Axelrod (Steward) and Jeff Kantor (LSSTC) for data management. The participants in the collaboration prepared a proposal for the design and development phase of the project and submitted it to NSF. The project was also presented to SAGENAP. The Science Working Group (SWG), chaired by Michael Strauss, has completed its initial report summarizing key science programs that will be enabled by a survey capability with a large product of aperture and field of view (AΩ > 250). This report has been used to establish the quantitative science requirements for the LSST. Four science areas that drive the requirements have been given priority: 1) characterization of dark energy through weak lensing measurements, which requires excellent control of image quality and shape; 2) solar system mapping, which drives the cadence requirements; 3) detection of transients, which requires real-time processing of data and alerts to the community; and 4) galactic structure, which drives the requirements for photometry and astrometry. All of this science can be served by repeated scans of the sky with pairs of 10-15 sec exposures on each field and with a common set of filters. A baseline optical design developed by Lynn Seppala at LLNL and Ming Liang at NOAO has been reviewed and adopted. The baseline provides a 3.5 degree field of view. The tertiary is at the same level as the primary, which offers advantages for mirror handling and mounting the 3 gigapixel camera. Private funding has been used to let the contract for the primary mirror to the University of Arizona; private funding is key to early acquisition of items requiring a long lead time and hence to timely completion of the project. A committee to advise the LSSTC on site selection has narrowed the choices to four: La Palma, San Pedro Martir, Cerro Pachón, and Las Campanas. The goal is to reduce the options to two sites in January, 2005. NOAO will be responsible for supporting community use of the LSST and for defining the required data products. To initiate discussions with the community, a workshop attended by more that 100 people was held in Seattle in September, 2004. NOAO staff have also developed an observing simulator to guide the development of the LSST design and cadence requirements.

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4.4 NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY (NVO)

The creation of a National Virtual Observatory (NVO) was the highest ranked priority initiative of the National Academy of Sciences decadal survey in the “small project” (less than $100 million) category. NOAO has been involved with the development of the NVO from its inception and has continued to play a significant role as this project has moved from the conceptual to the development stages. NOAO was host to the second NVO workshop, and NVO personnel (D. De Young, T. Boroson) were involved in the creation of the successful proposal to the NSF that provided $10 million in funding to establish the framework of the virtual observatory. NOAO is one of the lead participants in this NSF grant. In FY 2004, the contributions from NOAO to the NVO continued at both the management and programmatic levels. D. De Young continued as a member of the NVO Executive Committee and as the Project Scientist of the NSF/ITR NVO initiative. De Young is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) and a member of the IVOA Scientific Working Group. A major effort for the NVO project in FY 2004 has been the creation of a suite of software tools and capabilities to be released at the January 2005 AAS meeting. This will be a major milestone in the U.S. NVO project, since it marks the departure from the proof of concept and demonstration phase into the phase of producing deliverables to the U.S. astronomy community. In order to ensure both the relevance and the efficacy of these tools and capabilities, the formation of an NVO Science Steering Committee (SSC) was undertaken in the summer of 2004. This committee, whose formation was recommended in the most recent report of the NVO Advisory Committee, is chaired by D. De Young. The inaugural meeting of the SSC was held during the NVO Team Meeting in Aspen, Colorado in July of 2004, and its recommendations and priorities were essential in determining the suite of capabilities to be released in January 2005. De Young continues to act as scientific liaison to the technical groups that are developing these tools for the U.S. community. De Young also attended the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) inter-operability meeting in Boston in the spring of 2004, where critical path decisions were made about the evolution of theory in the VO efforts worldwide. Finally, a successful NVO Summer School was held in September 2004 at the Aspen Center for Physics. In addition to D. De Young, this event was attended by Chris Miller from NOAO/CTIO. Miller’s project at the summer school was one of two that were awarded a prize for excellence at the close of the summer school. In addition to these activities, NOAO is continuing to ensure that large-scale new projects in which it is engaged, such as Pan-Starrs and LSST, will be compliant with NVO standards and compatible with NVO protocols when these projects become mature. The NOAO is also well along in developing its data archive and pipeline systems for ground-based optical/IR data that will provide an accessible interface with, and portal to, the NVO. A more complete description of these efforts is given in the Data Products Program section of this report.

4.5 TELESCOPE SYSTEM INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (TSIP)

The Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) had its third annual cycle in FY 2004. TSIP has the goal of strengthening the system of public and private optical/IR facilities by funding the development of facility instruments for large private telescopes and thereby broadening community

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access to these telescopes. The program was established in FY 2002 as a $4M per year program administered and coordinated by NOAO for NSF. In each year, an attempt has been made to broaden the program by modifying the solicitation in a way that would encourage proposals from smaller telescopes, but so far, without result. The solicitation for the FY 2004 cycle was issued in October 2003, and two Letters of Intent to propose were received in December 2003. Two proposals were received by the deadline at the end of February 2004, though one was subsequently withdrawn before the review. The single remaining proposal, from Ohio State University to build the MODS-2 instrument for the Large Binocular Telescope(LBT), requested $2.6M. A review panel, chaired by Klaus Hodapp (University of Hawaii) was assembled which included individuals with appropriate instrumental and scientific expertise. This panel reviewed the Ohio State proposal in April 2003. T. Boroson and K. Hodapp visited NSF/AST in late April to present the panel recommendations. The recommendation of the panel, approved by the NSF, was to fund the MODS-2 instrument. This sub-award will provide 25 nights of time on the completed LBT starting in 2007. The sub-award was negotiated and signed by the end of September, 2004. In August, 2004, NOAO received an unsolicited proposal from the California Association for Research in Astronomy (CARA) to the TSIP program. This proposal requested $307K to continue the work previously funded as KIRMOS. That instrument had been discontinued after its preliminary design review, and the new effort would develop a new concept in anticipation of a TSIP proposal for the FY 2005 cycle. An ad hoc panel was assembled to review the proposal. The panel recommended funding, and, with approval from the NSF, the KIRMOS sub-award was amended. The community received three additional nights on the Keck telescopes from this sub-award. During FY 2004, T. Boroson and M. Trueblood participated in management oversight activities for the instrumentation projects funded in previous TSIP cycles. These activities included monthly reports (both written and via teleconferences) from the projects KIRMOS, OSIRIS, and MMIRS. In addition, Boroson and Trueblood attended the KIRMOS and MMIRS preliminary design reviews. In May 2004, the second workshop on the ground-based O/IR system was held in Alexandria, VA. One of the principal goals of this workshop was to review the status of TSIP and to update the guidelines and instrument priorities. The recommendations include further efforts to broaden the program, by allowing proposals to improve instruments or operations, and further encouraging proposals from smaller telescopes. Data reduction pipelines and archives were also identified as desirable add-ons to facility instruments. The complete report of the workshop is available at http://www.noao.edu/meetings/system2/system2_report.pdf.

4.6 ADAPTIVE OPTICS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Astronomy stands poised for a rapid advance in telescope performance, surpassing by a large margin the formerly fundamental limits set by atmospheric seeing. The key enabling technology is adaptive optics-the high-speed correction of real-world wavefront and mechanical disturbances, allowing telescopes to approach the ideal image quality of textbook and laboratory. The past decade has seen a series of remarkable successes, with astronomers achieving such near-ideal performance viewing relatively bright objects with 1.5-m to 10-m telescopes. However, the challenges to

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successful implementation of AO on an ELT are formidable since obtaining comparable Strehl ratios on larger telescopes requires an increase in the complexity of key systems elements that scales as D4. In order to provide guidance to NSF regarding investments needed to advance adaptive optics in the U.S., and in response to recommendations of the McKee-Taylor decadal survey, the Center for Adaptive Optics (CfAO) and NOAO convened a broad-based group of scientists and engineers to develop an adaptive optics road map. The road map, published in mid-2000, was endorsed by ACCORD and the CAA. Based on the recommendations of these groups, the NSF provided funds ($3M) in FY 2004 to initiate an Adaptive Optics Development Program (AODP). NSF also tasked NOAO with the responsibility of administering, coordinating, and providing oversight to the new program, including developing processes for soliciting and evaluating proposals and updating the AO road map. The AODP released its first announcement of opportunity in 2003. Seventeen proposals from university and private sector groups requested more than $10M to support systems and component developments. A review panel of scientists and engineers from the university and private sector recommended funding of six proposals in the areas of laser beacon technology, detectors, deformable mirrors, and algorithms. The recommended awards total $2.56M in 2004. Five of the programs are multi-year programs, and the total run-out cost, if all programs are continued to planned completion, will be $7.7M. In April 2004, the AODP convened a community-based AO Steering Committee, and hosted a one-day open workshop on AO technology, coordinated with an update of the AO road map (See http://www.noao.edu/system/aodp/roadmap.html). The Steering Committee strongly reaffirmed support for the AO road map process and the initial AO road map as a sound description of decadal needs, but noted the development of important new systems concepts, significant technical progress, and new opportunities for collaboration. In light of these developments, the Road Map Update reflects the importance of understanding the feasibility of key new systems concepts, and thus recommended altering the balance between component development and system concept verification. A solicitation for proposals was issued in late spring 2004 (http://www.noao.edu/system/aodp/04aodpao.pdf), resulting in 22 Letters of Intent for programs with a total projected funding request of $26M, and an over-subscription in 2005 of approximately 10.

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5.1 EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH (EO)

NOAO’s Educational Outreach group is responsible for managing and developing the national observatory’s efforts in formal and informal science education. NOAO EO programs train teachers and astronomers to communicate scientific research principles and the latest discoveries in astronomy to pre-college students. The EO group also supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, and helps facilitate graduate and post-graduate opportunities at KPNO and CTIO. FY 2004 highlights in educational outreach included expanded opportunities for TRLBSE teachers via access to a variety of observing time on Kitt Peak and a new partnership with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which will enable twelve past TLRBSE graduates to observe with Spitzer in FY 2005. The first two kits designed and assembled by NOAO under a $1.7 million NSF informal science grant for a new project called Hands-On Optics were produced and distributed, after significant field testing.

Teacher Leaders in Research-Based Science Education The NOAO Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE) was funded through the NOAO budget in FY 2004, as mandated by the NSF Education and Human Resources (EHR)-funded grant that established the program. TLRBSE once again reached new levels of excellence in preparing its teacher-researchers, and began to expand its reach in several interesting venues. An all-electronic recruiting campaign drew nearly 120 qualified applicants, with the 22 selected teachers hailing from 14 states spanning the country from Maine to Hawaii, including five states new to the TLRBSE program. Preparations for the 2004 TLRBSE distance learning course centered on “streamlining” of the course with fewer formal assignments, more interaction among the participants, and more group summary interactions between participants and the course instructors. The annual gathering of TLRBSE staff and participants at the 2004 National Science Teachers Association meeting in Atlanta was a great success. Sixty-two people attended the meeting, including 17 members of the 2003 teacher cadre and their learning colleagues (mentees). The highlight of the TLRBSE group meeting was the presentation of the numerous accounts of successful mentor-mentee relationships. TLRBSE staff members gave seven well-attended workshops and short courses at the NSTA meeting. The 2004 TLRBSE Summer Workshop was held from June 20-July 2. The 20 graduates of the Distance Learning course spent two days in Tucson learning about the four research projects, basic astronomical imaging, and other preparations necessary for their observing time on Kitt Peak. The next five days were spent on Kitt Peak making observations, reducing data, and working on their research presentations. As in 2003, the success of the TLRBSE team in getting time before the nominal start of the monsoon season resulted in five days and nights where data could be taken each day. Upon their return to Tucson, the teachers presented their projects. The presentations were the best yet seen in the TLRBSE program. A new element of the TLRBSE program—school-year observing—began during the fall of 2003. The program brings former RBSE and TLRBSE teachers and (for the first time) their students to Kitt Peak to pursue their own original observation programs at the telescopes the teachers learned

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to use during their RBSE/TLRBSE experiences. The objectives of the program are to increase science learning and experiences for students and to help recharge the community of RBSE/TLRBSE teachers through fresh chances to observe with the Coudé Feed, the 0.9-meter telescope, the McMath-Pierce solar telescope, and remote-controlled telescopes in New Mexico. The new program generated a lot of attention among the RBSE/TLRBSE teachers, attracting 21 proposals that resulted in six observing runs on the Coudé Feed, two runs on the McMath-Pierce, and one run on the 0.9-meter. One of the Coudé Feed runs contributed data to an award-winning student paper at the INTEL International Science Fair. Seven classroom observational projects were carried out using the remote telescopes.

Project ASTRO-Tucson The eighth training workshop for Project ASTRO-Tucson (led by Connie Walker) occurred on October 3-4, 2003, at the University of Arizona, with 33 teachers and 27 astronomer partners. Highlights of the workshop included a talk on the craters of the Moon by noted planetary scientist Charles Wood, a talk on student misconceptions in astronomy by science education specialist Ed Prather, and an activity on “kinesthetic astronomy” by Mike Zawaski of the Space Science Institute in Boulder. On February 28, the skies cleared just in time for what became a memorable evening at Jarnac Observatory, as NOAO PAEO staff teamed with David and Wendee Levy to offer their third joint Project ASTRO and Family ASTRO-Tucson spring workshop and star party. In all, more than 360 teachers and astronomers have been trained to date in the best methods to bring hands-on, astronomy-oriented activities into science classrooms. More than 6,400 students were directly impacted by ASTRO classroom visits this past year, with well over 150 active partnerships. The NOAO Family ASTRO effort completed its second year with numerous successful workshops and events with students and parents from the Indian Oasis/Baboquivari Unified School District of the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, the Hispanic community associated with the Sunnyside Unified School District, and families associated with the Sahuaro Girl Scout Council. Eighteen Family ASTRO event leaders trained between October 2003 and January 2004, for example, held seven events and reached 73 families. The NOAO ASTRO-Chile effort continues to expand its bilingual outreach program in astronomy education with great enthusiasm at NOAO North and South. Spanish-speaking science teachers from Tucson middle schools and high schools attend regular video conferences with Chilean

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teachers from various grades from the region surrounding La Serena, assisted by NOAO scientists and outreach personnel from both North and South. At the fifth ASTRO-Chile video workshop, held November 25, 2003, the Tucson teachers reported on a light pollution study performed by students all over the city. In turn, the Chilean teachers reported on a study of light pollution carried out regionally by their students. Long-term plans are to link the two groups with international light pollution education efforts in Austria and Greece. The ASTRO-Chile teams in Tucson and La Serena held a sixth videoconference on April 6 during which bilingual middle school and high school teachers in Arizona presented results from light pollution studies their students had obtained by observing the constellation Orion. Lively conversations followed, comparing the results to prior studies done toward the same constellation by Chilean students. The ASTRO-Chile effort was highlighted in an exhibit poster distributed at the “US and Chile: Partners In Astronomy” event hosted by the AAS and the Embassy of Chile on September 29, 2004, in Washington, DC, on Capitol Hill and at the Carnegie Institution. The year ended with the ninth annual training workshop for ASTRO-Tucson on September 17-18, held again at the University of Arizona. It featured 70 registrants (with 66 attendees), including 33 teachers and 37 astronomer-partners, making it the largest-ever Tucson workshop and perhaps the largest in the history of the national ASTRO program.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) KPNO continued its long-standing participation in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, preparing future generations of professionals who will sustain US preeminence in astronomy and contribute to a scientifically literate nation, led by NOAO scientist Ken Mighell. Over the FY04 summer, the six undergraduate students in the KPNO REU program worked closely with NOAO Tucson staff for a 10-12 week period, developing skills as scientific researchers and furthering their professional development. CTIO hosted six U.S. REU students and two Chilean undergraduates under the similar Prácticas de Investigación en Astronomía (PIA) program. (Five more REU students worked with staff of the National Solar Observatory, with direct logistical support from PAEO staff.)

Astronomy Education Review (AER) The Astronomy Education Review (AER), a refereed online journal (http://aer.noao.edu/ ), is now in its third year of operation. The goal of the journal, which is edited by S. Wolff and Andrew Fraknoi (Foothills Community College), is to disseminate research about astronomy and space science education, along with innovative ideas for classroom use, resource lists, reviews, and commentary. By every metric, the journal has been extremely successful. In FY04, it continued to receive a steady stream of papers from well known leaders in the field of astronomy and space science education, from undergraduates and graduate students who are conducting research, and also from instructors with innovative ideas who are working in a variety of institutional settings. We are beginning to receive papers from outside the U.S. The papers are being read, as indicated by the statistics for the Web site. During the school year, the journal has received as many as 200,000 hits in a month, and we estimate that 100 papers are downloaded each day. The online articles cover a wide range of topics, from elementary to college-level education, including the teaching of students with disabilities, and

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therefore, as we hoped, the journal is serving a diverse audience. New features added this year include an invitation to publish extended abstracts of theses; an excerpt from a book; and the publication of papers from a meeting on teaching college level astronomy entitled, “Cosmos in the Classroom.”

Other Educational Outreach Highlights The NOAO Hands-On Optics (HOO) team completed a number of major milestones in FY04 in the development and alpha testing of optics activities developed for after-school and science center programs. Primary test sites for the first three modules have been at Wakefield Middle School and the Jewish Community Center. Further testing was conducted at a three-day workshop in July at the University of Southern California. This workshop trained 28 MESA teachers and optics industry resource agents from California and Washington on prototype HOO activities. HOO is a collaborative program supported by the NSF’s informal science education program to excite underrepresented middle-school-age students about science by actively engaging them in optics activities; NOAO is teamed with the Optical Society of America, SPIE, and MESA of California in the project. NOAO has primary responsibility for module and kit development, and for professional development of educators and optics volunteers. Educational outreach to the Tohono O'odham nation was improved significantly with the initiation of an astronomy class at Tohono O'odham Community College in Sells, taught by Katy Garmany, and supported by funds from a small NSF-AST division grant. Students received four credits for this course via Pima Community College, both spring and fall. Enrollment is still small (4 to 6 students), but is expected to grow. Garmany's presence in Sells has opened other avenues for outreach to the Nation: she has talked to high school classes, brought speakers from NOAO to the annual career fair, and facilitated group visits to the Nightly Observing Program at Kitt Peak. In addition, she has developed a program with the Ha:san School, a charter school in Tucson for Native American students. NOAO Manager of Science Education Stephen Pompea was a Co-PI on a successful proposal to NSF’s Instructional Materials Development titled “Investigating Astronomy.” TERC and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific are partners on this project to design the first new high school curriculum in astronomy in 20 years. “Investigating Astronomy” will feature a set of instructional materials to be developed for high school students taking a yearlong or semester astronomy course, or studying astronomy in an Earth science or general science course. Teacher guides, a teacher professional development Web site, and family/community materials in both English and Spanish accompany the six student modules. NOAO will have responsibility for creating challenges where students analyze current astronomical data using powerful data analysis and visualization tools. NOAO educational outreach staff organized two oral sessions and a poster session at the December 2003 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and delivered one poster and three papers, including one invited paper. NOAO Manager of Science Education S. Pompea served on the steering committee for the International Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP), held in Tucson in October 2003. The NOAO education group gave four papers, including one invited paper, at this meeting.

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PAEO staff hosted a booth at the Math, Science, and Technology Fun Fest at the Tucson Convention Center during the mornings of March 17-19. The lively event featured about 70 exhibits and more than 7,400 student attendees. EO staff were active participants in a number of other local and national educational projects, including NSF IPSE “Revealing the Invisible Universe: From Nanoscopes to Telescopes” with Flandrau Science Center; GK-12 Graduate Teaching Fellows: “Collaboration to Advance Teaching Technology and Science (CATTS)”; the Southern Arizona GEMS Center, and Science and Math Education Center Teacher Workshops, both joint with the University of Arizona. The CATTS program, with Pompea as Co-I, was re-funded as a Track 2 GK-12 program for 5 years, beginning January 2004 and NOAO CATTS Fellows have been active in outreach efforts in Tucson using GEMS materials.

5.2 PUBLIC OUTREACH

NOAO’s Public Outreach group manages all activities at the Kitt Peak Visitor Center, including the center’s educational exhibits and retail operations, three daily tours of Kitt Peak observatories, the Kitt Peak docent program, and the popular fee-based nighttime observing experiences for both the general public and advanced amateurs.

Kitt Peak Visitor Center The staff of the Visitor Center laid important groundwork for future expansion of the facility Public Affairs & Educational Outreach through a continuing series of improvements and Kitt Peak Visitor Center upgrades. Work in FY 2004 including a new ceiling FY04 Statistics and redesigned entryway (including a striking new Guided public tours 16,186 tile mosaic near the main doorway), new audiovisual equipment in the theater area, upgrades School Groups K-12 662 to computer hardware, plus the addition of a Special tours 142 meteorite display, an infrared camera exhibit, more botanical signs on the mountain walking tour, and a Nightly Observing Program* 6,895 more attractive exhibit on the Tohono O’odham. Advance Observing Program 218 In cooperation with a local TV station, new public service announcements on activities available General tourists (est.) 38,000 at Kitt Peak were developed and a program-length TOTAL (est.) 62,103 informational DVD on the history of Kitt Peak was produced; this DVD will go on sale in FY 2005. *56 program nights lost to weather Three new posters of colorful Kitt Peak telescope imagery were designed and printed for sale. With approval from the NSF, the Visitor Center began charging a nominal fee ($2 adults, $1 children) for its thrice-daily telescope tours; the Visitor Center building and self-guided tours continue to be offered free of charge. Several part-time staff members were added or had their hours expanded to better handle both the influx daytime mountain guests and the busy pace of reservations for the Nightly Observing Program.

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The expansion and upgrade of the training curriculum for Kitt Peak docents continued in FY 2004, along with development of specific long-range goals for the department, and ongoing professional networking on the Southern Arizona tourist community through various invited talks by the manager of Public Outreach (Richard Fedele).

Other Public Outreach NOAO staff conducted numerous special tours and talks for schools, university groups, film and video production companies, and media reporters in FY 2004, including the editor-in-chief of Discover magazine, a children’s TV show on astronomy by Magic Carpet Productions, senior engineers at Raytheon Corp. of Tucson, a community education class conducted by Jeff Hester at Arizona State University, more than100 students from Yavapai Elementary School in Phoenix, a team of Mongolian astronomers hosted by the University of Arizona’s Spacewatch project and groups associated with the United States Geological Survey and the Smithsonian Institution. NOAO public outreach and educational outreach staff worked with two graduate students from Steward Observatory to conduct two one-week long astronomy camps from June 7-18 for nearly three dozen students, in cooperation with the Arizona Youth University. Through various community contacts, PAEO public outreach staff worked with the Tucson Airport Authority to secure a 3-foot by 8-foot banner space at no charge in the luggage claim area of the airport. This banner advertises Kitt Peak and its public programs to hundreds of arriving passengers per day.

Coordination with the External Community NOAO was a major participant in an NSF-sponsored public symposium in early October 2003 in Washington, DC, on the future of ground-based astronomy, including exhibit handouts on the LSST and TMT projects, and a display of a colorful new NOAO Web site on Spanish language materials for astronomy education. D. Isbell represented NOAO at the May 2004 meeting of the International Gemini Observatory outreach working group in Victoria, Canada, and PAEO staff continued to contribute strongly to the Southwestern Consortium of Observatories for Public Education (SCOPE), with continued attendance at its meetings and contribution of a science story to the back of the latest, VERITAS-themed poster.

5.3 MEDIA AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

NOAO’s media and public information group coordinates news releases, media events and visits, fact sheets, posters, the NOAO Newsletter, and other visual products that explain NOAO’s latest research and organizational activities. It also coordinates NOAO’s public Web presence and external use of NOAO imagery, and serves as the primary response point for public inquiries and general e-mails.

Press Releases and Image Releases NOAO issued nine formal press releases in FY04, and worked extremely closely with the Gemini Observatory and the Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics on two others (Table 1). The NOAO

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Public Information Officer (Douglas Isbell) also assisted with the development and distribution of press releases by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PROMPT telescopes), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M82 WIYN+HST image), NASA Goddard (galaxy string in the early universe), the Space Telescope Science Institute (galaxy ram-pressure stripping) and the Spitzer Science Center/JPL (early results from GOODS).

TABLE 1 NOAO Press Releases Issued in FY 2004 and Subsequent Media Coverage

PR No. Date Title Media Coverage

03-08 10/6/03 The Pelican Nebula Ionization Front [Released for NSF public symposium on astronomy]

03-09 11/12/03 Pleiades in Rare Interstellar Three-Body Space.com, Astronomy.com, Collision SpaceflightNow.com, UniverseToday.com

03-10 11/14/03 Walker Named Director of Cerro Tololo Inter- American Observatory 04-01 1/05/04 Guide to the Best Spanish Language Astronomy [Publicized at the January 2004 AAS Education Materials Debuts at NOAO Web Site meeting and the NOAO exhibit booth]

Gemini 1/5/04 Faintest Spectra Ever Raise Glaring Question: Associated Press, USA TODAY, New 2004-1 Why do Galaxies in the Young Universe Appear York Times, The Australian, Honolulu so Mature? Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Space.com, Sky&Telescope.com, AIP Physics News Bulletin

04-02 1/08/04 Majority of Planetary Nebulae May Arise from Sky&Telescope.com, Astronomy.com, Binary Systems UniverseToday.com

04-03 1/222/04 Fitful Young Star Sputters to Maturity in the Dallas Morning News, Chinese Rosette Nebula Central Television, cover of the Astronomical League magazine, Ciels & Espace magazine, Astronomy.com

04-04 5/25/04 Close-up Image of Comet NEAT From Kitt Peak NBC-TV KVOA-Channel 4 Tucson, Observatory SpaceRef.com, SpaceflightNow.com

04-05 6/02/04 Distant Young Galaxy Hints at Gradual End to Rocky Mountain News, Dallas the Dark Ages Morning News, Knight-Ridder Wire Service story published nationwide, Sky&Telescope.com

04-06 6/03/04 Galaxy Cleaned Out by Encounter with Hot Space.com, UniverseToday.com Cluster Gas

A & A 9/16/04 Foreseeing the Sun’s Fate: Astronomical Space.com (reprinted at Yahoo.com, 20041098 Interferometry Reveals the Close Environment of MSNBC.com, and USATODAY.com), Mira Stars NewScientist.com, Physics.org, Astronomy.com, and various media outlets in France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Chile, Venezuela, etc.

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Other media highlights of the year included Kitt Peak National Observatory being featured as a central part of the text and pictures supporting in a Sunday, January 25, New York Times Travel Section article on the best attractions to see in Tucson and Southern Arizona; a front page feature story May 23 in the Arizona Daily Star on the Kitt Peak Nightly Observing program; and live broadcasts by KOLD Tucson CBS-TV by weathercast Chuck George for the station’s 5, 6 and 10 p.m. broadcasts on March 5. In addition, the April 17 dedication of the SOAR telescope on Cerro Pachón (supported by an NOAO-led public affairs working group and onsite support during dedication day) was reported on page 1 of the El Mercurio and El Día newspapers in Chile, and by several Chilean TV stations. A Reuters news wire service story on the dedication went around the world, and numerous local US media outlets in North Carolina and Michigan covered the story, with related Associated Press wire stories reaching USA TODAY, CNN.com, Yahoo.com and other national venues.

Special Information Products Public Affairs produced a variety of special posters, brochures and handouts in FY04, including products related to SOAR (in English and Spanish), the LSST, TMT/GSMT, NGSC, the MCELS survey and the Dark Energy Camera. A new poster series of images from the WIYN telescope was created for sale at the Kitt Peak Visitor Center.

Web-Based Outreach NOAO continued to present a timely and lively public “face” on the Internet during FY 2004, changing the featured image on the main home page 29 times during the year, and adding more than 120 images to the popular NOAO Image Gallery. New Web sites were created for best practices in Native American outreach, the second community workshop on the ground-based O/IR system, the Long-Range Planning Committee, and the “Observing Dark Energy” science workshop. The Web pages for the Nightly Observing Program, Advanced Observing Program, and general outreach programs received major redesigns. NOAO Web pages had 1.26 million unique visitors in from November 2003 through October 2004, resulting in 11.9 million page views and more than 50 million hits. The NOAO Image Gallery received 1.58 million hits. Images from NOAO telescopes were highlighted 19 times on the popular “Astronomy Picture of the Day” Web page. NOAO images also were featured 15 times on the Space.com “Image of the Day,” more than double last year’s count. PAEO Web Designer Mark Newhouse gave three presentations at Digital Design World 2004 conference in San Francisco, and wrote another article for Digital Web magazine, “CSS 101 – Typography and White Space.”

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Image and Information Requests More than 1,240 individual requests to use NOAO images for commercial and non-commercial applications were reviewed and processed in FY 2004, including approved requests for use in calendars, amateur astronomy software packages, children’s educational magazines, textbooks, and popular books. NOAO sent more than 8,200 mailings and individual responses to requests for information on astronomy and the public programs of NOAO, including telephone calls, e-mails, and walk-ins.

5.4 EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH AT NOAO SOUTH

REU Site Program CTIO continued its summer student programs, the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program and the Práctica de Investigación en Astronomía (PIA), which is funded via CTIO operations. Six of the seven students in the 2003 program presented the results of their research as poster papers at the January 2004 American Astronomical Society meeting. The eight students of the 2004 program were present at CTIO from January through March, during which time they were introduced to observing techniques on the 0.9-m telescope and pursued individual research projects under the guidance of staff astronomers; they are scheduled to attend the January 2005 AAS meeting to present their research results. One member of the 2002 student group returned to CTIO in 2004 after completing his undergraduate degree at the U. Católica in Santiago. He was hired by a staff astronomer to help in data reduction. Other students were also present from time to time, as scientific and engineering staff found the opportunity to mentor them on an individual basis in connection with current projects. See: http://www.ctio.noao.edu/REU/reu.html for more details on the REU program.

Support of Local K–12 Science Education CTIO continues to be involved in local K–12 science education in Chile’s fourth region (where Cerro Pachón and Cerro Tololo are located) as part of a collaboration with Gemini, AURA, the U. La Serena, and other local groups, e.g., RedLaSer (http://www.ctio.noao.edu/AURA/redlaser), through Chile’s Explora-Conicyt project and the “Planetario Móvil” (Mobile Planetarium) program. (The local teacher-training program “Jornadas de Capacitacion Docente” is in its sixth year. A special international bilingual astrophysics videoconference, “A Tale of Two Deserts,” was held in February between 9–12-grade earth-science school teachers assembled at the Arizona State University in Phoenix, the Universidad Plutense de Madrid, and at NOAO-South in La Serena, discussing the geological effects of wind and of water (including its behavior near the triple point) under familiar and less familiar conditions in deserts—as revealed by studies near Phoenix and up-to-the-minute data from the Mars Global Surveyor and 2001 Mars Odyssey. This excellent training seminar was well attended at all three sites, even though it was held in the middle of the Chilean school vacation and at midnight in Madrid.

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ASTRO-Chile As part of a developing effort to link the Chile-based education outreach activity into an international context, CTIO has begun a new collaboration with NOAO North designed to create a dialogue among teachers interested in expanding astronomy education. To this end, the collaboration has supported a series of video-linked workshops, dubbed “Astro-Chile,” between Spanish-speaking educators in Tucson and La Serena who have already been involved with either Project Astro (Tucson) or REDLASER (Chile). (One workshop also included visiting teachers from Concepción and Talca.) The project has had three successful workshops involving discussions of teaching methods, creation of some Spanish-language materials, and examples of hands-on activities that can be done with students.

Video Lectures to U.S. Teachers In April and May of 2002, two video lectures were given from the Blanco 4-m telescope control room in Chile over video connections facilitated by NSF’s Internet II connection to Chile. These talks featured a view of the 4-m telescope, information about the Deep Lens Survey project being done with the telescope, and how data from the survey are being used through “Hands-on-Universe” (http://hou.lbl.gov/) to bring scientific discovery to the classroom. The talks were presented to teacher participants in California at a Hands-on-Universe introductory workshop and to teachers participating in “The Collaboratory,” a Northwestern University program that helps Illinois K–12 teachers and students integrate network technologies into their curriculum. A Web cast of the lecture is available from the LBLL Web page at http://www-library.lbl.gov/teid/tmVideo/aboutus/VideoDefault.htm

Observatory Tours Weekly tours of the telescopes on Cerro Tololo continue to be very popular. To cope with the enormous demand, CTIO has been supporting a move towards developing a concept of self-financing “astro-tourism” for the community, which started with the founding of the Mamalluca Municipal Observatory, now independently established as the leading amateur observatory in South America. CTIO staff are working with Euro-Chile and local municipalities to seek additional local funding for an astronomical tourist circuit—part of a local government effort to promote eco-tourism in the area. Over 14,000 people from outside Chile visited Mamalluca Observatory last year; they all had to sleep and eat in the area, producing a significant impact on the local economy (as was noted recently in a speech by Chile’s Minister of Finance.

Ongoing Efforts to Control Light Pollution Following the worrying delays and setbacks reported last year, a more intense effort by NOAO staff in FY04 has led to significant progress in controlling light pollution in Chile’s astronomically- sensitive IInd, IIIrd and IVth Regions (see, e.g. http://www.ctio.noao.edu/light_pollution/english/index. html). Under the leadership of its Director, Pedro Sanhueza, the Office for the Protection of the Skies of Northern Chile (OPCC, http://www.opcc.cl ) has already obtained over 30% compliance with Chile’s lighting regulations (Decreto Supremo 686/98, the “Norma Luminica”) in these three regions; the “Norma” allows for a

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“grace period” which ends at the end of September 2005. Full compliance will add many more years of useful life to all the actual and potential astronomical sites in these regions. La Serena has now succeeded in letting a large contract leading to the steady replacement of all 13,000 non-compliant light fixtures (luminaires) in La Serena’s street-lighting system. A dramatic change in the night-time view of the lights of La Serena from the entrance to the AURA recinto (which overlooks the town) has at last begun. This is one of the largest capital investments ever made by the municipality in a single year. A commitment to quality lighting is evident. The mayor of Coquimbo has still to announce his plan for bringing the community into compliance with the “norma luminica.” Nevertheless, new lighting projects are generally incorporating compliant lighting. A new project to illuminate palm trees along the main highway to La Serena with 600 upward-pointing lights was successfully halted, just days before switch on, thanks to strong representation by the OPCC. The smaller towns of Andacollo and Vicuña now have their own municipal observatories dedicated primarily to astro-tourism and educational outreach. Andacollo’s “Collowara” observatory was opened earlier this year by President Ricardo Lagos. Among the speeches was one by the Minister of Finance recognizing the successful economic model of Vicuña, which is based on that of the highly-successful Mamalluca Observatory. These significant local investments mean that both of the communities closest to Cerro Pachón and Cerro Tololo now have a strong economic self-interest in minimizing light pollution.

39 6 COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORK SERVICES

6.1 TUCSON

The downtown Tucson computing facilities continue to evolve as older systems are replaced by newer systems that are more cost-effective and easier to maintain. In particular, three new rack- mounted systems were installed to replace older tower systems and to provide space for more equipment racks. The infrastructure in the Tucson computer lab has continued to be upgraded to meet the demands of computer installations from NSO/GONG, LSST and NOAO/DPP. During FY2004, four equipment racks were installed in the computer lab. Several older disk drives on various CIS systems failed during the year and were replaced by larger, more reliable disks. The visitor support Linux system, Crux, now supports a variety of tape drives. Similarly, older laser printers were replaced by newer, more capable ones. The proliferation of desktop workstations, PCs, and X-terminals to scientists’ and engineers’ offices has slowed as saturation is approached; however, many desktop systems were upgraded to faster systems over the course of the year. The network infrastructure in the downtown Tucson office building continued to be upgraded during FY 2004 to increase performance and reliability. Several additional Ethernet switches were installed or upgraded to connect more systems to the backbone network and to provide “islands” of Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for particular projects. Several additional wireless access points were added to the network to ease the burden on itinerant astronomers. Efforts to improve the security and robustness of our network continued in FY 2004. Incoming FTP into NOAO-Tucson has been banned (except for anonymous FTP access to archives) to prevent transmission of plain-text passwords. Secure file transfer protocols layered upon SSH now must be used. On the email front, we are currently blocking about 500 virus messages per day (up 25% from FY2003) and 3300 Spam messages per day (up 65% from FY2003); Spam and virus messages constitute 30% of our incoming email.

6.2 KITT PEAK

A major upgrade was performed at the 4-meter. A new data reduction machine “nutmeg,” running RedHat Linux 9 was installed to replace the Solaris machine "pecan". The previously installed Linux system "tan" became the main observing interface and replaced the SunOS systems "khaki" and "rush" in the control room. These SunOS systems remain in use but have been relegated to the computer room. On "tan", VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is used to display the data acquisition windows from the SunOS systems. In FY 2004 we added DVD writable drives to systems at the 4-meter, WIYN, and 2.1-meter. New, larger disks were added to some systems to replace aging drives and provide online bootable backups. On several Linux systems the version of RedHat Linux was upgraded. At WIYN, the Hydra Upgrade Project included replacing the Hydra control computer. The SunOS system “oatmeal” was replaced by a Linux system. Also at WIYN, the data acquisition system “navajo” for WTTM was moved to the computer room. A third monitor was added to the Linux system "sand", which now controls both MINIMO and WTTM via VNC and remote windows.

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After a failure of the Arcon system for the Bench Spectrograph, a 2901 Controller and a SunOS system, “white,” with ICE was installed as a temporary measure. That system may be replaced by a MONSOON controller in FY 2005.

6.3 NOAO SOUTH – LA SERENA

The CISS group is organized to provide services with individuals specializing in specific areas of expertise with a back-up person to act in his/her absence. The outcome of hiring one additional person into the group at the beginning of last year is that we now provide support for software applications such as IRAF, IDL, and Web services. In addition, we have developed a GNATS incident reporting system to log and flag faults. This system is also being used to log major installations and events, providing input to a database to recall and cross reference events of interest. New network monitoring tools have been produced to give CTIO users the ability to make simple diagnostic tests and show network status bandwidth usage to various venues. CISS accounting changes were made to the extent that we are responsible for the purchase and maintenance of Central computer and network infrastructure equipment. This signifies that all other divisions (e.g., ETS, scientific staff, SOAR) have budgets for their own initial computer equipment. Several Sun machines have been retired both from user workstations and central servers. In fact, we only have one Sun (shortly to be retired) as a user workstation and two Suns as active central servers ctios4 and ctios2, which act as archive and dns machines. New scientific personnel have generally purchased the latest ASL technology workstation, with older machines being put into use as visitor workstations and/or workstations for students. Most scientist workstations now have a minimum of 2.5Ghz Processor, 1Gb RAM and 250GB of disk with Gigabit ethernet connected. With the demise of Redhat 9.0 we discussed where we were going to put our efforts in terms of OS and decided upon Fedora, specifically Fedora Core 2 (FC2). Older Redhat machines are now steadily being upgraded to FC2 using the Kickstart system developed within CISS. Unless there continues to be an issue with 64bit machines and FC2 we may contemplate upgrading to FC3 when it becomes available. At the end of this year, four 2U Servers have been purchased to act as Email server, Web server, ctios0 (Central general server) and backup spare. It is essential that we provide a flawless email system to the users with timely delivery without loss of emails. A Web server and central machine was set up for CISS Web page and other infrastructure services. This machine will also act as the central syslog for those applications requiring it. Two events have brought about computer room re-structuring. After Gemini relinquished their use of 80% of computer space, we renovated the area to increase the existing computer room for installation of SuperMACHO/ESSENCE project (SMSN) and NOAO Data Products Program (DPP) machines, and also to provide a closed area for remote observing. The presence of SMSN has grown effectively to four 4TB bricks and ten 1U pipeline machines with a Web server for public access to the data. UPS has become an issue with these new machines and we need to review what the correct strategy will be to provide uninterrupted power, rather than filling space with 3KVa units. The Remote Observing room has all the mechanisms to allow an observer to actively control his/her program on the Blanco 4-m and take data from La Serena. Several other network outlets exist for multiple users with laptops or other temporary machines. This facility is heavily utilized by the SMSN program from September to December each year. DPP continues to ramp up and CISS has

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provided all hardware and networking and some systems support. As with the case of SMSN, some decision needs to be made over UPS equipment. The ever present danger of security breaches remains high on our agenda, having experienced one or two Linux attacks and several Windows virus/worm outbreaks. We have in place a Trendmicro server for Microsoft protection and locked down all Linux machines to essential services along with the usage of IP tables . A new Cisco Pix was installed in La Serena to provide multiple DMZ interfaces so that we now have a services DMZ for External Web and DNS and a separate DMZ for the Recinto network. The site to site AOSS Santiago to La Serena VPN is well established and we have also invoked higher use of the remote client VPN. A further implementation of Authentication and Authorization is in place, both in La Serena and for SOAR, Pachón. Users are continually being made aware of common sense and caution when connecting to the Internet and files they open. Personnel continue to attend security training courses and conferences to keep us on the front line. Much support has been afforded to AOSS in the matter of Windows problems and virus. It is hoped that in the coming year AOSS will reside in their own subnet and work has been ongoing to accomplish this, such as help with Web server, email server, DNS server and firewall setups. The common Cisco 7200 router shared with Gemini has been upgraded to gigabit routing which should serve us for the next five years. The CTIO La Serena router has also had this upgrade to allow for the maximum 155Mb from Tololo to be routed through to the Gigabit switch and provide maximum Tololo-La Serena bandwidth for archiving data produced at the telescopes. Wireless networking is available in all the CTIO offices at this time and we are looking forward to upgrading to the higher speed g band standard. We believe our La Serena – Tololo network is satisfactory for a further 5 year lifetime without major changes, given that no other factors come to bear. Quite a number of hours have been invested in the shared CTIO/Gemini microwave OC3 support to the mountain tops. The CTIO CISS group has provided the initiative on all problems with regard to shared resources on the backbone. The move to implement 2x155Mb channels over the Microwave suffered set backs due to maintenance and measurement equipment but in the latter part of the year we finally reconfigured the Microwave radios to give two channels of 155Mb instead of one active and one hot spare. The necessary network modules were purchased to implement two independent 155Mb channels with load balancing at the light switch level from La Serena – Tololo -Pachon. Gemini have not yet reconfigured their end points to take advantage of this resource. There has been much discussion this year with Entel, Reuna, Ampath, and Global Crossing over future international networking. The current contract with Entel expires at the end of April 2005 and although we have good leads, it is uncertain at this time what path we will take. It becomes more complicated as we are sharing resources and costs with Gemini. One thing seemingly apparent is that ESO has no interest in sharing international connections. We have been very aggressive in pursuing this issue of international networking and hope to see some major initiatives in the next couple of years. Although our current needs for the forthcoming few years are not much different from current bandwidths, with the introduction of the Dark Energy Camera and possibly LSST, this will all change.

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6.4 NOAO SOUTH: CERRO TOLOLO AND CERRO PACHÓN (SOAR AND GEMINI SUPPORT)

On Tololo, CTIO operates the Blanco 4-m, and the SMARTS consortium has responsibility for the smaller telescopes. We provide support and charge for services to SMARTS. We are still providing service for SunOS workstations support to the Arcon system. We have adequate sparing with backups to see us through to the retirement of Arcon. A central observing machine is installed in the 4-m which has access via gigabit to the individual data-taking instrument machines, such as IR, Mosaic, and Spectrograph systems. This should provide easier observer support, giving access to all instruments through this one machine and allowing us to remove the multiple computers and screens from the control room into the environmentally controlled and protected environment of the computer room. A duplicate observing machine has been positioned in La Serena to provide similar access to all instruments. The old TCS Sun computer in the 4-m continues to experience failures and has been given some priority to replace with a Linux machine. The internal Tololo router underwent an upgrade to gigabit routing and recently a CAT6000 was purchased to provide for networking needs for the coming five years. The advent of SMARTS, PROMPT, and other projects coming to Tololo will necessitate some architectural network modifications to the mountaintop. A multi interface Firewall will be purchased to aid in this task, cost to be shared by the current users. This will allow CTIO to ensure and enhance security while not inhibiting the activities of other projects on Tololo. On Pachón, SOAR is now operating with our support. A wireless LAN backup link was installed from Pachón to Tololo in the event of power failure in Gemini. (The routing and light switch equipment are installed in the Gemini building). This link is not automatic as yet due to some issues with firewalls. We have begun the operation of upgrading the SOAR Linux OS to FC2 and CISS now supports directly all the Windows machines on Pachón and La Serena.

43 Appendix A KEY MANAGEMENT AND SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL CHANGES FY04

KEY MANAGEMENT FY04 − Jeremy R. Mould, Director − Todd A. Boroson, Deputy Director; Associate Director for Data Products Program − Richard Green, Director, Kitt Peak National Observatory − Alistair Walker, Director, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory − Taft Armandroff, Director, NOAO Gemini Science Center − David Sprayberry, Associate Director, Major Instrumentation Program − Stephen E. Strom, Associate Director for GSMT Development − Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Associate Director for Science − Karen Wilson, Associate Director for Administration and Facilities − Doug Isbell, Manager, Public Affairs and Educational Outreach − Malcolm Smith, Head of AURA Observatory (AURA-O) in Chile

SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL CHANGES FY04 New Appointments Date Name Position Location 10/01/03 Jason Aufdenberg Research Associate NOAO North 10/01/03 Katherine Brand Research Associate NOAO North 10/01/03 Sean Points Research Associate NOAO South 04/01/04 Mark Dickinson Associate Astronomer NOAO North 04/01/04 Letizia Stanghellini Associate Astronomer NOAO North 04/30/04 Glenn Morrison Research Associate NOAO North 08/01/04 Verne Smith Astronomer, Deputy Director, NGSC NOAO N & S 08/15/04 Dara Norman Research Associate NOAO South 09/01/04 Thomas Matheson Assistant Astronomer NOAO North

Completed Employment Date Name Position Location 10/15/03 Andrew Dolphin Research Associate NOAO North 07/30/04 Ivan Hubeny Scientist NOAO North 08/31/04 Michael Brown Research Associate NOAO North

Changed Status Date Name Position Location 11/08/03 Malcolm Smith Appointed Astronomer with Tenure NOAO South 11/08/03 Alistair R. Walker Appointed Director, CTIO from Deputy NOAO South Director, CTIO 02/19/04 Joan Najita Granted Tenure NOAO North 3/01/04 Nicholas Suntzeff Appointed Associate Director for Science NOAO South 03/01/04 Stephen Strom Appointed Assoc. Director for GSMT NOAO North Development from Assoc. Director for Science 05/01/04 Robert Blum Granted Tenure NOAO South 05/01/04 R. Chris Smith Granted Tenure NOAO South

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APPENDIX B ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS AND COLLABORATIONS

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — NOAO MAJOR INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM

The goal of this partnership is to carry out a design study for Gemini for a high resolution near infrared spectrograph. The NOAO Gemini Science Center holds the contract to do the work from the Gemini Observatory. NGSC calls on the joint efforts of the University of Florida, which provides the Principal Investigator, and the NOAO Major Instrumentation Program, which provides the Project Manager. The initial duration of the partnership is 2004 and the first half of 2005. If a contract to build the instrument is awarded by Gemini, the partnership will be renewed through delivery of the instrument.

DARK ENERGY CONSORTIUM — CTIO PARTNERSHIP

An announcement of opportunity was made in 2003 for a partnership to provide the next major instrument for the Blanco telescope. The Dark Energy Consortium was formed from Fermilab, University of Illinois, University of Chicago, University of California Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and proposed this year to partner CTIO in developing the Dark Energy Camera for the Blanco telescope. Their primary scientific goal is constraints on the equation of state of the Universe arising from study of clusters as a function of redshift. The clusters are defined by their Sunyaev Zeldovich decrements, surveyed and measured by the South Pole Telescope. Following the successful review by the panel convened by NOAO in August 2004, and any further reviews required by DOE and its advisory committees, an MOU will be developed to guide the partnership of CTIO and DEC.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND — KPNO PARTNERSHIP

The goal of this partnership is to provide new capabilities for KPNO observers. The University of Maryland Astronomy Department partners KPNO in an NOAO-based development program. The first major project is the NEWFIRM camera and data system. It commenced a 3 year term in FY04. University of Maryland is providing KPNO with funding—approximately half of which will consist of software and astronomical data analysis expertise, as well as local project management and collaboration expenses—the other half in cash. The NOAO Data Products Program thereby is supplemented by 2 FTEs at Maryland, integrated into the NEWFIRM data pipeline development team, as well as one or more data support personnel. In exchange, the U. of Maryland astronomy department receives 20% of the nights on the Mayall 4-m for their own programs. Oversight of the partnership, in terms of software project deliverables and scientific goals, is by a Board with three members from each partner institution.

LARGE SYNOPTIC SURVEY TELESCOPE (LSST) CORPORATION, INC.

In 2003, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Corporation Inc. was formed among Research Corporation (http://www.rescorp.org), AURA, the University of Arizona, and the University of Washington, for the purpose of designing and constructing the LSST. As one of the two highest priorities for future ground-based telescope facilities in the current decadal survey of

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astronomy conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, the “LSST will open a new frontier in addressing time variable phenomena in astronomy,” (Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium, [2001]). Harvard University joined the partnership in 2004.

NOAO AND THE CALIFORNIA EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE CONSORTIUM (CELT)

In late FY03, the AURA New Initiatives Office (a partnership between NOAO and the Gemini Observatory) and the California Extremely Large Telescope Consortium (a partnership between the University of California and the California Institute of Technology) agreed to collaborate on the design and development phase of a Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). A fourth collaborator on the TMT is the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA). ACURA is a not-for-profit group whose mission is to promote, propose, and manage the mutual interests of Canadian universities in astronomical facilities. ACURA complements the roles of the Herzberg Institutive of Astrophysics (http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/main_e.html ) and the National Research Council in the operation and governance of Canadian astronomy.

SMALL AND MEDIUM APERTURE RESEARCH TELESCOPE SYSTEM (SMARTS)

SMARTS Consortium Members are the American Museum of Natural History, CTIO, University of Delaware, Fisk University, Georgia State University, NOAO, Northern Arizona University, The Ohio State University, Space Telescope Science Institute, SUNY-Stony Brook University, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University. The consortium operates the small and medium aperture telescopes on Cerro Tololo as a system http://www.astro.yale.edu/smarts and CTIO retains a fraction of the time for allocation by the NOAO TAC.

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Tucson-Based Scientific Staff (NOAO North)

HELMUT A. ABT, Emeritus Astronomer

Research Interests The luminosity function for the companions to solar-type stars; tidal effects in binaries; spectral classification; and studies of how astronomy is done based on publication statistics

FY04 Accomplishments Abt went on a five-week lecture tour of universities in Thailand. He completed the study of companions to solar-type stars (with funds from the Research Corp.) and seven other papers. Abt also served as adviser to The Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics in its contract negotiations with the Univ. of Chicago Press, and much reviewing of submitted papers.

FY05 Plans Abt plans to attend a meeting on Asiatic astronomy in Thailand to report on a new date for the Crab Nebula supernova outburst. He will also study duplicity among slowly-rotating A stars and spectra of visual multiples.

TAFT E. ARMANDROFF, Astronomer (Director, NOAO Gemini Science Center)

Research Interests Stellar populations in the Galaxy and nearby galaxies; dwarf spheroidal galaxies; globular clusters

FY04 Accomplishments Armandroff has been studying the dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies of M31 in collaboration with Da Costa (RSAA/ANU), Pritzl (Macalester), and Jacoby (WIYN). This is motivated by the opportunity to increase the number of galaxies defining the properties of dwarf spheroidals, and by the fact that the somewhat different environment of the M31 dwarfs compared to those of the Galaxy allows a first look at how dwarf spheroidal galaxy properties change with environment. Recent work has concentrated on photometry from HST-WFPC2 images that yield color-magnitude diagrams and variable-star properties. Andromeda I, II, III, and VI have been surveyed for variable stars. The properties of the RR Lyrae variables and anomalous Cepheids have been analyzed and compared with those of the Galactic dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

FY05 Plans Armandroff plans to construct and analyze new WFPC2-based color-magnitude diagrams for the stars in Andromeda V and VI, and to prepare these for publication.

¬S JASON P. AUFDENBERG, Research Associate (Michelson Postdoctoral Fellowship, NASA/JPL).

Research Interests Stellar atmospheres; stellar winds; fundamental properties of stars; interferometry; spectroscopy; radiative transfer; and modeling

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FY04 Accomplishments Aufdenberg and colleagues obtained the first interferometric fringes in the 2nd lobe for the solar-like star Procyon with the CHARA Array on Mt. Wilson. These data have contributed to a study of convection in Procyon’s atmosphere and the testing of 3-D hydrodynamical models. CHARA data have also been obtained for the A-type supergiant star Deneb in order to study its stellar wind. He has developed a planning tool for science observations with the CHARA Array. This software and accompanying technical report have been widely distributed on the Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News (OLBIN) Web site.

FY05 Plans Aufdenberg plans to complete and publish the interferometric study of Procyon. He plans to complete the acquisition of data on Deneb, then characterize its stellar wind and publish the results. Aufdenberg and S. T. Ridgway will continue with their program to improve the precision of hot star angular diameter measurements, in particular extending the stellar wind studies to the B-type supergiant Rigel.

TODD BOROSON, Astronomer (Deputy Director, NOAO)

Research Interests Structure of, and physical processes connected with, active galactic nuclei; stellar populations; O/IR instrumentation; analysis and mining of massive astronomical data sets

FY04 Accomplishments Boroson continued analysis of spectra of QSOs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, focusing primarily on characteristics of the [O III] emission lines. In contrast to previous studies, this work shows that the [O III] 5007 line is not a good indicator of either systemic velocity or stellar velocity dispersion.

FY05 Plans Boroson will publish the SDSS AGN study described above. Near-IR spectra being obtained with Gemini will determine the relationship between blueshifts in the [O III] lines and those seen in the C IV line. He also plans to develop an automated procedure for measuring spectral characteristics of SDSS QSOs with the expectation of extending the principal component analysis approach to the very large SDSS samples that will be released soon.

¬ KATHERINE J. BRAND, Research Associate (New appointment FY04)

Research Interests X-ray / Multi-wavelength properties of AGN; accretion history of the universe; Wide-field surveys; Large-scale structure; triggering and environment of Radio Galaxies

FY04 Accomplishments Brand started as a research associate in October 2003. She has worked on the NOAO Deep-Wide Field Survey and the Chandra X-ray data which covers the same region. Specifically, she has worked on matching the X-ray and optical catalogs, investigating extreme populations, and stacking the X-rays from red galaxies to determine the accretion history of the AGN in this galaxy population. Two papers are nearly completed on this work. She has also submitted a paper on the 3-D clustering of radio galaxies in the TONS survey.

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FY05 Plans Brand aims to extend the X-ray stacking work to the full survey area as well as investigate the stacked X-ray spectrum and extend the study to different galaxy populations. She plans to investigate the extreme populations such as sources with high X-ray to optical flux ratios and optically non-identified sources: prime candidates for the obscured type II Quasar population. She also plans to investigate the multi-wavelength properties of the X-ray AGN population.

MICHAEL BROWN, Research Associate (Appointment ended FY04)

CHARLES CLAVER, Scientist

Research Interests Stellar ages; stellar evolution; white dwarf stars; large optical/infrared telescopes; Large Synoptic Survey Telescope; astronomical instrumentation

FY04 Accomplishments As telescope/site scientist for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), Claver worked on assessing the feasibility of constructing an 8.4-m telescope facility with a 3.5 degree field-of-view to carry out a large multi-epoch survey of the night sky. His scientific interest has focused on identifying white dwarf populations of old open clusters to evaluate the nature of the Initial-Final Mass relation and to probe infrared ages from white dwarf cooling times. More recently, Claver has begun to use the WIYN tip-tilt system, where he was instrument scientist during construction and commissioning, to observe old open clusters on the periphery of the Galaxy to determine ages, distances, reddening and abundances.

FY05 Plans Claver plans to continue his effort in the LSST project toward detailing the telescope design and control for the submission of a construction proposal. He will also assist in detailed site studies for the LSST, following a downselect in January 2005. Claver plans to publish deep photometry from CTIO and the WIYN telescopes of several open clusters where significant white dwarf populations have been identified. He plans to obtain spectroscopic identification of white dwarfs identified ion IC4651 to fit with model atmospheres to determine the ages, masses and temperatures of the cluster white dwarfs. He also plans to continue his observational program of old open clusters in the Galaxy.

STEVEN CROFT, Astronomer (Senior Science Education Specialist)

Research Interests Variable stars; planetary geology; and geophysics

FY04 Accomplishments Croft continued his work in formal and informal science education. He continued as manager for the NSF-funded Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE), leading a successful redesign of the project’s distance learning class, continued development of two new research projects, coordination of the annual summer workshop, and transition of the project to internal NOAO funding. Croft also organized and led the pilot year of the new Teacher Observing Program for past TLRBSE participants to return to Kitt Peak for observational projects with their students, and helped organize a teacher observing program for the Spitzer Space Telescope. Final development of the El Yunque educational project was continued.

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FY05 Plans Croft will manage the TLRBSE program through its fourth year of operation and oversee the continued transition to internal NOAO funding. New software tools for the TLRBSE program will be developed and tested. The Teacher Observing Program will be refined and aimed at high-capability students for greater educational impact. The Spitzer observing training sessions and workshops will be organized and held. The final development and field testing of the El Yunque project will be completed.

DAVID DE YOUNG, Astronomer

Research Interests Active galactic nuclei; non-linear phenomena

FY04 Accomplishments De Young, in collaboration with student Chun Ly and J. Bechtold (UA), completed a study of x-ray emission from PKS 2152-699. The extended x-ray emission is associated with a high brightness feature in the radio jet, and De Young et al. have shown the x-ray emission to be thermal in nature. This is the first detection of thermal emission from an x-ray - radio region and is convincing evidence of a jet- cloud interaction. De Young also completed, in collaboration with T. Jones (UMN), an extensive series of numerical MHD calculations that follow the evolution of relic radio sources in galaxy clusters.

FY05 Plans De Young and Jones plan to extend the current relic radio source calculations to include the effects of 3D MHD dynamics. De Young also plans to continue an investigation of the nature of jets in FR-II objects, and he is involved in collaborative work with R. Wyse (JHU) and A. Burkert (ITP) on the very early evolution of the Galaxy halo.

ARJUN DEY, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Galaxy evolution; high redshift galaxies; large-scale structure; AGN evolution and clustering

FY04 Accomplishments Dey is one of the two PIs of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), a pioneering investigation of galaxy evolution and clustering over an unprecedented volume. This survey has spurred a huge investment in ground- and space-based resources (VLA, GALEX, Spitzer, Chandra), and the resulting unique multiwavelength database is allowing a comprehensive study of galaxy evolution and structure formation in the 0

Dey has continued his study of the z>5 universe, spectroscopically targeting narrow-band emission line and broad-band continuum selected objects. His group has the largest spectroscopically confirmed samples of high-z galaxies and is working on understanding the spectral properties of these objects. In addition, with K. Brand and the Chandra team, he is investigating the evolution of the X-ray luminosity of normal early-type galaxies between 0

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Dey also has organized the team which is investigating the scientific feasibility and impact of a new, highly multi-plexed, wide-field spectroscopic capability for Gemini. This proposed instrument, Gemini Wide-Field Multi-object Spectrometer (GWFMOS; also known as KAOS—Kilo Aperture Optical Spectrograph), is designed to undertake the next generation of spectroscopic surveys of a scope impossible with current instrumentation. With GWFMOS, Gemini would be able to carry out unique science programs of unprecedented scope, including detailed archeological studies of our Galaxy and a Dark Energy survey to place unique constraints on the equation of state of the dark energy. Dey is NOAO's representative for the international team carrying out the Feasibility Study commissioned by Gemini for this instrument.

FY05 Plans During the upcoming fiscal year, much of the hard work that has gone into the NDWFS will bear fruit. Dey plans to carry out pilot studies of the clustering and evolution of the red envelope galaxy population, investigate the growth of the central black holes in these systems, and study the high-z Lyman break galaxy population using the Boötes field NDWFS data complemented by Spitzer, Chandra and GALEX observations. Dey will also complete the GWFMOS Feasibility Study and continue to help the US community to realize this capability on a large-aperture telescope accessible to the US. 2). He will work with the Data Products Group and the archive division to ensure that high- level scientific software is easily accessible through our archive and is interfaced with all the other (ground- and space-based) imaging and spectroscopic observations in the field. This will clearly benefit the NOAO NVO effort as well as our scientific goals. Dey will also help commission NEWFIRM on the 4-m and use it to carry out a pilot narrow-band survey for Ly-a emitters at high redshift.

¬ MARK DICKINSON, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution; galaxy clusters and large-scale structure; quasar absorption line systems; evolution of active galaxies and radio galaxies; infrared and optical observations

FY04 Accomplishments Dickinson is principal investigator for a Spitzer Legacy Science Program, the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS). GOODS is gathering ultra-deep data from NASA's Great Observatories (Spitzer, Hubble, Chandra) and many ground-based facilities to provide a public data resource for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies and active galactic nuclei. The Spitzer observations have been taken and nearly completed in 2004, including the deepest data from that facility at 3.6 to 24 microns. Dickinson is studying the stellar masses, star formation rates, and stellar populations of high redshift galaxies, and is leading a research team that is addressing many other scientific questions using the GOODS data.

FY05 Plans The GOODS program will complete data-taking, reduction, and public release for its Spitzer and ground-based programs. Dickinson will lead this effort. He will use Spitzer/IRAC data to trace the evolution of the global stellar mass density at 0 < z < 5, and a variety of multi-wavelength star formation tracers to measure the bi-variate distribution of stellar mass and star formation and its evolution with cosmic time.

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JONATHAN H. ELIAS, Astronomer

Research Interests Star formation and evolution; Magellanic clouds; supernovae

FY04 Accomplishments The Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph was delivered to Gemini South at the start of the fiscal year. Elias participated in the acceptance testing, commissioning and system verification for the instrument as the lead NOAO scientist involved. This included partial completion of one of the system verification science programs, observations of HH120. Elias has also been involved in concept development for one of the second generation Gemini instruments identified by the Aspen process, the Extreme Adaptive Optics Coronagraph (ExAO-C), a “planet finder”. This effort is led by Laird Close of the University of Arizona, and Elias has acted as the lead scientist at NOAO.

FY05 Plans Scientific activities proposed for the coming year include several proposals on Gemini with GNIRS, including observations of planetary nebulae to search for heavy elements and participation in several larger programs. Elias also expects to continue participation in the ExAO-C effort through submission of the conceptual design to Gemini and, if successful, further design and construction work.

KATY GARMANY, Sr. Science Education Specialist (20% NOAO)

Research Interests Massive star formation and evolution; science education

FY04 Accomplishments Garmany taught introductory astronomy at Tohono O’odham Community College (Sells, Ariz.) in spring 2004 and again in fall 2004, and has met numerous times with teachers and other officials on the reservation to help to develop programs that would be useful to the youth there. She has developed a Web site of resources for individuals engaged in outreach to Native Americans which will be linked through the NOAO education pages. She has also assisted with the NOAO summer workshop for teachers (TLRBSE), including observing with the teachers on the 0.9-m telescope at Kitt Peak.

FY 05 Plans Garmany will be assisting in creating a Web site that acts as a clearing-house for public telescope access and information. This is envisioned to include NOAO, TSIP, PREST, and other public telescope observing time. She will continue outreach efforts to the Tohono O'odham nation. Garmany continues as President of the Astronomical of the Pacific (ASP). She is head of the LOC for the ASP annual meeting to be held in Tucson in Sept. 2005

JOHN GLASPEY, Scientist (Supervisor of Mountain Support)

Research Interests Spectroscopic abundance determinations of stars within the Milky Way Galaxy; instrumentation for optical/infrared ground-based telescopes

FY04 Accomplishments Glaspey continued reduction of high resolution spectroscopic observations of AF stars in the thick disk and halo. Classification dispersion data were acquired with an REU student helping with the project.

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Classification spectra were also obtained for stars nominally members of M18 for a collaborative project with K. Garmany.

FY05 Plans Glaspey expects to acquire supplemental spectra at moderate resolution to measure elemental abundances for the field AF stars project.

RICHARD GREEN, Astronomer (Director, KPNO)

Research Interests Active galactic nuclei; quasar absorption line systems; galaxy nuclear dynamics

FY04 Accomplishments Green worked with collaborators to be a co-author on 3 publications about FUSE observations of AGNs. One was a detailed analysis of FUSE, HST, and Chandra observations of an intrinsic absorber, while two presented results on spectral energy distributions extending into the far ultraviolet. Green was also a co-author on two papers about galaxy nuclear dynamics, one from the Nuker Team that measured black hole masses in 10 galaxies, the other comparing black hole masses determined by reverberation mapping of Seyfert broad emission lines vs. host bulge velocity dispersions measured at KPNO.

FY05 Plans Green plans to complete an eccentric disk model to fit STIS data for the double-nucleus dwarf galaxy, NGC 4486B. He also intends to complete an analysis of the fraction of quasars that are moderately reddened, based on spectroscopic follow-up of a K-band selected sample from the NOAO Deep Wide- Field Survey.

KENNETH HINKLE, Scientist

Research Interests Peculiar and late-type stars; circumstellar and interstellar matter; molecular spectroscopy; instrumentation

FY04 ACCOMPLISHMENTS Hinkle worked on a preliminary design and a science case for a high resolution infrared spectrograph called variously super-PHOENIX, ACES, or HRNIRS. This work was originally presented to the US community at a NGSC meeting in Tempe. Later, this instrument concept was well received at the Aspen meeting on future Gemini instrumentation. The outcome of this work was a call by Gemini for a study proposal leading to the construction of this instrument. Hinkle, in collaboration with a team from NOAO and UF, succeeded in obtaining a study contract for the UF/NOAO consortium. Hinkle continued his work on late-type binary systems with Joyce (NOAO), Fekel (Tenn State), and Wood (ANU). He also worked on the brown dwarf binary system epilson Indi B with Smith (UTeP), Tsuji (Toyko), Bernath (Waterloo) and others. He produced a paper on FU Ori stars with Hartmann and Calvet (SAO). Hinkle has continued his collaboration with Wallace on atlases. At the 2004 winter AAS meeting Hinkle gave away 300 copies of a poster that he had prepared with Wallace on the transmission of the earth's atmosphere at Kitt Peak. Hinkle also continued his collaboration with Lebzelter (Vienna) on late-type variables in clusters. Hinkle was an invited speaker at a meeting on Gemini science and at a meeting on stellar abundances in honor of David Lambert's 65th birthday.

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FY05 PLANS Hinkle’s major effort in early FY05 will be his contribution to the conceptual design study for HRNIRS. In addition to this instrumentation project, Hinkle has a number of astronomical papers that are nearing completion including a book on the ultraviolet spectrum of Arcturus with Wallace, Valenti (STScI), and Ayres (Colorado). He is also working on papers on the emission line infrared spectra of two peculiar A stars with Lambert (UT) and Miroshnichenko (Cincinatii). A paper is nearing completion on the orbit and evolution of a neutron star binary with Fekel (Tenn State), Wood (ASU), Joyce (NOAO), Smith (NOAO), and Lebzelter (Vienna). With Smith (NOAO) and Cunha (UTeP), Hinkle has started work on abundances of brown dwarfs.

S STEPHEN HOWELL, Scientist (25% NOAO)

Research Interests Intercating Binaries; CCD Instrumentation; High Precision Photometry

FY04 Accomplishments Howell worked in two main areas during 2004. One was IR spectroscopy of ultra-short period interacting binaries and the other was as a Science Team member for the NASA Kepler Discovery mission. IR spectroscopy, performed at Gemini North and Keck, was employed to isolate and study an essentially new class of sub-stellar object. After billions of years of mass loss to a white dwarf companion, the stellar remnants are cool, degenerate, apparently carbon poor brown dwarf-like stars. The Kepler mission is slated to launch in 2007 and Howell worked as part of a team to begin a 4 year effort to obtain multi-color photometry of the Kepler field of view. These data will be used to select the Kepler input catalogue stars to be observed by the mission.

FY05 Plans Using the results obtained from past IR spectroscopic observations, Howell will lead a team to use Gemini South and GNIRS to undertake the first detailed, orbitally resolved, high spectral resolution study of mass losing stars in 3-10 hour close binaries. Goals are to identify the source of the carbon depletion and to determine masses for these donor stars. Kepler activities this year are related to beginning a project to allow photometric time-series observations of two (or more) stars in close (<1 arcsec) optical pairs and with magnitude differences of 4 to 8 magnitudes. This work will make use of the Kitt Peak WIYN observatory good image quality and the only currently operating orthogonal transfer CCD camera (OPTIC).

S IVAN J. HUBENY, Scientist (Appointment ended in FY04)

BUELL JANNUZI, Associate Astronomer (Deputy Director, KPNO, beginning 10/04)

Research Interests Observational cosmology; formation and evolution of large-scale structure; quasars and quasar absorption line systems; instrumentation for surveys

FY04 Accomplishments Jannuzi led the completion of the data reduction and public release of deep KPNO R-band imaging of the Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey field, covering six square degrees of the sky. The images and catalogs were simultaneously released through both the Spitzer Space Telescope archive and the NOAO Science Archive (NSA). A paper summarizing the results has appeared in the

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Astronomical Journal. These data are now being used by numerous researchers around the world in support of their research using the Spitzer observations of the same region of the sky. Jannuzi and A. Dey of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS) completed the last observations for this major optical and IR imaging survey of 18 square degrees of the sky. Data reduction of the northern field (in Boötes) has been completed and the release of these images and associated object catalogs will take place in early FY 2005 through the NOAO Science Archive (NSA). Results from the survey have been published and many others are in preparation. Topics range from the study of galaxy clustering, formation, and evolution to the characterization of the properties of AGN.

FY05 Plans In collaboration with the rest of the NDWFS team and the NSA, Jannuzi plans to complete the release of the NDWFS Boötes images and object catalogs on October 22, 2004. He will lead and/or participate in the numerous follow-up studies of AGN, of galaxy formation and evolution, and of the formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the Universe that are in progress using the NDWFS data in combination with surveys of the same field made with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the VLA, GALEX (UV space telescope), and many other observatories.

Jannuzi, anticipates completion of his study of the physical properties of Lyman-alpha absorption line systems using HST/STIS UV spectroscopy of intermediate redshift quasars. He will also continue his involvement in various other projects/surveys including LaLa (Large Area Lyman-alpha Survey), AGES (AGN Galaxy Evolution Survey), CHAMP (The Chandra Multi-wavelength Project), the IRAC Shallow Survey, and FLAMEX (Flamingos Extragalactic Survey). All of these surveys anticipate significant publications in FY2005.

RICHARD R. JOYCE, Scientist

Research Interests Late-type stars; mass loss; infrared detector and instrumentation development

FY04 Accomplishments Joyce continued the long-term project to determine orbits of symbiotic stars by measurement of their radial velocities at infrared wavelengths, concentrating on the largely unstudied sample in the Southern sky. The same observational techniques have also been used to measure the pulsation of a sample of Southern long-period variable stars. He also completed a collaborative project to identify heavily obscured AGB stars in the LMC.

FY05 Plans Joyce will continue the infrared radial velocity measurements of the Southern symbiotic stars and plans to publish the results on the pulsation of the long-period variables. He also plans to use the newly- commissioned GNIRS at Gemini South to investigate the heavily-obscured AGB stars in the LMC and test the assumption that these stars reflect the general AGB population in the LMC. He plans to utilize GNIRS to survey a number of planetary nebulae at high spectral resolution in the infrared. One goal is to identify lines of uncommon elements whose presence may be diagnostic of neutron-capture processes in the progenitor star.

THOMAS KINMAN, Emeritus Astronomer

Research Interests Galactic structure; galactic halo; horizontal branch stars; RR Lyrae stars

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FY04 Accomplishments Kinman acquired and partly reduced 1313 CCD frames of 73 RR Lyrae stars from the Lick Survey using the 32-inch robotic Tenagra telescope. Kinman, Suntzeff, and Pier found that the RR Lyrae content of the new Canis Major feature is quite low (similar to Leo I). They found that half the RR Lyrae stars in their Anticenter sample were in small groups of Oosterhoff type I, suggesting that they came from disrupted globular clusters.

FY05 Plans Kinman will continue re-observing the RR Lyrae stars in the Lick fields in order to improve their photometry and update their ephemerides. He will continue analysis of the RR Lyrae stars found at the North Galactic Pole in the Rotse survey and (jointly with colleagues at Turin and Bologna) prepare for publication of their analysis of the kinematics of halo stars at the NGP.

TOD LAUER, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Extragalactic astronomy; normal galaxies; nuclear black holes; stellar populations; cosmology; astronomical image processing; space-based astronomy platforms

FY04 Accomplishments Lauer completed a microlensing survey of M87 and with his Nuker-team collaboration completed a survey for central black holes in early type galaxies. He oversaw continued development of the NOAO Science Archive, and was awarded a “Beyond Einstein” grant to study a dark energy mission to observe cosmologically distant supernovae. Lauer hosted the NOAO “Observing Dark Energy” workshop.

FY05 Plans Lauer plans to complete a series of papers on the central structure of early type galaxies. He also plans to conduct detailed exploration of the DESTINY (Dark Energy Space Telescope) mission design.

C. ROGER LYNDS, Astronomer

Research Interests Observational cosmology and galaxy evolution

FY04 Accomplishments Lynds Completed extensive data analysis and report on telescope trials of an E2V carrier multiplication register CCD. He conducted an extensive investigation of the metric optical properties of the Cryogenic Camera (MARS) on the Kitt Peak 4-Meter Telescope. Lynds made early progress on the development of computer code for photometric population separation in galaxies and the technology of presentation of the results.

FY05 Plans Lynds plans to continue the work on population separation. He hopes to conclude the reduction and analysis of VLA observations of a complex interacting galaxy NGC 6745.

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S LUCAS M. MACRI, Research Associate (NASA Hubble Fellow; Goldberg Fellow)

Research Interests Extragalactic distance scale (Cepheid variables, Tully-Fisher relation); large scale structure (redshift surveys, peculiar velocities as probes of cosmological parameters)

FY04 Accomplishments Macri completed his observing program (started in FY03) to survey Cepheid variables in Messier 33 at optical and near-infrared wavelengths using the WIYN and Gemini North telescopes, respectively. He completed the data reduction and analysis of all the near-infrared observations and obtained (J) HKs magnitudes for nearly 200 Cepheids, one of the largest near-infrared samples of Cepheids in any galaxy. He also started the reduction and analysis of newly obtained HST/ACS observations of two fields in NGC 4258, a galaxy that promises to yield a very precise zero-point for the Cepheid Distance Scale. Lastly, Macri (and P.I. John Huchra) completed the last observations for the 2MASS Redshift Survey, a project that used 70 nights of CTIO 1.5-m and 10 nights of CTIO 4-m telescope time over four years and yielded over 2,500 galaxy redshifts.

FY05 Plans Macri expects to complete the reduction and analysis of his extensive data set of optical observations of M33 obtained at WIYN during FY03/04 and combine the results with those obtained from the near- infrared survey to characterize the metallicity dependence of the Cepheid P-L relation. He also plans to complete the reduction and analysis of the HST observations of NGC 4258.

K. MICHAEL MERRILL, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Star formation; young stellar objects; interstellar medium; circumstellar envelopes; late stellar evolution; IR transient phenomena; infrared instrumentation; data acquisition and reduction; infrared detectors

FY04 Accomplishments During FY 2004, Merrill was the scientist responsible for both the Orion 2K×2K Infrared Focal Plane Development Project at Raytheon Vision Systems (RVS) and for the NOAO Monsoon Focal Plane Array controller. Candidate Science Grade Orion arrays are currently under test using a Monsoon- based Array Controller in the IR Research and Development Lab. Merrill also led the IR focal plane development planning for the GSMT Project. As KPNO 4-mr Telescope Scientist he directed the completion of a force map for the active mirror support system (4MAPS) to correct low order image distortion at the prime and cassegrain foci.

FY05 Plans During FY 2005, Merrill expects to execute the NEWFIRM array procurement subcontract with RVS and test and deliver 4 science grade Orion II infrared focal plane arrays for NEWFIRM. As KPNO 4-m Telescope Scientist Merrill will continue to improve the efficiency of doing science at that facility. Using FLAMINGOS at the KPNO 2.1-m, he plans to use longslit observations to produce a spatially complete HK spectral map of the S106 star formation region.

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S KENNETH J. MIGHELL, Associate Scientist (NASA)

Research Interests Stellar populations in the Galaxy and nearby galaxy; formation and evolution of Local Group galaxies; dwarf spheroidal galaxies; globular clusters; precision CCD stellar photometry and astrometry; astrophysical applications of low-count statistics; fault-tolerant parallel-processing astronomical image- analysis applications

FY04 Accomplishments Mighell has released a new parallel-processing stellar photometry code as part of his work for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate as part of his Applied Information Systems Research Program (AISRP) work. QLWFPC2 is designed to do quick-look analysis of two entire WFPC2 observations from HST in less than 5 seconds using a fast Beowulf cluster with a Gigabit Ethernet local network. Mighell organized the AISRP 2003 Workshop on Fault Tolerant Software and Hardware which was held at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2003. Mighell has received a new AISRP grant for the development of fault-tolerant parallel-processing astronomical image-analysis applications.

FY05 Plans Mighell plans on releasing his MATPHOT code for precision stellar photometry and astrometry based on his new algorithms for stellar photometry using discrete point spread functions. He will develop fault-tolerant parallel-processing code for his new AISRP grant by collaborating with the Open Message Passing Interface (Open MPI) project as the only astrophysicist within that high-performance computing research effort.

¬S GLENN E. MORRISON, Research Associate (New appointment 5/04)

Research Interests Multi-wavelength studies of galaxy evolution; large optical/infrared telescope including new NOAO instruments such as NEWFIRM

FY04 Accomplishments In conjunction with other GOODS team members, Morrison has created and quantified the point spread functions generated by the Spitzer spacecraft's IRAC instrument to help in understanding their effect on source extraction. In addition, an IRAC mid-IR stellar sequence study has been undertaken to compare predicted mid-IR color-color to actual IRAC to determine the fidelity of the source extraction methods. Near completion is a Fast Fourier Transform software technique used to remove periodic amplifier ‘noise’ from NOAO 4-m FLAMINGOS near-IR data. Reduction of archival VLA 1.4GHz and 8GHZ radio data on the GOODS-North field using new and improved methods. Analysis and study of the GOODS 24µ Spitzer MIPS data for the GOODS-North field which will use the above mentioned VLA radio data. This study is to understand the evolution of the radio/mid-IR correlation as a function of redshift and it value as a star formation indicator at redshifts ~2.

FY05 Plans Morrison plans to work in conjunction with the GOODS team to determine and study the star formation history within the GOODS fields using multi-wavelength techniques. Morrison plans to publish a study on the z=0.41 rich galaxy cluster CL0939+4713 with spectroscopic data from the WIYN telescope using Hydra. This study also incorporates a 9 pointing mosaic from HST-WFP2 and moderately deep radio imaging from the VLA. He will also assist with user support for the Flamingos instrument and some observer support development for the NOAO NEWFIRM project.

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JEREMY MOULD, Astronomer (Director, NOAO)

Research Interests Observational cosmology and the extra-galactic distance scale; large optical/infrared telescopes; stellar populations

FY04 Accomplishments Mould, De Buizer, and University of Florida astronomers, together with members of the Spitzer MIPS team, used T-ReCS on Gemini South to investigate the LMC star formation region, Henize 206. A few percent of the total flux from the brightest region in Henize 206 emanates from infrared peaks of subparsec scale. In this work, Gemini complements Spitzer with high angular resolution. In other Spitzer MIPS GTO work, Mould's galaxy count models helped to constrain the formation history of infrared luminous galaxies.

FY05 Plans There is increasing evidence that thick disks in galaxies provide a fossil record of an early epoch of disk formation, involving mergers of gas rich peer protogalaxies. To investigate these stellar populations, Mould plans to publish WFPC2 photometry of edge-on nearby galaxies in the HST archive, and to pursue this research with larger samples and new observations. Further infrared studies of AGB stars in nearby galaxies are also planned, including M31, where variable star photometry from Kitt Peak has now been published. Mould will continue to participate in the COSMOS collaboration, studying the interplay between large scale structure, evolution, and the formation of galaxies, dark matter, and AGNs.

S BEATRICE MUELLER, Assistant Scientist (NASA)

Research Interests Small bodies in the solar system; observations and derivations of physical parameters of comets and trans-Neptunian objects

FY04 Accomplishments Mueller published a first author paper in Icarus about the outer solar system object (299981) 1999 TD10 using visible data taken at the KPNO-2.1m and near-IR data taken by co-authors at the Steward 2.3m. Mueller is a co-author of the chapter on cometary nuclei rotation in the Comets II book published by the University of Arizona press.

FY05 Plans Mueller plans to publish simultaneous visible and near-IR photometry on several comets as a co- author. She plans to support NASA's Deep Impact mission with ground based observations before, during, and after the encounter with comet Tempel 1 and will also continue her observing program for comets and trans-Neptunian objects.

JOAN R. NAJITA, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Star and planet formation; wide-field surveys

FY04 Accomplishments In collaboration with A. Glassgold (UC, Berkley), Najita studied the thermal and chemical structure of

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planet-forming disks at AU distances. These models should prove useful in interpreting high resolution infrared spectroscopic observations of circumstellar disks. In collaboration with J. Carr (NRL) and A. Tokunaga (U Hawaii), Najita also studied hot water emission from the disk of a young star, finding evidence for both turbulence and chemical stratification in the disk atmosphere. Najita was also involved in the detection of a massive debris disk around a nearby G2V star.

FY05 Plans Najita will be exploring the gas dissipation rate in the planet formation region of disks by searching for CO fundamental emission from weak T Tauri stars. As a member of the Spitzer IRS Disks team and the "Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems" Legacy project, Najita will also study the evolution of the dust content of circumstellar disks.

STEPHEN POMPEA, Astronomer (Manager, Science Education)

Research Interests Inquiry- and research-based science education; astronomical instrumentation

FY04 Accomplishments Pompea continued his work in both formal and informal science education as well as his work on optical properties of surfaces for instrumentation. In science education, Pompea provided creative work and leadership for the NSF projects Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE) (PI), Collaboration to Advance Teaching Technology and Science (CATTS) GK-12 (Co-PI), Revealing the Invisible Universe from Nanoscopes to Telescopes (Co-PI), Hands-On Optics (HOO), Making an Impact with Light (Co-PI), and the Spanish Language Astronomy Education Materials Center and the Native American Educational Materials Centers (PI). A new 4-year NSF instructional materials project Investigating Astronomy was funded with Pompea as Co-I; the project will develop a national high school astronomy curriculum. Pompea is a team member of the JWST NIRCam EPO team, UA Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research (CAPER) group, and is on proposal teams for the TMT, the LSST, VERITAS, and the Astronomy from the Ground Up projects.

FY05 Plans Pompea will continue his work on these projects and in HOO will develop and deliver 6 modules on light and color this year, along with associated kits. The TLRBSE project will significantly expand its observing and research opportunities for teachers and students by using observing time granted on the Spitzer Space Telescope through collaboration with the Spitzer Science Center. Pompea completed, with collaborator S.H.C.P. McCall of SORIC, an invited review article titled “Optical Black Surfaces” for the Encyclopedia of Modern Optics (Academic Press) and will continue research on developing high contrast/low stray light imaging and spectroscopic instruments.

RON PROBST, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Infrared instrumentation for large telescopes; star forming regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud

FY04 Accomplishments Probst worked as Project Scientist and Systems Engineer to transition the NEWFIRM infrared camera project from mechanical design to fabrication stage. He also advanced the scientific needs and definition of the NEWFIRM data reduction pipeline, and organized and led a multi-day workshop for the pipeline software development team. He participated with Chilean colleagues in a successful

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observing run using his NEWFIRM predecessor instrument, ISPI, on the 4-m Blanco telescope to search for very early stages of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

FY05 Plans Probst will lead the NEWFIRM project through fabrication and instrument integration phases to first light in October 2005. He will work with his externally recruited scientific advisory committee to define commissioning and early operational science programs for NEWFIRM, with emphasis on rapid data turnaround into a public archive. He will also work with U. Maryland staff, partners in the project, to define and procure narrowband filters in support of Galactic and extragalactic noncontinuum science with NEWFIRM.

STEPHEN RIDGWAY, Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar physics; high contrast imaging; high angular resolution techniques; application of infrared methods to astronomy

FY04 Accomplishments Ridgway worked with collaborators at the Observatory of Paris at Meudon on a study of luminous, late type stars by interferometric techniques. They determined that the Mira type stars and the cool supergiants are surrounded by a high molecular layer which masquerades as the stellar surface, hiding the true stellar surface at 30-50% smaller radius. The smaller stellar sizes resolve a number of long- standing puzzles in the understanding of these stars, but raise new questions about the formation and support of the molecular layer.

FY05 Plans Ridgway will work with collaborators at NOAO, Meudon, and GSU to employ the CHARA interferometric array in continuing studies of cool, evolved stars and in a new program to study hot, young stars. He will work with Olivier Guyon at Subaru Telescope on a numerical and laboratory demonstration of a new high contrast imaging technique based on pupil redistribution. During most of FY05, Ridgway will be on half-time sabbatical, working at the Observatory of Paris, partially funded by the Foundation of the Ecole Normale Superieur under a Pascal Chair for International Research.

ABHIJIT SAHA, Astronomer (On sabbatical from May 2004)

Research Interests Variable stars; stellar populations; cosmological distance scale; imaging and photometry

FY04 Accomplishments Saha completed the analysis of photometry with the WIYN 3.5-m telescope to establish faint photometric sequences (to 22 mag) in BVRI for use with HST and large telescopes which have small fields of view. In collaboration with F. Thim and A. Dolphin, he reported the discovery of Cepheids in NGC 4395, thereby obtaining the distance to this galaxy in the CVn cloud, which is also the nearest galaxy with an active nucleus. Saha began to establish a photometric scheme for measuring the abundances of giants in nearby galaxies, a step towards the larger goal of probing chemical enrichment histories in nearby galaxies of various types. He is also working on a new Baade-Wesselink approach to the problem of the absolute magnitudes of RR Lyrae stars. Saha has been making simulation studies for operation models of the LSST.

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FY05 Plans Saha expects to finish the calibration of a photometric scheme for measuring abundances of resolved giants in nearby galaxies. He also expects to learn if the new Baade-Wesselink study of RR Lyrae stars will improve our knowledge of RR Lyrae absolute magnitudes. He will spend several months in La Serena, during which time he expects to propose for, and launch, a program to obtain Cepheid distances to several galaxies in the Sculptor group in order to probe the structure and dynamics of that nearby group. Saha will continue to refine the LSST simulator and investigate operational scenarios.

S NALIN H. SAMARASINHA, Assistant Scientist (NASA)

Research Interests Comets; Trans-Neptunian Objects; and Asteroids

FY04 Accomplishments Samarasinha was awarded a NASA grant to investigate coma morphologies of comets. He was actively involved in a collaboration to understand the physical properties of the short period comet 2P/Encke. Two papers, one involving the results of recent multi-observer campaigns and another on the non- principal-axis rotation models of the nucleus based on observations spanning two decades, are in the final phases of the review process. He was a co-author of a publication on the trans-Neptunian object 1999 TD10.

FY05 Plans Samarasinha plans to publish his work on the near-nucleus dust environment around cometary nuclei as well as his collaborative work on the gas jets of comet Hyakutake with D. Schleicher (Lowell Observatory) and L. Woodney (U. of Central Florida). He will pursue additional grant proposals and long-term career prospects.

RICHARD A. SHAW, Scientist (Manager, Data Products Program)

Research Interests Late stages of stellar evolution; planetary nebulae; Magellanic Clouds; H II regions; astrophysical plasmas; stellar populations; astronomical software

FY04 Accomplishments Shaw is continuing his studies of Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae with HST imaging and follow- up, ground-based spectroscopy, in collaboration with L. Stanghellini (NOAO) and E. Villaver (STScI). A recent paper by this group on SMC planetary nebulae derived masses for more than a dozen central stars (which had never been done for SMC PNe) shows what may be a significant difference in the mass distribution compared to the LMC. Strong constraints can be placed on the existence of binary companions to these central stars. Another paper on UV spectroscopy of nearly two dozen LMC PNe shows a strong correlation between carbon abundance and nebular morphological type, in the sense that C in round and elliptical PNe is nearly an order of magnitude more abundant than in Bi-polar PNe. This is consistent with what is observed in Galactic PNe, and can be understood in the context of stellar evolution theory if the central stars of bi-polar PNe are on average more massive.

FY05 Plans During the next year, Shaw and his collaborators will publish the results of another, larger HST imaging sample of LMC PNe, along with extensive ground-based spectroscopy. These observations should almost double the number of PNe for which nebular morphologies, chemical compositions, and

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central star masses are available. A new survey of SMC planetary morphologies was approved for HST Cycle 13 observations.

DAVID SPRAYBERRY, Scientist (Associate Director, Major Instrumentation Program)

Research Interests Instrumentation and observing techniques; galaxy formation and evolution; statistical analysis of galaxy populations, especially dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies

FY04 Accomplishments Sprayberry led the Major Instrumentation group through a number of efforts in FY04, including the successful delivery and commissioning of GNIRS at Gemini-South; the beginning of fabrication and assembly of NEWFIRM; formations of partnerships with other institutions leading to successful proposals for design and feasibility studies of four possible future Gemini instruments; revision of the SAM (SOAR Adaptive Optics Module) design and completion of a successful delta-Conceptual Design Review; and testing of the first science-grade detectors from the ORION development program. He continued support of instrumentation technology and conceptual designs for TMT.

FY05 Plans Sprayberry plans to complete NEWFIRM assembly and start NEWFIRM integration and testing; delivery of first production models of MONSOON Controller system; and Preliminary Design Review of SAM system. He also plans to complete, through partnerships, design studies for Gemini instruments HRNIRS and ExAO-C and feasibility studies for Gemini instruments GWFMOS and GLAO.

¬ LETIZIA STANGHELLINI, Associate Astronomer (New appointment 4/04)

Research Interests Stellar structure and evolution; low- and intermediate-mass stars; AGB stars; proto-planetary nebulae; Galactic and extra-Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe); stellar populations; cosmic recycling; HII regions

FY04 Accomplishments Stanghellini’s most recent research interest has been the use of Magellanic PNe as probes of stellar evolution, both from an observational and theoretical point of view. In particular, she has recently analyzed the STIS/HST UV spectra of 24 LMC PNe in order to derive their carbon abundances, and compared them with the theoretical yields from stellar evolution. Stanghellini is also calibrating a novel distance scale for Galactic PNe using the Magellanic PNe as calibrators. She is the co-investigator of VLT spectroscopic follow-up of newly discovered LMC PNe. Also active in the Galactic PN field, Stanghellini recently acquired several high resolution spectra of PN central stars with the aim of detecting and measuring their magnetic fields; data are under analysis. Stanghellini was the organizer of the first meeting on “Planetary Nebulae beyond the Milky Way” (an ESO workshop) in May 2004.

FY05 Plans Stanghellini plans to acquire and analyze UV spectra of a sample of SMC PNe to determine the nebular carbon abundances. (The observations were initially planned with STIS/HST.; given the ill fate of STIS, Stanghellini will redirect the observations to the ACS/HST camera.) She also plans to complete the analysis of the central star spectra of Galactic PNe in search for magnetic fields associated to their central stars. Also planned is the management of the Magellanic PN database, data analysis of several sets of optical echelle spectra of LMC and SMC Pne, and the publication of the UV STIS/HST spectra of the LMC PNe.

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STEPHEN STROM, Astronomer (Associate Director for GSMT Development)

Research Interests Formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems; stellar rotation as a probe of initial conditions in star-forming regions

FY04 Accomplishments In collaboration with S. Wolff and L. Hillenbrand (Caltech), Strom carried out a study of the rotational properties of 0.5 to 3 solar mass stars in the Orion star-forming complex. We show that the broad trends in the data can be accounted for by simple models that posit that stars (1) lose angular momentum before they are deposited on the birth line, plausibly through star-disk interactions; (2) undergo additional braking as they evolve down their convective tracks; and (3) are subject to core- envelope decoupling during the convective-radiative transition.

FY05 Plans Strom plans to work with S. Wolff and K. Olsen to measure rotational velocities among B stars in the dense LMC cluster R136. The goal of the program is to test the hypothesis that rotation speeds for stars formed in dense regions are higher than those for stars born in lower density environments, perhaps as a result of the higher accretion rates that are thought to characterize protostars in regions analogous to R136.

FRANCISCO VALDES, Scientist

Research Interests Cosmology; gravitational lensing; stellar spectroscopy; astronomical software

FY04 Accomplishments Valdes completed and released a large library of high resolution (1 Angstrom) stellar spectra obtained over the past 8 years using the KPNO Coudé Feed Telescope. The library contains spectra for 1273 stars over the range 3460 to 9464 Angstroms at a sampling of 0.44 Angstroms/pixel. The library was made available from an NOAO Web site and a paper was published in the ApJ Supplements.

FY05 Plans Valdes plans to work on improvements to the Indo-US Library of Coudé Feed Stellar Spectra. He is also working with other NOAO staff and external collaborators on the proposal for a new Gemini instrument called Kilo Aperture Optical Spectrograph (KAOS).

CONSTANCE WALKER, Senior Science Education Specialist (Astronomer)

Research Interests Sub-millimeter and millimeterwave spectroscopy to study star formation toward the centers of galaxies at different epochs; science education which includes students’ learning styles, misconceptions of science, teacher professional development, bringing authentic research into the classroom and various means of hands-on, inquiry-based outreach

FY04 Accomplishments On a national level, C. Walker has been a member of several teams responsible for program and workshop creation, coordination, preparation and implementation in the areas of teacher professional development and teacher leadership, research experiences for teachers, and creation of curricula and

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instructional materials. Such (NSF-sponsored) programs include Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE) and a new program, Hands-on Optics (HOO). On local and international levels, C. Walker has been responsible for creation, coordination, preparation and implementation of programs and workshops that train and partner K-12 teachers and community educators with professional and amateur astronomers who involve the students and (in one program) their families in hands-on, inquiry-based activities on astronomy and science. Such programs include Project ASTRO- Tucson (in its 8th year), Family ASTRO-Tucson (in its 2nd year) and ASTRO-Chile (in its 2nd year), all of which are under the site leadership of C. Walker. Some local, national and international firsts during FY04 include 1) hosting a booth at the Math, Science, and Technology Fun Fest at the Tucson Convention Center (attended by more than 7,400 students), 2) organizing two oral sessions and one poster session on teacher professional development and research in the classroom at the annual American Geophysical Union conference and 3) meeting and planning with PAEO’s Chilean colleagues in La Serena.

FY05 Plans C. Walker plans to continue implementing the goals of TLRBSE, HOO, Project ASTRO, Family ASTRO, and ASTRO-Chile and helping to start or further exciting new initiatives just on the horizon.

LLOYD WALLACE, Emeritus Astronomer

Research Interests Spectroscopy and atmospheric structure of cool stars; molecular spectroscopy

FY04 Accomplishments Wallace has been analyzing the infrared spectra of Si I, C I, and FeH, based mainly on spectra obtained by other investigators in the 1980s. Previous work on Si I and C I beyond 5 microns has been based on an extrapolation of spectra at shorter wavelengths. Wallace, in conjunction with W. Balfour at U. of Victoria and J. Brown at U. of Oxford, has also finally succeeded in the analysis of two electronic transitions of FeH near 1.35 and 1.58 microns.

FY05 Plans Wallace expects to return to the analysis of astronomical spectra, in particular, a re-analysis of a high- resolution spectrum of a cold sunspot in the visible region similar to that of a cool star, and a re- analysis of a very high precision solar spectrum in the infrared.

SIDNEY C. WOLFF, Astronomer

Research Interests Star formation; stellar angular momentum; large optical/infrared telescopes

FY04 Accomplishments Wolff continued to collaborate with S. Strom and others, including undergraduate students, on projects designed to characterize the processes that control the evolution of pre-main sequence (PMS) stars with the goal of relating the outcomes of star formation to the initial conditions. To date, we have demonstrated that disk-locking models can explain the observed trend in specific angular momentum with mass and that the observed changes in angular momentum with time among PMS stars are consistent with disk-locking models and independently inferred disk lifetimes.

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FY05 Plans Wolff plans to explore whether the formation mechanisms inferred for low mass stars apply to high mass stars. Observations will be used to determine accretion rates and angular momentum distributions in regions of differing density and metallicity.

Scientists Based in La Serena, Chile (NOAO South)

TIMOTHY ABBOTT, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Late stages of binary stellar evolution; instrumentation; detectors

FY04 Accomplishments Abbott managed the June 2004 shutdown of the V. M. Blanco telescope, and led work aimed at improving performance and operation efficiency of the Blanco telescope. He participated in surveys searching for galactic cataclysmic variable populations, and studies of accretion physics in selected cataclysmic variables. He was principal NOAO contact for the Dark Energy Survey collaboration, and advised in the preparation of proposals submitted to Fermilab (DOE), NOAO, and NSF. Abbott continued support of the CCD-world detector discussion forum.

FY05 Plans Abbott expects to continue improving Blanco performance and operations. He will become Deputy Project Manager for the construction of the Dark Energy Camera, for deployment on the Blanco prime focus. He expects to continue searches for Galactic CV populations.

MARCEL BERGMANN, Research Associate (NGSC Postdoctoral Fellow)

Research Interests Observational studies of galaxy formation and evolution; stellar populations; dark matter; field/cluster environmental effects; E+A galaxies

FY04 Accomplishments Bergmann worked in collaboration with I. Jorgensen (Gemini Observatory) and J. Barr (Oxford U.) to produce first results from the Gemini/HST Galaxy cluster project. These results were presented at three meetings, and the first paper was submitted to AJ in September 2004. Bergmann mentored an REU student on a project to find nearby E+A galaxy candidates from the SDSS spectral data set, and collaborated with J. Turner (Gemini Observatory) to obtain optical IFU spectroscopy of one of the galaxies during GMOS IFU system verification. Bergmann's work for NGSC included providing technical assessments of U.S. GMOS proposals, phase II support, and rapid response to Gemini Help Desk queries. Bergmann provided direct support to Gemini Observatory, modifying and testing scripts for the Gemini IRAF package, and beta-testing the Gemini Science Archive.

FY05 Plans Bergmann will spend a good fraction of his research time working to analyze and publish the results from the Gemini/HST galaxy cluster project. He will also continue his work on E+A galaxies, and dark matter in early-type field galaxies. He will also begin to make plans for an NGSC-led workshop/school on observing with, and reducing data from IFU spectrographs (e.g., GMOS, GNIRS, NIFS).

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ROBERT D. BLUM, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests The Galactic center; stellar content of Galactic Giant HII regions; and massive star formation

FY04 Accomplishments Blum was granted tenure in 2004. Four papers were published (or are in press) in refereed journals, including one as first author. This latter paper, “Accretion Signatures from Massive Young Stellar Objects,” presents exciting new results on the formation of massive stars through observations taken with the NOAO high-resolution spectrograph, PHOENIX, at Gemini South. As part of the AURA-New Initiatives Office/Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) group, Blum is responsible for exploring, accessing, and characterizing new sites in Northern Chile. Blum successfully led the effort to gain access for the deployment of the second TMT site testing equipment suite in Northern Chile. He also spent many nights in 2004 supporting queue observations at Gemini South with the NOAO PHOENIX spectrograph for the Gemini community.

FY05 Plans Blum will continue to study massive star formation through observations of Galactic Giant HII regions. He has been invited to give a review on this topic at the IAU Symposium 227 on massive star birth (May 16-20 2005, Catania, Italy). Blum will support the new adaptive optics system, Hokupa'a 85, on Gemini South as part of his commitment to the US Gemini community . A major goal for the TMT project will be to gain access to a third site in Northern Chile.

PATRICE J. E. BOUCHET, Associate Scientist

Research Interests IR instrumentation; adaptive optics; tip-tilt; dust in supernovae and SN-remnants; SN 1987A

FY04 Accomplishments Bouchet has been involved in the system verification observations of the mid-IR Gemini T-ReCS instrument he observed and detected the inner ring and the ejecta of SN 1987A at 10µ and 20µ (ApJ, 2004, 611394-398). Bouchet and collaborators have derived the dust mass and temperature at day 6070 after outburst. If SN 1987A is used as a template, their results indicate that the mass of the dust produced during the explosion (between 10-4 and 2.10-3 solar mass) falls short by at least one order of magnitude to sustain that supernovae are major dust factories in the universe. This result triggered the search for dust around other bright core-collapse supernovae, between 150 and 600 days after outburst. Bouchet detected dust around two such supernovae with T-ReCS at Gemini South. Results are being analyzed.

FY05 Plans The collision between the ejecta of SN 1987A and its circumstellar ring is now well underway. Bouchet has already shown that new interactions between the nebula and ejecta, in the form of “hot” spots are seen (in particular in the HeI 1.083um line), and show variations on time scales of a few months. He intends to continue the monitoring of this dramatic event in the near IR. He expects also to derive the mass of radioactive 56 Cobalt produced in other supernovae from the observations of the [Co II] 10.52um line, in order to test whether the assumptions and modeling methods used to bring indirect evidence of a wide range of masses of Fe produced in core-collapse objects are justified. Bouchet has been granted observing time at Gemini South to pursue the study of the dust around SN 1987A and other core-collapse supernovae. These forthcoming imaging and spectroscopic observations will focus on line versus continuum emission in order to determine the type of emission present, and they are

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required to clarify the issue of the energetics of the supernova. In parallel, Bouchet will continue investigating whether CC supernovae are major sources of dust production in the universe.

JAMES M. DE BUIZER, Research Associate

Research Interests Maser emission in star-forming regions; massive star formation; hot molecular cores; circumstellar disks and outflow; Galactic HII and ultra compact HII regions

FY04 Accomplishments (De Buizer has been on leave of absence to work for Gemini South since February 2003; he returned to his postdoc position at CTIO in February 2004. This position terminates September 2004.) His research focused on mid-infrared imaging and radiative transfer modeling of the natal envelopes of high mass protostellar objects, high angular resolution thermal imaging of the supernova 1987A remnant, high angular resolution follow-up to Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the LMC star forming region Henize 206, multiple wavelength high-angular resolution imaging and modeling of the dust asymmetry in the central circumstellar debris disk of Beta Pictoris, multiple wavelength observations of massive star forming regions containing water maser emission, and high-spectral resolution near-infrared observations of accretion disk and outflow signatures around massive protostars. One exciting highlight of this research is, in the case of the work on Beta Pictoris, the data show that the asymmetry of the dust in the circumstellar disk may be due to a recent cataclysmic break-up of a planetesimal about half the size of Pluto. This research was the subject of nine talks given since February and has produced six papers, four of which have been submitted for publication, accepted for publication, or published.

FY05 Plans Upon completion of his position at CTIO in September 2004, De Buizer will be working for Gemini South as a postdoctoral fellow.

BROOKE GREGORY, Scientist

Research Interests Infrared instrumentation; next-generation telescope design; adaptive optics

FY04 Accomplishments Starting in January 2004, Gregory spent about a third of his time assisting the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) program as a systems scientist. He has continued work on modeling tasks for a 30-meter class telescope, concentrating this past year on a linearized optical model for the low-order alignment aberrations and the modeling of segment control of a segmented primary. He has also continued to supervise a student in the development of an integration time calculator for the telescope. He continues to participate in the SAM (SOAR Adaptive Module) project to build a laser-based Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO) system for the SOAR 4.1-m telescope. He serves as manager of the Engineering and Technical Resources Division of Cerro Tololo and has assumed the chairmanship of the Advisory Committee for Technical Resources (ACTR).

FY05 Plans Gregory will continue to work with Gemini on the MCAO program. He will continue his modeling work for the 30-m class telescope, probably at a decreased rate. At CTIO, he will continue to divide his time between work on the SAM project, managing ETS and leading the ACTR.

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¬ RACHEL MASON, Research Associate (New appointment 8/04)

Research Interests Interstellar dust, ices and molecules; active galaxies; infrared spectroscopy and polarimetry

FY05 Plans Mason plans to publish her infrared spectropolarimetric observations and modeling of a Seyfert II galaxy, as well as mid-IR spectra of that galaxy recently obtained on the Gemini North telescope. She eagerly awaits data from Spitzer IRS, in collaboration with colleagues at NASA Ames Research Center, and will further that and other collaborations by applying for ground-based observing time to study dust and ices in our Galaxy and others.

¬ CHRISTOPHER J. MILLER, Assistant Astronomer (New appointment 8/04)

Research Interests Observational cosmology; large scale structure; computational astrostatistics; galaxy clusters; galaxy formation and evolution; active galactic nuclei, science with large databases

FY05 Plans Having recently created the largest nearby spectroscopic galaxy cluster sample, the C4-SDSS Cluster Catalog, Miller will lead a series of scientific investigations on galaxy clusters including: radial profiles of the cluster galaxy members, X-ray properties, and spatial distributions, among others. Additionally, Miller will release the SDSS-DR3 version of the C4 catalog. He will contribute to the science team of the WFMOS feasibility effort, by studying our ability to detect baryon oscillations in future large, distant spectroscopic surveys. Miller will coordinate with ongoing NOAO Science Archive efforts as well as with the NOAO Virtual Observatory effort.

¬ DARA J. NORMAN, Research Associate (New appointment 9/04)

Research Interests Quasars and their environments; gravitational lensing; large-scale structure; low-mass companions of MS stars; cool stars

FY04 Accomplishments Over the last 12 months, Norman continued observing support for the Deep Lens Survey. Efforts in this regard have lead to a recently published paper on transient statistics in the survey fields. She successfully proposed for Blanco 4-m time to use the Hydra Spectrograph and the IR Sideport Imager to pursue follow-up research on Deep Lens Survey fields. These spectra are part of a forthcoming team paper in preparation. This year, Norman was successful in obtaining GEMINI-S SV data from the GMOS IFU and GNIRS to pursue additional AGN research. She has also continued active collaboration with NOAO-N staff involved in quasar searches in the NDWFS. Her involvement in ASTRO-Chile workshops and other outreach activities, notably Hand-On Universe and REU, have continued. Norman has started a new one-year position as postdoctoral fellow at CTIO, primarily working with the Data Products Program.

FY05 Plans Norman’s FY05 goals are to write two papers using data obtained from the Blanco 4-m and Gemini-S data described above. Norman plans to pursue a project with DPP to more clearly summarize and demonstrate the utility of NVO tools currently available. ASTRO-Chile workshops will continue into a

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third academic year, with new discussion topics and planned student-student interaction. Over the next year, Norman hopes to successfully obtain a new appointment in astronomy.

KNUT A. OLSEN, Assistant Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar populations and star formation histories of nearby galaxies; structure of the LMC and its young stellar populations

FY04 Accomplishments Olsen had two papers accepted for publication in 2004 and submitted two more. The first detailed the search and discovery of globular clusters in four galaxies in the Sculptor group. The resulting globular cluster kinematics led to the conclusion that galaxy disks were in place long before z=1. The second, led by graduate student Anil Seth, showed that the dwarf irregular galaxies of the Virgo and Fornax clusters have many more globular clusters than those of the Local Group. The third, led by A. Rest, detailed the design of the SuperMACHO survey, which aims to identify the microlensing population towards the LMC. Finally, in collaboration with T. Davidge (NRC) and others, Olsen finished analysis of data taken of the bulge and disk of M31 as part of system verification for the Altair adaptive optics system on Gemini North. The data show that both the bulge and disk are dominated by stars that formed before z=1.

FY05 Plans Olsen plans to finish a second paper on the analysis of the M31 Altair data, in which the star formation histories of the bulge and disk are derived. He will also finish analysis of chemical abundances in the LMC globular cluster NGC 2019, which will provide much-needed data on the oxygen content of metal-poor LMC stars. Olsen plans to explore the structure of the LMC with data taken as part of the SuperMACHO survey and from the Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey. Measuring the ages of Sculptor group clusters using HST is also high priority.

SEAN D. POINTS, Research Associate

Research Interests Interstellar medium (ISM); the Magellanic Clouds

FY04 Accomplishments Points had papers published (or accepted for publication) in refereed journals including one as first author. This latter paper, “The Complex Interstellar Na I Absorption toward h and Chi Persei” with collaborators J. Lauroesch and D. Meyer (Northwestern) reported the analysis of high resolution spectra to better understand small-scale variations in the ISM. Points has also been involved with the final science calibration of data from the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) with R. C. Smith (CTIO).

FY05 Plans Points plans to continue his investigations into the small-scale structure of the ISM by analyzing and publishing data from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite toward h and Chi Persei. As part of his Magellanic Cloud studies, Points will be publishing the first results of an X-ray investigation of newly discovered supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

ARMIN REST, Research Associate

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Research Interests Galactic structure and cosmology, in particular dark matter and dark energy

FY04 Accomplishments Rest was named Goldberg fellow. He is one of the lead members of the SuperMacho project, a next generation microlensing survey towards the LMC. This project aims to identify the location of the lensing population that is responsible for the anomalously high microlensing rate towards the LMC identified by the MACHO project, which will lead to a substantial improvement in the understanding of Galactic structure, and has a direct bearing on the understanding of dark matter. He is also an active member of the ESSENCE project, which is a NOAO Survey program that is discovering and studying supernovae in the 0.2

FY05 Plans Rest plans to improve the transient database and its connection to the reduction pipeline. He will implement a Web-based alert system using data from different telescopes in real-time, and expects to prepare papers on multi-color lightcurve fitting, SuperMACHO results, and pipelines.

HUGO E. SCHWARZ, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Fatally late stages of stellar evolution; PNe; symbiotic stars; polarimetry; astronomical site selection and protection; light pollution legislation

FY04 Accomplishments Schwarz published the book: Light Pollution: The Global View (Kluwer/Springer), a review article on light pollution in ASSL Vol 296, and 13 other articles. Schwarz' student H. Monteiro has been awarded his PhD and has accepted a post-doctoral position at Georgia State University. The SOAR Optical Imager has been successfully used to take first light images for the SOAR dedication, and the SOAR All Sky Camera has been commissioned and is in regular use on Pachon.

FY05 Plans Schwarz plans to continue his work on PNe and extend this to extra-galactic Pne, contribute to getting the SOAR telescope to the science operations stage, help prepare the revision of the Chilean law on light pollution control DS686 for 2005, and support the program of public talks designed to convince the Chilean authorities of the importance of controlling light pollution.

R. CHRIS SMITH, Associate Astronomer (Manager, Data Products Program South)

Research Interests Supernovae, supernova remnants, the interstellar medium

FY04 Accomplishments Smith was granted tenure in FY04. He has continued to play a leading role in the organization and management of two large, international NOAO survey projects: ESSENCE, which aims to constrain the equation of state of dark energy, and SuperMACHO, which plans to constrain the location and

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characteristics of dark matter. Both projects have begun to produce significant results, with over 60 supernovae discovered to date in ESSENCE and a similar number of candidate microlensing events identified in SuperMACHO. Smith also oversaw the initial stages of analysis of his Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS), resulting in six newly identified supernova remnants. XMM observations have been obtained of two of these to provide additional information about their evolutionary states and environments.

FY05 Plans Smith plans to make significant progress in mining the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) data set, extracting new samples of supernova remnants and planetary nebulae, and investigating the evolution of these objects. He should make the first release of the MCELS data public in FY05. He also plans to publish the strategy of the ESSENCE survey. In addition, Smith plans to continue to develop and implement the operation plans for the Data Products Program as several of the DPP tools come online (pipelines, archives, etc.). He will also work on providing advanced data products from the ESSENCE and SuperMACHO surveys. Working with the development team of LSST, he will support both the investigation of data processing alternatives (with experience from the SuperMACHO and ESSENCE surveys) and operational models, including the availability of high speed bandwidth both from the mountain to a "base camp" downtown and from that base camp back to one or more data centers in the continental U.S.

MALCOLM G. SMITH, Astronomer (Director of the AURA Observatory in Chile)

Research Interests The early Universe; quasars/active galactic nuclei; global environmental impact of light pollution

FY04 Accomplishments Smith has attended many meetings (by invitation) on the control of light pollution. One third of the luminaires in Northern Chile (2nd, 3rd and 4th regions) are now compliant with Decreto Supremo 686 (the “Norma Luminica”). President Lagos opened a second, municipal public observatory—this one in Andacollo joins the now well-known Mamalluca Observatory, run by the municipality of Vicuña . Both towns closest to Cerro Pachon and Cerro Tololo now have intrinsic interest in protecting their own substantial investments against the effects of light pollution as astronomical eco-tourism takes hold in the area. The Mayor of La Serena has embarked on a program to change over 14,000 luminaires to meet the requirements of DS686. 20% of this program was completed in FY2004. The rest of this project is scheduled to be carried out during FY 2005. Astronomy is now being introduced into the compulsory curriculum of La Serena’s Municipal school system. Smith was elected an Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society.

FY05 Plans Smith plans to continue efforts with NOAO, Gemini, and SOAR to develop AURA-O into a truly advantageous arrangement for these participating Program Units. He also expects to mount a special effort during FY 2005 to attempt to secure effective compliance by municipalities in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th regions of Chile by 1st October 2005, the expiration date of the 6-year grace period allowed under the “norma luminica”. Full compliance is expected to recover at least one or two decades of additional productive life for all existing and future astronomical sites in these three regions. Smith will join the support team for ISPI on the Blanco 4-m and will continue to serve on one of NOAO’s Extragalactic Time Assignment Committees. Smith’s research will follow up on the assignment of time with ISPI to image optically faint X-ray sources in 8 ChaMP fields. These near-IR data are required to augment

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existing deep optical imaging, allowing photometric classification and redshift estimation, essential in obtaining efficient spectral follow-up of the important optically faint sources.

NICHOLAS B. SUNTZEFF, Astronomer (Associate Director for Science)

Research Interests Supernovae; cosmology; stellar populations; site characterization

FY04 Accomplishments In collaboration with postdoc K. Krisciunas (now at Notre Dame), M Phillips, and M. Hamuy (LCO), Suntzeff continued a study of the fundamental infrared properties of Type Ia SNe. Two papers were published showing that the near-IR properties of these events are a near-standard candle with a distance dispersion approaching 6%. The near-IR colors have the advantage that the reddening corrections are minimal, reducing the errors of poorly measured reddenings in the optical. In collaboration with Bouchet and De Buizer at CTIO, Suntzeff observed SN1987A in the mid-IR with T-ReCS on Gemini-S and detected both the inner ring structure and the debris from the explosion of the supernova. The observations show that Type II supernova may be significant or even dominant sites for dust formation in the epoch of galaxy formation.

Suntzeff continued his research in stellar populations in collaborations where the aluminum abundance signature of Galactic globular cluster stars was measured (Cavallo et al.) and globular clusters in the Sculptor group galaxies were discovered and studied (Olsen et al.). In addition, he mentored an REU student; built a filter testing system for precise calculations of synthetic photometry needed for K- corrections, and maintained a public Web site on nearby supernova, including images, which are re- posted around the world. Finally, Suntzeff worked on the science case for the Fermilab collaboration to build a “Dark Energy Camera” which would replace the Blanco 4-m telescope Mosaic CCD camera.

FY05 Plans Suntzeff's goals are to continue to pursue an active research program in SNe as described above. The ESSENCE and CSP/CTIO supernova projects are long-term projects that are only partially finished. He will collaborate with Chris Stubbs at Harvard to develop an in situ way of measuring precise system quantum efficiencies of instruments using projected images of calibrated sources. He will also continue to take an active role in science planning for the Dark Energy Camera.

ANDREI TOKOVININ, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Statistics and formation of binary and multiple star; adaptive optics; site testing

FY04 Accomplishments Tokovinin built a small series of MASS-DIMM instruments for measuring seeing and turbulence profiles; these have been put into operation for the TMT site testing campaign and for monitoring existing sites; first night-time turbulence data for Dome C in Antarctica have been obtained. Work on the SOAR AO system resulted in the improved concept of the instrument, now approaching PDR. He has developed the theory of ground-layer AO and applied it to the feasibility study of GLAO for Gemini. Significant progress on the 9th catalog of spectroscopic binary orbitswas achieved in 2004.

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FY05 Plans Tokovinin plans to make major progress on SOAR AO in FY05. He will remain involved in the TMT site testing program. He will continue with studies of the statistics and origins of multiple/binary stars, and expects to complete the SB9 orbit catalog.

NICOLE S. VAN DER BLIEK, Assistant Scientist

Research Interests Instrumentation; young stars and brown dwarfs

FY04 Accomplishments Van der Bliek led the effort to complete ISPI, now a fully functioning facility instrument, with very easy–to-use graphical user interface. The SAM team, led by van der Bliek, is now preparing for PDR and is planning the path for completion of the project. From October to July, van der Bliek supervised the Brazilian student Wladimir Lyra, working on optical and near infrared data of young clusters. This work has been presented at a summer school on extra solar planets and brown dwarfs, held in Santiago in December 2003 and resulted in a paper which will be submitted to A&A. The first analysis of 10 micron data of circumstellar disks around brown dwarfs, a collaboration with Apai, Pascussi, Sterzik has resulted in two publications submitted to A&A and a successful Spitzer proposal, to obtain MIR spectra of these disks.

FY05 Plans Van der Bliek will continue to lead the team building SAM, and progress from PDR through fabrication and integration, then prepare it for commissioning at SOAR. She will carry on support work for ISPI, and participate in support of OSIRIS on SOAR. Van der Bliek will continue the collaboration with Apai, Pascussi, Sterzik and their group on mid infrared data of brown dwarfs, in particular working on data to be obtained through the Spitzer proposal. She will also continue the work with Lyra on the analysis of photometric data of young clusters.

ALISTAIR R. WALKER, Astronomer (Director, CTIO)

Research Interests Stellar populations; the Magellanic Clouds; the distance scale; astronomical instrumentation

FY04 Accomplishments Walker completed a photometric study of the age-metallicity relation of the galactic globular cluster omega Centauri and published the results. On-going work on the multiple stellar populations of the Carina DSph galaxy was published in two papers and presented at various conferences. Walker obtained deep Blanco 4-m images for several Sculptor group galaxies.

FY05 Plans Walker will participate in further observations of the Carina DSph galaxy to determine kinematics and abundances for the old and intermediate populations, and the search for extra-tidal stars will be continued. Comparisons between distance indicators in the Scultor Group galaxies will be completed for two of the five galaxies being studied. Walker will participate in a project to analyze high spatial- resolution photometry for the complete sample of Cepheid variables in the LMC cluster NGC1866, and spectroscopic observations to better determine the cluster metallicity are scheduled.

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ALAN B. WHITING, Research Associate

Research Interests Nearby galaxy dynamics; dwarf galaxy surveys; local cosmology; observations of variable stars

FY04 Accomplishments Whiting served as site director for the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at CTIO, as well as NOAO liaison for the initial three semesters of SMARTS operation. His continued investigation into Local Volume motions has led to surprising conclusions about the mass- to-light ratio in this region. He has also investigated the theoretical meaning of the expansion of space and the cause of the cosmological redshift. An observational project on cataclysmic variable stars (conducted with REU students and colleagues at ESO) has resulted in two publications to date and more in preparation.

FY05 Plans Whiting will continue to serve as Site Director and mentor for the REU Program, as well as NOAO liaison for continued and expanded SMARTS programs. He will see publication of the results of the Local Group Dwarf Hunt and completion of the Cosmic Peculiar Velocity investigation. Further observational work on cataclysmic variable stars is also planned.

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Author Name: NOAO Scientist Author Name: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site Program Student

Tucson-Based Scientific Staff (NOAO North)

1. Abt, H.A., et al. 2004, BAAS, 36, 868, “What Kinds of Astronomical Papers are Still Referenced 50 Years after Publication?”

2. Abt, H.A. 2004, BAAS, 36, 576, “Some Incorrect Journal Impact Factors.”

3. Abt, H.A. 2004, The Environment and Evolution of Double and Multiple Stars, eds. C. Allen and C. Scarfe (Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica), 1, “Dedication to Arcadio Poveda.”

4. Abt, H.A., et al. 2004, The Environment and Evolution of Double and Multiple Stars, eds. C. Allen and C. Scarfe (Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica), 37, “The Mass Distribution of Secondaries to Solar- Type Stars.”

5. Abt, H.A. 2004, ApJ, 603, L109, “Evidence for an Interstellar Origin of Stellar Shells.”

6. Abt, H.A. 2003, The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millennium, ed T. Oswalt (Kluwer Academic), 55, “Productivity of Ground-Based Optical Telescopes of Various Apertures.”

7. Abt, H.A., et al. 2003, Stellar Astrophysics – A Tribute to Helmut A. Abt, eds. K.S. Cheng, et al. (Kluwer Academic), 165, “Rotational Velocities of B Stars.”

8. Abt, H.A. 2003, Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 4, ed. A. Heck (Kluwer Academic), 197, “The Institute for Scientific Information and the Science Citation Index.”

9. Abt, H.A., et al. 2003, BAAS, 35, 1446, “The Scientific Output of the International Ultraviolet Explorer during its Lifetime.”

10. Allard, N.F., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2004, ApJ, 601, L183, “Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Observations of G226-29: First Detection of the H2 Quasi-molecular Satellite at 1150 Å.”

11. Allen, C., Kinman, T.D. 2004, The Environment and Evolution of Double and Multiple Stars, eds. C. Allen and C. Scarfe (Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica), 121, “Young Stars far from the Galactic Plane: Runaways from Clusters.”

12. Allen, C., Kinman, T.D. 2003, Astronomy in Latin America, eds. R. Teixeira, et al. (ADeLA Publications Series), 143, “Young Stars far from the Galactic Plane: Ejection from Clusters?”

13. Appleton, P.N., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 147, “The Far- and Mid-Infrared/Radio Correlations in the Spitzer Extragalactic First Look Survey.”

14. Backman, D., … Najita, J., … Strom, S., et al. 2003, Proceedings of the Conference Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets, eds. M. Fridlund and T. Henning (ESA), 349, “The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing our Solar System in Context.”

15. Baltz, E.A., Lauer, T.R., et al. 2004, ApJ, 610, 691, “Microlensing Candidates in M87 and the Virgo Cluster with the Hubble Space Telescope.”

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16. Bouret, J.-C., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2003, ApJ, 595, 1182, “Quantitative Spectroscopy of O Stars at Low Metallicity: O Dwarfs in NGC 346.”

17. Brandeker, A., … Najita, J., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2009, “Keck Adaptive Optics Imaging of Nearby Young Stars: Detection of Close Multiple Systems.”

18. Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., Lauer, T.R., et al. 2004, Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution, eds. J.S. Mulchaey, A. Dressler, and A. Oemler (Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series), “Early-type Galaxy Clustering in the NOAO Deep Wide-field Survey.”

19. Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., Lauer, T.R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, 225, “Red Galaxy Clustering in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey.”

20. Boroson, T. 2004, ASP Conf. 311, eds. G.T Richards and P.B. Hall (ASP), 3, “Principal Component Analysis of QSO Properties.”

21. Bouwens, R.J., … Dickinson, M.E., et al. 2004, ApJ, 606, L25, “Star Formation at z ~ 6: The Hubble Ultra Deep Parallel Fields.”

22. Burrows, A., Hubeny, I., et al. 2004, ApJ, 610, L53, “Theoretical Radii of Transiting Giant Planets: The Case of OGLE-TR-56b.”

23. Burrows, A., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, 407, “Spectra and Diagnostics for the Direct Detection of Wide-Separation Extrasolar Giant Planets.”

24. Burrows, A., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2004, The Search for Other Worlds: Fourteenth Astrophysics Conference, eds. S.S. Holt and D. Deming (AIP), 143, “Thoughts on the Theory of Irradiated Giant Planets.”

25. Calabretta, M.R., Valdes, F., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 314, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M.G. Allen and D. Egret (ASP), 551, “Representations of Distortions in FITS World Coordinate Systems.”

26. Carr, J.S., … Najita, J., et al. 2004, ApJ, 603, 213, “Hot H2O Emission and Evidence for Turbulence in the Disk of a Young Star.”

27. Chary, R., … Dickinson, M.E., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 80, “The Nature of Faint 24 Micron Sources Seen in Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of ELAIS-N1.”

28. Cotton, W.D., … Ridgway, S., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 414, 275, “VLBA Observations of SiO Masers towards Mira Variable Stars.”

29. De Young, D.S. 2003, New Astronomy Reviews, 47, 545, “Extended radio sources and the intracluster medium.”

30. De Young, D. 2004, Toward an International Virtual Observatory, eds. P.J. Quinn and K.M. Gorski (Springer), 193, “Theoretical Astrophysics and the US-NVO Initiative.”

31. De Young, D.S. 2004, Proceedings of the Riddle of Cooling Flows in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies, eds. T. Reiprich, J. Kempner, and N. Soker, “Intracluster Magnetic Fields and the Reheating of Cooling Flows.”

32. Dickinson, M., … Dey, A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 600, L99, “Color-selected Galaxies at z ~ 6 in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey.”

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33. Dole, H., … Mould, J.R., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 87, “Far-infrared Source Counts at 70 and 160 Microns in Spitzer Deep Surveys.”

34. Dolphin, A.E., Saha, A., … Thim, F., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 875, “Short-Period Variable Stars in the M31 Halo.”

35. Eisenhardt, P.R., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 48, “The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Shallow Survey.”

36. Fadda, D., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1, “The Spitzer Space Telescope First-Look Survey: KPNO Mosaic-1 R-Band Images and Source Catalogs.”

37. Fekel, F.C., Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., et al. 2003, The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. A. Brown, G.M. Harper and T.R. Ayres (University of Colorado), 1069, “Velocity Observations of Multiple Mode AGB Variable Stars.”

38. Forrest, W.J., … Najita, J., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 443, “Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of Disks around Classical T Tauri Stars.”

39. Fountain, J. and Abt, H.A. 2004, Astronomical Instruments and Archives from the Asia-Pacific Region, eds. W. Orchiston, et al. (Yonsei University Press), 141, “Chinese Jade Serrated Bi Discs as Astronomical Instruments.”

40. Fowler, A.M., Merrill, K.M., et al. 2004, Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era, eds. P. Amico, J. Beletic, and J.E. Beletic, 51, “Orion: A 1-5 Micron Focal Plane for the 21st Century.”

41. Fraknoi, A., Morrison, D., Wolff, S. 2004, Voyages to the Stars and Galaxies (Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning).

42. Gorjian, V., … Mould, J.R., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 275, “Infrared Imaging of the Large Magellanic Cloud Star-forming Region Henize 206.”

43. Green, P.J., … Jannuzi, B.T., … Dey, A., et al. 2004, ApJS, 150, 43, “The Chandra Multiwavelength Project: Optical Follow-up of Serendipitous Chandra Sources.”

44. Green, P.J., … Saha, A., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 349, 1261, “ HS 1216+5032: A Physical Quasar Pair with One Radio-loud Broad Absorption Line Quasar.”

45. Green, R.F., … Boroson, T., et al. 2004, Co-evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L.C. Ho (Cambridge), “AGN Black Hole Masses and Bulge Velocity Dispersions.”

46. Green, R., … Brown, M., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 311, eds. G.T. Richards and P.B. Hall (ASP), 441, “A Deep Wide-Field Infrared Survey for Quasars.”

47. Greenhill, L.J., … Najita, J., et al. 2004, ApJ, 605, L57, “High Angular Resolution Mid-Infrared Imaging of Young Stars in Orion BN/KL.”

48. Gronwall, C., … Boroson, T.A., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 1943, “The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey. IV. Hα-selected Survey List 2.”

49. Guyon, O., Ridgway, S., et al. 2003, Proceedings of the Conference Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets, eds. M. Fridlund and T. Henning (ESA), 435, “Phase- induced Pupil Apodization: A New Concept for a Simplier DARWIN/TPF.”

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50. Hartmann, L., Hinkle, K., Calvet, N. 2004, ApJ, 609, 906, “High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Objects.”

51. Hileman, E.A., Elias, J., Joyce, R., Probst, R., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5495, eds. J. Antebi and D. Lemke (SPIE), 622, “Passive Compensation of Gravity Flexure in Optical Instruments.”

52. Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., Do, T, et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, eds. D.W. Kurtz and K.R. Pollard (ASP), 107, “Dust Enshrouded AGB Stars in the LMC.”

53. Hinkle, K., Wallace, L., et al. 2003, The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. A. Brown, G.M. Harper and T.R. Ayres (University of Colorado), 851, “High Resolution Infrared, Visible and Ultraviolet Spectral Atlases of the Sun and Arcturus.”

54. Hiriart, R., Valdes, F., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 314, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M.G. Allen and D. Egret (ASP), 74, “The NOAO Pipeline Data Manager.”

55. Hubeny, I., et al. 2004, Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond, eds. G. Tovmassian and E. Sion (Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica), 200, “X-ray Heated Accretion Discs around Stellar Mass Black Holes.”

56. Jura, M., … Najita, J., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 453, “Mid-Infrared Spectra of Dust Debris around Main- Sequence Stars.”

57. Kelly, D.M., … Hinkle, K.H., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, eds. M. Meixner, et al. (ASP), 343, “High- Resolution Spectroscopy of H2 in Proto-Planetary Nebulae.”

58. Kinman, T.D., Saha, A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 605, L25, “Halo Structure Shown by RR Lyrae Stars in the Anticenter Direction.”

59. Kinman, T.D., et al. 2004, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 75, 36, “The Vertical Structure of the Halo Rotation.”

60. Koribalski, B.S., … Mould, J.R., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 16, “The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: H I Properties.”

61. Laine, S., … Lauer, T.R., et al. 2004, Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L.C. Ho (Cambridge), “Central Surface Brightness Profiles in Brightest Cluster Galaxies.”

62. Lanz, T., … Hubeny, I. 2004, ApJ, 602, 342, “Flash Mixing on the White Dwarf Cooling Curve: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Observations of Three He-rich sdB Stars.”

63. Lauer, T.R. 2004, Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L.C. Ho (Cambridge), “Black Holes and the Central Structure of Early-type Galaxies.”

64. Lebzelter, T., … Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, eds. D.W. Kurtz and K.R. Pollard (ASP), 144, “AGB Variables in Globular Clusters.”

65. Liu, M., Najita, J., et al. 2003, The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars , Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. A. Brown, G.M. Harper and T.R. Ayres (University of Colorado), 141, “Subaru IR Spectroscopy of Candidate Young Brown Dwarfs and Planetary-Mass Objects in IC 348.”

66. Macri, L.M. 2004, New Astronomy Reviews, 48, 675, “DIRECT DEBs in M31 and M33.”

D–4 D: SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY04

67. Macri, L.M. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, eds. D.W. Kurtz and K.R. Pollard (ASP), 33, “The DIRECT Project.”

68. Makidon, R.B., … Strom, S.E., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2228, “Periodic Variability of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars in the NGC 2264 OB Association.”

69. Matheson, T., … Brown, M.J.I., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2003, ApJ, 599, 394, “Photometry and Spectroscopy of GRB 030329 and Its Associated Supernova 2003dh: The First Two Months.”

70. Merrill, K.M., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5167, eds. T.J. Grycewicz and C.R. McCreight (SPIE), 186, “Orion II: The Second-generation Readout Multiplexer for Largest Infrared Hybrid Focal Plane.”

71. Meyer, M.R., … Najita, J., … Strom, S.E., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 422, “The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: First Results from a Spitzer Legacy Science Program.”

72. Mighell, K.J. 2004, ASP Conf. 314, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M.G. Allen, and D. Egret (ASP), 678, “QLWFPC2: Parallel-Processing Quick-Look WFPC2 Stellar Photometry Based on the Message Passing Interface.”

73. Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids, eds. Belton, M.J.S., … N. Samarasinha, et al., Cambridge, 2004.

74. Mochejska, B.J., Macri, L.M., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, eds. D.W. Kurtz and K.R. Pollard (ASP), 41, “Using Local Group Galaxies to Investigate the Influence of Blending on Cepheid Distances and the Cosmological Distance Scale.”

75. Nelson, C.H., Green, R., et al. 2004, Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L. C. Ho (Cambridge), “Velocity Dispersion and Black Hole Mass in Seyfert I Galaxies.”

76. Papovich, C., … Mould, J.R., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 70, “The 24 Micron Source Counts in Deep Spitzer Space Telescope Surveys.”

77. Perrin, G., Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys. 418, 675, “Interferometric Observations of the Supergiant Stars α Orionis and α Herculis with FLUOR at IOTA.”

78. Pier, J.R., Saha, A., Kinman, T.D. 2003, Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, 5459, 1, “Revised [Fe/H] and Radial Velocities for 28 Distant RR Lyrae Stars.”

79. Pierfederici, F., Valdes, F., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 314, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M.G. Allen and D. Egret (ASP), 476, “The NOAO Mosaic Pipeline Architecture.”

80. Pinkney, J., … Green, R., … Lauer, T.R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, 903, “Kinematics of 10 Early-Type Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-based Spectroscopy.”

81. Pritzl, B.J., Armandroff, T.E., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 318, “The Dwarf Spheroidal Companions to M31: Variable Stars in Andromeda II.”

82. Pritzl, B.J., … Saha, A., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, L47, “Anomalous Evolution of the Dwarf Galaxy HIPASS J1321-31.”

83. Probst, R.G., … Merrill, K.M., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5492, eds. A.F.M Moorwood and M. Iye (SPIE), 1716, “Project Status of NEWFIRM: The Wide-field Infrared Camera for NOAO 4-m Telescopes.”

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84. Ramirez, S.V., … Strom, S., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 787, “Chandra X-Ray Observations of Young Clusters. II. Orion Flanking Fields Data.”

85. Ramirez, S.V., … Strom, S., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2659, “Chandra X-Ray Observations of Young Clusters. I. NGC 2264 Data.”

86. Rebull, L.M., Wolff, S.C., Strom, S.E. 2004, AJ, 127, 1029, “Stellar Rotation in Young Clusters: The First 4 Million Years.”

87. Rebull, L.M., Wolff, S.C., Strom, S.E., et al. 2003, The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. A. Brown, G.M. Harper and T.R. Ayres (University of Colorado), 781, “On the Relationship Between Stellar Rotation and Radius in Young Clusters.”

88. Rhoads, J.E., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, 59, “A Luminous Lyα-emitting Galaxy at Redshift z = 6.535: Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation.”

89. Sakai, S., … Saha, A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 608, 42, “The Effect of Metallicity on Cepheid-based Distances.”

90. Schuller, P., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys. 418, 151, “Are Dust Shell Models Well- suited to Explain Interferometric Data of Late-type Stars in the Near-infrared?”

91. Scott, J.E.,…Green, R.F., et al. 2004, ApJS, 152, 1, “Intrinsic Absorption in the Spectrum of Markarian 279: Simultaneous Chandra, FUSE, and STIS Observations.”

92. Scott, J., … Green, R., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 311, eds. G.T. Richards and P.B. Hall (ASP), 31, “A Composite Extreme Ultraviolet QSO Spectrum from FUSE.”

93. Shara, M.M., … Lauer, T.R., et al. 2004, ApJ, 605, L117, “An Erupting Classical Nova in a Globular Cluster of M87.”

94. Skillman, E.D., … Dolphin, A.E., Saha, A., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, 253, “Deep Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of IC 1613. II. The Star Formation History.”

95. Smith, V., … Hinkle, K.H., … Ridgway, S.T., Joyce, R.R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 599, L107, “High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf ε Indi Ba.”

96. Stanghellini, L., … Shaw, R.A., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, 1000, “Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Three Very Young Star Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud.”

97. Stanghellini, L., Shaw, R.A., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, 997, “Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Slitless Observations of Small Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebulae: A Study on Morphology, Emission-Line Intensity, and Evolution.”

98. Starr, B.M., … Merrill, K.M., Claver, C.F., et al. 2004, Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era, eds. Amico, P., Beletic, J. W., Beletic, J. E. (Kluwer Academic), 269, “Monsoon Image Acquisition System.”

99. Thim, F., … Saha, A., Claver, J., Dolphin, A., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2322, “Cepheids and Long-Period Variables in NGC 4395.”

100. Uchida, K.I., … Najita, J., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 439, “The State of Protoplanetary Material 10 Million Years After Stellar Formation: Circumstellar Disks in the TW Hydrae Association.”

D–6 D: SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY04

101. Valdes, F., et al. 2004, ApJS, 152, 251, “The Indo-US Library of Coudé Feed Stellar Spectra.”

102. van der Bliek, N.S., … Probst, R., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5492, eds. A.F.M. Moorwood and M. Iye (SPIE), 1582, “ISPI: The Wide Field NIR Imager for the CTIO Blanco 4-meter Telescope.”

103. Villaver, E., … Shaw, R.A., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, eds. M. Meixner, et al. (ASP), 414, “A Study of the Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds.”

104. Villaver, E., … Shaw, R.A., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, 298, “Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch Evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A Study of the Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae.”

105. Wang, J.X., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 213, “The 172 ks Chandra Exposure of the LALA Bootes Field: X-Ray Source Catalog.”

106. Wang, J.X., … Dey, A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 608, L21, “X-Ray Nondetection of the Lyα Emitters at z~4.5.”

107. Watson, D.M., …. Najita, J., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 391, “Mid-infrared Spectra of Class I Proto-stars in Taurus.”

108. Williams, J.P., Najita, J., et al. 2004, ApJ, 604, 414, “Detection of Cool Dust around the G2 V Star HD 107146.”

109. Wolff, S.C., Strom, S.E., et al. 2004, ApJ, 601, 979, “The Angular Momentum Evolution of 0.1-10 Msolar Stars from the Birth Line to the Main Sequence.”

110. Yang, Y., … Lauer, T.R., et al. 2004, ApJ, 607, 258, “E+A Galaxies and the Formation of Early-Type Galaxies at z~0.”

111. Yuan, Q., … Green, R.F., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 217, eds. P.-A. Duc, J. Braine and E. Brinks (ASP), 364, “Outflowing Components in the Prototype Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy Markarian 478.”

La Serena-Based Scientific Staff (NOAO South)

112. Angeli, G.Z., …Gregory, B., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5178, ed. M.A. Kahan (SPIE) p. 49, “Integration Modeling Tools for Large Ground-Based Optical Telescopes”

113. Angeli, G.Z., Gregory, B. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5178, ed. M.A. Kahan (SPIE), p. 64, “Linear Optical Model for a Large Ground-Based Telescope”

114. Barbosa, C.L., Damineli, A., Blum, R.D., Conti, P.S. 2003, AJ, 126, p. 2411, “Gemini Mid-Infrared Imaging of Massive Young Stellar Objects in NGC 3576”

115. Barris, B.J., …Krisciunas, K., …Smith, R.C., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, ApJ, 602, p. 571, “Twenty- Three High-Redshift Supernovae from the Institute for Astronomy Deep Survey: Doubling the Supernova Sample at z > 0.7”

116. Becker, A.C., …Norman, D., …Schommer, R.A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, p. 418, “The Deep Lens Survey Transient Search. I. Short Timescale and Astrometric Variability”

117. Blum, R.D., …Olsen, K., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, p. 323, “Really Cool Stars and the Star Formation History at the Galactic Center”

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118. Bouchet, P., De Buizer, J.M., Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, p. 304, “High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Imaging of SN 1987A”

119. Cavallo, R.M., Suntzeff, N.B., Pilachowski, C.A. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 3411, “Hydra Observations of Aluminum Abundances in the Red Giants of the Globular Clusters M80 and NGC 6752”

120. Corradi, R.L.M., …Schwarz, H.E. 2004, A&A, 417, p. 637, “Rings in the Haloes of Planetary Nebulae”

121. De Buizer, J.M., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, p. 1127, “A Search for Mid-Infrared Emission from Hot Molecular Core Candidates”

122. Di Carlo, E., …Walker, A.R., et al. 2003, ASP Conf. 296, ed. G. Piotto, G. Meylan, S. G. Jorgovski, M. Riello (ASP), p.212, “NGC 1866: New Analysis from HST-WFPC2 Observations of the Inner Regions”

123. Fernández, R., Monteiro, H., Schwarz, H. 2004, ApJ, 603, p. 595, “Proper Motion and Kinematics of the Ansae in NGC 7009”

124. Gal-Yam A., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, ApJ., 609, L59, “The J-Band Light Curve of SN 2003Iw, Associated with GRB 031203”

125. Germany, L.M., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, A&A, 415, p. 863, “Results of the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search”

126. Gieren, W., …Walker, A., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, p. 1167, “The Araucaria Project: An Improved Distance to the Sculptor Spiral Galaxy NGC 300 from its Cepheid Variables”

127. Gorjian, V., …Mould, J.R., …Smith, R.C., …Points, S.D., …De Buizer, J.M., et al. 2004, ApJ, 154, p. 275, “Infrared Imaging of the Large Magellanic Cloud Star-forming Region Henize 206”

128. Green, R.F., …Smith, M.G., …Norman, D., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 311, ed. G.T. Richards, P.B. Hall (ASP), p. 441, “A Deep Wide-Field Infrared Survey for Quasars”

129. Handler, G., …Krisciunas, K., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 347, p. 454, “Asteroseismology of the β Cephei Star v Eridani – I. Photometric Observations and Pulsational Frequency Analysis”

130. Kerschbaum, F., …H., Schwarz, H.E. et al. 2044, ASP Conf 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard ASP), p. 153, “A Census of AGB Stars in the Milky Way and M31 subgroups of Dwarf-Spheroidal Galaxies”

131. Krabbendam, V.L., …Heathcote, S., …Schwarz, H.E., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5489, ed. J.M. Oschmann, Jr. (SPIE), p. 615, “SOAR 4.1-m Telescope: From Commissioning To Early Science”

132. Krisciunas, K, Phillips, M.M., Suntzeff, N.B. 2004, ApJ, 602, L81, “Hubble Diagrams of Type Ia Supernovae in the Near-Infrared”

133. Krisciunas, K., …Rest, A., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 1664, “Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Nearby Type Ia Supernovae 1999ee, 2000bh, 2000ca, and 2001ba”

134. Lawrence, J.S., …Tokovinin, A., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5489, ed. J.M. Oschmann, Jr. (SPIE), p. 174, “A Robotic Instrument for Measuring High Altitude Atmospheric Turbulence from Dome C, Antarctica”

135. Lowry, J.D., …Smith, R.C., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 125, “An Intriguing X-Ray Arc Surrounding the X-Ray Source RX J053335-6854.9 Toward the Large Magellanic Cloud”

D–8 D: SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY04

136. Massey, P., Olsen, K.A.G., Parker, J.WM. 2003, PASP, 115, p. 1265, “The Discovery of a 12th Wolf-Rayet Star in the Small Magellanic Cloud”

137. Massey, P., Olsen, K.A.G. 2003, AJ, 126, p. 2867, “The Evolution of Massive Stars. I. Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds”

138. Matheson, T., …Krisciunas, K., et al. 2003, ApJ., 599, p. 394, “Photometry and Spectroscopy of GRB 030329 and Its Associated Supernova 2003dh: The First Two Months”

139. Monelli, M., Walker, A.R., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard (ASP), p. 133, “Short and Long Period Variable Stars in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

140. Monteiro, H., …Schwarz, H.E., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, p. 194, “Three-Dimensional Photoionization Structure and Distances of Planetary Nebulae. I. NGC 6369”

141. Olsen, K.A.G., …Suntzeff, N.B., …Schommer, R.A., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 2674, “The Globular Cluster Systems of the Sculptor Group”

142. Points, S.D., Lauroesch, J.T., Meyer, D.M. 2004, PASP, 116, p. 801, “The Complex Interstellar Na I Absorption toward h and x Persei”

9 143. Pourbaix, D., Tokovinin, A.A., et al. 2004, A&A, 424, p. 727, “SB : The Ninth Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits”

144. Reipurth, B., …Heathcote, S. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 1069, “Deep Imaging Surveys of Star-Forming Clouds. I. New Herbig-Haro Flows in NGC 2264”

145. Rey, S.-C., …Walker, A.R., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 958, “CCD Photometry of the Globular Cluster ω Centauri. II. Stellar Populations and Age-Metallicity Relation”

146. Ryan-Weber, E.V., …Smith, R.C., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, P. 1431, “Intergalactic H II Regions Discovered in Singg”

147. Santoro, F.G., …Schwarz, H.E., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5489, ed. J.M. Oschmann, Jr. (SPIE), p. 913, “Instrument Support Modules for the SOAR Telescope”

148. Schmidtobreick, L., Galli, L., Whiting, A.B., Tappert, C. 2004, IBVS 5508, “Spectroscopic classification of a suspected SU UMa star in Libra”

149. Schwarz, H.E., Monteiro, H. 2003, IAU Symp. 209, ed. S. Kwok, M. Dopita, R. Sutherland (IAU), p. 521, “Orientation Effects in Bipolar Planetary Nebulae”

150. Schwarz, H.E., Monteiro, H. 2003, ASP Conf. 303, ed. R.L.M. Corradi, J. Mikolajewska, T.J. Mahoney (ASP), p. 505, “Symbiotics Observed with Large, Diffraction-Limited Telescopes”

151. Schwarz, H.E., …Walker, A.R., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5492, ed. A.F. Moorwood, Iye, M. (SPIE), p. 564, “The SOAR Optical Imager: Status and First Results.”

152. Seth, A., Olsen, K., et al. AJ, 127, p. 798, “Star Clusters in Virgo and Fornax Dwarf Irregular Galaxies”

153. Skidmore, W., …Tokovinin, A.A., … Walker, A.R., …Blum, R.D. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5489, ed. J.M. Oschmann, Jr. (SPIE), p. 154, “The Thirty Meter Telescope Site Testing System”

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154. Smith, V.V., …Blum R.D., et al. 2003, ApJ, 599, L107, “High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf ε Indi Ba”

155. Storchi-Bergmann, …Smith, R.C., et al.. 2003, ApJ, 598, p. 956, “Evolution of the Nuclear Accretion Disk Emission in NGC 1097: Getting Closer to the Black Hole”

156. Terndrup, D.M., …Walker, A.R., et al. 2004, Ap&SS, 291, p. 247, “A Survey for EHB Stars in the Galactic Bulge”

157. Tokovinin, A., et al. 2003, A&A, 409, p. 245, “Fundamental Parameters and Origin of the Very Eccentric Binary 41 Dra”

158. Tokovinin, A. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5382, ed. A.L. Ardeberg, T. Andersen (SPIE), p. 490, “Ground Layer Sensing and Compensation”

159. Van der Bliek, N.S., …Norman, D., …Blum, R.D., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5492, ed. A.F. Moorwood, M. Iye (SPIE), p. 1582, “ISPI: A Wide-Field NIR Imager for the CTIO Blanco 4-m Telescope”

160. Whiting, A. B. 2004, “The Expansion of Space: Free-Particle Motion and the Cosmological Redshift,” Observatory, 124, 173.

161. Williams, B.F., …Krisciunas, K., …Schommer, R.A., …Smith, R.C., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, p. 2608, “Imaging and Demography of the Host Galaxies of High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae”

D–10 Appendix E OBSERVING PROGRAMS AND INVESTIGATORS

ANNUAL SUMMARY

• Number of U.S. observing proposals awarded 429 time via NOAO TAC (2 semesters ending July 31, 2004)

• Individual U.S. scientists associated with 726 successful observing proposals (excludes NOAO scientific staff)

• Number of graduate thesis programs 98

States of Origin of U.S. Scientists Awarded Time on NOAO Telescopes: CTIO, WIYN, Gemini, HET, Kitt Peak, and Keck*

3 7

6 67 1 12 29 14 1 2 14 14 33 1 20 31 14 1 16 4 16 10 3 99 137 1 2 2 MD 2 5 13 68 DC 1 1 13 6 7

21 3 25

*For the purposes of this report, observers are counted only once, regardless of the number of proposals or observing visits awarded to any one individual. Data exclude NOAO staff observers.

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NOAO GEMINI SCIENCE CENTER

A total of 124 U.S. scientific programs were awarded time on the Gemini telescopes during the two semesters ending July 31, 2004, including 20 (16%) graduate thesis programs. Excluding NOAO scientific staff members, the number of U.S. investigators associated with these proposals was 279. The top five institutions, representing approximately one-quarter of successful proposals, were (1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) University of Arizona, (3) Johns Hopkins University, (4) Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

States of Origin of U.S. Scientists Awarded Time on Gemini Telescopes via NGSC TAC*

4 24 7 2 44 1 2 11 14 6 66 2 3 1 9 45 62 1 1 5 4 23 DC 32 8

1 8

*For the purposes of this report, observers are counted only once, regardless of the number of proposals or observing visits awarded to any one individual. Data exclude NOAO staff observers.

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NOAO GEMINI SCIENCE CENTER (124) Key to Symbols: *= Program allocated time in Band 4 of the observing queue, i.e., overfill time; GEM-NQ = Gemini North Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini South Queue; GEM-N – Gemini North classical; (T) = Thesis Student; (G) = Graduate; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other

Gemini Telescopes 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (47) Telescope Nights

1. T. Armandroff (NOAO), N. Caldwell (Smithsonian Inst.), G. Da Costa (Australian National GEM-NQ 1.38 U.): “The Extended Star Formation Histories of M81 Group Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies”

2. J. Bally (U. of Colorado), R. Shuping, M. Morris, N. Smith (U. of Colorado): “Massive Star GEM-SQ 3.2 Formation in Orion: Direct Accretion or Cannibalism?”

3. J. Bechtold (U. of Arizona), K. McLeod, F. D’Arcangelo (U) (Wellesley College): “High GEM-N 3 Redshift Quasar Host Galaxies”

4. M. Bergmann (CTIO), I. Jorgensen (Gemini Obs.), R. Davies (U. of Oxford), D. Crampton GEM-SQ 2.25 (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics), J. Barr (U. of Bristol), M. Takamiya (U. of Hawaii), B. Miller (Gemini Obs.): “Galaxy Evolution During Half the Age of the Universe”

5. J. Brodie (U. of California Obs.), S. Larsen (ESO), J. Strader (G) (U. of California Obs.), J. GEM-NQ * Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Extragalactic Globular Clusters in the Near-IR: Hidden Markers of Galaxy Assembly?”

6. G. Cecil (U. of North Carolina), M. Dopita (Australian National U.), F. Hamann (U. of GEM-NQ 0.31 Florida), B. Groves (Australian National U.): “Dynamics of the Nuclear Outflow in NGC 1068”

7. D. Farrah (California Inst. of Technology), M. Fox, M. Rowan-Robinson, R. Priddey, D. GEM-NQ * Clements (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine), J. Afonso (Observatoria Astronomico de Lisboa), R. Chary (California Inst. of Technology): “Cirrus interlopers in blank-field sub-millimetre surveys”

8. J. Feldmeier (Case Western Reserve U.), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby GEM-SQ * (WIYN), C. Gronwall, P. Durrell (Pennsylvania State U.), C. Mihos (Case Western Reserve U.): “Gemini spectroscopy of Fornax intracluster planetary nebulae and Lyman (α) galaxies at z=3.13”

9. P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), H. Marion (G), P. Hoeflich (U. of Texas, Austin): “Type GEM-NQ 1 Ia Supernovae: The Collision of Theory and Observation”

10. K. Gebhardt (U. of Texas, Austin), T. Lauer (NOAO), R. Van Der Marel (STScI): “Black GEM-NQ 0.6 Holes in Brightest Cluster Galaxies”

11. K. Gebhardt (U. of Texas, Austin), D. Forbes (Swinburne U.), T. Bridges (Anglo-Australian GEM-SQ 1.88 Obs.), D. Hanes (Queen’s U.), J. Forte (IAFE), R. Sharples (U. of Durham), M. Beasley (Swinburne U.), S. Zepf (Michigan State U.), F. Feifer (U. Nacional de la Plata): “Exploring the Outer Edges of Galaxies”

12. J. Gerssen (STScI), K. Gebhardt, R. Van Der Marel (STScI), J. Allington-Smith (U. of GEM-NQ 0.5 Durham): “Stellar Kinematics in the Center of M3”

13. M. Gladders (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), H. Yee (U. of Toronto), H. Hoekstra (G) (CITA), GEM-NQ 1.14 E. Ellingson (U. of Colorado): “Spectroscopy of Arcs in High Redshift “Super-Lens” Clusters”

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Gemini Telescopes 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (47) Telescope Nights

14. K. Glazebrook (Johns Hopkins U.), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), S. Savaglio GEM-SQ 6.2 (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Abraham (U. of Toronto), D. Crampton (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics), I. Hook (U. of Oxford), A. Bunker, E. Stanway (U. of Cambridge), W. Couch (U. of New South Wales), K. Roth (Gemini Obs.), R. Murowinski (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics), I. Jorgensen (Gemini Obs.), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (STScI), M. Colless (Australian National U.), Z. Tsvetanov (Johns Hopkins U.): “The First Galaxies: A Long, Hard Look”

15. C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (STScI), Z. Tsvetanov (Johns Hopkins U.), Z. Haiman (Columbia U.), N. Pirzkal (ESO): “Spectroscopy of z > 5 Ly-α GEM-NQ * Emission-Line Galaxies from APPLES”

16. P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), J. Johnson (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics), R. Van Der Marel, J. Gerssen (STScI), E. Grebel, D. Harbeck (G) (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), GEM-NQ 0.45 D. Crampton (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics): “Dark Matter Halos of Dwarf Spheroidals: Andromeda VII”

17. P. Hartigan (Rice U.): “The Anatomy of Magnetic Precursors and C-Shocks” GEM-NQ *

18. K. Hinkle (NOAO), P. Bernath (U. of Waterloo), T. Tsuji (U. of Tokyo), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), J. Valenti, M. McCaughrean (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): “Infrared GEM-SQ 1 Spectroscopy of the T-dwarf (epsilon) Indi B”

19. K. Hinkle (NOAO), K. Cunha (Obs. Nacional), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso): “The Origin GEM-SQ 1 of Fluorine”

20. B. Hrivnak (Valparaiso U.), K. Volk (Gemini Obs.), S. Kwok (U. of Calgary): “Mid-IR GEM-NQ * Imaging of Circumstellar Rings in the C-Rich PPN HD 56126”

21. B. Hrivnak (Valparaiso U.), S. Kwok (U. of Calgary), K. Hinkle (NOAO), D. Kelly (U. of GEM-SQ 0.4 Arizona): “H2 Emission to Probe Small, Spatially-Resolved PPNs”

22. R. Hynes (U. of Texas, Austin), C. Haswell (Open U.), W. Cui (Purdue U.), C. Shrader (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), P. Charles (U. of Southampton), K. Horne (U. of St. GEM-SQ * Andrews), K. O’Brien, S. Chaty (Observatoire de Paris): “Reverberation Mapping of Black Hole X-ray Transients”

23. C. Kulesa (U. of Arizona), J. Black (Chalmers U. of Technology): “Direct Measurement of GEM-SQ 2 Cold H2 and CO in the Ophiuchi Star Forming Region”

24. D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), K. Eriksson, B. Gustafsson (Uppsala U.), K. Hinkle (NOAO), N. Ryde, R. Wahlin (G), B. Westerlund (Uppsala U.): “Carbon Stars in the Local GEM-SQ 2 Group - Detailed Abundance Analysis of Carbon Stars in the LMC”

25. S. Leggett (UKIRT), D. Stephens, K. Noll (STScI), T. Geballe (Gemini Obs.): “10 Micron GEM-NQ 2 imaging of T Dwarfs”

26. K. Luhman, G. Fazio (Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs.): “Searching for the Bottom of the GEM-NQ 2.6 Initial Mass Function”

27. L. Macri (NOAO), D. Sasselov, K. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Improving the GEM-NQ 3 Cepheid Distance Scale (II)”

28. P. Maloney (U. of Colorado), C. Dudley (Naval Research Lab.), M. Imanishi (National GEM-NQ * Astronomical Obs. of Japan): “Buried AGN in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies”

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Gemini Telescopes 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (47) Telescope Nights

29. P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), S. Holmes (G) (U. of Texas, Austin): “Evolved Massive Stars in GEM-NQ * the Local Group: Spectroscopy of Wolf-Rayets and Red Supergiants Candidates”

30. K. Olsen (CTIO), B. Miller (Gemini Obs.), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), J. Huchra, P. Barmby GEM-SQ * (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “The Intriguing Globular Cluster System of NGC 300”

31. S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.), R. Pain (U. of Paris), C. Pritchet (U. of GEM-NQ 1.5 Victoria), R. Carlberg (U. of Toronto), I. Hook (U. of Oxford), J. Rich (CEA), R. McMahon (U. of Cambridge), R. Knop (Vanderbilt U.), G. Aldering (UC Berkeley), E. Smith (Vanderbilt U.), D. Howell, L. Wang, V. Fadayev, R. Gibbons (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.), R. Vogel (G) (UC Berkeley), A. Spadafora (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.): “The Nature of Dark Energy from Type Ia Supernovae”

32. M. Postman (STScI), W. Zheng, H. Ford, N. Benitez (Johns Hopkins U.), G. Illingworth (UC GEM-NQ 2 Santa Cruz), T. Broadhurst (The Hebrew U.), K. Zekser (G), D. Coe (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.): “Deep Infrared Imaging of ACS Fields: A Search for z > 7 Galaxies”

33. M. Rauch (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), F. Marleau (Saint Mary’s U.), M. Haehnelt (U. of GEM-NQ 4 Cambridge), J. Graham (UC Berkeley), A. Bunker (U. of Cambridge): “Fluorescent re- emission of the ionizing UV background from Lyman-limit Systems”

34. C. Roman-Zuniga (G), E. Lada (U. of Florida): “Investigating the Role of OB stars in GEM-NQ 0.5 Determining the Lifetimes of Circumstellar Disks”

35. P. Schechter (MIT): “Anomalous flux ratios in two quadruply imaged quasars: millilensing GEM-NQ 0.25 or micro?”

36. E. Serabyn, M. Creech-Eakman, G. Orton (CalTech-JPL): “Mid-Infrared Probes of Brown GEM-SQ 2 Dwarfs”

37. R. Smith, A. Rest (CTIO), C. Stubbs (U. of Washington), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. of Washington), S. Keller, S. Nicolaev (Lawrence Livermore National GEM-SQ 2 Lab.), A. Clocchiatti, D. Minniti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), C. Alcock (U. of Pennsylvania), S. Hawley (U. of Washington), K. Mighell (NOAO): “Spectroscopy of LMC Microlensing Events from the SuperMacho Survey”

38. V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), K. Cunha (Obs. Nacional), K. Hinkle (NOAO): “Chemical GEM-SQ 3 Evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud from Infrared Spectroscopy of Red Giants”

39. N. Smith (U. of Colorado): “Variability in the Near-IR Spectrum of Eta Carinae” GEM-SQ 0.3

40. N. Smith, P. Conti (U. of Colorado), C. Depree (Agnes Scott College), J. Jackson (Boston GEM-SQ * U.), J. Bally (U. of Colorado): “High-resolution infrared imaging of the most powerful water maser source in our Galaxy: W49A G”

41. D. Steeghs (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), P. Jonker (U. of Cambridge): “The nature of the GEM-NQ * ultra-compact X-ray binary 4U 0614+09”

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Gemini Telescopes 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (47) Telescope Nights

42. N. Suntzeff, R. Smith (CTIO), B. Schmidt (Research School for Astronomy and GEM-SQ 2 Astrophysics), C. Stubbs (U. of Washington), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. GEM-NQ 2 Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. of Hawaii), K. Krisciunas (CTIO), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), B. Barris (U. of Hawaii), W. Li (UC Berkeley), G. Miknaitis (U. of Washington), S. Holland (U. of Notre Dame), S. Jha, T. Matheson (Harvard- Smithsonian CfA), J. Sollerman (ESO), P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), S. Pompea (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), A. Rest (U. of Washington): “ESSENCE w Project: Measuring the Equation of State of Dark Energy”

43. C. Telesco, N. Marinas (U. of Florida), R. Fisher, T. Hayward (Gemini Obs.): “Mid-Infrared GEM-SQ 3 Imaging of Beta Pictoris”

44. T. Thuan (U. of Virginia), H. Hirashita, L. Hunt (Osservatorio Astrofisico Arcetri), S. Madden GEM-NQ 1.45 (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), S. Plante (Laval U.), M. Sauvage (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), T. Takeuchi (National Astronomical Obs. of Japan): “Searching for Dust in Metal-Poor Star-Forming Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies”

45. N. Van Der Bliek (NOAO), D. Apai (U) (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), M. Sterzik GEM-SQ 2.5 (ESO), I. Pascucci (O), T. Henning (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie): “Exploring the Structure of Brown Dwarf Disks”

46. D. Weintraub (Vanderbilt U.), J. Kastner (Rochester Inst. of Technology), J. Bary (G) GEM-SQ * (Vanderbilt U.): “Using Emission from Molecular Hydrogen Gas to Measure Masses of Circumstellar Disks of T Tauri Stars”

47. P. Yanamandra-Fisher, G. Orton, B. Fisher (CalTech-JPL), C. Ferrari (CEA): “Thermal GEM-NQ * Asymmetries in Saturn’s Unshadowed Ring: Target of Opportunity in Support of NASA/CASSINI Mission.”

Gemini Telescopes 2003-B — Thesis Programs (10) Telescope Nights

48. A. Bolton (T), S. Burles (MIT): “IFU Observation of SDSS Spectroscopic Strong Lens GEM-NQ * Candidates”

49. S. Brittain (T), T. Rettig (U. of Notre Dame), C. Kulesa (U. of Arizona): “H3+, H2 and CO GEM-SQ * Line Emission as a Unique Probe of the Structure of Circumstellar Disks”

50. J. Cook (T), S. Wyckoff (Arizona State U.): “Spectroscopy of Pluto and Charon Between 1.4- GEM-N 3 2.5 (µ)m” GEM-SQ 3

51. L. Ferrarese (Rutgers U.), B. Peterson, R. Pogge (Ohio State U.), D. Merritt (Rutgers U.), A. GEM-NQ 3 Wandel (The Hebrew U.), C. Onken (T) (Ohio State U.): “Understanding Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies”

52. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space GEM-SQ 0.5 Flight Center), R. Wijers (SUNY, Stony Brook), J. Rhoads (STScI), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), E. Pian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), S. Wachter (SIRTF), K. Sahu (STScI), P. Vreeswijk (G) (U. of Amsterdam), J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (G) (LAEFF), J. Hjorth (U. of Copenhagen), A. Levan (T) (U. of Leicester): “Quick Response to GRBs: probing underlying supernovae and rapid variability”

53. C. Impey, C. Petry (O), K. Eriksen (T), A. Marble (T), L. Bai (T) (U. of Arizona): GEM-SQ 2 "Cosmology with Quasar Pairs"

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Gemini Telescopes 2003-B — Thesis Programs (10) Telescope Nights

54. N. Marinas (T), C. Telesco (U. of Florida), R. Fisher (Gemini Obs.): “Mid-Infrared Imaging of GEM-NQ 2 Disks of Transitional Herbig Ae Be Stars”

55. I. Ribas, E. Guinan (Villanova U.), R. Hilditch (U. of St. Andrews), C. Jordi, F. Vilardell (T) GEM-NQ * (Universitat de Barcelona): “The Cosmic Distance Scale: An Accurate Distance to M31 from Eclipsing Binaries”

56. P. Treuthardt (T), R. Buta (U. of Alabama), H. Salo (U. of Oulu): “A Dynamical Study of GEM-SQ * Resonances in Barred Spiral Galaxies”

57. P. Yoachim (T), J. Dalcanton (U. of Washington), R. Bernstein (U. of Michigan): “The GEM-NQ 4 Dynamics of Thick Disks: Constraining the Early Evolution of Galaxies”

Gemini Telescopes 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (57) Telescope Nights

58. S. Balachandran (U. of Maryland), J. Carr (Naval Research Lab.), K. Venn (Macalester GEM-SQ 2 College): "Mixing and CNO Abundances in M Supergiants"

59. E. Barton, J. Smith, R. Dave, C. Papovich (U. of Arizona): "Searching for Star Formation at GEM-NQ 6.4 z=8.2"

60. M. Bergmann (NOAO), I. Jorgensen (Gemini Obs.), R. Davies (U. Oxford), D. Crampton GEM-NQ 2.3 (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics), J. Barr (U. of Oxford), M. Takamiya (U. of Hawaii), B. Miller (Gemini Obs.): "Galaxy Evolution During Half the Age of the Universe"

61. J. Bloom (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), H. Chen (MIT), J. Prochaska (U. of California Obs.): GEM-NQ 1 "Probing the ISM of High Redshift Galaxies with Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows" GEM-SQ 1

62. R. Blum (NOAO), D. Figer (STScI), F. Najarro (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia), T. GEM-SQ 3 Geballe (Gemini Obs.): "The Most Massive Stars Known, Single or Multiple?"

63. R. Blum (NOAO), C. Barbosa (G), A. Damineli (IAGUSP), P. Conti (U. of Colorado): "The GEM-SQ 1 Circumstellar Environments of Massive Young Stellar Objects"

64. P. Bouchet (NOAO), J. Danziger (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste), N. Suntzeff GEM-SQ 4.5 (NOAO), O. Hernandez (G) (Talca U.): "Dust in Types I & II Supernovae"

65. P. Bouchet (NOAO), A. Crotts (Columbia U.), S. Heathcote (SOAR), S. Lawrence (Hofstra GEM-SQ 1.5 U.), B. Sugerman (STScI), N. Suntzeff (NOAO): "Bolometric Evolution of SN1987A: monitoring the dust in the mid-IR"

66. J. Carr (Naval Research Lab.), S. Balachandran (U. of Maryland): "The Chemical Evolution GEM-SQ 4.3 of the Galactic Center"

67. G. Cecil (U. of North Carolina), P. Ferruit (CRAL), A. Wilson (U. of Maryland), E. Emsellem GEM-NQ 0.97 (CRAL), B. Jungwiert (Astronomical Inst.), C. Mundell (Liverpool Johns Moores U.): "Nuclear kinematics and stellar populations in Seyferts: GMOS IFU Feasibility Study"

68. H. Chen, S. Burles, R. Simcoe (MIT): "A Survey of Damped Absorbing Galaxies using the GEM-NQ 1.5 Integral Field Unit"

69. J. De Buizer (Gemini Obs.): "Thermal Infrared Characterization of Hot Molecular Cores" GEM-SQ 0.425

70. J. De Buizer (Gemini Obs.), J. Radomski (U. of Florida): "The Morphologies and Physical GEM-SQ 1.6 Properties of Dust in Ultracompact HII Regions"

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Gemini Telescopes 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (57) Telescope Nights

71. M. Dietrich (Georgia State U.), F. Hamann (U. of Florida): "Quasars at Redshift z~eq 5 to GEM-NQ 2.2 probe Early Star Formation"

72. J. Feldmeier (Case Western Reserve U.), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby GEM-NQ 1.375 (WIYN), C. Gronwall, P. Durrell (Pennsylvania State U.), C. Mihos (Case Western Reserve U.): "Gemini spectroscopy of Virgo's intracluster planetary nebulae"

73. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space GEM-SQ 0.8 Flight Center), D. Bersier (STScI), E. Pian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), D. Burrows (Pennsylvania State U.), S. Wachter (CTIO), K. Sahu, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), A. Levan, M. Ward (U. of Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI), R. Wijers (U. of Amsterdam): "What are the Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts?"

74. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space GEM-SQ 0.6 Flight Center), R. Wijers (U. of Amsterdam), E. Pian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), E. Pian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), D. Bersier (STScI), S. Wachter (SIRTF), K. Sahu, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), S. Pak (U. of Hertfordshire), A. Levan, M. Ward (U. of Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI): "Diversity of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era"

75. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space GEM-NQ 1.2 Flight Center), R. Wijers (U. of Amsterdam), E. Pian (Instituto di Fisica Cosmica e Tecnologie), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), D. Bersier (STScI), S. Wachter (CTIO), K. Sahu, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), S. Pak (U. of Hertfordshire), A. Levan, M. Ward (U. of Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI): "Diversity of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era"

76. A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space GEM-NQ 1.6 Flight Center), D. Bersier (STScI), E. Pian (Instgituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), D. Burrows (Pennsylvania State U.), S. Wachter (CTIO), K. Sahu, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), A. Levan, M. Ward (U. of Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI), R. Wijers (U. of Amsterdam): "What are the Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts?"

77. M. Geha (Carnegie Obs.), P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), R. Van Der Marel (STScI): "A GEM-NQ 1 New Spin on Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies"

78. J. Gizis, H. Shipman, J. Harvin (U. of Delaware): "Spectra of Very Young Brown Dwarfs" GEM-SQ 1

79. D. Golimowski (Johns Hopkins U.), S. Leggett (UKIRT), X. Fan (Steward Obs.), J. Knapp GEM-NQ 2.3 (Princeton U.), T. Geballe (Gemini Obs.): "M' Photometry of late-L and T dwarfs"

80. K. Gordon, C. Engelbracht (U. of Arizona), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), K. Misselt, G. GEM-NQ 2.2 Rieke, A. Alonso-Herrero (U. of Arizona): "The 3.3 µm Infrared Emission Feature in Starburst Galaxies"

81. P. Goudfrooij, T. Puzia (STScI), F. Schweizer (Carnegie Obs.), B. Whitmore (STScI): "K- GEM-NQ 1.4 band Imaging of Globular Clusters in Candidate Intermediate-Age Elliptical Galaxies"

82. C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (STScI), Z. Tsvetanov (Johns GEM-NQ 1.5 Hopkins U.), Z. Haiman (Columbia U.), N. Pirzkal (STScI): "Imaging & Spectroscopy of z ~ 4 - 6 Ly(alpha) Emission-Line Galaxies from APPLES"

83. T. Heckman (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Dey (NOAO), C. Hoopes (Johns Hopkins U.), C. Martin, GEM-N 3 D. Schminovich (California Inst. of Technology), S. Charlot (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), B. Jannuzi, M. Brown (NOAO), A. Szalay, T. Budavari (Johns Hopkins U.): "UV Spectral Evolution of Galaxies from z~1 to z~3"

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Gemini Telescopes 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (57) Telescope Nights

84. K. Hinkle (NOAO), P. Bernath (U. of Waterloo), T. Tsuji (U. of Tokyo), V. Smith (U. of GEM-SQ 1 Texas El Paso), J. Valenti (STScI), M. McCaughrean (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): "Infrared Spectroscopy of the late T-dwarf (epsilon) Indi Bb"

85. R. Hynes, E. Robinson (U. of Texas, Austin), P. Charles (U. of Southampton), C. Haswell GEM-SQ * (Open U.), T. Shahbaz (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), C. Zurita (U. of Lisbon), J. Casares (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias): "The Spectroscopic Signature of Low Luminosity Accreting Black Holes"

86. R. Jayawardhana (U. of Michigan), G. Meeus (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): GEM-SQ 2 "Probing dust composition and processing in protoplanetary disks"

87. R. Knop (Vanderbilt U.), R. Carlberg, D. Howell, M. Sullivan (U. of Toronto), A. Babul, D. GEM-NQ 1 Balam, S. Ellison, F. Hartwick (U. of Victoria), H. Hoekstra, T. Merrall (U. of Toronto), J. Navarro (U. of Victoria), K. Perrett (U. of Toronto), D. Schade, L. Simard, P. Stetson, S. van den Bergh (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics), J. Willis (U. of Victoria), I. Hook (U. of Oxford), R. McMahon (U. of Cambridge), R. Pain (U. of Paris), S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.), J. Rich (CEA), N. Walton (U. of Cambridge), C. Pritchet (U. of Victoria), E. Smith (Vanderbilt U.), G. Aldering, L. Wang, R. Gibbons, V. Fadeyev, A. Spadafora (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.), M. Scherzer, H. Agarwal (UC Berkeley): "The Nature of Dark Energy from Supernovae of Type Ia"

88. A. Kundu (Michigan State U.), T. Puzia (STScI), S. Zepf (Michigan State U.), T. Maccarone GEM-NQ 1.68 (U. of Amsterdam), K. Ashman (U. of Kansas), K. Rhode (G) (Yale U.): "Determining the Ages of Major Formation Events in Ellipticals with K- band Imaging"

89. D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), N. Ryde (Uppsala U.), K. Hinkle (NOAO): "The origin of GEM-SQ 2 Sulfur as determined from the [SI] line"

90. D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), K. Eriksson, B. Gustafsson (Uppsala U.), K. Hinkle GEM-SQ 2 (NOAO), N. Ryde, R. Wahlin (G), B. Westerlund (Uppsala U.): "Carbon Stars in the Local Group - Detailed Abundance Analysis of Carbon Stars in the Magellanic Clouds"

91. D. Lambert (U. of Texas, Austin), K. Eriksson, B. Gustafsson (Uppsala U.), G. Harper (U. of GEM-SQ 2 Colorado), K. Hinkle (NOAO), N. Ryde (Uppsala U.): "A CO Resonance Scattering Map of alpha Ori's Circumstellar Shell"

92. T. Lebzelter (U. Vienna), K. Hinkle (NOAO), B. Aringer (U. Vienna): “Stellar evolution GEM-SQ 2 along the AGB”

93. W. Merline (Southwest Research Inst.), L. Close (U. of Arizona), C. Dumas (CalTech-JPL), GEM-N 3 P. Tamblyn (Southwest Research Inst.), F. Menard (LAOG), C. Chapman (Southwest Research Inst.): "Search for Asteroidal Satellites using Adaptive Optics"

94. J. Mould (NOAO), J. De Buizer (Gemini Obs.), M. Werner, V. Gorjian (CalTech-JPL): GEM-SQ 1 "Resolving the star formation in Henize 206"

95. D. Norman (CTIO), D. Wittman, V. Margoniner (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), J. Hughes GEM-NQ * (Rutgers U.), T. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), I. Dell'Antonio (Brown U.): "Determining Spectral Redshifts for a Shear- Selected Sample of Galaxy Clusters"

96. T. Oka (U. of Chicago), T. Geballe (Gemini Obs.), K. Hinkle (NOAO), B. McCall (UC Berkeley), GEM-SQ 2 M. Goto (Inst. of Astronomy): "Observation of H3+ and CO toward the Galactic Center"

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Gemini Telescopes 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (57) Telescope Nights

97. M. Postman (STScI), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), H. Ford, N. Homeier (Johns GEM-NQ * Hopkins U.), A. Zirm (Leiden U.), B. Holden (UC Santa Cruz), J. Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins U.): "Tracing Star Formation in a z=0.83 Rich Galaxy Cluster"

98. M. Rauch (Carnegie Obs.), F. Marleau (Saint Mary's U.), M. Haehnelt (U. of Cambridge), J. GEM-SQ 6 Graham (UC Berkeley), A. Bunker (U. of Cambridge): "Fluorescent re-emission of the ionizing UV background from Lyman-limit Systems"

99. H. Roe (California Inst. of Technology), C. Trujillo (Gemini Obs.), M. Brown (California GEM-NQ 2 Inst. of Technology), A. Bouchez (Keck): "Titan's methane clouds: Time-scales and correlation with surface features"

100. A. Saha (NOAO): "DDO 187: Confirming the distance to a dwarf galaxy with enigmatic GEM-NQ 0.7 variable stars"

101. R. Schulte-Ladbeck, S. Rao, D. Turnshek (U. of Pittsburgh), I. Drozdovsky (SIRTF), M. GEM-NQ 1 Pettini (Inst. for Astronomy, UK): "Emission-line Abundances in the Damped Lyman (alpha) Absorber SBS 1543+593"

102. J. Scott, G. Kriss, H. Ferguson (STScI), J. Hutchings (DRAO): "Star Forming Galaxies in the GEM-NQ 5 Field of the UV Bright QSO HS1700+6416"

103. N. Smith (U. of Colorado), R. Gehrz, C. Woodward (U. of Minnesota): "IR Variability During GEM-SQ 0.9 a Shell Ejection of Eta Carinae"

104. V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), K. Cunha (Obs. Nacional), I. Ivans (California Inst. of GEM-SQ 0.5 Technology), J. Lattanzio (Monash U.), K. Hinkle (NOAO): "Using Fluorine Abundances to Test for the Signature of Hot-Bottom Burning in the Globular Cluster M4"

105. V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), D. Terndrup (Ohio State U.), K. Cunha (Obs. Nacional), N. GEM-SQ 2.25 Suntzeff (CTIO): "Comparative Chemical Evolution in Stellar Populations: Infrared Spectroscopy of Galactic Bulge Red Giants"

106. V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), K. Cunha (Obs. Nacional, Brazil), A. McWilliam (Carnegie GEM-SQ 3 Obs.): "Mapping Chemical Evolution from Red Giants in the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy"

107. I. Song (UCLA), B. Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), B. Zuckerman, E. Becklin GEM-NQ 1 (UCLA): "Adaptive Optics Imaging Search for Massive Planets around Young Nearby Stars"

108. Y. Taniguchi (Tohoku U.), W. Zheng (Johns Hopkins U.), S. Lipari (U. Nacional de Cordoba), GEM-SQ 1.72 M. Ajiki (Tohoku U.), Y. Shioya (Tohoku U.), R. Diaz (U. Nacional de Cordoba), H. Dottori (U. Fed. Rio Grande do Sul), R. Terlevich (U. Cambridge): “Star Formation and Galactic Wind at Redshift 5.7”

109. S. Thorsett (UC Santa Cruz), P. Bergeron (U. Montreal), B. Hansen (U.C. Los Angeles), S. GEM-SQ 1.72 Sigurdsson (Pennsylvania State U.), I. Stairs (U. British Columbia), H. Richer (U. British Columbia): "Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs in Messier 4"

110. T. Tripp (U. Mass), D. Bowen (Princeton U.), J. Prochaska (U. of California Obs.), E. Jenkins GEM-NQ 1.05 (Princeton U.), B. Savage (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "Probing the Nature of Low-Redshift O VI Absorbers with a Deep Galaxy Redshift Survey"

111. W. Vacca (Universities Space Research Association), K. Johnson (U. of Wisconsin Madison), GEM-SQ * A. Verma (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie): "The Mid-IR Spectral Energy Distribution of Ultradense HII Regions in Starburst Galaxies"

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Gemini Telescopes 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (57) Telescope Nights

112. N. Van Der Bliek (CTIO), D. Apai (U) (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), M. Sterzik GEM-SQ * (ESO), I. Pascucci (O), K. Dullemond (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), G. Meeus (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam): "Exploring the Structure of Brown Dwarf Disks"

113. P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden U.): "Properties of Red Galaxies at z>2" GEM-N 4

114. A. Weinberger (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), E. Becklin, B. Zuckerman, I. Song (UCLA): GEM-SQ 1 "Asteroidal Material Around Young Stars?"

Gemini Telescopes 2004-A — Thesis Programs (10) Telescope Nights

115. A. Bolton (T), S. Burles (MIT): "IFU Observation of SDSS Spectroscopic Strong Lens GEM-NQ 2.55 Candidates"

116. J. Cook (T), S. Wyckoff (Arizona State U.), T. Geballe (Gemini Obs.): "Spectroscopy of Pluto GEM-N, 6 and Charon Between 1.4-2.5 µm" GEM-SQ

117. J. Hennawi (T), M. Strauss, U. Seljak, P. McDonald (Princeton U.), S. Burles (MIT): GEM-N 3 "Cosmological Constraints from Ly(alpha) Forest Absorption Spectra of Close Quasar Pairs"

118. L. Macri (NOAO), K. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), D. Bersier (STScI), A. Bonanos GEM-NQ 4 (T), L. Greenhill (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): "An accurate calibration of the Cepheid Distance Scale with the Maser Galaxy NGC 4258"

119. M. Meixner (STScI), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Ardila (Johns GEM-SQ 1.3 Hopkins U.), R. Doering (T) (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Lubow (STScI): "High- Resolution Mid-IR Imaging of Dusty Proto-planetary Disks Surrounding Intermediate Mass Stars"

120. C. Packham (U. of Florida), L. Colina (Inst. de Estructura de la Materia), M. Orduna (T) (U. of GEM-SQ * Florida), A. Alonso-Herrero (Inst. de Estructura de la Materia), J. Radomski (U. of Florida): "Title: 10µm Observations of ULIRGs: Unveiling the Dust-Enshrouded Energy Source"

121. G. Schaefer (T) (SUNY, Stony Brook), T. Beck (Gemini Obs.), L. Prato (UCLA), M. Simon GEM-NQ 0.2 (SUNY, Stony Brook): "Dynamical Masses of Pre-Main Sequence Stars"

122. H. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Lonsdale (California Inst. of Technology), F. Owen (NRAO GEM-NQ 0.4 Headquarters), B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), M. Rowan-Robinson (Imperial GEM-N 4 College, London), G. Morrison (California Inst. of Technology), B. Siana (T) (UC San Diego), D. Farrah, S. Team (California Inst. of Technology): "IR Galaxies in a Deep SIRTF VLA Chandra Survey: The Power Balance between AGN & Starbursts to z~ 1.5"

123. C. Woodward (U. of Minnesota), D. Harker (UC San Diego), D. Wooden (NASA Ames GEM-SQ 1.26 Research Center), B. Rodgers, T. Hayward (Gemini Obs.), W. Reach (SIRTF), M. Kelley (T) (U. of Minnesota): "Cometary Grains - Icy Planetesimal Evolution"

124. P. Yoachim (T), J. Dalcanton (U. of Washington), R. Bernstein (U. of Michigan): "The GEM-NQ 4 Dynamics of Thick Disks: Constraining the Early Evolution of Galaxies"

E–11 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY 2004

KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY (161)

A total of 161 U.S. scientific programs were awarded time on the KPNO telescopes during the two semesters ending July 31, 2004, including 46 (29%) graduate thesis programs. Excluding NOAO scientific staff members, the number of U.S. investigators associated with these programs was 331. Key to Symbols: WIYN-SYN = Synoptic/Queue; **ToO = Target of Opportunity scheduling; (T) = Thesis Student; (G) = Graduate; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other

KPNO Telescopes 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (49) Telescope Nights

1. M. A’Hearn (U. of Maryland), L. Woodney, D. Schleicher (Lowell Obs.), D. Wellnitz (U. of KP-4m 3 Maryland): “High Resolution Spectroscopic Studies of Comet 2P Encke Near Perigee: Isotopic Abundances, Short-lived Species, and the Greenstein Effect”

2. D. Bersier (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), N. Tanvir: “Long Period Variables in NGC 3368” WIYN-SYN 0.5

3. R. Binzel (MIT), A. Rivkin: “Discovery of Possible Mars-Crossing Asteroid Families” KP-4m 6

4. H. Bond (STScI), O. De Marco (American Museum of Natural History), D. Harmer (O) WIYN 8 (NOAO): “Searching for Spectroscopic Binaries in Planetary Nebulae”

5. H. Bond (STScI), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), E. Nelan (STScI): WIYN-2hr 1 “Trigonometric Calibration fo the Period-Luminosity Relations for Fundamental and First- Overtone Galactic Cepheids”

6. B. Carney (U. of North Carolina), A. McWilliam (Carnegie Obs.), D. Latham (Harvard- KP-4m 4 Smithsonian CfA), B. Chaboyer (Dartmouth College), J. Laird (Bowling Green State U.): “Halo Subgiants as Cosmological Probes”

7. E. Chiang (UC Berkeley), L. Wasserman, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), A. Jordan (G) (UC KP-4m 4 Berkeley): “Astrometric Investigation of the Kuiper Belt”

8. A. Connolly, J. Gardner (U. of Pittsburgh), M. Haynes, R. Giovanelli (Cornell U.): KP-4m 3.5 “Calibration of the SDSS Spectroscopic Line Width Scaling Relations”

9. A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh): “LSST Calibration Data” WIYN 1

10. A. Crotts (Columbia U.), D. Kirkman, D. Tytler (UC San Diego): “Ly(α) Forest Clustering KP-4m 2.5 and the Cosmological Constant”

11. R. De Jong (STScI), E. Bell (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), J. Dalcanton (U. of KP-4m 4.5 Washington), R. Somerville (STScI): “A deep survey of the low surface brightness environment of nearby galaxies”

12. R. Elston (U. of Florida), P. Eisenhardt, D. Stern (CalTech-JPL), S. Stanford (UC Davis), K. KP-4m 6 Wu (U. of Florida), M. Dickinson (STScI), H. Spinrad (UC Berkeley), A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh), A. Gonzalez (G), S. Raines (U. of Florida): “Tracing The Star Formation History of Galaxies from Z=0.4 to 1.7”

13. D. Gelino, J. Tomsick, W. Heindl (UC San Diego), P. Kaaret (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): KP-4m 3.5 “Measuring Low Mass X-Ray Binary Compact Object Masses: 4U 0042+32 and XTE J2123-058”

14. J. Grindlay, P. Edmonds, J. McClintock, P. Zhao, M. Garcia (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. KP-4m 2 Cool (San Francisco State U.), S. Wachter, D. Hoard (NOAO), P. Green, B. Wilkes, J. Drake, V. Kashyap (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), H. Cohn (Indiana U.): “ChaMPlane: Measuring the Faint X-ray Binary and Stellar X-ray Content of the Galaxy”

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KPNO Telescopes 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (49) Telescope Nights

15. P. Hartigan (Rice U.): “Ultraviolet Emmission from Protostellar Accretion Disks” KP-2.1m 7

16. T. Hillwig, D. Gies (Georgia State U.): “A Search for Extended Emission in the W Ser Binary WIYN-2hr 0.25 RY Scuti”

17. D. Hunter (Lowell Obs.): “The Stellar Edges of Irregular Galaxies: What’s Going on Out KP-2.1m 5 There?”

18. D. Hurley-Keller, H. Morrison, P. Harding (Case Western Reserve U.), G. Jacoby (WIYN): KP-0.9m, 2, “Planetary Nebulae in the Halo of M31” WIYN 4

19. S. Kannappan (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Bershady (U. of Wisconsin Madison), E. Gillespie WIYN 1 (U. of Arizona): “Kinematic Tully-Fisher Offsets at z=0 and Beyond”

20. C. Keeton (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff, K. Williams, I. Momcheva (G) (U. of Arizona): KP-4m 4 “The Importance of Lens Galaxy Environments”

21. S. Lepine, M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History), R. Rich (UCLA): “A search for KP-4m 3 ultra-cool sdM and sdL subdwarfs”

22. L. Macri (NOAO), D. Sasselov, K. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Improving the WIYN 9.5 Cepheid Distance Scale (II)”

23. C. Mihos, J. Feldmeier, H. Morrison, P. Harding (Case Western Reserve U.), S. Hunsberger: KP-2.1m 10 “Testing dwarf galaxy formation models using compact groups”

24. R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E. Chiang (Inst. for Advanced Study), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G) KP-4m 6 (MIT), D. Trilling (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Wagner, L. Wasserman, A. Jordan (G) (Lowell Obs.): “Deep Ecliptic Survey”

25. B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (NOAO): “Color Observations of Large Trans-Neptunian Objects KP-2.1m 5 as a Function of Rotational Phase”

26. B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (NOAO): “Nuclear Lightcurve Observations of Short Period Comets” KP-2.1m 4

27. L. Mundy, G. Murphy (G), N. Chapman (G) (U. of Maryland): “An Ancillary Project for the KP-4m 3 SIRTF c2d Legacy Team: Studying Dust Extinction in the Persesus Molecular Cloud”

28. R. Murphy Williams, Q. Wang (U. Mass), Y. Chu (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): KP-4m 3.5 “Energetic Shells Around Luminous X-ray Sources”

29. K. Nandra (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “The Sheep Survey: What kind of objects KP-4m 2 make thex-ray background?”

30. E. Nelan, R. Makidon (STScI): “Dynamical Masses and Radii of Four White Dwarf Stars” WIYN-2hr 0.8

31. M. O’Brien (STScI): “The Distance and Mass of the Neutrino-Luminous White Dwarf PG WIYN-2hr 0.5 0122+200”

32. S. Oey (Lowell Obs.), D. Schaerer (Observatoire de Geneve): “Search for He II emission KP-4m 2 nebulae from WR and O stars”

33. B. Oppenheimer (American Museum of Natural History), F. Clarke (ESO), S. Hodgkin (Inst. KP-4m 7 of Astronomy), C. Tinney (Anglo-Australian Obs.): “The nature of the L T transition; variability in cool brown dwarfs”

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KPNO Telescopes 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (49) Telescope Nights

34. B. Peterson (Ohio State U.), I. Strateva (G) (Princeton U.), L. Ferrarese (Rutgers U.), R. Pogge KP-4m 3 (Ohio State U.), M. Strauss (Princeton U.): “Masses of Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei with Double- Peaked Line Profiles”

35. R. Phelps (Cal State Sacramento): “CCD Photometry of the Oldest(?) Open Cluster, Be 17” KP-4m 1

36. T. Rector (NRAO), G. Jacoby (WIYN): “The Nova Rate in Galaxies of Different Hubble Type” KP-0.9m 6

37. I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (G) (U. of Pennsylvania), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona): “Meeting the KP-2.1m 4.5 cool neighbours: covering the sky”

38. J. Rhoads, A. Fruchter (STScI), M. Merrill (NOAO), J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), J. Urkia (Inst. KP-4m-ToO, Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall KP-2.1m-ToO Space Flight Ctr.), A. Levan (G) (STScI), S. Patel (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), L. Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire): “Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Host Environments”

39. F. Ringwald (Cal State Fresno): “The Orbital Period of the Cataclysmic Variable V378 Peg KP-2.1m 3.5 (PG 2337+300)”

40. N. Scoville (California Inst. of Technology): “The COSMOS 2-Degree ACS Survey” KP-4m 3

41. N. Suntzeff (NOAO), B. Schmidt (Australia Telescope National Facility), C. Stubbs (U. of WIYN 4 Washington), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. of Hawaii), R. Smith (NOAO), K. Krisciunas (CTIO), M. Phillips (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), B. Barris (U. of Hawaii), W. Li (UC Berkeley), C. Hogan, G. Miknaitis (U. of Washington), S. Holland (U. of Notre Dame), S. Jha, T. Matheson (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Sollerman (ESO), P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), S. Pompea (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), A. Rest (U. of Washington), J. Quinn (G) (U. of Notre Dame), J. Gallagher (G): “The w Project: Measuring the Equation of State of the Universe”

42. R. Swaters (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Andersen (Max Planck Inst. fur Astrophysik), M. Bershady KP-2.1m 7 (U. of Wisconsin Madison), M. Verheijen (Universitat Potsdam): “Broad Band Imaging of Disk Galaxies with H(α) Velocity Fields”

43. R. Swaters (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Andersen (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), M. WIYN 3 Bershady, M. Verheijen (U. of Wisconsin Madison): “The Distribution of Mass in Spiral Galaxies.”

44. M. Tsujimoto (Pennsylvania State U.), N. Kobayashi (National Astronomical Obs. of Japan), KP-4m 2 Y. Tsuboi (Chou U.), Y. Ezoe (G) (U. of Tokyo): “Multi-object K-band Spectroscopy of the X-ray-emitting YSOs Detected by Chandra in Orion Molecular Clouds”

45. D. Turnshek, D. Vanden Berk, C. Hazard, S. Rao (U. of Pittsburgh), . SDSS Team Collaborators: KP-2.1m 5 “Identification of QSOs for Follow-up QSO Absorption-Line and QSO Clustering Studies”

46. J. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Bernstein (U. of Michigan), I. Dell’Antonio KP-4m 6 (Brown U.), D. Wittman, D. Kirkman, G. Kochanski (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), T. Lauer (NOAO), T. Broadhurst (UC Berkeley), R. Cen (Princeton U.), J. Cohen (California Inst. of Technology), A. Gonzalez, P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), W. Hu (Inst. for Advanced Study), N. Kaiser (U. of Hawaii), J. Miralda-Escude (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Schommer (NOAO), D. Spergel (Princeton U.), G. Squires (California Inst. of Technology), C. Stubbs, A. Becker (U) (U. of Washington), D. Loomba (G), J. Kubo (G), H. Khiabanian (G) (Brown U.): “Deep Lens Survey”

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KPNO Telescopes 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (49) Telescope Nights

47. L. Van Zee (Indiana U.), D. Schade (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics): “SMUDGES: A Survey KP-0.9m 4 for Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe”

48. A. Whiting (CTIO), G. Hau (ESO), M. Irwin (U. of Cambridge): “Imaging of Dwarf Galaxy KP-2.1m 5.5 Candidates”

49. L. Young (New Mexico Inst. of Mining & Technology), M. Bureau (Columbia U.), L. Van KP-2.1m 5 Zee (Indiana U.), T. Statler (Ohio U.): “The Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies: CO content vs. Dust and Isophote Shapes”

KPNO Telescopes 2003-B — Thesis Programs (20) Telescope Nights

50. T. Beers (Michigan State U.), N. Christlieb (Universitat Hamburg), J. Rhee (U. of Virginia), S. KP-4m 5 Ryan (Open U.), M. Bessell (Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics), S. Rossi (IAGUSP), B. Marsteller (T) (Michigan State U.): A “Quick Survey” for Halo Giants with [Fe H] -2.5"

51. K. Dawson (T), W. Holzapfel (UC Berkeley), J. Carlstrom (U. of Chicago): "Identifying KP-4m 4 Galaxy Clusters in the BIMA CMB Anisotropy Survey"

52. R. Elston (U. of Florida), S. Stanford (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), P. Eisenhardt KP-2.1m 14 (California Inst. of Technology), J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO), D. Stern (California Inst. of Technology), K. Wu (U. of Florida), M. Dickinson (STScI), K. McFarland (T), E. McKenzie (T), S. Raines (U. of Florida): "The Evolution of Galaxy Clustering at 1

53. P. Frinchaboy (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), R. Phelps WIYN 4 (Cal State Sacramento), M. Skrutskie, H. Rocha-Pinto (U. of Virginia): "The Absolute Space Motions of Galactic Clusters"

54. D. Gies, V. McSwain (T), P. Wiita (Georgia State U.), A. Van Der Meer (G), L. Kaper (U. of KP-4m 5 Amsterdam), W. Huang (G), T. Hillwig (Georgia State U.): "Mass Donors in SS433 and Other Microquasars"

55. R. Gutermuth (T) (U. of Rochester), S. Megeath, J. Pipher, D. Peterson (T) (U. of Rochester), L. KP-2.1m 8.5 Allen, P. Myers (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): "Inventory and Distribution of Disks, Protostars, and Proto-Brown Dwarfs in Young Stellar Clusters: Imaging with SQIID and SIRTF"

56. S. Kafka (T), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): "Chromospheric Activity in M dwarfs and Changes KP-2.1m 6 in the Mass Transfer Rate"

57. E. Lada, R. Elston, D. Dahari (T), C. Roman-Zuniga (T) (U. of Florida), J. Alves (ESO), C. KP-4m, 17 Lada, A. Muench (T) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Najita (NOAO), J. Williams, J. Julian (O) (U. of Florida), R. Green (NOAO), D. Hon (O), S. Raines (U. of Florida), J. Elias, R. KP-2.1m 25 Joyce (NOAO), J. Levine (T), Y. Lin (G), N. Rashkind (U) (U. of Florida), B. Ferreira (T), T. Huard, C. Foltz (U), A. Gonzalez, E. McKenzie (T): "Toward a Complete Near-Infrared Spectroscopic and Imaging Survey of Giant Molecular Clouds"

58. L. Mazzuca (T), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), M. Regan (STScI), J. Knapen (U. of WIYN 5 Hertfordshire): "Gas Kinematics in the Nuclear Rings of Barred Spiral Galaxies"

59. S. McGaugh, J. Kim (T) (U. of Maryland): "Infrared and Hα Imaging of Low Surface KP-4m, WIYN 7, 4 Brightness Galaxies"

60. S. Meibom (T) (U. of Wisconsin Madison), R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin Eau Claire): “The WIYN 6

E–15 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY 2004

KPNO Telescopes 2003-B — Thesis Programs (20) Telescope Nights effect of binarity on stellar angular momentum evolution in solar- type stars.”

61. H. Osborne (T), T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.), S. Howell (PSI), B. McNamara (New KP-2.1m 10 Mexico State U.): “CV Secondary Star Masses: The Continuing Story”

62. D. Rupke (T), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland): “Superwinds in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: KP-4m 6 The Fall Sample”

63. T. Smecker-Hane, M. Hood (T), M. Teig (T) (UC Irvine), A. Cole (Kapteyn Astronomical Inst.): KP-4m 3 “Chemical Evolution of the Outer Disk Halo of M33: Subtracting the Galactic Foreground”

64. H. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Lonsdale, B. Siana (T) (UC San Diego), M. Rowan-Robinson, KP-4m 4 D. Farrah, G. Morrison, S. Team (California Inst. of Technology): “Rare Objects and Photometric Redshifts in the SWIRE Legacy Survey”

65. M. Stark (T), R. Wade (Pennsylvania State U.): “Determining the Properties of Hot Subdwarf KP-2.1m 7 Star Composite Binaries”

66. P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden U.), R. Quadri (T) (Yale U.): “Multislit Near-IR KP-4m 3 Spectroscopy of Red Galaxies at z>2”

67. N. Volgenau (T), L. Mundy (U. of Maryland), S. Legacy Team (O) (U. of Texas, Austin): “An KP-4m 1 Infrared View of Core Environments in the Perseus Complex”

68. J. Walawender (T), J. Bally (U. of Colorado), B. Reipurth (U. of Hawaii): “Deep Imaging of KP-0.9m 4 Giant Herbig-Haro Flows from Young Stars in Taurus”

69. J. Woo (T), C. Urry (Yale U.), P. Lira, J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), R. Van Der Marel KP-4m 2 (STScI): “The AGN-Galaxy Connection”

KPNO 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (66) Telescope Nights

70. J. Baldwin (Michigan State U.), R. Williams (STScI), E. Jenkins (Princeton U.): "Chemical KP-2.1m 4 Abundances in Nebulae: Integrated Absorption and Emission-Line Analysis"

71. W. Barkhouse, P. Green, J. Silverman (G), R. Cameron (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), B. KP-4m, WIYN 3, 4 Jannuzi , B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), P. Smith (U. of Arizona): "The Cosmological Evolution of X-ray Selected AGN"

72. D. Bersier (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), N. Tanvir : "Long Period Variables in NGC 3368" WIYN-SYN 0.5

73. J. Birriel (Morehead State U.): "A Search for Raman Scattered He II 6545 in Selected Young KP-2.1m 3 Pne and Symbiotic Stars"

74. H. Bond (STScI), O. De Marco (American Museum of Natural History), D. Harmer (O) WIYN 7 (NOAO): "Searching for Spectroscopic Binaries in Planetary Nebulae"

75. H. Bond (STScI), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), E. Nelan (STScI): WIYN-2hr 1 "Trigonometric Calibration of the Period-Luminosity Relations for Fundamental and First- Overtone Galactic Cepheids"

76. E. Chiang (UC Berkeley), L. Wasserman, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), A. Jordan (G), J. Lovering KP-4m 1 (U) (UC Berkeley), J. Kane (U) (MIT): "Astrometric Investigation of the Kuiper Belt"

77. A. Crotts (Columbia U.), D. Kirkman, D. Tytler (UC San Diego): "Ly(alpha) Forest Clustering KP-4m 2 and the Cosmological Constant"

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KPNO 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (66) Telescope Nights

78. A. Dey, D. Mills, R. Lynds (NOAO): "New inefficiencies in MARS nod-and-shuffle mode KP-4m 1 (from new guider software)"

79. M. Dickinson, C. Papovich (G) (STScI), P. Eisenhardt (U), D. Stern (California Inst. of KP-4m 14.5 Technology), M. Giavalisco, B. Mobasher, K. Lee (G), C. Kretchmer (G), H. Ferguson (STScI), R. Idzi (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), T. Dahlen, N. Grogin (STScI), H. Yan (California Inst. of Technology): "Great Obs. Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)"

80. R. Elston (U. of Florida), P. Eisenhardt, D. Stern (CalTech-JPL), S. Stanford (UC Davis), E. KP-4m 5.5 McKenzie (G) (U. of Florida), M. Dickinson (STScI), H. Spinrad (UC Berkeley), A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh), A. Gonzalez (G), S. Raines (U. of Florida): "Tracing The Star Formation History of Galaxies from Z=0.4 to 1.7"

81. X. Fan (U. of Arizona), M. Strauss, J. Hennawi (G) (Princeton U.), L. Jiang (G) (U. of KP-4m 4 Arizona): "A Survey of z~ 6 Quasars from the SDSS"

82. J. Feldmeier (Case Western Reserve U.), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby KP-4m 1 (WIYN), P. Durrell (Pennsylvania State U.): "Bridging the Intracluster Star gap in Ursa Major"

83. L. Ferrarese (Rutgers U.): "The Upper End of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function: KP-2.1m 4 Pushing the 10 Billion Solar Mass Limit"

84. J. Ge, S. Mahadevan, J. Van Eyken (NOAO): "Time is requested for instrument KP-2.1m 10 characterization of the Exoplanet Tracker, ET."

85. D. Gelino (UC San Diego), T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.): "Measuring the Mass of the KP-4m 5 Black Hole in GS 2000+25"

86. R. Green, J. Glaspey, J. Dunlop (NOAO): ["Tohono O'odham Night."] KP-2.1m, 0.5,0.5, KP-4m, WIYN 0.5

87. R. Green (NOAO), S. Croom (Anglo-Australian Obs.), S. Warren (Imperial College of WIYN 4 Science, Techonology and Medicine), P. Hall (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), M. Brown, A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO), P. Smith (U. of Arizona), D. Norman, M. Smith (CTIO), G. Tiede (U. of Florida): "A Deep Wide-Field Infrared Survey for QSOs"

88. S. Hameed (Smith College), D. Wang (U. Mass): "Exploring X-ray - H(alpha) Connection to KP-4m 4 Test Galaxy Formation Theories"

89. T. Hillwig, D. Gies (Georgia State U.): "A Search for Extended Emission in the W Ser Binary WIYN-2hr 0.25 RY Scuti"

90. C. Hoopes, D. Thilker (Johns Hopkins U.), S. Hameed (Smith College): "Revealing the Fossil KP-4m 7.5 Record of Chemical Evolution in Nearby Galaxies"

91. D. Hunter (Lowell Obs.), E. Anderson (Northern Arizona U.): "The Stellar Edges of Irregular KP-2.1m 5.5 Galaxies: What's Going on Out There?"

92. B. Jannuzi, A. Dey, T. Armandroff, E. Ajhar, R. Blum, T. Boroson, C. Claver, I. Dell'Antonio KP-4m 2 (NOAO), M. Dickinson (STScI), R. Elston (U. of Florida), R. Green (NOAO), P. Hall (U. of Toronto), G. Jacoby, R. Joyce, M. Keane, T. Lauer, R. Lynds, S. Malhotra, R. Mendez, M. Merrill, K. Mighell, J. Najita, E. O'Neil (NOAO), M. Postman (STScI), R. Probst, T. Rector, J. Rhoads, N. Samarasinha (NOAO), A. Sarajedini (Wesleyan U.), D. Hoard, M. Miller (U), K. Brand, A. Ford (O), H. Schweiker (O) (NOAO): "The NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey"

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KPNO 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (66) Telescope Nights

93. S. Kannappan (U. of Texas, Austin), C. Impey (U. of Arizona): "Faint Companions and LSB KP-4m 3.5 Extensions of S0 Galaxies: Clues to Thick and Thin Disk Formation"

94. W. Keel (U. of Alabama), F. Owen (NRAO), M. Ledlow (Gemini Obs.), D. Wang (U. Mass): WIYN-2hr 2 "Signatures of stellar and gas stripping in the core of Abell 2125"

95. S. Lederer (Cal State San Bernadino), F. Vilas (NASA Johnson Space Flight Center), K. Jarvis KP-4m 3 (O) (Lockheed Martin Corp.): "Physical Properties of Centaurs and Kuiper Belt Objects"

96. J. MacKenty, R. Green, R. Joyce (NOAO): "Time for first-light commissioning for IRMOS is KP-2.1m 5 requested on the 2.1-m"

97. S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), Z. Ivezic (Princeton U.), R. Patterson, H. Rocha-Pinto, M. KP-4m 3.5 Skrutskie (U. of Virginia), M. Weinberg (U. Mass), J. Crane (G) (U. of Virginia), F. Prada (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)), P. Frinchaboy (G) (U. of Virginia): "New Tidal Stream Candidates in the Outer Milky Way"

98. S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), D. KP-4m 4.5 Geisler (Universidad de Concepcion), D. Bizyaev : "Chemically Fingerprinting the Milky Way's Accretion Past"

99. S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), J. Rhee (Yonsei WIYN 6 U.), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), D. Geisler (Universidad de Concepcion), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), J. Crane (G) , A. Polak (G) (U. of Virginia), P. Frinchaboy (G) , A. Kundu (Michigan State U.), W. Gieren (Universidad de Concepcion), I. Reid (STScI), R. Munoz (G) (U. of Virginia): "Mapping the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Galactic Halo"

100. P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), K. Olsen (CTIO), B. Plez, E. Josselin (Universite de Montpellier II): KP-2.1m 10 "The Physical Parameters of Red Supergiants: When Massive Stars Are as Cool as They Get"

101. S. McGaugh, R. De Naray (G) (U. of Maryland), E. De Blok (U. of Wales, Cardiff), A. Bosma KP-4m, WIYN 2, 4 (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille): "High resolution velocity fields of low surface brightness galaxies"

102. K. Mighell (NOAO): "14 nights at the 2.-1m for the REU 2003 KPNO & NSO student KP-2.1m 13 observing program."

103. R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E. Chiang (Inst. for Advanced Study), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G) KP-4m 6 (MIT), D. Trilling (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Wagner , L. Wasserman, A. Jordan (G) (Lowell Obs.), J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley): "Deep Ecliptic Survey"

104. B. Mobasher (STScI), N. Scoville (California Inst. of Technology), L. Macri (NOAO), L. Yan KP-4m 5 (SIRTF), D. Thompson (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), J. Mould (NOAO), D. Sanders (U. of Hawaii), T. Lisker (G) (Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology), C. Liu (American Museum of Natural History): "Near-IR Survey of the HST-ACS COSMOS 2-Degree Field"

105. N. Morgan (Yale U.), C. Kochanek (Ohio State U.), P. Schechter (MIT), E. Falco (Harvard- WIYN-SYN 3 Smithsonian CfA), E. Mediavilla (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), J. Winn (Harvard- Smithsonian CfA): "Optical Monitoring of Gravitationally Lensed Quasars"

106. G. Morrison (California Inst. of Technology), S. Oliver (U. of Sussex), D. Farrah (California WIYN 5 Inst. of Technology), F. Owen (NRAO), C. Lonsdale (California Inst. of Technology), H. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Xu (California Inst. of Technology), B. Siana (G) , N. Onyett (G) (U. of Sussex), S. Team : "The SWIRE Bright Galaxy Infrared Luminosity Function Survey"

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KPNO 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (66) Telescope Nights

107. B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (NOAO): "Color Observations of Large Trans-Neptunian Objects KP-2.1m 4 as a Function of Rotational Phase"

108. J. Munn, H. Harris (US Naval Obs.), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona): "An Improved Luminosity KP-4m 6 Function of Cool White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"

109. E. Nelan, R. Makidon (STScI): "Dynamical Masses and Radii of Four White Dwarf Stars" WIYN-2hr 0.8

110. T. Oswalt, S. Barnes, M. Rudkin (G) (Florida Inst. of Technology), N. Hambly (U. of KP-4m 4 Edinburgh), N. Silvestri, S. Hawley (U. of Washington): "White Dwarf Cooling Times and the Chromospheric Activity - Age Relations for Lower Main Sequence Stars"

111. C. Papovich, E. Egami (U. of Arizona), J. Huang , P. Perez-Gonzalez , M. Rieke (U. of Arizona), KP-4m 3 S. Miyazaki (National Astronomical Obs. of Japan), I. McHardy (U. of Southampton), F. Cordova (UC Riverside), K. Gunn (U. of Southampton), K. Mason, M. Page (U. College London), N. Seymour (IAP): "A Near-Infrared Survey of Extragalactic SIRTF Fields"

112. J. Parker (Southwest Research Inst.), R. Allen, B. Gladman (U. of British Columbia), C. KP-4m, WIYN 3, 3 Hergenrother (O) (U. of Arizona), J. Kavelaars (National Research Council), J. Petit (Observatoire de Besancon): "The Kuiper Belt Legacy Project: Recoveries"

113. R. Probst, R. Elston (NOAO): "Test and characterize new image slicer IFU for IR spectroscopy" KP-4m 4

114. R. Probst, R. Green (NOAO): "FLAMINGOS checkout nights following instrument installation" KP-4m 2

115. T. Rector (NOAO): "This request is for the 2004 TLRBSE teacher's workshop" KP-2.1m, 5, 5 KP-0.9m

116. I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (G) (U. of Pennsylvania), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona): "Meeting the KP-4m 2.5 Cool Neighbours: completing the survey"

117. I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (G) (U. of Pennsylvania): "Finding the nearby stars that Luyten missed" KP-2.1m 5

118. J. Rhee, I. Ivans (California Inst. of Technology), A. McWilliam (Carnegie Obs.): "Chemical KP-4m 4 Compositions of Newly Discovered Extremely Metal-Poor Giants from the HK-II Survey"

119. J. Rhoads, A. Fruchter (STScI), M. Merrill (NOAO), I. Burud, J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), J. KP-4m-TOO, Urkia (LAEFF), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight KP-2.1m-TOO, Center), A. Levan (G) (U. of Leicester), S. Patel (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), L. WIYN-TOO Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire), D. Bersier (STScI): "Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Host Environments"

120. J. Salzer (Wesleyan U.), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), A. Jangren, J. Werk (U) KP-2.1m 3 (Wesleyan U.): "Wide, Deep KISS - Exploring the Properties of a Local Sample of Emission- Line Galaxies in the NWDFS"

121. J. Salzer, A. Jangren (Wesleyan U.), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Moody (Brigham KP-2.1m 7 Young U.), J. Werk (U) (Wesleyan U.): "Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxies toward the Bootes Void"

122. H. Schweiker (NOAO): "Verification of telescope and instrument systems" KP-4m 1

123. R. Swaters (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Andersen (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), M. WIYN 1.5 Bershady, M. Verheijen (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "The Distribution of Mass in Spiral Galaxies."

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KPNO 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (66) Telescope Nights

124. R. Swaters (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Andersen (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), M. KP-2.1m 7 Bershady (U. of Wisconsin Madison), M. Verheijen (Universitat Potsdam), K. Westfall (G) (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "Broad Band Imaging of Disk Galaxies with H(alpha) Velocity Fields"

125. E. Tedesco (TerraSystems, Inc.), A. Cellino (Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino), D. Davis KP-4m 1.5 (PSI), V. Meadows (SIRTF), C. Neese (PSI), B. Soifer (SIRTF), G. Esquerdo (G) (U. of Arizona): "Enhancing SIRTF's Ecliptic Plane Survey"

126. D. Trilling (U. of Pennsylvania), A. Rivkin (MIT), T. Spahr (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C. KP-0.9m 7 Hergenrother (O) (U. of Arizona): "A search for Mars Trojan asteroids"

127. D. Turnshek, D. Berk, C. Hazard, S. Rao, M. Belfort (G) (U. of Pittsburgh), E. Monier , A. KP-2.1m 6.5 Quider (U) (U. of Pittsburgh): "Identification of QSOs for Follow-up QSO Absorption-Line and QSO Clustering Studies"

128. J. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Bernstein (U. of Michigan), I. Dell'Antonio KP-4m 2.5 (Brown U.), D. Wittman, D. Kirkman, G. Kochanski (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), T. Lauer (NOAO), T. Broadhurst (UC Berkeley), R. Cen (Princeton U.), J. Cohen (California Inst. of Technology), A. Gonzalez, P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), W. Hu (Inst. for Advanced Study), N. Kaiser (U. of Hawaii), J. Miralda-Escude (U. of Pennsylvania), D. Spergel (Princeton U.), G. Squires (California Inst. of Technology), C. Stubbs, A. Becker (U) (U. of Washington), D. Loomba (G) , J. Kubo (G) , H. Khiabanian (G) (Brown U.), R. Schommer (CTIO), D. Brooks , D. Sweeney (U. of Arizona): "Deep Lens Survey"

129. S. Van Dyk (California Inst. of Technology): "Core-Collapse Supernovae and Massive Star KP-2.1m 4 Formation Regions"

130. L. Van Zee (Indiana U.), D. Schade (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics): "SMUDGES: A Survey KP-0.9m 6 for Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe"

131. S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland): "UMd Summer School" KP-2.1m 4

132. E. Verner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), K. Kawara (U. of Tokyo), Y. Yoshii (Inst. of KP-2.1m 2 Astronomy,U. of Tokyo), B. Peterson (Australian National U.), F. Bruhweiler (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Y. Tsuzuki (G), S. Oyabu (G), Y. Matsuoka (G) (Inst. of Astronomy,U. of Tokyo): "Age Dating of Host Galaxies: Fe Abundance in Quasars at z=2.4 - 3.6"

133. B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), B. Siana (G) (UC San Diego): "The Balance of Power KP-4m 8 between Starbusters and AGN: a Chandra SIRTF Survey"

134. G. Williger (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Dave (U. of Arizona), R. Clowes (U. of Central KP-4m 1 Lancashire), M. Graham (Imperial College of Science, Techonology and Medicine), C. Haines (U. of Central Lancashire), J. Liske (U. of Edinburgh), L. Campusano (Universidad de Chile), O. Kuhn (UKIRT): "A test of the foreground proximity effect at z=1.2"

135. N. Zacharias (US Naval Obs.), M. Zacharias (O) (Universities Space Research Association), KP-0.9m 9.5 T. Rafferty (O) (US Naval Obs.): "Extragalactic reference frame link of the UCAC project"

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KPNO 2004-A — Thesis Programs (26) Telescope Nights

136. J. Crane (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), J. Bahcall (Inst. for Advanced Study), R. Patterson KP-2.1m 7 (U. of Virginia), H. Rocha-Pinto : "Measuring Local Dark Matter with K giants at the North Galactic Pole"

137. R. Elston (U. of Florida), S. Stanford (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), P. Eisenhardt KP-2.1m 10 (California Inst. of Technology), J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO), D. Stern (California Inst. of Technology), K. Wu (U. of Florida), M. Dickinson (STScI), K. McFarland (T), E. McKenzie (T), S. Raines (U. of Florida), A. Gonzalez , N. Rashkind (G) (U. of Florida), Y. Lin (T) (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), M. Brown , A. Stolte, C. Roman-Zuniga (T) (U. of Florida): "The Evolution of Galaxy Clustering at 1

138. R. Gilliland (STScI), D. Stello (T) (U. of Sydney), H. Kjeldsen, S. Frandsen (U. of Aarhus), T. KP-2.1m 10.5 Bedding (U. of Sydney): "The M67 K Giant Project"

139. R. Gutermuth (T) (U. of Rochester), S. Megeath (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Pipher, D. KP-2.1m 4 Peterson (T) (U. of Rochester), L. Allen, P. Myers (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): "An Inventory of Disks, Protostars, and Proto-Brown Dwarfs in Young Stellar Clusters: Imaging with FLAMINGOS and SIRTF"

140. G. Heald (T), R. Rand (U. of New Mexico), R. Benjamin (U. of Wisconsin, Whitewater): KP-4m 4 "Warm Ionized Gas Outflows in M101"

141. G. Heald (T), R. Rand (U. of New Mexico), R. Benjamin (U. of Wisconsin, Whitewater), M. WIYN 2 Bershady (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "Kinematics of the Disk-Halo Flow in NGC 4302"

142. J. Hennawi (T), M. Strauss, F. Dong (T), J. Gunn (Princeton U.), N. Dalal (Inst. for Advanced WIYN 3 Study), N. Bahcall (Princeton U.): "A Systematic Search for Giant Arcs Behind the Richest Clusters in the Universe"

143. A. Hopkins, A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh), A. Conti (STScI), J. Gardner, S. Schmidt (T) (U. KP-4m 4 of Pittsburgh): "Infrared Glimpses of the High Redshift Universe"

144. J. Huang, P. Barmby, S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), D. Gong (T) (MIT), G. Fazio, KP-4m 3 M. Pahre (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): "An Unbiased Study of Galaxies at z=3: IR photometry of Lyman Break Galaxies with SIRTF"

145. S. Kafka (T), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): "Chromospheric Activity in M Dwarfs and Changes KP-2.1m 5.5 in the CV Mass Transfer Rate"

146. B. Keeney (T), J. Stocke, J. Rosenberg (U. of Colorado): "Broad-band and H(alpha) Imaging KP-2.1m 3 of Galaxies with QSO Sightline Halo Probes"

147. C. Keeton (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff, I. Momcheva (T), K. Williams (U. of Arizona): KP-4m 4 "The Importance of Lens Galaxy Environments"

148. J. Kim (T), S. McGaugh (U. of Maryland): "Infrared and H alpha Photometry of Nearby Low KP-4m, WIYN 4, 3 Surface Brightness Galaxies"

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KPNO 2004-A — Thesis Programs (26) Telescope Nights

149. E. Lada, R. Elston, D. Dahari (T), C. Roman-Zuniga (T) (U. of Florida), J. Alves (ESO), C. KP-2.1m 1 Lada, A. Muench (T) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Najita (NOAO), J. Williams, J. Julian (O) (U. of Florida), R. Green (NOAO), D. Hon (O), S. Raines (U. of Florida), J. Elias, R. Joyce (NOAO), J. Levine (T) , Y. Lin (G) , N. Rashkind (U) (U. of Florida), B. Ferreira (T) , T. Huard , C. Foltz (U) , A. Gonzalez , E. McKenzie (T) , A. Stolte (U. of Florida), A. Steinhauer (Indiana U.): "Toward a Complete Near-Infrared Spectroscopic and Imaging Survey of Giant Molecular Clouds"

150. A. Leistra (T) (U. of Arizona), A. Cotera (SETI Inst./NASA Ames Research Center), J. Liebert KP-4m 2 (U. of Arizona), P. Massey (Lowell Obs.): "The Stellar IMF of Massive Young Stellar Clusters"

151. Y. Lin (T), J. Mohr (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), R. Elston (U. of Florida), S. Stanford KP-2.1m 4.5 (IGPP): "Near-IR Luminosity-Mass Correlation in Low Redshift Galaxy Clusters"

152. A. Matkovic (T), R. Guzman (U. of Florida): "Testing The Galaxy Harassment Scenario for WIYN 2 The Formation of Cluster Dwarf Ellipticals"

153. L. Mazzuca (T), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), M. Regan (STScI), J. Knapen (U. of WIYN 5 Hertfordshire): "Gas Kinematics in the Nuclear Rings of Barred Spiral Galaxies"

154. L. Mundy, N. Chapman (T), N. Volgenau (G) (U. of Maryland), N. Evans, II (U. of Texas, KP-4m 5.5 Austin), E. van Dishoeck , G. Blake (California Inst. of Technology): "The Serpens and Ophiuchus Clouds Revealed by SIRTF"

155. J. Neill (T) (Columbia U.), M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History): "The Rest of the KP-4m 1.5 Iceberg: Finding Faint Cataclysmic Variables"

156. H. Osborne (T), T. Harrison, B. McNamara (New Mexico State U.): "Determining the Masses KP-2.1m 6 of Cataclysmic Variables: Radial Velocities"

157. D. Rupke (T), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland): "AGN-driven Superwinds in Ultraluminous KP-4m 5 Infrared Galaxies"

158. J. Simon (T), A. Leroy (G), A. Bolatto, L. Blitz (UC Berkeley), E. Gates (U. of California WIYN 8 Obs.): "Cusps vs. Cores: The Distribution of Dwarf Galaxy Density Profile Slopes"

159. P. Treuthardt (T), R. Buta (U. of Alabama), H. Salo (U. of Oulu): "A Dynamical Study of KP-2.1m 3 Resonances in Barred Spiral Galaxies"

160. C. Warner (T), F. Hamann (U. of Florida), M. Dietrich (Georgia State U.): "Quasars and Their KP-4m 5 Host Galaxies at High Redshifts"

161. E. Wehner (T), J. Gallagher (U. of Wisconsin Madison): "An Examination of Tidal Debris in KP-2.1m 3.5 Starbursting Galaxies with Evidence of Recent Merging"

E–22 E: OBSERVING PROGRAMS AND INVESTIGATOR

CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY (119)

A total of 119 U.S. scientific programs were awarded time on the CTIO telescopes during the two semesters ending July 31, 2004, including 25 (21%) graduate thesis programs. Excluding NOAO scientific staff members, the number of U.S. investigators associated with these proposals was 257. Key to Symbols: (T) = Thesis Student; (G) = Graduate; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other

CTIO 2003-B– Non-Thesis Programs (45) Telescope Nights

1. K. Adelberger (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Measuring the Lifetimes of High-Redshift QSOs” CT-4m 2

2. Y. Chu, R. Gruendl, M. Guerrero (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “Physical Structure of CT-4m 3 the Wind-Blown Bubble S 308”

3. J. Cohen (California Inst. of Technology), A. McWilliam, S. Shectman, I. Thompson CT-1.3m 3.6 (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), N. Christlieb (Universitat Hamburg): “Photometry of Extremely Metal Poor Stars from the Hamburg/ESO Stellar Survey”

4. A. Connolly (U. of Pittsburgh): “LSST Calibration Data” CT-4m 2

5. D. DePoy, J. Marshall (G), C. Morgan (G) (Ohio State U.): “Infrared Spectroscopy of CT-4m 2.5 2MASS Selected Red AGN”

6. M. Dickinson, M. Giavalisco (STScI), D. Stern (California Inst. of Technology), C. CT-4m 4 Cesarsky (ESO), T. Team: “U- and I-band imaging of the CDF-S in support of the GOODS SIRTF Legacy and HST Treasury programs”

7. A. Dolphin (NOAO), A. Walker, N. Suntzeff, K. Olsen (CTIO): “A Stellar Census of the SMC” CT-4m 4

8. L. French (Illinois Wesleyan U.), P. Abell (G) (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.), F. Vilas CT-0.9m 7 (NASA Johnson Space Flight Center), Y. Fernandez (U. of Hawaii): “Photometry of Cometary Nucleus Candidates and Primitive Asteroids”

9. J. Gizis, B. Riaz (G), J. Harvin (U. of Delaware): “New Nearby M Dwarfs” CT-1.5m 5

10. P. Gomez, K. Romer (Carnegie Mellon U.), M. Runyan (California Inst. of Technology), CT-4m 4 W. Holzapfel (UC Berkeley), J. Peterson (Carnegie Mellon U.), J. Ruhl (UC Santa Barbara): “Photometric Redshifts of Massive Sunyaev-Zeldovich Clusters”

11. K. Gordon, K. Misselt (U. of Arizona), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), D. Zaritsky (U. of CT-4m 3 Arizona), J. Harris (STScI): “Spectral Classification of Reddened Hot Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud”

12. P. Goudfrooij (STScI), C. Maraston, D. Thomas, R. Bender (Max-Planck Inst. fur CT-1.5m 3 extraterrestrische Physik), R. Saglia (Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat-Muchen): “The Calibration of the CaII triplet with Bulge Globular Clusters”

13. C. Grillmair (SIRTF), J. Bahcall (Inst. for Advanced Study), D. Geisler, W. Gieren CT-4m 4 (Universidad de Concepcion), E. Grebel (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), M. Irwin (U. of Cambridge), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), I. Reid (STScI), D. Spergel, S. Tremaine (Princeton U.): "Mapping Globular Cluster Tidal Streams"

14. R. Gruendl, Y. Chu, M. Guerrero, R. Chen (G), S. Wang (G) (U. of Illinois Urbana- CT-0.9m 6 Champaign): “Optical Imaging of Nearby Galaxies in the Chandra Archive”

15. D. Hoard, S. Wachter (California Inst. of Technology): “Long-term Variability of the CT-1.3m 2.46 Unusual Double-lined Cataclysmic Variable CM Phe”

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CTIO 2003-B– Non-Thesis Programs (45) Telescope Nights

16. M. Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Kavelaars (DRAO), T. Grav (G) (Harvard- CT-4m 4 Smithsonian CfA), B. Gladman (U. of British Columbia), P. Nichsolson (Cornell U.), J. Petit (Observatoire de Besancon): “A Search for Small Distant Moons of Uranus”

17. A. Hopkins (U. of Pittsburgh), A. Georgakakis (National Obs. of Athens), J. Afonso CT-4m 2 (Observatoria Astronomico de Lisboa), M. Sullivan (U. of Durham), B. Mobasher (STScI): “Constraining the X-ray evolution of starburst galaxies”

18. J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), S. Schneider (U. Mass), T. Jarrett, T. Chester, R. CT-1.5m 7 Cutri (California Inst. of Technology), J. Mader (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), M. Skrutskie (U. Mass): “The 2MASS Redshift Survey”

19. C. Keeton (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff, K. Williams, I. Momcheva (G) (U. of Arizona): CT-4m 4 “The Importance of Lens Galaxy Environments”

20. K. Krisciunas, N. Suntzeff (CTIO), M. Phillips (Las Campanas Obs.), M. Hamuy (Carnegie CT-1.3m 4.2 Obs.), P. Candia (O) (NOAO), R. Smith (CTIO), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.): “Optical and infrared photometry of bright supernovae”

21. A. Landolt (Louisiana State U.), G. Preston (Carnegie Inst. of Washington): “A Study of CT-0.9m 7 Variability Among the Blue Metal Poor Stars”

22. S. Malhotra, J. Rhoads (STScI): “Lyman α Galaxies During and After Reionization” CT-4m 5

23. R. Marzke (San Francisco State U.): “A Search for Compact Elliptical Galaxies in the Field” CT-0.9m 5

24. B. McLean (STScI), J. Yus (O) (Gemini Obs.), B. Bucciarelli (O) (Osservatorio Astronomico CT-0.9m 4 di Torino), E. Costa (O) (Universidad de Chile), G. Massone (O) (Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino): “Photometric Calibrators for the Second Generation Guide Star Catalog”

25. G. Meurer (Johns Hopkins U.), H. Ferguson (STScI), R. Webster (U. of Melbourne), R. CT-0.9m 7 Kennicutt (U. of Arizona), P. Knezek, S. Oey (STScI), R. Smith (NOAO), M. Drinkwater (U. of Melbourne), K. Freeman (Australian National U.), V. Kilborn (G) (U. of Melbourne), M. Putman (G) (Australian National U.), L. Staveley-Smith (Australia Telescope National Facility), M. Meyer (G), A. Karrick (G) (U. of Melbourne): “Star Formation in H i Selected Galaxies”

26. J. Milingo (Gettysburg College), R. Henry (U. of Oklahoma), K. Kwitter (Williams CT-1.5m 4 College): “Testing the ON cycle via Sulfur in Galactic Type I PNe”

27. R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E. Chiang (Inst. for Advanced Study), J. Elliot, S. Kern CT-4m 4 (G) (MIT), D. Trilling (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Wagner, L. Wasserman, A. Jordan (G) (Lowell Obs.): “Deep Ecliptic Survey”

28. R. Murphy Williams, Q. Wang (U. Mass), Y. Chu (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): CT-4m 3 “Energetic Shells Around Luminous X-ray Sources”

29. K. Nandra (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “The Sheep Survey: What kind of objects CT-1.3m 0.8 make thex-ray background?”

30. C. O’Dell (Vanderbilt U.), L. Frattarre (O), M. Meixner, P. McCullough (STScI): CT-4m 2 “Emission Line Imaging of the Helix Nebula”

31. B. Penprase, A. Ates (G), M. Maier (U) (Pomona College): “Extinction and Abundances CT-1.3m 6 within HII regions of NGC 1313 and NGC 7793”

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32. R. Probst (NOAO), M. Rubio (Universidad de Chile), R. Barba (U. Nacional de la Plata): CT-4m 3 “Study of the Initial Mass Function in Large Magellanic Cloud Star Forming Regions: N159”

33. I. Reid (STScI), K. Cruz (G) (U. of Pennsylvania), J. Liebert (U. of Arizona): “Meeting the CT-1.5m 4 cool neighbours: covering the sky”

34. J. Rhoads, A. Fruchter (STScI), M. Merrill (NOAO), J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), J. Urkia CT-4m-TOO (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), A. Levan (G) (STScI), S. Patel (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), L. Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. of Hertfordshire): “Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Host Environments”

35. J. Schombert (U. of Oregon), K. Rakos (Universitat Wien (U. of Vienna)), H. Maitzen CT-0.9m 5 (Universitat Wien (U. of Vienna)): “Age/Metallicity Calibration for Old Stellar Populations”

36. H. Smith (Michigan State U.), G. Clementini (Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna), M. CT-4m 3 Catelan (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), E. Poretti (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera), E. Held (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), B. Pritzl (NOAO): “The Oosterhoff Phenomenon in Globular Clusters of the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

37. J. Smith (U. of Michigan), D. Tucker (FNAL): “Southern Standard Stars for the u’g’r’i’z’ CT-0.9m 13 System”

38. N. Smith (U. of Colorado): “Variability in the Near-IR Spectrum of Eta Carinae” CT-4m 0.3

39. K. Stassun, R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin Madison), L. Vaz: “A Spectroscopic and CT-1.3m 6 Photometric Study of Newly Discovered Pre-Main- Sequence Eclipsing Binaries in Orion”

40. N. Suntzeff (NOAO), B. Schmidt (Australia Telescope National Facility), C. Stubbs (U. of CT-0.9m, 14, Washington), R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. CT-4m 14.5 Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. of Hawaii), R. Smith (NOAO), K. Krisciunas (CTIO), M. Phillips (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), B. Barris (U. of Hawaii), W. Li (UC Berkeley), C. Hogan, G. Miknaitis (U. of Washington), S. Holland (U. of Notre Dame), S. Jha, T. Matheson (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Sollerman (ESO), P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), S. Pompea (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), A. Rest (U. of Washington), J. Quinn (G) (U. of Notre Dame), J. Gallagher (G): “The w Project: Measuring the Equation of State of the Universe”

41. J. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Bernstein (U. of Michigan), I. Dell’Antonio CT-4m 6 (Brown U.), D. Wittman, D. Kirkman, G. Kochanski (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), T. Lauer (NOAO), T. Broadhurst (UC Berkeley), R. Cen (Princeton U.), J. Cohen (California Inst. of Technology), A. Gonzalez, P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), W. Hu (Inst. for Advanced Study), N. Kaiser (U. of Hawaii), J. Miralda-Escude (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Schommer (NOAO), D. Spergel (Princeton U.), G. Squires (California Inst. of Technology), C. Stubbs, A. Becker (U) (U. of Washington), D. Loomba (G), J. Kubo (G), H. Khiabanian (G) (Brown U.): “Deep Lens Survey”

42. S. Wachter (California Inst. of Technology), P. Kaaret (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), S. CT-1.3m 2.76 Corbel (CEA), D. Hoard (California Inst. of Technology): “The Outburst Mechanism of X- ray Transients: Optical X-ray Monitoring of X1608-52”

43. F. Walter (SUNY, Stony Brook), G. Hussain, A. Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. CT-4m 2 Cameron (St. Andrews U.), A. Field-Pollatou (G) (SUNY, Stony Brook): "Doppler Imaging of AB Dor Simultaneous with FUSE"

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CTIO 2003-B– Non-Thesis Programs (45) Telescope Nights

44. A. Whiting (CTIO), K. Davidson (U. of Minnesota), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.), R. CT-1.3m 0.6 Humphreys (U. of Minnesota), N. Smith (U. of Colorado), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): "Photometric Monitoring of Eta Carinae"

45. G. Williger (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Dave (U. of Arizona), R. Clowes (U. of Central CT-4m 1 Lancashire), M. Graham (Imperial College of Science, Techonology and Medicine), C. Haines (U. of Central Lancashire), J. Liske (U. of Edinburgh), L. Campusano (Universidad de Chile): "A test of the foreground proximity effect at z=1.2"

CTIO 2003-B – Thesis Programs (12) Telescope Night s

46. J. Alonso-Garcia (T), M. Mateo (U. of Michigan Dearborn), K. von Braun (Carnegie Inst. CT-4m 4 of Washington): “Globular Clusters in the Direction of the Inner Galaxy”

47. T. Beers (Michigan State U.), N. Christlieb (Universitat Hamburg), J. Rhee (U. of CT-4m 5 Virginia), S. Ryan (Open U.), M. Bessell (Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics), S. Rossi (IAGUSP), B. Marsteller (T) (Michigan State U.): “A “Quick Survey’’ for Halo Giants with [Fe H] -2.5”

48. A. Crotts (Columbia U.), P. Bouchet (CTIO), S. Heathcote (SOAR), S. Lawrence (Hofstra CT-4m 2 U.), B. Sugerman (T) (Columbia U.), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): “Evolution of SN 1987A into a Supernova Remnant”

49. P. Frinchaboy (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), R. CT-4m 2 Phelps (Cal State Sacramento), M. Skrutskie, H. Rocha-Pinto (U. of Virginia): “The Absolute Space Motions of Galactic Clusters”

50. E. Gawiser, C. Urry, P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), E. Treister (T), L. Infante (Pontificia CT-4m 2 Universidad Catolica de Chile), C. Liu (American Museum of Natural History), P. Coppi (Yale U.): “Deep Narrow-band Imaging of CDF-S: Testing the Peaks-Bias Paradigm of Galaxy Formation”

51. R. Grouchy (T), R. Buta (U. of Alabama): “Properties of Non-Barred Ringed Galaxies” CT-0.9m 7

52. K. Lewis (T), M. Eracleous, S. Sigurdsson (Pennsylvania State U.): “Black Hole Masses in CT-4m 5 Double-Peaked Emission-Line AGNs”

53. H. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Lonsdale, B. Siana (T) (UC San Diego), M. Rowan- CT-4m 7 Robinson, D. Farrah, G. Morrison, S. Team (California Inst. of Technology): “Rare Objects and Photometric Redshifts in the SWIRE Legacy Survey”

54. J. Stocke, J. Rosenberg, B. Keeney (T) (U. of Colorado), E. Ryan-Weber (G) (U. of CT-0.9m 4 Melbourne), M. Putman (U. of Colorado): “Broad-band and H(α) Imaging of Galaxies with QSO Sightline Probes Through Their Halos”

55. C. Stubbs (U. of Washington), K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), S. Hawley CT-4m 15.5 (U. of Washington), D. Welch (McMaster U.), C. Alcock (U. of Pennsylvania), K. Mighell (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), C. Nelson (G) (UC Berkeley), A. Drake (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), A. Rest (T), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. of Washington), S. Keller (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.): “A Next Generation Microlensing Survey of the LMC”

56. P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), P. Hall, C. Urry (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden U.), E. Gawiser, R. CT-4m 2 Quadri (T) (Yale U.), J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), J. Willis, P. Coppi (Yale U.): “A Deep NIR Survey of the HDF-South Flanking Fields”

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CTIO 2003-B – Thesis Programs (12) Telescope Night s

57. A. Walker (CTIO), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), H. Smith (Michigan State CT-4m 2.5 U.), M. Monelli (T) (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), P. Stetson (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics): “The Spatial Extent of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

CTIO: 2004-A – Non-Thesis (49) Telescopes Nights

58. W. Barkhouse, P. Green, J. Silverman (G), R. Cameron (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), B. Jannuzi CT-4m 1 (NOAO), B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr for Astrophysics), P. Smith (U. of Arizona): "The Cosmological Evolution of X-ray Selected AGN"

59. P. Bouchet (CTIO), J. Danziger (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), O. CT-4m 2.5 Hernandez (G) (Talca U.): "Dust in Types I & II Supernovae"

60. M. Briley (U. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh), G. Smith (UC Santa Cruz): "Chemical Homogeneity of CT-4m 3 Metal Rich Globulars"

61. J. Carpenter (California Inst. of Technology), M. Fernandez (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia CT-1.3m 7.2 (IAA)), N. Huelamo (ESO) : "Star - accretion disk interface in classical T Tauri stars"

62. Y. Chu, R. Gruendl (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Points (CTIO), M. Guerrero (Inst. CT-4m 4 Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)): "Physical Structure of Wolf-Rayet Bubbles"

63. R. Ciardullo, K. Herrmann (G), P. Durrell (Pennsylvania State U.): "The Planetary Nebula CT-4m 3 Systems of M83 and NGC 5068"

64. J. Cohen (California Inst. of Technology), A. McWilliam, S. Shectman, I. Thompson (Carnegie CT-1.3m 3.6 Obs.), N. Christlieb (Hamberger Sternwarte): "Photometry of Extremely Metal Poor Stars from the Hamburg ESO Stellar Survey"

65. A. Cool (San Francisco State U.), I. King (U. of Washington), J. Anderson (Rice U.): CT-1.3m 4.1 "Monitoring a Probable Dwarf Nova in the Core of M22"

66. P. Cote (Rutgers U.), J. Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins U.), L. Ferrarese, A. Jordan (G) (Rutgers U.), CT-0.9m 7 S. Mei (U. of Paris), D. Merritt (Rutgers U.), M. Milosavljevic (California Inst. of Technology), E. Peng (Rutgers U.), J. Tonry, M. West (U. of Hawaii): “SDSS Photometry for Galactic Globular Clusters and an Empirical Calibration of the (g’-z’)-[Fe H] Relation for Old Stellar Populations”

67. Y. Fernandez (U. of Hawaii), C. Lisse (U. of Maryland): "Visible Imaging of Comet Hale-Bopp CT-1.3m 2.6 Complementing SIRTF Observations"

68. E. Gawiser, C. Urry, P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de CT-4m 2 Chile), E. Treister (G) (Yale U.), J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), C. Liu (American Museum of Natural History), P. Coppi (Yale U.): "Deep Narrow-band Lyman [alpha] Imaging at z=3.1: “Testing the Peak-Bias Paradigm of Galaxy Formation”

69. P. Ghavamian (Johns Hopkins U.), J. Hughes (Rutgers U.): "The Interaction of the Oxygen- CT-4m 2 Rich Supernova Remnant G292.0 + 1.8 with its Circumstellar Medium"

70. J. Gizis, B. Riaz (G), J. Harvin (U. of Delaware): "New Nearby M Dwarfs from 2MASS and CT-1.5m 4 ROSAT"

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CTIO: 2004-A – Non-Thesis (49) Telescopes Nights

71. J. Grindlay, P. Edmonds, J. McClintock, P. Zhao, M. Garcia (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. CT-4m 5 Cool (San Francisco State U.), S. Wachter, D. Hoard (SIRTF), P. Green, B. Wilkes, J. Drake, V. Kashyap et.a. : “ChaMPlane: Measuring the Faint X-Ray Binary and Stellar X-Ray Content of the Galaxy”

72. K. Haisch, R. Jayawardhana (U. of Michigan): "A Deep Optical and Near-IR Imaging Survey of CT-4m 5 the [eta] Chamaeleontis Young Cluster"

73. J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), L. Macri (NOAO), T. Jarrett (CalTech-JPL), S. CT-1.5m, CT- 5,8 Schneider (U. Mass), T. Chester (California Inst. of Technology), R. Cutri (CalTech-JPL), M. 4m Skrutskie (U. of Virginia), J. Mader (Keck): "The 2MASS Redshift Survey in the Zone of Avoidance”

74. J. Kim, M. Meyer, M. Silverstone (U. of Arizona), J. Carpenter (California Inst. of CT-0.9m-SVC 2 Technology): "Defining the Stellar SEDs of SIRTF Targets: Placing Our Solar System in Context"

75. C. Kobulnicky, B. Uzpen (G) (U. of Wyoming), E. Churchwell (U. of Wisconsin Madison), G. CT-4m 0.5 Team (O): "Spectroscopic Observations of Stars toward G284.3-0.3: Calibration for the GLIMPSE SIRTF Legacy Survey"

76. K. Krisciunas (U. of Notre Dame), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), M. Phillips, M. Hamuy (Carnegie CT-0.9m-SVC, 6,5,4 Obs.), P. Candia (O), R. Smith (CTIO), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.): "Photometry and CT-1.3m spectroscopy of bright supernovae"

77. A. Layden, G. Tiede (Bowling Green State U.), B. Chaboyer (Dartmouth College): "Population CT-1.3m 2.5 II Ages via SIM: O/IR Light Curves of Field RR Lyrae Stars"

78. K. Luhman, G. Fazio (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): "Searching for the Bottom of the Initial Mass CT-4m 3 Function"

79. S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), J. Rhee (Yonsei CT-4m 6 U.), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), V. Smith (U. of Texas El Paso), D. Geisler (U. de Concepcion), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), J. Crane (G), et al.: “Mapping the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Galactic Halo”

80. P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), K. Olsen (CTIO), B. Plez, E. Josselin (Universite de Montpellier II): CT-1.5m 6 "The Physical Parameters of Red Supergiants: When Massive Stars Are as Cool as They Get"

81. B. McLean (STScI), J. García (O) (Gemini South) , B. Bucciarelli (O) (Osservatorio CT-1.0m 7 Astronomico di Torino), E. Costa (O) (Universidad de Chile), G. Massone (O) (Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino): "Photometric Calibrators for the Second Generation Guide Star Catalog"

82. G. Meurer (Johns Hopkins U.), H. Ferguson (STScI), R. Webster (U. of Melbourne), R. CT-0.9m 7 Kennicutt (U. of Arizona), P. Knezek, S. Oey (STScI), R. Smith (NOAO), M. Drinkwater (U. of Melbourne), K. Freeman (Australian National U.), et al.: “Star Formation in HI Selected Galaxies”

83. R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E. Chiang (Inst. for Advanced Study), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G) CT-4m 4 (MIT), D. Trilling (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Wagner , L. Wasserman, A. Jordan (G) (Lowell Obs.), J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley): "The Deep Ecliptic Survey”

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CTIO: 2004-A – Non-Thesis (49) Telescopes Nights

84. B. Mobasher (STScI), N. Scoville (California Inst. of Technology), L. Macri (NOAO), L. Yan CT-4m 5 (SIRTF), D. Thompson (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie), J. Mould (NOAO), D. Sanders (U. of Hawaii), T. Lisker (G) (Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology) et al.: “Near-IR Survey of the HST-ACS COSMOS 2-Degree Field”

85. S. Mohanty, L. Hartmann (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): "Substellar Companions to Pre-Main CT-4m 5 Sequence Stars: A Survey of the Sco- Cen OB Association"

86. D. Norman (CTIO), D. Wittman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), D. Loomba (U. of New CT-4m 5 Mexico): "Do Quasars Form in Massive Dark Matter Halos?"

87. D. Norman (CTIO), D. Wittman, V. Margoniner (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), J. Hughes CT-4m 2 (Rutgers U.), T. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), I. Dell'Antonio (Brown U.): "Determining Spectral Redshifts for a Shear- Selected Sample of Galaxy Clusters"

88. P. Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), M. Phillips (Carnegie CT-1.3m 0.4 Obs.), G. Aldering (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.): "Hubble Flow Type Ia Supernovae"

89. T. Oswalt, S. Barnes, M. Rudkin (G) (Florida Inst. of Technology), N. Hambly (U. of CT-4m - 1.0m- 3,3,7 Edinburgh), N. Silvestri, S. Hawley (U. of Washington): "White Dwarf Cooling Times and the SVC, CT-0.9m- Chromospheric Activity - Age Relations for Lower Main Sequence Stars” SVC

90. C. Pilachowski, H. Jacobson (G) (Indiana U.): "Infalling Planetesimals in Young Star Clusters - CT-4m 5 Year 2"

91. I. Platais (Johns Hopkins U.), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), D. Terndrup (Ohio State U.): “Deciphering CT-4m 0.3 the history of omega Cen formation”

92. J. Raymond (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), K. Korreck (G) (U. of Michigan Dearborn), P. CT-4m 1 Ghavamian (Johns Hopkins U.): “H(alpha) observations of Northwest Region of SN1006”

93. J. Rhoads, A. Fruchter (STScI), M. Merrill (NOAO), I. Burud, J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), J. CT-4m-TOO Urkia (LAEFF), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), A. Levan (G) (U. of Leicester), S. Patel, et al.: “Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Host Environment”

94. E. Ryan, W. Ryan (New Mexico Inst. of Mining & Technology): “Analysis of the Binary Vesta- CT-1.0m 14 family Asteroid 3782 Celle and Search for Additional Binary Systems”

95. B. Schaefer (Louisiana State U.): “Light Curves of Kuiper Belt Objects” CT-1.0m 1

96. B. Schaefer (Louisiana State U.): “Are Recurrent Novae the Progenitors of Type Ia CT-1.0m 14 Supernovae?”

97. J. Smith (U. of Wyoming), D. Tucker (FNAL): “Southern Standard Stars for the u’g’r’i’z’ System” CT-0.9m 8

98. J. Sokoloski, S. Kenyon (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): "The Outbursts of Symbiotic Binaries" CT-1.3m 1.2

99. B. Twarog, B. Anthony-Twarog (U. of Kansas): "Probing the Chemical Properties of Metal- CT-0.9m 7 Rich Globular Clusters"

100. J. Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Bernstein (U. of Michigan), I. Dell'Antonio CT-4m 6 (Brown U.), D. Wittman, D. Kirkman, G. Kochanski (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), T. Lauer (NOAO), T. Broadhurst (UC Berkeley), R. Cen (Princeton U.), J. Cohen et al.: “The Deep Lens Survey”

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CTIO: 2004-A – Non-Thesis (49) Telescopes Nights

101. A. Whiting (CTIO), K. Davidson (U. of Minnesota), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.), R. Humphreys CT-1.3m 0.55 (U. of Minnesota), N. Smith (U. of Colorado), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): "Photometric Monitoring of Eta Carinae"

102. A. Whiting, N. Suntzeff (CTIO), L. Schmidtobreick (ESO), A. Layden (Bowling Green State CT-1.5m, 6, 6 U.), N. Van Der Bliek, R. Smith, R. Students (U) (CTIO): “Undergraduates and Exploding CT0.9m Stars”

103. A. Whiting (CTIO), K. Davidson (U. of Minnesota), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.), R. Humphreys CT-1.3m 0.5 (U. of Minnesota), N. Smith (U. of Colorado), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): “Photometric Monitoring of Eta Carinae”

104. K. Williams (U. of Arizona), M. Bolte (UC Santa Cruz), M. Meyer (U. of Arizona): “White CT-4m, CT- 4, 3 dwarfs in open clusters: the initial-final mass relation and supernova mass limit” 0.9m

105. G. Williger (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Dave (U. of Arizona), R. Clowes (U. of Central Lancashire), CT-4m 1 M. Graham (Imperial College of Science, Techonology and Medicine), C. Haines (U. of Central Lancashire), J. Liske (U. of Edinburgh), et al.: “A Test of the Foreground Proximity Effect at z=1.2”

106. N. Zacharias, A. Fey (US Naval Obs.), M. Zacharias (O) (Universities Space Research Association), CT-0.9m 5 T. Rafferty (O) (US Naval Obs.): “Extending the radio-optical reference frame link”

CTIO: 2004-A — Thesis Programs (13) Telescope Nights

107. K. Allers (T), D. Jaffe (U. of Texas, Austin), N. Van Der Bliek (CTIO), F. Allard (CRAL): CT-4m 7 “Young Jupiter-Mass Objects in Nearby Molecular Clouds”

108. J. Alonso-Garcia (T), M. Mateo (U. of Michigan), K. von Braun (Carnegie Inst. of CT-4m 4 Washington): “Globular Clusters in the Direction of the Inner Galaxy”

109. J. Bally, J. Walawender (T) (U. of Colorado), B. Reipurth (U. of Hawaii): “Protostellar CT-4m 4 Outflows in the Nearest Southern Dark Clouds”

110. L. Cieza (T), P. Harvey, N. Evans, II, T. Von Hippel (U. of Texas, Austin): “The ages of weak- CT-0.9m 7 lined T Tauri stars of the SIRTF Legacy Project c2d”

111. A. Crotts (Columbia U.), S. Lawrence (Hofstra U.), B. Sugerman (T) (Columbia U.), N. CT-4m 1 Suntzeff (CTIO), P. Bouchet , S. Heathcote (SOAR): "Evolution of SN 1987A into a Supernova Remnant"

112. L. Dundon (T), K. Meech (U. of Hawaii): “Color Variation of Distant Comets and Primitive CT-1.0m 5 Asteroids”

113. P. Frinchaboy (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), W. Kunkel (Las Campanas Obs.), R. Phelps CT-4m 2 (Cal State U. at Sacramento), M. Skrutskie, H. Rocha-Pinto, R. Munoz (G) (U. of Virginia): “The Absolute Space Motions of Galactic Clusters”

114. A. Grocholski (T), A. Sarajedini, E. Lada (U. of Florida), D. Zaritsky (U. of Arizona), R. Probst CT-4m 3 , K. Olsen (NOAO) , G. Tiede (Bowling Green State U.): “The LMC in Space and Time: An infrared reconnaissance”

115. R. Grouchy (T), R. Buta (U. of Alabama): “Spectroscopic Properties of Nonbarred Ringed CT-4m 2 Galaxies”

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CTIO: 2004-A — Thesis Programs (13) Telescope Nights

116. C. Keeton (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff, I. Momcheva (T), K. Williams (U. of Arizona): “The CT-4m 4 Importance of Lens Galaxy Environments”

117. B. Reipurth (U. of Hawaii), R. Chini, K. Kampgen (T) (Ruhr Universitat, Bochum): “A first CT-4m 2 unbiased NIR survey toward the R Cr A molecular cloud”

118. P. Van Dokkum, R. Quadri (T) (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden U.), P. Hall (Princeton U.), C. CT-4m 4 Urry, E. Gawiser (Yale U.), J. Maza (Universidad de Chile), J. Willis (ESO), P. Coppi (Yale U.): “Surface Density and Clustering of Red Galaxies at z>2”

119. P. Zhao, J. Grindlay, S. Laycock, X. Koenig (T) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), H. Cohn, P. CT-1.3m 1.8 Lugger, A. Rogel (G) (Indiana U.), J. Hong (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “ChaMPlane Survey: Spectroscopy and Calibration Follow-up”

COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE INDEPENDENT OBSERVATORIES

Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) – McDonald Observatory (6)

A total of 6 U.S. scientific programs were awarded time on the HET during the two semesters ending July 31, 2004, of which 1 was a graduate thesis program. The number of U.S. investigators associated with these proposals was 11.

HET 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (2) Telescope Nights

1. G. Hussain, S. Saar (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): "Looking for photospheric saturation in HET 1.5 the (α) Per cluster"

2. D. Turnshek, S. Rao (U. of Pittsburgh): "The Kinematics of the Neutral Gas in Low- HET 2.0 Redshift Damped Lyman-α Galaxies"

HET 2003-B – Theses Programs (1)

3. S. Kafka (T), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): "Monitoring the Wind in the Old Nova Q Cyg" HET 1.75

HET 2004-A – Non-Thesis Programs (3) Telescope Nights

4. D. Turnshek, S. Rao (U. of Pittsburgh): "The Kinematics of the Neutral Gas in Low-Redshift HET 2.0 Damped Lyman-Alpha Galaxies"

5. G. Wegner (Dartmouth College), R. Saglia (Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat-Muchen), J. HET 3.2 Thomas (G): "The dynamical structure of flattened ellipticals in the Coma cluster"

6. K. Yoss (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), H. Detweiler (Illinois Wesleyan U.), G. Miller HET 0.8 (O) , D. Bell (NOAO): "Spectrographic Observations of Suspected Halo Giants"

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Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory (MMT) (5)

Five U.S. scientific programs were awarded time on the MMT during semester 2003-B; there were no proposals during 2004-A.There were two graduate thesis programs. The number of U.S. investigators associated with these proposals was 21.

MMT 2003-B — Non-Thesis Programs (3) Telescope Nights

1. D. Bowen (Princeton U.), T. Tripp (U. Mass), T. Heckman (Johns Hopkins U.), D. York (U. MMT 2 of Chicago): "Mg II QSO absorption systems: galaxy halos or metal enriched IGM?"

2. V. Kulkarni (U. of South Carolina), D. York (U. of Chicago), J. Lauroesch (Northwestern MMT 3 U.), P. Khare (Utkal U.), A. Crotts (Columbia U.), O. Nakamura (U. of Tokyo): "The Evolution of Metals and Dust in Damped Lyman-α Quasar Absorbers"

3. P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), R. Kudritzki, F. Bresolin (U. of Hawaii), L. Bianchi (Johns MMT 1 Hopkins U.), J. Puls (Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat-Muchen): "The Physical Parameters of Stellar Winds of Hot, Massive Stars at High Metallicity: O-stars in the Andromeda Galaxy"

MMT 2003-B — Thesis Programs (2) Telescope Nights

4. D. Nestor (T), D. Turnshek, S. Rao (U. of Pittsburgh): "A Survey for Low-Redshift High MMT 3 Column Density QSO Absorption Line Systems"

5. M. Strauss, N. Zakamska (T) (Princeton U.), G. Schmidt (U. of Arizona), J. Krolik (Johns MMT 3 Hopkins U.), M. Collinge (G), P. Hall, G. Richards (Princeton U.): "Spectropolarimetry of Type II Quasar Candidates selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"

W. M. Keck Observatory (Through The Telescope System Instrumentation Program) (14)

A total of 14 U.S. scientific programs were awarded time on the W.M. Keck Observatory telescopes during the two semesters ending July 31, 2004, including 4 graduate thesis programs. The number of U.S. investigators associated with these proposals was 37.

W.M. Keck Observatory: 2003-B – Non-Thesis Programs (5) Telescope Nights

1. J. Bahcall (Inst. for Advanced Study), S. Jha, R. Chornock (G), J. Comerford (G), J. Wright Keck-II 2 (G) (UC Berkeley): “Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of z ~eq 2 QSOs: Robust Constraints On A Varying Fine-Structure Constant”

2. M. Dickinson (STScI), D. Elbaz (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), R. Chary (SIRTF), Keck-I 2 D. Stern 2.(CalTech-JPL), M. Giavalisco, L. Moustakas, B. Mobasher (STScI): “Star forming galaxies at z ~ 2 in the GOODS HDF-N”

3. X. Fan (U. of Arizona), M. Strauss (Princeton U.), L. Jiang (G) (U. of Arizona): “IGM Keck-II 2 Enrichment at the End of Reionization”

4. D. Fischer (San Francisco State U.), G. Laughlin (UC Santa Cruz): “Mapping the Realm of Keck-I 3 Hot Jupiters”

5. S. Malhotra, J. Rhoads (STScI), A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO), J. Wang (Johns Hopkins U.): Keck-II 1 “Lyman Alpha Galaxies and Galaxy Formation Scenarios”

E–32 E: OBSERVING PROGRAMS AND INVESTIGATORS

W.M. Keck Observatory 2003-B — Thesis Programs (2) Telescope Nights

6. C. Impey, A. Marble (T), K. Eriksen (T), L. Bai (G), C. Petry (O) (U. of Arizona): Keck-I 2 “Cosmology with QSO Pairs”

7. L. Prato (UCLA), C. Bender (T), G. Schaefer (T), M. Simon (SUNY, Stony Brook): Keck-II 1 “Dynamical Masses of Pre-Main-Sequence and Brown Dwarf Binaries”

W.M. Keck Observatory 2004-A — Non-Thesis Programs (5) Telescope Nights

8. J. Bahcall (Inst. for Advanced Study), S. Jha, R. Chornock (G), J. Comerford (G), J. Wright Keck-II 2 (G) (UC Berkeley): “Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of z ~eq 2 QSOs: Robust Constraints On A Varying Fine-Structure Constant”

9. M. Dickinson (STScI), D. Elbaz (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), R. Chary (SIRTF), D. Keck-I 2 Stern 2.(CalTech-JPL), M. Giavalisco, L. Moustakas, B. Mobasher (STScI): “Star forming galaxies at z ~ 2 in the GOODS HDF-N”

10. X. Fan (U. of Arizona), M. Strauss (Princeton U.), L. Jiang (G) (U. of Arizona): “IGM Keck-II 2 Enrichment at the End of Reionization”

11. D. Fischer (San Francisco State U.), G. Laughlin (UC Santa Cruz): “Mapping the Realm of Keck-I 3 Hot Jupiters”

12. S. Malhotra, J. Rhoads (STScI), A. Dey, B. Jannuzi (NOAO), J. Wang (Johns Hopkins U.): Keck-II 1 “Lyman Alpha Galaxies and Galaxy Formation Scenarios”

W.M. Keck Observatory: 2004-A — Thesis Programs (2) Telescope Nights

13. C. Impey, A. Marble (T), K. Eriksen (T), L. Bai (G), C. Petry (O) (U. of Arizona): Keck-I 2 “Cosmology with QSO Pairs”

14. L. Prato (UCLA), C. Bender (T), G. Schaefer (T), M. Simon (SUNY, Stony Brook): Keck-II 1 “Dynamical Masses of Pre-Main-Sequence and Brown Dwarf Binaries”

E–33 Appendix F PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES ¾ (Includes Papers Deriving from Programs Granted Time through the Telescope System Instrumentation Program [TSIP])

¾Author Name in bold: NOAO Scientific Staff Member

NOAO Gemini Science Center

1. Abraham, R. G., Glazebrook, K., McCarthy, P. J., et al., 2004, AJ, 127, 2455, “The Gemini Deep Deep Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey, Catalogs, and Composite Spectra”

2. Bouchet, P., De Buizer, J. M., Suntzeff, N. B., et al., 2004, ApJ, 611, 394, “High Resolution Mid-Infrared Imaging of SN 1987A”

3. Close, L. M., Wildi, F., Lloyd-Hart, M., et al., 2003, ApJ, 599, 537, “High-Resolution Images of Orbital Motion in the Trapezium Cluster: First Scientific Results from the Multiple Mirror Telescope Deformable Secondary Mirror Adaptive Optics System”

4. Creech-Eakman, M. J., Orton, G. S., Serabyn, E., 2004, ApJ, 602, L129, “Mid-Infrared Detection of the L Dwarf DENISP J0255-4700”

5. Christou, J. C., Pugliese, G., Köhler, R., Drummond, J.D., 2004, PASP, 116, 734, “Photometric and Astrometric Analysis of Gemini/Hokupa’a Galactic Center Adaptive Optics Observations”

6. De Buizer, J. M., Radomski, J. T., Telesco, C. M., Piña, R. K., 2003, ApJ, 598, 1127, “A Search for Mid- Infrared Emission from Hot Molecular Core Candidates”

7. Glazebrook, K., Abraham, R. G., McCarthy, P. J., et al., 2004, Nature, 430, 181, “A High Abundance Of Massive Galaxies 3–6 Billion Years after the Big Bang”

8. Gorjian, V., Werner, M. W., Mould, J. R., ... De Buizer, J. M., et al., 2004, ApJS, 154, 275, “Infrared Imaging of the Large Magellanic Cloud Star-forming Region Henize 206”

9. Grav, T., Holman, M. J., 2004, ApJ, 605, L141, “Near-Infrared Photometry of the Irregular Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn”

10. Hartmann, L., Hinkle, K., Calvet, N., 2004, ApJ, 609, 906, “High Resolution Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Objects”

11. Hynes, R. I., Charles, P. A., Garcia, M. R., Robinson, E. L., et al, 2004, ApJ, 611, L125, “Correlated X-Ray and Optical Variability in V404 Cygni in Quiescence”

12. Rhoads, J. E., Xu, C., Dawson, S., Dey, A., ... Jannuzi, B. T., et al., 2004, ApJ, 611, 59, “A Luminous Lyman-α Emitting Galaxy at Redshift z=6.535: Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation”

13. Savaglio, S., Glazebrook, K., Abraham, R. G., et al., 2004, ApJ, 602, 51, “The Gemini Deep Deep Survey: II. Metals in Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshift 1.3 < Z < 2”

14. Siegler, N., Close, L. M., Mamajek, E. E., Freed, M., 2003, ApJ, 598, 1265, “An Adaptive Optics Survey of M6.0-M7.5 Stars: Discovery of Three Very Low Mass Binary Systems Including Two Probable Hyades Members”

15. Smith, N., 2004, MNRAS, 351, L15, “The Systemic Velocity of Eta Carinae”

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16. Smith, N., Bally, J., Shuping, R. Y., Morris, M., Hayward, T. L., 2004, ApJ, 610, L117, “Thermal-Infrared Detection of Optical Outflow Sources in OMC-1 South”

17. Smith, V. V., Tsuji, T., Hinkle, K. H., ... Blum, R. D., Ridgway, S. T., Joyce, R. R., et al., 2003, ApJ, 599, L107, “High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf ε Indi Ba”

18. Stanway, E. R., Glazebrook , K., Bunker , A. J., Abraham, R. B., et al., 2004, ApJ, 604, L13, “Three Lyα Emitters at z ≈ 6: Early GMOS/Gemini Data from the GLARE Project”

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

1. Allen, P.R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 595, p. 1222, “Luminosity Functions of Young Clusters: Modeling the Substellar Mass Regime”

2. Anthony-Twarog, B.J., Twarog, B.A. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 1000, “uvbyCaHβ CCD Photometry of Clusters. IV. Solving the Riddle of NGC 3680”

3. Balick, B. 2004, ASP Conf. 303, ed. R.L.M. Corradi, J. Mikolujewska, T.J. Mahoney (ASP), p. 407, “Planetary Nebulae: A Symbiotic Relationship?”

4. Baptista, R., et al. 2003, MNRAS, 345, p. 889, “Cyclical Period Changes in the Dwarf Novae V2051 Oph and V4140 Sgr”

5. Barnes, J.R., James, D.J., Collier Comeron A. 2004, MNRAS, 352, p.589, “Differential Rotation and Star- spot Evolution on HK Aqr in 2001 and 2002”

6. Barrientos, F., Lilly, S.J. 2003, ApJ, 596, p.129, “Evolution of Cluster Elliptical Galaxies”

7. Barris, B.J., …Krisciunas, K., …Smith, R.C., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, ApJ, 602, p. 571, “Twenty- Three High-Redshift Supernovae from the Institute for Astronomy Deep Survey: Doubling the Supernova Sample at z > 0.7”

8. Becker, A.C., …Norman, D., …Schommer, R.A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, p. 418, “The Deep Lens Survey Transient Search. I. Short Timescale and Astrometric Variability”

9. Block, D.L., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, p. 183, “Gravitational Bar and Spiral Arm Torques from Ks-Band Observations and Implications for the Pattern Speeds”

10. Bloom, J.S., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 252, “Optical-Infrared Andicam Observations of the Transient Associated with GRB 030329”

11. Blum, R.D., …Olsen, K., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, p. 323, “Really Cool Stars and the Star Formation History at the Galactic Center”

12. Bohigas, J., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 2826, “Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of the H II Region G353.2+0.9 in NGC 6357 and its Relation to Pismis 24”

13. Bornancini, C.G., et al 2004, AJ, 127, p. 679, “Clustering and Light Profiles of Galaxies in the Environment of 20 Ultra-Steep-Spectrum Radio Sources”

F–2 F: PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

14. Bouchet, P., De Buizer, J.M., Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, p. 304, “High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Imaging of SN 1987A”

15. Bower, G.C., et al 2003, ApJ, 598, p. 1140, “A Giant Outburst at Millimeter Wavelengths in the Orion Nebula”

16. Cavallo, R.M., Suntzeff, N.B., Pilachowski, C.A. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 3411, “Hydra Observations of Aluminum Abundances in the Red Giants of the Globular Clusters M80 and NGC 6752”

17. Clariá, J.J., et al. 2003, A&A, 409, p. 541, “IC 2395 and BH 47: Only One Open Cluster in the Vela Constellation”

18. Cobb, B.E., et al. 2004, ApJ, 608, L93, “The Supernova Associated with GRB 031203: SMARTS Optical- Infrared Light Curves from 0.2 to 92 Days”

19. Corwin, T.M., et al. 2004, A&A, 421, P. 667, “Discovery of a Variable Star Population in NGC 2808”

20. Cruz, K.L., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, p.2421, “Meeting the Cool Neighbors. V. A 2MASS-Selected Sample of Ultracool Dwarfs”

21. de la Reza, R., Drake, N.A., da Silva, L. 2004, ASP Conf. 304, ed. C. Charbonnel, D. Schaerer, G. Meynet (ASP), p. 114, “12C/14N and 12C/13C Ratios in High Rotating Lithium-rich K Giants”

22. De Propis, R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, p. 20, “The K-selected Butcher-Oelmer Effect”

23. Dietrich, M., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, p. 817, “Fe II/Mg II Emission-Line Ratio in High-Redshift Quasars”

24. Dietrich, M., Hamann, F. 2004, ApJ, 611, p. 761, “Implications of Quasar Black Hole Masses at High Redshifts”

25. Dinescu, D.I., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, p. 687, “Absolute Proper Motion of the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy from Photographic and Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 Data”

26. Fernández, R., Monteiro, H., Schwarz, H. 2004, ApJ, 603, p. 595, “Proper Motion and Kinematics of the Ansae in NGC 7009”

27. Foucaud, S., et al. 2003, A&A, 409, p. 835, “The Canada-France Deep Fields Survey-II: Lyman-break Galaxies and Galaxy Clustering at z ~ 3”

28. Friel, E.D., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, p. 2372, “Abundances of Red Giants in the Old Open Cluster Collinder 261”

29. Frith, W.J., et al. 2003, MNRAS, 345, p. 1049, “The Local Hole in the Galaxy Distribution: Evidence from 2MASS”

30. Fu, J.N., et al. 2003, A&A, 412, p. 97, “A Search for Variable Stars in Trumpler 24”

31. Germany, …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, A&A, 415, p. 863, “Results of the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search”

32. Gieren, W., …Walker, A., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, p. 1167, “The Araucaria Project: An Improved Distance to the Sculptor Spiral Galaxy NGC 300 from its Cepheid Variables”

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33. Gómez, P.L., et al. 2003, ASP Conf. 301, ed. S. Bowyer, C.Y. Hwang (ASP), p. 495, “First Results from an X-Ray, Weak Lensing, and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Survey of Nearby Clusters: Abell 3266”

34. Gorjian, V., …Mould, J.R., …Smith, R.C., …Points, S.D., et al. 2004, ApJ, 154, p. 275, “Infrared Imaging of the Large Magellanic Cloud Star-forming Region Henize 206”

35. Gotthelf, E.V., et al. 2004, ApJ, 605, p. 368, “Imaging X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Observations of the Transient Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197”

36. Guinan, E.F., Ribas, I., Fitzpatrick, E.L. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard (ASP), P. 363, “Eclipsing Binaries in Local Group Galaxies: Physical Properties of the Stars and Calibration of the Zero- point of the Cosmic Distance Scale”

37. Haines, C.P., Campusano, L.E., Clowes, R.G. 2004, A&A, 421, p. 157, “Detection of (20-30)h-1 Mpc-scale Galaxy Structures embedded in 100h-1 Mpc-scale Structures of Quasars and MgII Absorbers at z∼=0.8 and z∼=1.2”

38. Haisch, Jr., K.E., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 1747, “A Near-Infrared Multiplicity Survey of Class I/Flat- Spectrum Systems in Six Nearby Molecular Clouds”

39. Hall, P.B., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, p. 3146, “A Lyα-Only Active Galactic Nucleus from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”

40. Hamann, W.-R., et al. 2003, A&A, 409, p. 969, “The Central Star of the Planetary Nebula N 66 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A Detailed Analysis of its Dramatic Evolution 1983-2000”

41. Handler, G., …Krisciunas, K., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 347, p. 454, “Asteroseismology of the β Cephei Star V Eridani – I. Photometric Observations and Pulsational Frequency Analysis”

42. Harris, G.L.H., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, p.712, “Wide-Field Washington Photometry of the NGC 5128 Globular Cluster System. I. The Database”

43. Harris, G.L.H., Harris, W.E., Geisler, D. 2004, AJ, 128, p.712, “Wide-Field Washington Photometry of the NGC 5128 Globular Cluster System. II. Large-Scale Properties of the System”

44. Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., Do, T. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard (ASP), p. 107, “Dust Enshrouded AGB Stars in the LMC”

45. Howell, S.B., et al. 2004, PASP, 116, 527, “Multicolor Photometry of the 2001 Superoutburst of WZ Sagittae”

46. Hughes, J., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 980, “The Giant Branches of ω Centauri: Multiwavelength Observations of Evolved Stars”

47. Hunter, D.A., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, p. 1836, “Cluster Mass Functions in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds: Fading and Size-of-Sample Effects”

48. Jacoby, G. 2003, IAU Symp. 209, ed. S. Kwok, M. Dopita, R. Sutherland (IAU), 625, “Planetary Nebulae in the SMC”

49. Jacoby, G.H., Van de Steene, G. 2004, A&A, 419, 563, “Planetary Nebulae Near the Galactic Center: Identifications”

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50. Jarvis, M., Bernstein, G., Jain, B. 2004, MNRAS, 352, 338, “The Skewness of the Aperture Mass Statistic”

51. Kerschbaum, F., …H., Schwarz, H.E., et al. 2044, ASP Conf 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard (ASP), 153, “A Census of AGB Stars in the Milky Way and M31 subgroups of Dwarf-Spheroidal Galaxies”

52. Knop, R.A., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, 102, “New Constraints on ΩΜ, ΩΛ, and w from an Independent Set of 11 High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with the Hubble Space Telescope”

53. Krisciunas, K, Phillips, M.M., Suntzeff, N.B. 2004, ApJ, 602, L81, “Hubble Diagrams of Type Ia Supernovae in the Near-Infrared”

54. Krisciunas, K., …Suntzeff, N.B., …Rest, A., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 1664, “Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Nearby Type Ia Supernovae 1999ee, 2000bh, 2000ca, and 2001ba”

55. Lazendic, J.S., Dickel, J.R., Jones, P.A. 2003, ApJ, 596, 287, “Supernova Remnant Candidates in the 30 Doradus Nebula”

56. Lebzelter, T., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard (ASP), 144, “AGB Variables in Globular Clusters”

57. Lee, B.L., et al. 2003, ASP Conf. 294, ed. D. Deming, S. Seager (ASP), 413, “Photometric Simulation of Transiting Extrasolar Planets”

58. Lee, H.-W. 2004, IAU Symp. 209, ed. S. Kwok, M. Dopita, R. Sutherland (IAU), 399, “Raman Scattering and the Hidden He II Emission Region in the Bipolar Planetary Nebula M2-9”

59. Leighly, K.M., Moore, J.R. 2004, ApJ, 611, 107, “Hubble Space Telescope STIS Ultraviolet Spectral Evidence of Outflow in Extreme Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies. I. Data and Analysis”

60. Leighly, K.M. 2004, ApJ, 611, 107, “Hubble Space Telescope STIS Ultraviolet Spectral Evidence of Outflow in Extreme Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies. II. Modeling and Interpretation”

61. Leonardi, A.J., Rose, J.A. 2003, AJ, 126, 1811, “Analyzing Starbursts Using Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters as Simple Stellar Populations”

62. Lipkin, Y.M., et al. 2004, ApJ, 606, 381, “The Detailed Optical Light Curve of GRB 030329”

63. Lowry, J.D., …Smith, R.C., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 125, “An Intriguing X-Ray Arc Surrounding the X-Ray Source RX J053335-6854.9 Toward the Large Magellanic Cloud”

64. Mallén-Ornelas, G., et al. 2003, ASP Conf. 294, ed. D.Deming, S. Seager (ASP), 391, “Possible Transiting Planet Candidates from the EXPLORE Project”

65. Massey, P., Olsen, K.A.G., Parker, J.WM. 2003, PASP, 115, 1265, “The Discovery of a 12th Wolf-Rayet Star in the Small Magellanic Cloud”

66. Massey, P., Olsen, K.A.G. 2003, AJ, 126, 2867, “The Evolution of Massive Stars. I. Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds”

67. Matheson, T., …Krisciunas, K., et al. 2003, ApJ., 599, 394, “Photometry and Spectroscopy of GRB 030329 and Its Associated Supernova 2003dh: The First Two Months”

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68. Metz, J.M., et al. 2004, ApJ, 605, 725, “Hot Interstellar Gas and Stellar Energy Feedback in the Antennae Galaxies”

69. Miller, S.T., Veilleux, S. 2003, ApJ, 148, 383, “Extraplanar Emission-Line Gas in Edge-On Spiral Galaxies. I. Deep Emission-Line Imaging”

70. Minniti, D., et al. 2004, ApJ, 612, 215, “The Most Exciting Massive Binary Cluster in NGC 5128: Clues to the Formation of Globular Clusters”

71. Monelli, M., Walker, A.R., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard (ASP), 133, “Short and Long Period Variable Stars in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

72. Monteiro, H., …Schwarz, H.E., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, 194, “Three-Dimensional Photoionization Structure and Distances of Planetary Nebulae. I. NGC 6369”

73. Morgan, N.D., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2617, “WFI J2026-4536 and WFI J2033-4723: Two New Quadruple Gravitational Lenses”

74. Olsen, K.A.G., …Suntzeff, N.B., …Schommer, R.A., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2674, “The Globular Cluster Systems of the Sculptor Group”

75. Pak, S., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, 692, “Near-Infrared Molecular Hydrogen Emission from the Central Regions of Galaxies: Regulated Physical Conditions in the Interstellar Medium”

76. Palunas, P., et al. 2004, ApJ, 602, 545, “The Distribution of Lyα-Emitting Galaxies at z = 2.38”

77. Parker, J.E., Humphreys, R.M., Beers, T.C. 2004, AJ, 127, 1567, “The Asymmetric Thick Disk: A Star- Count and Kinematic Analysis. II. The Kinematics”

78. Peng, E.W., Ford, H.C., Freeman, K.C. 2004, ApJ, 602, 685, “The Planetary Nebula System and Dynamics in the Outer Halo of NGC 5128”

79. Peng, E.W., Ford, H.C., Freeman, K.C. 2004, ApJ, 602, 705, “The Globular Cluster System of NGC 5128. II. Ages, Metallicities, Kinematics, and Formation”

80. Piatti, A.E., Clariá, J.J., Ahumada, A.V. 2003, MNRAS, 346, 390, “Intermediate-Age Galactic Open Clusters: Fundamental Parameters of NGC 2627”

81. Piatti, A.E., Clariá, J.J., Ahumada, A.V. 2004, A&A, 418, 979, “The Relatively Young, Metal-Poor and Distant Open Cluster NGC 2324”

82. Piatti, A.E., Clariá, J.J., Ahumada, A.V. 2004, MNRAS, 349, 641, “The Old Open Cluster Trumpler 5: A Reddened, Metal-Poor Anticentre Cluster”

83. Piatti, A.E., Clariá, J.J., Ahumada, A.V. 2004, A&A, 421, 991, “Improvements on the Fundamental Parameters of the Open Cluster Tombaugh 1 through Washington System Photometry”

9 84. Pourbaix, D., Tokovinin, A.A., et al. 2004, A&A, 424, 727, “SB : The Ninth Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits”

85. Reid, I.N., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 3007, “Meeting the Cool Neighbors. VII. Spectroscopy of Faint Red NLTT Dwarfs”

F–6 F: PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

86. Reid, I.N., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 463, “Meeting the Cool Neighbors. VIII. A Preliminary 20 Parsec Census from the NLTT Catalogue”

87. Reipurth, B., …Heathcote, S., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 1069, “Deep Imaging Surveys of Star-Forming Clouds. I. New Herbig-Haro Flows in NGC 2264”

88. Rey, S.-C., …Walker, A.R., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 958, “CCD Photometry of the Globular Cluster ω Centauri. II. Stellar Populations and Age-Metallicity Relation”

89. Richtler, T, et al. 2004, AJ, 127, P. 2094, “The Globular Cluster System of NGC 1399. II. Kinematics of a Large Sample of Globular Clusters”

90. Rider, C.J., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2210, “A Survey of Open Clusters in the u’ g’ r’ i’ z’ Filter System. I. Results for NGC 2548 (M48)”

91. Romaniello, M., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard (ASP), 426, “The Effect of Metallicity on the Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation”

92. Ryan-Weber, E.V., …Smith, R.C., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, P. 1431, “Intergalactic H II Regions Discovered in Singg”

93. Sandquist, E.L., Bolte, M. 2004, ApJ, 611, 323, “Exploring the Upper Red Giant and Asymptotic Giant Branches: The Globular Cluster M5”

94. Schiavon, R.P., et al. 2004, ApJ, 608, L33, “The Identification of Blue Horizontal-Branch Stars in the Integrated Spectra of Globular Clusters”

95. Schmidtke, P.C., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 469, “A Revised Ephemeris and Fuse Observations of the Supersoft X-Ray Source Cal 83”

96. Schwarz, H.E., Monteiro, H. 2003, IAU Symp. 209, ed. S. Kwok, M. Dopita, R. Sutherland (IAU), 521, “Orientation Effects in Bipolar Planetary Nebulae”

97. Shara, M.M., Hinkley, S., Zurek, D.R. 2003, AJ, 126, 2887, “Erupting Dwarf Novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

98. Silverman, J.D., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 911, ed. G.T. Richards, P.B. Hall (ASP), 321, “X-Ray Emitting AGN Unveiled by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project”

99. Smith, J.A., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2037, “Local u’g’r’i’z’ Standard Stars in the Chandra Deep Field South”

100. Smith, N. 2003, MNRAS, 346, 885, “The Integrated Optical Spectrum of the Crab Nebula and Evidence for its Fading Synchrotron Continuum”

101. Smith, N., Bally, J., Brooks, K.J. 2004, AJ, 127, 2793, “HH 666: The Axis of Evil in the Carina Nebula”

102. Smith, N., Morse, J.A. 2004, ApJ, 605, 854, “Nitrogen and Oxygen Abundance Variations in the Outer Ejecta of η Carinae: Evidence of Recent Chemical Enrichment”

103. Stephens, A.W., Frogel, J.A. 2004, AJ, 127, 925, “An Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Eight Galactic Globular Clusters”

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104. Storchi-Bergmann, T., …Smith, R.C., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, 956, “Evolution of the Nuclear Accretion Disk Emission in NGC 1097: Getting Closer to the Black Hole”

105. Storm, J., et al. 2004, A&A, 415, 521, “BVRIJK Light Curves and Radial Velocity Curves for Selected Magellanic Clouds Cepheids”

106. Storm, J., et al. 2004, A&A, 415, 531, “The Effect of Metallicity on the Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation from a Baade-Wesselink Analysis of Cepheids in the Galaxy and in the Small Magellanic Cloud”

107. Terndrup, D.M., An, D., Hansen, A., Peterson R.C., Walker, A.R., Sadler, E.M. 2004, Ap&SS, 291, 247, “A Survey for EHB Stars in the Galactic Bulge”

108. Terlevich, R., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 348, 1191, “How Old are H II Galaxies?”

109. Van de Steene, G.C., Jacoby, G.H. 2004, IAU Sym 209, ed. S. Kwok, M. Dopita, R. Sutherland (IAU), 49, “Chemical Composition of New Galactic Bulge Planetary Nebulae”

110. Van der Bliek, N.S., …Norman, D., …Blum, R.D., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5492, ed. A.F. Moorwood, M. Iye (SPIE), 1582, “ISPI: A Wide-Field NIR Imager for the CTIO Blanco 4-m Telescope”

111. Vanture, A.D., Wallerstein, G. 2003, PASP, 115, 1367, “An Abundance Analysis of Two S Stars at High Galactic Latitude”

112. Vivas, A.K., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 1158, “The Quest RR Lyrae Survey. I. The First Catalog”

113. Walborn, N.R., et al. 2004, ApJ, 608, 1028, “A CNO Dichotomy Among O2 Giant Spectra in the Magellanic Clouds”

114. Wallerstein, G., et al. 2003, ASP Conf. 303, ed. R.L.M. Corradi, J. Mikoiajewska, T.J. Mahoney (ASP), 97, “Abundances of Post-Iron Peak Elements in HD 35155: A Symbiotic Star of Spectral Type S”

115. Wallerstein, G., Tyagi, S. 2004, PASP, 116, 554, “Near-Ultraviolet Spectra of Nine M Dwarf Stars, or A Second Effort to Find Optical Coronal Lines in M Dwarf Stars”

116. Williams, B.F., Hogan, …Krisciunas, K., …Schommer, R.A., …Smith, R.C., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2608, “Imaging and Demography of the Host Galaxies of High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae”

117. Wing, R.F., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 310, ed. D.W. Kurtz, K.R. Pollard (ASP), 317, “Red Supergiants in the Small Magellanic Cloud: The Effects of Metallicity on Narrow-Band Classification Indices”

118. Wisniewski, J.P., Bjorkman, K.S., Magalhães, A.M. 2003, ApJ., 598, L43, “Evolution of the Inner Circumstellar Envelope of V838 Monocerotis”

119. Wittman, D., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, 218, “Weak-Lensing Discovery and Tomography of a Cluster at z = 0.68”

120. Woolf, V.M., Wallerstein, G. 2004, MNRAS, 350, 575, “Chemical Abundance Analysis of Kapteyn’s Star”

121. Yoo, J., et al. 2004, ApJ, 603, 139, “OGLE-2003-BLG-262: Finite-Source Effects from a Point-Mass Lens”

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Kitt Peak National Observatory

1. Abt, H.A., et al. 2004, The Environment and Evolution of Double and Multiple Stars, eds. C. Allen and C. Scarfe (Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica), 37, “The Mass Distribution of Secondaries to Solar- Type Stars.”

2. Abt, H.A., et al. 2003, Stellar Astrophysics – A Tribute to Helmut A. Abt, eds. K.S. Cheng, et al. (Kluwer Academic), 165, “Rotational Velocities of B Stars.”

3. Akiyama, M., et al. 2003, ApJS, 148, 275, “Optical Identification of the ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey in the Northern Sky: Nature of Hard X-Ray-Selected Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei.”

4. Alcalá, J.M., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 416, 677, “Multi-wavelength Observations of the Star Forming Region in L1616.”

5. Alexov, A., Silva, D.R. and Pierce, M.J. 2003, AJ, 126, 2644, “A Wide-Field, Broadband Imaging Survey of Butcher-Oemler Cluster Cl 0024+1654: The Catalog.”

6. Anderson, D.R. and Bershady, M.A. 2003, ApJ, 599, L79, “A Face-on Tully-Fisher Relation.”

7. Andreon, S., Lobo, C. and Iovino, A. 2004, MNRAS, 349, 889, “Extending the Butcher-Oemler Effect up to z~ 0.7.”

8. Appleton, P.N., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 147, “The Far- and Mid-Infrared/Radio Correlations in the Spitzer Extragalactic First Look Survey.”

9. Baptista, R., et al. 2003, MNRAS, 345, 889, “Cyclical Period Changes in the Dwarf Novae V2051 Oph and V4140 Sgr.”

10. Barai, P., et al. 2004, ApJ, 608, 989, “Mass and Angular Momentum Transfer in the Massive Algol Binary RY Persei.”

11. Becker, A.C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, 418, “The Deep Lens Survey Transient Search. I. Short Timescale and Astrometric Variability.”

12. Bianchi, L., Bohlin, R. and Massey, P. 2004, ApJ, 601, 228, “The Ofpe/WN9 Stars in M33.”

13. Birriel, J.J. 2004, ApJ, 612, 1136, “Raman-Scattered He II at 4851 Å in the Symbiotic Stars HM Sagittae and V1016 Cygni.”

14. Bloom, S.D., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 56, “An Optical Survey of the Position Error Contours of Unidentified High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources at Galactic Latitude |b|>20°.”

15. Bouché, N. and Lowenthal, J.D. 2004, ApJ, 609, 513, “The Clustering of Galaxies around Three z ~ 3 Damped Lyα Absorbers.”

16. Bouché, N. and Lowenthal, J.D. 2003, ApJ, 596, 810, “Clustering of Galaxies at z~3 around the Probable Damped Lyα; Absorber toward QSO APM 08279+5255.”

17. Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., Lauer, T.R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, 225, “Red Galaxy Clustering in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey.”

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18. Calvet, N., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1294, “The Mass Accretion Rates of Intermediate-Mass T Tauri Stars.”

19. Capak, P., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 180, “A Deep Wide-Field, Optical, and Near-Infrared Catalog of a Large Area around the Hubble Deep Field North.”

19. Chapman, S.C., et al. 2003, ApJ, 599, 92, “Hubble Space Telescope Images of Submillimeter Sources Large Irregular Galaxies at High Redshift”

20. Clarke, T.E., et al. 2004, ApJ, 601, 798, “Soft X-Ray Absorption Due to a Foreground Edge-on Spiral Galaxy toward the Core of A2029.”

21. Clayton, G.C., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 3382, “Interstellar Polarization in M31.”

22. Clementini, G., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 938, “Image-Subtraction Photometry of the Globular Cluster M3: Identification of New Double-Mode RR Lyrae Stars.”

23. Côté, P., et al. 2004, ApJS, 153, 223, “The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey.”

24. Cruz, K.L., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2421, “Meeting the Cool Neighbors. V. A 2MASS-Selected Sample of Ultracool Dwarfs.”

25. Dale, D.A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 601, 813, “Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of Star-forming Galaxies.”

26. de Marco, O., et al. 2004, ApJ, 602, L93, “Indications of a Large Fraction of Spectroscopic Binaries among Nuclei of Planetary Nebulae.”

27. de Marco, O., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, eds. M. Meixner, et al. (ASP), 100, “The Dual Dust Chemistry - Binarity Connection.”

28. de Propris, R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, 20, “The K-selected Butcher-Oemler Effect.”

29. Doering, R., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, eds. M. Meixner, et al. (ASP), 337, “Millimeter and Near-IR Imaging of the Red Rectangle.”

30. Doi, T., O’dell, C.R. and Hartigan, P. 2004, AJ, 127, 3456, “Internal Velocities in the Orion Nebula: Large Radial Velocity Features.”

31. Dolphin, A.E., Saha, A., … Thim, F., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 875, “Short-Period Variable Stars in the M31 Halo.”

32. Doppmann, G.W. and Jaffe, D.T. 2003, AJ, 126, 3030, “A Spectroscopic Technique for Measuring Stellar Properties of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars.”

33. Doppmann, G.W., Jaffe, D.T. and White, R.J. 2003, AJ, 126, 3043, “Stellar Properties of Pre-Main- Sequence Stars from High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra.”

34. Eracleous, M. and Halpern, J.P. 2004, ApJS, 150, 181, “Accurate Redshifts and Classifications for 110 Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei.”

35. Eracleous, M. and Halpern, J. 2003, ApJ, 599, 886, “Completion of a Survey and Detailed Study of Double- peaked Emission Lines in Radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei.”

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36. Erwin, P., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, 929, “When Is a Bulge Not a Bulge? Inner Disks Masquerading as Bulges in NGC 2787 and NGC 3945.”

37. Evans, A., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 1981, “Infrared Space Observatory and Ground-Based Infrared Observations of the Classical Nova V723 Cassiopeiae.”

38. Fadda, D., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1, “The Spitzer Space Telescope First-Look Survey: KPNO Mosaic-1 R-Band Images and Source Catalogs.”

39. Fan, X., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 515, “A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. III. Discovery of Five Additional Quasars.”

40. Feigelson, E.D., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, 1107, “The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XVII. Evolution of Magnetic Activity in Old Late-Type Stars.”

41. Fekel, F.C. 2004, AJ, 127, 2931, “Chromospherically Active Stars. XXIII. The Triple System HD 7205=QU Andromedae.”

42. Fekel, F.C., Henry, G.W. and Alston, F.M. 2004, AJ, 127, 2303, “Chromospherically Active Stars. XXII. HD 18955, A Massive K Dwarf Binary.”

43. Fekel, F.C., Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., et al. 2003, The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. A. Brown, G.M. Harper and T.R. Ayres (University of Colorado), 1069, “Velocity Observations of Multiple Mode AGB Variable Stars.”

44. Feldmeier, J.J., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, 617, “Deep CCD Surface Photometry of Galaxy Clusters. II. Searching for Intracluster Starlight in Non-cD clusters.”

45. Ferguson, H.C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 600, L107, “The Size Evolution of High-Redshift Galaxies.”

46. Fernandes, R.C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 605, 105, “The Stellar Populations of Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei. I. Ground-based Observations.”

47. Foucaud, S., et al. 2003, Astron. Astrophys., 409, 835, “The Canada-France Deep Fields Survey-II: Lyman- break Galaxies and Galaxy Clustering at z ~ 3.”

48. Fulbright, J.P. and Johnson, J.A. 2003, ApJ, 595, 1154, “Oxygen Abundances in Metal-poor Stars.”

49. Gautschy-Loidl, R., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 422, 289, “Dynamic Model Atmospheres of AGB stars. IV. A Comparison of Synthetic Carbon Star Spectra with Observations.”

50. Giavalisco, M. et al. 2004, ApJ, 600, L93, “The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results from Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging.”

51. Green, P.J., … Saha, A., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 349, 1261, “HS 1216+5032: a Physical Quasar Pair with One Radio-loud Broad Absorption Line Quasar.”

52. Green, R., … Brown, M., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 311, eds. G.T. Richards and P.B. Hall (ASP), 441, “A Deep Wide-Field Infrared Survey for Quasars.”

53. Green, P.J., … Jannuzi, B.T., … Dey, A., et al. 2004, ApJS, 150, 43, “The Chandra Multiwavelength Project: Optical Follow-up of Serendipitous Chandra Sources.”

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54. Harbeck, D., Gallagher, J.S. and Grebel, E.K. 2004, AJ, 127, 2711, “WIYN Survey for Carbon Stars in the M31 and Cetus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: Evolutionary Implications.”

55. Hargis, J.R., Sandquist, E.L. and Bolte, M. 2004, ApJ, 608, 243, “The Luminosity Function and Color- Magnitude Diagram of the Globular Cluster M1.”

56. Hartmann, L., Hinkle, K., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, 906, “High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Objects.”

57. Henry, G.W., Fekel, F.C. and Henry, S.M. 2004, AJ, 127, 1720, “HD 207651: A Triple System with δ Scuti and Ellipsoidal Variations But No γ Doradus Pulsations.”

58. Henry, G.W. and Fekel, F.C. 2003, AJ, 126, 3058, “A Dozen New γ Doradus Stars.”

59. Hillwig, T., Livio. M. and Honeycutt, R.K. 2004, PASP, 116, 397, “A Search for Collimated Jets in Cataclysmic Variables.”

60. Hinkle, K., Wallace, L., et al. 2003, The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. A. Brown, G.M. Harper and T.R. Ayres (University of Colorado), 851, “High Resolution Infrared, Visible and Ultraviolet Spectral Atlases of the Sun and Arcturus.”

61. Hintz, E.G., et al. 2004, PASP, 116, 543, “Period Changes in the SX Phoenicis Star DY Pegasi.”

62. Holden, B.P., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2484, “Evolution in the Color-Magnitude Relation of Early-Type Galaxies in Clusters of Galaxies at z~=1.”

63. Horch, E.P., Meyer, R.D and van Altena, W.F. 2004, AJ, 127, 1727, “Speckle Observations of Binary Stars with the WIYN Telescope. IV. Differential Photometry.”

64. Indebetouw, R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, L83, “Detection of a Near-Infrared Counterpart to the Massive Protostar G192.16-3.82.”

65. Izotov, Y.I. and Thuan, T.X. 2004, ApJ, 602, 200, “Systematic Effects and a New Determination of the Primordial Abundance of 4He and dY/dZ from Observations of Blue Compact Galaxies.”

66. Jacoby, G.H. and van de Steen, G. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 419, 563, “Planetary Nebulae Near the Galactic Center: Identifications.”

67. Kafka, S., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 1622, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. XX. Photometric Monitoring of the Galactic Cluster NGC 6939.”

68. Keel, W.C. 2004, AJ, 127, 1325, “Ongoing Mass Transfer in the Interacting Galaxy Pair NGC 1409/1410.”

69. Kelly, D.M., … Hinkle, K.H., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, eds. M. Meixner, et al. (ASP), 343, “High- Resolution Spectroscopy of H2 in Proto-Planetary Nebulae.”

70. Kinman, T.D., et al. 2004, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 75, 36, “The Vertical Structure of Halo Rotation.”

71. Knop, R.A., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, 102, “New Constraints on ΩM, ΩΛ, and w from an Independent Set of 11 High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with the Hubble Space Telescope.”

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72. Kovári, Zs., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 417, 1047, “Doppler Imaging of Stellar Surface Structure. XXII. Time-series Mapping of the Young Rapid Rotator LQ Hydrae.”

73. Lacy, C.H.S., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1324, “Absolute Properties of the Main-Sequence Eclipsing Binary Star V885 Cygni.”

74. Lacy, C.H.S., Claret, A., and Sabby, J.A. 2004, AJ, 128, 1340, “Absolute Properties of the Eclipsing Binary Star V459 Cassiopeiae.”

75. Lacy, C.H.S., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 1905, “Absolute Properties of the Main-Sequence Eclipsing Binary Star BP Vulpeculae.”

76. Lallement, R., et al. 2003, Astron. Astrophys., 411, 447, “3D Mapping of the Dense Interstellar Gas around the Local Bubble.”

77. Lebzelter, T. and Hron, J. 2003, Astron. Astrophys., 411, 533, “Technetium and the Third Dredge up in AGB Stars. I. Field Stars.”

78. Le Foc’h, E., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 170, “Identification of Luminous Infrared Galaxies at 1 <~ z <~ 2.51,2,3,4,5,6.”

79. Leonardi, A.J. and Rose, J.A. 2003, AJ, 126, 1811, “Analyzing Starbursts Using Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters as Simple Stellar Populations.”

80. Li, J.Z. and Rector, T.A. 2004, ApJ, 600, L67, “The Discovery of a Disk-Jet System Directly Exposed to Strong Ultraviolet Fields in the Rosette Nebula.”

81. Leonardi, A.J. and Rose, J.A. 2003, AJ, 126, 1811, “Analyzing Starbursts using Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters as Simple Stellar Populations”

82. Lipkin, Y.M., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 349, 1323, “Photometry of V1062 Tau: Low States, Short Outbursts and Period Switching.”

83. Lotz, J.M., Martin, C.L. and Ferguson, H.C. 2003, ApJ, 596, 143, “The Star-forming Dwarf Galaxy Populations of Two z ~ 0.4 Clusters: MS 1512.4+3647 and A851.”

84. Macri, LM. 2004, New Astronomy Reviews, 48, 675, “DIRECT DEBs in M31 and M33.”

85. Massey, P., Henning, P.A. and Kraan-Korteweg, R.C. 2003, AJ, 126, 2362, “A Neighboring Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Hidden by the Milky Way.”

86. Matheson, T., …Brown, M.J.I., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2003, ApJ, 599, 394, “Photometry and Spectroscopy of GRB 030329 and Its Associated Supernova 2003dh: The First Two Months.”

87. Mathieu, R.D., Meibom, S., Dolan, C.J. 2004, ApJ, 602, L121, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. XVIII. The Tidal Circularization Cutoff Period of the Old Open Cluster NGC 188.”

88. Matthews, L.D. and de Grijs, R. 2004, AJ, 128, 137, “Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Edge-on Sbc Galaxy UGC 10043: Evidence for a Galactic Wind and a Peculiar Triaxial Bulge.”

89. McCall, M.L, et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 375, “Discovery of a Huge Young Stellar Object Interaction Region in Camelopardalis.”

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90. McIntosh, D.H., Impey, C.D., and Petry, C.E. 2004, AJ, 128, 544, “Quasars as Absorption Probes of the J0053+1234 Region.”

91. McIntosh, D.H., et al. 2004, ApJ, 610, 161, “Structural Evidence for Environment-driven Transformation of the Blue Galaxies in Local Abell Clusters: A85, A496, and A754.”

92. McNamara, B.R., Wise, M.W. and Murray, S.S. 2004, ApJ, 601, 173, “The Insignificance of Global Reheating in the A1068 Cluster: Multiwavelength Analysis.”

93. McSwain, M.V., et al. 2004, ApJ, 600, 927, “The N Enrichment and Supernova Ejection of the Runaway Microquasar LS 5039.”

94. McSwain, M.V. 2003, ApJ, 595, 1124, “The Massive Triple Star System HD 16429 A.”

95. Miller, S.T. and Veilleux, S. 2003, ApJS, 148, 383, “Extraplanar Emission-Line Gas in Edge-On Spiral Galaxies. I. Deep Emission-Line Imaging.”

96. Mitchell, K.J. and Usher, P.D. 2004, ApJS, 153, 119, “Faint Blue Objects at High Galactic Latitude. VIII. Performance Characteristics of the US Survey.”

97. Mooney, C.J., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 419, 1123, “High-resolution Spectroscopy of Globular Cluster Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars.”

98. Morgan, N.D., Snyder, J.A. and Reens, L.H. 2003, AJ, 126, 2145, “SDSS J1650+4251: A New Gravitational Lens.”

99. Morrison, H.L., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, L183, “Andromeda VIII: A New Tidally Distorted Satellite of M31.”

100. Munn, K.E., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 419, 713, “A Chemical Analysis of Five Hot Stars Towards the Galactic Centre.”

101. Nandra, K., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 347, L41, “X-ray and Optical Counterparts of Hard X-ray Selected Sources from the SHEEP Survey: First Results.”

102. Nelson, C.H., Green, R., et al. 2004, Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L.C. Ho (Cambridge), “Velocity Dispersion and Black Hole Mass in Seyfert I Galaxies.”

103. Ohta, K., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, 210, “Optical Identification of the ASCA Lynx Deep Survey: An Association of Quasi-Stellar Objects and a Supercluster at z=1.3?”

104. Pak, S., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, 692, “Near-Infrared Molecular Hydrogen Emission from the Central Regions of Galaxies: Regulated Physical Conditions in the Interstellar Medium.”

105. Pan, K., et al. 2004, ApJS, 151, 313, “Cloud Structure and Physical Conditions in Star-forming Regions from Optical Observations. I. Data and Component Structure.”

106. Papovich, C., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, 827, “The Internal Ultraviolet-Optical Color Dispersion: Quantifying the Morphological K-Correction.”

107. Parker, J.E., Humphreys, R.M. and Beers, T.C. 2004, AJ. 127, 1567, “The Asymmetric Thick Disk: A Star- Count and Kinematic Analysis. II. The Kinematics.”

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108. Pérez, M.R., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 416, 647, “A Young and Complex Binary Star - HD 144432.”

109. Pietsch, W., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 413, 879, “The Eclipsing Massive X-ray Binary M 33 X-7: New X-ray Observations and Optical Identification.”

110. Platais, I., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2922, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. XVII. Astrometry and Membership to V=21 in NGC 188.”

111. Points, S.D. 2004, PASP, 116, 801, “The Complex Interstellar Na I Absorption toward h and χ Persei.”

112. Przybilla, N. and Butler, K. 2004, ApJ, 609, 1181, “Non-LTE Line Formation for Hydrogen Revisited.”

113. Rengstorf, A.W., et al. 2004, ApJ, 606, 741, “New Quasars Detected via Variability in the QUEST1 Survey.”

114. Regan, M.W., et al. 2004, ApJS, 154, 204, “Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) Imaging of NGC 7331: A Panchromatic View of a Ringed Galaxy.”

115. Reid, I.N., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 463, “Meeting the Cool Neighbors. VIII. A Preliminary 20 Parsec Census from the NLTT Catalogue.”

116. Reid, I.N., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 3007, “Meeting the Cool Neighbors. VII. Spectroscopy of Faint Red NLTT Dwarfs.”

117. Reipurth, B., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 1069, “Deep Imaging Surveys of Star-forming Clouds. I. New Herbig- Haro Flows in NGC 2264.”

118. Reipurth, B., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 1117, “Hα Emission-Line Stars in Molecular Clouds. I. The NGC 2264 Region.”

119. Rhoads, J.E., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, 59, “A Luminous Lyα-emitting Galaxy at Redshift z = 6.535: Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation.”

120. Rhode, K.L., Zepf, S.E. 2004, AJ, 127, 302, “The Globular Cluster Systems of the Early-Type Galaxies NGC 3379, NGC 4406, and NGC 4594 and Implications for Galaxy Formation.”

121. Rhode, K.L. and Zepf, S.E. 2003, AJ, 126, 2307, “The Globular Cluster System of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 7814.”

122. Schmidt, E.G., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2495, “The Spectra of Type II Cepheids. II. The Hα Line in Intermediate-Period Stars.”

123. Schmitt, H., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 311, eds. G.T. Richards and P.B. Hall (ASP), 297, “The Stellar Population of LINER and Transition Galaxies.”

124. Shapiro, K.L., Gerssen, J. and van der Marel, R.P. 2003, AJ, 126, 2707, “Observational Constraints on Disk Heating as a Function of Hubble Type.”

125. Sicilia-Aguilar, A., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 805, “Low-Mass Stars and Accretion at the Ages of Planet Formation in the Cepheus OB2 Region.”

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126. Silverman, J., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 311, eds. G.T Richards and P.B. Hall (ASP), 321, “X-ray Emitting AGN Unveiled by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project.”

127. Simon, J.D., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, 957, “High-Resolution Measurements of the Dark Matter Halo of NGC 2976: Evidence for a Shallow Density Profile.”

128. Sing, D.K., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2936, “Spectroscopic and Photometric Analysis of HS 1136+6646: A Hot Young DAO+K7 V Post-Common-Envelope, Pre-Cataclysmic Variable Binary.”

129. Slesnick, C.L., Hillenbrand, L.A., and Carpenter, J.M. 2004, ApJ, 610, 1045, “The Spectroscopically Determined Substellar Mass Function of the Orion Nebula Cluster.”

130. Sonnentrucker, P., et al. 2003, ApJ, 596, 350, “Abundances and Physical Conditions in the Interstellar Gas toward HD 185418.”

131. Sparks, W.B., et al. 2004, ApJ, 607, 294, “X-Ray and Optical Filaments in M87.”

132. Stanford, S.A., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 131, “The Evolution of Early-Type Field Galaxies Selected from a NICMOS Map of the Hubble Deep Field North.”

133. Stassun, K.G., et al. 2004, ApJS, 151, 357, “Dynamical Mass Constraints on Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Stellar Evolutionary Tracks: An Eclipsing Binary in Orion with a 1.0 Msolar Primary and a 0.7 Msolar Secondary.”

134. Steidel, C.C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 604, 534, “A Survey of Star-forming Galaxies in the 1.4<~Z<~ 2.5 Redshift Desert: Overview.”

135. Stocke, J.T., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, 94, “Discovery of a Dwarf Poststarburst Galaxy near a High Column Density Local Lyα Absorber.”

136. Storchi-Bergmann, T., et al. 2003, ApJ, 598, 956, “Evolution of the Nuclear Accretion Disk Emission in NGC 1097: Getting Closer to the Black Hole.”

137. Strassmeier, K.G., et al. 2003, Astron. Astrophys., 411, 595, “Doppler Imaging of Stellar Surface Structure. XXI. The Rapidly-rotating Solar-type Star HD 171488 = V889 Hercules.”

138. Thim, F., … Saha, A., Claver, J., Dolphin, A., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2322, “Cepheids and Long-Period Variables in NGC 4395.”

139. Tiede, G.P., Sarajedini, A. and Barker, M.K. 2004, AJ, 128, 224, “The Stellar Populations in the Outer Regions of M33. I. Metallicity Distribution Function.”

140. Valdes, F., et al. 2004, ApJS, 152, 251, “The Indo-US Library of Coudé Feed Stellar Spectra.”

141. van Eyken, J.C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 600, L79, “First Planet Confirmation with a Dispersed Fixed-Delay Interferometer.”

142. Vogt, N.P., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 3273, “M/L, Hα Rotation Curves, and H I Measurements for 329 Nearby Cluster and Field Spirals. I. Data.”

143. Vogt, N.P., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 3300, “M/L, Hα Rotation Curves, and H I Gas Measurements for 329 Nearby Cluster and Field Spirals. II. Evidence for Galaxy Infall.”

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144. Vogt, N.P., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 3325, “M/L, Hα Rotation Curves, and H I Gas Measurements for 329 Nearby Cluster and Field Spirals. III. Evolution in Fundamental Galaxy Parameters.”

145. Walawender, J., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2809, “Deep Imaging Surveys of Star-Forming Clouds II. A New Giant Herbig-Haro Flow in L1451.”

146. Wang, J.X., … Dey, A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 608, L21, “X-Ray Nondetection of the Lyα Emitters at z~4.5.”

147. Wang, J.X., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 213, “The 172 ks Chandra Exposure of the LALA Bootes Field: X-Ray Source Catalog.”

148. Waskett, T.J., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 350, 785, “XMM-Newton Surveys of the Canada-France Redshift Survey fields - II. The X-ray Catalogues, the Properties of the Host Galaxies and the Redshift Distribution.”

149. Watanabe, C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 610, 128, “Near-Infrared Colors of Hard X-Ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei.”

150. Webb, T.M.A.,et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, 680, “ The Canada-UK Deep Submillimeter Survey. VII. Optical and Near-Infrared Identifications for the 14 Hour Field.”

151. White, R.E. 2003, ApJS, 148, 487, “Interstellar Matter near the Pleiades. VI. Evidence for an Interstellar Three-Body Encounter.”

152. Wilkinson, M.I., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, L21, “Kinematically Cold Populations at Large Radii in the Draco and Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies.”

153. Wittman, D., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, 218, “Weak-Lensing Discovery and Tomography of a Cluster at z = 0.68.”

154. Wolff, S.C., Strom, S.E., Hillenbrand, L.A. 2004, ApJ, 601, 979, “The Angular Momentum Evolution of 0.1-10 Msolar Stars from the Birth Line to the Main Sequence.”

155. Yan, H. and Windhorst, R.A. 2004, ApJ, 600, L1, “The Major Sources of the Cosmic Reionizing Background at z~=6.”

156. Yuan, Q., …Green, R.F., et al. 2004, IAU Sym 217, eds. P.-A. Duc, J Braine and E. Brinks (ASP), 364, “Outflowing Components in the Prototype Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy Markarian 478.”

157. Zboril, M., et al. 2004, Astron. Astrophys., 421, 295, “An Atmospheric Model for UZ Librae from Mean Hα-line Profiles.”

W. S. Keck Observatory (TSIP)

1. Rhoads, J.E., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJ, 611, 59, “A Luminous Lyα-emitting Galaxy at Redshift z = 6.535: Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation.”

HET and MMT (Facilities Instrumentation Program and TSIP)

1. Stassun, K.G., et al. 2004, ApJS, 151, 357, “Dynamical Mass Constraints on Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Stellar Evolutionary Tracks: An Eclipsing Binary in Orion with a 1.0 Msolar Primary and a 0.7 Msolar Secondary.”

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2. Turnshek, D.A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 609, L53, “Double-damped Lyα Absorption: A Possible Large Neutral Hydrogen Gas Filament near Redshift z=1.”

NOAO Science Archive

1. Bauer, F.E. and W.N. Brandt 2004, ApJ, 601, L67, “Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope Confirmation of the Luminous and Variable X-Ray Source IC 10 X-1 as a Possible Wolf-Rayet, Black Hole Binary.”

2. Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., Lauer, T.R., et al. 2003, ApJ, 597, “Red Galaxy Clustering in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey.”

F–18 Appendix G ACTIVITIES ENCOURAGING DIVERSITY WITHIN NOAO

During the 2004 fiscal year, NOAO facilitated activities to foster, encourage, and increase geographic, gender, ethnic, and racial diversity. These included, but were not limited, to the following activities:

• Hired a diverse mix of 48 new staff members, including 16 women (33%), and nine minority group members (nearly 19%).

• Fully 40% of staff members promoted in FY04 were women; minority staff members accounted for half the women promoted, and 33% of the men promoted.

• Made special arrangements to address the unique needs of a dual-career couple by opening up two positions within the organization.

• Developed and initiated a Scientific Staff Mentoring program, at both the Tucson and La Serena locations, in order to foster an improved developmental atmosphere for staff of all diverse backgrounds.

• Reviewed policies and procedures manual for language and content supporting increased diversity, and recommended changes to be implemented upon approval from the AURA Board of Directors.

• Participated in job fairs, career days, and public outreach programs specifically addressing the needs of minority group members and disadvantaged students and community members.

• Continued the practice of establishing diverse search committees, including at least one woman for all scientific and high-level recruitments.

• Made special accommodations for staff members with temporary or long-term disabilities.

• Continued our ongoing affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, and Native American preference programs as outlined in our annual Affirmative Action Plan Documents.

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Appendix H 4th QUARTER SITE SAFETY REPORT TUCSON AND KITT PEAK

OSHA RECORDABLE OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES, ILLNESSES, AND OTHER INCIDENTS • There were no injuries reported this quarter. Year to date, NOAO/NSO Kitt Peak has experienced three industrial injuries including a broken rib from a fall on the ice, right rotator cuff injury from an automobile accident, and knee strain due to overexertion. The Kitt Peak injury rate, calendar to date, is approximately six; the OSHA (2002) national average is 2.8. NOAO/NSO Tucson has had four injuries including a hand sprain due to lifting, knee injury due to climbing stairs, insect bite, and a strained back. Tucson injury rate is approximately two, slightly below the national average.

• NOAO shuttle van #65 that was part of a caravan transporting REU students on highway 6563 to Sun Spot, New Mexico struck an elk on the night of July 1, 2004. The van was traveling about 30 mph when the elk stepped onto the road and was struck by the van. None of the six passengers reported injuries. The elk perished and the van sustained $4,950 in damage. Thanks to the staff at NSO Sacramento Peak, the van was readied for the return trip to Tucson. Accident reports were completed and filed, and the van has been repaired and returned to service.

• An employee’s motorcycle fell over while shipping and receiving were working in the motorcycle parking area with a forklift.

• Twenty dollars were reported missing from an engineering department’s desktop drawer. No suspects were identified.

SAFETY AND HEALTH • A risk management presentation was conducted during the PAEO Docent meeting on July 1, 2004. Topics discussed included Safety and Health Resources, Kitt Peak Emergency Manual, Driving Safety, Medical Response, Fire Prevention, Environmental and Preparedness.

• The WIYN primary mirror re-aluminizing during the summer shutdown finished with no incidents. Pre-planning meetings were held to coordinate risk management issues. A Safety, Health and Environmental Action Plan was developed, as well as a critical lift plan for the mirror and an energy shutdown procedure.

• Because of suggestions made by several employees during a non-emergency incident. CFO procedures on the Intranet related to Security and Safety Services were modified to aid employees in need of help. Language was added to the NOAO/CFO intranet included a detailed procedure to contact security guards and other emergency contact information.

• The Tucson Power Outage Procedure was rewritten and revised in preparation for the summer monsoon season. Several drills were conducted to familiarize staff with the new procedure. During the night of July 17, the Tucson complex experienced a complete power failure due to an intense storm; the new procedure was used without incident.

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• Rewrite of the NOAO/NSO Risk Management Manual is in progress. New or improved topics include noise, confined space, ventilation, welding, hand tools, electrical safety, power distribution safety, portable and fixed ladders, cryogenics, lasers, foot protection, transportation of hazardous materials, motor vehicle safety, general security, understanding the risk, and smoking. It is estimated that the draft document is 60% complete, once completed; the manual will be made available on the NOAO Risk Management Documents intranet site.

• Advisement and information was provided for the transportation and classroom use of lasers for PAEO. Also provided was updated information related to West Nile Virus risks in Arizona.

• Several formal and informal planning meetings related to the risks of transporting and installation of the IRMOS on the 2.1 M telescope. Risk management advisement was provided during the successful mounting of IRMOS to the telescope on September 20, 2004.

• The NOAO Risk Management Specialist is now attending NSO’s ATST design meetings. Information related to risk management and code compliance was issued to the design team.

• Information related to respirator protection, confined space, hazardous materials and fall protection was provided to NSO’s Sacramento Peak Facilities Manager, with the intended result of upgrading their safety program.

• Risk management coaching and advisement was provided for Kitt Peak Family Night that was scheduled for the night of September 18. The event was cancelled due to poor weather.

• Because of a need expressed by our designers, The NOAO Risk Management Specialist is working on a document that should provide risk management assistance during the construction of future telescopes and buildings. The document is titled “Risk Management Considerations for Projects.” It is estimated that the draft is 50% complete.

• PAEO/NOP Jack Kennedy completed his National Registry Examination and is now officially an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Jack is already participating in the care and maintenance of medical equipment on Kitt Peak and participating in ambulance “ride alongs” with the Department of Indian Health Services.

• After recently accepting the nomination for the President Elect/ Vice President of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), the NOAO Risk Management Specialist, Chuck Gessner, has also obtained the status of Professional Member of ASSE. Professional members must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college plus ten years of safety experience. Chuck also successfully completed the second of five seminars for the ASSE endorsed Executive Program in Safety Management certification during July 27 to July 30. Eligibility for this certification requires a Baccalaureate degree plus at least five years experience in safety.

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FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION • The NOAO Risk Management Specialist coordinated and participated in an interview by Nancy Perla from KVOA NBC-TV Tucson on July 7 at Kitt Peak. KVOA reported a story on what Kitt Peak is doing to help prevent and fight a forest fire like the one that threatened the Mount Graham observatory. Ms. Perla interviewed Kitt Peak Director Richard Green and the NOAO Risk Management Specialist for the story, which aired on the 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 pm Channel 4 news that night. Thanks to PAEO Manager, Doug Isbell, for providing speaking points and attending the interview.

• Recently, the Tohono O’odham Nation Fire Management Officer, Guy Acuna, stated that the Tohono O’odham Fire Management Plan and the Environmental Assessment have been completed. After review by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is expected to be the end of September, the Environmental Assessment will be issued for public comment for thirty days. A presentation will then be made to the Tohono O’odham Nation Council for final approval. The Tohono O’odham Fire Management Plan includes funding for Kitt Peak.

• Kitt Peak staff continues with monthly fire drills.

• Kitt Peak and Tucson fire alarm systems were inspected with no recommendations.

ENVIRONMENTAL • With the help of NOAO Property Officer Jerry Smith, we acquired three hazardous storage cabinets from GSA that will be used by CFO, Kitt Peak Facilities and GONG at a substantial cost savings from purchasing new cabinets.

• Advisement and coordination was provided for information for the transportation of hazardous materials to Kitt Peak for a U of A proposed observing run in the NSO’s FTS Lab at the McMath- Pierce telescope.

• The chemical storage area was inventoried and 84 pounds of hazardous waste and 25 pounds of non-hazardous waste were prepared for proper disposal. Properly disposed of 100 pounds of fluorescent light bulbs that will be recycled.

INSURANCE • In July, the NOAO Risk Management Specialist assumed insurance responsibilities for Kitt Peak and Tucson. AURA Director of Business Administration, George Curran, Assistant Contracts Administer, Christine Stone, and the NOAO Risk Management Specialist developed new Insurance Procedures for Centers. The new procedures facilitate recent changes in responsibilities for AURA corporate insurance policies and include guidelines for each Center to follow in insurance-related circumstances. Topics include: For damage, auto accidents involving third parties, general liability claims, requests for inland marine or similar additional coverage, insurance certificates, center responsibility, worker compensation, center contacts for workers compensation, policy renewal, and additional references.

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• In August, an employee’s motorcycle fell over while shipping and receiving were working in the motorcycle parking area with a forklift. The claim was submitted to our insurance company, The Hartford. The employee has received payment for the damages.

SECURITY

• Enhancements continue with Tucson’s KeyScan keycard system. Automatic gates with keycard entry were installed at the Hawthorne Street employee parking area and the Hawthorne Street service yard. Shuttle vehicles will be supplied with key cards that will allow visiting Astronomers access to the service yard and the CFO Facilities building during their observing runs to and from Kitt Peak. As office spaces at the GONG/DMAC building are being renovated, the building is being readied for the KeyScan system to control security of the exterior doors.

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