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Fy05 Accomplishments and Fy06 Plans Helmut A. Abt

Fy05 Accomplishments and Fy06 Plans Helmut A. Abt

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HELMUT A. ABT, Emeritus Astronomer

Research Interests Evolutionary stellar problems, stellar characteristics, publication studies

FY05 Accomplishments Abt and C. Boonyarak (U. Thailand) studied rotation velocities of in binaries. It was known that those with periods shorter than several days all have synchronized rotational and orbital motions. They found that binaries with periods up to 500 days have reduced rotational velocities due to tidal interactions. Abt found that the eccentricities in binaries vary from zero in close binaries to an average of 0.5 in binaries with periods greater than 1000 days. In the initial formation of binaries, all eccentricities are equally probable.

FY06 Plans Abt is trying to understand the hot inner disks that occur around, at any one time, one-quarter of the rapidly- rotating A dwarfs. These disks have no connection with the outer cool dust disks found around many stars like and beta Pictoris. These disks come and go on time scales of decades. Such stars do not occur in the low-density Local Interstellar Bubble, so they are material accreted from the interstellar medium. Theoretical aspects of the physical processes is being done with M. Marlborough (U. Western Ontario).

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

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

FY05 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 properties change with environment. Recent work has concentrated on photometry from HST-WFPC2 images that yield color-magnitude diagrams and variable- properties. , 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.

FY06 Plans Armandroff plans to construct and analyze new HST-WFPC2-based color-magnitude diagrams for the stars in and VI, and to prepare these for publication.

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

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

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FY05 Accomplishments Aufdenberg and colleagues published their work on the F-type star showing the limitations of 1-D models, and the promise of 3-D models, in studying convection in stars using interferometry. He was co-author of a paper describing high-precision measurements of the classical Cepheid variable delta Cephei with the CHARA Array interferometer. Aufdenberg also obtained new interferometric measurements of hot stars Vega, Deneb, and Rigel with the CHARA Array to study these stars’ rotational distortions and/or wind -loss rates. He also co-authored a paper on eclipse mapping observations of the RSCVn SV Cam.

FY06 Plans Aufdenberg plans to finish up his interferometric studies of Vega, Deneb and Rigel in collaboration with S. T. Ridgway and the University of Paris and CHARA teams. He will also obtain additional measure- ments of Rigel with the CHARA Array. Aufdenberg will also co-author work on interferometric and spectroscopic observations of the M-type giant Alpha Ceti and work on a follow-up study of SV Cam.

DMITRY V. BIZYAEV, Research Associate (Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) Grid Star Verification Program, JPL)¬S

Research Interests High-resolution stellar spectroscopy, radial velocities of red giants, chemical abundances, in collisional ring galaxies; structure of galaxies

FY05 Accomplishments Bizyaev and V. Smith (NOAO) worked on the selection of red giants which show stable radial velocities (RV) in support of the Space Interferometer Mission (SIM). They continue to conduct high-resolution observations with the 82s telescope at the McDonald Observatory. The project is sponsored by NASA through JPL; the project moved to NOAO as of April 2005. In FY05, 106 observing nights were granted to the project; 1489 spectra have been taken, and all have been reduced. This project shows that a pre- selection of red giants based on their effective , surface gravities, and [Fe/H] helps to increase the fraction of RV-stable stars needed for the SIM operation.

FY06 Plans The observations of SIM reference stars will be continued. We will complete, test, and apply our automatic pipeline to assess the stellar parameters and abundances of chemical species for all stars in our growing sample. The data will be delivered to JPL. Bizyaev, in collaboration with Special Astro- physical Observatory (Russia), will analyze IFP and long-slit spectra for a sample of collisional ring galaxies. (Their spectra were taken in 2004–2005.) Parameters of star formation induced by the propagating wave of density and the history of star formation in selected collisional rings (Cartwheel, Arp 10, etc.) will be studied.

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 large astronomical data sets

FY05 Accomplishments Using data from the , Boroson completed and published a study of [O III] outflows from QSOs. This work showed that such outflows are common and are found most often in

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objects emitting at a substantial fraction of their Eddington . Boroson, in collaboration with G. Richards (Princeton U.), P. Hall (York U.), and J. (Ohio U.), obtained near-IR spectra of 20 moderate QSOs. These will be used to explore the relationship between [O III] and C IV properties.

FY06 Plans Boroson will complete the analysis of the near-IR spectra described above and continue work on 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 have now been released.

KATHERINE J. BRAND, Research Associate

Research Interests Multi-wavelength properties of AGN, particularly mid-IR and X-ray; accretion history of SMBHs; wide- field surveys; large-scale structure and clustering

FY05 Accomplishments Brand has continued to work on the multi-wavelength properties of AGN within the NOAO Deep Wide- Field survey Boötes field. She had two papers published on the optical counterparts to the X-ray sources in the XBoötes survey and on the use of X-ray stacking to determine the nuclear accretion history of red galaxies. She also started working on the mid-IR properties of AGN, and in particular, the use of the mid- IR slope as a diagnostic in determining the fraction of AGN and star-burst dominated Ultra-Luminous Infra-Red Galaxies (ULIRGs and the nature of the extreme mid-IR bright, optically faint ULIRGs.

FY06 Plans Brand intends to publish her work on the AGN contribution to the mid-IR emission of ULIRGs and continue her investigation into the nature of the extreme mid-IR bright, optically faint ULIRGs. She is obtaining IRS spectra for high redshift, X-ray loud ULIRGS and will be reducing and analyzing these data. She also intends to publish her work on the nuclear accretion history of red galaxies for the entire Boötes field and begin to extend the study to other wavelengths.

SEAN D. BRITTAIN, Research Associate (Michelson Fellow, NASA)¬S

Research Interests Star and formation, molecular spectroscopy, planet detection

FY05 Accomplishments In collaboration with J. Najita (NOAO), Brittain studied gas phase diagnostics from circumstellar gas around young stars. This research will shed light on the planet formation process. In collaboration with T. Rettig and D. Balsara (U. Notre Dame), E. Gibb (U. Missouri, St. Louis), T. Simon (U. Hawaii), and C. Kulesa (U. Arizona), Brittain studied the effect of turbulence on the settling time scale of dust in Class I/II YSO’s. We find substantial gas/dust stratification in the upper atmosphere of young circumstellar disks suggestive of substantial dust settling. In collaboration with C. Kulesa, Brittain sought to measure vibrationally-excited pure rotational molecular lines around Herbig Ae/Be stars. The goal is to find high- resolution probes of the inner disk.

FY06 Plans Brittain will work with J. Najita and S. Strom (NOAO) to measure the magnetic field strength of Herbig Ae stars. Herbig Ae stars are not expected to possess strong magnetic fields; however, there is considerable circumstantial evidence to the contrary. We will take CO spectra of Herbig Ae stars with

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known inclinations, measure the inner edge of the gas disk, and infer the magnetic field strength of the stars. Brittain will also work with T. Rettig and J. Haywood (U. Notre Dame) on a project to measure H3+ in the atmosphere of the eclipsing HD 209458b. The observation of H3+ will provide an important tool for probing the exosphere of the planet.

CHRISTINE CHEN, Research Associate (Spitzer Fellow, NASA)¬ S

Research Interests Circumstellar disks

FY05 Accomplishments In collaboration with M. Werner (JPL), Chen analyzed MIPS (Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer) observations of 40 nearby young stars and discovered two young A-type stars which possess unusually warm dust (Chen et al. 2005, ApJ, in press). In collaboration with the IRS Disks team, she analyzed IRS 5–35 micron spectra of 75 stars with IRAS 60 micron excess and found no correlation between grain distance and stellar age as expected from self-stirred models of debris disks. She is first author on one and co-author on three additional new papers this .

FY06 Plans With J. Najita, Chen plans to continue to study dust and gas around young stars in Sco-Cen. She will complete a Spitzer MIPS search for debris disks around ~100 stars in Sco-Cen and use Spitzer IRS and MIPS SED mode observations to determine the minerology and the structure of discovered circumstellar disks in collaboration with M. Jura (UCLA) and the IRS Disks team led by D. Watson (U. Rochester). She will continue her studies of debris disks with the Spitzer IRS in collaboration with M. Werner.

CHARLES CLAVER, Scientist

Research Interests Age and history of the ; stellar populations; large optical/infrared telescopes; Large Synoptic Survey Telescope; astronomical instrumentation; atmospheric physics

FY05 Accomplishments As telescope/site scientist for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), Claver has worked to move the 8.4-m 3.5 degree FOV LSST into the design and development phase of the project. Claver, Burke (SLAC), Rosenberg (LLNL), and scientists from the LSST collaboration used SOAR and Gemini South in a coordinated campaign to evaluate the effects of atmospheric turbulence on estimating weak lensing induced shear. The results of this work directly benefited the development of the design reference mission for the dark energy LSST science case. Claver, Becker (UW), and Monet (USNO) used KPNO 4-m observations to place limits on transient detections and astrometric precision as it relates to the LSST. Claver had two successful observing runs with the WIYN Tip-Tilt module to observer distant compact open clusters in the Milky Way. The high angular resolution from WIYN and the tip-tilt module enables more precise photometry than has been done previously.

FY06 Plans Claver plans to continue his work on the LSST project toward detailing the telescope design and control for the submission of a construction proposal. He will assist in the analysis and compilation of data to support a final site selection for LSST scheduled for April 2006. With others from the LSST project, Claver will install an infrared all-sky camera on Cerro Pachón to evaluate the relation between IR imagery and visible extinctions as part of LSST calibration studies. He will also lead the development of

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the alignment and wavefront sensing strategy for the LSST active optics control system. He plans to continue his observation work on old open clusters in the Milky Way.

STEVEN CROFT, Associate Scientist (Senior Science Education Specialist)

Research Interests Variable stars; planetary geology and geophysics

FY05 Accomplishments As manager of the Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE) program through mid-FY05, Croft led a successful fourth run of the project’s distance learning class, prepared and coordinated the annual summer workshop, and managed the transition of the project to internal NOAO funding. Croft also organized and led the second year of the new Teacher Observing Program (TOP) for TLRBSE alumni, and organized the initial workshop for the Spitzer Research Program for Teachers. At mid-year, Croft shifted his emphasis to the new Investigating Astronomy curriculum project, providing expert astronomical content information and astronomical images. He began development of an asteroid research project aimed at middle-school students as part of the LSST educational outreach effort.

FY06 Plans Croft will continue work on the Investigating Astronomy project, participating in content development and providing the numerous images and other astronomical data sets needed for the project. He will also continue with the asteroid research project for the LSST educational outreach program, and will be coordinating the remote telescope portion of the Teacher Observing Program. The final development and field testing of the El Yunque curriculum project will be completed.

KATIA CUNHA, Assistant Scientist (U.S. Gemini Fellowship)¬

Research Interests Galactic and extra-galactic stellar abundances, stellar atmospheres, high resolution spectroscopy, chemical evolution, stellar populations

FY05 Accomplishments Cunha reduced and began analysis of Gemini high-resolution spectra obtained with the Phoenix spectrograph for a sample K-M red-giants of the Galactic bulge. The science driver is to pin down the relation of [O/Fe] versus [Fe/H] in the bulge; this is of crucial importance in order to resolve conflicting scenarios on galaxy formation and chemical evolution. Two competing groups find discrepant behaviors for oxygen with : one (analyzing the warmer K giants) finds that [O/Fe] stays high (flat) from - 1.0 to solar and above, while another (analyzing the cooler M-giants) finds that [O/Fe] decreases as solar, supersolar are approached. Cunha’s Gemini data set will resolve these discrepant findings.

FY06 Plans Cunha’s main focus will be an analysis of high-resolution data in different stellar populations of the Milky Way and dwarf spheroidal galaxies. She plans to undertake a project to chemically tag samples of stars that have been identified kinematically as streams (i.e., the Sagittarius, the galactic anti-centre streams) with the ultimate goal being to investigate the possibility of a chemical connection with the MW populations or with abundance patterns identified in dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

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EMMANUELE DADDI, Research Associate (Spitzer Fellow, NASA)¬S

Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution, large-scale structure of the , high redshift galaxies

FY05 Accomplishments In collaboration with the international GRAPES (Grism ACS Program for Extragalactic Surveys) team, Daddi used the to obtain deep, low-resolution spectroscopy of all the objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The data have been used to study faint star-forming galaxies at high (5

FY06 Plans Daddi, in collaboration with the GOODS team, will use GNIRS on Gemini South to study the rest frame optical spectra of z=2 ULIRG galaxies with bright 24Pm MIPS emission in GOODS North. In collabo- ration with an international team of astronomers, he will publish the results of observations of massive z=2 galaxies in a large area survey, including VLT+VIMOS multi-object spectroscopy, VLT+Sinfoni and Subaru+OHS/CISCO near-IR spectroscopy, and Spitzer+MIPS 24Pm imaging. Daddi will continue working with the GOODS team, using Spitzer data to study the properties of faint-field galaxies. As a member of the HST Treasury project collaboration Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), Daddi will continue to study the relationship between large-scale structure and galaxy evolution.

ARJUN DEY, Associate Astronomer

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

FY05 Accomplishments As PIs of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), Dey and B. Jannuzi investigate galaxy evolu- tion and clustering over an unprecedented volume. This survey has spurred a huge investment in ground- and space-based resources (VLA, Westerbork, Spitzer, MMT, Keck, GALEX, Chandra), and the resulting unique multi-wavelength database is allowing a comprehensive study of galaxy evolution and structure formation in the 0

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the Subaru Observatory to realize this capability. The study was well received, and is now proceeding to a Conceptual Design Study Phase.

FY06 Plans Dey will continue to work primarily on galaxy evolution and clustering, using the NDWFS and related survey data. He plans to continue studying 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. Dey will also participate in the WFMOS Conceptual Study (led by the AAO) in the role of Survey Scientist, organizing the core science teams to carry out the two key scientific projects (a dark energy study and a galactic archaeology study).

DAVID DE YOUNG, Astronomer

Research Interests Theoretical astrophysics, especially non-linear phenomena, galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei, MHD processes

FY05 Accomplishments De Young, in collaboration with T.W. Jones (U. Minnesota), has completed a series of time dependent numerical MHD simulations of the creation and evolution of radio source remnants in clusters of galaxies. These calculations are to increase our understanding of the formation and evolution of radio source “bubbles” in the intracluster medium, and in particular whether fragmentation of these bubbles can lead to effective mixing and reheating of the intracluster medium. The results of these calculations show that inclusion of the effects of the magnetic field in the intracluster medium dramatically inhibits the mixing of radio source material with the ICM. This result accounts for the observed longevity of radio source “relics” in the ICM and also shows that AGN reheating of the ICM may be a much less effective mechanism than had been supposed.

FY06 Plans De Young will continue to work on the 3D extension of the MHD radio source bubble calculations. In addition, recent observations of AGN induced cavities in clusters allow for the first time calorimetry of the AGN energy outflow. The implications of this for the longstanding problem of the content of AGN outflows will be calculated. In addition, detailed calculations of the evolution of “heavy” jets from AGN are being initiated, as are new calculations of mass entrainment in collimated outflows that include self- consistent evolution of magnetic fields. De Young will continue collaboration with T. Rector (U. Alaska) on the evolution of compact outflows in the nuclei of galaxies.

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

FY05 Accomplishments Dickinson is PI for the GOODS Spitzer Legacy program. GOODS is gathering the deepest and most extensive collection of multi-wavelength data on the distant Universe using the NASA Great Observatories (Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra) and many ground-based facilities. These provide a public resource for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies and active galactic nuclei. GOODS Spitzer observing was completed in FY05, and the team has made three public releases of reduced data products via the Spitzer Science Center archive. Dickinson led an NOAO/TSIP program of Keck spectroscopy targeting

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24 micron sources at 0.8 < z < 2.5 and Lyman break galaxies at 3.5 < z < 6.5. In collaboration with other members of the GOODS science team, he has been analyzing the stellar populations and of high redshift galaxies selected in a variety of ways, as well as the dust-obscured energetics of star formation and active galactic nuclei. The survey has identified and spectroscopically confirmed galaxies at z~5 to 6 with stellar masses approaching that of today’s Milky Way, as well as highly tantalizing (but as yet unconfirmed) candidates for very much more massive galaxies at still higher redshifts. GOODS 24 micron data are also uncovering a very numerous population of luminous and ultra-luminous infrared starburst galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3. Dickinson has worked with other team members (including NOAO postdoctoral research associates E. Daddi, G. Morrison, and E. MacDonald) to calibrate the derived star formation rates using multi-wavelength data. Their work shows that this redshift interval was the in which today’s most massive galaxies appear to have formed most of their stars.

FY06 Plans In 2006, the GOODS team will complete the reduction and public release of the GOODS Spitzer data and its integration with the other multi-wavelength GOODS data sets from HST, Chandra, XMM, NOAO, ESO, Keck, the VLA, JCMT/SCUBA, etc. Dickinson will extend the analysis of stellar masses and star formation rates of galaxies to the entire GOODS data set. The aim will be to measure the evolving distribution of and its global integral over the range 0 < z < 5, and to map the “aging” of galaxy populations with time. The 24 micron data will be used to determine the distribution of star formation relative to that of galaxy stellar masses at 0 < z < 3, in order to map the interplay between star formation and mergers and the way in which the two processes combine to build up galaxies to their present stature.

JONATHAN H. ELIAS, Astronomer

Research Interests Star formation and evolution; ; supernovae

FY05 Accomplishments While the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS) was delivered to Gemini South in early 2004, NOAO continues to provide scientific and technical support for the instrument. A major maintenance project was carried out in June–July 2005, in which Elias led the NOAO effort. 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 L. Close (U. Arizona), and Elias acted as the lead scientist at NOAO. Elias is also the NOAO lead on a feasibility study for the Thirty-meter Telescope mid-infrared echelle spectrograph and is providing support for other TMT instrument development activities.

FY06 Plans Scientific activities planned for the coming year include several proposals on Gemini with GNIRS, primarily investigating low-mass star formation. The TMT feasibility study work and related efforts should be completed in March 2006.

KATY GARMANY, Associate Scientist (Senior Science Education Specialist)

Research Interests Formation and evolution of massive stars and associations

FY05 Accomplishments Garmany has initiated a new project to study open clusters in the Galaxy.

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FY 06 Plans As recently-named manager of the TLRBSE program, Garmany plans to complete a project on the M18 and design a research program to which teachers in the TLRBSE program can contribute.

JOHN GLASPEY, Scientist (Supervisor of Mountain Scientific Support, KPNO)±

RICHARD GREEN, Astronomer (Director, KPNO)±

KENNETH HINKLE, Scientist

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

FY05 Accomplishments Hinkle’s principal effort in FY05 was on next-generation, high spectral resolution near-infrared spectro- graphs. The culmination of this work was an NOAO/U. Florida proposal for Gemini HRNIRS. Hinkle also continued his work on the evolution of late-type binary systems. He authored a detailed analysis of a neutron star-AGB binary. A second paper with Mikolajewska (Copernicus) discussed CNO abundances of a symbiotic system. Hinkle also continued his collaboration with Lebzelter (Vienna) with publications on the AGB variables in 47 Tuc and southern field LPV’s. Hinkle started work on the infrared spectros- copy of disks with a paper with on vibration-rotation CO lines in B[e] stars.

FY06 PLANS Hinkle will continue work on future high-resolution, near-infrared spectrographs. In addition to this instrumentation project, Hinkle plans research in three scientific areas. He will determine CNO abun- dances of evolved stars in M4 and 47 Tuc. He plans additional observations of orbital data for evolved late-type binaries with several publications envisaged. Some of these systems are precursors to type I supernovae but little detailed work has been done to understand the evolution of individual systems. Hinkle will also continue working on several projects concerning infrared observations of circumstellar and circumbinary disks.

BUELL JANNUZI, Associate Astronomer (Deputy Director, Kitt Peak National Observatory 10/04– 08/05; Acting Director from 09/05)

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

FY05 Accomplishments Jannuzi is Co-PI, with A. Dey, of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS); an 18 square degree optical and near-IR imaging survey designed to study the formation and evolution of galaxies and large- scale structure in the Universe. The survey is comprised of two sub-fields located in the Boötes and Cetus. The primary observations for the NDWFS were completed in 2004; processing of the images continues. In collaboration with the rest of the NDWFS team and the NOAO Science Archive, Jannuzi supervised the public release of the NDWFS Boötes Field images and object catalogs in October 2004. Over 100 papers have already made use of these data to study a variety of astrophysical problems, and additional papers are in preparation. Jannuzi is a co-author on over 20 of these papers covering a

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diverse set of topics, ranging from the clustering of “Extremely Red Objects” (Brown et al. 2005) to properties of black holes in AGN (Kollmeier et al. 2005, ApJ, submitted). Jannuzi continued as an active team member of the Chandra X-ray imaging survey (XBoötes Survey; PIs Murray and Jones), the deep near-IR imaging survey (FLAMEX, PIs Elston and Gonzalez), and the Spitzer MIPS (PI Soifer) and IRAC (PI Eisenhardt) imaging surveys. These teams have all now completed their own observations of the NDWFS Boötes Field and have submitted one or more papers for publication. The FLAMEX and XBoötes surveys have completed public release of their object catalogs. Jannuzi co-authored additional papers in FY05 on individual galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and AGN properties. His ongoing studies of the intergalactic medium resulted in the paper “The Association between Gas and Galaxies I: CFHT Spectroscopy and Pair Analysis,” submitted, with S. Morris (Durham U.), to MNRAS.

FY06 Plans Jannuzi plans to complete a study (in collaboration with J. Bechtold) of the physical properties of Lyman-alpha absorption line systems using HST/STIS UV spectroscopy of intermediate redshift quasars. He will also remain involved in analysis of several recently completed surveys: the Large Area Lyman- alpha (LALA) Survey (PIs Rhoads and Malhotra), AGES (AGN Galaxy Evolution Survey; PIs Kochaneck and Eisenstein), CHAMP (The Chandra Multi-wavelength Project; PI P. Green), and the IRAC Shallow Survey (PI Eisenhardt).

RICHARD R. JOYCE, Scientist

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

FY05 Accomplishments Joyce continued the long-term project to determine 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 South- ern long-period variable stars. He also collaborated in a study of and oxygen abundances in - poor globular cluster stars, using high-resolution infrared spectra obtained with Phoenix on Gemini South.

FY06 Plans Joyce will continue the infrared measurements of the Southern symbiotic stars and the abundance studies of globular cluster stars. He also plans to utilize GNIRS on Gemini South 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; ; stars; RR Lyrae stars

FY05 Accomplishments Kinman acquired and partly reduced 612 frames of 25 RR Lyr stars in the Anticenter (field completed) and 31 RR Lyrae stars at the N. Gal. pole from the Lick survey using the 32-inch Tenagra telescope. Kinman extended his database of halo stars at the NGP and Anticenter to the SGP by adding the new ESO/Hamburg BHB survey and RR Lyr from the new ASAS survey. With Cacciari (Bologna), 2MASS data were used to get improved moduli for these stars and using UCAC2 and SPM-3 proper motions, UVW velocities were found which showed no streaming effects. With Clewley (Oxford), started work to

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improve photometric transformations from SDSS u'g'r' to UBV so that SDSS stars could be included in Northern halo databases.

FY06 Plans Kinman will continue re-observing the RR Lyrae stars in North Gal. Pole and 16-hour Lick fields in order to improve their photometry and update their ephemerides. Kinman will move his NGP, SGP and Anticenter halo into a Web database that can be updated. He plans to publish (with Bologna/Turin group) completed kinematic analysis of halo stars at NGP and will work with Freeman (Stromlo) to improve data for Ratnatunga and Freeman halo red giants at SGP (new [Fe/H]). Kinman will also continue work on photometric transformations with Clewley and later Beers (Michigan State), using globular cluster and field stars observed by SDSS, and analysis of color-gradient of BHB stars with galactocentric distance (Preston 1991) revisited.

TOD LAUER, Associate Astronomer

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

FY05 Accomplishments Lauer completed a major paper on the central structure of elliptical galaxies based on HST photometry. He also was part of an investigation into the central structure of M31. Lauer completed a series of simulations that supported the NASA Destiny mission concept. Lauer continues to supervise the NOAO survey program and has assumed management of the NOAO Science Archive.

FY06 Plans Lauer will continue to explore the Destiny mission concept. He will also begin work on understanding the high-resolution use of a TPF-C imaging camera. Lauer intends to complete work on a major investiga- tion into the influence of central black holes on galaxies, as a well as a paper relating central to global properties of elliptical galaxies. He also will begin work on using HST to detect the M32 main sequence.

TING-HUI LEE, Research Associate (NASA)¬S

Research Interests Late stages of ; Galactic and extra-Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe); mechanisms of shaping PNe; radiative transfer

FY05 Accomplishments Lee joined the Magellanic Cloud PNe team led by L. Stanghellini and is currently involved in ACS/HST observations of planetary nebulae in the . The nebular carbon abundances determined from the UV spectra will provide an excellent tool to study stellar populations in a very low metallicity environment. In addition, Lee and colleagues have nearly finished the analysis of high resolution spectra of eight Galactic planetary nebulae, including nebular emission lines and central star spectra. Lee also has a paper in press for the study of in PNe, and a nearly completed paper studying the radio cores of bipolar nebulae.

FY06 Plans Lee and colleagues plan to complete and publish the spectral study of Galactic planetary nebulae. She will continue to analyze the data from ACS/HST and plans to publish the results. Lee also intends to commence work on the newly acquired Infrared/Spitzer data of LMC and SMC PNe.

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C. ROGER LYNDS, Astronomer

Research Interests Observational cosmology and galaxy evolution

FY05 Accomplishments Lynds has been involved in a study of the physics of the atmosphere above Antarctica, to better understand the astronomical potential for facilities situated in that environment. Thus far, the primary focus has been on astronomical seeing problems that may originate in the deep inversion immediately above the ice surface and at its interface with the troposphere above. The origin and evolution of that inversion and its dependence upon the orographic setting of a site may be critical to the net optical quality of the atmosphere to be expected.

FY06 Plans Lynds is expected to continue his study of the physics of the atmosphere above Antarctica.

EMILY MACDONALD, Research Associate (Spitzer/GOODS, NASA) ¬S

Research Interests Observational cosmology; galaxy formation and evolution; star formation history of the Universe; large-scale structure; GOODS survey

FY05 Accomplishments MacDonald works primarily with data from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), in particular with the recently obtained IRAC and MIPS near- and mid-infrared (MIR) data. Specifically she has worked on cataloging the IR data and determining various survey characteristics. MacDonald has also been heavily involved in a program to obtain Keck spectra for a large population of high redshift objects selected from the GOODS survey. She has been investigating the MIR-to-radio correlation for galaxies around z of 1, and the feasibility of deriving star formation rates from MIR data. In addition, MacDonald is completing a paper resulting from her recently completed PhD, which presents a multi- color clustering study using the Oxford Dartmouth Thirty Degree deep wide-field survey. MacDonald also mentored an REU student who worked on quantifying cosmic variance using the NDWFS.

FY06 Plans MacDonald plans to use the NDWFS to investigate and quantify how clustering studies are affected by survey size. She also intends to determine whether MIR data can be used to reliably derive star formation rates using the GOODS data and to fully investigate the MIR properties of galaxies around z of 1, comparing the results to what is known about local galaxies. Various existing models of the IR spectral energy distributions of galaxies will be assessed and compared with the observed GOODS IR data in order to determine the accuracy of the modeling. In general, MacDonald will be investigating the near- and mid-IR properties of galaxies at high z, looking to determine whether the commonly used assumption that local correlations between various IR bands are the same at higher z is justified.

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

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

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FY05 Accomplishments Macri completed the reduction and analysis of his observing program to survey Cepheid variables in two fields with different metal abundances (solar-like and LMC-like) within the “maser galaxy” NGC4258, using HST/ACS and Gemini North. Over 500 short- and medium-period Cepheid variables were discov- ered using the HST/ACS data, and about 20 long-period Cepheids were detected using the Gemini North/GMOS data. The combination of ground- and space-based observations resulted in Cepheid P-L relations that span the entire range of Cepheid periods (4-100 days), which will enable a strong test of the universality of the slope of the P-L relation for variables of different metal abundances.

FY06 Plans Macri was awarded 26 orbits of HST time to obtain follow-up H-band observations of the Cepheids in NGC 4258. He will spend a significant fraction of FY06 in the reduction and analysis of this data set.

THOMAS D. MATHESON, Assistant Astronomer¬

Research Interests Supernovae, novae, gamma-ray bursts, observational cosmology

FY05 Accomplishments Matheson was a co-author on five published papers and twelve IAU Circulars in FY05, with two additional papers accepted for publication. Matheson was first author of a paper on the spectroscopy of high-redshift supernovae from the ESSENCE project. This paper doubled the number of published spectra of high-redshift Type Ia supernovae. A subsequent comparison of these spectra with low- redshift objects by ESSENCE colleagues was also submitted. Working with Mazzali and collaborators, Matheson published two papers on Type Ib/c supernovae and their relation to gamma-ray bursts.

FY06 Plans Matheson will continue to coordinate spectroscopic observations for the ESSENCE project. In addition, he will publish an atlas of several hundred spectra of low-redshift Type Ia supernovae with colleagues from tCfA. Analysis of these spectra will show the relationship between spectroscopic features and light- curve shape (and thus intrinsic luminosity). A separate collaboration with a student at the CfA will study late-time spectra of Type Ib/c supernovae in order to explore their explosion mechanisms and relation to gamma-ray bursts. Gemini observations will be a major component of this project.

K. MICHAEL MERRILL, Associate Scientist (Acting Supervisor of Mountain Scientific Support, Kitt Peak National Observatory)

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

FY05 Accomplishments Merrill was the lead scientist for the 2K u 2K infrared focal plane development project (success- fully completed this FY), the follow-on foundry run to provide 4 Orion science grade arrays for the NOAO Extremely Wide-Field Infra-Red Mosaic (NEWFIRM) at Raytheon Vision Systems (RVS), and the 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. As KPNO 4-m Telescope Scientist, Merrill 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.

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FY06 Plans Merrill will execute the NEWFIRM array procurement subcontract with RVS and test and deliver four science grade Orion II infrared focal plane arrays for NEWFIRM. He is also planning to present the operational aspects of the Orion devices at the next SPIE conference. As recently-named Supervisor of Mountain Scientific Support at KPNO, Merrill will strive to improve the efficiency of doing science at that facility. Through his role as Gemini NIRI “mirror” scientist within the NGSC, he will continue to promote this facility instrument and provide assistance to potential users.

KENNETH J. MIGHELL, Associate Scientist (NASA) S

Research Interests Stellar populations within the Galaxy; formation and evolution of galaxies; dwarf spher- oidal galaxies; precision CCD stellar photometry and ; astrophysical applications of low-count statistics; fault-tolerant parallel-processing astronomical image-analysis applications

FY05 Accomplishments Mighell and his 2004 REU intern, I. Roederer, analyzed HST archival WFPC2 observations of the spheroidal galaxy and discovered low-amplitude variability in 9 faint branch stars on 10 minute time scales with amplitudes ranging from 36 to 130 millimag. Mighell and his 2005 REU intern, M. Franz, have confirmed the existence of flickering red giants in the UMi dSph galaxy by analyzing other WFPC2 observations in that galaxy. In an MNRAS article, Mighell described the key features of his MATPHOT algorithm for precise and accurate stellar photometry and astrometry using discrete Point Spread Functions; this research was conducted as part of his work for the Applied Information Systems Research Program (AISRP) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

FY06 Plans Mighell will publish the discoveries from the Ursa Minor flickering red giant analysis; he intends to seek new observations of red giants in nearby Local Group galaxies in order to determine if flickering red giants are unique to the UMi dSph galaxy or are a common phenomenon within the Local Group. Mighell will enhance the capabilities of the C-language implementation of his MATPHOT algorithm; all code and documentation will be freely available at the MATPHOT Web site: http://www.noao.edu/staff/ mathphot. Mighell will determine if stellar photometry and astrometry with state-of-the-art near-infrared detectors can be significantly improved by better modeling of the image formation process within the detector using intrapixel quantum efficiency maps inside the MATPHOT code.

JEREMY R. MOULD, Astronomer (Director, NOAO)

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

FY05 Accomplishments Mould worked with Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center) on stellar populations contributing to MIPS images of M31. A first stellar population consists of compact star formation regions and is the dominant popula- tion in the IRAS ring of star formation and above 2 mJy at 24 microns. A second population is evolved stars with thick circumstellar shells. This is the dominant population in the bulge of M31 and below 2 mJy. 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 published WFPC2 photometry of edge-on nearby galaxies in the HST archive, showing that thick disks are red, relatively metal rich, and devoid of color gradients.

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FY06 Plans Mould will join K. Olsen and R. Blum (NOAO) in a Spitzer survey of the dwarf for circumstellar shells; Frogel (AURA) and Werner (JPL) are co-investigators. Mould is a member of Meixner’s (STScI) team surveying the LMC with Spitzer; specifically, Mould is part of the subgroup led by Blum (NOAO) studying mass loss from evolved stars. Mould, Ferrarese, Stetson (DAO), and others plan to publish Cepheid distances for NGC 5128 and NGC 4647 in order to strengthen the calibration of surface brightness fluctuations as a standard candle. Mould will continue to participate in the HST COSMOS collaboration, studying the interplay between large-scale structure, evolution, and the formation of galaxies, dark matter, and AGNs.

JOAN R. NAJITA, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Star and planet formation; wide-field surveys

FY05 Accomplishments Najita continued her long-term project of studying the gas in the inner regions of planet-forming disks; the main theme this year was the dissipation time scale of gas in the terrestrial planet region. Working with J. Williams (IfA), Najita also described how the properties of debris disks detected in the submillimeter indicate a diverse set of evolutionary histories not dominated by self-stirring processes that likely reflect the known diversity in the properties of the extrasolar planet population. With S. Strom (NOAO), Najita is describing both the multiple pathways that can lead to the production of “transitional disk” systems as well as the observational tests that can be used to determine what stage of planet formation these systems are in. As a member of both the Spitzer FEPS Legacy and IRS GTO teams studying disks around young stars, Najita contributed to several papers: e.g., studies of the mineralogy of T Tauri disks, PAHs in Herbig AeBe disks, transitional disks, gas in debris disks, and IRAC excess fractions, among others.

FY06 Plans Najita will continue to study the gas in the inner regions of planet forming disks. A major goal is to complete the study, with J. Carr (NRL), N. Crockett, and R. Mathieu (U. Wisconsin), of CO fundamental emission as a probe of dissipating inner disks. Working with J. Carr, Najita will also use Spitzer IRS data to probe the extent of dust settling in disks; dust settling is a likely first step in planet formation. Using existing data, this team will also attempt to identify molecular probes of winds from young stars in order to constrain their nature and origin.

STEPHEN POMPEA, Scientist (Manager, Science Education)

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

FY05 Accomplishments Pompea continued his work in both formal and informal science education as well as his work on optical properties of surfaces for instrumentation and analysis of astronomical optical systems. In science educa- tion, 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) (Co-PI), Astronomy from the Ground Up (AFGU) (Co-PI) and Investigating Astronomy (Co-PI). Pompea is working on LSST education and outreach and is a team member of the

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JWST NIRCam EPO team, UA Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research (CAPER) group. He also serves on a number of education and advisory boards.

FY06 Plans Pompea will continue his work on all of these projects in FY06. AFGU will deliver its first professional development workshop in spring 2006 and HOO will distribute the last 3 modules and kits on light and color at nationwide science centers and in after-school programs in the states of California, Washington, Maryland, Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. The TLRBSE project will significantly expand its observing and research opportunities for teachers and students by using additional observing time granted in the second year of the program using the Spitzer Space Telescope through collaboration with the Spitzer Science Center. Pompea will continue research on developing high contrast/low stray light imaging and spectroscopic instruments.

RON PROBST, Scientist

Research Interests Infrared instrumentation for large telescopes; star formation

FY05 Accomplishments Probst worked as Project Scientist and Systems Engineer to move the NEWFIRM infrared camera project through fabrication and the initial phase of instrument integration and test. This included working with U. Maryland funding partners to specify and procure narrowband filters for non-continuum science; and with an optics vendor to complete some particularly difficult optics while maintaining acceptable performance. His dual role emphasized close attention to detailed engineering decisions to avoid compromising scientific performance. Together with the external science advisory committee, Probst also worked on the scientific commissioning plan, post-first light.

FY06 Plans Probst will lead the NEWFIRM project through instrument integration, first light commissioning, and science verification observing on the Mayall 4-m telescope. This will produce data products in a public archive that are intended to have value beyond the immediate science use. He will work with the array development, array controller production, and reduction pipeline development teams within the NEWFIRM program to deliver a fully integrated, end-to-end, observational facility offered for general public use in Semester B 2006.

STEPHEN RIDGWAY, Astronomer

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

FY05 Accomplishments Under a contract with JPL, Ridgway served as Principal Investigator of a study of a new approach to high dynamic range imaging, Phase Induced Apodization. He collaborated in high angular resolution studies of stellar shapes, working with collaborators at NOAO and Meudon. In the middle of the year, he began a visiting position in the Universe Division at NASA HQ, in the role of Program Scientist and Program Executive.

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FY06 Plans In FY06, Ridgway will devote 90% of his time to NASA HQ as Program Scientist for the Navigator Program. He will continue as collaborator in several scientific activities involving optical interferometry of stars at the CHARA Array and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer.

GREGORY RUDNICK, Research Associate ( Goldberg Fellow)¬

Research Interests Observational cosmology; galaxy evolution and formation; galaxy clusters

FY05 Accomplishments Rudnick and collaborators from Europe and the US used deep near-infrared (NIR) and optical imaging, coupled with deep optical and NIR spectroscopy, to measure the evolution in the global stellar mass density from the local Universe out to a redshift of 3. In addition, they studied a population of Distant Red Galaxies (DRGs), which are galaxies at redshifts greater than two with red NIR colors and high mass-to-light ratios and ages. These objects dominate the stellar mass density at high redshift but are almost completely absent in optically selected surveys. Rudnick has worked on measuring the galaxy luminosity function in clusters at redshifts between 0.5 and 1.0 and in studying the galaxy evolution as a function of environment and redshift.

FY06 Plans One of the main limitations in studying the high redshift galaxy population is the small number of fields with deep NIR and optical data. Multiple fields are crucial since the large clustering amplitude of the most massive objects cause field-to-field variance to dominate the statistical uncertainties. Rudnick plans to use all available deep fields to examine both the field-to-field variance in the massive galaxy population and the mass function of galaxies at high redshift. He also plans to use the data from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey, of which he is a part, to study the effects of environment on morphology and the star formation history at intermediate redshifts. This will be used to elucidate the processes that transform high redshift disk galaxies into early type galaxies at lower redshifts.

ABHIJIT SAHA, Astronomer

Research Interests Variable stars, stellar populations in nearby galaxies; distance scale; absolute calibration of Type-Ia supernovae as distance indicators; galactic structure; assembly and star formation history in nearby galaxies

FY05 Accomplishments Saha and collaborators A. Dolphin (U. Arizona), F. Thim (U. Basel), and B. Whitmore (STScI) have established faint photometric sequences on the Landolt system to 1% down to 21st mag. These results make possible retroactive calibration of WFPC2 photometry at 1% accuracy, compared with 5% previ- ously attained. Additionally, they enable calibrating future space-based photometry (they have been used for HST/ACS) and ground-based cases where the Landolt sequences are too bright. Saha and collabora- tors F. Thim, G.A. Tammann, B. Reindl (U. Basel), and A. Sandage (Carnegie Obs.) used these sequences to correct the type Ia absolute peak brightness obtained via Cepheid observations with WFPC2/HST. They also showed that the variation of the Cepheid P-L slope from galaxy to galaxy is primarily due to metallicity differences. Saha has established new faint standard star sequences in the Washington C and M passbands for use in projects to examine the metallicity distribution among RGB stars in nearby galaxies: With collaborators E. Olszewski (U. Arizona) and A. Dolphin, Saha continued ground-based Washington photometry for RGB stars in a halo field in M31; this will reveal the metallic-

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ity distribution of the stars in this field and provide a statistical tool to deal with the age-metallicity degeneracy when interpreting the CMD near the turn-off (obtained by others using HST/ACS).

FY06 Plans In collaboration with N. Suntzeff, K. Olson (NOAO), P. Seitzer (U. Michigan), and A. Subramaniam (Indian Institute of Astrophysics), Saha expects to collect data to trace the extended structure of the LMC to distinguish between a spheroidal halo vs. an exponential disk out at distances 5 to 10 kpc from the center. Searches for RR Lyrae stars, as well for turn-off stars are planned, using the 1-m and 4-m telescopes, respectively, at CTIO. A similar study of M33 using Gemini-N is planned in collaboration with B. Pritzl, K. Venn (Macalester), E. Olszewski, H. Morrison (Case Western Reserve U.), and E. Skillman (U. Minnesota). Efforts to gather more data for the M31 halo project (mentioned above for FY04) are continuing. Saha will collaborate on an HST/ACS investigations of Cepheids in the very metal poor galaxy IZw18, on the star formation history of Leo A, and will examine the photometric calibration of HST/ACS. He will also be active in constructing and collating a comprehensive science plan for LSST, and in constructing a viable operations model.

NALIN H. SAMARASINHA, Assistant Scientist (NASA)S

Research Interests Comets, trans-Neptunian objects, and asteroids

FY05 Accomplishments Samarasinha was awarded a three-year NASA grant to investigate how thermal re-radiation torques would affect the spin evolution of small asteroids. In addition, he continued his NASA-funded research on coma morphologies of comets. He was the co-author of two papers on comet Encke’s spin state and a paper on the spin evolution of the Rosetta mission target, comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which were published during the year. He is a co-author of a paper on the colors of comets Encke and Tempel 1 which has been submitted for publication. He was involved in the observational monitoring program of the Deep Impact mission target, comet Tempel 1, from February–July 2005 and in the interpretation of the data.

FY06 Plans Samarasinha plans to publish his initial work on the morphological studies of cometary comae. He will continue to develop the model and the code to investigate the spin evolution of small asteroids. He will also continue his observational programs with his collaborators.

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

FY05 Accomplishments Shaw is continuing his studies of Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae with HST imaging and follow-up and 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 and nature 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

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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.

FY06 Plans 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 central star masses are all available. Shaw plans a sabbatical leave during FY2006 and will investigate the nature of very large, very faint haloes that surround almost all MCPN, except those in a particular morphological class, and the implications for the formation and evolution of PNe.

VERNE V. SMITH, Astronomer (Deputy Director, NOAO Gemini Science Center)

Research Interests High-resolution spectroscopy; cosmochemistry; chemical evolution; stellar populations, stellar atmospheres, stellar evolution

FY05 Accomplishments Smith’s primary scientific effort in FY05 was working on various projects that involved chemical evolu- tion in various stellar or galactic populations, such as: 1) determining stellar abundances in other galaxies in the Local Group to compare chemical evolution in various galactic environments, 2) probing detailed star formation rates and chemical evolution in the nearby M33, 3) measuring the isotopic abundances in a sample of very metal-poor halo dwarfs to both probe Big Bang nucleosynthesis and energetic processes in the early Galactic and pre-Galactic environments. All these projects involve substantial use of the Gemini telescopes with the instruments Phoenix, GMOS, and bHROS. Smith also leads a small team under a JPL contract to identify stars that will be used as the positional reference grid for the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM).

FY06 Plans Smith plans to continue to pursue an active research program in cosmochemistry, as described above, with the intent of increasing the usage of Gemini telescopes in these programs. One new project in this area is probing structure and tidal streams in the Galactic halo using so-called “chemical tagging.” We have just recently chemically identified and confirmed a Sgr tidal stream in the Galactic halo relatively near the solar neighborhood. This type of project is one of the science goals for the future Gemini instrument WFMOS.

DAVID SPRAYBERRY, Senior 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

FY05 Accomplishments Sprayberry led the Major Instrumentation group through a number of efforts including the completion of fabrication and beginning of integration of NEWFIRM; testing of the first detectors received for NEWFIRM from the foundry run underway at Raytheon Vision Systems; completion of design and feasibility studies of four possible future Gemini instruments, in partnership with other U.S. and international institutions; revision of the SOAR adaptive optics module (SAM) design and preparations for a Preliminary Design Review; and testing and delivery of the first Monsoon detector controller systems. He continued support of instrumentation technology and conceptual designs for the TMT.

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FY06 Plans Sprayberry plans completion of NEWFIRM integration and commissioning at the KPNO Mayall telescope; delivery of additional production models of the Monsoon controller system to instrument teams outside NOAO; completion of a Preliminary Design Review of the SAM system; participation in a conceptual design study for the proposed Gemini Wide-Field Multi-Object Spectrograph (WFMOS).

LETIZIA STANGHELLINI, Associate Astronomer

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

FY05 Accomplishments Stanghellini, with Shaw and Villaver (STScI), analyzed a large sample of optical STIS/HST slit-less spectra of LMC PNe, improving the statistical significance of previously found correlations between nebular asymmetry and central star masses. Stanghellini, Shaw, Parker (AAO) and Reid (AAO) acquired GMOS spectra of faint halos around LMC PNe, and successfully constrained the initial mass- final mass relation. In 2005, Stanghellini was granted Spitzer time to study the dust contents and metallicity of the LMC and SMC PNe. Stanghellini and Lee completed the spectroscopic analysis of extremely bipolar Galactic PNe, and found that their extreme morphology is unlikely to be due to magnetic fields in the stellar progenitors. Stanghellini, with Villaver, studied the hydrodynamic evolution of PNe in the extreme conditions of the intra-cluster (IC) medium. Their paper confirms the survival of IC PNe and constrains the PN lifetime.

FY06 Plans Stanghellini plans to lead the ACS/HST UV prism spectroscopy analysis of SMC PNe, obtaining carbon abundances and seeking correlations between abundances, morphology, and central star masses. She plans to lead an international collaboration with Shaw, Villaver, Manchado (IAC), and Garcia-Lario (ESA) to analyze the Spitzer data, and to determine dust properties and metallicity of LMC and SMC PNe from the IRS spectra. On the theoretical side, Stanghellini is leading an effort, in collaboration with Garcia-Gonzales (IAC) and Manchado, to test whether dry merging of elliptical galaxies might account for the observed IC post-Main Sequence stellar populations. She plans to write up the results obtained so far and to produce further galaxy-merging models with a variety of initial conditions for comparison with the observed AGB stars and PNe in the IC (and intra-group) medium.

STEPHEN STROM, Astronomer (Associate Director for GSMT Development, New Initiatives Office)

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

FY05 Accomplishments In collaboration with S. Wolff and REU students L. Lanz and D. Dror, the distribution of projected rota- tional velocities was examined for a sample of intermediate mass stars located in dense bound clusters and unbound OB associations. Observations show that N(vsini) among the bound clusters lacks the cohort of slow (vsini < 50 km/sec) rotators present in abundance among stars located in unbound associations. It is speculated that this result reflects the combined effects of (1) a difference in initial conditions between bound clusters (high turbulent speeds and consequent high values of time-averaged accretion rates for proto-B stars) and unbound associations (low turbulent speeds); and (2) formation of stars via magneto- spherically-mediated accretion, which “locks” accreting stars to an angular rotation speed set by the

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Keplerian angular velocity at the radius in the where the magnetic pressure exerted by the field rooted in the forming star equals the dynamical pressure of the accreting disk material.

FY06 Plans Strom plans to complete analysis (with S. Wolff and K. Olsen) of the rotational velocities among B stars in the dense LMC cluster R136. The goal of the program is to further test the hypothesis that rotation speeds for stars formed in dense, bound clusters regions are higher than those for stars born in lower density environments. Strom and Wolff will also examine rotation speeds among solar-like stars in the loose L1641 T-association and the nearby Orion Cluster to learn whether the apparent linkage between initial star-forming conditions and rotation extends to solar-like stars. Finally, Strom and Wolff plan to search for differences in initial mass function between these two regions.

FRANCISCO VALDES, Scientist

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

FY05 Accomplishments Valdes was a co-author of a FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) standard for describing spectral coor- dinates in FITS files. He also participated in National Virtual Observatory (NVO) developments through design documents and prototype software. He was also involved in the NOAO effort to develop pipelines for Mosaic imagers, including early development work for the large Dark Energy Camera Survey pipeline.

FY06 Plans Valdes will be a collaborator on a large survey project to measure the cosmic acceleration using a combination of photometric redshifts and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of the population (PI Joseph Mohr). The optical photometric redshifts will be determined from Mosaic camera imaging on the NOAO/CTIO 4m telescope. He will also be working with the Gemini NIFS team to provide data reduction and analysis software for this new instrument being commissioned this . This year will see commissioning of an end-to-end data flow system at NOAO providing calibrated Mosaic and NEWFIRM camera data to the observers and community. Valdes is the technical leader for this end-to- end system and the calibration pipeline component of this system.

CONSTANCE WALKER, Associate Scientist (Senior Science Education Specialist)

Research Interests Sub-millimeter and millimeter wave spectroscopy to study star formation toward the centers of galaxies at different epochs; science education and student learning styles; misconceptions about science; teacher professional development; bringing authentic research into the classroom; hands-on, inquiry-based outreach

FY05 Accomplishments Walker continued her involvement with several national teams responsible for creating and implement- ing programs and workshops in the areas of teacher professional development and teacher leadership, research experiences for teachers, and curricula and instructional materials development. Such (NSF- sponsored) programs include Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRBSE) and a recent program, Hands-on Optics (HOO). Walker also worked extensively, both locally and internation- ally, on programs/workshops that train K–12 teachers and community educators, partnering them with professional and amateur astronomers who involve the students and their families in hands-on, inquiry- based activities in astronomy and science (especially, Project ASTRO-Tucson, Family ASTRO-Tucson, and ASTRO-Chile.) Among other FY05 activities, Walker hosted a booth at the Math, Science, and

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Technology Fun Fest at the Tucson Convention Center (attended by more than 7,000 students); organized two oral sessions and one poster session on teacher professional development and research in the classroom at the annual American Geophysical Union conference; created a solar poster later distributed by NASA to 15,000 teachers nationwide; and co-chaired “Educators’ Day” and gave an invited talk on education module design at the annual Optical Society of America conference.

FY06 Plans Walker plans to continue her leadership role in TLRBSE, HOO, Project ASTRO, Family ASTRO, and ASTRO-Chile while developing new educational initiatives.

LLOYD WALLACE, Emeritus Astronomer

Research Interests Cool star spectroscopy

FY05 Accomplishments Wallace, in conjunction with W. C. Livingston of NSO, has completed the analysis of a set of high- resolution sunspot spectra in the visible range. These include high, medium, and low temperature sunspots which show a distinct range of spectral character. Wallace, with Sumner Davis of NSO, has also completed an extensive analysis of high-resolution laboratory spectra of the CN molecule, which is prominent in a variety of astronomical sources.

FY06 Plans Wallace should complete the analysis of the laboratory spectra of Si I and II and C I with help from R. Engleman of U. New Mexico. This will be of particular help in the analysis of stellar spectra in the infrared beyond 5 microns where some confusion exists.

SIDNEY C. WOLFF, Astronomer

Research Interests Star formation; early evolution of angular momentum; large optical/infrared telescopes; astronomy and space science education

FY05 Accomplishments Wolff, Strom, and Rebull (IPAC), working with REU students, continue to explore the angular momentum of stars as a clue both to the star formation mechanism and to the environment in which stars form. Recent work has focused on high-mass stars. The distribution of the angular momenta of B-type stars appears to depend on environment: stars in dense clusters rotate on average more rapidly than stars formed in low density environments. The specific angular momentum varies smoothly over the range 0.1–50 Msun, a result that suggests a common formation mechanism over this entire mass range.

FY06 Plans A major focus for FY06 will be the use of Spitzer data to explore the properties of disks around PMS B- and A-type stars during the first five million of evolution with the goal of putting a limit on the time scale available for planet formation; have been inferred to be present around A-type stars with debris disks. Work will continue on angular momentum in different stellar environments. Chandra data are being used to study the x-ray properties of PMS stars in NGC 2264 and the Orion Flanking Fields and to compare them with the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP) results for the Orion Nebula Cluster.

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TIMOTHY ABBOTT, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Late stages of binary stellar evolution, instrumentation, telescope operations

FY05 Accomplishments Abbott and colleagues completed a study of the cataclysmic variable IY UMa in quiescence, rise to normal outburst and superoutburst.

FY06 Plans Abbott will continue his studies of variable stars with the ongoing analysis of a time-series-photometric pencil-beam survey primarily intended to measure the Galactic population density of cataclysmic variables but also an interesting source of other classes of . (This program has already netted a PhD.)

ROBERT D. BLUM, Associate Astronomer

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

FY05 Accomplishments Blum continued to pursue research programs related to massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) with collaborators P. Conti (JILA), A. Damineli (U. Sao Paulo), C. Barbosa (U. Sao Paulo), and L. Figueredo (U. Sao Paulo, resident at CTIO). Highlights include a review talk on MYSOs by Blum at the IAU Symposium in Catania, Sicily and the paper “The Stellar Content of Obscured Galactic Giant HII Regions V: G333.1-0.4,” 2005, AJ, 129, 1523 by Figueredo, Blum, Damineli, and Conti. Blum was Co-I in charge of the evolved stars group on a large (500 hr) Spitzer program to survey the entire LMC. A companion proposal with K. Olsen (CTIO) for Spitzer observations in Carina was also successful. Blum is collaborat- ing with Eikenberry (U Florida) on the Flamingos 2 Galactic center survey. Data were obtained in July of several Chandra X-Ray satellite fields using ISPI on the CTIO 4-m.

FY06 Plans Blum intends to continue working on the GHII project in FY06. He will also begin analysis of the Spitzer data from the LMC. Flamingos 2 will go to Gemini South in 2006 for commissioning and science verifica- tion. Eikenberry has a guaranteed time program to execute the GC survey, and Blum will participate. In 2006, Blum will help commission and take first science data with the NIFS integral field near-IR spectrometer on Gemini North as a part of PI McGregor’s science team. Key projects include z~1 Tully Fisher using spiral galaxy rotation curves in H-alpha, and AGN Jet/ISM interactions. Blum is personally interested in using NIFS to observe young stars in GHII regions.

PATRICE BOUCHET, Associate Scientist±

JAMES DE BUIZER, Research Associate±

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SEBASTIAN ELS, Research Associate¬

Research Interests Testing and characterization of potential sites for the Thirty-Meter-Telescope (TMT); adaptive optics imaging techniques especially in view of radial velocity variables and searches for exoplanetary systems in their early phases

FY06 Plans Els plans to develop the necessary tools for the analysis of data obtained from the TMT and to conduct a detailed study of the influences of the various local conditions on the atmospheric turbulence above a site. In collaboration with M. Endl (U. Texas, Austin), he plans to complete observations at for the AO project. Els will also continue a project at the MPIfR 100-m radio-telescope in Germany to search for maser line emission from disk cavities.

BROOKE GREGORY, Scientist

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

FY05 Accomplishments As a co-investigator, with L. Young et al, Gregory provided technical and observing support in the successful observation of the of C313 by Charon (IAU Circular No. 8570). Gregory also participated in reviews of the Gemini MCAO module (primarily, optics and mechanics issues) and the laser guide-star wavefront sensor. He was involved in the analysis of the beam-transport optics and contributed to the planning process for the MCAO integration and test phase to be undertaken in FY06. With collaborators at Palomar, Gregory was active in the development of software and hardware for the automated detection of aircraft to avoid exposure to Gemini lasers used for adaptive optics. Gregory has been acting as an advisor and co-project scientist with the SAM instrument team, primarily in areas of optics, mechanical design, and project management. In addition, since April 2005, Gregory has been serving as SOAR systems engineer, working on improvements to the lateral primary mirror support system and the control and wavefront systems for the primary mirror.

FY06 Plans Gregory will continue to work on the Gemini MCAO aircraft detection system and the planning process for integration and test, slated to begin in early 2006. He will continue as Co-Project Scientist in the CDR and the completion of the design process for the SOAR adaptive module.

RACHEL MASON, Research Associate (NGSC Fellow)

Research Interests Active galactic nuclei, interstellar dust and molecules

FY05 Accomplishments Mason built upon earlier studies of interstellar dust chemistry and initiated new collaborations to explore the properties of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the mid-IR. These programs resulted in submission of first-author papers on the first 3-micron spectropolarimetry and spatially-resolved mid-IR spectroscopy of a Seyfert 2 galaxy (the latter from Michelle, the mid-IR instrument on Gemini north). Mason also participated in the acquisition, reduction and analysis of data from various telescopes aimed at clarifying the nature of the central engine of the active galaxy, M87, and tracking the evolution of molecular cloud material up to the onset of star formation.

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FY06 Plans To enlarge the sample of AGN studied, Mason has proposed for and been awarded Gemini time for mid- IR observations of AGN at the highest spatial resolution. This will be complemented by Spitzer observa- tions of star-forming galaxies at z~2. In collaboration with colleagues at NASA-Ames, analysis of recently-obtained IRTF and Spitzer data on quiescent molecular clouds promises to yield intriguing new results in the coming months.

CHRISTOPHER J. MILLER, Assistant Astronomer

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

FY05 Accomplishments Miller et al. published the first installment of the C4 Galaxy Cluster Catalog based on SDSS DR2 data. Miller and collaborators from U. Pittsburgh reported on HST/STIS and Gemini imaging of a nearby DLA system. Swinbank, Balogh, Miller and others presented a 3-D dynamical analysis of a merging elliptical and spiral galaxy pair (using the GMOS-S IFU), which is in a short-lived but important phase of galaxy evolution. Balogh and Miller et al. presented near-IR imaging of 222 SDSS strong Hdelta galaxies and concluded that e(a) galaxies are not progenitors of k+a’s, as has been suggested. Miller and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon were recognized with an award for “Outstanding Statistical Application” from the American Statistical Association for their paper: “Non-parameteric Inference for the CMB.”

FY06 Plans Miller was awarded 33 nights on the KPNO and CTIO 4-m telescopes over the next three years to study X-ray selected galaxy clusters; as PI, Miller will lead a team from the U.S., England, and Portugal. Miller will utilize the SDSS-C4 galaxy catalog to study the Brightest Cluster Galaxy population, the Halo Model for populating clusters, as well as the cross-correlation between the galaxies and clusters. He will present an analysis of a possible 3-system cluster merger using X-ray and optical data. Miller is also analyzing X-ray/ optical data of a nearby galaxy cluster which appears to contain an extraordinary number of active galactic nuclei. He will continue his involvement with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, participate in a design study for WFMOS, and continue as project manager and scientist of the NOAO VO portal.

DARA J. NORMAN, Research Associate

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

FY05 Accomplishments Norman concluded observing support for the now-completed Deep Lens Survey. The team paper detail- ing initial findings of the survey is currently in press. Norman is currently writing a paper on IR AGN candidates and their distribution in DLS fields using data obtained with the IR Sideport Imager (ISPI); she presented preliminary results at an IAU meeting in Geneva, at the January 2005 AAS meeting, and in several colloquium talks given around the U.S. Norman continues collaborations with researchers at Georgia State on the kinematics of gas in Seyfert IIs with the analysis of Gemini-S SV data from the GMOS IFU. She has also continued active collaboration with NOAO-N staff involved in quasar searches in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS. Norman’s involvement in ASTRO-Chile workshops and other outreach activities also continued in FY05; she was an invited speaker at the global “Hands-On

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Universe” meeting in St. Petersberg, Russia. As part of her work with the NOAO Data Products Program (DPP), Norman traveled to Baltimore and met with the NVO group at JHU/STScI to discuss improve- ments to Web pages and documentation of existing NVO tools. With this group, she created a number of instructional handouts for the astronomical community illustrating the use of several of these tools.

FY06 Plans Norman’s FY06 plans are to complete two papers she is currently writing using data obtained from the Blanco 4-m and Gemini-S data described above. In future efforts with DPP, Norman plans to come up with and test science cases for Miller’s NOAO-NVO data discovery tools to demonstrate their utility to the astronomical community. ASTRO-Chile workshops will continue into another academic year, with new discussion topics and planned student-student interaction.

KNUT A. OLSEN, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar populations and star formation histories of nearby galaxies; globular clusters; Magellanic Clouds

FY05 Accomplishments Olsen continued his work on the star formation history of the bulge and disk of M31 using AO-corrected resolved star measurements. The completed analysis shows that both the bulge and disk are dominated by stars that formed earlier than z=0.6, with metallicities at or below solar. Olsen collaborated with P. Massey, E. Levesque, and others in a study of the atmospheric properties of Galactic red supergiant stars (RSGs). The work resulted in a new temperature scale that brings the observed properties of RSGs into agreement with stellar evolution models, as well as the discovery of three stars with radii near the physical limit for RSGs. This work was publicized by a number of news organizations, including the New York Times, Astronomy Magazine, Nature, CNN, and the Stardate radio program. In a related project, Olsen contributed to the discovery that many RSGs have prominent circumstellar dust, with a production rate that would make them a significant contributor to the dust content of young, metal-poor galaxies.

FY06 Plans In early FY06, Olsen will publish two papers on the star formation histories of M31 and the LMC as derived exclusively from evolved stars. Olsen is the Principal Investigator of a successful Spitzer observing collaboration to survey the metal-poor Carina dwarf for mass-losing stars, the data for which will be obtained and analyzed in FY06. He is also a Co-I of a Spitzer survey of the LMC, through which he will collaborate with R. Blum, J. Mould, S. Points (NOAO), and others to study the mass-losing evolved stellar population. Olsen will also complete a paper on the kinematics of the LMC’s red supergiant population, as well as measure the oxygen abundances in the LMC globular clusters NGC 2019 and NGC 2005, for which Gemini data were obtained in 2002–2003.

SEAN D. POINTS, Research Associate (NASA)

Research Interests Interstellar medium (ISM); the Magellanic Clouds

FY05 Accomplishments Points had two papers published in refereed journals, ncluding one as first author. The latter paper, “The Complex Interstellar Na I Absorption toward h and Chi Persei” with collaborators J. Lauroesch and D. Meyer (Northwestern U.) 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 (NOAO).

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FY06 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 publish the results of an X-ray investigation of newly discovered supernova remnants in the .

ARMIN REST, Research Associate (Leo Goldberg Fellow)

Research Interests Dark matter, dark energy, galactic structure, variable stars

FY05 Accomplishments Rest had five papers accepted for publication in 2005. The first detailed the design of the SuperMACHO survey, which aims to identify the microlensing population towards the LMC. The second is the discovery of light echos from ancient supernovae in the LMC. The third, led by J. L. Prieto (Ohio State U.), introduces a new technique for supernovae light curve fitting. The fourth, led by K. Krisciunas (U. Notre Dame), details HST observations of nine high-redshift supernovae. Finally, the study of the supernovae associated with gamma-ray bursts was presented in a paper by A. M. Soderberg (Caltech).

FY06 Plans Several papers investigating the properties of dark energy and dark matter from the SuperMACHO and ESSENCE projects are in preparation. Rest also plans to focus on the SN light echos in the LMC. In addition, Rest is involved in studies of RR Lyrae probing the galactic structure and the properties of the spheroidal galaxy.

HUGO E. SCHWARZ, Associate Astronomer

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

FY05 Accomplishments With Spergel, Majewski, and Patterson, Schwarz started a program of polarimetry to determine the galactic foreground dust polarization to improve WMAP data. Preliminary results for 120 lines of site show interesting large-scale coherent structure in the north Galactic cap. Together with Monteiro, Schwarz published the second paper in the series on accurate distances to planetary nebulae, and obtained observing time on the VLT applying (much more efficient) IFU spectroscopy to this program. With the Vienna group, the third paper on a census of nearby galaxies was published. Schwarz developed a new concept for assessing light pollution to be published in AJ. Together with Suntzeff, Smith, and Semler he computed values for the sky brightness over CTIO for the last 15 years. He mentored three Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) students, resulting in publishable results for each. Schwarz has been named Chairman of the IAU Commission 50 Working Group “Controlling Light Pollution” and is the IAU liaison for the Commission International d’Eclairage (CIE).

FY06 Plans Schwarz intends to continue his work on WMAP dust polarimetry, extending it to the Southern hemi- sphere. He will also continue working with the planetary nebulae distances program and with the nearby

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galaxy census. With Richards (Fulbright Fellow), he plans to work on orientation effects of bipolar nebula, PNe distances, and the sky brightness program, extending the latter to other observatories.

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

Research Interests Supernovae, supernova remnants, the interstellar medium

FY05 Accomplishments Smith has continued to play a leading role in the organization and management of two large, interna- tional NOAO survey projects: ESSENCE, which aims to constrain the equation of state of dark energy, and SuperMACHO, which aims to constrain the location and 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. Two papers were submitted for publication by the ESSENCE collaboration in FY05 and two by the SuperMACHO collaboration. Smith has also made progress toward the release of the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) data set for use by the astronomical community.

FY06 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 investi- gating the evolution of these objects. He plans to make the first release of the MCELS data public in early FY06. He also plans to publish the strategy of the ESSENCE survey. In addition, Smith will 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, Smith 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

FY05 Accomplishments Working with summer intern L. Perez (U. Chile), Smith reduced the data obtained last year with the ISPI near-IR imager on the Blanco 4-m telescope; these observations are among the deepest yet made with ISPI. These IR images have recently been matched with the Chandra X-ray images of the same field and earlier optical images taken with the Mosaic camera on the Blanco, resulting in over two dozen identifications. A poster outlining the early stages of this research program (searching for reddened quasars, starting from hard-x-ray data obtained with Chandra), was presented at the conference “The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Dawn” in Valparaiso.

FY06 Plans Smith’s continuing research into the nature of red quasars will explore the properties of the sources mentioned above, which will in turn guide efficient spectral follow-up of the key, optically-faint sources. In a separate project with colleagues from Arkansas, New York, and Ohio, Smith has been awarded time with ISPI in November 2005 on the CTIO 4-m to extend their earlier optical search for

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high-redshift QSOs with the BTC camera on the same telescope (work which was published in 2002). Their aim is to use z-J color to refine their lists of optically-faint candidates (I=21.5 mag); these data will allow this team to discriminate between very-late-type stars and high-redshift quasars, once again allowing for a more efficient use of 8-m–10-m-class telescope time when performing follow-up spectroscopy.

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

Research Interests Supernovae; cosmology; stellar populations; site characterization

FY05 Accomplishments Suntzeff continued his research in supernova studies. The ESSENCE project, which is in its third year, published a summary of the spectra of the high-redshift supernovae (Matheson et al). With Krisciunas, Suntzeff also published a paper on the first photometry form ESSENCE on nine high-z supernovae followed with the CTIO 4-m and HST. The ESSENCE group now has a fully functional pipeline to measure the light curves of the supernovae in real time. Much of the FY05 effort was in the fundamental calibration of the photometric system of the 4-m in order to put all eight CCD data from the 4-m MOSAIC instrument on a reliable zeropoint to 0.01mag. The calibration was done with 0.9-m CCD data from the CTIO/SMARTS consortium. Suntzeff, in collaboration with student M. Stritzinger, published an atlas of spectrophotometry of Landolt photometric standards in the wavelength range of 3100–10500A. These will be used to measure synthetic photometry of the normal standards used in CCD photometry and the systematic errors induced in observing non-stellar SEDs, such as supernovae, in photometric systems not precisely matched to the Landolt system. Suntzeff, in collaboration with C. Stubbs and C. Smith, worked on a flat-field calibration system for the CTIO 4-m telescope. The system uses a monochromatic laser which illuminates the normal white spot. The flux is measured off the white spot with an NIST calibrated photo-diode system. The goal is to measure precise “transmission functions” of the telescope/filter/CCD system needed to understand preci- sion photometry for photometric redshifts and supernovae. As part of this project, Suntzeff completed a laboratory system to measure filter functions using Ocean Optics spectral analysis hardware. Also in FY05, the NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey of Hudson et al, of which Suntzeff is a member, published their major findings. This survey studied nearby red clusters to understand their age and metallicity. The large ellipticals appear to be very old, whereas the smaller E/S0 galaxies, while red, seem to have ages more like 4–8 Gyrs. Apparently these clusters would be missing—that is, blue—in look-back times to z=1 or so. This result is contrary to simple hierarchical clustering models, which are the popular description of the formation of galaxies. If these results hold up, significant modification to the models will be needed. Suntzeff, in collaboration with postdoc A. Whiting and REU student S. Aggarwal, have established a program on the 1.3-m SMARTS telescope for weekly monitoring of eta Car. Finally, Suntzeff worked on HST data on SN87A to measure the flux limits on any point-like source, such as a pulsar, that could remain from the explosion (Graves et al) He is also a member of the Carnegie/CTIO Supernova Project which is funded by a three-year NSF grant to follow 250 nearby SNe to recalibrate the local SN population using well understood and stable facility optical and near-IR detectors. Most of the observing is done at the 1-m at LCO where the team has received 270 nights per year, with some also done at the NOAO SMARTS 1.3-m telescope. Suntzeff is helping in the planning and programming of the near-IR imaging project.

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FY06 Plans Suntzeff will be leaving NOAO in February 2006 after 20 years of service at CTIO. In the remaining time at CTIO, he will work on the Carnegie supernova project, LMC Light Echoes, ESSENCE and SuperMacho projects, the 4-m MOSAIC calibration project with Stubbs, the DESTINY project for SN cosmology to be submitted to the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM, NASA/DOE); Ȧ Cen ; SN87A light curve and radioactive nuclide abundances; spectrophotometry of . He will continue the monitoring of eta Car.

ANDREI TOKOVININ, Associate Astronomer

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

FY05 Accomplishments Tokovinin, Thomas, and colleagues from Europe have studied the statistics of tertiary companions to close spectroscopic binaries (periods less than 30days) by means of adaptive optics at VLT and 2MASS archival data. They found that the incidence of companions is very high (86%) for short-period binaries, decreasing by a factor of 2 for periods above 7 days. This work constrains the mechanisms of formation and evolution of close binaries and announces the discovery of many new triple and higher-order systems. Tokovinin and Travouillon developed a new model of optical turbulence at Cerro Pachón, to be used for predicting the performance of adaptive optics (AO), especially ground-layer AO systems at Gemini and SOAR. Thomas, Tokovinin et al have finished a comprehensive study of the best centroiding algorithms in Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors.

FY06 Plans New ideas on the formation of close binaries will be put to observational tests. The goal is to find young binaries that undergo accretion and orbital evolution. In parallel, an effort towards obtaining complete statistics of high-order multiple systems in the solar neighborhood will be undertaken. Tokovinin also plans to continue development or in-depth studies of new methods of turbulence characterization and optimization of the adaptive optics.

NICOLE S. VAN DER BLIEK, Assistant Scientist

Research Interests: Instrumentation; young stars and brown dwarfs

FY05 Accomplishments van der Bliek is completing preparations for the Design Review for the SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM), after which fabrication will start. In collaboration with J. Alves (ESO) and A. Mointinho (U. Lisbon), van der Bliek has submitted a paper to A&A on the work on optical infrared data of young clusters with the Brazilian student Wladimir. Together with B. Rodgers (Gemini South) and S. Thomas (CTIO), van der Bliek mentored REU student B. Brandvig on a project dealing with binary Herbig Ae/Be stars. Meanwhile, the project has been expanded to a survey including all or most Herbig Ae/Be stars, for which observing time with NIRI/Altair at Gemini North and with GNIRS at Gemini South was awarded. Observing time with NIRI/Altair at Gemini North was awarded to test the hypothesis that in wide systems containing a brown dwarf or very-low mass companion, the primary is actually a binary itself.

FY06 Plans van der Bliek will lead SAM from PDR through fabrication and integration, preparing for commissioning at SOAR. She will continue support work for ISPI. She will also continue the study of wide systems

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containing a brown dwarf or very-low mass companion, searching for primaries which can be resolved into binaries, a project with S. Thomas (CTIO) and M. Sterzik (ESO)). van der Bliek will also continue with the survey of Herbig Ae/Be stars. This will include AO observations to study close companions, near infrared spectroscopy to spectral-type the companions and confirm physical association with the primaries, and near imaging over a slightly larger field to study clustering around Herbig Ae/Be stars. This project is a collaboration with B. Rodgers (Gemini South), S. Thomas (CTIO) and J. Bouvier (Obs. Grenoble).

ALISTAIR R. WALKER, Astronomer (Director, CTIO)

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

FY05 Accomplishments Walker and colleagues published results from a 12 square degree survey of the Galactic bulge to find and characterize all kinds of horizontal branch (HB) stars, discovering a number of metal-rich blue HB stars whose presence in the bulge is expected by the interpretation of the extragalactic ultraviolet excess. Very deep images have been obtained along the bulge minor axis, revealing a significant number of extreme-HB candidates for which following-up spectroscopy is planned. With members of the Araucaria Project, led by W. Gieren (U. Concepción), Walker published an improved Cepheid distance to the nearby Sculptor group galaxy NGC 300. This work is part of a large project to study Sculptor Group galaxies, with the principal aim of critically comparing several distance scale methods in a variety of environments, for which deep multi-epoch photometry was obtained for several galaxies using the Blanco 4-m telescope and Mosaic imager.

FY06 Plans Walker will continue to make further observations to search for extra-tidal stars in the Carina dSph galaxy and will participate in the analysis of kinematics and abundances for the old and intermediate populations, for which VLT observations have been obtained. Observations have been completed for four more Sculptor Group galaxies; data reduction followed by comparison of their distances using several methods is underway. High-resolution photometry of the Cepheids in the LMC cluster NGC 1866 have been obtained, and the results are being used to compare the locations of the stars in the instability strip with predictions from pulsation and stellar evolution theory. A project has been initiated to use NGC 1866 and other Magellanic Cloud clusters as calibrators to extend the Surface Brightness Fluctuation method to younger ages, with a view to eventually use the method to distinguish mixed populations in distant galaxies.

ALAN B. WHITING, Research Associate (Former REU Site Director at CTIO)±

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Abt, H.A. 2005, ApJ, 629, 507, “Observed Orbital Eccentricities”

Abt, H.A. 2005, BAAS, 37, 551, “Estimated Completeness of the Science Citation Index”

Abt, H.A. 2005, ApJS, 157, 174, “Erratum: ‘Spectral Classification of Stars in A Supplement to the Bright ’”

Abt, H.A. 2005, Communicating Astronomy, ed. T.J. Mahoney (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), 2, “Information Obtainable from Bibliometric Studies”

Abt, H.A. 2005, Communicating Astronomy, ed. T.J. Mahoney (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), 19, “Peer Reviewing”

Abt, H.A. 2004, ApJS, 155, 175, “Spectral Classification of Stars in A Supplement to the Bright Star Catalogue”

Abt, H.A., Boonyarak, C. 2004, ApJ, 616, 562, “Tidal Effects in Binaries of Various Periods”

Abt, H.A. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder and P. Eenens (ASP), 154, “Post Main-Sequence Changes in Rotational Velocities”

Abt, H.A. 2004, Astronomy Communication, eds. A. Heck and C. Madsen (Kluwer Academic), “Foreword”

Appleton, P.N., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJS, 156, 111, “Erratum: ‘The Far- and Mid- Infrared/Radio Correlations in the Spitzer Extragalactic First Look Survey.’”

Arrieta, A., … Shaw, R.A., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder and P. Eenens (ASP), 577, “Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Central Stars of the LMC Planetary Nebulae”

Aufdenberg, J.P., ... Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2005, 13th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the , eds. F. Favata and B. Battrick (ESA), 415, “Procyon A: Convection Signatures.”

Barden, S.C., Dey, A., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5492, eds. A.F.M. Moorwood and I. Masanori (SPIE), 364, “KAOS: Kilo-aperture Optical Spectrograph.”

Belton, M.J.S., Samarasinha, N.H., et al. 2005, Icarus, 175, 181, “The Excited Spin State of Comet 2P/Encke”

Bender, R., … Green, R., … Lauer, T.R., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 280, “HST STIS Spectroscopy of the Triple Nucleus of M31: Two Nested Disks in Keplerian Rotation around a ”

Blum, R.D., … Ridgway, S., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 1167, “Accretion Signatures from Massive Young Stellar Objects”

Boroson, T. 2005, AJ, 130, 381, “Blueshifted [O III] Emission: Indications of a Dynamic Narrow- Line Region”

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Borys, C., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B., et al. 2005, Proceedings of the Dusty and Molecular Universe, ed. A. Wilson (ESA), 275, “Discovery of Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies using Spitzer and SHARC-II”

Bouwens, R.J., … Dickinson, M.E., et al. 2004, ApJ, 616, L79, “Galaxies at z~7-8: z850-Dropouts in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field”

Brand, K., Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., Najita, J.R., et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, 723, “Tracing the Nuclear Accretion History of the Red Galaxy Population”

Brand, K., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 357, 1231, “The Three-dimensional Clustering of Radio Galaxies in the Texas-Oxford NVSS Structure Survey”

Brown, M.J.I., Jannuzi, B.T., Dey, A., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 41, “The Clustering of Extragalactic Extremely Red Objects”

Burstein, D., … Macri, L.M., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 246, “The K-Band of Galaxies: Do S0s Come from Spiral Galaxies?”

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”

Calvet, N., … Najita, J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 630, L185, “Disks in Transition in the Taurus Population: Spitzer IRS Spectra of GM Aurigae and DM Tauri”

Claver, C.F., … Wolff, S.C., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5489, ed. J.M. Oschmann, Jr. (SPIE), 705, “Project Status of the 8.4-m LSST”

Cunha, K., Smith, V.V. 2005, ApJ, 626, 425, “Fluorine Abundances in the Orion Nebula Cluster”

D’Alessio, P., … Najita, J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 461, “The Truncated Disk of CoKu Tau/4”

Daddi, E., Dickinson, M., … Morrison, G., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, L13, “The Population of BzK- selected ULIRGs at z ~ 2”

Daddi, E., et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, 680, “Passively Evolving Early-Type Galaxies at 1.4 <~ z <~ 2.5 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field”

Dahlen, T., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 126, “The Evolution of the Optical and Near- Infrared Galaxy Luminosity Functions and Luminosity Densities to z~2”

Dawson, S., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 707, “Spectroscopic Properties of the z ~ 4.5 LyĮ Emitters”

De Young, D.S. 2005, X-Ray and Radio Connections, eds L.O. Sjouwerman and K.K Dyer (NRAO), “Theory of Jet Dissipation”

B-2 NOAO SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY05

Dey, A., … Brand, K., Brown, M.J.I., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 629, 654, “Discovery of a Large ~200 kpc Gaseous Nebula at z ~ 2.7 with the Spitzer Space Telescope”

Dobbie, P.D., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 357, 1049, “A Near-infrared Spectroscopic Search for Very-low-mass Cool Companions to Notable DA White Dwarfs”

Dobbie, P.D., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 355, L39, “Praesepe and the Seven White Dwarfs”

Fekel, F.C., Hinke, K.H., Joyce, R.R. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder and P. Eenens (ASP), 168, “Rotational Velocities of S-Type Symbiotic Stars”

Fernández, Y. R, … Mueller, B.E.A., Samarasinha, N.H., et al. 2005, Icarus, 175, 194, “New Near- aphelion Light Curves of Comet 2P/Encke”

Finn, R.A., … Rudnick, G., et al. 2005, ApJ, 630, 206, “HĮ-derived Star Formation Rates for Three z~=0.75 EDisCS Galaxy Clusters”

Furlan, E., … Najita, J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, L129, “Spitzer IRS Spectra of Young Stars Near the -burning Mass Limit”

Galicher, R., … Ridgway, S., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, 411, “Laboratory Demonstration and Numerical Simulations of the Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization”

García-Gil, A., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2005, ApJ, 623, 460, “A Study of the Near-Ultraviolet Spectrum of Vega”

Geisler, D., Smith, V.V., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1428, “‘Sculptor-ing’ the Galaxy? The Chemical Compositions of Red Giants in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

Giallongo, E., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 116, “The B-Band Luminosity Function of Red and Blue Galaxies up to z = 3.5”

Glassgold, A.E., Najita, J., Igea, J. 2004, ApJ, 615, 972, “Heating Atmospheres”

Grossi, M., … Pritzl, B.J., … Saha, A., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 327, eds. F. Prada, D. Martinez Delgado, and T.J. Mahoney (ASP), 324, “Properties of Three Gas-rich Dwarfs in the A Group”

Gutiérrez, P.J., … Samarasinha, N.H., et al. 2005, Planetary and Space Science, 53, 1135, “Outgassing- induced Effects in the Rotational State of Comet 67P/Churyumov---Gerasimenko During the Rosetta Mission”

Guyon, O., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 744, “Exoplanet Imaging with a Phase-induced Amplitude Apodization Coronagraph. I. Principle”

Hartmann, L., … Najita, J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, L147, “The Accretion Disk of the Lithium-depleted Young Binary St 34”

B-3 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Heap, S.R., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 321, eds. J.-P. Beaulieu, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, and C. Terquem (ASP), 31, “Optical Imaging of Extrasolar Giant Planets From Space”

Higdon, J.L., … Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, 58, “Spitzer Observations of Optically ‘Invisible’ Radio and X-Ray Sources: High-Redshift Active Galactic Nuclei”

Hinkle, K.H., … Joyce, R.R., Smith, V.V., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 336, eds. T.G. Barnes III and F.N. Bash (ASP), 173, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Evolved, Interacting Binary Stars”

Hinkle, K., Wallace, L. 2005, ASP Conf. 336, eds. T.G. Barnes III and F.N. Bash (ASP), 321, “The Spectrum of from the Infrared through the Ultraviolet”

Hinkle, K.H., Wallace, L., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder and P. Eenens (ASP), 136, “Rotation of M and L Dwarfs from High Resolution Infrared Spectra”

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”

Houck, J.R., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, L105, “Spectroscopic Redshifts to z > 2 for Optically Obscured Sources Discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope”

Huchra, J., … Macri, L., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 329, eds. A.P. Fairall and P.A. Woudt (ASP), 329, “The 2MASS Redshift Survey and Low Galactic Latitude Large-Scale Structure”

Jeffers, S.V., … Aufdenberg, J.P., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 425, “Direct Evidence for a Polar Spot on SV ”

Jester, S., … Green, R.F., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 873, “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey View of the Palomar-Green Bright Quasar Survey”

Jones, T.W., De Young, D.S. 2005, ApJ, 624, 586, “Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Relic Radio Bubbles in Clusters”

Kaspi, S., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 629, 61, “The Relationship between Luminosity and Broad-Line Region Size in Active Galactic Nuclei”

Kawaler, S.D., … Claver, C.F., et al. 2004, A&A, 428, 969, “Whole Telescope Observations of the Pulsating Hot PG 1707+427”

Khan, S.A., … Brand, K., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, L9, “On the Discovery of the First Galaxy Selected at 350 Microns”

Kilic, M., … Claver, C.F., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 334, eds. D. Koester and S. Moehler (ASP), 119, “The Use and the Efficiency of the DDO51 Filter for Identification of Cool White Dwarfs”

Kilic, M., … Claver, C.F., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1825, “Photometric Identification of Cool White Dwarfs”

B-4 NOAO SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY05

Kinman, T.D., et al. 2005, Proceedings of the Symposium “The Three-Dimensional Universe with Gaia”, eds. C. Turon, K.S. O'Flaherty, M.A.C. Perryman (ESA), 175, “Structure of the Galactic Halo Towards the North Galactic Pole”

Koekemoer, A.M., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, Proceedings of the Dusty and Molecular Universe, ed. A. Wilson (ESA), 111, “EXO's: a Population of Dusty, High-redshift AGN”

Koekemoer, A.M., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 76, 138, “EXOs: A Population of Dusty AGN in the Early Universe”

Krisciunas, K., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 350, “Erratum: ‘Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Type Ia Supernovae 1991T, 1991bg, 1999ek, 2001bt, 2001cn, 2001cz, and 2002bo.’”

Krisciunas, K., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 3034, “Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Type Ia Supernovae 1991T, 1991bg, 1999ek, 2001bt, 2001cn, 2001cz, and 2002bo”

Labbé, I., … Rudnick, G., … Daddi, E., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, L81, “IRAC Mid-Infrared Imaging of the Hubble Deep Field-South: Star Formation Histories and Stellar Masses of Red Galaxies at z>2”

Lauer, T.R., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 339, eds. S.C. Wolff and T.R. Lauer (ASP), 79, “DESTINY: The Dark Energy Space Telescope”

Lauer, T.R., … Green, R., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2138, “The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with Hubble Space Telescope. V. New WFPC2 Photometry”

Lebzelter, T., … Hinkle, K.H., et al. 2005, A&A, 440, 295, “WZ Cas-variability on Multiple Time- scales”

Lebzelter, T., … Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., et al. 2005, A&A, 432, 207, “Long Period Variables in the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc: Radial Velocity Variations”

Lebzelter, T., Hinkle, K.H., … Joyce, R.R., et al. 2005, A&A, 431, 623, “A Study of Bright Southern Long Period Variables”

Lehmer, B.D., … Dickinson, M.E., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1, “X-Ray Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey”

Linnell, A.P., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 923, “MV Lyrae in Low, Intermediate, and High States”

Ly, C., De Young, D.S., Bechtold, J. 2005, ApJ, 618, 609, “The Discovery of Extended Thermal X-Ray Emission from PKS 2152-699: Evidence for a ‘Jet-Cloud’ Interaction”

Malhotra, S., … Daddi, E., et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, 666, “An Overdensity of Galaxies at z = 5.9 +/- 0.2 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Confirmed Using the ACS Grism”

Matheson, T., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2352, “Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First 2 Years”

B-5 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Mazzali, P.A., … Matheson, T., et al. 2005, Science, 308, 1284, “An Asymmetric Energetic Type Ic Supernova Viewed Off-Axis, and a Link to Gamma Ray Bursts”

McAlister, H.A., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, 439, “First Results from the CHARA Array. I. An Interferometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Fast Rotator alpha Leonis ()”

McAlister, H.A., … Aufdenberg, J.P. … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5491, ed. W.A Traub (SPIE), 472, “CHARA Recent Technology and Science”

McSaveney, J.A., … Hinkle, K., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 336, eds. T.G. Barnes III and F.N. Bash (ASP), 339, “Abundances of AGB Stars in the LMC and SMC: A Work in Progress”

Merand, A., … Ridgway, S.T., Aufdenberg, J.P., et al. 2005, A&A, 438, L9, “The Projection Factor of į Cephei. A Calibration of the Baade-Wesselink Method Using the CHARA Array”

Mighell, K.J. 2005, MNRAS, 361, 861, “Stellar Photometry and Astrometry with Discrete Point Spread Functions”

Mighell, K.J., Roederer, I.U. 2004, ApJ, 617, L41, “Flickering Red Giants in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: Detection of Low-Amplitude Variability in Faint Red Giant Branch Stars on 10 Minute Timescales”

Miroshnichenko, A.S., … Hinkle, K., et al. 2005, A&A, 436, 653, “Properties of Galactic B[e] Supergiants. IV. Hen 3-298 and Hen 3-303”

Moro-Martin, A., … Najita, J., … Strom, S.E., et al. 2005, Proceedings of the Dusty and Molecular Universe, ed. by A. Wilson (ESA), 469, “The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: First Results from a Spitzer Legacy Science Program”

Mould, J.R. 2005, ASP Conf. 339, eds. S.C. Wolff and T.R. Lauer (ASP), 3, “Observing Dark Energy: Welcome”

Mould, J. 2005, AJ, 129, 698, “Red Thick Disks of Nearby Galaxies”

Mould, J., Saha, A., Hughes, S. 2004, ApJS, 154, 623, “The Period-Luminosity Relation for Long- Period Variables in M31”

Mueller, B.E.A., … Samarasinha, N.H., et al. 2004, Icarus, 171, 506, “Simultaneous Visible and Near- infrared Time Resolved Observations of the Outer Object (29981) 1999 TD10”

Murray, S.S., … Jannuzi, B.T., Dey, A.T., Najita, J.R., Brown, M.J., Brand, K.J., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5488, eds. G. Hasinger and M.J.L. Turner (SPIE), 242, “X-ray Three-dimensional Survey in the NDWFS Bootes Field: Large Area Chandra Shallow X-ray Survey-I”

Najita, J. 2004, ASP Conf. 323, eds. D. Johnstone, et al. (ASP), 271, “Exploring Inner Planet-forming Disks”

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) student

B-6 NOAO SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY05

Nelson, C.H., Green, R.F., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 652, “The Relationship Between Black Hole Mass and Velocity Dispersion in Seyfert 1 Galaxies”

Observing Dark Energy, eds. S.C. Wolff and T.R. Lauer, ASP Conf., v. 339 (ASP), 2005.

Owen, F.N., … Morrison, G.E., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 31, “A Deep Radio Survey of Abell 2125. II. Accelerated Galaxy Evolution during a Cluster-Cluster Merger”

Owen, F.N., … Morrison, G.E., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 26, “A Deep Radio Survey of Abell 2125. I. Radio, Optical, and Near-Infrared Observations”

Papovich, C., Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 101, “The Assembly of Diversity in the Morphologies and Stellar Populations of High-Redshift Galaxies”

Perrin, G., Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2005, A&A, 436, 317, “Study of Molecular Layers in the Atmosphere of the µ Cep by Interferometry in the K Band”

Perrin, G., Ridgway, S.T. 2005, ApJ, 626, 1138, “Squared Visibility Estimators: Calibrating Biases to Reach Very High Dynamic Range”

Perrin, G., Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2004, A&A, 426, 279, “Unveiling Mira Stars Behind the Molecules. Confirmation of the Molecular Layer Model with Narrow Band Near-infrared Interferometry”

Perrin, G., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5491, ed. W.A Traub (SPIE), 391,“Ohana”

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

Pope, A., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, Starbursts: From 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies, eds. R. de Grijs and R.M. González Delgado (Springer), 63, “Optical and Near-IR properties of Submillimetre Galaxies in the GOODS-N field”

Pope, A., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 358, 149, “The Hubble Deep Field North SCUBA Super-map - III. Optical and Near-infrared Properties of Submillimetre Galaxies”

Pritzl, B.J., Armandroff, T.E., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2232, “The Dwarf Spheroidal Companions to M31: Variable Stars in Andromeda I and Andromeda III”

Reindl, B., … Saha, A., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 532, “Reddening, Absorption, and Decline Rate Corrections for a Complete Sample of Type Ia Supernovae Leading to a Fully Corrected Hubble Diagram to v < 30,000 km s-1”

Rebull, L.M., Wolff, S.C., Strom, S.E., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder and P. Eenens (ASP), 123, “On the Relationship Between Stellar Rotation and Radius in Young Clusters”

Ridgway, S.T. 2004, Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging, eds. C. Aime and R. Soummer (EAS), 49, “Introduction to High Contrast Imaging in Astronomy”

B-7 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Saha, A., Dolphin, A.E., Thim, F., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, 37, “Faint BVRI Photometric Sequences in Selected Fields”

Samarasinha, N., Mueller, B.E.A., et al. 2004, Comets II, eds. M. C. Festou, H. U. Keller, and H. A. Weaver (University of Arizona), 281, “Rotation of Cometary Nuclei”

Scott, J.E., … Green, R.F., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 135, “A Composite Extreme-Ultraviolet QSO Spectrum from FUSE”

Shang, Z., … Green, R.F., … Hubeny, I., et al. 2005, ApJ, 619, 41, “Quasars and the Big Blue Bump”

Silverman, J.D., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 630, “Comoving Space Density of X-Ray- selected Active Galactic Nuclei”

Silverman, J.D., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 618, 123, “Hard X-Ray-emitting Active Galactic Nuclei Selected by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project”

Smith, V.V. 2005, ASP Conf. 336, eds. T.G. Barnes III and F.N. Bash (ASP), 165, “Mapping Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in Stars via High-Resolution Spectroscopy”

Sokoloski, J.L., … Aufdenberg, J., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 330, eds. J.-M. Hameury and J.-P. Lasota (ASP), 293, “A New Kind of ”

Stanghellini, L., Shaw, R.A., Gilmore, D. 2005, ApJ, 622, 294, “Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Ultraviolet Spectra of Large Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebulae: A Study of Carbon Abundances and Stellar Evolution”

Stern, D., … Brown, M.J.I., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 163, “Mid-Infrared Selection of Active Galaxies”

Stiavelli, M., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, L1, “Evidence of Primordial Clustering around the QSO SDSS J1030+0524 at z=6.28”

Strom, S., Wolff, S. 2005, Star Formation in the Era of Three Great Observatories, 26, “Stellar Rotation: A Probe of Initial Star-Forming Conditions?”

Strom, S.E., Wolff, S.C., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 809, “B Star Rotational Velocities in h and Ȥ Persei: A Probe of Initial Conditions during the Star Formation Epoch?”

ten Brummelaar, T.A., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, 453, “First Results from the CHARA Array. II. A Description of the Instrument”

Teplitz, H.I., … Dickinson, M.E., et al. 2005, Starbursts: From 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies, eds. R. de Grijs and R.M. González Delgado (Springer), 79, “Far-Ultraviolet Imaging of the Hubble Deep Field North”

Thompson, R.I., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 1, “The Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Ultra Deep Field: Observations, Data Reduction, and Galaxy Photometry”

B-8 NOAO SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY05

Vanzella, E., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, A&A, 434, 53, “The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy in the GOODS-South Field”

Verhoelst, T., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2005, A&A, 435, 289, “Is Arcturus a Well-understood K Giant? Test of Model Atmospheres and Potential Companion Detection by Near-infrared Interferometry”

Villaver, E., Stanghellini, L., Shaw, R.A. 2004, ApJ, 614, 716, “The Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stellar Population in the Small Magellanic Cloud: The Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae”

Wade, R.A., … Green, R.F., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 334, eds. D. Koester and S. Moehler (ASP), 123, “How Many Hot Subdwarf Stars Were Rejected from the PG Survey?”

Walker, C.E., Pompea, S.M. 2004, ASP Conf. 319, eds. C. Narasimhan, et al. (ASP), 405, “A Successful Formula for Teacher Retention and Renewal: The Teacher Leaders in Research-Based Science Education Program”

Walker, C.E., Pompea, S.M. 2004, ASP Conf. 319, eds. C. Narasimhan, et al. (ASP), 406, “NOAO: Supporting Astronomy Education Across the Spectrum”

Walker, C.E., Pompea, S.M. 2004, ASP Conf. 319, eds. C. Narasimhan, et al. (ASP), 407, “PROJECT ASTRO-TUCSON: The Art Of Learning About The Cosmos Around Us”

Wallace, L. and Livingston, W. 2005, An Atlas of Sunspot Umbral Spectra in the Visible from 15,000 to 25,000 cm-1 (3920 to 6664 A), Revised, (National Solar Observatory).

Wolff, S., Strom, S., et al. 2005, Star Formation in the Era of Three Great Observatories, 28, “Rotation of Intermediate and High Mass Stars: A Probe of Star-Forming Modes and Initial Conditions”

Wolff, S.C. 2005, ASP Conf. 338, eds. P.K. Seidelmann and A.K.B. Monet (ASP), 63, “Ground-Based Survey Facilities: New Opportunities for Astrometry”

Wolff, S.C., Strom, S.E., Hillenbrand, L.A. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder and P. Eenens (ASP), 431, “The Evolution of Angular Momentum of Intermediate Mass Stars: From the Birthline to the Main Sequence”

Wolff, S., Fraknoi, A. 2004, ASP Conf. 319, eds. C. Narasimhan, et al. (ASP), 410, “Astronomy Education Review: A New Journal/Magazine for Astronomy and Space Science Education”

Yan, H., Dickinson, M., et al. 2004, ApJ, 616, 63, “High-Redshift Extremely Red Objects in the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field Revealed by the GOODS Infrared Array Camera Observations”

Apai, D., …van der Bliek, N., et al. 2004, A&A, 426, p. 1001, “Grain Growth and Dust Settling in a Brown Dwarf Disk”

Balogh, M.L., …Miller, C., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 360, p. 587, “Near-infrared Imaging of 222 Nearby Hį-strong Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”

B-9 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Barbosa, C., …Blum, R.D., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 322, ed. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers, L.J. Smith, A. Nota (ASP), p. 387, “Massive Star Birth Sites and the Case of NGC 3576 IRS 1”

Blum, R.D., et al. 2004, AJ, 617, p. 1167, “Accretion Signatures from Massive Young Stellar Objects”

Corradi, R.L.M., …Schwarz, H.E., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), p. 290, “New Rings in Planetary Nebulae Haloes”

Davidge, T.J., Olsen, K.A.G., Blum, R., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, p. 201, “Deep Altair + NIRI Imaging of the Disk and Bulge of M31”

De Buizer, J.M, et al. 2005, ApJ, 156, p. 179, “Observations of Massive Star-Forming Regions with Water Masers: Mid-Infrared Imaging”

Fernández, R., Schwarz, H.E., Monteiro, H. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), p. 236, “Kinematics and proper Motion of the Ansae in NGC 7009”

Figer, D.F., …Blum, R.D., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, L49, “Massive Stars in the SGR 1806-20 Cluster”

Figuerêdo, E., …Blum, R.D., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, p. 1523, “The Stellar Content of Obscured Galactic Giant H II Regions. V. G333.1-0.4”

Graves, G.J.M., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2005, ApJ, 629, p. 944, “Limits from the Hubble Space Telescope on a Point Source in SN 1987A”

Guldenschuh, K.A., … Whiting, A., van der Bliek, N., Baca, P., Carlin, J., Freismuth, T., Mora, M., Salyk, C., Vera, S., Verdugo, M., Young, A. 2005, PASP, 117, p. 721, “The Intrinsic Colors of RR Lyrae Variables: A Means to Determine Interstellar Reddening”

Hiriart, R., Valdes, F., Pierfederici, F., Smith, C., Miller, M. 2004, ASP Conf. 314, ed. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, D. Egret (ASP), p. 74, “The NOAO Pipeline Data Manager”

Kerschbaum, F., …Schwarz, H.E. 2004, A&A, 427, p. 613, “A Census of AGB Stars in Local Group Galaxies III. The Dwarf Spheroidal And II”

Krisciunas, K., Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, p. 3034, “Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Type Ia Supernovae 1991T, 1991bg, 1999ek, 2001bt, 2001cn, 2001cz, and 2002bo”

Lawrence, J.S., …Tokovinin, A., et al. 2004, Nature, 431, p. 278, “Exceptional Astronomical Seeing Conditions Above Dome C in Antarctica”

Levesque, E.M., …Olsen, K.A.G., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, p. 973, “The Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool but Not as Cool as We Thought”

Matheson, T., …Smith, R.C., …Rest, A., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, p. 2352, “Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the Essence Project: The First 2 Years”

B-10 NOAO SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS FY05

Miller, C.J., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, p. 968, “The C4 Clustering Algorithm: Clusters of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”

Monteiro, H., Schwarz, H.E., Peterson, R.T. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), p. 375, “Orientation Effects in Bipolar Nebulae: Can Disks do it?”

Monteiro, H., Schwarz, H.E., …Heathcote, S.R., et al. 2005, ApJ, 620, p. 321, “Three Dimensional Photoionization Structure and Distances of Planetary Nebulae. II. Menzel 1”

Pierfederici, F., …Smith, C., Miller, M., 2004, ASP Conf. 314, ed. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, D. Egret (ASP), 476, “The NOAO Mosaic Pipeline Architecture”

Rolfe, D.J., …Abbott, T.M.C., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 357, p. 69, “Multi-epoch, Spectroscopy of IY UMa: Quiescense, Rise, Normal Outburst and Superoutburst”

Schulte-Ladbeck, …Miller, C.J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 625, L79, “Emission-Line Spectroscopy of Damped LyĮ Systems: The Case of SBS 1543+593/HS 1543+5921”

Schwarz, H.E., Monteiro, H. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), p. 497, “Binarity and Symbiotics in Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae”

Schmidtobreik, L., …Whiting, A., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, p. 944, “Spectroscopic Classification of Cataclysmic Variable Candidates”

Seth, A., Olsen, K., Miller, B. 2005, ASP Conf. 322, ed. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers, L.J. Smith, A. Nota (ASP), p. 215, “Young Clusters in Virgo and Fornax Dwarf Irregulars”

Silverman, J.D., …Smith, M.G., …Smith, R.C., …Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 618, p. 123, “Hard X-Ray-emitting Active Galactic Nuclei Selected by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project”

Silverman, J.D., …Jannuzi, B.T., … Smith, M.G., Smith, R.C., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, p. 630, “Comoving Space Density of X-Ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei”

Smith, R.J., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, p. 1558, “NOAO Fundamental Survey. I. Survey Design, Redshifts, and Velocity Dispersion Data”

Sterzik, M.F., … van der Bliek, N., et al. 2004, A&A, 427, p. 245, “Evolution of Young Brown Dwarf Disks in the Mid-Infrared”

Sterzik, M.F., … Tokovinin, A.A., van der Bliek, N., et al. 2005, A&A, 434, p. 671, “HD 34700 is a T Tauri Multiple System”

Stritzinger, M., … Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, p. 810, “An Atlas of Spectrophotometric Landolt Standard Stars”

Sugerman, B.E.K., … Heathcote, S.R., et al. 2005, ApJS, 159, p. 60, “The Three-dimensional Circumstellar Environment of SN 1987A”

B-11 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Telesco, C.M., …De Buizer, J., et al. 2005, Nature 433, p. 133, “Mid-infrared Images of ȕ Pictoris and the Possible Role of Collisions in the Central Disk”

Tokovinin, A. 2004, PASP, 116, p. 941, “Seeing Improvement with Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics”

Tokovinin, A., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, p. 395, “Optical Turbulence Profiles at Mauna Kea Measured by MASS and SCIDAR”

Uzpen, B., …Olsen, K.A.G., et al. 2005, ApJ, 629, p. 512, “Identification of Main-Sequence Stars with Mid-Infrared Excesses Using GLIMPSE: ȕ Pictoris Analogs?”

Wachter, S., …Bouchet, P., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, p. 887, “Precise Localization of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1627-41 and the Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar AXP 1E1841-045 with Chandra”

Wachter, S., …Bouchet, P., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, p.393, “Chandra HRC Localization of the Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries X 1624-490 and X 1702-429: The Infrared Counterparts”

Whiting, A.B. 2005, ApJ, 622, p. 217, “Light and Motion in the Local Volume”

Williams, R.M., …Points, S.D., …Smith, R.C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 613, p. 948, “Supernova Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds. IV. X-Ray Emission from the Largest in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

B-12 Appendix C KEY MANAGEMENT AND SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL CHANGES FY05

KEY MANAGEMENT FY05

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

SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL CHANGES FY05

New Appointments

Date Name Position Location

10/01/2004 Emily C. MacDonald Research Associate NOAO N 10/11/2004 Gregory H. Rudnick Research Associate NOAO N 10/18/2004 Sean D. Brittain Research Associate NOAO N 12/01/2004 Christine H. Chen Research Associate NOAO N 12/01/2004 Emmanuele Daddi Research Associate NOAO N 04/15/2005 Dmitry V. Bizyaev Research Associate NOAO N 06/27/2005 Katia Maria Leite da Cunha Assistant Scientist NOAO N 09/01/2005 Sebastian Els Research Associate NOAO S 09/01/2005 Ting-Hui Lee Research Associate NOAO N

Completed Employment

Date Name Former Position Location

07/08/2005 Beatrice I Muller Assistant Scientist NOAO N 07/01/2005 Glenn E. Morrison Research Associate NOAO N 01/29/2005 Marcel Bergmann Research Associate NOAO S 06/24/2005 Patrice J. Bouchet Associate Scientist NOAO S 12/01/2004 Nigel A. Sharp Associate Scientist NOAO N

C-1 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Changed Status or Rank

Date Name Appointment Change Location

01/01/2005 Knut Olsen Associate Astronomer NOAO S 1/1/2005 Buell T. Jannuzi Deputy Director, KPNO NOAO N 02/01/2005 Ronald G. Probst Scientist NOAO N 02/22/2005 Andrei Tokovinin Associate Astronomer NOAO S (Tenure Awarded) 04/01/2005 Catherine D. Garmany Associate Scientist NOAO N 04/01/2005 Steven K. Croft Associate Scientist NOAO N 04/01/2005 Stephen M. Pompea Scientist NOAO N 04/01/2005 Constance Walker Associate Scientist NOAO N 09/15/2005 Buell T. Jannuzi Acting Director, KPNO NOAO N

C-2 Appendix D PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Gemini Telescopes (NOAO Gemini Science Center)g

Apai, D., Sterzik, M. F., van der Bliek, N., et al. 2004, A&A, 426, L53, “Grain Growth and Dust Settling in a Brown Dwarf Disk, Gemini/T-ReCs Observations of CFHT-BD-Tau 4.”

Barr, J., Davies, R., Jorgensen, I., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 445, “RXJ0142.0+2131: I. The Galaxy Content of an X- ray-luminous Galaxy Cluster at z=0.28.”

Blum, R. D., Barbosa, C. L., … Ridgway, S., et al., 2004, ApJ, 617, 1167, “Accretion Signatures from Massive Young Stellar Objects.”

Bolton, A. S., Burles, S., Koopmans, L.V.E., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, L21, “SDSS J140228.22+632133.3: A New Spectroscopically Selected Gravitational Lens.”

Calvet, N., Briceño, C., Hernández, J., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 935, “Disk Evolution in the Ori OB1 Association.”

Ciardi, D. R., Telesco, C. M., Packham, C., et al., 2005, ApJ, 629, 897, “Crystalline Silicate Emission in the Protostellar Binary Serpens-SVS20.”

Cunha, K., Smith, V. V., 2005, ApJ, 626, 425, “Fluorine Abundances in the Orion Nebula Cluster.”

Davidge, T. J., Olsen, K. A. G., Blum, R., et al., 2005, AJ, 129, 201, “Deep ALTAIR + NIRI Imaging of the Disk and Bulge of M31.”

Harrison, T.E., Howell, S.B., Szkody, P., et al., 2004, ApJ, 614, 947, “Phase-Resolved Infrared H- and K-Band Spectroscopy of EF Eridani.”

Juneau, S., Glazebrook, K., Crampton, D., et al., 2005, ApJ, 619, L135, “Cosmic Star Formation History and its Dependence on Galaxy Stellar Mass.”

Kalirai, J.S., Richer, H. B., Reitzel, D., et al., 2005, ApJ, 618, L123, “The Initial-Final Mass Relationship: Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs in NGC 2099 (M37).”

Kalirai, J.S., Richer, H. B., Hansen, B. M. S., et al., 2005, ApJ, 618, L129, “The Dearth of Massive, - rich White Dwarfs in Young Open Star Clusters.”

Klose, S., Greiner, J., Rau, A., et al., 2004, AJ, 128, 1942, “Probing a Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor at a Redshift of z=2: A Comprehensive Observing Campaign of the Afterglow of GRB 030226.”

Lebzelter, T., Hinkle, K. H., Wood, P. R., Joyce, R. R., et al., 2005, A&A, 431, 623, “A Study of Bright Southern Long Period Variables.”

Lebzelter, T., Wood, P. R., Hinkle, K. H., Joyce, R. R., et al., 2005, A&A, 432, 207, “Long Period Variables in the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc: Radial Velocity Variations.”

Luhman, K., Peterson, D. E., Megeath, S. T., 2004, ApJ, 617, 565, “Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Least Massive Known Brown Dwarf in Chamaeleon.”

g Author Name in bold = NOAO scientific staff member; Author Name underlined = Undergraduate student in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program

D–1 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Matheson, T., Blondin, S., Foley, R.J., … Smith, R.C., Rest, A., Suntzeff, N.B., et al., 2005, AJ, 129, 2352, “Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First Two Years.”

McCarthy, P. J., Le Borgne, D., Crampton, D., et al., 2004, ApJ, 614, L9, “Evolved Galaxies at z > 1.5 from the Gemini Deep Deep Survey: The Formation Epoch of Massive Stellar Systems.”

Miroshnichenko, A. S., Bjorkman, K. S., Grosso, M., Hinkle, K., et al., 2005, A&A, 436, 653, “Properties of Galactic B[e] Supergiants. IV. Hen3-298 and Hen3-303.”

Roe, H. G., Bouchez, A. H., Trujillo, C.A., et al., 2004, ApJ, 618, L49, “Discovery of Temperate Latitude Clouds on Titan.”

Schulte-Ladbeck, R. E., König, B., Miller, C.J., et al., 2005, ApJ, 625, L79, “Emission-Line Spectroscopy of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: The Case of SBS 1543+593/HS 1543+5921.”

Siegler, N., Close, L. M., Cruz, K. L., et al., 2005, ApJ, 621, 1023, “Discovery of Two Very Low Mass Binaries: Final Results of an Adaptive Optics Survey of Nearby M6.0-M7.5 Stars.”

Silge, J. D., Gebhardt, K., Bergmann, M., et al., 2005, AJ, 130, 406, “Gemini/GNIRS Observations of the Central Supermassive Black Hole in .”

Smith, N., 2005, MNRAS, 357, 1330, “Doppler Tomography of the Little Homunculus: High Resolution Spectra of [Fe II] 16435 around .”

Smith, N., Bally, J., 2005, ApJ, 622, L65, “Discovery of a Candidate Protoplanetary Disk around the Embedded Source IRc9 in Orion.”

Sterzik, M. F., Pascucci, I., Apai, D., van der Bliek, N., et al., 2004, A&A, 427, 245, “Evolution of Young Brown Dwarf Disks in the Mid-Infrared.”

Tanner, A., Ghez, A. M., Morris, M. R., et al., 2005, ApJ, 624, 742, “Stellar Bow Shocks in the Northern Arm of the Galactic Center: More Members and Kinematics of the Massive Star Population.”

Telesco, C. M., Fisher, R. S., Wyatt, M. C., et al., 2005, Nature, 433, 133, “Mid-Infrared Images of Beta Pictoris and the Possible Role of Planetesimal Collisions in the Central Disk.”

Yoachim, P., Dalcanton, J. J., 2005, ApJ, 624, 701, “The Kinematics of Thick Disks in External Galaxies.”

D–2 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Telescopes at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory g

Anthony-Twarog, B.J., Atwell, J., Twarog, B.A. 2005, AJ, 129, 872, “Ubvy CAHȕ CCD Photometry of Clusters. V. The Metal-Deficient Open Cluster NGC 2243”

Barrientos, L.F., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, L17, “RCS 043938-2904.9: A New Rich Cluster of Galaxies at z = 0.951”

Bennett, D.P., Becker, A.C., Tomaney, A. 2005, ApJ, 631, 301, “Photometric Confirmation of MACHO Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Events”

Blair, W.P., Long, K.S. 2004, ApJS, 155, 101, “An Optical Survey of Supernova Remnants in M83”

Bond, H.E., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), 543, “Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Lights Echoes around ”

Bond, H.E. 2005, AJ, 129, 2914, “The UBVI Photometric System. I. Motivation, Implementation, and Calibration”

Burstein, D., …Macri, L., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 246, “The K-Band Luminosities of Galaxies: Do SOs Come from Spiral Galaxies?”

Buxton, M.M., Bailyn, C.D. 2004, ApJ, 615, 880, “The 2002 Outburst of the Black Hole X-Ray Binary 4U 1543-47: Optical and Infrared Light Curves”

Carney, B.W., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 1111, “Elemental Abundance Ratios in Stars of the Outer Galactic Disk. II. Field Red Giants”

Carraro, G., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 360, 655, “The Intermediate-age Open Clusters Ruprecht 4, Ruprecht 7 and Pismis 15”

Carraro, G., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 635, “The Open Cluster NGC 6520 and the Nearby Dark Molecular Cloud Barnard 86”

Carraro, G., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 362, 649, “The Intermediate-age Open Clusters Ruprecht 61, Czernik 32, NGC 2225 and 2262”

Christlieb, N., et al. 2005, A&A, 431, 143, “The Stellar Content of the Hamburg/ESO Survey III. Field Horizontal-branch Stars in the Galaxy”

Chu, Y-H., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 727, “An Optical and X-Ray Examination of Two Radio Supernova Remnant Candidates in 30 Doradus”

Cole, A.A., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1465, “Spectroscopy of Red Giants in the Large Magellanic Cloud Bar: Abundances, kinematics, and the Age-Metallicity Relation”

Coleman, M., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 327, ed. F. Prada, D. Martínez Delgado, T.J. Mahoney (ASP), 173, “Substructure in the Fornax dSph Galaxy: A Possible Merger Remnant”

g Author Name in bold = NOAO scientific staff member; Author Name underlined = Undergraduate student in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program or Practica de Investigación en Astronomía (PIA) program

D–3 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Contreras, R., et al. 2005, ApJ, 623, L117, “Discovery of More than 200 RR Lyrae Variables in M62: An Oosterhoff I Globular Cluster with a Predominantly Blue Horizontal Branch.”

Costa, E., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 337, “The Solar Neighborhood XIV. from the Cerro Tololo Inter- American Observatory Investigation – First Results from the 1.5 m Telescope Program”

Dawson, S., …Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 707, “Spectroscopic Properties of the z  4.5 LyĮ Emitters”

DePoy, D.L., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 1127, “The Nature of the Variable Galactic Center Source IRS 16SW”

Dietrich, M., Crenshaw, D.M., Kraemer, S.B. 2005, ApJ, 623, 700, “Probing the Ionizing Continuum of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies. I. Observational Results.”

Dominik, M., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 321, ed. J.P. Beaulieu, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, C. Terquem (ASP), 121, “The PLANET Microlensing Campaign: Implications for Planets around Galactic Disk and Bulge Stars”

Elliot, J.L., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1117, “The Deep Ecliptic Survey: A Search for Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurus. II. Dynamical Classification, The Kuiper Belt Plane, and The Core Population”

Fernández, R., Schwarz, H.E., Monteiro, H. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), 236, “Kinematics and proper Motion of the Ansae in NGC 7009”

Ferreiro, D.L., Pastoriza, M.G. 2004, A&A, 428, 837, “Sample of Minor Merger of Galaxies: Optical CCD Surface Photometry and HII Region Properties”

Figuerêdo, E., …Blum, R.D., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1523, “The Stellar Content of Obscured Galactic Giant H II Regions. V. G333.1-0.4”

Forte, J.C., Faifer, F., Geisler, D. 2005, MNRAS, 357, 56, “Globular Clusters as Tracers of Stellar Bimodality in Elliptical Galaxies: The Case of NGC 1399”

Gallart, C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 614, L109, “Surface Brightness and Stellar Populations at the Outer Edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud: No Stellar Halo Yet”

Goldman, D.B., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1711, “Physical Structure of Planetary Nebulae. III. The Large and Evolved NGC 1360”

Guerrero, M.A., Chu, Y-H., Miranda L.F. 2004, AJ, 128, 1694, “Menzel 3: A Multipolar Nebula in the Making”

Guerrero, M.A., Miranda L.F., Chu, Y-H. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), 30, “Multiple Point-Symmetric Ejections in IC 4634”

Guldenschuh, K.A., Whiting, A., van der Bliek, N., Baca, P., Carlin, J., Freismuth, T., Mora, M., Salyk, C., Vera, S., Verdugo, M., Young, A. 2005, PASP, 117, 721, “The Intrinsic Colors of RR Lyrae Variables: A Means to Determine Interstellar Reddening”

Hägele, G.F., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 355, 1237, “G287.84-0.82: An Infrared in the ”

D-4 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Hameed, S., Devereux, N. 2005, AJ, 129, 2597, “HĮ Imaging of Early-Type Sa-Sab Spiral Galaxies. II. Global Properties.”

Harker, D.E., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 430, “The Disk Atmospheres of Three Herbig Ae/Be Stars.”

Harrison, T.E., Howell, S.B., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2400, “The Detection of Abundance Anomalies in the Infrared Spectra of Cataclysmic Variables: Shorter Period Systems”

Helmboldt, J.F., et al. 2004, ApJ, 613, 914, “Star Formation in H I-Selected Galaxies. I. Sample Characteristics”

Henry, T.J., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 2460, “The Solar Neighborhood. X. New Nearby Stars in the Southern Sky and Accurate Photometric Distance Estimates for Red Dwarfs”

Henry, T.J., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 338, ed. P. Kenneth Seidelmann, A.K.B. Monet (ASP), 228, “Results from CTIOPI: Parallaxes, Perturbations, and Pushing Towards SIM PlanetQuest”

Hiriart, R., Valdes, F., Pierfederici, F., Smith, C., Miller, M. 2004, ASP Conf. 314, ed. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, D. Egret (ASP), 74, “The NOAO Pipeline Data Manager”

Homan, J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 295, “Multiwavelength Observations of the 2002 Outburst of GX 339-4: Two Patterns of X-Ray-Optical/Near-Infrared Behavior”

Hsieh, B.C., et al. 2005, ApJ, 158, 161, “A Photometric Redshift Galaxy Catalog from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey”

Huélamo, N., et al. 2004, A&A, 428, 953, “Rotation Periods of Post-T Tauri Stars in Lindroos Systems”

Jao,W-C., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1954, “The Solar Neighborhood. XIII. Parallax Results from the CTIOPI 0.9 Meter Program: Stars with µ • 1.0” yr-1 (Motion Sample)”

Jonker, G.P., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 354, 666, “Optical and X-Ray Observations of the Neutron Star Soft X-Ray Transient XTE J1709-267”

Kadooka, M.A., Meech, K.J., Chun, T. 2004, IAU Symp. 218, ed. R.P. Norris, P.N. Stoolman (IAU), 218, “TNO Recovery, Unlocking the Early Solar System”

Kallinger, Th., et al. 2005, A&A, 433, 267, “Pulsation of the K 2.5 GSC 09137-03505?”

Kanaan, A., et al. 2005, A&A, 432, 219, “Whole Earth Telescope Observations of BPM 37093: A Seismological Test of Crystallization Theory in White Dwarfs”

Karik, A.M., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 217, ed. P-A. Duc, J. Braine, E. Brinks (IAU), 83, “Galaxy Disruption Caught in the Act”

Kilic, M., … Claver, C.F., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1825, “Photometric Identification of Cool White Dwarfs.”

Kim, J.S., Walter, F.M., Wolk, S.J. 2005, AJ 129, 1564, “Low-Mass Star Formation in the Gum Nebula: The CG 30/31/38 Complex”

Kleyna, J.T., et al. 2004, MNRAS, 354, L66, “A Photometrically Distinct Core in the Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

D-5 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Kling, T.P., et al. 2005, ApJ, 625, 643, “Wide-Field Weak Lensing by RX J1347-1145”

Krisciunas, K., Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 3034, “Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Type Ia Supernovae 1991T, 1991bg, 1999ek, 2001bt, 2001cn, 2001cz, and 2002bo”

Lebzelter, T., … Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., et al. 2005, A&A, 432, 207, “Long Period Variables in the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc: Radial Velocity Variations.”

Lee, J-W., Carney, B.W., Habgood, M.J. 2005, AJ, 129, 251, “Chemical Abundances for Seven Giant Stars in M68 (NGC 4590): A Globular Cluster with Abnormal Silicon and Titanium Abundances”

Leipski, C., et al. 2005, A&A, 440, L5, “The ISO-2MASS AGN Survey: on the Type-1 sources”

Levesque, E.M., … Olsen, K.A.G., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, 973, “The Effective Temperature Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool but Not as Cool as We Thought”

Lidman, C., et al. 2005, A&A, 430, 843, “Spectroscopy Confirmation of High-Redshift Supernovae with the ESO VLT”

Makarova, L.N., et al. 2005, A&A, 433, 751, “Imaging and Photometry of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies II. Southern Dwarfs”

Massey, P., et al. 2005, ApJ, 627, 477, “The Physical Properties and Effective Temperature Scale of O-Type Stars as a Function of Metallicity. II. Analysis of 20 More Magellanic Cloud Stars and Results from the Complete Sample”

Matheson, T., … Smith, R.C., …Rest, A., …Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2352, “Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the Essence Project: The First 2 Years”

McSwain, M.V., Gies, D.R. 2005, ApJ, 622, 1052, “A Photometric Method to Search for Be Stars in Open Clusters”

Monteiro, H., Schwarz, H.E., Peterson, R.T. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), 375, “Orientation Effects in Bipolar Nebulae: Can Disks do it?”

Monteiro, H., Schwarz, H.E., …Heathcote, S.R., et al. 2005, ApJ, 620, 321, “Three Dimensional Photoionization Structure and Distances of Planetary Nebulae. II. Menzel 1”

Neill, J.D., Shara, M.M., Oegerle, W.R. 2005, ApJ, 618, 692, “Tramp Novae Between Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster: Tracers of Intracluster Light”

O’Dell, C.R., McCullough, P.R., Meixner, M. 2004, AJ, 128, 2339, “Unraveling the Helix Nebula: Its Structure and Knots”

Onken, C.A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 645, “Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole Mass-Velocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei”

Piatti, A.E., Clariá, J.J., Ahumada, A. 2005, PASP, 117, 22, “A CCD BVI Photometric Study of the Young, Highly Reddened Open Cluster NGC 6318”

D-6 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Piatti, A.E., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 358, 1215, “Tracing the Formation History of Intermediate-age Star Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud”

Piatti, A.E., et al. 2005, A&A, 440, 111, “Integrated Spectral Analysis of 18 Concentrated Star Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud”

Pierfederici, F., …Smith, C., Miller, M., 2004, ASP Conf. 314, ed. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, D. Egret (ASP), 476, “The NOAO Mosaic Pipeline Architecture”

Polomski, E.F., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1035, “Dust Morphology and Composition in FU Orionis Systems”

Polomski, E.F., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 324, ed. L. Caroff, L.J. Moon, D. Backman, E. Praton (ASP), 214, “FU Orionis Systems in the Infrared”

Rao, K., Reddy, B.E., Lambert, D.L. 2004, MNRAS, 355, p. 855, “ Stars at Minimum Light – UW Cen N”

Richtler, T., et al. 2005, A&A, 439, 533, “The Globular Cluster System of NGC 1399 IV. Some Noteworthy Objects”

Rolfe, D.J., … Abbott, T.M.C., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 357, 69, “Multi-epoch, Spectroscopy of IY UMa: Quiescense, Rise, Normal Outburst and Superoutburst”

Schiavon, R.P., et al. 2005, ApJS, 160, 163, “A Library of Integrated Spectra of Galactic Globular Clusters”

Schmidtobreik, L., …Whiting, A., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, 944, “Spectroscopic Classification of Cataclysmic Variable Candidates”

Schwarz, H.E., Monteiro, H. 2004, ASP Conf. 313, ed. M. Meixner, J. Kastner, B. Balick, N. Soker (ASP), 497, “Binarity and Symbiotics in Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae”

Sharpee, B., Baldwin, J.A., Williams, R. 2004, ApJ, 615, 323, “Identification and Characterization of Faint Emission Lines in the Spectrum of the Planetary Nebulae IC 418”

Sherry, W.H., Walter, F.M., Wolk, S.J. 2004, AJ, 128, 2316, “Photometric Identification of the Low-Mass Population of Orion OB 1b. I. The ı Orionis Cluster”

Siegel, M.H., Bond, H.E. 2005, AJ, 129, 2924, “The uBVI Photometric System. II. Standard Stars”

Siegel, M.H., et al. 2005, ApJ, 623, 181, “A Search for Stellar Populations in High-Velocity Clouds.”

Silverman, J.D., … Smith, M.G., …Smith, R.C., …Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 618, 123, “Hard X-Ray- emitting Active Galactic Nuclei Selected by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project”

Silverman, J.D., Green, P.J., Barkhouse, W.A., Cameron, R.A., Folz, C., Jannuzi, B.T.,Kim, D.-W., Mossman, A., Tananbaum, H., Wilkes, B.J., Smith, M.G., Smith, R.C., Smith, P.S. 2005, ApJ, 624, 630, “Comoving Space Density of X-Ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei”

Silvestri, N.M., Hawley, S.L., Oswalt, T.D. 2005, AJ, 129, 2428, “The Chromospheric Activity and Ages of M Dwarf Stars in Wide Binary Systems”

D-7 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Smith, N., Stassun, K.G., Bally, J. 2005, AJ, 129, 888, “Opening the Treasure Chest: A Newborn Star Cluster Emerges from Its Dust Pillar in Carina”

Smith, R.J., … Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1558, “NOAO Fundamental Survey. I. Survey Design, Redshifts, and Velocity Dispersion Data”

Sterzik, M.F., …Tokovinin, A.A., van der Bliek, N., et al. 2005, A&A, 434, 671, “HD 34700 is a T Tauri Multiple System”

Stetson, P.B., McClure, R.D., VandenBerg, D.A. 2004, PASP, 116, 1012, “A Star Catalog for the Open Cluster NGC 188”

Storm, J., et al. 2005, A&A, 440, 487, “The Near-IR Surface Brightness Method Applied to Six Cepheids in the Young LMC Cluster NGC 1866”

Stritzinger, M., … Suntzeff, N.B., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, 810, “An Atlas of Spectrophotometric Landolt Standard Stars”

Sugerman, B.E.K., …Heathcote, S.R., et al. 2005, ApJS, 159, 60, “The Three-dimensional Circumstellar Environment of SN 1987A”

Sugerman, B.E.K., …Heathcote, S.R., et al. 2005, ApJ, 627, 888, “A New View of the Circumstellar Environment of SN 1987A”

Sullivan, M., et al. 2004, ApJS, 155, 1, “The Phoenix Deep Survey: Optical and Near-infrared Imaging Catalog”

Telesco, C.M., … De Buizer, J., et al. 2005, Nature 433, 133, “Mid-infrared Images of ȕ Pictoris and the Possible Role of Planetesimal Collisions in the Central Disk”

Tokovinin, A. 2004, PASP, 116, 941, “Seeing Improvement with Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics”

Treister, E., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 104, “The Calán-Yale Deep Extragalactic Research (CYDER) Survey: Optical Properties and Deep Spectroscopy of Serendipitous X-Ray Sources”

Uzpen, B., … Olsen, K.A.G., et al. 2005, ApJ, 629, 512, “Identification of Main-Sequence Stars with Mid- Infrared Excesses Using GLIMPSE: ȕ Pictoris Analogs?”

Wachter, S., … Bouchet, P., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 887, “Precise Localization of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1627-41 and the Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar AXP 1E1841-045 with Chandra”

Wachter, S., …Bouchet, P., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, p.393, “Chandra HRC Localization of the Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries X 1624-490 and X 1702-429: The Infrared Counterparts”

Wake, D.A., et al. 2005, ApJ, 627, 186, “The Environmental Dependence of Galaxy Colors in Intermediate- Redshift X-Ray-selected Clusters.”

Walter, F.M., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1872, “V1647 Orionis (IRAS 05436-0007) in Outburst: The First Three Months”

D-8 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Weaver, B.Wm., Babcock, A. 2004, PASP, 116, 1035, “A Deep Objective Prism Survey for Classical T Tauri Stars in the ı Orionis Region”

Whiting, A.B. 2005, ApJ, 622, 217, “Light and Motion in the Local Volume”

Williams, R.M., …Points, S.D., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 613, 948, “Supernova Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds. IV. X-Ray Emission from the Largest Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

Williams, R.M., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, 704, “Supernova Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds. V. The Complex Interior Structure of the N206 Supernova Remnant”

Winkler, P.F., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 189, “Probing Multiple Sight Lines through the SN 1006 Remnant by Ultraviolet .”

Woo, J-H., et al. 2004, ApJ., 617, 903, “The Fundamental Plane Evolution of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies”

Woodley, K.A., Harris, W.E., Harris, G.L.H. 2005, AJ, 129, 2654, “Radial Velocities of Newly Discovered Globular Clusters in NGC 5128”

Woolf, V.M., Wallerstein, G. 2005, MNRAS, 356, 963, “Metallicity Measurements Using Atomic Lines in M and K Dwarf Stars”

Yee, H.K.C., et al. 2005, ApJ, 629, L77, “The Dependence of Galaxy Colors on Luminosity and Environment at z ~0.4”

Yong, D., Carney B.W., Texeira de Almeida, M.L. 2005, AJ, 130, 597, “Elemental Abundance Ratios in Stars of the Outer Galactic Disk. I. Open Clusters”

Zacharias, M.I., Zacharias, N. 2005, ASP Conf. 338, ed. P. Kenneth Seidelmann and A.K.B. Monet (ASP), 184, “Radio-Optical Reference Frame Link: First Results Using Dedicated Astrograph Reference Stars”

Telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatoryg

Abt, H.A. 2004, ApJS, 155, 175, “Spectral Classification of Stars in A Supplement to the Bright Star Catalogue.”

Acke, B., van den Ancker, M.E., Dullemond, C.P. 2005, A&A, 436, 209, “[O I] 6300 Å Emission in Herbig Ae/Be Systems: Signature of Keplerian Rotation.”

Aoki, K., Kawaguchi, T., Ohta, K. 2005, ApJ, 618, 601, “The Largest Blueshifts of the [O III] Emission Line in Two Narrow-Line Quasars.”

Balog, Z., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 2942, “A Near-Infrared (JHK) Survey of the Vicinity of the H II Region NGC 7538: Evidence for a Young Embedded Cluster.”

Barden, S.C., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 219, eds. A.K. Dupree, A.O. Benz (ASP), 400, “Search for Low- Amplitude Stellar Motions in NGC 752.”

g Author Name in bold = NOAO scientific staff member; Author Name underlined = Undergraduate student in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program

D-9 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Beasley, M.A., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1412, “The Chemical Properties of Milky Way and M31 Globular Clusters. II. Stellar Population Model Predictions.”

Belton, M.J.S., Samarasinha, N.H., et al. 2005, Icarus, 175, 181, “The Excited Spin State of Comet 2P/Encke.”

Berger, E., et al. 2005, ApJ, 627, 960, “The Magnetic Properties of an L Dwarf Derived from Simultaneous Radio, X-Ray, and HĮ Observations.”

Bolatto, A., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 220, eds. S.D. Ryder, et al. (ASP), 353, “Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies: High Resolution Observations.”

Bond, H.E. 2005, AJ, 129, 2914, “The uBVI Photometric System. I. Motivation, Implementation, and Calibration.”

Borys, C., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B., et al. 2005, Proceedings of the Dusty and Molecular Universe, ed. A. Wilson (ESA), 275, “Discovery of Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies Using Spitzer and SHARC-II.”

Bouché, N., Lowenthal, J.D. 2005, ApJ, 623, L75, “The Star Formation Rate-Density Relationship at Redshift 3.”

Boyajian, T. S., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 978, “The Massive Runaway Stars HD 14633 and HD 15137.”

Bragg, A.E., Kenyon, S.J. 2005, AJ, 130, 134, “Structure and Mass Segregation in h and Ȥ Persei.”

Brand, K., Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., Najita, J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, 723, “Tracing the Nuclear Accretion History of the Red Galaxy Population.”

Briceno, C., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 907, “The CIDA Variability Survey of Orion OB1. I. The Low-Mass Population of Ori OB1a and 1b.”

Brown, M.J.I., Jannuzi, B.T., Dey, A., Tiede, G.P. 2005, ApJ, 621, 41, “The Clustering of Extragalactic Extremely Red Objects.”

Buckalew, B.A., Kobulnicky, H.A., Dufour, R.J. 2005, ApJS, 157, 30, “Comparison of Star Clusters With and Without Wolf-Rayet Stars in Wolf-Rayet Galaxies.”

Cameron, R.A., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 314, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M.G. Allen, and D. Egret (ASP), 34, “The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP): Optical Data Processing and Catalog Generation.”

Carney, B.W., Lee, J.-W., Dodson, B. 2005, AJ, 129, 656, “Infrared Photometry of NGC 6791.”

Chapman, S.C., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 772, “A Redshift Survey of the Submillimeter Galaxy Population.”

Christlieb, N., et al. 2004, A&A, 428, 1027, “The Hamburg/ESO R-process Enhanced Star Survey (HERES). I. Project Description, and Discovery of Two Stars with Strong Enhancements of Neutron-capture Elements.”

Chu, Y.-H., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 2357, “The Nebular Environment and Enigmatic Hard X-Ray Emission of the Hot DO White Dwarf KPD 0005+5106.”

Ciardullo, R., et al. 2004, ApJ, 614, 167, “The System of M33.”

D-10 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Cid Fernandes, R., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 356, 270, “The Stellar Populations of Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei - III. Spatially Resolved Spectral Properties.”

Cool, R.J., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, 462, “Lifting the Iron Curtain: Toward an Understanding of the Iron Stars XX Oph and AS 325.”

Crowl, H.H., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 65, “Dense Cloud Ablation and Ram Pressure Stripping of the Virgo Spiral NGC 4402.”

Daddi, E., Dickinson, M., … Morrison, G., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, L13, “The Population of BzK-selected ULIRGs at z ~ 2.”

Dawson, S., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 707, “Spectroscopic Properties of the z ~ 4.5 LyĮ Emitters.”

Dey, A., … Brand, K., Brown, M.J.I., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 629, 654, “Discovery of a Large ~200 kpc Gaseous Nebula at z ~ 2.7 with the Spitzer Space Telescope.”

Doane, N.E., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 2712, “The Origin and Distribution of Diffuse Hot Gas in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3184.”

Elliot, J.L., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1117, “The Deep Ecliptic Survey: A Search for Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs. II. Dynamical Classification, the Kuiper Belt Plane, and the Core Population.”

Fekel, F.C., Henry, G.W., Lewis, C. 2005, AJ, 130, 794, “Chromospherically Active Stars. XXV. HD 144110=EV Draconis, a Double-lined Dwarf Binary.”

Fekel, F.C., Henry, G.W. 2005, AJ, 129, 1669, “Chromospherically Active Stars. XXIV. The Giant, Single- lined Binaries HD 37824, HD 181809, and HD 217188.”

Fekel, F.C., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1001, “HD 166181 = V815 Herculis, a Single-lined Spectroscopic Multiple System.”

Fekel, F.C., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 219, eds. A.K. Dupree, A.O. Benz (ASP), 269, “Variability in a Large Sample of Sun-Like Stars.”

Fekel, F.C., Warner, P.B., Kaye, A.B. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder, P. Eenens (ASP), 53, “Rotational Velocities of B, A, and Early-F Stars.”

Fekel, F.C., Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder, P. Eenens (ASP), 168, “Rotational Velocities of S-Type Symbiotic Stars.”

Feldmeier, J.J., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 196, “Intracluster Planetary Nebulae in the Virgo Cluster. III. Luminosity of the Intracluster Light and Tests of the Spatial Distribution.”

Fernandez, Y.R., … Mueller, B.E.A., Samarasinha, N.H., et al. 2005, Icarus, 175, 194, “New Near-aphelion Light Curves of Comet 2P/Encke.”

Fischer, D.A., et al. 2005, ApJ, 620, 481, “The . I. A Hot Saturn Planet Orbiting HD 88133.”

D-11 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Friel, E.D., Jacobson, H.R., Pilachowski, C.A. 2005, AJ, 129, 2725, “Abundances of Red Giants in Old Open Clusters. II. Berkeley 17.”

Garcia-Rissmann, A., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 359, 765, “An Atlas of Triplet Spectra of Active Galaxies.”

Garrett, M.A., Wrobel, J.M., Morganti, R. 2005, ApJ, 619, 105, “Deep VLBI Imaging of Faint Radio Sources in the NOAO Bootes Field.”

Ghavamian, P., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 539, “Revealing the Supernova Remnant Population of M33 with Chandra.”

Gies, D.R., Huang, W. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder, P. Eenens (ASP), 57, “Stellar Rotation in Galactic Clusters.”

Giommi, P., et al. 2005, A&A, 434, 385, “The Sedentary Survey of Extreme High Energy Peaked BL Lacs.”

Guerrero, M.A., Jaxon, E.G., Chu, Y.-H. 2004, AJ, 128, 1705, “Physical Structure of Planetary Nebulae. II. NGC 7662.”

Hameed, S., Devereux, N. 2005, AJ, 129, 2597, “HĮ Imaging of Early-Type Sa-Sab Spiral Galaxies. II. Global Properties.”

Harbeck, D., et al. 2005, ApJ, 623, 159, “Andromeda IX: Properties of the Faintest M31 Dwarf .”

Hebb, L., Wyse, R.F.G., Gilmore, G. 2004, AJ, 128, 2881, “Photometric Monitoring of Open Clusters. I. The Survey.”

Henry, G.W., Fekel, F.C., Henry, S.M. 2005, AJ, 129, 2815, “Eleven New Ȗ Doradus Stars.”

Henry, G.W., Fekel, F.C. 2005, AJ, 129, 2026, “HD 8801: A Unique Single with Ȗ Doradus and į Scuti Pulsations.”

Higdon, J.L., … Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, 58, “Spitzer Observations of Optically ‘Invisible’ Radio and X-Ray Sources: High-Redshift Active Galactic Nuclei.”

Hillwig, T.C., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 422, “Identification of the Mass Donor Star's Spectrum in SS 433.”

Hinkle, K.H., … Joyce, R.R., Smith, V.V., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 336, eds. T.G. Barnes III, F.N. Bash (ASP), 173, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Evolved, Interacting Binary Stars.”

Hinkle, K., Wallace, L. 2004, ASP Conf. 336, T.G. Barnes III, F.N. Bash (ASP), 321, “The Spectrum of Arcturus from the Infrared through the Ultraviolet.”

Hodapp, K.W., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1580, “An S-shaped Outflow from IRAS 03256+3055 in NGC 1333.”

Holland, S.T., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1955, “GRB 021211 as a Faint Analog of GRB 990123: Exploring the Similarities and Differences in the Optical Afterglows.”

D-12 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Houck, J.R., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, L105, “Spectroscopic Redshifts to z > 2 for Optically Obscured Sources Discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope.”

Huang, W., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder, P. Eenens (ASP), 67, “Stellar Rotation in the Young Cluster M17.”

Hurley-Keller, D., et al. 2004, ApJ, 616, 804, “Planetary Nebula Kinematics in M31.”

Jogee, S., Scoville, N., Kenney, J.D.P. 2005, ApJ, 630, 837, “The Central Region of Barred Galaxies: Molecular Environment, Starbursts, and Secular Evolution.”

Johnson, J.A., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1978, “The History of the Mysterious Eclipses of KH 15D. II. Asiago, Kiso, Kitt Peak, Mount Wilson, Palomar, Tautenburg, and Rozhen Observatories, 1954-1997.”

Kafka, S., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2411, “Low-State Flaring Events in AM Herculis.”

Kafka, S., Honeycutt, R.K. 2004, AJ, 128, 2420, “Detecting Outflows from Cataclysmic Variables in the Optical.”

Kawaler, S.D., Claver, C.F., et al. 2004, A&A, 428, 969, “Whole Earth Telescope Observations of the Pulsating Hot White Dwarf PG 1707+427.”

Keel, W.C., et al. 2005, ApJS, 158, 139, “An Atlas of Warm Active Galactic Nuclei and Starbursts from the IRAS Deep Fields.”

Keyes, C.D., Preblich, B. 2004, AJ, 128, 2981, “Spectral and Luminosity Classification of Symbiotic Star Cool Components with Near-Infrared Photometry.”

Khan, S.A., … Brand, K., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, L9, “On the Discovery of the First Galaxy Selected at 350 Microns.”

Kilic, M., … Claver, C.F., et al. 2005, ASP Conf. 334, eds. D. Koester, S. Moehler (ASP), 119, “The Use and the Efficiency of the DDO51 Filter for Identification of Cool White Dwarfs.”

Kilic, M., … Claver, C.F., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1825, “Photometric Identification of Cool White Dwarfs.”

King, J.R., Schuler, S.C. 2005, PASP, 117, 911, “High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Stars.”

Kinman, T.D., et al. 2005, Proceedings of the Gaia Symposium "The Three-Dimensional Universe with Gaia", eds. C. Turon, , K.S. O'Flaherty, M.A.C. Perryman (ESA), 175, “Structure of the Galactic Halo Towards the North Galactic Pole.”

Lacy, C.H.S., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 3005, “Absolute Properties of the Eclipsing Binary Star V396 Cassiopeiae.”

Lacy, C.H.S., Clareet, A., Sabby, J.A. 2004, AJ, 128, 1840, “Absolute Properties of the Upper Main-Sequence Eclipsing Binary Star MU Cassiopeiae.”

Lebzelter, T., Griffin, R. F., Hinkle, K.H. 2005, A&A, 440, 295, “WZ Cas - Variability on Multiple Time- scales.”

Ledlow, M.J., Owen, F.N., Miller, N.A. 2005, AJ, 130, 47, “The Cluster of Galaxies Surrounding Cygnus A. II. New Velocities and a Dynamic Model.”

D-13 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Lefèvre, L., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 360, 141, “Spectroscopic Study of the Long-period Dust-producing WC7pd+O9 Binary HD192641.”

Lehmer, B.D., … Dickinson, M.E., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1, “X-Ray Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey.”

Leipski, C., et al. 2005, A&A, 440, L5, “The ISO-2MASS AGN Survey: On the Type-1 Sources.”

Levan, A., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 977, “A Deep Search with the Hubble Space Telescope for Late-Time Supernova Signatures in the Hosts of XRF 011030 and XRF 020427.”

Levesque, E.M., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, 973, “The Effective Temperature Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool, but Not As Cool As We Thought.”

Lípari, S., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 360, 416, “Infrared Mergers and Infrared Quasi-stellar Objects with Galactic Winds - III. Mrk 231: An Exploding Young Quasi-stellar Object with Composite Outflow/broad Absorption Lines (and Multiple Expanding Superbubbles).”

Lipkin, Y., Leibowitz, E.M., Orio, M. 2004, ASP Conf. 315, eds. S. Vrielmann, M.Cropper (ASP), 243, “Bi- Modality in the Short-term Photometric Properties of the Intermediate Polar V1062 Tau.”

Lodieu, N., et al. 2005, A&A, 436, 853, “A Near-infrared Survey for New Low-mass Members in Į Per.”

Luhman, K.L., et al. 2005, ApJ, 618, 810, “FLAMINGOS Spectroscopy of New Low-Mass Members of the Young Cluster IC 348.”

Ma, J., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, 256, “Color and Metallicity Distributions of M81 Globular Clusters.”

Maíz-Apellániz, J., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, L113, “The Progenitor of the Type II-P SN 2004dj in NGC 2403.”

Majerowicz, S., et al. 2004, A&A, 425, 15, “RX J0256.5+0006: A Merging Cluster of Galaxies at z = 0.36 Observed with XMM-NEWTON.”

Majewski, S.R., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 738, “Detection of the Main-Sequence Turnoff of a Newly Discovered Milky Way Halo Structure in the Triangulum-Andromeda Region.”

Majewski, S.R., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 220, eds. S.D. Ryder, et al. (ASP), 189, “Dark Matter Constraints from the Sagittarius Dwarf and Tail System.”

Majewski, S.R. 2004, ASP Conf. 317, eds. D. Clemens, R. Shah, T. Brainerd (ASP), 256, “Accretion and the Formation of the Galactic Halo.”

Matkovic, A., Guzman, R. 2005, MNRAS, 362, 289, “Kinematic Properties and Stellar Populations of Faint Early-type Galaxies - I. Velocity Dispersion Measurements of Central Coma Galaxies.”

McAlister, H.A., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, 439, “First Results from the CHARA Array. I. An Interferometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Fast Rotator Į Leonis (Regulus).”

McIntosh, D.H., et al. 2005, ApJ, 619, 193, “Testing the Universality of the (U-V) Color-Magnitude Relations for Nearby Clusters of Galaxies.”

D-14 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Meibom, S., Mathieu, R.D. 2005, ApJ, 620, 970, “A Robust Measure of Tidal Circularization in Coeval Binary Populations: The Solar-type Spectroscopic Binary Population in the Open Cluster M35.”

Meibom, S., Mathieu, R.D. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder, P. Eenens (ASP), 170, “WIYN Open Cluster Study: Tidal Interactions in Solar Type Binaries.”

Miller, N.A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 613, 841, “The Dynamics of A2125.”

Mould, J., Saha, A., Hughes, S. 2004, ApJS, 154, 623, “The Period-Luminosity Relation for Long-Period Variables in M31.”

Mueller, B.E.A., … Samarasinha, N.H., et al. 2004, Icarus, 171, 506, “Simultaneous Visible and Near-infrared Time Resolved Observations of the Outer Solar System Object (29981) 1999 TD10.”

Muzerolle, J., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 406, “Magnetospheres and Disk Accretion in Herbig Ae/Be Stars.”

Neill, J.D., Shara, M.M. 2005, AJ, 129, 1873, “A Possible High Nova Rate for Two Local Group Dwarf Galaxies: M32 and NGC 205.”

Neiner, C., et al. 2005, A&A, 437, 257, “Rotation, Pulsations and Outbursts in the Be Star ȣ Cygni (HD 202904).”

Nelson, C.H., Green, R.F., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 652, “The Relationship between Black Hole Mass and Velocity Dispersion in Seyfert 1 Galaxies.”

North, P., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 215, eds. A. Maeder, P. Eenens (ASP), “New Homogeneous v sin i Determinations for B Stars in Galactic Open Clusters.”

Nowotny, W., et al. 2005, A&A, 437, 285, “Atmospheric Dynamics in Carbon-rich Miras.”

Onken, C.A., et al. 2004, ApJ, 615, 645, “Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole Mass-Velocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei.”

Owen, F.N., … Morrison, G.E., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 26, “A Deep Radio Survey of Abell 2125. I. Radio, Optical, and Near-Infrared Observations.”

Patterson, J., et al. 2005, PASP, 117, 922, “The Dwarf Nova PQ Andromedae.”

Petitclerc, N., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 317, “FUSE Observations of DB White Dwarfs.”

Pohlen, M., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 327, eds. F. Prada, D. Martinez Delgado, T.J. Mahoney (ASP), 288, “Tidal Streams around External Galaxies.”

Pollard, D.L., et al. 2005, ApJ, 628, 729, “The Unusual Luminosity Function of the Globular Cluster M10.”

Pope, A., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 358, 149, “The Hubble Deep Field North SCUBA Super- map - III. Optical and Near-infrared Properties of Submillimetre Galaxies.”

Rakos, K., Schombert, J. 2005, AJ, 130, 1002, “Cluster Populations in Abell 2125 and 2218.”

D-15 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Reig, P., et al. 2005, A&A, 440, 1079, “Long-term Optical/IR Variability of the Be/X-ray Binary LS V +44 17/RX J0440.9+4431.”

Rose, J.A., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 712, “Radial Age and Metal Abundance Gradients in the Stellar Content of M32.”

Rupke, D.S., Veilleux, S., Sanders, D.B. 2005, ApJS, 160, 87, “Outflows in Infrared-Luminous Starbursts at z < 0.5. I. Sample, Na I D Spectra, and Profile Fitting.”

Rupke, D.S., Veilleux, S., Sanders, D.B. 2005, ApJS, 160, 115, “Outflows in Infrared-Luminous Starbursts at z < 0.5. II. Analysis and Discussion.”

Saha, A., Dolphin, A.E., Thim, F., Whitmore, B. 2005, PASP, 117, 37, “Faint BVRI Photometric Sequences in Selected Fields.”

Salzer, J.J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 661, “Metal Abundances of KISS Galaxies. IV. Galaxian Luminosity- Metallicity Relations in the Optical and Near-Infrared.”

Schmidt, E.G., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 2988, “The Spectra of Type II Cepheids. III. The HĮ Line and Helium Emission in Long-Period Stars.”

Shang, Z., … Green, R.F., et al. 2005, ApJ, 619, 41, “Quasars and the Big Blue Bump.”

Siegel, M.H., Bond, H.E. 2005, AJ, 129, 2924, “The uBVI Photometric System. II. Standard Stars.”

Silverman, J.D., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 624, 630, “Comoving Space Density of X-Ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei.”

Silverman, J.D., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 618, 123, “Hard X-Ray-emitting Active Galactic Nuclei Selected by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project.”

Simon, J.D., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 757, “High-Resolution Measurements of the Halos of Four Dark Matter- Dominated Galaxies: Deviations from a Universal Density Profile.”

Simon, J.D., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 327, eds. F. Prada, D. Martinez Delgado, T.J. Mahoney (ASP), 18, “Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies: Latest Density Profile Results.”

Simpson, C.E., Hunter, D.A., Knezek, P.M. 2005, AJ, 129, 160, “DDO 88: A Galaxy-sized Hole in the Interstellar Medium.”

Sion, E.M., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1795, “Composite Accretion Disk and White Dwarf Analyses of the FUSE and Hubble Space Telescope Observations of EY Cygni.”

Smith, R.J., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1558, “NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey. I. Survey Design, Redshifts, and Velocity Dispersion Data.”

Snowden, M.S., Young, A. 2005, ApJS, 157, 126, “Radial Velocities of Late-Type Field Stars.”

Steffen, A.T., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1483, “An Optical Catalog of the Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-Ray Survey Sources.”

D-16 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Steinhauer, A., Deliyannis, C.P. 2004, ApJ, 614, L65, “WIYN/Hydra Detection of Lithium Depletion in F Stars of the Young Open Cluster M35 and Implications for the Development of the Lithium Gap.”

Stern, D., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 163, “Mid-Infrared Selection of Active Galaxies.”

Stetson, P.B. 2005, PASP, 117, 563, “Homogeneous Photometry. IV. On the Standard Sequence in the Globular Cluster NGC 2419.”

Stetson, P.B., McClure, R.D., Vandenberg, D.A. 2004, PASP, 116, 1012, “A Star Catalog for the Open Cluster NGC 188.”

Strom, S.E., Wolff, S.C., Dror, D.H.A. 2005, AJ, 129, 809, “B Star Rotational Velocities in h and Ȥ Persei: A Probe of Initial Conditions during the Star Formation Epoch?”

Swaters, R.A., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 220, eds. S.D. Ryder, et al. (ASP), 77, “The Kinematics in the Cores of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies.”

Thurow, J.C., Wilcots, E.M. 2005, AJ, 129, 745, “The Kinematics of the Ionized Gas in IC 10.”

van Eyken, J., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 321, eds. J.-P. Beaulieu, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, C. Terquem (ASP), 109, “Detection of 51 Peg b with a Dispersed Fixed-delay Interferometer.”

Vanlandingham, Karen M., Schwarz, G.J., Howell, S.B. 2005, PASP, 117, 928, “Discovery of Nonradial Pulsations in PQ Andromedae.”

van Zee, L., Barton, E.J., Skillman, E.D. 2004, AJ, 128, 2797, “Stellar Populations of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: UBVRI Photometry of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster.”

Walawender, J., Bally, J., Reipurth, B. 2005, AJ, 129, 2308, “Deep Imaging Surveys of Star-forming Clouds. III. Herbig-Haro Objects in the Perseus Molecular Cloud.”

Walborn, N.R., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, L61, “A Period and a Prediction for the Of?p Spectrum Alternator HD 191612.”

Wehner, E.H., Gallagher, J.S. 2005, ApJ, 618, L21, “Tidal Debris in the Starburst Galaxy NGC 3310: A New Tidal Loop?”

Werk, J.K., Jangren, A., Salzer, J.J. 2004, ApJ, 617, 1004, “Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies in the Local Universe.”

Wiedemann, G., et al. 2004, IAU Symp. 202, eds. A. Penny, et al. (ASP), 133, “Infrared Spectroscopic Search for Short-period Giant Extrasolar Planets.”

Willett, K.W., Elmegreen, B.G., Hunter, D.A. 2005, AJ, 129, 2186, “Power Spectra in V band and HĮ of Nine Irregular Galaxies.”

Williams, K.A., Bolte, M., Koester, D. 2004, ApJ, 615, L49, “An Empirical Initial-Final Mass Relation from Hot, Massive White Dwarfs in NGC 2168 (M35).”

D-17 NOAO ANNUAL REPORT FY 2005

Woo, J.-H., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 903, “The Fundamental Plane Evolution of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies.”

Wrobel, J.M., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 923, “Faint Radio Sources in the NOAO Bootes Field: VLBA Imaging and Optical Identifications.”

Yong, D., Carney, B.W., de Almeida, M.L.T. 2005, AJ, 130, 597, “Elemental Abundance Ratios in Stars of the Outer Galactic Disk. I. Open Clusters.”

Zinn, R.., et al. 2004, ASP Conf. 327, eds. F. Prada, D. Martinez Delgado, T.J. Mahoney (ASP), 92, “Halo Substructure in the QUEST RR Lyrae Survey.”

W.S. Keck Observatory: Keck I and II*

Fischer, D.A., et al. 2005, ApJ, 620, 481, “The N2K Consortium. I. A Hot Saturn Planet Orbiting HD 88133.”

Rupke, D.S., Veilleux, S. 2005, ApJ, 631, L37, “Keck High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Outflows in Infrared- luminous Galaxies.”

HET and MMT*

Khare, P., et al. 2004, ApJ, 616, 86, “ and Dust in Intermediate-Redshift Damped LyĮ Galaxies.”

Rupke, D.S., Veilleux, S., Sanders, D.B. 2005, ApJS, 160, 87, “Outflows in Infrared-Luminous Starbursts at z < 0.5. I. Sample, Na I D Spectra, and Profile Fitting.”

Rupke, D.S., Veilleux, S., Sanders, D.B. 2005, ApJS, 160, 115, “Outflows in Infrared-Luminous Starbursts at z < 0.5. II. Analysis and Discussion.”

Silva, D.R., et al. 2005, ApJ, 623, 148, “The Distance and Metallicity of the Newly Discovered, Nearby HIZSS 3.”

NOAO Science Archive

Beasley, M.A., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1412, “The Chemical Properties of Milky Way and M31 Globular Clusters. II. Stellar Population Model Predictions.”

Borys, C., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B., et al. 2005, Proceedings of the Dusty and Molecular Universe, ed. A. Wilson (ESA), 275, “Discovery of Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies Using Spitzer and SHARC-II.”

Brand, K., Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., Najita, J., et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, 723, “Tracing the Nuclear Accretion History of the Red Galaxy Population.”

Brown, M.J.I., Jannuzi, B.T., Dey, A., Tiede, G.P. 2005, ApJ, 621, 41, “The Clustering of Extragalactic Extremely Red Objects.”

¼ Time allocation from Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) award or Facilities Instrumentation Program (FIP).

D-18 PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES

Dawson, S., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 707, “Spectroscopic Properties of the z ~ 4.5 LyĮ Emitters.”

Dey, A., … Brand, K., Brown, M.J.I., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 629, 654, “Discovery of a Large ~200 kpc Gaseous Nebula at z ~ 2.7 with the Spitzer Space Telescope.”

Garrett, M.A., Wrobel, J.M., Morganti, R. 2005, ApJ, 619, 105, “Deep VLBI Imaging of Faint Radio Sources in the NOAO Boötes Field.”

Higdon, J.L., … Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, 58, “Spitzer Observations of Optically ‘Invisible’ Radio and X-Ray Sources: High-Redshift Active Galactic Nuclei.”

Houck, J.R., … Brown, M.J.I., Dey, A., Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, L105, “Spectroscopic Redshifts to z > 2 for Optically Obscured Sources Discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope.”

Khan, S.A., … Brand, K., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, L9, “On the Discovery of the First Galaxy Selected at 350 Microns.”

Neill, J.D., Shara, M.M. 2005, AJ, 129, 1873, “A Possible High Nova Rate for Two Local Group Dwarf Galaxies: M32 and NGC 205.”

Stern, D., … Dey, A., … Jannuzi, B.T., et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 163, “Mid-Infrared Selection of Active Galaxies.”

Wrobel, J.M., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 923, “Faint Radio Sources in the NOAO Bootes Field: VLBA Imaging and Optical Identifications.”

D-19 Appendix E OBSERVING PROGRAMS AND INVESTIGATORS SEMESTERS 2005 A/B

Annual Summary Data U.S. Observing Programs Semesters 2005 A/B

 Number of U.S. observing programs scheduled on NOAO 386 telescopes (includes programs under TSIP/FIP on private telescopes)g

 Number of U.S. investigators (PIs + Co-Is) associated with 790 approved observing programs (excl. NOAO scientific staff)

 Number of Ph.D. thesis observers 67

 Number of non-thesis graduate students 114

 Number of discrete institutions represented 139

 Number U.S. states represented 39

States of Origin of U.S. Investigators of Approved Observing Programs Semesters 2005A/B (Excludes NOAO Scientific Staff) 1 15

8 75 1 12 25 1 15 4 24 26 1 3 20 16 19 26 16 7 171 2 4 1 95 2 MD 3 61 16 15 4 5 DC 6 7 25 4

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1 24

. g Top 10 institutions represented among 386 observing programs: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Space Telescope Science Institute, University of Arizona, University of Maryland, California Institute of Technology, University of Florida, University of Hawaii, Carnegie Observatories, University of Texas at Austin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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NOAO GEMINI SCIENCE CENTER

 Gemini N. and Gemini S. The U.S. community has access to approximately 50% of the science time on each of the 8-m Gemini telescopes.

Proposal/Award Data Summary: Semester 2005A

NGSC/Gemini Telescopes Semester 2005A Proposals Received 217 Proposals Approved 58 Total Investigators 259 NOAO PI Proposals 20 NOAO PI Programs 5 PI’s (excl. NOAO) 49 All Other Proposals 197 All Other Programs 53 Co-I’s 210 Nights Requested 468 U.S. Thesis Observers 7 All Grad Students 20 Nights Available 101 Undergraduates 0 Oversubscription 4.6

Gemini Telescopes – 2005A –Scheduled NGSC Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

G. Aldering, P. Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.), S. Perlmutter (UC Berkeley), L. Wang, R. GEM-SQ 2.1 Thomas, B. Lee, R. Scalzo (Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.): “IR Observations of Hubble Flow Type Ia Supernovae”

E. Barton (UC Irvine), J. Smith (Steward Obs.), J. Jensen (Gemini Obs.), C. Papovich, R. Dave GEM-NQ 6.4 (Steward Obs.): “Searching for Star Formation at z=8.2”

T. Beck (Gemini Obs.), J. Bary (U. Virginia), I. Song (Gemini Obs.): “Investigating the Nature of GEM-SQ 0.68 Infrared Luminous Companions to Young Stars - Part 1 (GNIRS)”

P. Bouchet (CTIO), J. Danziger (Oss. Astron. Trieste), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), O. Hernandez (Talca GEM-NQ 2.0 U.): “A Direct Measurement of the Ultimate Iron Masses Produced in Core- Collapse Supernovae”

S. Brittain, J. Najita (NOAO): “Measurement of Warm Gas in Transitional Disks around Young GEM-S 1 Stars”

C. Chen (Jet Propulsion Lab.), M. Jura (UCLA), J. Najita (NOAO): “Spatially Resolved Dusty GEM-SQ 0.5 Circumstellar Disks in the 5-20 Myr-old Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association?”

J. Elliot, M. Person, A. Gulbis (MIT), J. Pasachoff (Williams College): “Stellar Occultation by GEM-SQ 0.3 Charon: Measuring Charon’s Radius and Probing for an Atmosphere”

X. Fan (Steward Obs.), D. Hines (STScI), L. Jiang (G) (Steward Obs.), G. Richards (Princeton U.), GEM-SQ 3.5 G. Rieke (Steward Obs.), H. Rix (Max Planck Inst. f. Astronomie), D. Schneider (Pennsylvania State U.), M. Strauss (Princeton U.), M. Vestergaard (Steward Obs.), F. Walter (Max Planck Inst. f. Astronomie): “A Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Survey of the Highest Redshift Quasars”

G. Ferland (U. Kentucky), K. Volk (Gemini Obs.), R. Rubin (NASA Ames Research Ctr): “Optical GEM-SQ 1.12 Recombination Lines in the Orion Nebula”

 Key to abbreviations and symbols: GEM-NQ = Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini S Queue; GEM-N = Gemini N classical; GEM-S = Gemini S classical; (T) = Thesis student; (G) = Graduate student; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other

E–2 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

Gemini Telescopes – 2005A –Scheduled NGSC Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

A. Fruchter (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (O) (NASA Marshall Space GEM-NQ 1.4 Flight Ctr), R. Wijers (U. Amsterdam), E. Pian (O) (Inst. Fisica Cosmica CNR), S. Thorsett (UC GEM-SQ 1.4 Santa Cruz), D. Bersier, J. Gorosabel, J. Castro Ceron (STScI), A. Levan (U. Leicester), M. Ward (U. Durham), J. Rhoads (STScI), D. Kasen (Johns Hopkins U.), P. O’Brien (U. Leicester), K. Sahu (STScI), S. Wachter (Spitzer Science Center), P. Nugent (LBNL.): “The Supernovae of Gamma- Ray Bursts”

A. Fruchter, U.S. Lead Scientist for N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire), A. Fruchter (STScI), C. GEM-SQ 0.4 Kouveliotou (O) (NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr.), D. Bersier (STScI), R. Priddey (U. Hertfordshire), P. O’Brien (U. Leicester), J. Gorosabel (STScI), M. Bremer (U. Briston), A. Levan, M. Ward (U. Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI), C. Mundell (Liverpool John Moores U.): “Probing the high redshift universe with GRBs”

A. Fruchter, U.S. Lead Scientist for N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire), A. Fruchter (STScI), C. GEM-NQ 0.6 Kouveliotou (O) (NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr), D. Bersier (STScI), R. Priddey (U. Hertfordshire), P. O’Brien (U. Leicester), J. Gorosabel (STScI), M. Bremer (U. Briston), A. Levan, M. Ward (U. Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI), C. Mundell (Liverpool John Moores U.): “Probing the high redshift universe with GRBs”

K. Gebhardt (U. Texas, Austin), H. Richer (U. British Columbia), G. Fahlman, T. Davidge GEM-NQ 1.25 (Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics): “Adaptive Optics Observations of Globular Clusters”

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

A. Gonzalez (U. Florida), P. Eisenhardt (CalTech-JPL), B. Jannuzi, A. Dey (NOAO), M. Brodwin GEM-NQ 1.5 (JPL), Y. Lin (G) (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign), E. McKenzie (G) (Florida Inst. Technology), S. Stanford, M. Dickinson (NOAO), M. Brown (Princeton U.), J. Mohr (U. Illinois-Urbana Champaign), D. Stern (JPL), K. Brand (NOAO): “Galaxy clusters at z=1-2 in the NDWFS: Spectroscopic Confirmation”

D. Harker (UC San Diego), D. Wooden (NASA Ames Research Center), C. Woodward, M. Kelley GEM-NQ 0.12 (G) (U. Minnesota): “Pre-Impact Michelle Observations of 9P/Tempel 1”

G. Harper (U. Colorado), D. Lambert (U. Texas, Austin), K. Hinkle (NOAO), N. Ryde (Uppsala GEM-S 2.0 U.), L. Decin (Katholieke U. Leuven), B. Gustafsson (Uppsala U.), C. Waelkens (Katholieke U. Leuven): “CO Resonance Scattering Maps of 3 Red Giants: Alpha Ori, L2 Pup and R Hya”

J. Hennawi (UC Berkeley), S. Burles (MIT), X. Fan (Steward Obs.), P. McDonald (CITA), U. GEM-N 3 Seljak, M. Strauss, G. Richards (Princeton U.), M. White (UC Berkeley): “Cosmological Constraints from LyD Forest Absorption Spectra of Close Quasar Pairs”

B. Hrivnak (Valparaiso U.), K. Volk (Gemini Obs.), S. Kwok (U. Calgary): “Mid-IR Imaging of GEM-NQ 0.27 Circumstellar Rings in the C-Rich PPN HD 56126”

I. Jorgensen (Gemini Obs.), R. Davies (U. Oxford), M. Bergmann (CTIO), D. Crampton (Herzberg GEM-SQ 0.9 Inst. f. Astrophysics), J. Barr (U. Oxford), M. Takamiya (U. Hawaii), K. Chiboucas (Gemini Obs.), M. Collobert (U. Oxford): “Galaxy Evolution During Half the Age of the Universe”

A. Koekemoer (STScI), F. Bauer (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Bergeron (IAP), N. Brandt GEM-NQ 1 (Pennsylvania State U.), C. Conselice (Caltech), N. Grogin (Johns Hopkins U.), E. Treister (G), C. Urry (Yale U.): “A Pilot Study to Constrain the Number Density of Low-Luminosity Black Holes Above Redshift 6”

E–3 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

Gemini Telescopes – 2005A –Scheduled NGSC Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

K. Luhman, G. Fazio (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Searching for the Bottom of the IMF: GNIRS GEM-S 3 Spectroscopy of Candidate Brown Dwarfs”

R. Mason (NOAO), A. Adamson (UKIRT), Y. Pendleton, J. Keane (NASA Ames Research GEM-NQ 0.8 Center), G. Wright (U.K. Astronomy Tech. Ctr.): “The Formation and Evolution of Hydrocarbon Dust in Seyfert Galaxies and ULIRGS”

J. Melendez, U.S. Lead Scientist for B. Barbuy (IAGUSP), J. Melendez (Caltech), M. Asplund GEM-S 0.5 (ANU), E. Bica (UFRGS), S. Ortolani (U. Studi di Padova), A. Alves-Brito (IAGUSP), M. Zoccali, D. Minniti (Pontifica U. Católica de Chile): “Chemical abundances in metal-poor globular clusters of the Galactic bulge”

J. Mulchaey, T. Jeltema (Carnegie Obs.), L. Lubin, R. Gal (UC Davis): “Galaxy Evolution in GEM-NQ 0.16 Moderate-Redshift, X-ray Selected Groups” GEM-N 3

T. Oka (U. Chicago), T. Geballe (Gemini Obs.), K. Hinkle (NOAO), B. McCall (U. Illinois GEM-S 3 + Urbana-Champaign), M. Goto (Max Planck Inst. Ast.): “Observation of H3 and C2 toward the Galactic Center”

B. Oppenheimer (AMNH), U.S. Lead Scientist for R. Doyon (U. Montreal), F. Rigaut (Gemini GEM-NQ 2.0 Obs.), P. Roche (U. Oxford), D. Lafreniere (U. Montreal), A. Digby (AMNH), J. Graham (UC Berkeley), R. Jayawardhana (U. Toronto), D. Johnstone (Herzberg Inst.), P. Kalas UC-Berkeley), B. Macintosh (LLNL.), C. Marois, D. Nadeau, R. Racine (U. Montreal): “The Gemini Deep Planet Survey (GDPS)”

J. Orosz (San Diego State U.), J. McClintock (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), R. Remillard (MIT), S. GEM-SQ 1.54 Corbel (U. Paris): “The mass of the Black Hole in XTE J1650-500”

M. Ouchi (STScI), M. Dickinson (NOAO), H. Ferguson, M. Giavalisco, B. Mobasher (STScI), H. GEM-NQ 0.2 Yan (Caltech), R. Somerville (STScI): “Spectroscopic Identification for the IRAC-Bright LBGs in GEM-N 3 the GOODS-N Field”

E. Perlman (U. Maryland), C. Packham, J. Radomski (U. Florida), W. Sparks (STScI): “Searching GEM-NQ 1.25 for the Torus of M87”

S. Perlmutter, U.S. Lead Scientist for I. Hook (U. Oxford), R. Carlberg, D. Howell (U. Toronto), D. GEM-SQ 0.25 Neill (U. Victoria), K. Perrett (U. Toronto), C. Pritchet (U. Victoria), M. Sullivan (U. Toronto), R. McMahon (U. Cambridge), J. Bronder (U. Oxford), R. Knop (Vanderbilt U.), S. Perlmutter (UC- Berkeley), R. Pain (CNRS-IN2P3, Paris): “The Nature of Dark Energy from Type 1a Supernovae”

S. Perlmutter, U.S. Lead Scientist for I. Hook (U. Oxford), R. Carlberg, D. Howell (U. Toronto), D. GEM-NQ 0.75 Neill (U. Victoria), K. Perrett (U. Toronto), C. Pritchet (U. Victoria), M. Sullivan (U. Toronto), R. McMahon (U. Cambridge), J. Bronder (U. Oxford), R. Knop (Vanderbilt U.), S. Perlmutter (UC- Berkeley), R. Pain (CNRS-IN2P3, Paris): “The Nature of Dark Energy from Type 1a Supernovae”

J. Radomski, C. Packham, C. Telesco (U. Florida), E. Perlman (U. Maryland): “High-Resolution GEM-SQ 0.9 Mid-IR Observations of Nearby Seyfert Nuclei”

I. Reid (STScI), L. Close, N. Siegler (G) (Steward Obs.), K. Cruz (American Museum of Natural GEM-NQ 2.0 History): “Searching for planetary-mass companions to the nearest, youngest M dwarfs”

H. Roe (Caltech), C. Trujillo (Gemini Obs.), M. Brown (Caltech), ), A. Bouchez (Keck), E. GEM-NQ 4.5 Schaller (G) (Caltech): “Titan’s methane clouds: Time-scales and correlation with surface features”

E–4 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

Gemini Telescopes – 2005A –Scheduled NGSC Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

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

R. Schulte-Ladbeck (U. Pittsburgh), L. Christensen (G) (Astrophys. Inst. Potsdam), B. Konig (U. GEM-NQ 0.3 Pittsburgh): “Chemical abundances of the z=0.09 Damped Lyman Alpha Galaxy toward OI 363”

R. Simcoe (MIT): “The Cosmic Distribution of Heavy Elements at z 6” GEM-SQ 2.0 GEM-SQ; N. Smith (U. Colorado): “IR Variability During a Shell Ejection of Eta Carinae” GEM-S 0.61

I. Song (Gemini Obs.), B. Macintosh (LLNL), B. Zuckerman, E. Becklin (UCLA): “Confirmation GEM-NQ 0.8 of Planets around Young Nearby Stars”

L. Stanghellini (NOAO), U.S. Lead Scientist for . Parker, W. Reid (Macquarie U.), R. Shaw GEM-SQ 3 (NOAO), “Investigation of newly discovered AGB halos surrounding Planetary Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), R. Mathieu (U. Wisconsin Madison), L. Vaz (UFMG), J. Valenti GEM-S 3 (STScI): “A Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of the First Substellar Pre-Main- Sequence Eclipsing Binary System”

D. Stephens (STScI), S. Leggett (UKIRT), M. Marley (NASA Ames Research Center), D. Saumon GEM-NQ 1.6 (LANL), T. Geballe (Gemini Obs.), K. Noll (STScI), D. Golimowski (Johns Hopkins U.), X. Fan (Steward Obs.): “3-4 (micron) Spectra at the L-T Transition”

C. Telesco, M. Moerchen (G) (U. Florida), R. Fisher (Gemini Obs.), C. Packham (U. Florida): “T- GEM-SQ 2.8 ReCS Imaging Study of Stochastic Processes in Debris Disks”

D. Trilling (Steward Obs.), A. Rivkin (MIT), J. Stansberry (Steward Obs.), J. Davies (Royal Obs., GEM-NQ 0.75 Edinburgh and ATC): “Multiwavelength physical studies of Mars Trojans: The building blocks of rocky planets”

C. Trujillo (Gemini Obs.), M. Brown (Caltech), D. Rabinowitz (Yale U.): “Surface GEM-NQ 2.15 Characterization of Sedna with NIRI”

C. Trujillo (Gemini Obs.), M. Brown (Caltech), D. Rabinowitz (Yale U.): “Planetoid Surface GEM-NQ 1.2 Characterization with Gemini NIRI and GNIRS”

A. Weinberger (Carnegie Institution of Washington), B. Zuckerman (UCLA), I. Song (Gemini GEM-SQ 1 Obs.), E. Becklin (UCLA): “Asteroidal Material Around Young Stars?”

R. White (Caltech), D. Charbonneau (Harvard U.), G. Doppmann (Gemini Obs.): “Searching for GEM-S 5 Young Planets in a New Light”

C. Woodward (U. Minnesota), Spitzer ToO Team (Various): “GNIRS + SPITZER ToO Novae in GEM-SQ 0.6 the Magellanic Clouds”

U.S. Thesis Programs

J. Debes (T), S. Sigurdsson (Pennsylvania State U.): “Searching for Planets in the Stellar Graveyard GEM-NQ 1.2 with Altair/NIRI”

 Key to abbreviations and symbols: GEM-NQ = Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ = Gemini S Queue; GEM-N = Gemini N classical; GEM-S = Gemini S classical; (T) = Thesis student; (G) = Graduate student; (U) = Undergraduate; (O) = Other

E–5 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

Gemini Telescopes – 2005A –Scheduled NGSC Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

A. Fruchter (STScI), P. Callanan, M. Reynolds (T) (U. College Cork): “Optical Spectroscopy of the GEM-NQ 0.2 Secondary Star in PSR 1957+20”

K. Gebhardt, J. Silge (T), S. Kannappan (U. Texas, Austin), D. Richstone (U. Michigan), J. Kormendy GEM-SQ 1.5 (U. Texas, Austin), M. Bergmann (Gemini Obs.), T. Lauer (NOAO), D. Fisher (T) (U. Texas, Austin): “A Near-Infrared Kinematic Survey of Nearby Galaxies: Black Holes and Bulges”

E. Noyola (T), K. Gebhardt (U. Texas, Austin), M. Bergmann (NOAO): “Looking for Central GEM-SQ 0.95 Black Holes in M54 and M80”

S. Thomas (T) (CTIO), M. Sterzik (ESO), A. Tokovinin, N. Van Der Bliek (CTIO): “Do wide brown GEM-NQ 0.5 dwarfs and low-mass stars companions and their primaries form hierarchical configurations?”

P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), M. Kriek (T) (Leiden U.), R. Quadri (T) (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden GEM-SQ 5 Obs.), I. Labbe (OCIW), E. Gawiser, D. Marchesini (Yale U.), G. Rudnick (NOAO), P. Lira (U. Chile), G. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz): “A GNIRS survey of massive galaxies at z~ 2.5: stellar populations, kinematics, and scaling relations in the young Universe”

P. Yoachim (T), J. Dalcanton (U. Washington): “The Dynamics of Thick Disks: Constraining the GEM-NQ 1.53 Early Evolution of Galaxies” GEM-SQ

Proposal/Award Data Summary: Semester 2005B

NGSC/Gemini Telescopes Semester 2005B Proposals Received 168 Proposals Approved 59 Total Investigators 273 NOAO PI Proposal 18 NOAO PI Programs 12 PI’s (excl. NOAO) 42 All Other Proposals 150 All Other Programs 47 Co-I’s 231 Nights Requested 340 U.S. Thesis Observers 9 All Grad Students 22 Nights Available 93 Undergraduates 1 Oversubscription 3.7

Gemini Telescopes – Semester 2005B – NGSC Scheduled Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

E. Agol (U. Washington), C. Kochanek (Ohio State U.): “Searching for Substructure” GEM-NQ 0.95

D. Apai (Steward Obs.), A. Moor (Konkoly Obs.), I. Pascucci, M. Meyer (Steward Obs.): “Resolving GEM-NQ 1 Bright Debris Disks with Michelle: Dust after Exoplanetary Collisions”

D. Bersier (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr), GEM-NQ, 1.6, R. Wijers (U. Amsterdam), E. Pian (Oss. Astronomico di Trieste), A. Fruchter (STScI), S. Thorsett GEM-SQ 1.6 (UC Santa Cruz), J. Gorosabel (Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA)), J. Castro Ceron (U. Copenhagen), A. Levan, M. Ward (U. Leicester), J. Rhoads (STScI), D. Kasen (Johns Hopkins U.), P. O’Brien (U. Leicester), P. Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.): “The Supernovae of Gamma-Ray Bursts”

 Key to abbreviations and symbols: GEM-NQ=Gemini N Queue; GEM-SQ=Gemini S Queue; GEM-N=Gemini N classical; Gemini-S=Gemini S classical; (T)=Thesis student; (G)=Graduate student; (U)=Undergraduate; (O)=Other

E–6 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

Gemini Telescopes – Semester 2005B – NGSC Scheduled Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

R. Blum (CTIO), E. Figueredo (G), A. Damineli (IAGUSP), P. Conti (U. Colorado): “Signatures of GEM-NQ 0.5 Accretion in the Most Massive Young Stellar Object”

P. Bouchet (CTIO), I. Danziger, N. Suntzeff (CTIO), O. Hernandez (O) (Talca U.): “Direct Measure- GEM-NQ 1.1 ments of Iron Masses Produced in Core-Collapse Supernovae”

S. Brittain, J. Najita, S. Strom (NOAO): “Measuring the Inner Radius of the Gas Disk surrounding GEM-S 2 Herbig Ae stars”

M. Brown (Princeton U.), K. Brand, B. Jannuzi, A. Dey (NOAO), C. Papovich, E. LeFloc’h (Steward GEM-NQ 1.8 Obs.), B. Soifer (Caltech): “A Complete Survey of Obscured Quasars”

D. Charbonneau (Harvard U.), R. White (Caltech.): “The Brown Dwarf Radial Velocity Survey” GEM-S 5

G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), T. Geballe (Gemini Obs.), E. Tenenbaum (Pomona College), M. GEM-SQ 0.36 Asplund (Australian National U.), F. Herwig (LANL): “A Survey for 180 in Hydrogen-Deficient- Carbon Stars and R Coronae Borealis Stars”

G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), M. Barlow (U. College London), B. Sugerman, M. Meixner (STScI), GEM-NQ 1.1 K. Gordon (Steward Obs.), D. Welch (McMaster U.): “Monitoring Type II Supernovae through the Epoch of Dust Formation”

K. Cruz (Am. Mus. Natural History), I. Reid (STScI): “The Nearest and Coolest L dwarfs-how near GEM-NQ, 0.3, and how cool?” GEM-SQ 2.4

E. Daddi, M. Dickinson (NOAO), M. Giavalisco (STScI), R. Chary (Spitzer Science Center), A. GEM-S 4 Cimatti (Inst. Naz. di Astrofisica), C. Kretchmer (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), H. Ferguson (STScI), E. MacDonald (NOAO): “BzK selected starburst galaxies at z=2 in GOODS-S: masses, star- formation rates and stellar populations”

D. Garnett (Steward Obs.), V. Smith (NOAO), J. Holtzman (New Mexico State U.), A. Sarajedini (U. GEM-NQ 2.6 Florida), A. Klypin (New Mexico State U.), C. Chiappini (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste): “Stellar Metallicity Distributions and Kinematics in M33”

D. Gies (Georgia State U.): “Binaries Among the Most Massive Stars” GEM-NQ 0.75

R. Hynes (Louisiana State U.), A. Kong (MIT), J. Casares (Inst. Astrofisica de Canarias), P. Charles GEM-NQ 0.4 (South African Astrono. Obs.), R. Fender (U. Southampton), E. Gallo (G) (U. Amsterdam), M. Garcia (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C. Haswell (Open U.), K. Pearson (Louisiana State U.), R. Robinson (U. Texas, Austin), M. Rupen (NRAO), T. Shahbaz, C. Zurita (Inst. de Astrofisica de Canarias): “Echo Mapping a Quiescent Black Hole”

P. Kaaret (U. Iowa): “Spectral lines from an ultraluminous X-ray source” GEM-NQ 0.5

R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), R. McCray (U. Colorado), P. Challis (O) (Harvard- GEM-SQ 0.2 Smithsonian CfA), K. Heng, N. Smith (U. Colorado): “The Reverse Shock in SN 1987A”

F. Marchis (UC Berkeley), J. Berthier, P. Descamps, D. Hestroffer (IMCCE): “Refining the Orbits of GEM-NQ 0.37 Known Main-Belt Binary Asteroids”

R. Mason (NOAO), A. Petric (Columbia U.), G. Wright (United Kingdom Astronomy Technology GEM-SQ 0.31 Centre): “A mid-IR study of the starburst in the torus of NGC1097”

E–7 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

Gemini Telescopes – Semester 2005B – NGSC Scheduled Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

T. Matheson (NOAO), N. Suntzeff, R. Smith (CTIO), B. Schmidt (ANU), C. Stubbs, R. Kirshner GEM-NQ 3.5 (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. Hawaii), K. Krisciunas (U. Notre Dame), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), W. Li (UC Berkeley), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. Washington), S. Jha (UC Berkeley), J. Sollerman (Stockholm Obs.), P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Becker (U. Washington), A. Rest (CTIO), T. Davis (ANU.): “The ESSENCE Project: Measuring the Equation of State of Dark Energy”

C. McCabe (JPL), K. Stapelfeldt (Caltech-JPL): “Investigating ice processing in edge-on T Tauri GEM-NQ 1.53 disks”

J. Najita (NOAO), J. Carr (Naval Research Lab.), M. Richter (UC Davis), R. Mason, S. Brittain GEM-NQ 1 (NOAO), M. Bitner (U. Texas, Austin), S. Strom (NOAO): “Gas in the Giant Planet Region of Disks”

K. Olsen, R. Blum (CTIO), T. Davidge (Herzberg Inst. of Astr.), A. Stephens (Gemini Obs.): “Going GEM-NQ 0.85 Deep in M31”

B. Pritzl (Macalester College), A. Saha (NOAO), K. Venn (Macalester College), H. Morrison (Case GEM-N 4 Western Reserve U.), E. Skillman (U. Minnesota), E. Olszewski (Steward Obs.): “RR Lyrae Stars as Probes of the Ancient Stars in M33”

D. Reitzel (UCLA), J. Kalirai, P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), J. Hesser, P. Stetson (Herzberg Inst. GEM-NQ 1.35 Astrophy.), R. Rich (UCLA), S. Majewski (U. Virginia): “The G1 Clump and Its Relation to M31’s Disk”

A. Rest, N. Suntzeff (CTIO), D. Welch (McMaster U.), R. Smith, K. Olsen (CTIO), M. Bergmann GEM-SQ 1.9 (Gemini Obs.), C. Stubbs (G) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Prieto (G) (Ohio State U.), A. Garg (Harvard U.), M. Huber (LLNL) A. Becker (U. Washington), K. Cook (LLNL), D. Minniti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), S. Nikolaev (LLNL), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. Washington), A. Clochiatti (U. Catolica del Norte), S. Points (NOAO): “Light Echos from Recent Supernovae in the LMC”

M. Richter (UC Davis), N. Ryde (Uppsala U.), C. Johns-Krull (Rice U.): “A New/Old Technique for GEM-NQ 2.75 Measuring Stellar Magnetic Fields”

R. Schulte-Ladbeck (U. Pittsburgh), L. Christensen (G) (Astrophys. Institut Potsdam), B. Konig (U. GEM-NQ 0.3 Pittsburgh): “Chemical abundances of the z=0.09 Damped Lyman Alpha Galaxy toward OI 363”

A. Shapley, A. Coil, C. Ma (UC Berkeley): “Chemical Abundances in Star-forming Galaxies at z~ 1.0- GEM-S 3 1.5”

A. Shapley (UC Berkeley), M. Pettini (Inst. Astronomy, UK), D. Erb (G), C. Steidel (Caltech), K. GEM-S 3 Adelberger (Carnegie Obs.): “Physical Conditions, Dust Extinction, and Chemical Abundances in Star- forming Galaxies at z~ 2.0-2.5”

V. Smith (NOAO), K. Cunha (U. Texas El Paso), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), K. Hinkle (NOAO): “The GEM-S 3 Chemical Composition of the Small Magellanic Cloud from Infrared Spectroscopy of Red Giants”

L. Stanghellini (NOAO), Q. Parker, W. Reid (G) (Macquarie U.), R. Shaw (NOAO): “The physics of GEM-SQ 1 halos surrounding planetary nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

S. Thomas (G), N. Van Der Bliek (CTIO), B. Brandvig (U) (U. Washington), J. Bouvier (LAOG), B. GEM-NQ 2.5 Rodgers, G. Doppmann (Gemini Obs.), C. Woodward (U. Minnesota): “Multiplicity of Herbig Ae/Be stars”

E–8 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

Gemini Telescopes – Semester 2005B – NGSC Scheduled Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

D. Tytler, D. Kirkman (UC San Diego): “Doubling the Number of QSOs that give D/H” GEM-N 3

GRB North Team (incl. U.S. Participants): “The Nature of Dark Energy from Type 1a Supernovae” GEM-N

GRB South Team (incl. U.S. Participants): “The Nature of Dark Energy from Type 1a Supernovae” GEM-S

B. Reipurth (U. of Hawaii), U.S. Lead Scientist for C. Aspin (Gemini Obs.): “McNeil’s Nebula & GEM-SQ 0.375 Young Star: further characterization of the decline to quiescence”

V. Smith (NOAO), U.S. Lead Scientist for M. Asplund (Australian National U.), D. Fabbian (ANU.), GEM-N 0.67 D. Lambert (U. Texas, Austin), J. Melendez (ANU.), P. Nissen (U. Aarhus), J. Norris (Australian National U.): "Lithium isotopic abundances in very metal-poor halo stars"

C. Miller (NOAO), U.S. Lead Scientist for M. Balogh (U. Waterloo), M. Swinbank (G), R. Bower, G. GEM-NQ, 0.53, 0.88 Hau (U. Durham), R. Nichol (U. Portsmouth), T. Lu (U. Waterloo), A. Zabludoff (Steward Obs.): GEM-SQ “GMOS Integral Field Spectroscopy of E+A Galaxies”

C. Lisse (Johns Hopkins U.), U.S. Lead Scientist for A. Fitzsimmons, L. Stephen, C. Snodgrass GEM-N 0.6 (Queens U. Belfast), J. Licandro (Isaac Newton Group), P. Lamy (Lab. D'Astronomie Spatial de Marseille), O. Hainaut (ESO): “The size and albedo distributions of cometary nuclei”

J. Peterson (Carnegie Mellon U.), U.S. Lead Scientist for P. Gomez (Gemini Obs.), K. Romer (U. GEM-SQ 1.2 Sussex), W. Holzapfel (UC Berkeley), J. Ruhl, J. Goldstein (Case Western Reserve U.),: “The ACBAR Blind Cluster Survey: Spectroscopic confirmation of Massive Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Clusters”

S. Perlmutter (UC Berkeley), U.S. Lead Scientist for I. Hook (U. Oxford), R. Carlberg, D. Howell (U. GEM-SQ 0.25 Toronto), D. Neill (U. Victoria), K. Perrett (U. Toronto), C. Pritchet (U. Victoria), M. Sullivan (U. Toronto), R. McMahon (U. Cambridge), J. Bronder (U. Oxford), G. Aldering (Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab.), R. Pain (CNRS): “The Nature of Dark Energy from Type Ia Supernovae”

S. Perlmutter (UC Berkeley), U.S. Lead Scientist for I. Hook (U. Oxford), R. Carlberg, D. Howell (U. GEM-NQ 0.75 Toronto), D. Neill (U. Victoria), K. Perrett (U. Toronto), C. Pritchet (U. Victoria), M. Sullivan (U. Toronto), R. McMahon (U. Cambridge), J. Bronder (U. Oxford), G. Aldering (Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab.), R. Pain (CNRS): “The Nature of Dark Energy from Type Ia Supernovae”

P. Kalas (UC Berkeley), U.S. Lead Scientist for J. Kavelaars (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), B. GEM-NQ 0.07 Matthews (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “Searching for M-dwarf Debris Disks.”

K. Hinkle (NOAO), U.S. Lead Scientist for T. Lebzelter (U. Wien), P. Wood (ANU), V. Smith GEM-S 3 (NOAO): “Nucleosynthesis in the final stages of stellar evolution”

K. Gebhardt (U. Texas, Austin), U.S. Lead Scientist for H. Richer, P. Hickson (U. British Columbia), GEM-NQ 0.9 C. Knigge, A. Dieball (U. Southampton), J. Hurley (Monash U.), M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History), B. Hansen (UCLA), G. Fahlman (Natl. Res. Council Canada): “The End of the Hydrogen Burning Main Sequence in Globular Clusters: M71”

T. Matheson (NOAO), U.S. Lead Scientist for B. Schmidt (ANU.), N. Suntzeff, R. Smith (CTIO), B. GEM-SQ 2.45 Schmidt (ANU), C. Stubbs, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. Hawaii), K. Krisciunas (U. Notre Dame), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), W. Li (UC Berkeley), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. Washington), S. Jha (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Sollerman (Stockholm Obs.), P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Becker (U. Washington), A. Rest (CTIO), T. Davis (ANU.),: “The ESSENCE Project: Measuring the Equation of State of Dark Energy”

E–9 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

Gemini Telescopes – Semester 2005B – NGSC Scheduled Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

S. Chapman (Caltech), U.S. Lead Scientist for I. Smail (U. Durham), C. Borys (U. Toronto), R. Ivison GEM-SQ 2 (U. Edinburgh), A. Blain (Caltech), M. Swinbank (G) (U. Durham): “Restframe optical emission-line maps of a new sample of confirmed high-z SCUBA galaxies”

A. Garg, U.S. Lead Scientist for D. Welch (McMaster U.), R. Smith, A. Rest (CTIO), C. Stubbs GEM-SQ 0.75 (Harvard U.), K. Cook (LLNL), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. Washington), S. Keller, S. Nikolaev (LLNL), A. Clocchiatti, D. Minniti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), A. Garg (Harvard U.), K. Olsen, N. Suntzeff (CTIO): “Spectroscopic Follow-up of LMC Microlensing Candidates from the SuperMACHO Survey”

U.S. Thesis Programs Tel. Nights

C. Churchill, G. Kacprzak (T) (New Mexico State U.): “The Galaxy-kinematic Gaseous-halo kinematic GEM-NQ 1.5 connection in Early Epoch Galaxies”

J. Cook (T), S. Desch, S. Wyckoff (Arizona State U.), T. Geballe, C. Trujillo (Gemini Obs.): “AO GEM-NQ 0.75 Spectroscopy of Charon Between 1.4-2.5 (µ)m”

J. Haywood (T), T. Rettig (U. Notre Dame), S. Brittain (NOAO), E. Gibb (U. Notre Dame), C. Kulesa GEM-S 2 (Steward Obs.): “Observations of H_3+ from the atmosphere of the exoplanet HD 209458b”

M. Kilic (T), T. Von Hippel (U. Texas, Austin), S. Leggett (UKIRT), H. Harris, J. Munn (US Naval GEM-NQ 1.5 Obs.), J. Liebert (Steward Obs.), D. Winget (U. Texas, Austin), J. Farihi (Gemini Obs.): “New Old White Dwarfs and the Age of the Galaxy”

N. Marinas (T), C. Telesco (U. Florida), R. Fisher (Gemini Obs.): “Mid-Infrared Imaging of Disks of GEM-NQ, 0.9, 2.4 Transitional Herbig Ae/Be Stars” GEM-SQ

M. Modjaz (T), R. Kirshner, P. Challis (O) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), T. Matheson (NOAO): “Late- GEM-NQ 0.53 Time Spectroscopy of Nearby Type Ib/c Supernovae”

C. Packham (U. Florida), A. Alonso-Herrero, L. Colina (Inst. de Estructura de la Materia), J. Radomski GEM-SQ 1 (U. Florida), T. Diaz-Santos (T) (Inst. de Estructura de la Materia): “High spatial resolution mid- infrared observations of Local Universe Luminous Infrared Galaxies”

I. Reid (STScI), L. Close, N. Siegler (T) (Steward Obs.), K. Cruz (American Museum of Natural GEM-NQ 1.2 History): “Searching for planetary-mass companions to the nearest, youngest M dwarfs”

H. Roe (Caltech), C. Trujillo (Gemini Obs.), M. Brown (Caltech), A. Bouchez (Keck), E. Schaller (T) GEM-NQ 3 (Caltech): “Seasonal evolution of clouds on Titan and the hunt for cryovolcanism”

P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), M. Kriek (T) (Leiden U.), R. Quadri (T) (Yale U.), M. Franx (Leiden Obs.), GEM-S 4 I. Labbe (Carnegie Inst. Washington), E. Gawiser (Yale U.), P. Lira (U. de Chile), S. Toft (Yale U.), G. Rudnick (NOAO), G. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz): “A Public GNIRS Survey of Massive Galaxies at z~ 2.5: Stellar Populations, Kinematics, and Scaling Relations in the Young Universe”

E–10 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY

 Mayall 4-m: The U.S. community has access to 80% of science time on the Mayall; 20% is assigned to the U. of Maryland.

 WIYN 3.5-m Telescope: The U.S. community has access to approximately 40% of WIYN time.  Kitt Peak Small Telescopes: KP 2.1-m (100% community access) and the KP 0.9-m (10%).

Proposal/Award Data Summary: Semester 2005A

Mayall 4-m Telescope Semester 2005A Proposals Received 73 Proposals Approved 32 Total Investigators 156 U.S. Proposals 60 U.S. Programs 30 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 30 Non-U.S. 13 Non-U.S. Programs 2 Co-I’s 126 Nights Requested** 252 NOAO PI Programs 2 Grad Students 15 Nights Available** 117 U.S. Thesis 3 Undergrads 5 Oversubscription 2.2

**Excludes 41 nights requested for surveys; 8 nights allocated

WIYN 3.5-m Telescope Semester 2005A

Proposals Received 33 Proposals Approved 19 Total Investigators 104

U.S. Proposals 28 U.S. Programs 16 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 17 Non-U.S. 5 Non-U.S. Programs 3 Co-I’s 87 Nights Requested** 86 NOAO PI Programs 2 Grad Students 13 Nights Available 55 U.S. Thesis 2 Undergrads 3 Oversubscription 1.6

**Excludes 7 nights requested for survey programs; 0 allocated

KPNO Small Telescopes Semester 2005A Proposals Received 39 Proposals Approved 18 Total Investigators 100

U.S. Proposals 37 U.S. Programs 17 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 18 Non-U.S. 2 Non-U.S. Programs 1 Co-I’s 82 Nights Requested 247 NOAO PI Programs 1 All Grad Students 20 Nights Available 113 U.S. Thesis Observers 2 Undergraduates 4 Oversubscription 1.8

 Tables show data for standard proposals only; data on survey proposals not included

E–11 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

KPNO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis)h Tel. Nights

M. A’Hearn, T. Farnham, E. Warner (O), C. Lisse (U. Maryland), B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (NOAO): KP-2.1m; 22; “Narrowband Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 in Support of the Deep Impact Mission” KP-4m 7.5

M. A’Hearn, M. Knight (G), R. Swaters (U. Maryland): “2.1-m SQIID Observations of the Deep Impact KP-2.1m 7.5 Event”

G. Aldering, P. Nugent (LBNL), S. Perlmutter (UC Berkeley), L. Wang, R. Thomas, B. Lee, R. Scalzo KP-4m 4 (LBNL): “IR Observations of Hubble Flow Type Ia Supernovae”

D. Bersier, J. Rhoads (STScI), A. Rest, R. Smith (CTIO), M. Merrill (NOAO), A. Levan (G), A. KP-4m-ToO; Fruchter (STScI), J. Urkia (AEFF), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space KP-2.1m-ToO; Flight Center), J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), S. Patel (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), L. Strolger WIYN-ToO (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire): “Gamma-Ray Bursts, their Hosts, and their Supernovae”

H. Bond (STScI), O. De Marco (American Museum Natural History), D. Harmer (O) (NOAO): “Are KP-4m 5 All Planetary Nebulae Ejected from Binary Stars?”

M. Brotherton (U. Wyoming), D. Vanden Berk (Pennsylvania State U.), S. Croom (Anglo-Australian KP-4m 2 Obs.), A. Diamond-Stanic (G) (Steward Obs.), C. Paul (G) (U. Wyoming), G. Canalizo (UC Riverside): “Characterizing the Post-Starburst Quasar Population and their Companion Galaxies”

R. Ciardullo, M. Decesar (U) (Pennsylvania State U.), P. Durrell (Youngstown State U.), J. Feldmeier WIYN 3 (NOAO): “Candidate Tidal Dwarfs of the M81 Group”

M. Dickinson, C. Papovich (G) (STScI), P. Eisenhardt (U), D. Stern (Caltech), M. Giavalisco, B. KP-4m 10 Mobasher, K. Lee (G), C. Kretchmer (G), H. Ferguson (STScI), R. Idzi (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), T. Dahlen, N. Grogin (STScI), H. Yan (Caltech), G. Morrison (NOAO): “Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)”

M. Donahue (Michigan State U.), M. Dickinson (NOAO), P. Rosati (ESO), M. Postman (STScI), G. KP-4m 6 Voit (Michigan State U.): “Harvesting the High Redshift Cluster Candidates from the ROX Survey”

D. Fadda, F. Marleau, L. Storrie-Lombardi (Spitzer Science Center): “24 (micron) Local Luminosity WIYN 2 Function in the Spitzer FLS”

X. Fan (Steward Obs.), M. Strauss (Princeton U.), J. Hennawi (UC Berkeley), L. Jiang (G) (Steward KP-4m 4 Obs.): “A Survey of z~ 6 Quasars from the SDSS”

J. Feldmeier (NOAO), C. Mihos, H. Morrison, P. Harding (Case Western Reserve U.): “Testing dwarf KP-2.1m 6.5 galaxy formation models using compact groups”

J. Feldmeier (NOAO), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby (WIYN), P. Durrell KP-4m 4 (Youngstown State U.): “Searching for Planetary Nebulae in Ursa Major”

P. Goudfrooij, R. Chandar, T. Puzia, T. Brown (STScI): “How accurately can we determine Ages and KP-2.1m 4 Metallicities of Stellar Systems using Integrated-Light Spectroscopy ?”

R. Green (NOAO), S. Croom (AAO), A. Dey (NOAO), D. Norman (NOAO), K. Brand (NOAO), S. KP-4m 4 Warren (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine), P. Hall (York U.), M. Brown (NOAO), B. Jannuzi (NOAO), P. Smith (Steward Obs.), M. Smith (NOAO), G. Tiede (Bowling Green State U.): “A Deep Wide-Field Infrared Survey for QSOs”

h Key: WIYN-SYN: Synoptic/Queue; ToO: Target of Opportunity scheduling; (T): Thesis Student; (G): Graduate; (U) Undergraduate

E–12 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

KPNO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis)h Tel. Nights

M. Gregg (UC Davis), M. Drinkwater (U. Queensland), A. Karick (UC Davis), S. Phillipps (U. Bristol), WIYN 5 B. Jones (Queen Mary College), M. West, P. Cote (Herzberg Inst.), E. Evstigneeva (G) (U. Queensland), M. Takamiya, M. Hasegan (G) (Rutgers U.), J. Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Jordan (ESO), E. Peng (Herzberg Inst.): “Ultra Compact Dwarfs and the Evolution of the Virgo Cluster”

F. Hamann, C. Warner (U. Florida), M. Dietrich (Ohio State U.), L. Watson (U) (U. Florida): “Quasars KP-4m 4 and Their Host Galaxies at High Redshifts”

T. Harrison (New Mexico State U.), G. Benedict (U. Texas, Austin), H. Harris (US Naval Obs.), B. KP-4m 6.5 McArthur (U. Texas, Austin), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), E. Nelan, H. Bond (STScI), R. Patterson (U. Virginia): “Precise Distances to Nearby Planetary Nebula from HST/FGS Parallaxes”

J. Hennawi (UC Berkeley), N. Dalal (Inst. for Advanced Study), M. Gladders (Carnegie Obs.), X. Fan WIYN 4 (Steward Obs.), M. Oguri (Princeton U.), J. Annis, H. Lin, H. Lampeitl (FNAL), M. Strauss (Princeton U.), P. Natarajan (Yale U.): “A Systematic Search for Giant Arcs Behind the Richest Clusters in the Universe”

L. Hillenbrand (Caltech), M. Robberto (STScI), C. Slesnick (G) (Caltech): “Completing the Optical WIYN-2hr 1 Spectroscopic Survey of the Orion Nebula Cluster”

B. Holden (UC Santa Cruz), D. Kelson (Carnegie Obs.), G. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), M. Franx KP-4m 4 (Leiden Obs.): “Galaxy Populations from Cluster Infall Regions to the Core at z~1”

A. Hopkins, A. Connolly (U. Pittsburgh): “A Statistical Measure of Galaxy Evolution” KP-4m 2

J. Huang, M. Ashby, P. Barmby, S. Willner, G. Fazio (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), D. Rigapoulou (U. KP-4m 4 Oxford), M. Pahre (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “An Unbiased Study of Galaxies at z=3: IR Photometry of Lyman-Break Galaxies with Spitzer”

C. Johns-Krull (Rice U.), C. Hamilton (Mt. Holyoke): “Disk-Locking in the Young Cluster NGC 2264” KP-4m 4

S. Kannappan (U. Texas, Austin), M. Bershady (U. Wisconsin Madison), E. Barton (Steward Obs.): WIYN 2 “Kinematic Tully-Fisher Offsets at z=0 and Beyond”

W. Keel (U. Alabama), F. Owen (NRAO), N. Miller (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Wang (U. Mass): WIYN 3 “Signatures stellar and gas stripping in the core Abell 2125”

J. Kennefick (U. Arkansas): “Study of the Evolution of the Quasar Luminosity Function using IR Imaging” KP-2.1m 2

S. Lepine, M. Shara (American Museum of Natural History), R. Rich (UCLA): “A search for nearby, KP-4m 4.5 very low-mass, ultra-cool halo subdwarfs”

M. Lopez-Morales (Carnegie Institution Washington), J. Shaw (U. Georgia), I. Ribas (IEEC): “First KP-4m 4 RV-curve of the new low-mass, double-lined, detached eclipsing binary ASAS164755-0844.5”

S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. Virginia), W. Kunkel (LCO), J. Rhee (Yonsei U.), T. Beers (Michigan WIYN 4.5 State U.), V. Smith (U. Texas El Paso), D. Geisler (U. Concepcion), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), J. Crane (G), A. Polak (G), P. Frinchaboy (G) (U. Virginia), A. Kundu (Michigan State U.), W. Gieren (U. Concepcion), I. Reid (STScI), R. Munoz (G) (U. Virginia): “Mapping the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Galactic Halo”

M. Meyer, N. Woolf (Steward Obs.), M. Giampapa (NOAO), L. Ziurys (Steward Obs.), W. Sullivan (U. KP-2.1m 3 Washington), A. Apponi, A. Spitz (Steward Obs.): “Creating a Community of Scholars: Interdiscipli- nary Graduate Training in Astrobiology”

E–13 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

KPNO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis)h Tel. Nights

D. Meyer, J. Lauroesch (Northwestern U.), K. Roth (Gemini Obs.): “Compact High-Velocity Na I KP-4m 4 Clouds around M81”

R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E. Chiang (Institute for Advanced Study), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G) KP-4m 8 (MIT), D. Trilling (U. Pennsylvania), R. Wagner, L. Wasserman, A. Jordan (G) (Lowell Obs.), J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley), R. Crudo (U) (Steward Obs.), J. Kane (G) (MIT): “Deep Ecliptic Survey”

B. Mobasher (STScI), N. Scoville (Caltech), D. Thompson (M. Planck Inst. f. Astronomie), J. Mould KP-4m 4 (NOAO), P. Capak (Caltech), L. Yan (Spitzer Science Center): “Near-IR Survey of the HST-ACS COSMOS 2-Degree Field”

B. Mueller (NOAO), F. Vilas (NASA Johnson Space Flight Center), K. Meech (U. Hawaii), A. Cochran WIYN 2.5 (U. Texas, Austin), N. Samarasinha (NOAO), Y. Fernandez, A. Delsanti, B. Yang (G) (U. Hawaii): “Spectroscopic Observations of the Deep Impact Target Comet 9P/Tempel 1”

K. Nandra (NASA Goddard): “The Special Energy Distributions of AGN: A Shallow Survey of the Elais- WIYN 4.5 N1 Field”

K. Nandra (NASA Goddard), M. Brotherton (U. Wyoming): “Bringing in the Last Sheep” KP-4m 2

D. Nestor (U. Florida), S. Rao, D. Turnshek (U. Pittsburgh), F. Hamann (U. Florida): “Imaging Ultra- WIYN 2 Strong Low Redshift Mg2 Absorbers”

E. O’Sullivan (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), H. Khosroshahi, L. Jones, T. Ponman, S. Raychaudhury (U. KP-0.9m 5 Birmingham): “Multi-wavelength study of local fossil groups”

F. Owen (NRAO), G. Morrison (NOAO), M. Poletta (UC Davis), G. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Lonsdale KP-2.1m 7, 4 (Caltech), B. Siana (G) (UC San Diego): “Optical/NIR SED’s for the Deepest Radio Survey: Determining KP-4m the Nature of the Ultra-Faint Radio Population”

J. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz), T. Tripp (U. Mass), R. Dave (Steward Obs.), J. Mulchaey (Carnegie KP-0.9m 4 Observatories), H. Chen (MIT): “Surveying the Origin of O VI Gas at Low Redshift”

M. Reed (SW Missouri State U.), S. O’Toole (Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg), A. Ulla (U. Vigo), U. KP-4m 4 Heber (Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg), S. Harms (U) (SW Missouri State U.): “Time series spectroscopy of the pulsating subdwarf B star PG1219+534”

J. Rhee, I. Ivans (Caltech), A. McWilliam (Carnegie Obs.): “Chemical Compositions of Newly Discovered KP-4m 4.5 Very Metal-Poor Red Giants”

J. Rhee (Caltech), T. Beers (Michigan State U.): “A New Search for Very Metal-Poor Giant Stars with KP-2.1m 7 [Fe/H] -2.0 in the HK- II Survey”

J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (STScI): “The Nature of High Equivalent Width Lyman Alpha Galaxies” KP-4m 5

S. Robinson (G) (UC Santa Cruz), D. Fischer (San Francisco State U.), M. Ammons (G), G. Laughlin, J. KP-2.1m 20.5 Strader (G) (UC Santa Cruz), K. Kretke (G), R. Sareen (G) (San Francisco State U.): “N2K: The Next Two Thousand Metal-Rich Stars”

J. Salzer, A. Jangren, K. Caperton (G) (Wesleyan U.), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.): KP-2.1m 3.5 “Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxies in and around the Bootes Void”

M. Shara, D. Zurek (O) (American Museum of Natural History): “Ejecta of Z Cam - Linking Novae and KP-4m 2 Dwarf Novae”

E–14 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

KPNO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis)h Tel. Nights

P. Tamblyn, W. Merline, C. Chapman, D. Nesvorny (Southwest Research Institute): “Visible Light KP-2.1m 8.5, 6 Curves of Exceptionally Young Asteroids” KP-0.9m

D. Trilling (Steward Obs.), A. Rivkin (MIT), T. Spahr (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C. Hergenrother (O) KP-0.9m 6 (Steward Obs.), S. Kortenkamp (PSI): “A search for L5 Trojan asteroids of Mars”

S. Veilleux (U. Maryland): “Maryland Summer School 2005” KP-2.1m 3

S. Veilleux, R. Swaters (U. Maryland), D. Andersen (Herzberg Institute Astrophysics), M. Bershady (U. KP-2.1m 3.5 Wisconsin Madison), M. Verheijen (U. Groningen), K. Westfall (G) (U. Wisconsin Madison): “Near- Infrared Imaging of Disk Galaxies with Stellar Velocity Fields”

S. Veilleux, D. Rupke (U. Maryland): “AGN-driven Superwinds in a Sample of Seyferts that is NOT KP-4m 3 Infrared- Biased”

G. Williger (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Dave (Steward Obs.), R. Clowes (U. Central Lancashire), M. Graham KP-4m 2 (Imperial College Sci., Tech. and Medicine), C. Haines (U. Central Lancashire), J. Liske (U. Edinburgh), L. Campusano (U. Chile), O. Kuhn (UKIRT): “A test of the foreground proximity effect at z=1.2”

B. Willman, M. Blanton (NYU), D. Martinez-Delgado (Max Planck Inst. F. Ast.), D. Hogg (NYU), C. KP-4m 3.5 Rockosi: “Two New Ultra-Faint Milky Way Companions: Not Your Average “Building Blocks”

S. Wolff (NOAO), S. Strom: “Probing High Mass Star Formation via Observations of Stellar Rotation” WIYN 4

U.S. Thesis Programs

L. Allen, J. Hora, L. Chavarria (T), S. Megeath (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Deep Near-IR Imaging of KP-2.1m 9 massive star forming regions imaged with Spitzer”

J. Baldwin (Michigan State U.), R. Williams (STScI), E. Jenkins (Princeton U.), E. Pellegrini (T) KP-4m 4 (Michigan State U.), M. Phillips (LCO): “Chemical Abundance Discrepancies in Nebulae: A high dispersion UV/optical spectroscopic study.”

D. Clark (T), S. Eikenberry (U. Florida), B. Brandl (Sterrewacht Leiden): “Search for Infrared KP-4m 4 Counterparts to X-Ray Point Sources in M 51, NGC 4559 and NGC 5253”

R. De Naray (T), S. McGaugh (U. Maryland), E. De Blok (U. Wales, Cardiff), A. Bosma (Lab. KP-2.1m 4, 5 d’Astrophys. de Marseille): “A Comprehensive Study of the Dark Matter Halos of Low Surface WIYN Brightness and Dwarf Galaxies”

P. Green, W. Barkhouse, D. Kim (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Silverman, M. Kim (T) (Harvard- WIYN 3 Smithsonian CfA), P. Smith (Steward Obs.), Z. Ivezic (U. Washington), B. Jannuzi, B. Wilkes (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), E. Romero-Colmenero (South African Astronomical Obs.), A. Vikhlinin (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “The Fraction of Galaxies with AGN from ChaMP”

S. Langan (T), E. Schmidt (U. Nebraska): “Emission Line Profiles in Short Period Type II Cepheids” KP-4m 4

Y. Lin (T), J. Mohr (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign): “Evolution of the Halo Occupation Distribution” KP-2.1m 3.5

L. Mundy, N. Chapman (T), S. Lai (U. Maryland), N. Evans, II (U. Texas, Austin): “Extending the KP-4m 4 wavelength coverage of Spitzer in the Serpens and Ophiuchus Clouds”

T. Oswalt, M. Rudkin (T) (Florida Inst. Tech.), N. Hambly (U. Edinburgh), N. Silvestri, S. Hawley (U. KP-4m 5 Washington): “Calibrating the Chromospheric Activity - Age Relation for Low-Mass Main Sequence Stars”

E–15 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

KPNO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis)h Tel. Nights

D. Rafferty (T), B. McNamara (Ohio U.), P. Nulsen, M. Wise : “Supergiant X-ray Cavities and AGN WIYN 2 Feedback in a Distant Galaxy Cluster”

S. Rao, M. Belfort-Mihalyi (T), D. Turnshek (U. Pittsburgh), E. Monier (SUNY, Stony Brook), D. Nestor KP-2.1m 7, 3 (U. Florida): “Deep Imaging of Galaxies in SDSS QSO Fields with High N(HI) Intervening Absorbers” WIYN

J. Robinson (T), B. Wilking (U. Missouri St. Louis), M. Meyer (Steward Obs.): “Unveiling the Low WIYN 2 Mass IMF in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud”

C. Schwartz (T), C. Martin (UC Santa Barbara): “Quantifying Stellar Feedback on the Interstellar KP-4m 5.5 Medium in Nearby Galaxies: H(alpha) Kinematics in Normal Galaxies”

S. Vogel, R. Shetty (T), M. Lavigne (G), E. Ostriker (U. Maryland): “Spiral Arm Streaming in Spiral KP-4m 3.5 Galaxies”

K. Walsh (T), D. Richardson (U. Maryland): “Lightcurve study of Small Main Belt Asteroids” KP-2.1m 8

S. Wang (T), L. Looney (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign), R. Klein (Max-Planck Institute fur extra- KP-2.1m 5.5 terrestrische Physik): “Understanding the Cluster Environment Around Forming Massive Stars”

Proposal/Award Data Summary: Semester 2005B

Mayall 4-m Telescope Semester 2005B

Proposals Received 63 Proposals Approved 21 Total Investigators 121

U.S. Proposals 54 U.S. Programs 19 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 19 Non-U.S. 9 Non-U.S. Programs 2 Co-I’s 102 Nights Requested** 227 NOAO PI Programs 1 All Grad Students 17 Nights Available** 71 U.S. Thesis Observers 4 Undergraduates 2 Oversubscription 3.2

**Excludes 174 nights requested for surveys; 32.5 allocated

WIYN 3.5-m Telescope Semester 2005B Proposals Received 40 Proposals Approved 14 Total Investigators 60

U.S. Proposals 35 U.S. Programs 12 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 11 Non-U.S. 5 Non-U.S. Programs 2Co-I’s 49 Nights Requested** 122 NOAO PI Programs 3 All Grad Students 9 Nights Available** 46 U.S. Thesis Observers 3 Undergraduates 0 Oversubscription 2.7

**Excludes 49.7 nights requested for surveys; 4 allocated

 Tables show data for standard proposals only; data on survey proposals not included.

E–16 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

KPNO Small Telescopes Semester 2005B Proposals Received 40 Proposals Approved 21 Total Investigators 86 U.S. Proposals 35 U.S. Programs 18 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 20 Non-U.S. 4 Non-U.S. Programs 3 Co-I’s 66 Nights Requested 267 NOAO PI Programs 0 All Grad Students 17 Nights Available** 150 U.S. Thesis Observers 7 Undergraduates 0 Oversubscription 1.4

**Does not include 9.5 nights allocated to survey programs

KPNO – Semester 2005B — Scheduled U.S Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) h Tel. Nights

M. A’Hearn, T. Farnham (U. Maryland), Y. Fernandez (U. Hawaii), B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (NOAO), KP-2.1m 7.5 S. Lowry (Queens U. Belfast): “Search for Secular Drift in the Rotation of Comet 2P/Encke”

W. Barkhouse, P. Green, A. Vikhlinin, D. Kim (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Near-Infrared Follow-up of KP-4m 3.5 High Redshift X-ray Clusters”

D. Bersier, J. Rhoads (STScI), A. Rest (CTIO), M. Merrill (NOAO), A. Levan (G) (U. Leicester), A. KP-4m-ToO, Fruchter (STScI), J. Urkia (LAEFF), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall SFC), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), KP-2.1m- J. Castro Ceron (G) (U. Copenhagen), S. Patel (NASA Marshall SFC), L. Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. ToO, WIYN- Hertfordshire): “Gamma-Ray Bursts, their Hosts, and their Supernovae” ToO

A. Crotts, A. Bergier (Columbia U.), J. De Jong (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute), E. Baltz (Stanford U.), KP-4m 2.5 G. Gyuk (U. Chicago), W. Sutherland (Royal Obs., Edinburgh), L. Widrow (Queen’s U.), P. Cseresnjes (Columbia U.), K. Kuijken (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute): “Microlensing in M31 at Large Distances and for Large Masses”

I. Dell’Antonio (Brown U.), D. Wittman, V. Margoniner, J. Tyson (UC Davis), M. Geller (Harvard- KP-4m 6 Smithsonian CfA): “Stellar and Dark Matter distributions at z=0.3: K-band imaging of the DLS F2 field”

I. Dell’Antonio (Brown U.), J. Tyson, D. Wittman (UC Davis): “Uniform Depth Completion of the Deep KP-4m 2 Lens Survey”

Y. Fernandez (U. Hawaii), S. Lowry (Queens U. Belfast), B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (NOAO), M. KP-2.1m 6 A’Hearn, T. Farnham (U. Maryland): “Search for Secular Drift in the Rotation of Comet 2P/Encke”

E. Friel (NSF), H. Jacobson (G) (Indiana U.), B. Carney (U. North Carolina), C. Pilachowski (Indiana U.), KP-4m 5 D. Yong (U. North Carolina), K. Janes (Boston U.): “The Origin of the Galaxy’s Outer Disk”

M. Giampapa (NOAO), J. Stauffer (IPAC), C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), W. Sherry (NOAO): WIYN 2 “Chromospheric Activity at Intermediate Ages”

T. Grav (U. Hawaii), M. Sykes (PSI), M. Brown (Caltech): “Albedos of Irregular Satellites with Spitzer: WIYN 6 The Saturnians”

C. Grillmair, O. Dionatos (G) (Spitzer Science Center), J. Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Cutri KP-4m 2 (IPAC), D. Geisler, W. Gieren (U. de Concepcion), E. Grebel (Universitat Basel), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. Virginia), I. Reid (STScI), D. Spergel, S. Tremaine (Princeton U.): “Mapping Globular Cluster Tidal Streams” h Key: WIYN-SYN: Synoptic/Queue; ToO: Target of Opportunity scheduling; (T): Thesis Student; (G): Graduate; (U) Undergraduate

E–17 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

KPNO – Semester 2005B — Scheduled U.S Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) h Tel. Nights

J. Harrington (U. Maryland): “Temperature diagnostics to supplement HST observations of NGC 2610” KP-4m 1

L. Hillenbrand (Caltech), M. Robberto (STScI): “Completing the Optical Spectroscopic Survey of the WIYN 3 Orion Nebula Cluster”

T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.), D. Gies (Georgia State U.), H. Marshall (MIT), M. Rupen, A. Mioduszewski KP-2.1m 7.5 (NRAO): “A Simultaneous Multiwavelength Study of the Relativistic Jets in the Microquasar SS 433”

S. Kafka (G), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): “BT Mon: Tracing CV winds in the Optical” KP-4m 3.5

S. Kafka (G), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): “Outflows in CVs: Investigating an Alternative Mechanism for KP-2.1m 7 Angular Momentum Loss”

J. Kennefick, S. Bursick (G) (U. Arkansas): “Study of the Evolution of the Quasar Luminosity Function KP-2.1m 12 using IR and Optical Imaging”

M. Lopez-Morales (Carnegie Institution of Washington), J. Shaw (U. Georgia), I. Ribas (IEEC): “RV- KP-4m 3.5 curves of six new double-lined, detached eclipsing binaries with masses below 1Msun.”

S. Majewski, R. Patterson, J. Ostheimer (U. Virginia), P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), R. Rich KP-4m 6 (UCLA): “Exploring the Newly Discovered Halo Of M31”

S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. Virginia), W. Kunkel (LCO), J. Rhee (Yonsei U.), T. Beers (Michigan State WIYN 5 U.), V. Smith (U. Texas El Paso), D. Geisler (U.), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), J. Crane (G), A. Polak (G), P. Frinchaboy (G) (U. Virginia), A. Kundu (Michigan State U.), W. Gieren (U. Concepcion), I. Reid (STScI), R. Munoz (G) (U. Virginia): “Mapping the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Galactic Halo”

B. Mason, W. Hartkopf (US Naval Obs.), D. Gies, T. Henry (Georgia State U.), G. Torres (Harvard- KP-4m 5 Smithsonian CfA): “Speckle Interferometry of Massive and Cluster Stars”

S. McGaugh (U. Maryland), J. Schombert (U. Oregon): “Galaxy Populations at z=1.7” KP-4m 3

B. McLean (STScI), B. Bucciarelli (Oss. Astron. Torino), J. Yus (O) (Gemini Obs.), A. Spagna (Oss. Astron. KP-2.1m 6.5 Torino), C. Loomis (O) (STScI): “Photometric Calibrators for the Second-Generation Palomar Sky Surveys”

M. McSwain (Yale U.), D. Gies, T. Boyajian (G) (Georgia State U.): “Detecting Quiet Massive X-ray KP-2.1m 13.5 Binaries”

S. Megeath (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), R. Gutermuth (G), J. Pipher (U. Rochester), L. Allen, P. Myers KP-4m 4 (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Flamingos Spectroscopy of Young Stellar Clusters: Tracing the Initial Configuration and Early Evolution”

C. Miller (CTIO), S. Stanford (LLNL), M. West (U. Hawaii), K. Sabirli (G) (Carnegie Mellon U.), K. KP-4m 6 Romer (U. Sussex), R. Nichol (U. Portsmouth), P. Viana (U. do Porto), M. Davidson (G) (U. Edinburgh), C. Collins, M. Hilton (Liverpool Johns Moores U.), S. Kay (U. Oxford), A. Liddle (U. Sussex), R. Mann (U. Edinburgh): “Optical Follow-up of the XMM Cluster Survey: The XCS-NOAO Survey”

K. Nandra (NASA Goddard SFC), M. Brotherton (U. Wyoming): “Bringing in the Last Sheep” KP-4m 2

D. Nestor (U. Florida), S. Rao, D. Turnshek (U. Pittsburgh), F. Hamann (U. Florida): “Imaging Ultra- WIYN 2 Strong Low Redshift Mg2 Absorbers”

J. Parker (Southwest Res. Inst.), R. Allen, B. Gladman (U. British Columbia), J. Kavelaars (Nat. Res. Council KP-4m, 4, 3 of Canada), J. Petit (Obs. de Besancon): “The Kuiper Belt Legacy Project: A Long-Term Recovery Program” WIYN

E–18 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

KPNO – Semester 2005B — Scheduled U.S Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) h Tel. Nights

J. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz), T. Tripp, B. Aracil (U. Mass), R. Dave (Steward Obs.), J. Mulchaey KP-0.9m 4.5 (Carnegie Observatories), H. Chen (MIT): “Surveying the Origin of O VI Gas at Low Redshift”

T. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), R. Cool (G) (Steward Obs.): “The Nova Rate in Galaxies of Different KP-0.9m 6 Hubble Type”

J. Rhee, M. Seibert (Caltech), R. Ostensen (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes), S. Yi (U. Oxford), S. Rey KP-2.1m 7 (Chungnam National U.), R. Rich (UCLA), L. Bianchi (Johns Hopkins U.), Y. Lee (Yonsei U.): “Spectroscopic Survey for the Field Subdwarf B Stars Newly Identified from the GALEX”

A. Saha (NOAO), E. Olszewski, A. Dolphin (Steward Obs.): “Breaking the age-metallicity degeneracy in WIYN 11 the “deepest ever’’ HST M31 halo field”

A. Sarajedini, M. Barker (G) (U. Florida): “The Star Formation History of M33’s Outer Regions” WIYN 3

S. Schuler (G) (Clemson U.), C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), J. King (Clemson U.), S. Kafka (G) (Indiana U.), KP-0.9m 4 S. Barnes (Lowell Obs.): “The Striking Li Dispersions in Pleiades G & K Dwarfs: Real or Illusory?”

K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), C. Briceno (Centro de Investigacion de Astronomia): “A Photometric Study of KP-0.9m 8 Stellar Rotation and Discovery of Eclipsing Binaries in Orion’s Belt”

N. Suntzeff (NOAO), B. Schmidt (Australia Telescope National Facility), C. Stubbs (U. Washington), R. WIYN 4 Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. Notre Dame), A. Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. Hawaii), R. Smith (NOAO), K. Krisciunas (CTIO), M. Phillips (Carnegie Institution of Washington), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), B. Barris (U. Hawaii), W. Li (UC Berkeley), C. Hogan, G. Miknaitis (U. Washington), S. Holland (U. 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. Washington), J. Quinn (G) (U. Notre Dame), J. Gallagher (G), A. Noriega-Crespo (Spitzer Science Center): “The w Project: Measuring the Equation of State of the Universe”

S. Veilleux, R. Swaters (U. Maryland), D. Andersen (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), M. Verheijen KP-2.1m, 6, 4 (Kapteyn Astronomical Inst.), M. Bershady, K. Westfall (G) (U. Wisconsin Madison): “The Distribution WIYN of Mass in Spiral Galaxies”

S. Veilleux, D. Rupke (U. Maryland): “AGN-driven Superwinds in a Sample of Seyferts that is Not KP-4m 5 Infrared- Biased”

L. Wasserman, M. Buie, R. Millis (Lowell Obs.), D. Trilling (Steward Obs.), J. Elliot (MIT), K. Meech KP-4m 4 (U. Hawaii), S. Kern (G), A. Gulbis (G), J. Kane (G) (MIT), R. Crudo (U) (Steward Obs.), E. Chiang, J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley): “Astrometric Followup of Kuiper Belt Objects”

K. Williams, A. Zabludoff (Steward Obs.), C. Keeton (Rutgers U.), I. Momcheva (G) (Steward Obs.): KP-4m 4.5 “The Importance of Lens Galaxies”

U.S. Thesis Programsh

L. Allen, L. Chavarria (T), J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “Deep near-IR imaging and spectroscopy KP-2.1m 4 of massive star-forming regions”

h Key: WIYN-SYN: Synoptic/Queue; ToO: Target of Opportunity scheduling; (T): Thesis Student; (G): Graduate; (U) Undergraduate

E–19 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

KPNO – Semester 2005B — Scheduled U.S Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) h Tel. Nights

A. Connolly (U. Pittsburgh), K. Chambers, I. Szapudi (U. Hawaii), A. Hopkins, S. Schmidt (T) (U. KP-4m 6 Pittsburgh), E. McGrath (G) (U. Hawaii): “A Census of the High Redshift Radio Universe”

R. De Naray (T), S. McGaugh (U. Maryland), E. De Blok (Australia Telescope Nat. Facility), A. Bosma WIYN 7 (Lab. d’Astrophys.de Marseille): “High Resolution Velocity Fields of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies”

P. Garnavich, J. Gallagher (T) (U. Notre Dame), L. Williams (U. Minnesota), J. Rhodes (Caltech): KP-0.9m 10 “Anomalously Large Lensing Signature in High Redshift Supernovae”

J. Ge, S. Mahadevan (T), J. Van Eyken (T), C. Dewitt (G), A. Heuvel (G), R. Cohen (G) (U. Florida): KP-2.1m 18 “Follow-Up Observations of Planet Candidates with the ET Instrument”

F. Hamann, P. Hidalgo (T), D. Nestor (U. Florida): “High Velocity Outflows in Quasars” KP-2.1m 7

K. Herrmann (T), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby (WIYN), J. Feldmeier (NOAO): “The WIYN 2 Planetary Nebula System of M74”

M. Huerta (T), P. Hartigan (Rice U.): “Removing a Major Uncertainty in Mass and Age Determinations of KP-2.1m 7 Young Stars”

E. Lada, R. Elston, D. Dahari (T), C. Roman-Zuniga (T) (U. Florida), J. Alves (ESO), C. Lada, A. KP-2.1m, 9.5, Muench (T) (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Najita (NOAO), J. Williams, J. Julian (O) (U. Florida), R. KP-4m 20.5 Green (NOAO), D. Hon (O), S. Raines (U. Florida), J. Elias, R. Joyce (NOAO), J. Levine (T), Y. Lin (G), N. Rashkind (U) (U. Florida), B. Ferreira (T), T. Huard, C. Foltz (U), A. Gonzalez, E. McKenzie (T), A. Stolte (U. Florida), A. Steinhauer (Indiana U.), M. Franz (U), A. Hernandez (T) (U. Florida): “Toward a Complete Near-Infrared Spectroscopic and Imaging Survey of Giant Molecular Clouds”

L. Mundy, N. Chapman (T), S. Lai (U. Maryland), N. Evans, II (U. Texas, Austin): “The Extinction KP-4m 4 Law in the Perseus Molecular Cloud”

D. Rafferty (T), B. McNamara (Ohio U.), P. Nulsen, M. Wise (MIT): “Star Formation in cD Galaxies KP-4m 4 in Cluster Cooling Cores”

D. Rafferty (T), B. McNamara (Ohio U.), P. Nulsen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), M. Wise (MIT): WIYN 2 “Supergiant X-ray Cavities and AGN Feedback in a Distant Galaxy Cluster”

K. Walsh (T), D. Richardson (U. Maryland): “Lightcurve Study of Small Main Belt Asteroids” KP-2.1m 8

E–20 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY

 Blanco 4-m: 90% of time available to public through NOAO TAC; 10% to Chilean proposers

 CTIO Small Telescopes: NOAO has access to 25% time on each of the four telescopes now operated by the SMARTS consortium: CTIO 1.5-m, 1.3-m (former 2MASS), 1.0-m, and 0.9-m telescopes.

Proposal/Award Data Summary: Semester 2005A

Blanco 4-m Telescope Semester 2005A

Proposals Received 67 Proposals Approved 45 Total Investigators 182

U.S. 54 U.S. Programs 40 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 40 Non-U.S. 13 Non-U.S. Programs 5 Co-I’s 142 Nights Requested** 228 NOAO PI Programs 1 Grad Students 25 Nights Available** 145 U.S. Thesis 5 Undergrads 0 Oversubscription 1.6

**Does not include 38 nights requested for surveys; 9 allocated

CTIO Small Telescopes Semester 2005A Proposals Received 34 Proposals Approved 27 Total Investigators 116

U.S. 30 U.S. Programs 24 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 23 Non-U.S. 4 Non-U.S. Programs 3Co-I’s 93 Nights Requested 287 NOAO PI Programs 3 All Grad Students 14 Nights Available 187 U.S. Thesis Observers 4 Undergraduates 3 Oversubscription 1.5

CTIO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

G. Aldering, P. Nugent (LBNL) S. Perlmutter (UC Berkeley), L. Wang, R. Thomas, B. Lee, R. Scalzo CT-4m 2 (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.): “IR Observations of Hubble Flow Type Ia Supernovae”

S. Barnes (Lowell Obs.): “Rotation rates of low-mass stars in the open cluster NGC 3532” CT-1.0m- 5.2 SVC

D. Bersier, J. Rhoads (STScI), A. Rest, R. Smith (CTIO), M. Merrill (NOAO), A. Levan (G), A. CT-4m-ToO Fruchter (STScI), J. Urkia (AEFF), J. Hjorth (Copenhagen U.), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall SFC), J. Castro Ceron (G) (STScI), S. Patel (NASA Marshall SFC), L. Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire): “Gamma-Ray Bursts, their Hosts, and their Supernovae”

P. Bouchet (CTIO), J. Danziger (Oss. Astron. di Trieste), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), E. Dwek (NASA SOAR-SVC 1.6 Goddard), O. Hernandez (O) (Talca U.): “Dust in a large sample of Types I & II Supernovae”

 Tables show data for standard proposals only; data on survey proposals not included

E-21 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

CTIO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

M. Briley (NSF), G. Smith (UC Santa Cruz): “The Homogeneity of Light Elements in the Sagittarius CT-4m 4 Dwarf Globular Clusters and Arp 2”

T. Brooke (Caltech), N. Evans, II, K. Young (G) (U. Texas, Austin): “K Band Spectra of Young Stars SOAR-SVC 2 in Cham II - A Spitzer C2D Legacy Target Region”

J. Cenarro, M. Beasley, J. Brodie (UC Observatories), N. Cardiel, J. Strader (G) (UC Observatories): SOAR-SVC 4 “K Band Integrated Spectroscopy of Galactic Globular Clusters”

J. Colbert, H. Teplitz (Spitzer Science Center), G. Williger (Johns Hopkins U.), P. Palunas (U. Texas, CT-4m 3 Austin): “Measuring the Mass, SFR, and Ages of Galaxies Within the z=2.38 Filament”

A. Crotts (Columbia U.), S. Heathcote (SOAR), S. Lawrence (Hofstra U.), B. Sugerman (STScI), N. CT-4m 1 Suntzeff (CTIO), P. Bouchet (CTIO): “Evolution of SN 1987A into a Supernova Remnant”

C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), B. Anthony-Twarog, B. Twarog (U. Kansas): “Spectroscopic Analysis of CT-4m 5 NGC 6253: The Most Metal-Rich Open Cluster?”

Y. Fernandez, D. Jewitt (U. Hawaii): “Monitoring the Anomalous Photometric Behavior of Comet CT-1.0m- 5.1 2P/Encke” SVC

L. French, I. Pokharel (U) (Illinois Wesleyan U.): “Physical Studies of Primitive Asteroids” CT-1.0m 8

M. Gladders, A. Dressler, A. Oemler (Carnegie Obs.): “Cluster Building and Galaxy Evolution” CT-4m 4

P. Goudfrooij, R. Chandar, T. Puzia, T. Brown (STScI): “How accurately can we determine Ages and CT-1.5m- 2 Metallicities of Stellar Systems using Integrated-Light Spectroscopy ?” SVC

C. Grillmair, O. Dionatos (G) (Spitzer Science Center), J. Bahcall (Inst.for Advanced Study), D. Geisler, CT-4m 4 W. Gieren (U. de Concepcion), E. Grebel (U. Basel), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. Virginia), D. Spergel, S. Tremaine (Princeton U.): “Tracing the Tidal Tails of NGC 5897”

J. Grindlay, P. Edmonds, J. McClintock, P. Zhao, M. Garcia (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Cool (San CT-4m 5 Francisco State U.), S. Wachter, D. Hoard (Spitzer Science Center), P. Green, B. Wilkes, J. Drake, V. Kashyap (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C. Bailyn (Yale U.), H. Cohn (Indiana U.), M. Van Den Berg (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Homan (MIT), S. Laycock (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “ChaMPlane: Measuring the Faint X-ray Binary and Stellar X-ray Content of the Galaxy”

L. Hebb (G), H. Ford, D. Ardila (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Minniti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), D. CT-1.0m 7.5 Golimowski (Johns Hopkins U.), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard SFC), J. Krist (JPL), K. Sahu, W. Sparks, L. Petro (STScI): “Photometric Monitoring of AU Mic: Searching for Planetary Transits”

L. Hebb (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), S. Hodgkin (U. Cambridge), S. Aigrain, E. Moraux, G. Gilmore (U. CT-4m 6 Cambridge), J. Bouvier (LAOG): “Empirical Mass Determination for Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars”

T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.): “The Binarity of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae in the Southern Hemisphere” CT-1.0m- 5.4 SVC

T. Huard, P. Myers (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), L. Crews (U. Tennessee, Martin), D. Murphy (Carnegie CT-4m 6 Inst. of Washington): “Infrared Reddening Law: Characterizing the dust grain populations of southern cores”

D. Hunter (Lowell Obs.), V. Rubin (Carnegie Inst.of Washington), S. D’Odorico, R. Swaters, S. McGaugh SOAR-SVC 1 (U. Maryland): “Star Formation in the Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxy ESO 323-G064”

E-22 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

CTIO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

A. Landolt (Louisiana State U.), G. Preston (Carnegie Obs.): “A Study of Variability Among the Blue CT-0.9m 13 Metal Poor Stars”

S. Laycock, J. Grindlay, P. Zhao, M. Van Den Berg, J. Hong (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), H. Cohn CT-4m 4 (Indiana U.), E. Persson (Carnegie Obs.): “Uncovering 90% of the X-ray Binaries in the Galactic Bulge Cusp.”

M. Lopez-Morales (Carnegie Institution of Washington), J. Shaw, I. Ribas (IEEC): “R and I band Light CT-1.0m 16 Curves for 20 New Double-Lined, Detached, Eclipsing Binaries with Stars < 1M_”

S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. Virginia), W. Kunkel (LCO), J. Rhee (Yonsei U.), T. Beers (Michigan CT-4m 5 State U.), V. Smith (U. Texas El Paso), D. Geisler (U. de Concepcion), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), J. Crane (G), A. Polak (G), P. Frinchaboy (G) (U. Virginia), A. Kundu (Michigan State U.), W. Gieren (U. Concepción), I. Reid (STScI), R. Munoz (G) (U. Virginia): “Mapping the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Galactic Halo”

R. Marzke, A. Danielson (G) (San Francisco State U.), M. Hudson (U. Waterloo): “The Faint End of CT-4m 3 the Galaxy Luminosity Function in Nearby Groups”

R. Mason (NOAO), Y. Pendleton, J. Keane, J. Chiar, K. Ennico (NASA Ames Research Center): “Dust SOAR-SVC 0.25 and Ice Chemistry in Quiescent Molecular Clouds”

M. McSwain (Yale U.), D. Gies (Georgia State U.): “The Evolutionary Status of Be Stars” CT-4m 2

K. Meech (U. Hawaii), D. Hamilton (U. Maryland), Y. Fernandez, J. Pittichova, L. Dundon (G), N. CT-4m 2.5, Moskovitz (G), B. Yang (G) (U. Hawaii): “Multi-band Imaging of Deep Impact Target Comet CT-0.9m 2 9P/Tempel1”

R. Millis, M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E. Chiang (Institute for Advanced Study), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G) CT-4m 4 (MIT), D. Trilling (U. Pennsylvania), R. Wagner, L. Wasserman, A. Jordan (G) (Lowell Obs.), J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley), R. Crudo (U) (Steward Obs.), J. Kane (G) (MIT): “Deep Ecliptic Survey”

B. Mobasher (STScI), N. Scoville (Caltech), D. Thompson (Max Planck Inst.fur Astronomie), J. Mould CT-4m 4 (NOAO), P. Capak (Caltech), L. Yan (Spitzer Science Center): “Near-IR Survey of the HST-ACS COSMOS 2-Degree Field”

H. Morrison, P. Harding (Case Western Reserve U.), M. Mateo (U. Michigan), E. Olszewski (Steward CT-4m 5 Obs.), A. Helmi (Kapteyn Astronomical Inst.), K. Freeman, J. Norris (Australian National U.): “Building up the Milky Way halo via accretion of small satellites”

K. Nandra (NASA Goddard SFC), M. Brotherton (U. Wyoming): “Bringing in the Last Sheep” CT-4m 1

B. Nelson (Caltech), M. Malkan (UCLA): “Refining the Details of Thermal Dust Reverberation in CT-1.3m 0.3 AGN”

S. Rey, J. Rhee (Caltech), Y. Lee (Yonsei U.), A. Walker (CTIO): “Star Formation History of Centauri” CT-4m 3

R. Rich, D. Reitzel (UCLA): “Mapping the dynamics of the Galactic bulge using M giants from the CT-4m 3 2MASS survey”

N. Ridge (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Alves (ESO), J. Foster (G), A. Goodman (Harvard- CT-4m 4 Smithsonian CfA): “The COMPLETE Density Structure of Star Forming Cores: IR-extinction mapping in Ophiuchus”

E-23 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

CTIO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

W. Ryan, E. Ryan (New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology): “Confirmation of the Asteroid CT-1.0m 11 Binary System 3703 Volkonskaya and Search for Additional Binaries in the Vesta Family”

H. Schwarz (NOAO), W. Nowotny (U. Wien), F. Kerschbaum (U.Wien), H. Olofsson (Stockholm SOAR-SVC 4 Obs.): “A census of AGB stars in nearby galaxies.”

J. Sokoloski, S. Kenyon (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C. Hedrick (U) (U. Nebraska): “The Outbursts of CT-1.3m 1.2 Symbiotic Binary Stars”

K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), R. Mathieu (U. Wisconsin Madison), L. Vaz (UFMG), J. Valenti (STScI): CT-1.3m 8.6 “A Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of the First Substellar Pre-Main- Sequence Eclipsing Binary System”

G. Stringfellow (U. Colorado), P. McGehee (G) (New Mexico State U.), F. Walter (SUNY, Stony SOAR-SVC 6 Brook): “Understanding the Role of Accretion Processes in Driving Outbursts in Young Stellar Objects”

N. Suntzeff (CTIO), K. Krisciunas (U. Notre Dame), M. Hamuy (LCO), M. Phillips (Carnegie Obs.), J. CT-1.3m 6 Maza (U. de Chile), E. Persson (Carnegie Obs.), M. Roth, N. Morel (LCO), W. Freedman (Carnegie Obs.), G. Folatelli, W. Krzeminski (LCO): “The K-band Behavior of Nearby Supernovae”

T. Tyson, D. Wittman (UC Davis), I. Dell’Antonio (Brown U.): “Deep Lens Survey” CT-4m 5

M. West (U. Hawaii), P. Cote, E. Peng (Herzberg Inst.of Astroph.), J. Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins U.), A. CT-0.9m 14 Jordan (ESO), M. Gregg (UC Davis), M. Takamiya (U. Hawaii): “The Galactic Globular Cluster System”

A. Whiting (CTIO), K. Davidson (U. Minnesota), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.), R. Humphreys (U. CT-1.3m 0.75 Minnesota), N. Smith (U. Colorado), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): “Photometric Monitoring of Eta Carinae”

A. Whiting, N. Suntzeff (CTIO), L. Schmidtobreick (ESO), A. Layden (Bowling Green State U.), N. CT-0.9m 7 Van Der Bliek, R. Smith (CTIO), R. Students (U) : “Undergraduates and Exploding Stars”

K. Williams (Steward Obs.), M. Bolte (UC Santa Cruz): “Formation and dynamical evolution of open CT-4m 4 cluster white dwarfs”

L. Young, E. Young (Southwest Res. Inst.), C. Olkin (Southwest Research Corporation), R. French CT-4mCT- 1, 1 (Wellesley College), B. Gregory (NOAO): “Measuring Charon’s radius by stellar occultation” 0.9m

S. Zepf (Michigan State U.), K. Rhode (Wesleyan U.), D. Geisler (U. Concepcion), A. Kundu CT-4m 2 (Michigan State U.), T. Maccarone (U. Amsterdam): “Probing the Global Formation History of NGC 4594 (The Sombrero)”

U.S. Thesis Programs

T. Beers (Michigan State U.), N. Christlieb (Hamberger Sternwarte), H. Smith (Michigan State U.), S. CT-0.9m- 14 Rossi (IAGUSP), N. De Lee (T) (Michigan State U.): “BVRI and UBV Photometry of Metal-Poor and SVC Horizontal-Branch Stars in the Galactic Halo”

R. Blum (CTIO), E. Figueredo (T), A. Damineli (IAGUSP), P. Conti (U. Colorado): “A Near Infrared CT-4m 2 Investigation of Galactic Giant H II Regions”

R. Ciardullo, K. Herrmann (T) (Pennsylvania State U.): “The Planetary Nebula System of M83” CT-4m 4

E-24 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

CTIO – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

D. Clark (T), S. Eikenberry (U. Florida), B. Brandl (Sterrewacht Leiden): “Search for Infrared CT-4m 1 Counterparts to X-Ray Point Sources in M 51, NGC 4559 and NGC 5253”

M. Edwards (T), S. Eikenberry (U. Florida): “Emission Line Search to Probe for Massive Stars CT-4m 3 Associated with SGRs”

R. Grouchy (T), R. Buta (U. Alabama): “Spectroscopic Properties of Nonbarred Ringed Galaxies” SOAR-SVC 6

H. Hsieh (T), D. Jewitt (U. Hawaii): “Search for Comet-Like Activity in Selected Main-Belt Asteroids” CT-1.0m 11

J. Kennefick, S. Bursick (T) (U. Arkansas), E. Monier (SUNY, Stony Brook), M. Smith (CTIO), P. CT-4m 2 Osmer (Ohio State U.): “Refining the BTC40 Search for z>4.8 Quasars Using IR Imaging.”

D. Kocevski (T), H. Ebeling, R. Tully (U. Hawaii), C. Mullis (U. Michigan): “Mapping the Galaxy SOAR-SVC 0.3 Cluster Distribution Behind the Galactic Plane”

T. Oswalt, M. Rudkin (T) (Florida Inst. of Tech.), N. Hambly (U. Edinburgh), N. Silvestri, S. Hawley CT-0.9m- 5 (U. Washington): “Calibrating the Chromospheric Activity - Age Relation for Low-Mass Main SVC Sequence Stars”

B. Reipurth (U. Hawaii), R. Chini (Ruhr U., Bochum), K. Brede (T) (U. Hawaii): “A first unbiased NIR CT-4m 1 survey toward the R Cr A molecular cloud”

R. Romani (Stanford U.), S. Healey (T), P. Michelson (Stanford U.), J. Ulvestad (NRAO): “A Southern SOAR-SVC 2 Gamma-ray Blazar Survey”

S. Sheppard (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G), M. Person (T), A. Gulbis (MIT): CT-1.0m- 4.6 “Precise Astrometry for Predicting Kuiper Belt Object ” SVC

C. Slesnick (T), L. Hillenbrand, J. Carpenter (Caltech): “A Search for Pre-Main Sequence Objects in the CT-4m 5 Upper Scorpius OB Association”

B. Uzpen (T), C. Kobulnicky (U. Wyoming): “Disovery of Proto-Planetary Debris Disks in a Distance CT-4m 2 Limited Sample”

P. Van Dokkum (Yale U.), P. Lira (U. Chile), R. Quadri (T), E. Gawiser (Yale U.), E. Treister (G) (U. Chile), CT-4m 4 D. Christlein, M. Franx (Leiden U.), C. Urry (Yale U.): “The population of K-selected galaxies at 2

P. Zhao, J. Grindlay, J. Hong, X. Koenig (T), S. Laycock, M. Van Den Berg (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), H. CT-0.9m- 2 Cohn, P. Lugger, A. Rogel (G) (Indiana U.): “ChaMPlane Survey: Spectroscopy and Calibration Follow-up” SVC

E-25 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

Proposal/Award Data Summary: Semester 2005B

Blanco 4-m Telescope Semester 2005B

Proposals Received 78 Proposals Approved 32 Total Investigators 190

U.S. 65 U.S. Programs 27 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 25 Non-U.S. 13 Non-U.S. Programs 5 Co-I’s 165 Nights Requested** 412 NOAO PI Programs 4 Grad Students 23 Nights Available** 90 U.S. Thesis 1 Undergrads 3 Oversubscription 2.9

**Excludes 154 nights requested for surveys; 45 allocated

CTIO Small Telescopes Semester 2005B

Proposals Received 39 Proposals Approved 25 Total Investigators 119

U.S. 33 U.S. Programs 22 PI’s (Excl. NOAO) 17 Non-U.S. 6 Non-U.S. Programs 3 Co-I’s 102 Nights Requested** 276 NOAO PI Programs 5 Grad Students 12 Nights Available** 151 U.S. Thesis 1 Undergrads 4 Oversubscription 1.7

**Excludes 45 nights requested for surveys; 15 allocated

CTIO – Semester 2005B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

S. Araujo-Betancor (STScI), B. Gansicke (U. Warwick), K. Long (STScI), P. Rodriguez-Gil (Inst. Astro.de CT-4m 1 Canarias): “Unravelling the role of SW Sextantis stars in the evolution of cataclysmic variables”

D. Bersier, J. Rhoads (STScI), A. Rest (CTIO), M. Merrill (NOAO), A. Levan (G) (U. Leicester), A. CT-4m Fruchter (STScI), J. Urkia (LAEFF), C. Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), J. Hjorth ToO (Copenhagen U.), J. Castro Ceron (G) (U. Copenhagen), S. Patel (NASA Marshall SFC), L. Strolger (STScI), N. Tanvir (U. Hertfordshire): “Gamma-Ray Bursts, their Hosts, and their Supernovae”

Y. Chu, R. Gruendl, R. Chen (G) (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), S. Points (NOAO), J. Parker CT-4m 7 (Southwest Res. Inst.), R. Smith (CTIO): “The On-Going Star Formation in HII Complexes in the Large Magellanic Cloud”

J. Colbert, H. Teplitz (Spitzer Science Center), G. Williger (Johns Hopkins U.), P. Francis (Australian CT-4m 4 National U.), P. Palunas (U. Texas, Austin), B. Woodgate (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “U- band Study of the z=2.38 Filament”

A. Crotts (Columbia U.), S. Heathcote (SOAR), S. Lawrence (Hofstra U.), B. Sugerman (STScI), N. CT-4m 1 Suntzeff, P. Bouchet (CTIO): “Evolution of SN 1987A into a Supernova Remnant”

K. Cruz (American Museum of Natural History), I. Reid (STScI): “The Nearest and Coolest L dwarfs- CT-4m 2 how near and how cool?”

E-26 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

CTIO – Semester 2005B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

M. Dietrich (Ohio State U.), D. Crenshaw (O) (Georgia State U.), S. Kraemer (O) (Catholic U. America): SOAR-SVC 1.5 “IR Spectroscopy of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies”

S. Eikenberry (U. Florida), R. Blum (CTIO), M. Muno (UCLA), R. Bandyopadhyay (U. Oxford), K. CT-4m 2 Olsen (CTIO), K. Sellgren (Ohio State U.): “The Gemini/FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey: ISPI Pre-imaging”

Y. Fernandez (U. Hawaii): “Understanding the Distant Activity of Comet Hale-Bopp” CT-1.3m 2.45

C. Grillmair, O. Dionatos (G) (Spitzer Science Center), J. Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Cutri CT-4m 6 (IPAC), D. Geisler, W. Gieren (U. Concepcion), E. Grebel (U. Basel), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. Virginia), I. Reid (STScI), D. Spergel, S. Tremaine (Princeton U.): “Mapping Globular Cluster Tidal Streams”

J. Harris (Steward Obs.): “Surveying Stellar Populations in the ” CT-4m 2

L. Hebb (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), S. Aigrain, S. Hodgkin (U. Cambridge), E. Moraux, J. Irwin, M. Irwin (U. CT-4m 8 Cambridge): “Empirical Mass Determination for Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars”

L. Hebb (G), H. Ford, D. Ardila, D. Golimowski (Johns Hopkins U.), J. Krist (JPL), L. Petro (STScI), M. CT-1.0m-SVC 3.33 Clampin (NASA Goddard), K. Sahu, W. Sparks (STScI), D. Minniti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile): “Photometric Monitoring of AU Mic: Searching for Planetary Transits”

J. Kormendy, M. Cornell, D. Fisher (G), N. Drory (U. Texas, Austin), R. Bender (U. Sternwarte CT-0.9m-SVC 2 Munchen): “Structure and Formation of Elliptical Galaxies”

A. Landolt (Louisiana State U.), G. Preston (Carnegie Obs.): “A Study of Variability Among the Blue CT-0.9m 14 Metal Poor Stars”

S. Majewski, R. Patterson (U. Virginia), W. Kunkel (LCO), J. Rhee (Yonsei U.), T. Beers (Michigan CT-4m 5 State U.), V. Smith (U. Texas El Paso), D. Geisler (U. Concepcion), K. Johnston (Wesleyan U.), J. Crane (G), A. Polak (G), P. Frinchaboy (G) (U. Virginia), A. Kundu (Michigan State U.), W. Gieren (U. Concepcion), I. Reid (STScI), R. Munoz (G) (U. Virginia): “Mapping the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Galactic Halo”

S. Malhotra, J. Rhoads (STScI), J. Wang (U. Science & Technology of China): “Large scale structure at CT-4m 3.5 z=5.7 near the Hubble and Chandra deep fields”

P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), E. Levesque (U) (MIT), K. Olsen (CTIO), B. Plez, E. Josselin (Universite de CT-4m 4 Montpellier II), A. Maeder, G. Meynet (Geneva Obs.): “The Physical Parameters of Red Supergiants: When Massive Stars Are as Cool as They Get”

P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), K. Degioia-Eastwood (Northern Arizona U.), D. Gies (Georgia State U.), N. CT-1.0m 4.6 Morrell (LCO), V. Niemela (U. Nacional de la Plata), L. Penny (College of Charleston): “Taking Things SVC to the Extreme: Using High Mass Stars to Resolve the Mass Discrepancy”

J. Mohr (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Stanford (LLNL), Y. Lin (G) (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign), CT-4m 15 H. Lin, J. Annis (FNAL), R. Smith (CTIO), H. Quintana (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), J. Frieman, D. Tucker (FNAL), W. Barkhouse (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C. Stoughton (FNAL), M. Brodwin (JPL), P. Eisenhardt (JPL), A. Gonzalez (U. Florida), C. Stubbs (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Rest (CTIO), F. Valdes (NOAO), J. Carlstrom (U. Chicago), W. Holzapfel (UC Berkeley), A. Kosowsky (Rutgers U.), A. Lee (UC Berkeley), S. Meyer, S. Padin (U. Chicago), L. Page (Princeton U.), J. Ruhl (Case Western Reserve U.), A. Stark (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): “SZE+Optical Studies of the Cosmic Acceleration”

E-27 NOAO ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT FY05

CTIO – Semester 2005B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

K. Olsen (CTIO), A. Becker (U. Washington), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), K. Cook CT-1.0m, 7, 1 (LLNL), A. Garg (G) (Harvard U.), A. Miceli (G), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. Washington), D. Minniti CT-4m (Pontificia U.Catolica de Chile), S. Nikolaev (LLNL), A. Rest, R. Smith (CTIO), C. Stubbs (Harvard- Smithsonian CfA), N. Suntzeff (CTIO), D. Welch (McMaster U.): “Surveying the LMC’s Structure and Populations through SuperMACHO”

J. Rhee (Caltech), T. Beers (Michigan State U.): “A New Search for Very Metal-Poor Giant Stars with CT-1.5m 3 [Fe/H] <= -2.0 in the HK- II Survey” SVC

J. Rhee, M. Seibert (Caltech), R. Ostensen (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes), S. Yi (U. Oxford), S. Rey CT-4m 5 (Chungnam National U.), R. Rich (UCLA), L. Bianchi (Johns Hopkins U.), Y. Lee (Yonsei U.): “Spectroscopic Survey for the Field Subdwarf B Stars Newly Identified from the GALEX”

A. Saha (NOAO), A. Subramaniam (Indian Inst. of Astrophysics), K. Olsen, N. Suntzeff (CTIO), P. CT-1.0m, 6, 4 Seitzer (U. Michigan): “Revealing the LMC halo” CT-4m

S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), J. Elliot, S. Kern (G), E. Adams (U), A. Gulbis (MIT): CT-1.3m 3.5 “Precise Astrometry for Predicting Kuiper Belt Object Occultations”

B. Siana (G), G. Smith (UC San Diego), C. Lonsdale (Caltech), M. Polletta : “Evolution of the QSO CT-4m 3 Luminosity Function and Clustering at z>3 with the SWIRE Legacy Survey”

J. Smith (LANL), D. Tucker, S. Allam (FNAL), T. Beers (Michigan State U.), P. McGehee (G) (New CT-1.5m 7 Mexico State U.), R. French (O) (Miracosta College), C. Stoughton (FNAL): “Spectroscopic Classification of Southern u’g’r’i’z’ Photometric Standard Stars”

J. Sokoloski, S. Kenyon (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C. Hedrick (U) (U. Nebraska): “The Outbursts of CT-1.3m 1.4 Symbiotic Binary Stars”

K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), R. Mathieu, S. Meibom (G) (U. Wisconsin Madison): “Angular Momentum CT-4m 4 Evolution of Young, Low-Mass Stars: The Role of Stellar Multiplicity”

N. Suntzeff (NOAO), B. Schmidt (Australia Telescope National Facility), C. Stubbs (U. Washington), R. CT-4m, 15, Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P. Garnavich (U. Notre Dame), A. CT-0.9m 15 Riess (STScI), J. Tonry (U. Hawaii), R. Smith (NOAO), K. Krisciunas (CTIO), M. Phillips (Carnegie Inst.of Washington), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), B. Barris (U. Hawaii), W. Li (UC Berkeley), C. Hogan, G. Miknaitis (U. Washington), S. Holland (U. 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. Washington), J. Quinn (G) (U. Notre Dame), J. Gallagher (G), A. Noriega-Crespo (Spitzer Science Ctr.): “The w Project: Measuring the Equation of State of the Universe”

N. Suntzeff (CTIO), M. Hamuy, M. Phillips (Carnegie Obs.), G. Folatelli (Carnegie Inst. of Washington), SOAR-SVC, 3, 6, W. Freedman, E. Persson, M. Roth (Carnegie Obs.), A. Filippenko, W. Li (UC Berkeley), J. Maza (U. CT-1.5m- 7.2 Chile), R. Carlberg (U. Toronto), N. Morrell, D. Murphy, A. Oemler (Carnegie Obs.), P. Pinto (Steward SVC, CT-1.3m Obs.), S. Shectman, W. Krzeminski, S. Gonzalez (O) (Carnegie Obs.): “Carnegie Supernova Project: K- band Imaging and Spectroscopy”

P. Tamblyn, W. Merline, C. Chapman, D. Nesvorny (Southwest Research Institute): “Visible Lightcurves CT-1.0m 17 of Young or Binary Asteroids”

D. Trilling (Steward Obs.), M. Buie (Lowell Obs.), R. Crudo (U) (Steward Obs.): “Photometric calibration CT-0.9m-SVC 5 of the Deep Ecliptic Survey”

E-28 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

CTIO – Semester 2005B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Incl. U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

A. Walker (CTIO), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), H. Smith (Michigan State U.), M. CT-4m 1 Monelli (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), P. Stetson (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): “The Spatial Extent of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”

A. Walker (CTIO), G. Raimondo, E. Brocato, M. Cantiello (OACT): “Calibration of the Surface SOAR-SVC 0.5 Brightness Fluctuation Method for Young and Intermediate Age Stellar Populations”

L. Wasserman, M. Buie, R. Millis (Lowell Obs.), D. Trilling (Steward Obs.), J. Elliot (MIT), K. Meech CT-4m 3 (U. Hawaii), S. Kern (G), A. Gulbis (G), J. Kane (G) (MIT), R. Crudo (U) (Steward Obs.), E. Chiang, J. Lovering (U) (UC Berkeley): “Astrometric Followup of Kuiper Belt Objects”

P. Weissman, Y. Choi (CalTech-JPL): “CCD Photometry of Asteroid 2867 Steins: Flyby Target of the CT-0.9m-SVC 4 Rosetta Mission”

M. West (U. Hawaii), P. Cote, E. Peng (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), J. Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins CT-0.9m 14 U.), A. Jordan (ESO), M. Takamiya (U. Hawaii), M. Gregg (UC Davis): “The Galactic Globular Cluster System”

A. Whiting (CTIO), K. Davidson (U. Minnesota), D. DePoy (Ohio State U.), R. Humphreys (U. CT-1.3m 0.4 Minnesota), N. Smith (U. Colorado), N. Suntzeff (CTIO): “Photometric Monitoring of Eta Carinae”

N. Zacharias, G. Hennessy, K. Johnston (USNO): “Photometric monitoring of optically bright QSOs” CT-1.0m 9

U.S. Thesis Programs

T. Beers (Michigan State U.), N. Christlieb (Hamberger Sternwarte), H. Smith (Michigan State U.), S. Rossi CT-0.9m- 6, (IAGUSP), N. De Lee (T) (Michigan State U.): “BVRI and UBV Photometry of Metal-Poor and Horizontal- SVC, CT- 15.1 Branch Stars in the Galactic Halo” 1.0m-SVC

K. Bjorkman, J. Wisniewski (T), J. Bjorkman (U. Toledo): “Effects of Age and Metallicity on CT-4m 4 Circumstellar Disk Formation”

P. Goudfrooij, P. Pessev (T), R. Chandar, T. Puzia, T. Brown (STScI): “How Accurately can we CT-4m 2 determine Ages and Metallicities of Stellar Systems using Integrated-Light Spectroscopy ?”

H. Hsieh (T), D. Jewitt (U. Hawaii): “Tracking a Comet in the : Monitoring of 133P/(7968) CT-1.3m 0.13 Elst- Pizarro”

J. Kennefick, S. Bursick (T) (U. Arkansas), E. Monier (State U. New York, Brockport), M. Smith CT-4m 2 (CTIO), P. Osmer (Ohio State U.): “Refining the BTC40 Search for z>4.8 Quasars Using IR Imaging.”

R. Romani, S. Healey (T), P. Michelson (Stanford U.), E. Sadler (U. Sydney): “A Southern Gamma-Ray SOAR-SVC, 3, 3 Blazar Survey” CT-1.5m-SVC

N. Siegler (T) (Steward Obs.), J. Muzerolle, E. Young (Steward Obs.): “Disk Evolution Near the End of CT-4m 4 the Accretion Phase: Membership of the 5- 10 Myr-old Cluster IC 2395”

R. Smith, A. Rest (CTIO), C. Stubbs, A. Garg (T) (Harvard U.): “Microlensing and Supernovae SOAR-SVC 6 Spectroscopy and Imaging with SOAR”

C. Stubbs (U. Washington), K. Cook (LLNL), S. Hawley (U. Washington), D. Welch (McMaster U.), C. CT-4m 15 Alcock (U. Pennsylvania), K. Mighell (NOAO), A. Becker (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), C. Nelson (G) (UC Berkeley), A. Drake (LLNL), A. Rest (T), G. Miknaitis (G) (U. Washington), S. Keller (LLNL): “A Next Generation Microlensing Survey of the LMC”

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COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE PRIVATE TELESCOPES

Under the Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP), access to the telescopes of the major private observatories has been expanded to include, currently: the two Keck telescopes, the HET, the MMT, and the Magellan telescopes. However, not every one of these telescopes is available to the public in every semester, and only about a dozen nights are available on each telescope in any given semester.

Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) – McDonald Observatory

HET – Semester 2005A — Scheduled U.S. Programs (Includes U.S. Thesis Programs) Nights

W. Herbst (Wesleyan U.), C. Hamilton (Five Colleges), C. Johns-Krull (Rice U.), R. Mundt, C. Bailer-Jones (Max 1.1 Planck Inst. f. Astronomie): “High Resolution Spectroscopy of KH 15D During Its Bright Phase”

T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.), D. Gies (Georgia State U.), H. Marshall (MIT), M. Rupen, A. Mioduszewski (NRAO), 2.8 L. Lopez (G) (MIT): “Spectroscopic Monitoring of the Relativistic Jets, Accretion Disk, and Mass Donor Star in the Microquasar SS 433”

B. Pritzl, K. Venn (Macalester): “Elemental Abundances In Three Candidate Extragalactic Globular Clusters” 3

G. Wegner (Dartmouth College), R. Saglia, J. Thomas (G) (Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie): “The dynamical 3.2 structure of flattened ellipticals in the Coma cluster”

U.S. Thesis

J. Orosz, A. Bayless (T) (San Diego State U.): “Dynamical masses and radii for the component stars in the 1 K7V+brown dwarf binary 2MASS 0516288+260738”

HET – Semester 2005B — Scheduled U.S. Programs (Includes U.S. Thesis Programs Nights

S. Austin (U. Arkansas), J. Robertson (Arkansas Tech U.), R. Honeycutt (Indiana U.): “Spectroscopic Parameters 1 for a Possible Thermally Decoupled Late-Type Contact Binary HH95-79”

W. Herbst (Wesleyan U.), C. Hamilton (Five Colleges), C. Johns-Krull (Rice U.), R. Mundt, C. Bailer-Jones (M. 1 Planck Inst. f. Astronomie): “High Resolution Spectroscopy of KH 15D During Its Bright Phase”

P. McCullough, J. Valenti, J. Stys (O) (STScI), K. Janes (Boston U.), S. Fleming (U) (Vassar College): “Transiting 2.4 Hot Jupiters, XO Candidates”

N. Suntzeff (CTIO), M. Hamuy, M. Phillips (Carnegie Obs.), G. Folatelli (Carnegie Inst. Washington), W. Freedman, 0.5 E. Persson, M. Roth (Carnegie Obs.), A. Filippenko, W. Li (UC Berkeley), J. Maza (U. Chile), R. Carlberg (U. Toronto), N. Morrell, D. Murphy, A. Oemler (Carnegie Obs.), P. Pinto (Steward Obs.), S. Shectman, W. Krzeminski, S. Gonzalez (O) (Carnegie Obs.): “Carnegie Supernova Project: K-band Imaging and Spectroscopy”

V. Woolf, G. Wallerstein (U. Washington): “Abundance measurements in M dwarf stars” 1.25

U.S. Thesis

J. Orosz, A. Bayless (T) (San Diego State U.): “Dynamical masses and radii for the component stars in the 1 K7V+brown dwarf binary 2MASS 0516288+260738”

E-30 OBSERVING PROGRAMS SEMESTERS 2005A/B

Multi-Mirror Telescope (MMT)

MMT – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Includes U.S. Thesis Programs) Nights

D. Gies (Georgia State U.), T. Hillwig (Valparaiso U.), P. Wiita (Georgia State U.): “The Donor Star Spectrum 1 in SS 433”

C. Kochanek (Ohio State U.), P. Eisenhardt (CalTech-JPL), T. Heckman (Johns Hopkins U.), C. Martin, B. Soifer 2 (Caltech), D. Weedman (Cornell U.), B. Jannuzi, A. Dey (NOAO), J. Shields (Ohio U.): “AGES: The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey”

V. Kulkarni (U. South Carolina), P. Khare (Utkal U.), J. Lauroesch (Northwestern U.), J. Bechtold (Steward Obs.), D. 2 York (U. Chicago), A. Crotts (Columbia U.), O. Nakamura (U. Nottingham): “The Evolution of Metals and Dust in Damped Lyman-alpha Quasar Absorbers”

R. Mathieu (U. Wisconsin Madison), I. Platais (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Latham, G. Torres, A. Szentgyorgyi (Harvard- 2 Smithsonian CfA): “The WIYN Open Cluster Study: New Astrophysics from Old Open Clusters”

MMT – Semester 2005B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Includes U.S. Thesis Programs) Nights

R. Chandar, P. Goudfrooij, T. Puzia (STScI): “Ancient Clusters in M33 - Clues to Galaxy Formation” 2

J. Cooke (G), A. Wolfe (UC San Diego), E. Gawiser (Yale U.): “One-Degree Deep Survey: Mass of Systems at 2 2.5

S. Majewski, R. Patterson, J. Ostheimer (U. Virginia), P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), R. Rich (UCLA): 3 “Exploring the Newly Discovered Halo Of M31”

R. Mathieu (U. Wisconsin Madison), I. Platais (Johns Hopkins U.), D. Latham, G. Torres, A. Szentgyorgyi 4 (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), A. Geller (G) (U. Wisconsin Madison): “The WIYN Open Cluster Study: New Astrophysics from Old Open Clusters”

W.M. Keck Observatory: Keck I and II

Keck Telescopes – Semester 2005A – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Includes U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

J. Bechtold (Steward Ob.), B. Jannuzi (NOAO): “The IGM and the Distribution of Galaxies at z~1” Keck-II 1

A. Daane (G), J. King (Clemson U.): “Neutron Capture Abundances and the Origin of Blue Stragglers in M71” Keck-I 1

M. Dickinson (NOAO), R. Ram-Chary (Spitzer Science Center), D. Elbaz (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique), Keck-I; 1, 1 D. Stern (CalTech-JPL), H. Ferguson, M. Giavalisco, B. Mobasher, L. Moustakas (STScI), N. Grogin (Johns Keck-II Hopkins U.): “A survey of galaxy mass assembly at 1 < z < 3 via faint GOODS 24(micron) sources”

P. Kalas, J. Graham (UC Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): “Keck AO imaging of a Keck-II 1 newly discovered debris disk surrounding a nearby F5V star”

J. Monnier (U. Michigan), P. Tuthill (U. Sydney): “Mid-IR sizes of YSO disks: Precision calibration using Keck-I 2 interferometry”

U.S. Thesis

L. Prato (Lowell Obs.), C. Bender (T), G. Schaefer (G), M. Simon (SUNY, Stony Brook): “Dynamical Masses of Keck-II 1 Pre-Main-Sequence and Brown Dwarf Binaries”

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Magellan Telescopes

Magellan – Semester 2005B – Scheduled U.S. Programs (Includes U.S. Thesis Programs) Tel. Nights

A. Daane (G), J. King (Clemson U.): “Neutron Capture Abundances and the Origin of Blue Stragglers in 47 Tuc” Mag.-II 1

V. Kulkarni (U. South Carolina), D. York (U. Chicago), P. Khare (Utkal U.), J. Lauroesch (Northwestern Mag -II 3 U.), O. Nakamura (U. Nottingham), D. Vanden Berk (Pennsylvania State U.), B. Menard (Institute for Advanced Study): “Element Abundances in Dusty Damped Lyman-(alpha) Absorbers: Missing Pieces in the “Missing-Metals Puzzle””

J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (STScI): “Lyman Alpha Galaxies and Galaxy Formation Scenarios” Mag. I 3

E-32 Appendix F NEW ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS AND COLLABORATIONS IN FY05

No new partnerships or collaborations undertaken in FY05

Ongoing Partnerships and Collaborations

ƒ Dark Energy Survey (DES) Consortium – CTIO Partnership: http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/

ƒ Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Corporation, Inc. http://www.lsst.org/About/LSSTcorp. shtml

The Stanford-Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign joined the LSSTC in 2005.

ƒ NOAO and the Thirty Meter Telescope (formerly California Extremely Large Telescope) Consortium: http://tmt.ucolick.org/

ƒ Small and Medium Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS) – CTIO Partnership: http://www.astro.yale.edu/smarts/

ƒ University of Maryland – KPNO Partnership

F–1 Appendix G ACTIVITIES ENCOURAGING DIVERSITY WITHIN NOAO

NOAO continues to foster, encourage, and enhance geographic, gender, ethnic, and racial diversity among its employees. Some FY05 highlights:

ƒ A diverse mix of 50 new staff members were hired in FY05, comprising 23 women (46%) and 13 (26%) minority group members.

ƒ Women or minorities accounted for 27% of staff promotions.

ƒ In order to accommodate the particular requirements of a dual-career scientific couple, NOAO opened up two positions at the same location at NOAO South

ƒ A newly-approved policies and procedures manual, completely updated for language and content supporting increased diversity, was adopted in FY05

ƒ NOAO staff participated in job fairs, career days, and public outreach programs specifically addressing the needs of minority group members, disadvantaged students, and our local community.

ƒ We continued our practice of involving a diverse group of individuals in all search committees and other recruitment practices

ƒ We made special accommodations for staff members with temporary or long-term disabilities

ƒ NOAO continued our affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, and Native American preference programs as outlined in our annual Affirmative Action Plan Documents

ƒ We were delighted to accept an invitation to joined the Southern Indian Workforce Development Council, an advisory body providing employment consultation to the Tucson Indian Center

G-1 Appendix H 4th QUARTER SITE SAFETY REPORT

OSHA Recordable Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Other Incidentsg

 In July 2005, a Kitt Peak employee twisted his knee while disengaging the WIYN dome drive by the manual lever. The cam wheel slid off the guide, causing the lever to fall to the floor while the employee was exerting force. This case is considered a first aid. Engineering has been requested to evaluate the current lift off device to improve the design.

 In August, a Kitt Peak employee at the 4-m twisted his ankle as he rushed to press the emergency stop when the telescope began to move with no one at the controls. No other employees were in harms way. It was determined that during shut-down work, a power cable had been pulled loose from the incremental encoder, causing the telescope to run open loop. The power cable to the encoder was replaced with one that has a twist-lock connector so that it cannot be knocked loose in the future. This case is an OSHA recordable case due to restrictive duty.

 On July 20, an employee’s personal vehicle was vandalized in the NOAO main parking lot. A police report was filed.

 A complaint was investigated about gasoline odor in Tucson’s vehicle 66. CFO investigated this incident thoroughly; nothing unusual was found. It was eventually surmised that the vehicle must vent gas during high temperatures and elevation change.

Safety and Health

 A Safety, Health, and Environmental Action Plan and an Energy Control Procedure were completed in preparation for the 2005 Kitt Peak summer shutdown. Risk management oversight was provided during the shutdown by advising the project management on site access, lockout tagout, fall protection, personal protective equipment, ladder safety, communications, industrial hygiene, and others.

 A safety and health review and inspection was conducted at NSO Sunspot, New Mexico on August 30 and 31. Notable improvements were observed in the physical conditions of the observatory. A report has been submitted to NSO management.

 An overview of Kitt Peak safety and emergency procedures and other risk management information were presented to new Kitt Peak docents on July 5 as part of their training.

 Risk management and other guidance were provided at the ATST Site Impact Workshop on August 11 and 12.

 The GROC conference room and Visitor Center Nightly Observing Program office were added to the key card system.

 Twenty-four of the ninety-five written chapters of the new Risk Management Manual have been proofed and edited.

 Tucson’s Cliff Aldrich completed the three-day course on Transportation of Hazardous Materials (DOT HM 181) to comply with the Department of Transportation 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Mr. Aldrich successfully obtained a certified driver license. g Site safety reports for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fiscal quarters are published in the respective NOAO Quarterly Reports.

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 PAEO’s Jack Kennedy received his American Heart CPR trainer certificate this month; he will providing CPR and First Aid training in-house at a considerable cost savings to Kitt Peak and Tucson.

 The Kitt Peak Emergency Manual was updated due to recent staff changes. The new version, revision 7, is now on the Kitt Peak informational Web site.

Fire Protection and Prevention

 Recommendations on risk management issues relating to fire detection in buildings and fire protection for computer control rooms were made to CTIO personnel.

 Kitt Peak fire alarm system was inspected and maintained.

 Fire extinguishers were inspected at Kitt Peak and Tucson this month; 30 extinguishers were replaced.

 The NOAO smoking policy was modified because of Kitt Peak employees concerns as related to informing visitors of fire hazards.

Insurance

 NOAO Risk Management Manager, C. Gessner, attended the Marsh (our insurance broker) seminar “Managing Risk and Understanding the Insurance Marketplace” on July 14.

 The annual insurance renewal proposal meeting was held in Baltimore on August 14. G. Curran, H. Feinstein (AURA), C. Gessner (NOAO), and Linda Dunn from Marsh participated. As a result of this meeting, AURA will enjoy an estimated 20 % premium reduction for fiscal year 2006, with the same or better coverage in specific areas. WIYN benefited in a $4,499 reduction in premiums, primarily due to the elimination of telescope flood insurance. SOAR’s premium cost generally remained flat with a slight increase of $177 because the Board agreed to raise the limit coverage for special risk.

 Risk management recommendations were made for the LSSTC sub award insurance clause.

 Recommendations were made to the management of CTIO to determine if insurance would cover an $8,000 loss due to NOAO and personal property being stolen from a vehicle. Unfortunately, the loss is not covered in Chile.

 As a result of insurance inquires from staff, the people of Marsh and C. Gessner have agreed to begin the process of summarizing AURA insurance. Listed below are the objectives:

 Insurance information to be consistent for all of AURA and available to Directors, Managers and those who need to know

 Information to be updated yearly, after the renewal period

 A uniform AURA insurance policy statement to be created as to how we handle insurable risk and retention

 A procedure for reporting claims to be created

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 Detail a simplified method for obtaining certificates of insurance (additional insured) and just as important, removing them

 Provide insurance coverage summaries with FAQ’s for each of the policies. Coordinated insurance review meeting(s), perhaps at a business management meeting

 Review Center Web sites to ensure that information is consistent

Security

 As a result of late night security concerns, the policy for closing the gate on highway 386 at the base of Kitt Peak was changed. The gate is now being closed by the driver of the 4:00 PM bus.

 Report of a lost key card was investigated; the card had been given to a vendor by an administrative assistant who is no longer at NOAO. The exact card was not known and after a detailed search, we identified the card and deactivated it. (The vendor was given a card in his own name.)

 The GROC conference room and Visitor Center Nightly Observing Program office were added to the key card system.

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