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FY15 High-Level Deliverables National Optical Astronomy Observatory Fiscal Year Annual Report for FY 2015 (1 October 2014 – 30 September 2015) Submitted to the National Science Foundation Pursuant to Cooperative Support Agreement No. AST-0950945 11 December 2015 Contents NOAO MISSION PROFILE .................................................................................................... 1 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................. 2 2 NOAO ACCOMPLISHMENTS ........................................................................................ 4 2.1 Achievements .................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Status of Vision and Goals ................................................................................ 5 2.2.1 Status of FY15 High-Level Deliverables .............................................. 5 2.2.2 FY15 Planned vs. Actual Spending and Revenues ............................... 7 2.3 Challenges and Their Impacts ......................................................................... 10 3 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND FINDINGS ............................................................... 12 3.1 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ...................................................... 12 3.2 Kitt Peak National Observatory ....................................................................... 16 3.3 Gemini Observatory ......................................................................................... 18 4 GROUND-BASED O/IR OBSERVING SYSTEM OPERATIONS ............................. 20 4.1 NOAO South ................................................................................................... 20 4.1.1 CTIO .................................................................................................... 20 4.1.2 NOAO South Engineering & Technical Services ............................... 27 4.1.3 NOAO South Facilities Operations ..................................................... 29 4.1.4 NOAO South Computer Infrastructure Services ................................. 30 4.2 NOAO North ................................................................................................... 33 4.2.1 KPNO .................................................................................................. 33 4.2.2 NOAO North Engineering & Technical Services ............................... 37 4.2.3 NOAO North Central Facilities Operations ........................................ 40 4.2.4 NOAO North Computer Infrastructure Services ................................. 41 i CONTENTS 4.3 NOAO System Science Center ........................................................................ 43 4.3.1 System User Support ........................................................................... 43 4.3.2 Science Data Management .................................................................. 45 4.3.3 System Community Development ....................................................... 47 4.3.4 Time Allocation Committee ................................................................ 52 4.4 NOAO System Technology Center ................................................................. 54 4.4.1 System Instrumentation ....................................................................... 54 5 NOAO-WIDE PROGRAMS ............................................................................................ 56 5.1 Office of Science ............................................................................................. 56 5.2 Education and Public Outreach ....................................................................... 56 5.3 NOAO Director’s Office ................................................................................. 65 APPENDICES .......................................................................................................................... 68 A FY15 BUDGET BY PROGRAM ..................................................................................... 69 A.1 FY15 Expenditures .......................................................................................... 69 A.2 FY15 Revenue ................................................................................................. 74 A.3 FY15 Funds Carried Forward to FY16 ............................................................ 76 B NOAO KEY MANAGEMENT & SCIENTIFIC STAFF ACTIVITY ........................ 77 B.1 NOAO Key Management during FY15 ........................................................... 77 B.2 Scientific Staff Changes during FY15 ............................................................. 77 B.3 Division of Effort—NOAO Scientific/Management Staff .............................. 78 B.4 Scientific Staff Accomplishments and Plans ................................................... 85 C NOAO SCIENTIFIC STAFF PUBLICATIONS ......................................................... 108 D PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES .. 116 D.1 Telescopes at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ............................. 116 D.2 Telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory .............................................. 123 D.3 Gemini Telescopes ......................................................................................... 130 D.4 W. M. Keck Observatory: Keck I and II ....................................................... 134 D.5 HET and MMT .............................................................................................. 134 D.6 Magellan ........................................................................................................ 135 D.7 AAT, CHARA, and Hale ............................................................................... 135 D.8 NOAO Science Archive ................................................................................ 135 E USAGE STATISTICS FOR ARCHIVED DATA ........................................................ 138 F TELESCOPE PROPOSAL STATISTICS ................................................................... 139 F.1 Semester 2015A Proposal Statistics .............................................................. 139 ii NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015 F.2 Semester 2015B Proposal Statistics .............................................................. 140 G OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR 2015 ................................. 142 G.1 Demographics ................................................................................................ 142 G.2 Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory .................................................... 144 G.3 Kitt Peak National Observatory ..................................................................... 153 G.4 Gemini Observatory ....................................................................................... 160 G.5 Community Access to Private Telescope ...................................................... 174 H BROADENING PARTICIPATION .............................................................................. 176 I GRANTS OBTAINED IN Q4 ......................................................................................... 180 J SAFETY REPORT FOR Q4 .......................................................................................... 181 Cover Caption Detail from a 1 micron image of the Moon, obtained using the Mosaic3 camera on the Mayall 4m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The region shown is approximately 9 x 5 arcminute in size located near Mare Nubium and the crater Ptolemaeus. The Mosaic3 camera is equipped with extremely red-sensitive, 500-micron-thick charge-coupled devices developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Image credit: Arjun Dey (NOAO), David Rabinowitz (Yale), David Sprayberry (NOAO), Bob Marshall (NOAO), Behzad Abareshi (NOAO), Christian Soto (NOAO); Mosiac3 Commissioning Team. Cover credit: Pete Marenfeld (NOAO/AURA/NSF). iii NOAO MISSION PROFILE The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) is the US national center for ground-based optical and infrared (OIR) astronomy. The NOAO mission is to enable discovery in ground-based optical and infrared astronomy. In pursuit of this mission, NOAO facilitates access for all qualified professional researchers to state-of-the-art observational facilities and data systems operated by NOAO as well as other federal and non-federal entities within the U.S. OIR System. This access enables the US research community to address a broad range of forefront research questions from how our Solar System formed and evolved to the nature of dark matter and dark energy. 1 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the NOAO Fiscal Year Annual Report for fiscal year 2015 (FY15). This report fulfills requirements established by the Cooperative Support Agreement (CSA) AST-0950945 between the NSF and AURA. NOAO and the research community it serves strive for leadership roles at the science frontiers defined by the Astro2010 decadal survey report “New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics” (NWNH), including characterization of the nature of dark energy, mapping the 3-D distribution of dark matter at cosmological distances, unearthing the fossil record of galaxy formation in the nearby and distant Universe, exploration and characterization of the time domain, and exoplanet characterization and the study of exoplanet parent stars. Such leadership is exercised through a range of observational research projects of varying sizes, from a few nights to tens of
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