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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

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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

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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).

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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.

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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 nights of observations per year over several years. Leadership is also gained through access to state-of-the-art general-purpose instrumentation on world-class facilities. More and more, the mining and re-use of NOAO archival data is becoming a critical activity for the NOAO-supported research community. To enable scientific and technological leadership, NOAO works closely and actively with university-based groups, other US-led observatories, other US national science centers, major international science collaborations, and, especially, NOAO’s dynamic and world-leading user community. Scientific demand for all facilities offered by NOAO as measured by over-subscription rates (nights requested divided by nights available) remained strong during this year. Scientific productivity measured by the number of papers published by the community-at-large and the NOAO scientific staff in particular also remained strong, with a significant increase in the number of published papers that incorporated data from US Gemini programs as well as from DECam users. NOAO continued to operate and improve the four 4-m-class facilities at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in the Republic of Chile. Noteworthy instrument improvements included a new near-infrared spectrometer for the CTIO Blanco 4-m (built by Cornell University using supplementary funding provided by the NSF) as well as significant upgrades to the SOAR 4.1-m Goodman optical spectrometer and the WIYN 3.5-m ODI wide- field imager. The KPNO Mayall 4-m telescope control system was modernized, significantly improving the dynamic performance of the telescope. The advent of a strong El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event at mid-year significantly reduced the number of clear nights below historical norms at both sites. Facilities infrastructure support was provided to many tenant and partner facilities at both sites on a fee-for-service basis. Behind the scenes, NOAO completed several significant infrastructure renewal projects at its base and mountain facilities in Arizona and Chile. Unfortunately, ENSO-related weather events have caused significant damage to the CTIO mountain-based infrastructure. Continuing bad weather events as well as several major earthquakes hindered completion of repair and remediation work. Such work will continue into FY16. NOAO continued as the US gateway to the Gemini Observatory, the most significant source of community access at the 6-m to 10-m aperture level. NOAO also provided community access to the Anglo- Australian Telescope (AAT)—principally for use of the multi-object, wide field-of-view spectrometer AAOmega—in exchange for Australian use of the CTIO Blanco 4-m (including DECam). Community access also was provided by the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) on Mt. Wilson for optical interferometry. The Dark Energy Survey (DES) completed the second year of a five-year campaign using the 2.2- degree-wide DECam imager at the CTIO Blanco telescope. Thanks to improved thermal control of the Blanco facility as well as improved dynamic control of the telescope optics, the delivered image quality achieved during the second season was even better than during the first, meeting or exceeding the survey requirements. Year 3 observations began towards the end of FY15 but were significantly hampered by ENSO-related bad weather. The DES Collaboration has already published numerous papers, while data

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obtained by DES has been used by both DES and non-DES scientists to discover a large number of new ultra-faint dwarf galaxies within the Local Group. DES also reported early results leading to one of the largest, most precise dark matter distribution maps yet made. During this fiscal year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was granted Department of Energy (DOE) Major Item of Equipment (MIE) new start status and achieved its DOE Critical Decision 2 (CD-2, a cost and schedule baseline) milestone. DESI will be a 3-degree-wide, 5000-fiber, multi-object spectrometer integrated into the KPNO Mayall 4-m telescope, with the primary scientific mission to obtain more than 30 million redshifts over 14,000 square degrees to constrain the effects of dark energy throughout space and time. Commissioning is scheduled to begin during FY18. The DESI project is led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In conjunction with DESI and a planned imaging survey for DESI targets in the North Galactic Cap, NOAO collaborated in a Yale University–led project to deliver an upgraded focal plane to the Mosaic camera for the Mayall. The focal plane uses some of the thickest CCD detectors ever used in astronomy (500 microns) to obtain high sensitivity in the near-infrared z band. The NASA NSF Exoplanet Observatory Research (NN-EXPLORE) program was initiated at the KPNO WIYN 3.5-m telescope with a range of observation programs using current instrumentation. In FY18, a NASA-funded construction team will deliver a new Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrometer (EPDS), and most NN-EXPLORE time will be used for Doppler spectroscopy of stars thought to host exoplanets. NOAO Science Archive holdings (compressed, single-copy) now exceed 200 terabytes (TB) of raw data and 140 TB of reduced data. Given multiple copies of these data, NOAO is now managing petabyte- scale holdings. A major archive system upgrade project was completed this year, bringing all key software systems up to current standards. Community users of NOAO wide-field imagers (i.e., DECam, NEWFIRM, Mosaic 1.1) were routinely provided access to processed image stacks produced using calibration pipelines developed in whole or in part by NOAO. Work continued on the NOAO Data Lab and the Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES) projects. The former project aims to deploy new user services for the access, manipulation, and visualization of rich catalogs containing millions of objects. The latter project aims to characterize millions of time-domain alerts per night in order to rapidly identify rare events. The ANTARES project is a joint endeavor between NOAO and the Computer Science Department of the University of Arizona. NOAO scientists continued to provide scientific and operational leadership to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project and community in the areas of operations simulations, characterization of the variable sky, survey cadence development, and operations planning. NOAO continued a five-year program launched in FY13 to engage the US community in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project. This effort is supported through an NSF award to TMT. The US TMT Science Working Group convened by NOAO continued various activities related to developing a US TMT Participation Plan. The third annual TMT Science Forum was held in Washington, DC. NOAO scientists are serving on the TMT International Observatory (TIO) board of governors, science advisory committee, and Education and Public Outreach advisory committee. AURA/NOAO is a TIO Associate Member. The NOAO Education and Public Outreach program carried out a broad and varied plan that touched on many aspects of the NSF goals of broadening the participation of underrepresented individuals, groups, and institutions. Activities supporting those goals were carried out primarily in Arizona and Chile. The NOAO Director’s Office (NDO) in collaboration with all other senior and middle managers completed execution of the NOAO transformation plan in response to new programmatic and financial directives from the NSF for FY16. In support of the AURA Corporate office, the NDO helped successfully conclude negotiations with the NSF to finalize and sign a new Cooperative Agreement (CA) between AURA and the NSF for the management of NOAO in the period FY16–FY20. Assuming AURA/NOAO pass a comprehensive performance review in FY19, the NSF has the option to extend the period of this CA for another five years without re-competition.

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2.1 ACHIEVEMENTS

Based on scientific merit as judged by peer review, NOAO provided access to 12 NOAO and non-NOAO telescopes for 1246 scientists involved in 317 new and on-going research projects. The actual number of scientists involved in NOAO-enabled observing programs is likely significantly larger as several large collaborations do not list their entire team on the NOAO proposal form (e.g., Dark Energy Science Collaboration). Overall, the number of nights requested exceeded the number of nights available by a factor of 1.7. The majority of scientists who were allocated time (797, not including NOAO scientists) came from 163 US institutions distributed across 43 of the United States (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico). The top five institutions by number of investigators were the University of Arizona, Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, University of Texas–Austin, University of Chicago, and University of California–Berkeley. About 7% of the allocated time went to programs whose principal investigators were at foreign institutions. In all respects, these numbers are comparable to or larger than previous years. Based on observations obtained in previous years, the NOAO user community (including NOAO scientists) published 521 papers in refereed journals. Crabtree (2015, private communications) illustrates that NOAO Mayall and Blanco telescopes were two of the most productive astronomical telescopes in the world in the period of 2009–2013. On a continuing, annual basis, NOAO supports the largest and broadest research community of any US ground-based astronomical observatory. NOAO delivered a range of new research capabilities, products, and services. Major highlights include the following:

• CTIO Blanco 4-m, TripleSpec4 / The Astronomy Research using the Cornell InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph) (TS4-ARCoIRIS)—allows broadband (0.8 – 2.47 µm) spectroscopy at R ~ 3500. This instrument was built by Cornell University as part of the Renewing Small Telescopes for Astronomical Research (ReSTAR) program funded by the NSF.

• KPNO WIYN 3.5-m, ODI upgrade—upgraded from 3 × 3 array of Orthogonal Transfer Arrays (OTAs) to a 5 x 6 array for a final field-of-view of 48 × 40 arcmins with 0.11 arcsec per pixel. A u-band filter was ordered, with delivery expected in early FY16.

• KPNO Mayall 4-m Mosaic 3—in close collaboration with Yale University, a new prime focus optical imager was delivered. In particular, Yale provided a 2 x 2 mosaic of 4k × 4k, 15-micron pixel, 500-micron-thick LBNL deep-depletion CCDs.

• Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year One data products—processed, single-visit images were released through the NOAO Science Archive.

• DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) Year One data products—processed image stacks as well as object catalogs derived from those stacks were released through a website hosted at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at LBNL.

• NOAO Science Archive upgrades—various improvements in the user interface and documentation.

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NOAO scientists and engineers made significant contributions to development of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project, specifically in the areas of planning for the Mayall 4-m facility and the DESI installation and commissioning. Within the DESI Science Collaboration, NOAO scientists had key roles in DESI targeting survey planning and execution as well as bright-time survey project definition. The aggregate DESI project, led by LBNL, was granted Major Item of Equipment (MIE) new start status and passed the Critical Decision 2 milestone during this fiscal year. After a comprehensive Conceptual Design Review, an external, non-advocate review committee strongly endorsed that the NOAO Data Lab project enter the implementation phase. This project is on-track for a public demonstration at the June 2016 AAS meeting. NOAO organized or co-organized several community workshops, including • “Mini-Workshop of Near-IR Data Reduction” (January 2015) • “Tools for Astronomical Big Data” (March 2015) • “DECam Community Science Workshop” (March 2015) • “TMT Science Forum” (Third Annual) (July 2015) • “La Serena School for Data Science” (August 2015) NOAO completed its two-year transformation plan in preparation for reduced funding and a restructured program starting in FY16. AURA was awarded a five-year Cooperative Agreement, with the possibility for a five-year renewal, for the operation and management of NOAO.

2.2 STATUS OF VISION AND GOALS

The NOAO Annual Program Plan FY 2015 (APP15) defined the high-level NOAO deliverables for FY15 in its Executive Summary. Those high-level deliverables are restated below in section 2.2.1 with notes on their status at the end of FY15. In section 2.2.2, planned spending and revenues for FY15 are compared to actual spending and revenues for that period. Significant differences between planned and actual are discussed. Status notes are provided in sections 4 and 5 of this report for all lower-level program milestones established in the APP15.

2.2.1 Status of FY15 High-Level Deliverables From FY15 NSF base funding, NOAO plans to deliver and/or enable: § Completion of the transformation to the NOAO-2016 program. Status: Completed. In mid-2013, the NSF issued new programmatic and financial guidance to AURA and NOAO. In parallel, the NSF issued a solicitation for proposals to manage and operate NOAO in the period FY16–FY25. Based on those documents, NOAO developed and submitted a transformation plan in October 2013 that was reviewed and approved by the NSF. All actions and deliverables defined in that plan have been completed, as reviewed and verified by the NSF Program Review Panel (PRP) during mid-FY15.

§ Operation and maintenance of NOAO facilities in Tucson and on Kitt Peak (Mayall 4-m and WIYN 3.5-m telescopes). Status: Completed per plan, see Section 4.2 (NOAO North) for further details.

§ Operation and maintenance of NOAO facilities in La Serena (including the AURA recinto— compound) and on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón (Blanco 4-m and SOAR 4.1-m telescopes).

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Status: Completed per plan, except for a number of CTIO Blanco improvement projects where resources needed to be re-allocated at mid-year to resolve more immediate operational issues; see Section 4.2 (NOAO North) for more details.

§ Community and DES usage of DECam at the Blanco 4-m telescope. Status: With the exception of worse than normal weather due to a strong El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event, DECam usage proceeded without problem. DES completed their Year 2 observations and initiated their Year 3 campaign. DECam remained popular with community users. Both DES and non-DES research teams are producing a steady stream of publications in refereed journals.

§ Completion of the commissioning of a new, medium-resolution, near-infrared spectrograph (TripleSpec4) for the Blanco 4-m telescope, acquired through a sub-award to Cornell University (ReSTAR Phase 1). Status: Completed per plan, this new instrument is now operational and available to the community. See Sections 4.1.1 (CTIO) and 4.1.2 (NOAO South Engineering & Technical Services) for further details.

§ Technical and management support/planning for the deployment of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4-m telescope. Status: All planned activities completed successfully; see Section 4.2.2 (NOAO North Engineering & Technical Services).

§ Scientific user support services for the US community users of the Gemini Observatory. Status: Per agreement with Gemini Observatory, NOAO stopped providing Phase 2 review support in favor of focusing more on post-observing support and user documentation. This new emphasis benefits the entire Gemini community and will hopefully shorten the time between data acquisition and data publication. See Section 4.3.1 (System User Support) for further details.

§ Science data management services that are focused on immediate NOAO needs, including science operations of the DECam (Blanco 4-m), Mosaic 1.1 (Mayall 4-m), and NEWFIRM (Mayall 4-m) wide-field imagers. Status: Data management operations proceeded without issue during this fiscal year. Several modernization projects were completed within the NOAO Science Archive and its related data transport systems. The NOAO Data Lab project entered its implementation phase, and the ANTARES project continued to make good progress. For further details, see Sections 4.3.2 (Science Data Management) and 4.3.3 (System Community Development).

§ Education and Public Outreach that focuses on critical, local activities and needs while maintaining a national (global) perspective through targeted, innovative programs. Status: The NOAO EPO group maintained a highly effective and productive education program in Arizona and Chile, as well as participating in activities at the national and international level, as discussed in Section 5.2 (Education and Public Outreach).

§ Administrative and facility operations services necessary for an organization with more than 250 employees at two geographically distributed sites. Status: Various administrative challenges presented themselves this year, but all were overcome. No significant challenges were faced by facilities operations in Tucson, but the onset of a strong ENSO event led to significant challenges in Chile. Resolving those challenges will require

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appropriate focus and resource allocation during FY16. See Section 2.3 (Challenges and Their Impacts) for further discussion.

From FY15 (or earlier) NSF supplementary funding, NOAO plans to deliver and/or enable: § Annual Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs in Tucson and La Serena. Status: The KPNO and CTIO REU programs each hosted six (6) students during FY15, as presented further in Section 5.2 (Education and Public Outreach).

§ Completion of the construction of TripleSpec4 for the Blanco 4-m telescope through a sub-award to Cornell University (ReSTAR Phase 1). Status: Construction completed as planned, see Section 4.4.1 (System Instrumentation) for more details.

On a cost-recovery basis, NOAO also plans to deliver and/or enable: § Technical and facility operations support services for tenant and/or partner observatories on Kitt Peak, Cerro Tololo, Cerro Pachón, and Cerro Las Campanas. Status: In Arizona, accomplished successfully without significant incidents (Sections 4.2.1 [KPNO] and 4.2.3 [NOAO North Central Facilities Operations]). In Chile, significantly worse than normal weather related to a strong ENSO event created various challenges, the most significant being critical damage to the high-voltage distribution system on Cerro Tololo (see Section 4.1.3). Fortunately, the direct impact on our tenant and partner observations was minimal, although they too suffered from less clear weather than normal.

2.2.2 FY15 Planned vs. Actual Spending and Revenues In this section, planned versus actual FY15 spending and revenues are discussed. More details about FY15 expenditures, revenues, and funds carried forward to FY16 are provided in Appendix A. Table 1 shows the planned budget, actual funding, and actual expenditures for the NOAO FY15 program. Detail is given at the second level of the work breakdown structure (WBS) from the NOAO Annual Program Plan FY 2015 (APP15). Column 2 (APP15 Budget) of the table matches the “Budget, Total” column of Table 19 from the APP15. This planned budget was covered by the sum of planned base funding from the NSF and planned non-base revenue. Column 3 (Total Funds) is the actual funding accumulated for each program as of the close of the fiscal year. If actual funding is greater than planned spending, NOAO accumulated more non-base funding than planned and/or base funding was moved into that category during the year. Conversely, if actual funding is less than planned spending, NOAO accumulated less non-base funding and/or base funding was removed from that category during the year. Column 4 (Actual Expenses) lists the actual FY15 expenditures plus commitments for each item The percentage differences in APP15 Budget vs. FY15 Actual Expenses and Final Budget vs. FY15 Actual Expenses are shown in Columns 5 and 6, respectively. Negative percentages indicate greater expenditure than funding. Significant differences (negative or positive) are explained in the notes below. Note 1. NOAO South. NOAO South underspent compared to its plan, in large part due to a more favorable exchange rate than anticipated. As a result, the integrated US dollar spend rate over the entire year was 20% less than the original plan. Some expenses in Chile (chiefly salaries of expatriated employees) are paid directly in dollars, so the net savings from peso exchange is less than 20%. In summary, effort for CTIO was 61% budgeted in pesos; this explains the under spend for this work area. Engineering and Technical Services (NS-ETS) was budgeted at 64% in pesos, explaining the majority of the under spend here. In addition, $150,000 budgeted for the Blanco mirror lift upgrade was not expensed as the team was still weighing options based on a solution for the upgrade at Kitt Peak and one from the AAT. Finally, some manpower budgeted in NS-ETS was expended above plan for NSTC (Triplespec4) and

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for NOAO South Facilities. Facilities expenses were nearly equal to the plan, which means a real over spend in pesos. That over spend (approximately $400–500K) resulted from several factors. The facilities group was led by the NOAO South Deputy Director, who had to charge significantly more time to this area than originally budgeted (about $80,000). The revenue recovered from meals and lodging was below the amount planned, while food costs were higher than planned. Freight charges had inadvertently not been budgeted (but were paid, amounting to $30,000; this is corrected for FY16). There were significant storms this year, requiring more effort to keep the mountain roads open, maintained, and repaired. There was a significant storm in March that damaged the Cerro Tololo mountain electrical generation and distribution system. The damage was extensive and is not yet repaired due to the complexity and age of the equipment. As a result, since March 2015, all power on Cerro Tololo has been provided by diesel generator (including a rented backup generator to allow seamless transfer during generator maintenance). The generator rental and manpower for this effort was charged to this area and was not budgeted. NOAO manpower was reallocated from other areas, principally NS-ETS (one senior engineer was an additional $40,000). NOAO South Computer Information Services (NS-CIS) over spent. The total peso budget in CISS is only 35%. Payroll, which is significantly paid in USD was over spent as more resources were devoted to network maintenance and upgrade than was originally planned (about $100K); this resource was available since AURA-CAS and AURA-O requested fewer resources than were budgeted for them. CISS executed a project to upgrade the microwave link from Tololo to La Serena when it became clear the peso exchange would allow NOAO to take advantage of this opportunity. The project cost $80K. This expense will be recovered in future years as rates are adjusted to tenants (including CTIO) who use the data link. Note 2. NOAO North. NOAO North over spent compared to the FY15 plan. This was due to a number of factors, chiefly in the areas of telescope operations, mountain operations, and the visitor center. Most significantly, the WIYN operations (part of telescope operations) budget was not approved by the WIYN board until well after the NOAO program plan was complete and into the fiscal year. The Board-approved budget provided fewer resources from Wisconsin and no resources from Yale, who exited the partnership. This period was further complicated for the partnership because NOAO was going to exit following divestment by the NSF. However, a new partnership was formed with NASA through the program NN- EXPLORE, and NOAO remained in the partnership. In summary, the partners contributed $1,455K in FY14, while in FY15 the total contribution from partners was $1,173K. The change in partner contributions thus settled at a net value nearly $400K less between FY15 and FY14. In the face of this reduction, NOAO chose to support the WIYN operations at historical levels while a new operations plan for FY16 was developed in coordination with the partners including guidance from the NSF related to the new NN- EXPLORE program. Kitt Peak mountain support also over spent compared to the plan by approximately $250K. Most of this is represented by a deficit of planned revenue (about $75K) and encumbrances for FY16 for food supplies (this is a feature of AURA accounting and procurement that sometimes encumbers funds on a rolling purchase order that gets assigned to a prior year), not over spending based on the FY15 planned activity. The NOAO North engineering and technical services group supplied more effort to Mayall preparation for the DESI project than had been planned including pulling in staff from other functional areas, i.e., elsewhere within NOAO, including significant additions of scientist time to KPNO. The Kitt Peak Visitor Center collected less revenue compared to plan, mostly due to fewer night program sales and gift sales, and ended the year in a 10% overspend situation. NOAO North Computer Infrastructure Services (NN-CIS) executed somewhat more work than planned with strategic hardware purchases, but also received more revenue than planned from tenants (NSO, DKIST, LSST). Note 3. NSSC. NSSC performed well in FY15 with respect to effort expended compared to the plan. The TAC spent somewhat less than planned, and NOAO scientist time budgeted here was reprogrammed to KPNO to support DESI-related activity. Note 4. NSTC. The NOAO System and Technology Center was phased out in FY15. Major planned activity centered on finishing the TripleSpec4 construction and commissioning project for the Blanco 4-m. The project finished up under budget and on schedule, leading to a sizeable savings.

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Note 5. Office of Science. This area under spent on individual scientist research accounts, due primarily to scientists working more on functional tasks than on personal research. Note 6. Unallocated. The unallocated funding budget is by definition not allocated for spending. The amount of funds listed in the APP15 was approximately $1.5M. This amount came from guidance from the NSF-AST to be used for potential close-out costs in case AURA did not win the new CA to operate NOAO. The $1.5M was freed up from the FY14 wedge that covered effort for LSST design and development. LSST moved to construction funding in late FY14. Not shown in APP15, but included here, are the carry-forward funds from prior years through FY14, approximately $3.5M. The sum of carry- forward plus the unallocated LSST wedge total about $5M. This amount plus other FY15 carry-forward (mostly due to peso exchange in FY15) have been allocated to an infrastructure renewal plan approved by the NSF. This plan is for three years (FY16–18) and is documented elsewhere. Note 7. Total. NOAO ended FY15 with a net carry-forward of $6.5M. These funds will be applied to infrastructure renewal as described in note 6.

Table 1: FY15 Planned vs. Actual Spending and Revenue Percent Percent Final APP15 Total Actual APP15 - Budget - Division or Program Budget Funds Expenses Actuals Actuals Note NOAO South

CTIO 6,354,863 6,355,463 5,306,104 17% 17%

Engineering & Technical Services 1,585,730 1,664,815 1,145,716 28% 31%

Facilities 3,678,374 3,526,588 3,515,000 4% 0%

Computer Infrastructure Services 1,197,806 1,153,898 1,244,921 -4% -8%

NOAO South Total 12,816,773 12,700,764 11,211,740 13% 12% 1 NOAO North

KPNO 5,598,351 4,766,287 5,642,709 -1% -18%

Engineering & Technical Services 2,390,055 2,499,477 2,702,953 -13% -8%

Central Facilities Operations 1,581,620 1,795,044 1,516,152 4% 16%

Computer Infrastructure Services 664,000 768,633 733,406 -10% 5%

NOAO North Total 10,234,026 9,829,441 10,595,221 -4% -8% 2 NOAO System Science Center

System User Support 933,000 936,664 867,465

Science Data Management 2,059,137 2,061,294 2,128,073 -3% -3%

System Community Development 859,969 882,934 856,581 0% 3%

Time Allocation Committee 423,272 423,795 351,812 17% 17%

NSSC total 4,275,378 4,304,686 4,203,930 2% 2% 3 NOAO Core

(NSTC) System Instrumentation 424,329 702,805 317,433 25% 55% 4 Office of Science 1,375,041 1,420,739 1,266,132 8% 11% 5 EPO 1,052,181 1,114,658 1,024,614 3% 8%

NDO 1,075,632 1,110,765 1,087,277 -1% 2%

Unallocated 1,604,300 5,098,666 233,004 6

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Percent Percent Final APP15 Total Actual APP15 - Budget - Division or Program Budget Funds Expenses Actuals Actuals Note AURA Fees 2,243,727 2,243,727 2,108,628 6% 6%

Totals 33,497,087 38,526,251 32,047,979 9% 17% 7

2.3 CHALLENGES AND THEIR IMPACTS

In the aggregate, the observational research facilities NOAO operates or to which it provides access remain highly desired and scientifically productive. This will remain true (or even improve in some cases) as NOAO shifts from a primary focus on PI-class programs to a mix of such programs and larger survey programs. However, the reduction in the number of open-access nights for PI-class research on 2-m- and 4- m-class telescopes, especially at KPNO, is causing considerable angst within the community-at-large, exacerbated by increased competition for NSF individual investigator awards in recent years. There is no simple path to more nights at this time. However, NOAO is taking steps to ensure that valuable, science- ready data products from larger programs are readily accessible to the community-at-large in partial compensation for the loss of direct access to telescope time. Simultaneous requirements during FY15 to complete execution of the NOAO-2016 transformation and initiate the new Cooperative Agreement between the NSF and AURA created significant management and administrative stress. This challenge was felt most strongly in Arizona, where it was necessary to close out several activities, terminate more than 20 positions, completely restructure the KPNO program into new sub-programs with independent funding streams, and transition the NOAO data management and data science activities to a new emphasis. In parallel, both the programmatic and financial arms of the NSF requested an increased number of plans, proposals, and reports relative to previous years. Some of these documents took significant time to development. Finally, although NOAO was extremely fortunate to develop new projects, funding sources, and partners during FY15, these developments brought new interfaces, which require more time from senior managers. Most administrative activities and deliverables were completed on time, relative to previous years; however, the NOAO senior management team (Director, Deputy Director, and Associate Directors) experienced more extensive periods of overload than in previous fiscal years, leading to several delivery delays. Additional administrative activity also reduced time and attention available from the senior management team for day-to-day operations and program development, leading to some operational problems taking longer to solve than desirable. Looking forward, the new Cooperative Agreement with several new Cooperative Service Agreements call for increased planning and reporting relative to FY15 and earlier. In partial response, NOAO plans to create a new Program Manager position, adding administrative cost but also creating more time for the other senior managers to focus on daily operations and strategic development to the benefit of the research user community NOAO supports. In addition, AURA Corporate operations must also be enlarged to deal with increased federal compliance regulations and expectations. The cost of that activity will be recovered in part through indirect charges to the NOAO Cooperative Agreement, leaving less funding for other activity. In short, NOAO is facing both reduced funding in an absolute sense and an increase in direct and indirect administrative costs in a relative sense. Hopefully, a new steady state will be reached soon. At the program level, NOAO stayed within its overall budget and completed most planned activities and deliverables, albeit not always per schedule (see above). However, it has become clear over the last several years that where work is planned is not always where it is tracked and charged in terms of the NOAO work breakdown structure. Senior management team overload during FY15 (see above) prevented

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sufficient analysis to implement real improvement. The addition of a new Program Manager should allow progress on this issue during FY16. Observatory wide, the most significant operational challenges came in Chile this year. While science and technical operations proceeded without major problems, the onset of LSST construction activity and a strong ENSO event created significant stress on the NOAO South facilities operations group, exacerbated by the sudden departure of the group leader to work with LSST. As a result of these stressing factors, it became clear that the current team was neither large enough nor skilled enough to deal with sudden challenges (such as the lightning storm that caused major damage to the high-voltage distribution system on Cerro Tololo) or deliver all promised services in a consistently timely fashion. During the second half of FY15, NOAO took significant measures to improve this situation, at both management and worker levels. Nevertheless, this is an ongoing challenge that will require continued attention during FY16 to achieve the level of service performance delivery NOAO expects of itself, as well as what is expected by our clients.

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3.1 CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY

Dark Energy Survey Finds More Celestial Neighbors (excerpt from Fermilab press release 15-17, see also Drlica-Wagner et al. 2015, arXiv:1508.03622)

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy. Signs indicate that they, like the objects found by the same team earlier this year, are likely dwarf satellite galaxies, the smallest and closest known form of galaxies. Satellite galaxies are small celestial objects that orbit larger galaxies, such as our own Milky Way. Dwarf galaxies can be found with fewer than 1,000 stars, in contrast to the Milky Way, an average- sized galaxy containing billions of stars. Scientists have predicted that larger galaxies are built from smaller galaxies, which are thought to be especially rich in dark matter, the substance that makes up about 25 percent of the total matter and energy in the universe. Dwarf satellite galaxies, therefore, are Figure 1: The Dark Energy Survey has now mapped one-eighth of considered key to understanding dark the full sky (red shaded region) using the Dark Energy Camera matter and the process by which larger (DECam) on the Blanco 4-m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter- galaxies form. American Observatory in Chile (foreground). This map has led to The main goal of the Dark Energy the discovery of 17 dwarf galaxy candidates in the past six Survey, as its name suggests, is to better months (red dots), including 8 new candidates just announced. understand the nature of dark energy, the Several of the candidates are in close proximity to the 2 largest mysterious stuff that makes up about 70 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, the Large and Small percent of the matter and energy in the Magellanic Clouds, both of which are visible to the unaided eye. universe. Scientists believe that dark By comparison, the new stellar systems are so faint that they are energy is the key to understanding why difficult to “see” even in the deep DES images and can be more the expansion of the universe is easily visualized using maps of the stellar density (inset). Of the speeding up. To carry out its dark dwarf galaxy candidates found in DES data, 14 are visible in this energy mission, DES takes snapshots of particular image. (Illustration credit: Dark Energy Survey hundreds of millions of distant galaxies. Collaboration.) However, some of the DES images also contain stars in dwarf galaxies much closer to the Milky Way. The same data can therefore be used to probe both dark energy, which scientists think is driving galaxies apart, and dark matter, which is thought to hold galaxies together. Scientists can only see the faintest dwarf galaxies when they are nearby and had previously only found a few of them. If these new discoveries are representative of the entire sky, there could be many more galaxies hiding in our cosmic neighborhood.

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“Just this year, more than 20 of these dwarf satellite galaxy candidates have been spotted, with 17 of those found in Dark Energy Survey data,” said Alex Drlica-Wagner of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, one of the leaders of the DES analysis. “We’ve nearly doubled the number of these objects we know about in just one year, which is remarkable.” In March, researchers with the DES and an independent team from the University of Cambridge jointly announced the discovery of nine of these objects in snapshots taken by the Dark Energy Camera, the extraordinary instrument at the heart of the DES, an experiment funded by the DOE, the National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies. Two of those have been confirmed as dwarf satellite galaxies so far. Prior to 2015, scientists had located only about two dozen such galaxies around the Milky Way. “DES is finding galaxies so faint that they would have been very difficult to recognize in previous surveys,” said Keith Bechtol of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “The discovery of so many new galaxy candidates in one-eighth of the sky could mean there are more to find around the Milky Way.” The closest of these newly discovered objects is about 80,000 light-years away and the farthest roughly 700,000 light-years away. These objects are, on average, around a billion times dimmer than the Milky Way and a million times less massive. The faintest of the new dwarf galaxy candidates has about 500 stars. Most of the newly discovered objects are in the southern half of the DES survey area, in close proximity to the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. These are the two largest satellite galaxies associated with the Milky Way, about 158,000 light-years and 208,000 light-years away, respectively. It is possible that many of these new objects could be satellite galaxies of these larger satellite galaxies, which would be a discovery by itself. “That result would be fascinating,” said Risa Wechsler of DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. “Satellites of satellites are predicted by our models of dark matter. Either we are seeing these types of systems for the first time, or there is something we don’t understand about how these satellite galaxies are distributed in the sky.” Since dwarf galaxies are thought to be made mostly of dark matter, with very few stars, they are excellent targets to explore the properties of dark matter. Further analysis will confirm whether these new objects are indeed dwarf satellite galaxies and whether signs of dark matter can be detected from them. The 17 dwarf satellite galaxy candidates were discovered in the first two years of data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, a five-year effort to photograph a portion of the southern sky in unprecedented detail. Scientists have now had a first look at most of the survey area, but data from the next three years of the survey will likely allow them to find objects that are even fainter, more diffuse or farther away. The third survey season has just begun.

Measuring Orbits and Sizes of NEOWISE Near-Earth Asteroids with DECam (excerpt from September 2015 NOAO Newsletter article by Sarah Sonnett) Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets that pass within 1.3 AU of the Sun. Because of their close proximity to Earth, telescopes can image very small NEOs and probe a size regime that is inaccessible in other asteroid populations. However, this same closeness makes NEOs a potential threat. Determining the orbit and size of NEOs is essential in evaluating the likelihood that any given NEO will impact the Earth or explode close to the Earth’s surface, as in the 14 February 2013 event in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Determining the size and orbital distribution of NEOs is key to understanding their history, which further provides clues to their supply rate from other small body reservoirs (e.g., the main asteroid belt) and how they will dynamically evolve. Surface properties also offer important insights into NEO behavior and provide valuable constraints on the dynamical and physical evolution of small bodies. Some NEOs are good candidates for robotic or manned space missions. The precise determination of the surface/physical properties of NEOs is critical to assessing the feasibility and engineering needs for a rendezvous, but only a few NEOs are sufficiently studied in this respect.

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The first step toward these goals is to discover NEOs and determine their basic properties. This is the mission of NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting component of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which set out in December 2013 on its approximately three-year mission to discover and characterize NEOs (Mainzer et al. 2014, ApJ, 792, 30). NEOWISE is currently detecting approximately one new NEO per week but has no internal follow-up capability. Without timely follow-up, astrometric uncertainties associated with the original images will grow within a few weeks to tens or hundreds of Figure 2: Declination and V-band magnitude of all degrees, and the discoveries will be lost, their orbits NEOWISE discoveries since July 2014 for objects unknown. Follow-up optical observations, when that were recovered by DECam (red squares) and paired with NEOWISE infrared magnitudes and objects that were recovered on other telescopes thermal modeling, are also needed to measure the (black dots). Since the discoveries are made in the albedos (or surface reflectivity) of NEOs. We infrared, the V-band magnitudes are estimates based therefore initiated a small target-of-opportunity on average surface properties of NEOs. The plot follow-up program on the Blanco 4-m telescope with shows that DECam can reach V magnitudes of the DECam instrument. Because many of our ~23.5, highlighting its ability to recover very faint discoveries are best observed in the Southern objects. Hemisphere, are very faint (V ~ 22.5), and have typically large position uncertainties (1–2° on the sky), DECam, with its large field of view (2° diameter), has played a critical role in characterizing our NEO discoveries. Since February 2014, DECam has recovered six of our NEO discoveries on the brink of being lost. Time-critical observations of asteroids such as the Apollo-class asteroid 2014 BE63 have shown that while the object will cross the Earth’s orbit, its closest approach to Earth will be a safe 0.13 AU away. The DECam observations have also identified NEOs with unusual orbital properties. One of these, 2014 PP69, has an eccentricity of approximately 0.9 and orbital inclination of about 93°. With an average heliocentric distance beyond the main asteroid belt, it is 1 of only 18 known members of the Amor IV dynamical group and 1 of only 3 NEOs with orbital inclination greater than 90°. NEOWISE has also uncovered the first (and so far only) Earth Trojan, a NEO that librates around Earth’s L4 Lagrange point. Trojans are geometrically difficult to detect, but they have important implications for the dynamical evolution of the inner solar system because precise dynamical conditions are needed to scatter an asteroid into such an orbit (Connors et al. 2011, Natur, 475, 481). Other NEOWISE discoveries include large, dark, potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) that are difficult for current ground- based surveys to detect. The wide range of NEO albedos primarily results from differing surface compositions and irradiation effects. More such discoveries are expected from the DECam observations.

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Hiding in Plain Sight: Undergraduates Discover the Densest Galaxies Known (excerpt from NOAO press release 15-04, see also M.A. Sandoval, R.P. Vo, A.J. Romanowsky, et al. 2015, ApJL, 808, L32)

Two undergraduates at San Jose State University have discovered two galaxies that are the densest known. Similar to ordinary globular star clusters but a hundred to a thousand times brighter, the new systems have properties intermediate in size and luminosity between galaxies and star clusters. The first system discovered by the investigators, M59-UCD3, has a width two hundred times smaller than our own Milky Way Galaxy and a stellar density 10,000 times larger than that in the neighborhood of the Sun. For an observer in the core of M59-UCD3, the night sky would be a dazzling display, lit up by a million stars. The stellar density of the second system, M85-HCC1, is higher still: about a million times that of the Solar neighborhood. Both systems belong to the new class of galaxies known as ultracompact dwarfs (UCDs). The study, led by undergraduates Michael Sandoval and Richard Vo, used imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Subaru Telescope, and Hubble Space Telescope, as well as spectroscopy from the Goodman spectrograph on the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope, located on the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory site. The SOAR spectrum was used to show that M59-UCD3 is associated with a larger host galaxy, M59, and to measure the age and elemental abundances of the galaxy’s stars (see Figure 3). “Ultracompact stellar systems like these are easy to find once you know what to look for. However, they were overlooked for decades because no one imagined such objects existed: they were hiding in plain sight,” said Richard Vo. “When we discovered one UCD serendipitously, we realized there must be others, and we set out to find them.” The students were motivated by the

idea that all it takes to initiate a discovery is Figure 3: Reconstructed spectrum of light from the a good idea, archival data, and dedication. ultracompact galaxies M59-UCD3, as seen by the SOAR The last element was critical, because the telescope (top) and M85-HCC1, as seen by the Sloan Digital students worked on the project on their own Sky Survey (bottom). Dark bands are the fingerprints of time. Aaron Romanowsky, the faculty atoms and molecules in the atmospheres of the stars in the mentor and coauthor on the study, galaxy. These bands reveal the compositions and ages of the explained, “The combination of these stars as well as the velocities of the galaxies. elements and the use of national facilities for follow-up spectroscopy is a great way to engage undergraduates in frontline astronomical research, especially for teaching universities like San José State that lack large research budgets and their own astronomical facilities.” The nature and origins of UCDs are mysterious—are they the remnant nuclei of tidally stripped dwarf galaxies, merged stellar super-clusters, or genuine compact dwarf galaxies formed in the smallest peaks of primordial dark matter fluctuations? Michael Sandoval favors the tidally stripped hypothesis. “One of the best clues is that some UCDs host overweight supermassive black holes. This suggests that UCDs were originally much bigger galaxies with normal supermassive black holes, whose fluffy outer parts were stripped away, leaving their dense centers behind. This is plausible because the known UCDs are found near massive galaxies that could have done the stripping.” An additional line of evidence is the high abundance of heavy elements such as iron in UCDs. Because large galaxies are more efficient factories to make these metals, a high metal content may indicate that the galaxy used to be much larger.

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To test this hypothesis, the team will investigate the motions of stars in the center of M59-UCD3 to look for a supermassive black hole. They are also on the hunt for more UCDs, to understand how commonly they occur and how diverse they are.

3.2 KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY

Dark Energy Spectrometer for Kitt Peak Receives Funding Green Light

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced in September 2015 its approval of Critical Decision 2 (CD-2) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project, authorizing its scientific scope, schedule, and funding profile. DESI, destined for the Mayall 4-m telescope, will chart out the role of dark energy in the expansion history of the universe. To carry out its mission, DESI will measure the redshifts of more than 30 million galaxies and quasars and create a three-dimensional map of the universe that extends from the nearby universe out to a distance of 10 billion light-years. Probing a larger volume of the universe than any map yet made, the map will reveal how dark energy and gravity have competed over time to shape the structure of the universe. DESI’s scientific reach stretches beyond cosmology. It will be a powerful engine of discovery in many areas of astrophysics, and unanticipated discoveries are expected. DESI’s Figure 4: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument unique map-making ability is made possible by the (DESI) will be mounted on the Mayall 4-m telescope massively parallel nature of its optical at Kitt Peak National Observatory. It will measure spectrometer. Capable of measuring 5000 spectra at the redshifts of 30 million galaxies and quasars in order to study how dark energy and gravity shape the a time over a huge 8-square-degree field-of-view, structure of the universe. (Image credit: P. Marenfeld or approximately 40 times the area of the full moon, & NOAO/AURA/NSF.) DESI on the Mayall will be a world-leading

spectroscopic capability. DESI is the latest chapter in NOAO’s history of studying dark energy. In the late 1980s, NOAO and its facilities were involved in the unexpected discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The acceleration has been attributed to dark energy, the nature of which remains a mystery. Dark energy is currently estimated to make up approximately 70% of the universe. NOAO and its facilities are currently involved in two other projects in partnership with DOE that are designed to study the nature of dark energy: the Dark Energy Survey (DES), currently ongoing at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), also sited in Chile, which is scheduled to begin science operations at the beginning of the next decade.

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NASA Solicits Proposals for a World-Class Precision Doppler Spectrometer at Kitt Peak

Kitt Peak National Observatory is the future home of a state-of-the-art instrument that will be used to detect and characterize other worlds. The new instrument, an extreme precision radial velocity spectrometer, will measure the subtle motion of stars produced by their orbiting planets. The spectrometer, funded by NASA, will be deployed on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope. The spectrometer is the cornerstone of a newly established partnership between the NSF and NASA focused on exoplanet research (NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research; NN-EXPLORE), which aims to advance exoplanet science through the use of the NOAO share of the WIYN telescope. As an initial step in the partnership, NASA announced in January 2015 a request for proposals to build an Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrometer (EPDS) for use by the astronomical community. The spectrometer will measure stellar radial velocities with a precision sufficient to characterize Jupiter- and Neptune-sized gas giant planets as well as super-Earth and Earth-sized rocky planets. The new spectrometer will be a world-class precision radial velocity instrument, with a minimum velocity precision of better than 0.5 m/s (1 mph) and a goal of 0.1 m/s (0.2 mph). Such extreme precision is Exoplanet needed to measure the mass of an orbiting planet through the slight motion that the planet

Host Star Low Mass Planets Cause Slow Stellar Wobble induces in the star. As a planet orbits a star, it

Jupiter 29 mph causes the star to move, or “wobble,” as both

Earth 0.23 mph objects orbit their gravitational center of mass. Lower-mass planets induce subtler motions in Speed of Desert Animals & EPDS Precision the star, and correspondingly higher-velocity Rabbit 30 mph precision is needed to characterize them. Jupiter Gila 1 mph EPDS Minimum Precision Monster causes a 13 m/s (29 mph) amplitude wobble in Desert Tortoise 0.2 mph EPDS Precision Goal the Sun, whereas the Earth induces a much smaller wobble (about 0.1 m/s). As a result, extreme precision is needed to characterize Earth-sized rocky planets. Figure 5: Very-high-velocity precision is needed to The new spectrometer is expected to play a measure the mass of low-mass planets through the subtle critical role in characterizing high-priority motion, the "wobble," that a planet induces in its host exoplanet targets identified by current and star. The Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrometer future NASA missions, in particular Kepler, (EPDS) destined for Kitt Peak will measure stellar K2, and the future Transiting Exoplanet Survey motions with a precision of 0.1–0.5 m/s (or 0.2–1 mph), Satellite (TESS). Achieving the scientific velocities comparable to the running speed of a desert potential of these missions requires supporting tortoise or Gila monster. With such high precision, the ground-based observations. High-resolution spectrometer will be able to detect and characterize imaging and spectroscopy are used to rule out Jupiter- and Neptune-sized gas giant planets as well as astronomical false positives. Precise radial super-Earth and Earth-sized rocky planets. (Image velocity measurements are needed to confirm credit: P. Marenfeld & NOAO/AURA/NSF.) the planetary nature of the companions and to

measure their masses. NASA has established an aggressive development schedule for the new spectrometer to make the instrument available for use by the astronomical community on a timescale relevant to the availability of data from the TESS mission (mid- FY18).

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Digital Tracking Dramatically Increases Telescope Sensitivity to Faint Asteroids

In a new study, Heinze et al. (2015; http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/ 1508.01599) describe how an image stacking technique called “digital tracking” can be used to discover large numbers of faint new asteroids. The scheme allows the observer to search a series of images for moving objects that take a range of trajectories and velocities. By shifting and stacking images with the appropriate translation applied, detection sensitivity is enhanced and faint moving objects can be identified. Although more computationally intensive than conventional analysis techniques, digital tracking can detect moving objects 10 times fainter than is typically possible, effectively increasing the aperture of the telescope used for the study. The authors validated their approach using data from the WIYN 0.9-m telescope on Kitt Peak. They detected approximately 200 asteroids in a 1-degree- square field at a brightness level that was previously accessible only to 4-m and larger telescopes. Three-fourths of the asteroids are new discoveries.

Figure 6: Real on-sky tracks of asteroids detected (arrows) using digital tracking. (Image credit: A. Heinze/Stony Brook University.)

3.3 GEMINI OBSERVATORY

The production of papers based on NOAO-approved proposals for Gemini telescopes has been high, with ~75 refereed papers published so far in 2015. Two results published early this year are most notable. In the first result, Hui et al. (2015, MNRAS, 446, 842) used both NIFS and GNIRS spectroscopy to explore the origins of massive stars in clusters that reside in the Galactic Center. Detailed study of eight massive stars near the Galactic Center was able to disentangle that one was formed in situ, a few are interlopers, and others have been ejected from nearby stellar clusters in the Galactic Center. In the second result, Kilic et al. (2015, MNRAS, 446, L26) found the first millisecond pulsar as a companion of an extremely low-mass (ELM) pulsating white dwarf, by using time-series photometry with GMOS on Gemini South. This result places the WD in the ZZ Ceti instability strip. Other ELM WD companions of pulsars have been studied, here and elsewhere, and the non-pulsating and pulsating stars yield to the empirical definition of this rarely populated post-AGB instability strip.

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The initial refereed papers based on GSAOI imaging have become available in the last few months. For example, Reiter et al. (2015, MNRAS, 448, 3429) have shown the exquisite spatial resolution of HH 900 in the Carina nebula images as provided by this capability. Their study, based both on Gemini and HST data, focuses on a peculiar proto-stellar outflow, which has different characteristics depending on the observing band. The GSAOI narrowband H2 emission coincides with Ha but not with the [Fe II] image, disclosing a complex velocity structure of the ejecta. A notable publication based on data acquired with Gemini, with a focus on planetary nebula (PN) evolution and binary central star, resulted in a press release. De Marco et al. (2015, MNRAS, 448, 3587) use Kepler photometry and Gemini North- GMOS spectroscopy to further investigate this problem. GMOS spectra were used to determine masses and luminosities. For some systems, repeat GMOS observations were used to determine spectroscopic binary orbits. The GMOS image of one of the Figure 7: H-alpha HST/ACS image (top) and narrowband program objects, PN Kn 61, was featured in H2 − K-band image from Gemini GSAOI (bottom), both a Gemini press release (www.gemini.edu/ with [Fe ii] contours (1.26 µm + 1.64 µm) overplotted. node/11656). Six PNe are known in the [Fe ii] emission begins at the same place that H2 emission Kepler field. De Marco et al. were able to fades below our sensitivity, and the H-alpha emission collect useful Kepler data on the central star narrows to a similar width as the [Fe ii] emission (adapted in five of these systems. Of the five, one is from Reiter et al. 2015). the first known short-period post-common envelope binary exhibiting relativistic beaming. The second star has photometric variability consistent with an evolved companion. The third star is shown to be the product of a merger. The fourth has variability attributed to a binary. Variability was not detected for the fifth star studied. These results suggest that there are many close binaries or close binary products among the central stars of PNe, but ultra-high-precision photometry would be required to detect them.

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4 GROUND-BASED O/IR OBSERVING SYSTEM OPERATIONS

4.1 NOAO SOUTH

4.1.1 CTIO

FY15 Program Review The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) operates the Blanco 4-m telescope on Cerro Tololo and the SOAR 4.1-m telescope, in which NOAO is a 30% partner, on Cerro Pachón. NOAO is also a 15% partner in the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS) Consortium, which operates the 0.9-m, 1.3-m, and 1.5-m telescopes on Cerro Tololo. In addition, CTIO serves as host for 11 tenant facilities operating a total of more than 20 telescopes of various apertures. The efficient and reliable science operation of these facilities, especially the two 4-m-class telescopes, is the primary focus of effort for all NOAO South staff: the mountain-based CTIO Telescope Operations group are responsible for night-to-night operations, first-tier troubleshooting of problems, and regular preventative maintenance; the CTIO scientific staff provide science support to users before, during, and after their observing runs and provide scientific motivation and leadership for telescope and instrument improvement projects; Engineering and Technical Services (NS ETS) add engineering and technical depth for problem resolution and maintenance efforts and develop and carry out projects to improve performance and increase reliability; the Computer Infrastructure Services group (NS CISS) support the control and data-gathering computers and equipment at the various telescopes as well as the broadband international link use to the data from the mountain to the Internet and to data archives in the US; the Facilities Operations group (NS FO) provide accommodation, meals, and transport services for staff and visitors and maintain the basic infrastructure and utility services for CTIO and all other programs hosted by the AURA site in Chile. A major science operations activity in FY15 was support of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), which is using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco telescope to carry out a grizY survey of a 5000 square degree region centered on the south galactic cap, plus a time-domain search for supernovae, with 105 nights scheduled each year for five years. The report period saw the appearance of the first crop of science papers to result from DES, with 9 papers published and 35 more submitted, while an additional 3 papers resulted from analysis of DES archival data by community scientists. Community programs using DECam on the Blanco telescope produced a further 9 papers. Two new f/8 instruments came to Blanco during FY15, with the CTIO Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph (COSMOS) going into regular science use and the Astronomy Research using the Cornell InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (TS4-ARCoIRIS) being delivered and successfully commissioned. At SOAR improvements were made to increase the efficiency of observing, including the implementation of an acquisition camera for the flagship Goodman spectrograph, significantly reducing the time required to set up on a new target.

Blanco 4-m Telescope

The Blanco telescope, in conjunction with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), continues to be a unique, Southern Hemisphere resource for wide-field survey science. The reporting period saw completion of the second season of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the start of the third. During the second season, which began on 15 August 2014 and ended on 15 February 2015, the equivalent of 105.5 nights (80 full nights plus 51 half nights) on the Blanco telescope were dedicated to this survey. During this time, a total of 17,778 images were collected for the wide-field survey, 91% of which were judged to be of survey quality.

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In addition, 2,370 images were obtained of the supernova fields, of which 83% were accepted. In comparing the second season to the first, the DES team reported both a significant improvement in the delivered image quality and an increase in the shutter-open fraction (a measure of observing efficiency), attributable to improvements to the telescope and its thermal environment made during FY14. In addition, during FY15 DECam was scheduled for a total of 125.5 nights to obtain data for 32 community programs spanning a broad range of science topics. The two new f/8 instruments built for the Blanco telescope using ReSTAR funding passed important milestones during FY15 (Figure 8). Commissioning of the COSMOS optical spectrograph was completed in October 2014, and the instrument had successful first science runs in May and July with a total of 14 nights used by two NOAO and two Chilean programs. Integration and laboratory testing of the near-infrared spectrograph TS4-ARCoIRIS was completed at Cornell University in February. The completed instrument was delivered to Chile in late April and achieved first light on the Blanco telescope during a six-night engineering run in early May.

Figure 8: COSMOS (left) and TS4-ARCoIRIS (right) installed at the f/8 focus of the Blanco telescope

Blanco Instrumentation

¡ Dark Energy Camera: DECam is CTIO’s state-of-the-art wide-field optical imager, with a focal plane of 570 megapixels covering a field of view (FOV) of two degrees in diameter, the largest FOV currently available in the Southern Hemisphere. DECam was the instrument scheduled for all but 14 of the science nights during FY15. During this time it was successfully used to carry out the second, and begin the third, season of observations for the Dark Energy Survey, as well as to execute a diverse set of community science programs.

¡ COSMOS: The CTIO Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph (COSMOS) is a new high-efficiency optical spectrograph for the Blanco telescope, a twin to KOSMOS at the Kitt Peak National Observatory Mayall 4-m telescope. It can be used with a single 10.0 arcminute long slit, or with a multi-slit mask (slit placement field 10.0 × 5.0 arcminutes), to obtain spectra with R~2,200. It can also be used in imaging mode covering a 10 arcminute diameter FOV. This instrument went into regular science use following the completion of its commissioning in October 2014, with a total of 14 nights used by four different science programs during FY15.

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¡ TS4-ARCoIRIS: The Astronomy Research using the Cornell InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (ARCoIRIS) is a new facility instrument for the Blanco telescope, built by NOAO in partnership with Cornell University with funding from a Renewing Small Telescopes for Astronomical Research (ReSTAR) award. It is a single-object, moderate-dispersion near-IR spectrograph providing coverage of the entire 0.8 to 2.4 micron range in eight cross-dispersed orders, at a resolution R~2,400. Integration and laboratory testing of ARCoIRIS was completed at Cornell in February 2015, and the completed instrument was delivered to Chile in late April. First light was achieved during a six-night engineering run in early May. ARCoIRIS is being offered for use by the community for the 2016A semester.

Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR)

NOAO is a partner in the SOAR consortium together with the nation of Brazil, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Michigan State University, and it operates the SOAR telescope on behalf of the partnership. Various projects to enhance the performance of the SOAR telescope and its instruments were carried out during FY15. NOAO South ETS staff continued work on a major upgrade of the software for the SOAR Telescope Control System (TCS), bringing it up to the same level as the recently upgraded TCS of the Blanco 4-m telescope to improve reliability and simplify maintenance. Improvements were made to the telescope and guider pointing models, and an acquisition camera was manufactured for the Goodman spectrograph, greatly reducing the time needed to set-up on a new target.

SOAR Telescope Instrumentation

¡ Goodman Spectrograph: The Goodman spectrograph is a high-efficiency optical spectrograph equipped with a Fairchild 4K × 4K CCD that provides very high throughput in the UV/Blue. It is the most popular instrument at SOAR, accounting for about 60% of the time requested. It can be used with a single 3.9 arcminute long slit, or with a multi-slit mask (slit placement field 3.0 × 5.0 arcminutes), to obtain spectra with R~1,800 to 14,000. It can also be used in imaging mode covering a 7.2 arcmin diameter FOV.

¡ SOI: The SOAR Optical Imager provides imaging over a 5.25 × 5.25 arcmin FOV at a scale of 0.07 arcsec/pixel. While the imaging mode of the Goodman spectrograph has taken on some of the imaging load, SOI continued to be in demand for its high-quality images and stability.

¡ SAM: The SOAR Adaptive-optics Module (SAM) is a ground-layer AO system that uses a UV laser as a Rayleigh beacon to improve image quality in the optical, achieving uniform correction over a 3 arcminute diameter field. With the AO loop closed, resolution of 0.5 arcsec in the V band and 0.4 arcsec in the I band can be achieved under typical conditions. The instrument incorporates a dedicated CCD imager, SAMI, fitted with a 4K × 4K E2V CCD covering a 3.0 × 3.0 arcmin FOV at a scale 0f 0.045 arcsec/pixel, and it can also feed a small visitor instrument.

¡ OSIRIS: The Ohio State Infrared Imager and Spectrometer, which is fitted with a CTIO-owned 1K × 1K Rockwell HgCdTe array, was moved to SOAR after several years of use on the Blanco telescope in FY05. It provides both imaging (over an FOV of up to 3.2 × 3.2 arcmin) and moderate-resolution, near-infrared spectroscopy (up to R = 3000) capability. OSIRIS will be retired once TS4-ARCoIRIS, which provides a similar spectroscopic capability, becomes available on Blanco in the 2016A semester.

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¡ Spartan Infrared Camera: Spartan is a near-infrared imager offering two different scales: an ƒ/21 channel with an FOV of 3.0 × 3.0 arcmin and a scale of 0.043 arcsec/pixel chosen to resolve the diffraction-limited core of Tip-Tilt–corrected images in the H and K bands, and an ƒ/12 channel with an FOV of 5.0 × 5.0 arcmin at 0.073 arcsec/pixel.

CTIO Small Telescopes and SMARTS

The Small and Moderate Aperture Telescope Research System (SMARTS) consortium continued to operate three small telescopes at CTIO: the 0.9-m, the 1.3-m, and the 1.5-m telescopes. A new three-year agreement, SMARTS 3, started on 1 August 2013. NOAO South provides operational and technical support to SMARTS on a cost-recovery basis. During FY15, this included assistance with troubleshooting and problem resolution, regular washing of the mirrors of the three SMARTS telescopes, and repair of the CCD cameras for the CHIRON spectrograph at the 1.5- m telescope and the CCD imager of the 0.9-m telescope.

SMARTS Telescopes Instrumentation

¡ CTIO 1.5-m: The CTIO 1.5-m telescope is equipped with the CTIO high-resolution spectrometer CHIRON, a fiber-fed Echelle spectrograph providing high-resolution spectroscopy of bright targets. The telescope and instruments are run in service mode only. ¡ CTIO 1.3-m: The “A Novel Double-Imaging Camera” (ANDICAM) instrument on the CTIO 1.3-m provides simultaneous optical and near-IR imaging in full-service, limited-queue mode. The optical imager uses a 2K × 2K CCD, while the IR capability is based upon a 1K × 1K detector. The maximum time per night per project is set at three hours in order to support the wide range of astronomical monitoring projects that can utilize this productive combination of telescope, instrument, and observing mode. ¡ CTIO 0.9-m: The CTIO 0.9-m telescope continued to support a fixed 2K × 2K optical imager, with observations in classical mode only. This facility is the cornerstone of a major astrometric project, led by Todd Henry of Georgia State University, that relies upon the long-term stability of the instrument and telescope. ¡ The YALO (Yale, AURA, Lisbon, Ohio State) 1.0-m telescope: This telescope remained closed during FY15. If sufficient new funding can be found, this telescope might be put into regular operation again.

Tenant Observatories and Projects

AURA and CTIO offer a platform that provides US scientists and institutions access to the skies of the Southern Hemisphere. CTIO hosts 11 tenant facilities operating more than 20 tenant telescopes, many of them run entirely remotely, and several additional projects studying a wide range of phenomena, including the following:

§ The 0.6/0.9-m Curtis Schmidt telescope is owned by the University of Michigan and is operated on a part-time basis in a NASA-funded project to catalog Figure 9: Panorama of the tenant telescopes on the space debris in geosynchronous orbits. northeast shoulder of Cerro Tololo

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§ The Lowell 0.6-m telescope is run by the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) as a fully robotic facility. § GONG: CTIO hosts one of the six Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) helio-seismology stations owned by the National Solar Observatory, which has been in operation since 1995. § PROMPT: The University of North Carolina Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT) consists of a cluster of eight small telescopes that rapidly follow up GRBs discovered by the SWIFT satellite and subsequently trigger a target-of- opportunity interrupt at SOAR. At other times, the telescopes make observations as part of an extensive education and outreach program in North Carolina. During FY15 the Evryscope, a novel array of 27 7-cm-aperture telescopes, was installed in one of the PROMPT domes. Together these telescopes point at every part of the accessible sky simultaneously and continuously, forming a gigapixel-scale image of an overlapping 8000 square degree field every two minutes. This instrument will be used for a variety of time-domain studies, including a search for transiting exoplanets. § WHAM: The Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper (WHAM) is carrying out an all-sky survey of galactic H-alpha emission using a Fabry-Perot interferometer. The northern part of the survey was completed from Kitt Peak, after which the experiment was relocated to Cerro Tololo in 2010. § LCOGTN: The CTIO node of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN) includes 3x 1.0-m telescopes, which came on line in FY13 and will be used for a variety of scientific research projects, and 2x 0.4-m telescopes, which were added during FY14 to serve in an education and outreach role. § MEARTH, operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, consists of 8x 0.4-m telescopes in a run-off shed, which are being used to survey nearby M dwarfs in search of new Earth-like exoplanets. § The KMTNet 1.6-m telescope is one of three telescopes comprising the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) being built by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute that will be used for microlensing observations. Installation and testing of the instrument, a CCD camera built at Ohio State University, was completed during FY15, with full science operation expected to start at the beginning of FY16. ¡ The T80-South 0.8-m telescope is being built with Brazilian funding and will form part of the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe (J-PAS) project which will carry out an 8000 square degree survey through 56 narrowband optical filters. The T80-S telescope and its northern twin will be used for photometric calibration of the main survey. Installation of the telescope was completed and installation and commissioning of the instrument begun during FY15. ¡ Several non-astronomical experiments are also hosted, including the Andes Lidar Observatory (ALO), an ionospheric physics experiment operated by the University of Illinois and a seismic station operated by the University of Chile.

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La Serena School for Data Science

The La Serena School for Data Science (LSSDS) is an intensive week of interdisciplinary lectures focused on applied tools for handling big astronomical data. Participants are instructed in how astronomical data are processed, accessed, and analyzed, including reduction pipelines, databases, and scientific programming. Funding for the school is provided through a supplement to this award (AST-0950945) with roughly matching Chilean contributions from CONICYT (the Chilean equivalent of the NSF), the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, and the Center for Mathematical Modeling at the University of Chile. Figure 10: Participants in the 2015 La Serena School for In FY15, the third annual school was held Data Science during the group project activity during the week of August 15–22. More than 190 applications were received, of which 43% were students from the US, 25% were from Chile, and 22% were from other countries, including Australia, South Africa, Mexico, India, and Pakistan. The applicant pool was 34% female and 66% male. From these we selected 35 students: 15 from the US, 18 from Chile, and 2 international. Of these, 17 were female and 18 were male. This year the School curriculum included 13 lectures and 9 hands-on lecture activities given by the four core and seven visiting faculty. These covered topics ranging from introductions to astronomical data and statistics to how to use high-performance computing clusters. The students were then divided into groups of four to work on projects in which they used the tools they had learned about in the lectures, presenting their results at a final meeting.

Status of FY15 Milestones

• Develop a program of regular preventative maintenance for the Blanco 4-m telescope and its key, supporting infrastructure, and implement it starting in Q2 of FY15. Status: Implementation of the basic framework for scheduling and tracking periodic maintenance activities within the JIRA issue reporting and tracking system was completed during Q1. Maintenance procedures for all the key components of the telescope and supporting infrastructure have been incorporated within this system, with secondary systems being added as appropriate.

• Refurbish or replace the secondary backup generator, secondary frequency converter, and associated transfer switches in the Cerro Tololo powerhouse to ensure robust operation of this critical equipment for the next decade. Planning and prioritization will be carried out in Q1 of FY15, with procurement starting in Q2 as funding permits. Status: The equipment in the Cerro Tololo powerhouse suffered serious damage as the result of lightning strikes during a severe electrical storm at the end of March. Both the main 23kv/2.4kv step-down transformer and the control circuitry for the primary frequency convertor were rendered inoperable. A comprehensive plan has been developed to replace the damaged and obsolete hardware in the powerhouse with modern equipment (a solid-state frequency convertor will replace the current motor-generator–based unit) and at the same time incorporate protection circuitry and power-quality monitoring equipment to increase robustness and failure tolerance and simplify maintenance. The hardware required will be procured and installed during Q1 and Q2 of FY16. In the meantime, the mountain is operating on generator power. A secondary standby

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generator has been ordered, with a rented generator in use as backup for the primary in the meantime.

• Support the second season of observations for the Dark Energy Survey (DES), which runs from mid- August 2014 through early February 2015. Hold a workshop in March 2015 to promote the effective use by the community of the images collected during the first DES season. Status: Completed. The second DES season began on 15 August 2014 and ended on 15 February 2015. The equivalent of 105.5 nights (80 full nights plus 51 half nights) on the Blanco telescope were dedicated to the survey. During this time, a total of 17,778 images were collected for the wide-field survey, 91% of which were judged to be of survey quality. In addition, 2,370 images were obtained of the supernova fields, of which 83% were accepted. The “DECam Community Science Workshop,” held March 13–16 in Tucson, was attended by 65 participants from DES, NOAO, and the user community. Twenty-eight presentations covered the properties of the instrument and its data, DES and community data reduction pipelines, the NOAO Science Archive, and early science results from DES and community programs.

• Prepare for the delivery of the TripleSpec4 (TS4) near-infrared spectrograph, in January 2015, and commission it on the Blanco 4-m telescope during Q3 and Q4 of FY15. Status: Completed. Integration and laboratory testing of the near-infrared spectrograph TripleSpec4 (TS4) was completed at Cornell University in February. The completed instrument was delivered to Chile in late April and achieved first light on the Blanco telescope on 29 April 2015. Two subsequent commissioning runs in May and June have been used to integrate the instrument with the telescope services and control system, characterize its performance, and obtain initial science verification data. Further commissioning and science verification runs are scheduled for the 2015B semester. The instrument was offered for community use, without restrictions, in the call for proposals for the 2016A semester.

• Develop during Q1 of FY15 conceptual designs and resource estimates for the steps needed to increase observing efficiency at the SOAR telescope—including improvement of the guide star selection software, addition of an acquisition camera to the Goodman spectrograph, and implementation of closed-loop control of focus and astigmatism—and propose them to the SOAR board for funding. It is anticipated that, given a favorable finding decision, one or two of these measures can be implemented during FY15, with the others being carried over to FY16. Status: The telescope and guider pointing models were updated in Q1, and manufacture and test of the acquisition camera for the Goodman spectrograph was completed in Q3. Together these two measures have reduced the time required to set up on a new science target with the Goodman spectrograph and acquire guide stars, from 10 minutes to only 1. Work has begun on the design of the opto-mechanical modifications to the guider to allow its use as a low-order wave-front sensor, thus permitting closed-loop control of focus and astigmatism; implementation is programmed for FY16.

• To strengthen post-run scientific support of users of the SOAR telescope, carry out a survey during Q1 of FY15 of previous users of NOAO time to determine what factors have limited their ability to publish quickly and use this as the basis for planning and prioritization of improvements to be implemented during the remainder of the year.

Status: A survey of all users awarded time on the SOAR telescope during the period 2011–2014 has been completed, and the results were presented at the external review of SOAR held in June. Of the respondents, 50% had published all or some of their data, and a further 30% expected to

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do so, but needed to collect further data to complete their projects. In several of these later cases the SOAR data had been taken to enable observations on other (larger) telescopes that have yet to be completed. Actions are planned for implementation in FY16 to address a number of specific issues identified by respondents.

• Implement succession plans for key staff who will transition fully or on a shared basis to LSST. Recruitment to replace the transitioning staff will take place in Q1 of FY15, with cross training and knowledge transfer occurring over the remainder of the year. Status: Completed. Four staff members transitioned fully to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project at the start of FY15. One of these positions will not be replaced; the others have been filled through a process of internal recruitment. Similarly, the head of the Computer Infrastructure group, who will transition at the beginning of FY16, is being replaced internally. Discussions continued with LSST concerning additional staff that may transition from CTIO to LSST on a full- or part-time basis, as construction activity ramps up, to allow for the timely recruitment of additional staff and to ensure critical knowledge is retained.

• Host the third annual La Serena School for Data Science during one week in August 2015 in collaboration with AURA, LSST, and Chilean institutional partners. Status: Completed. The 2015 school, held August 15–22, in La Serena was attended by 35 students: 15 from the US, 18 from Chile, and 2 international students. Participants attended 13 lectures and 9 hands-on lecture activities given by the four core and seven visiting faculty, covering topics ranging from introductions to astronomical data and statistics to how to use high- performance computing clusters, then applied what they had learned by carrying out a project.

4.1.2 NOAO South Engineering & Technical Services

FY15 Program Review

During the reporting period the NOAO South Engineering and Technical Services (NS ETS) group provided engineering and technical support for science operations of the CTIO telescopes, helping with problem diagnosis and resolution and in regular maintenance of the optical, mechanical, electronic, and software systems of the telescopes and instruments. They also participated in projects to upgrade the performance of the telescopes and to install and test new instrumentation The near-infrared spectrograph TS4-ARCoIRIS was a major focus of activity by NS ETS during FY15. NS ETS staff were responsible for testing and characterization of the infrared (IR) detectors and their associated control electronics, which were shipped to Cornell University in January for installation in the instrument. A team from NS ETS then traveled to Cornell in February to participate in the integration of the instrument and witness the pre-shipment acceptance test. Various accessories, including the instrument-to- telescope interface adapter, instrument-handling cart, and control electronics for the calibration lamps system, were also developed and fabricated in Chile. The completed instrument was delivered to Chile on 24 April 2015 and achieved first light on the Blanco telescope during a six-night engineering run in early May. NS ETS staff participated in the mechanical, electronic, optical, and software integration of the instrument with the Blanco telescope and its control system and supported the commissioning of the instrument on the telescope. NS ETS worked on various improvement projects for the SOAR telescope during FY15. The upgrade to the SOAR Telescope Control System (TCS) made steady progress, with the coding of the core modules now substantially complete and testing underway. An acquisition camera for the Goodman spectrograph was designed, manufactured, and put into service at the telescope, significantly reducing the time required

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to set-up on new targets. Work has also begun on the design of the opto-mechanical modifications to the guider to allow its use as a low-order wave-front sensor, thus permitting closed-loop control of focus and astigmatism. Implementation of these changes is programmed for FY16.

Status of FY15 Milestones

§ Complete the Blanco telescope primary mirror active optics improvement project in Q1 of FY15. Status: Completed. The new, high-precision pressure controllers for the 33 pneumatic actuators (air bags) that support the primary mirror were installed during Q4 of FY14, and the system has functioned flawlessly since being brought online in mid-August 2014 in time for the start of the second DES season. Finishing touches such as repackaging of the control electronics and assembly and testing of spare modules were completed during Q1 of FY15. Measurements continue to be made regularly during engineering time to refine the look-up tables used to drive the system and to monitor the resulting delivered image quality.

§ Refurbish the Blanco aluminizing tank in Q3 of FY15 and optimize its control parameters (work to be completed in Q1 of FY16) to ensure stable, reliable, and reproducible deposition of a good-quality coating in time to re-aluminize the Blanco primary mirror during calendar year 2016. Status: Work to document and refurbish the existing electrical system and vacuum pumps has been completed. The coating team has undergone formal training in evaporative and sputtered coating deposition given by an instructor from a company specializing in industrial vacuum technology, and they will gain further practical experience by participating in the coating of the Gemini South primary mirror scheduled for October 2015. A series of coating tests to optimize the parameters of the Blanco plant will begin in Q1 of FY16.

§ Repair the Blanco mirror elevator in Q4 of FY15 following the similar work carried out at the Mayall telescope during FY14. Status: A careful trade study comparing the approaches adopted at the Mayall telescope and at the AAO to resolve the same problem with their very similar mirror lifts has been completed. The decision has been reached to follow the AAO approach because the Mayall team had to work around significant defects in the vendor-supplied hardware they used, which are avoided in the AAO approach. Implementation of the chosen approach is programmed for FY16.

§ Build the new handling cart for the Blanco Cassegrain cage in Q2 of FY15, the design of which was completed in FY14. Status: This manufacturing task was postponed to FY16 due to competition for machine shop resources from higher-priority work for other projects.

§ Complete during Q1 of FY15 the evaluation and costing of improvements to the drive mechanism and emergency brake for the Blanco dome shutter, building on similar work being carried out at the Mayall telescope and Anglo-Australian Telescope. Implementation will begin in Q2 of FY15 but is expected to continue into FY16 depending on the design finally adopted. Status: The evaluation phase of both projects has been completed. Detailed design work and implementation is programmed for FY16.

§ Complete upgrading of the SOAR Telescope Control System (TCS) to the same standard as the recently upgraded TCS of the Blanco 4-m telescope in Q4 of FY15.

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Status Coding of all the key software components has been completed, and these modules have been extensively tested and debugged using a software simulation of the telescope mount. Commissioning using the real hardware is progressing well, and it is anticipated that the new TCS will go fully into service during Q1 of FY16.

4.1.3 NOAO South Facilities Operations

FY15 Program Review

The NOAO South Facilities Operations (NS FO) group is responsible for operations, maintenance, and long-term stewardship of the physical infrastructure shared by the facilities hosted by AURA Observatory (AURA-O) in Chile. This includes support buildings, housing, and miscellaneous other facilities in La Serena and on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón. During FY15 Nicole van der Bliek became head of the NS FO group in addition to her existing role as NOAO South Deputy Director. The group has been restructured along functional lines with separate groups dedicated to food services, hotel and related services, and infrastructure maintenance. LSST began construction on Cerro Pachón during Q2 of FY15, which has significantly increased demands on the mountain infrastructure with, for example, increased traffic, especially heavy vehicles, on the mountain roads, longer opening hours for the gate, and greatly increased water consumption on Cerro Pachón. NS FO has been adjusting the frequency of services to meet the demands of LSST construction, hiring additional temporary staff as needed, and will continue to do so as construction activity continues. Natural phenomena have also had serious consequences during FY15: a severe electrical storm accompanied by heavy rainfall in late March, heavy snowfall on both mountains in June and at the beginning of August, and a Richter 8.3 earthquake with epicenter 64 km to the south of Cerro Tololo in September, each of which caused damage to the mountain infrastructure that has had to be addressed by NS FO. The mountain access road was washed out at several points in the March storm, with further damage by meltwater in June and August and rockslides in September. The road was quickly reopened after each of these events, minimizing lost observing time at the telescopes and avoiding delays to LSST construction work. However, several sections of the road will require more extensive repair, as soon as the winter is over. During the March storm, lightning struck the power lines, interrupting the commercial power to both mountains. Commercial power on Cerro Pachón was restored within a few days. However, on Cerro Tololo both the main 23kv/2.4kv step-down transformer and the control circuitry for the primary frequency convertor were rendered inoperable. Work is continuing with the help of external consultants and contractors to try to repair the damaged equipment and restore commercial power. However, in parallel a plan is being pursued to completely replace the damaged and obsolete hardware in the powerhouse with modern equipment and at the same time incorporate protection circuitry and power-quality monitoring equipment in order to increase robustness and failure tolerance and simplify maintenance. In the meantime, the facilities on Tololo have been running on generator power since the March storm. A rented generator is being used to serve as a backup for the existing generator, and a permanent secondary standby generator is being purchased as part of the powerhouse upgrade. The water system, which supplies both mountains, also suffered damage in the earthquake, with two of the three storage tanks on Tololo ruptured and the control lines for the pump system cut by rockslides. The water system was quickly brought back into operation using the undamaged storage tank, and repair of the other two tanks is underway.

Status of FY15 Milestones

§ Improve the reliability of the electric power transmission infrastructure for both mountains by installing contacts/connectors at the junction between the commercial power company and AURA lines, at the bifurcation of the lines to Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón, and on each summit in Q2 of FY15.

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Status: This project was approved by the Advisory Committee, representing the AURA tenants, as a contingency project to be carried out if funds remained at year’s end. However, this was not the case. This project has therefore been subsumed within the larger project of upgrading the electric power infrastructure being programmed for FY16.

§ Provide separate utility metering in Q3 of FY15 for all tenants on Cerro Tololo and implement a Web- based database for utility consumption to improve the accuracy of billing to users. Status: Additional electricity and water meters have been purchased, and the site plans of Cerro Tololo are being updated to reflect the current status of the electricity and water system in preparation for installation of these meters. Installation will happen during the first half of FY16. A Web-based utility billing system was implemented at the end of FY14 and has been in full use since the beginning of FY15.

§ Complete repairs to the roof of the La Serena office building in Q1 of FY15, addressing the roof sections over the Engineering & Technical Services and SOAR offices. Status: Completed. The roof over the NOAO South library was replaced in March 2015, while the roof over the NOAO South ETS building was replaced in April/May 2015.

§ Install a new heating and air conditioning system for the La Serena offices and laboratories in Q2 of FY15. Status: On hold. LSST, NOAO, and AURA are jointly evaluating a significant modification and renovation of the La Serena office building to incorporate the base facility for LSST as part of an integrated building. This project will entail refurbishment of the existing CTIO offices and laboratories, including the replacement of the heating and air conditioning system for the entire building. This project is therefore on hold pending completion of the preliminary architectural study for the new building, so that the work to be done can be planned and executed in this larger context.

§ Remodel the La Serena machine shop in Q4 of FY15 to provide a covered, well-ventilated area for welding and painting and to provide a direct entrance to the shop superintendent’s office without passing through the machine shop proper, for safety reasons. Status: On hold. Quotes were obtained in Q2 of FY15 for the remodeling of the La Serena machine shop. The decision to proceed is on hold awaiting definition of the larger renovation project for the La Serena offices.

§ Support the ramp-up in LSST construction activity on Cerro Pachón, incrementing the capabilities of the Facilities Operations group as needed by the end of Q4 of FY15 in order to meet increased demand for the group’s services and the need for more frequent road maintenance. Status: LSST construction started in Q2 of FY15. In support of this, an additional truck driver was hired to be able to transport enough water over to Cerro Pachón to meet the needs of the LSST construction project. In anticipation of the heavy road usage, several road construction companies have been approached to carry out a road improvement project. This is planned for FY16.

4.1.4 NOAO South Computer Infrastructure Services The NOAO South Computer Infrastructure Services (NS CISS) group provides information technology (IT) support for NOAO personnel and facilities in Chile and supports the backbone communications and network infrastructure for all AURA-O facilities in Chile. Support is included for servers and the desktop computers for all NOAO South staff. For all facilities—including Gemini, SOAR, and the tenants—NS

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CISS provides the network infrastructure support necessary to maintain reliable connectivity between the mountaintops (Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón) and La Serena as well as between La Serena and the rest of the world. The NS CISS group also provides IT support for Las Campanas Observatory and network support for NRAO/ALMA connectivity from Santiago to the US mainland on a cost-recovery basis. To meet the greatly increased demand for bandwidth from Cerro Tololo to La Serena due to operation of DECam and from new tenant programs such as KASI and T80-S, a new microwave link was installed during FY15, paralleling the existing one. With this new hardware, a full-duplex microwave system manufactured by Cambium, we obtain >200 Mbps in each direction, and as the system is adaptive, greater bandwidth is automatically assigned in the more heavily loaded downlink direction whenever it is necessary. This has allowed us to dedicate the full 155 Mbps capacity of the existing Harris microwave to traffic generated by DECam, with all other traffic from Tololo sharing the new link. NS CISS, in concert with Ampath and REUNA, enabled a third diverse path from Santiago to Miami using the Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (CLARA) network. Hardware was added to the Cisco router that will allow the router to switch from a failing to an operative diverse path within milliseconds. This has been tested in practice by a number of planned and unplanned outages of the main path. As part of the plan to maintain spare computers for DECam, additional computers have been purchased to fill each mission-critical role. These computers have been assembled, tested, and installed in the Survey Image System Process Integration (SISPI) racks, and mountain support staff have been trained to perform the swap between primary and backup machines should it be necessary during the night.

Status of FY15 Milestones

§ Complete the installation of a 10 Gb network segment in La Serena for virtual machines. The required transceivers will be purchased in Q1 of FY15 and installed in Q2 of FY15. Status: Completed. All the server hardware has been implemented, the GlustrFS software has been installed and is working as advertised, and the Centos OS has been upgraded to the most recent version to implement important functions of KVM.

§ Establish by the end of FY15 separate, independent sub-networks for each of the tenant telescopes on Cerro Tololo. Status: A new architecture has been developed that will allow us to transfer all tenants to individual sub-nets in a single process, and the necessary hardware has been received and is being configured.

§ Improve the wireless network in La Serena to enable visitors and staff to gain access in a more consistent manner by installing a wireless local area network controller and captive portal with 802.1x in Q1 of FY15. Status: Completed. A Cisco wireless LAN controller (WLC) device was purchased and installed. Enough access points have been purchased and installed to populate the La Serena offices.

§ Purchase and install in Q1 of FY15 the Cisco Identity Services Engine to make the network more secure from personal mobile devices. Status: The hardware has been procured. Installation and configurations will be carried out during Q1 of FY16.

§ Establish a network connection in Q3 of FY15 from Cerro Tololo to the water tower in the San Carlos valley to support remote monitoring of the pumping stations by the NOAO South Facilities Operations staff.

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Status: Completed. The necessary equipment to establish a wireless network connecting the pumping stations has been installed, and this link is operational.

§ Transfer management responsibility for NS CISS from the current head of program to another member of the group in Q1 of FY15 to allow the former to focus on support of the LSST network and AURA network backbone. Status: Management responsibility has been transferred within the group. The current head of the group will transition to LSST at the start of FY16.

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4.2 NOAO NORTH

4.2.1 KPNO

FY15 Program Review

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) operates the Mayall 4-m telescope and is a partner in the operation of the WIYN Observatory (3.5-m and 0.9-m telescopes). KPNO provides infrastructure for more than 20 tenant telescopes operated by institutions from around the world, including the NSO (National Solar Observatory) and NRAO (Very Long Baseline Array) telescopes that are on Kitt Peak. The primary focus of KPNO is shifting toward major scientific programs centered on DOE and NASA projects. These include the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for the Mayall and the Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrometer (EPDS) for WIYN. These program efforts are described below.

Mayall 4-m Telescope

In FY15, Mayall operations included engineering and planning support for a number of DESI activities. These include the design of installation hardware, the addition of increased electrical and cooling capacity on the telescope, and deployment and monitoring of environmental sensors. In Q4, NOAO engineering staff began a) writing, testing, and deploying a software interface to connect the existing Telescope Control System (TCS) to the DESI Instrument Control System (ICS); b) designing a large new cable wrap system to carry the DESI fiber optic cables from the Large Coudé Room on the Main floor up to the top ring of the Mayall telescope; and c) preparing for the installation, on-sky testing, and removal of a DESI prototype Prime Focus unit (protoDESI) to demonstrate the process of aligning moveable fiber tips on celestial targets and keep them there while guiding. Observatory staff made plans to support the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS). This will be a two- year effort to record deep images in the z-band of the Northern Galactic Cap (NGC) region, covering between 5000 and 6000 square degrees of sky. This survey is a critical component of the overall DESI collaboration strategy for developing a catalog of 25–30 million target galaxies and QSOs, and as such represents much of the NOAO scientific contribution to the collaboration. NOAO has committed to providing 230 nights over two years, 2016 and 2017. Because the NGC region is only observable in the first half of each calendar year, the time commitment must all be met during the months January–June. Thus NOAO will dedicate approximately 115 nights of Mayall time in January–June 2016 to MzLS, and this time will not be available for community proposals. However, the data from MzLS will be immediately available publicly, so the community will be able to realize scientific return from this investment of time. In addition to the telescope time, NOAO will provide pipeline data reductions and ingestion of the imaging data into the NOAO Science Archive. NOAO will provide similar support to the parallel Bok Large Survey in the g and r bands, being conducted at the same time on the University of Arizona Bok 90-inch telescope. To support the MzLS work and to ensure that it will be completed in time, NOAO engineers and scientific staff began commissioning a new set of detectors in the KPNO Mosaic Prime Focus camera. This “Mosaic 3” upgrade uses the de-commissioned Dewar from the CTIO Mosaic instrument. The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL; lead institution for DESI) has provided four 4k × 4k red-optimized CCDs and control electronics, and Yale University (another DESI collaborating institution) has provided the labor to install the CCDs in the Dewar, optimize them with the LBNL controllers, and integrate the whole package with the NOAO observation control software and data handling system. Depending on the demonstrated on-sky performance of the camera, it may be offered to the general community as a new facility instrument. The new Mayall Telescope Control System (TCS) was fully installed and commissioned in the summer of 2015. The new TCS hardware and software upgrade replaces a 15-year-old system that was based on obsolete components. The rms performance of the new TCS in both telescope pointing accuracy and

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unguided tracking is almost an order of magnitude better than the old system, and because of its modernity, it will be much easier to maintain. The new Mayall TCS is closely related to the system installed in recent years on the Blanco and the SOAR telescopes, as well as the one planned for LSST.

Mayall Instrumentation

¡ KOSMOS: This new spectrograph has been fully commissioned and is in use in both single and multi- slit modes. Its measured throughput is roughly twice as good as that of its predecessor, the Ritchey- Chrétien (RC) spectrograph.

¡ Mosaic 1.1: The upgraded Mosaic 1.1 imager, the widest-field optical imager currently offered at KPNO (35.4 arcmin square, 0.26 arcsec pixels), is used at the prime focus of the Mayall 4-m telescope. Mosaic 1.1 continued to be in high demand at the Mayall. To reduce risk to this instrument that might be incurred by transporting it around the mountain, it is no longer available at the WIYN 0.9-m telescope. The Half Degree Imager has been commissioned and is in service, replacing Mosaic 1.1 on the 0.9-m telescope.

¡ Mosaic-3: Mosaic-3 is a composite of Mosaic-2, retired from service at CTIO, and red-sensitive LBNL CCDs to facilitate the MzLS targeting survey for DESI. It is scheduled to be commissioned during the 2015B semester. It will replace Mosaic 1.1.

¡ NEWFIRM: Demand for this wide-field infrared imager (27.6 arcmin square) remains high.

2.1-m Telescope

As per recent NSF directive, the 2.1-m telescope was shut down at the end of the 2014A semester. A call for proposals to operate this telescope was issued in April 2014, and four proposals were received. In cooperation with the NSF, the Robo-AO project (Caltech and University of Hawai‘i) was selected in FY15 and will begin installation and operation in Q1 of FY16.

2.1-m Instrumentation

¡ Robo-AO KP: Installation is to begin before the end of Q1 of FY16.

WIYN 3.5-m Telescope

The WIYN Observatory consists of the WIYN 3.5-m and 0.9-m telescopes. NOAO is a partner in the consortium (with the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and the University of Missouri) that operates the WIYN 3.5-m, the most modern of the telescopes operated on Kitt Peak. During FY15 the NASA/NSF program on Exoplanet Science (NN-EXPLORE) kicked off in January with a solicitation for instrument proposals. The Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrometer (EPDS) will be a state-of-the-art radial velocity machine, scheduled for commissioning at WIYN in 2018. A down-select to two competing instrument teams was made in June; in March 2016 the final down-select to one instrument team will be made. WIYN staff (Corson, Rajagopal) and NOAO facilities staff (Dunlop) provided feasibility assessments for all 6 original proposals and are currently preparing reports on the port development designs and facility modifications necessary for the successful installation and operation of EPDS, as proposed by the two instrument teams. The Guest Observer (GO) program, which forms a part of NN-EXPLORE, had its first semester in 2015B. A total of 16 proposals were received, requesting 59 nights on three instruments. The request for 2016A increased to 18 proposals for 85 nights on four instruments.

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0.36° FWHM

WIYN 3.5-m Instrumentation

¡ One Degree Imager (ODI): This instrument has been in heavy demand and is producing excellent images. The focal plane was upgraded with new detector arrays in early 2015, increasing the field of view from 24 × 24 arcminutes to 48 × 40 arcminutes.

¡ WHIRC infrared imager: Built by Margaret Meixner (Space Telescope Science Institute; STScI), Ed Churchwell (University of Wisconsin), and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, STScI, WIYN Observatory, and NOAO/KPNO, this near-IR imager provides very high spatial resolution near-IR imaging over a 3.3 ´ 3.3 field of view. In conjunction with the WIYN Tip/Tilt Module (WTTM), images as good as 0.27 arcsec FWHM have been recorded. Mirrors in the WTTM/WHIRC optical path were recoated in FY13, bringing the throughput of WHIRC back up to original (2008) levels.

¡ HYDRA continues to get a great deal of use by both the NASA exoplanet community and university partners.

¡ IFUs provided by the University of Wisconsin (PI: M. Bershady) include the new bundles, HexPak and GradPak, which utilize variable aperture fibers for objects with non-uniform surface brightness (e.g., extended galaxies).

Infrastructure Modernization

§ Electrical power: Refurbishment of the ~40+-year-old electrical power infrastructure on Kitt Peak was begun in FY15, with replacement of the main switchgear on the north ridge. The other set of switchgear, located in the central maintenance area, will be replaced in the next year or two. § Domes: A plan to repaint the Mayall dome, the 2.1-m dome, the 50-in dome, and the 36-in dome is under development for FY16. § Water tanks: The water storage tanks will be re-coated and their hatches brought up to code in FY16. This will complete the water system upgrade on Kitt Peak begun in 2012.

Kitt Peak Visitor Center

Total participation in Kitt Peak Visitor Center programs was up 14% compared to Q4 in FY14. The largest increases occurred with the general public tours and the Nightly Observing Program. The guided tours were up 15%, with 191 more people participating in these daytime offerings than in Q4 of FY14. The tours are led by an all-volunteer group of trained docents drawn from the local community. The Nightly Observing Program benefited from a 52% increase in attendance, or 193 additional participants than the same period last year. The Advanced Observing Program, now known as the Overnight Telescope Observing Program, our night-long special observing program for astronomy enthusiasts, served five guests, compared to only two during the same reporting period last year. The jumps in attendance at evening programs is especially noteworthy given that Q4 occurs during the local monsoon rain season, a weather pattern resulting in a very large number of cloudy nights. It is hoped that work performed by Visitor Center staff during this period to develop new alternative programs to be presented on cloudy nights will boost evening program participation in future quarters. A major redesign of the Visitor Center website, www.noao.edu/kpvc, was completed in this period, to provide better communication with our guests, attract new guests to Kitt Peak, and enable visitors to easily preregister for evening programs and special events. A noticeable change in visitor patterns has already been seen. For

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example, during August–September of FY14, 48% of evening program participants registered online. During the same two-month period in FY15, the online registration increased to 92%. Table 1 below summarizes the number of visitors who participated in paid groups/programs at Kitt Peak during FY15.

Table 1: Participant Summary of KPVC Programs

Kitt Peak Visitor Center & Tours Summary of Participants (October 2, 2014, through September 30, 2015) # of Participants

Group/Program Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Totals General public tours 1,723 3,506 1,945 1,473 8,647 School groups K–college 0 0 77 31 108 Special tours 30 37 37 11 115 VIP tours 55 80 33 50 218 Nightly Obs. Program 2,017 2,708 2,238 566 7,529 Advanced Obs. Program 36 40 64 5 145 Other classes & workshops 26 74 117 43 260 Youth group overnights 0 74 34 32 140

Totals 3,887 6,519 4,545 2211 17,162

Status of FY15 Milestones

• Assess, characterize, and (where necessary) improve pointing and tracking of the Mayall telescope following installation in FY15 of the new digital servo system and pointing model for the Telescope Control System (TCS). Initial testing and assessment will be complete by the end of Q2 of FY15. The new system will be complete and in routine use for nighttime observing by the end of Q3 of FY15. Status: Completed. The new TCS has been in use since July and has been used solely (with no reliance on the old TCS) since September 1.

• Work with the NSF to select an operator for the 2.1-m telescope and Coudé Feed. A recommendation will be made to the NSF in Q2 of FY15. Status: Completed. The Robo-AO team, based at Caltech, was selected. Installation of Robo-AO on the 2.1-m telescope is scheduled to begin in October 2015.

• Complete a prioritized list with full costs of Delivered Image Quality (DIQ) improvements for the Mayall 4-m telescope by the end of Q2 of FY15. Status: Ongoing. A few remaining tests of the thermal properties of the Mayall dome skin remain to be made. Work is scheduled during Q1 of FY16.

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4.2.2 NOAO North Engineering & Technical Services

FY15 Program Review In addition to the milestone progress reported below, NOAO North Engineering & Technical Services (NN ETS) also completed the implementation of the modernized servo control system and pointing model for the Mayall 4-m telescope control system (TCS). This project was started in FY14 and designed and installed in late FY14 and early FY15. It went through on-sky testing as planned during Telescope and Engineering nights starting in December 2014. Its on-sky testing was completed in June 2015, and it has been in full-time operational use since August 2015, following the completion of the Mayall summer shutdown. During FY15, NOAO contributed in a number of ways to the progress of the DESI project, on three different fronts: scientific, technical, and managerial. Scientifically, NOAO staff astronomers provided the science justification and motivation for the upgrade of the Mosaic Prime Focus Imager with red-optimized thick CCDs and drafted initial versions of the protoDESI Test Plan and DESI Commissioning test sequences for collaboration discussion. Technically, NOAO engineering and technical staff received the upgraded Mosaic CCD Dewar, got it working in the Tucson lab, then installed and commissioned it on the Mayall. Engineering staff also completed design work on several telescope and facility areas needed for DESI integration, all of which required their particular knowledge of the telescope structure and supporting facilities. Managerially, NOAO met its responsibilities for completing work on time, for ensuring that its work was properly coordinated with the overall DESI project schedule, and reported as required on project-related activities and expenses. In addition, NOAO completed or made progress on several general improvement projects that will enhance the usefulness of the telescope for all future science users, including DESI; the most visible among these projects were the modernization of the Mayall drive servo control systems and the modernization of the Kitt Peak site seeing monitor. During FY15, NOAO completed or made significant progress on the designs for several items needed for DESI installation and support: • Expansion and modernization of the Mayall facility “clean” electrical power system (completed); • Extensions for the existing Mayall facility chilled glycol system to reach locations where DESI will need it (completed); • Work platforms and Serrurier truss braces for attachment to the Mayall telescope to support removal and replacement of the entire telescope top end (completed); • Alternative concepts for safely providing liquid cooling to the DESI Focal Plate Assembly (significant progress, especially with regard to issues concerning personnel and equipment safety); • Fiber cable management system for safely guiding the DESI optical fiber cables down from the Prime Focus cage and around the telescope bearings (upper half design completed including Declination bearing cable wrap, lower half design underway including Polar Axis bearing cable wrap). During FY15, NOAO carried out several major planning efforts for various aspects of the DESI project: • Completed initial draft of installation and testing plan for the ProtoDESI fiber positioning testbed; • Refined the planning for DESI installation, particularly with respect to personnel and equipment safety;

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• Refined the detailed planning and preparation for the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey, as part of the overall DESI strategy for obtaining the wide-field deep imaging surveys needed to develop target lists for DESI spectroscopic observations. During FY15, NOAO contributed significant effort (with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Yale University) to the development of a new, red-sensitive CCD focal plane for the Mosaic Prime Focus Imager at the Mayall telescope, to enhance the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey: • Scientific motivation and project coordination; • Provided the de-commissioned Mosaic 2 Dewar from CTIO to Yale University; • Carrying out post-delivery laboratory testing of refurbished Mosaic 2 Dewar with LBNL CCDs and controllers installed by Yale; • Installing the refurbished Mosaic 2 Dewars and controllers in the Mosaic 1 instrument frame at Kitt Peak; • Carrying out on-telescope installation and commissioning of the new “Mosaic 3” focal plane with support from Yale and LBNL. During FY15, NOAO took a major role in many DESI administrative, technical, and science planning activities, including the following: • Preparation for and presentation at the DOE CD-2 review and the LBL Director’s Review preceding it (involving L. Allen, R. Blum, R. Joyce, T. Lavoie, R. Probst, and D. Sprayberry); • Service on review panel for Critical Design Review for the Corrector Barrel (D. Sprayberry, supported by M. Evatt and R. Probst); • Organization of, preparation for, and participation in Preliminary Design Review for the DESI assembly, integration and test plans (WBS 1.9 of the DESI project plan, involving L. Allen, R. Blum, M. Evatt, D. Guenther, D. Joyce, T. Lavoie, R. Marshall, R. Probst, and D. Sprayberry; • Participation in and presentation at DESI Collaboration Meeting (presentation by R. Probst, participation by R. Blum, M. Evatt, R. Marshall, R. Probst, and D. Sprayberry). During FY15, NOAO engaged in ongoing and continuous roles in the management and overall coordination of the DESI project, including the following: • Regular participation in technical coordination telecons; • Regular participation in project management telecons; • Participation in DOE-approved Earned Value Management System training (D. Sprayberry); • Frequent informal, topic-specific contacts with peers throughout DESI collaboration.

Status of FY15 Milestones

§ Complete the transfer of all relevant paper documents to the new electronic document system by the end of FY15. Status: Underway and near completion. Over 26,000 documents have been scanned as of the end of FY15, and approximately another 7,800 documents remain to be scanned. Scanning time lost during early FY15 due to relocation of NN ETS offices was partly recovered by increasing Q4 hours of the part-time temporary assistant hired to support task. Also, the remaining documents were prioritized to ensure that the critical Mayall documentation was all completed. Less critical remaining documents will be scanned in as time permits during FY16.

§ Complete a system-level plan with full costs for the improved reliability of the Mayall dome shutter by the end of Q3 of FY15. Status: Done. Plan complete as of 15 May 2015.

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§ Complete the purchase of the major components for the dome shutter system reliability upgrade by the end of FY15. Status: Done. Components were ordered in late May 2015 and all were received by 31 July 2015.

§ Complete a detailed design for the implementation of the dome shutter system reliability upgrade by the end of FY15. Status: Done. Detailed designs for implementation equipment (rigging components) were completed by the end of July 2015, and fabrication of the components is underway. Due to the timing of the current El Niño weather cycle, NN ETS now expects more bad weather in the first two quarters of FY16, requiring that this work be done during summer 2016, with the dome shutter fixed in a closed position. Fixturing to permit work in this position has been incorporated into the design.

§ Release the initial versions of all DESI Interface Control Documents (ICDs) that affect the Mayall telescope or building by the end of Q2 of FY15. Status: Done, but completed three months late. Last relevant ICDs were released on the DESI document database as of 30 June 2015.

§ Extend the Mayall building glycol system to provide a service point inside the Coudé laboratory that will have sufficient capacity for the DESI equipment by the end of FY15. Status: Delayed but underway. As of the end of FY15, the design for the extension had been completed by a contracted engineering service. Because the implementation requires temporarily shutting down the flow of coolant to the dome floor and primary mirror cooling systems, the implementation work will take place during the 2016 summer shutdown so as not to affect observing.

§ Extend the Mayall building electrical system to provide sufficient capacity to the Coudé laboratory for the DESI equipment by the end of FY15. Status: Delayed but underway. As of the end of FY15, the design for the extension had been completed by a contracted engineering service. Implementation requires about a one-week shutdown of the building “clean” power system, so it will be done during the 2016 summer shutdown so as not to affect observing.

§ Complete the laboratory testing of the ODI with its enlarged 5 × 5 focal plane by the end of Q3 of FY15. Status: Complete. Testing was finished by 5 May 2015, and the ODI was delivered to the WIYN telescope mid-May 2015.

§ Complete the on-telescope commissioning of the upgraded ODI instrument by the end of FY15. Status: Completed. On-telescope commissioning of the upgraded instrument began in June 2015 and was complete by the end of FY15.

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4.2.3 NOAO North Central Facilities Operations

FY15 Program Review During FY15, the NOAO North Central Facilities Operations (NN CFO) staff supported a wide range of projects for both the Kitt Peak and Tucson facilities. During the first part of the year, significant staff efforts were expended for oversight of the contracted renovation efforts for the new LSST project space. Once the initial contracted renovation was completed, staff continued to provide support throughout the year with furniture acquisition needs and relocation of their existing staff. As part of the LSST space development needs, the existing mezzanine office space was then renovated by departmental staff to provide additional office space. Prior to summer, staff was again called upon to support the shutdown and removal of items from the old instrument stock room and to renovate the area to accommodate the office space needs for the REU summer program. During the year, staff also focused on oversight of several contracted facility projects involving the following: replacement of 40-year-old sprinkler heads in the east wing basement; replacement of the primary building fire alarm system; and replacement of outdated fire alarm sensors in the main computer room. Routine maintenance efforts continued throughout the year with significant repairs done to several critical building air-handling units, the primary main facility chiller unit and the Flex Facility Instrument chiller. To improve environmental control of the buildings and help reduce operational costs, old single-pane windows are being replaced throughout the facility with new energy- efficient units. Over 25 windows were replaced as part of the new LSST space development, and staff replaced another 8 windows in various locations during the year. Tucson staff also provided technical support to several Kitt Peak–based projects during the year. An architectural/engineering firm was brought in to do a general engineering and code evaluation of the mountain’s electrical distribution system. This effort resulted in a redesign and contracted project to replace the primary switchgear and auto-transfer switch in the Mayall 4-m telescope to meet current electrical codes. Additional projects are anticipated in future years to correct code compliance problems in the mountain electrical system. Technical support was also provided for several Kitt Peak projects during the year, including to the pursuit of professional surveying services to define the 2.1-m facility area for an NSF sublease; to various NSF consultants evaluating the NSO and KPNO mountain facilities; to the development of plans and contractor oversight for the planned replacement of the main Mayall 4-m fire alarm control panel; and to developing options for extending the computer network fiber system to the southwest ridge tenants. Other support was provided to CTIO staff in their efforts to repair their mountain electrical power supply problems and in preparing for implementation of the new Kitt Peak Mountain Operations plan.

Status of FY15 Milestones

• Work with contractors and staff to prepare office space to house the LSST engineering design and construction team in the former KPNO engineering wing. Status: Completed. During the year, staff worked with vendors to prepare design documents and obtain contracted services to renovate the former engineering wing into new office space. Staff prepared the space for the contracting effort and then coordinated closely with LSST staff to obtain furniture, move personnel into the area, and accommodate other needs requested by the new occupants.

• Continue targeted building modification and renovation efforts at NOAO North to address building deficiencies and program space demands. Status: Ongoing. Staff worked on several renovation projects during the year to accommodate program needs. The vacated mezzanine office area was renovated to provide space for additional LSST program staff. A basement electronic parts storeroom was completely renovated to

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accommodate summer students in the REU program. The room now provides a multipurpose area for a variety of short- and long-term staff activities. A contracted replacement of the main building fire alarm control panel was also completed. Other efforts included routine updating of office finishes between occupants.

• Continue with ongoing programs to upgrade the various restrooms and fixtures to improve water conservation efforts, interior finishes, and accessibility. Status: Ongoing. Building renovation efforts did not allow for other than routine repairs during the year. In some locations, routine repairs did result in replacement of a few fixtures and flush valves to help improve operations and water conservation. A new ADA-compliant drinking fountain with a bottle fill option was installed to reduce plastic waste. Program efforts are planned to continue in the coming year.

• Continue the ongoing window upgrade program to replace original exterior single-pane windows in the various buildings to improve energy efficiency and reduce solar heat gain. Status: The KPNO engineering wing renovation incorporated the replacement of 26 single-pane windows with new double-pane energy-efficient windows. Targeted replacement of deteriorated single-pane windows has also been ongoing in the main building and La Quinta complex, with several windows completed. In addition, bid documents were prepared to pursue replacement of the primary building lobby entrance single-pane storefront system with a new double-pane energy-efficient system in the coming year.

• Continue with the program to upgrade and/or replace deteriorated or obsolete portions of the mechanical air distribution system and their associated heating/chilled water system piping and valves. Status: Ongoing. As part of the engineering wing renovation, numerous parts of the ductwork system were updated or replaced and new or missing duct insulation was installed. During the year a failed 25-horsepower fan motor for a critical air-handling unit was replaced, and a bad fan bearing was replaced on another primary air-handling unit. Numerous older thermostats were recalibrated and pumping systems adjusted to address concerns with the chilled water system. Ducts and grills continue to be reviewed and cleaned as part of the ongoing space renovation. A compressor failure in the new primary chiller unit was replaced by the original vendor in Q4. New large automated chilled water valves have also been obtained, and they will be scheduled for installation in the chilled water piping system during the coming winter heating season.

4.2.4 NOAO North Computer Infrastructure Services

FY15 Program Review To highlight one point mentioned below: A long-term effort to switch the NOAO-Tucson/Kitt Peak authentication system to an Active Directory (AD) server was completed. Currently, we use a single username and password for email, “inside” and “roaming” wireless, VPN access, and server and workstation login. We hope to soon use this same system for Spam quarantine boxes, UltiPro, Web timesheets, Reqless, CASNet, etc. The 15-year-old firewall/gateway system connecting the NOAO-Tucson/Kitt Peak networks to the University of Arizona network (and hence to the various Internets) was replaced with a much faster system. Due to bugs in the Cisco software, the dedicated VPN tunnels that connect the NOAO-Tucson

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network with remote LSST and NSO/DKIST offices were moved from the main firewall to another box. The interface hardware was also upgraded to support 10 Gbps connections to the Internet and to Kitt Peak in anticipation of future bandwidth increases. New versions of the central logs server, central Windows updates server, and the Snort intrusion detection system were installed. A new version of the Cisco box supporting AnyConnect VPN access was installed. A new version of the Barracuda SpamBuster appliance was installed. Two non-operable GPS/NTP clock units were replaced with refurbished units.

Status of FY15 Milestones

• Absorb the few remaining unmanaged Windows systems in Tucson and on Kitt Peak into the NOAO North Windows Active Directory (ad.tuc.noao.edu) and install the Shavlik anti-virus and auto-patch software. Once the Windows computers are part of the Active Directory, use group policies to implement the AURA-mandated password and account lockout policies. Status: This effort is basically complete. Approximately 125 Windows machines are attached to the AD.

§ Absorb the 100 or so workstations and laptops with Mac and Linux operating systems running on the Tucson and Kitt Peak networks into the NOAO North Active Directory using software from Centrify. Once those computers are part of the Active Directory, use group policies to implement the AURA-mandated password and account lockout policies. Status: This effort is continuing. Approximately 45 Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD systems are attached to the AD.

§ Continue the effort to create customized DMZ configurations for Internet-facing servers such as ftp.noao.edu, www.noao.edu, email.noao.edu, and ssh.noao.edu. Consult and plan to do the same for servers run by groups outside of NN CIS. Status: The necessary router hardware is now in place in Tucson: we hope to “isolate” ftp.noao.edu during the first few months of FY16. The effort on Kitt Peak to isolate the tenant networks from the NOAO network and each other ran into problems caused by limitations in the KP “backbone” switch. A replacement switch was installed and is operational to support the existing tenant networks, the soon-to-be tenant network at the 2.1-m, and the new networks generated by the installation of fiber connections to the observatories on the southwest ridge.

§ Implement a centralized control system for many of the wireless access points installed in the NOAO-Tucson complex. Such a system will simplify configuration of the 30 or so access points and allow them to cooperate with a centralized power/channel operations plan. Status: Completed. We are currently using 45 wireless access points and average a maximum of 150+ wireless connections per workday.

§ Undertake a number of related projects leading to the goal of a single password for email, VPN, wireless, Active Directory login, Web Timecards, Reqless, CASNet, and UltiPro. Status: We have successfully completed our cut-over to the Active Directory server for single- password authentication for our email server, AnyConnect VPN system, NOAO-Wifi “inside” wireless, Eduroam “roaming” wireless, server logins, and AD workstation logins. We will soon be installing a new Barracuda SpamBuster appliance that will use this password for access to the

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quarantine box. In the not-so-distant future, we hope to work with AURA-CAS to use this password for UltiPro, Web timesheets, and services such as Reqless and CASNet.

4.3 NOAO SYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER

A key component of the NOAO mission is to manage and deliver community access to a number of ground- based facilities, which consist of a broad range of instruments on telescopes of all apertures. The NOAO System Science Center (NSSC) provides the interface to this system of facilities offering community-access time. The NSSC mission incorporates a wide range of responsibilities, some of which focus on current facilities and involve managing observing time and archiving data, while other efforts deal with evolution towards a future system consisting of both currently planned telescopes, such as TMT, and enormous datasets from future large surveys, such as LSST or DESI. NSSC consists of four programs to cover its broad mandate: System User Support (SUS), Science Data Management (SDM), the Time Allocation Committee (TAC), and System Community Development (SCD). SUS provides user support for open-access time on telescopes not managed by NOAO; in FY15 the largest fraction of that time was on the Gemini-N and Gemini-S telescopes, thus much of the SUS effort is directed towards the US Gemini user community. SUS provides user support throughout the observing process, including proposal preparation, submission, observing, and post-observing data reduction. The TAC handles the submission of observing proposals to NOAO (Phase I), managing meetings of the TAC panels every semester to scientifically rank proposals, maintaining web pages, and issuing a Call for Proposals document (and associated web pages) each semester that provides all of the information necessary to submit a proposal to NOAO. SDM is responsible for archiving all raw data from NOAO facilities, as well as pipeline processing of all data from selected imagers. In addition, SDM supports future NOAO projects that require planning for data transport, archiving, or pipelines. SCD plans for the future needs of the user community in light of the expected evolution of open-access facilities, as well as open- access large datasets. In FY15, SDM devoted increasing efforts into development of a Data Lab for the user community to use large datasets for science exploration, work on a transient events broker (ANTARES) in collaboration with the University of Arizona of Computer Science Department, and working with TMT on a possible future Participation Plan on behalf of NSF.

4.3.1 System User Support

FY15 Program Review

System User Support (SUS) staff supported the NOAO Time Allocation Committee (TAC) by performing technical reviews of Gemini proposals and answering technical questions during the TAC meetings and before the Gemini International Time Allocation Committee (ITAC). SUS represented the US community at the ITAC. SUS has also kept the US community informed on new Gemini initiatives, such as the Large and Long Programs and the Fast Turnaround observing modes with Gemini, the “Future & Science of Gemini Observatory” meeting, and the AAS SUS workshop on near-IR data analysis. SUS participated in the organization of the Toronto meeting, “Future & Science of Gemini Observatory.” The SUS Head was a member of the Science Organizing Committee and the chair of the “Galactic Astronomy” and “Gemini Instrument Feasibility Studies (GIFS)” sessions of the meeting. She

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was invited to give a talk on the US vision for the future of Gemini operations, which included science highlights, most/least utilized instruments, and future instrument selection. Finally, SUS has completed the National Gemini Office (NGO) web page for data analysis (http://ast.noao.edu/nssc/usngo).

Status of FY15 Milestones § Provide effort in Q2–Q4 of FY15 toward post-observing support for Gemini observers per the expected continuing transfer to Gemini staff of Phase II support for US-led Gemini observing programs (which began as a test in semester 2014B): (1) By establishing data analysis workshops at the AAS, the first of which will be a near-IR reduction workshop, with other workshops of the series to be held on subjects based on specific feedback from users; (2) By establishing a dedicated website to provide supporting materials for post-data processing, with plans to include a guided example for Gemini Planet Imager data analysis and an expanded FAQ document for the Integral Field Unit and Nod-and-Shuffle mode of the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph. Status: The NOAO/SUS data reduction workshop at the 2015 winter AAS meeting was successful. A 2016 workshop is being planned at this time, with the theme, “Adaptive Optics Data Analysis.” (2) The website is active and has received a great deal of traffic. The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) example is included in the web page, together with other items.

§ Provide user support as needed for open-access, NOAO-allocated time on the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) array and the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). Status: 2015B support to the TAC members on technical issues for CHARA and AAT was available on a case-by-case basis. We also performed technical reviews of all NASA joint proposals.

§ Represent the US National Gemini Office (NGO) in the Gemini Operations Working Group and participate in the joint Gemini/NGO meetings to discuss all operation issues. Status: The SUS Head participated in the Operations Working Group (OpsWG) meeting in August 2015, presenting the partner report, and also, as a separate presentation, the report on the Gemini/US NGO Phase II-trading report.

§ Represent the US National Gemini Office on the International Time Allocation Committee. Status: The NGO Head and another NGO member participated in the ITAC meetings representing the US partner. Frequent consultations with the NOAO TAC lead also took place.

§ Host a workshop on Gemini data reduction during the January 2015 AAS meeting. Status: Completed. A successful NOAO/SUS near-IR data reduction workshop was held at the 2015 winter AAS meeting. Speakers for the 2016 workshop have already been recruited, § Provide support (such as panel orientation materials and on-call support) to the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) for Gemini and other selected facilities offered through the NOAO Call for Proposals. Status: Completed.

§ Provide technical reviews after both FY15 Time Allocation Committee meetings of all highly ranked programs to identify and eliminate technically infeasible programs. Status: Completed.

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4.3.2 Science Data Management

FY15 Program Review

Science Data Management (SDM) supports the data management needs of NOAO and its user community. Raw data from Kitt Peak, Cerro Tololo, and SOAR on Cerro Pachón are captured and archived in the NOAO Science Archive (NSA). Data from the NOAO wide-field imagers (DECam, Mosaic, and NEWFIRM) are processed through science pipelines, and the data products are archived. SDM continues to develop its major new initiative, the NOAO Data Lab. The IRAF data reduction software is also supported at a low level. The volume of data stored and served by the NSA has grown dramatically since the start of operations with DECam in 2012. Approximately 73% of the 210 TB of raw data in the NSA belongs to DECam. The amount of public (i.e., non-proprietary) DECam data has grown to 72%, including the first year of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and all data from the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS). Data calibrated by the DECam community pipeline are becoming a valuable resource not only to the original investigators but also to a wider archival user community. The first important publications based on public DES data downloaded from the NSA appeared this year, and many other users are accessing and retrieving public DECam data from the Archive. The primary archive development focus during FY15 was a major “infrastructure” upgrade to the Archive and Portal, in particular updating third-party software and improving the future maintainability of the system. Improvements have included an improved Archive Download Manager, performance enhancements, expansion of portal limits on the search results, upgrade of the majority of the third party software to current versions, and a redesigned query interface that features customized forms for access of survey data, initially for DES and DECaLS. Although not complete, a prototype image preview feature for reduced data was added to the portal interface. In the first quarter, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) data management team delivered their first reduced and calibrated data products to NOAO, with further deliveries of the SNe data in Q2. These have been reformatted and ingested into the Archive and are being served to the community. Another major DECam survey, DECaLS, uses the standard Community Pipeline reductions that are already publicly available in the NOAO Archive. The DECaLS team produced their Data Release 1 (DR1) in Q3, which is available from a dedicated server (http://legacysurvey.org); their coadded tile data products, including catalogs, have been delivered to NOAO and will be served through the NOAO Archive, as well as with the delivery of DR2. SDM continued to operate data processing pipelines for DECam, Mosaic, and NEWFIRM, and the reduced data products from all of these are archived. All pODI data have been reprocessed with the latest pipeline version and delivered to the Portal, Pipeline, and Archive (PPA) system at Indiana University. SDM also captured and pipeline processed imaging data from the BASS program on the 90-prime instrument on the Bok 2.3-m telescope. An updated version of the NOAO Data Handbook was released in Q2, which included major revisions to the introductory chapter on NOAO data holdings and the Archive, along with revisions to the Mosaic and NEWFIRM chapters and a new chapter on DECam. A second release in Q3 included a chapter on the C/KOSMOS spectrographs. A cookbook for the processing of C/KOSMOS data was also written in Q4 and will soon be publicly available. In mid-September a Director’s Review of the SDM Program was held, with presentations on the status and plans for the archive system, pipeline systems, operations, Data Lab, and Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES). SDM staff and other NOAO scientists participated in the very successful Conceptual Design Review (CoDR) of the NOAO Data Lab, held in March 2015. A variety of documents were prepared for the review: Science Use Cases (SUC), Science Requirements Document (SRD), Operational Concepts Document (OCD), Operational Requirements Document (ORD), System Architecture Document (SAD), and the Project Execution Plan (PEP) with the associated Gantt chart. The Data Lab will provide services

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and interfaces for working with large, curated datasets, and in particular, the massive catalogs from DES and other NOAO Survey Programs. The cumulative holdings of DECam data in the NSA are becoming an increasingly valuable resource for archival research and already cover a significant fraction of the southern and equatorial sky.

Status of FY15 Milestones

§ Continue operation in Q1–Q4 of FY15 of the NOAO data management system including data capture, transport, archiving, and user access to all NOAO-observed data. Routinely pipeline process and archive all Mosaic, NEWFIRM, and DECam data products. Continue support for the data handling systems for Mosaic, NEWFIRM, KOSMOS, and COSMOS. Status: The NOAO data management system continued to operate smoothly, with no major issues or failures reported. Data from all NOAO telescopes/instruments were securely captured and archived. Data from Mosaic, NEWFIRM, DECam, and pODI were reduced by NOAO pipelines shortly after raw data ingest. A new science pipeline was developed for the 90-prime imager on the Bok 2.3-m telescope, and raw and reduced data from the BASS program were ingested into the NOAO Science Archive.

§ Collect all Dark Energy Survey (DES) first-year single-frame reduced images from the DES survey team, reformat the images and their metadata as necessary, and archive them in the NOAO Science Archive during Q1 of FY15. Status: All Year One DES single-frame reduced images, excluding the supernovae observations, were delivered to SDM by the DES survey team in Q1 and immediately upon receipt were reformatted and archived into the NOAO Science Archive. The DES supernovae observations were received in Q2 and processed upon receipt.

§ Complete the automation of the components of the data management system (i.e., data capture, data archive, user administration, system monitoring, and system alerts) during Q1–Q3 of FY15 for easier deployment of system upgrades and new releases of system components. Status: Puppet configuration management was implemented for the automatic deployment of NSA v2.3.1 and NSA v2.3.2 into the production system. NSA v2.5.1, the last infrastructure upgrade as defined in the Archive Infrastructure Plan, was tested and delivered to Operations for deployment in early FY16.

§ Migrate the NOAO Survey Archive datasets to the NOAO Science Archive (remediating survey data headers as needed) and implement the Portal interface changes necessary for search and retrieval of Survey datasets during Q2–Q3 of FY15. Status: During FY15 the DES Year One single-frame reduced images were received, reformatted, and archived. The DECaLS first release (DR1) data were also received, but vital metadata were missing in the headers of the image tiles that made the data difficult to archive. An analysis was performed and a document written to inform the DECaLS team (and other survey teams) about the required metadata and file formats for easier ingestion into the NOAO Science Archive. The DECaLS data will be ingested with the delivery of DR2 in Q1 of FY16. All future survey datasets delivered to NOAO will be archived in the NOAO Science Archive. In FY16, as time permits, the older survey datasets in the Survey Archive will be migrated to the Science Archive.

§ Upgrade the pODI pipeline during Q2–Q3 of FY15 to support the 5 × 5 upgrade of the pODI instrument.

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Status: The NOAO pODI Science Pipeline was not upgraded to reduce data from the enhanced 5 × 6 ODI instrument. Instead, the Wisconsin-developed pODI Quick Reduce pipeline has been updated to support the upgraded ODI instrument in the Pipeline, Portal, and Archive (PPA) system at Indiana University. All pODI data were reprocessed with the latest version of the pODI Science Pipeline, and the reduced data were delivered to Indiana University for ingestion into the PPA system.

§ Implement the SDM Archive Infrastructure Upgrade Plan over Q1–Q4 of FY15. Status: The Archive Infrastructure Upgrade Plan was completed over Q1–Q4 of FY15.

§ Prepare the Operations Concept, Operations Requirements, and System Architecture documents and presentations in support of the Conceptual Design Review of the Data Lab and develop the Data Lab Project Execution Plan during Q1–Q2 of FY15. Status: All of the above documents were completed in early March in preparation for the Data Lab CoDR in mid-March. The Project Execution Plan and Gantt chart were modified in accordance with the recommendations received from the CoDR review panel.

§ Develop an implementation of VOSpace and support the SMASH and Bulge projects, especially in the area of tools for catalog visualization and analysis during Q2–Q3 of FY15. Status: A feature-complete Java implementation of VOSpace was developed and demonstrated at the Data Lab CoDR and for the AURA Observatory Council and Users Committee, with very positive responses. Full user testing and development will be completed in early FY16. A feature-compatible Python implementation of VOSPACE intended for distribution is still in development. A Table Access Protocol (TAP) service was implemented to provide access to the databases created from the SMASH and DECaLS catalogs as well as the catalogs and light curves created by the Data Lab Data Scientist from the Dark Energy Survey Year One supernovae data.

4.3.3 System Community Development

FY15 Program Review

LSST Science

System Community Development (SCD) scientists, in collaboration with the Science Data Management (SDM) group, completed the conceptual work for the NOAO Data Lab and started development of it in FY15. The purpose of the Data Lab will be to help users efficiently explore and analyze the large datasets and catalogs being generated by NOAO’s wide-field instruments, with particular emphasis on datasets from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). NOAO’s current DECam holdings include object frames totaling more than 370 TB of data covering nearly the entire sky; these holdings will at least double in size over the next few years. The Data Lab infrastructure, which is planned for public release in FY17, will include services to provide rapid access to relevant pixel data, allow efficient sharing of analyses and results within collaborations, allow scientific workflows to run close to the data, and provide a facility for publishing new datasets. The concept was reviewed by a Conceptual Design Review (CoDR) panel during 16–17 March 2015, by panel members Lisa Storrie-Lombardi (IPAC, Chair), Séverin Gaudet (NRC/CADC), Constance Rockosi (UCSC), Beth Willman (Haverford College), and Željko Ivezić (U. Washington/LSST). The review panel strongly endorsed the Data Lab concept, while recommending that the Data Lab team focus on delivering the core data and catalog access and exploration services before developing more complex services such as custom user workflows. Work began on the infrastructure needed to support the Data Lab, including the virtual storage service, the database implementation, and data access mechanisms. A working

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data access service, using the Table Access Protocol (TAP), was populated by catalog data that includes DECaLS Data Release 1, a dataset from SMASH, and the USNO-A2 and USNO-B catalogs. The TAP service also contains catalogs from the DES supernova fields created from a quick-look SourceExtractor– based pipeline developed by the Data Lab group to explore the needs of time-domain science. The Data Lab team developed a science demo that uses the TAP service to demonstrate the discovery of the low surface brightness dwarf galaxy Hydra II (Martin et al. 2015, ApJL, 804, L5) in the SMASH data, as well as a demo that highlights the capabilities of the virtual storage space. In collaboration with the University of Arizona (UA) Computer Science (CS) Department, NOAO scientists continued development of a prototype software infrastructure to characterize and distribute events discovered by time-domain surveys. The Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES) was funded with an award to the UA from NSF in September 2013 (CISE AST- 1344024). The grant includes funding for an astronomy postdoctoral position (paid through the UA CS Department, but resident at NOAO), and the postdoc began work in Q1. The astronomy portion of the ANTARES team (NOAO scientists and the postdoc) began assembling and cross-matching catalogs that will be used to provide ancillary data for alerts processed by the software system. The prototype database has been created and installed on NOAO machines. In addition, using the Ridgway et al. (2014, ApJ, 796, 53) variability model, the ANTARES team developed during Q1 a method for quantitatively estimating how unusual a brightness change for a Galactic star would be based on empirical variability studies and Galactic structure models. The team developed software tools to evaluate this for any given alert. Starting in April 2015, the team began presenting demonstrations of the software infrastructure for ANTARES. All of the major individual software components exist and have been tested in the demonstrations that were presented publicly at several meetings, including “Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe IV” (Santa Barbara), “The Dynamic Universe: Understanding ExaScale Astronomical Synoptic Surveys” (Aspen Center for Physics), and the XXIX IAU General Assembly (Honolulu). The collaboration with the CS Department expanded, adding an additional faculty member with expertise in visualization and allowing for the development of advanced tools to understand how astronomical features can be used to categorize alerts. NOAO staff continue to closely follow the development of LSST scheduling metrics and to represent community interests in their specification and testing. NOAO staff participated in the Scientific Organizing Committee for the August 2015 “LSST Observing Strategy Workshop,” participated in planning the objectives and in organizing the program, and are contributing to the white paper that will be published as a result of the workshop. NOAO staff prepared internal reports in support of the Data Lab, ANTARES, and other community- and NOAO-related LSST issues: 1) The LSST Alert System Forced Photometry Requirement, 2) Quality Control in Big Data Analysis, 3) The NOAO Variable Sky Project and Implications for the ANTARES Project, 4) An Optimized Cadence for LSST: The Optimum Unit Method, 5) Requirements for Variable Target Science with Data Lab, and 6) Science Interfaces to Big Data. These reports have been posted on the NOAO Intranet and the Data Lab wiki. Finally, NOAO hosted a workshop, “Tools for Astronomical Big Data,” on 9–11 March 2015 in Tucson to survey the state of the art in addressing the challenges of conducting research with large astronomical datasets. Topics covered by the workshop included 1) the visualization of large datasets, 2) a survey of efficient algorithms for processing large datasets, 3) the efficient development of, and interaction with, large databases, and 4) the use of “machine learning” methodologies to explore the properties of large datasets. The 2.5-day program included 26 presentations in a 50/50 mix of invited vs. contributed talks; posters were also presented. All talks are available online at the NOAO workshop website (www.noao.edu/meetings/bigdata/). The attendance included 130 participants, which greatly exceeded the target of 80 attendees. The activities of the workshop were also broadcast by energetic “tweeting” among the participants. Overall, it was clear that there are now several software solutions available for sophisticated viewing of large, multidimensional datasets. The community has also embraced a suite of algorithmic or machine learning methods to classify structure or identify interesting elements of large

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datasets. Those attending were highly enthusiastic about the program and expressed a strong desire to make this a regular event.

TMT Community Outreach

2015 marked the third year of a five-year cooperative agreement between the NSF and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Observatory Corporation, whose aim is to engage the US astronomy community in planning for potential NSF investment and participation in the TMT project. AURA is an associate member of the TMT International Observatory, LLC (TIO), with representation on the TIO Board and the TMT Science Advisory Committee (SAC). NOAO is charged with executing the responsibilities and participation activities of AURA in TMT and has established a US TMT Liaison office for this purpose. NOAO formed a US TMT Science Working Group (SWG), consisting of astronomers spanning a range of scientific expertise, drawn from US non-TMT partner institutions. The SWG is charged to engage with others in the astronomical community about US participation in TMT and to consider models for that participation and how it may shape TMT operations, instrumentation, data management, and other issues. The SWG is in the process of preparing a US TMT Science Plan, which is one element of a US National TMT Participation Plan to be delivered to the NSF as the product of the NSF-TMT cooperative agreement. NOAO staff member M. Dickinson continued to chair the US TMT SWG. In FY15, the SWG focused on drafting its report to the NSF. In Q1 of FY15, the US TMT SWG carried out an online survey aimed primarily at the US astronomical community, asking about priorities for TMT regarding scientific programs, instrumentation, data management, operations modes, time allocation, and the potential level of US federal investment in the project. 467 people responded to this survey, and the SWG is using this information as input to its report for the NSF. The SWG met face-to-face in Seattle during the AAS meeting in January, and again in Washington, DC, before the TMT Science Forum in June. A draft of the US TMT Participation Plan is undergoing final revisions and will be submitted to the NSF by November 2015. After receiving feedback from the NSF, submission of the final report is expected in early 2016. Articles about NOAO’s TMT liaison activities were published in the March 2015 and the September 2015 NOAO Newsletter. NOAO and TMT organized a TMT Open House at the January 2015 AAS meeting. This included short presentations by Michael Bolte (UCSC) on the TMT project status and M. Dickinson (NOAO) on the SWG’s community liaison activities, including a summary of results from the SWG’s US community survey about TMT. There was a question and answer period, followed by informal but structured “breakout discussions” with the audience on various TMT-related topics, led by members of the US TMT SWG and TMT staff astronomers. This event drew an audience of approximately 350 participants. Dickinson chaired the Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) for the 2015 TMT Science Forum, which was held in Washington, DC, June 23–25 at the headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel. The TMT Forum is an annual conference that gathers scientists from the international TMT collaboration. It is also the best opportunity for US-at-large astronomers to learn about and to get involved with TMT—the NSF provides support for US community members to attend the meeting through its cooperative agreement with TMT. About 140 participants, including 82 from the US-at-large community, attended the 2015 TMT Forum, which featured invited science presentations; discussion sessions on issues of TMT operations, instrumentation, and education, outreach, and workforce development; and a full day of topical parallel working sessions organized by the TMT International Science Development Teams (ISDTs). The ISDTs are topical science groups that aid and advise the TMT project and that serve as a way to build an international community of scientists among the TMT partners. Membership is open to all PhD scientists and is an opportunity for members of the US community to become involved in TMT science planning. There are annual calls for new membership in the ISDTs, and NOAO advertised these opportunities to the US community, a process that contributed the largest number of new applications in both 2014 and 2015. 56 US astronomers from institutions other than Caltech or UC are now ISDT

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members, making up 28% of the total. The ISDTs contributed extensively to a thorough update of the TMT Detailed Science Case (DSC), a foundation document describing the scientific motivations for building a Thirty Meter Telescope. The new DSC was completed and accepted in April 2015. Subsequently, the ISDTs were asked to develop concepts for TMT Key Projects—science programs that could achieve transformative new science using TMT, but which would likely require large investments of observing time, perhaps beyond the capabilities of any individual TMT partner and thus potentially requiring a cross- partnership time allocation process. The ISDTs submitted 23 “proposals” for Key Projects in Q4 of FY15; the PIs or co-PIs for 10 of these (43%) were members of the US-at-large community outside the current TMT partners. Dickinson also chaired TMT’s Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). He organized the SAC’s meetings in Pasadena (October 2015 and April 2015), Seattle (January 2015), and Washington, DC (June 2015) and reported on the SAC meetings and activities at meetings of the TMT International Observatory (TIO) Board of Governors.

Optical Interferometry Science

Four community programs, recommended by the NOAO TAC, were accepted for the CHARA Array 2015 observing program and into the CHARA schedule. The NOAO-GSU agreement for community access has been extended through calendar year 2016. The September 2015 call for proposals was oversubscribed by a factor of five. NOAO staff continue to consult on the CHARA adaptive optics (AO) upgrade, as Phase I of the implementation nears completion. Prototyping of Phase II recently demonstrated high-order correction of atmospheric aberrations at 700 nm. Collaboration will continue as CHARA staff carry out Phase II of the AO installation, under NSF MRI proposal 1531856. AO promises a higher science throughput, with more useful nights, improved limiting sensitivity, and higher data quality.

The System Roadmap Committee

The System Roadmap Committee had no activity in FY15.

Status of FY15 Milestones LSST Science

§ Create in Q1 of FY15 the foundational document set needed to form the Conceptual Design of the NOAO Data Lab: Science User Case, Science Requirements, Operations Concept, Operations Requirements, System Architecture, and Project Execution Plan. Status: Completed. All documents were shared with the Conceptual Design Review panel and with the NSF in March 2015. With the exception of the Project Execution Plan, all are publicly available at http://datalab.noao.edu.

§ Hold a Conceptual Design Review of the NOAO Data Lab in Q2 of FY15 with a panel of external reviewers. Status: Completed. The CoDR panel strongly endorsed the Data Lab concept and recommended that it proceed, with some recommendations for reprioritization. These recommendations were outlined in a report received by NOAO in April 2015. The Data Lab team’s response to the report was delivered to the CoDR panel in May 2015.

§ Develop prototype Data Lab capabilities during Q1–Q4 of FY15 using two community-led DECam observational programs: the SMASH (PI: D. Nidever) and Galactic Bulge (PI: A. Saha) surveys.

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Status: Ongoing. A prototype SMASH catalog has been ingested into a database and made accessible through a Table Access Protocol (TAP) service. A prototype analysis light curve generation tool was created based on the SMASH catalog.

§ Create a prototype database in Q1 of FY15 of astronomical knowledge from multiwavelength catalogs for the Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES). Status: Prototype created and installed on NOAO machines. Expansion is underway.

§ Develop software in Q2 of FY15 to generate variability probability distributions based on position on the sky. Status: Completed. The software is based on the empirical variability of stars observed by the Kepler satellite (Ridgway et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 53) that represent a wide range of stellar classes. It uses a published model of the Galaxy to scale this empirical variability to match the expected stellar population along any line of sight and thus predict the variability. With this information, the software allows the estimation of how unusual any Galactic variable may be without direct knowledge of the source, to be used by ANTARES.

§ Create initial tools in Q3 of FY15 for generating a synthetic alert stream. Status: Initial tools created in Q4 (delayed by implementation of demonstration system).

§ Define the structure and algorithms for the first stage of alert filtering by the Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES) during Q3–Q4 of FY15. Status: First-stage alert filters created in Q3 and Q4.

§ Write and distribute in Q1 of FY15 the report from the “LSST & NOAO Observing Cadences Workshop.” Status: Complete. The report is available at https://project.lsst.org/meetings/ocw/ sites/lsst.org.meetings.ocw/files/ 2014CadenceWorkshopReport.pdf.

§ Hold a workshop in Q3 of FY15 on “Practical Big Data.” Status: Completed. The workshop was held 9–11 March 2015 and attended by 130 individuals. All talks are available at www.noao.edu/meetings/bigdata/.

§ Write and distribute in Q4 of FY15 the report from the “Practical Big Data” workshop. Status: Workshop chair T. Lauer has prepared a brief summary of the workshop, which will be distributed as we plan for the next workshop. The workshop presentations have been made available at www.noao.edu/meetings/bigdata/schedule.php.

TMT Community Outreach

§ Lead the activities of the US TMT Science Working Group (SWG). This consists of the TMT liaison maintaining and updating the SWG membership, helping to set its agenda, and organizing monthly (or as needed) teleconferences and face-to-face meetings at the TMT Science Forum and at other occasions as needed. Status: The US TMT SWG continued its activities, meeting periodically by telecon and in person in January and June 2015.

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§ Direct the US TMT Science Working Group (SWG) in producing a draft of the US TMT Participation Plan for the NSF in Q2 of FY15. Status: The SWG is now completing the draft of the US TMT Participation Plan and plans to deliver it to the NSF in Q1 of FY16.

§ Organize and attend (as chair) quarterly TMT Science Advisory Committee (SAC) meetings, organize regular teleconferences of the TMT SAC co-chairs, participate (remotely, as SAC chair) in weekly TMT project meetings, and participate in weekly teleconferences with the TMT-NOAO community engagement group. Status: As TMT SAC Chair, Dickinson organized and attended SAC meetings in Pasadena (October 2014 and April 2015), Seattle (January 2015), and Washington, DC (June 2015) and the subsequent TIO Board meetings in Hawaii (October 2014) and Pasadena (February 2015; April 2015). Dickinson could not attend the July 2015 TIO Board meeting in person, but provided the SAC report delivered there. He organized telecons of the TMT SAC co-chairs and participated regularly in the TMT project meetings and in TMT-NOAO community engagement telecons.

§ Participate in the organization of a TMT Town Hall event at the January 2015 American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting and in the planning of a subsequent Town Hall in January 2016. Status: NOAO and TMT organized a TMT Open House event at the January 2015 AAS meeting, with presentations and audience discussion, attended by approximately 350 people.

§ Participate in the organization of the third annual TMT Science Forum, nominally to be held sometime in the summer of 2015. Working with the TMT US Science Working Group (SWG), identify and encourage members of the US community to attend the Forum. Status: The 2015 TMT Science Forum was held in Washington, DC, 23–25 June 2015. There were 139 participants, including 82 from US institutions outside the TMT partnership.

Optical Interferometry Science

§ Negotiate during Q2–Q3 of FY15 for community access in 2016 to the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) array and provide required support to community users of the 2015 CHARA time and the NOAO time allocation process throughout FY15. Status: The CHARA/NOAO agreement to offer community access through the NOAO TAC has been extended, offering 5–7 nights in 2016. TAC-recommended programs for 2015 have been scheduled, and support by NOAO staff will be available as needed.

4.3.4 Time Allocation Committee

FY15 Program Review

NOAO offered open-access peer-reviewed time on 12 telescopes for semester 2015A: the Mayall 4-m, WIYN 3.5-m, and KP 0.9-m on Kitt Peak; the Blanco 4-m, SOAR 4.1-m, and SMARTS 1.5-m, 1.3-m, and 0.9-m telescopes at Cerro Tololo; the Gemini North and South telescopes; the Anglo Australian Telescope (AAT); and the CHARA interferometric array. A total of 354 proposals requesting 878 nights were received by the proposal deadline of 30 September 2014. Statistics for standard proposals are available at www.noao.edu/gateway/tac/obsreqs15a.html. The Time Allocation Committee (TAC) for 2015A met in Tucson 27–31 October 2014. There are 7 panels making up the TAC: 3 Galactic, 3 Extra-Galactic, and 1 Solar System, with each panel having five

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voting members and one non-voting chair. The TAC membership is available at www.noao.edu/gateway/tac.html. The TAC process was managed and chaired by the associate director for NSSC and also involved the TAC program coordinator and the software support manager. The process was completed successfully, with notices concerning the results of the TAC grades and reports sent to PIs (via e-mail) on 15 December 2014. For semester 2015B, NOAO offered open-access peer-reviewed time on 11 telescopes: the same list of telescopes as 2015A except for CHARA (all A and B semester time on CHARA was assigned during the 2015A TAC process). There were 311 regular proposals submitted requesting 752 nights of telescope time received by the proposal deadline of 31 March 2015. The TAC panels for 2015B met in Tucson 4–8 May 2015, with 8 panels meeting this time instead of 7. The panels consisted of 3 Galactic, 3 Extra-Galactic, 1 Solar System, and a newly formed panel constituted to review exoplanet proposals submitted to WIYN as a result of the NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research (NN-EXPLORE) Guest Observer (GO) program: this is called the NASA WIYN panel. The semester 2015B process was managed by the same NOAO staff as for semester 2015A. Standard proposal statistics are available at www.noao.edu/gateway/tac/obsreqs15b.html. The results of the TAC rankings, grades, and reports were sent to proposer PIs on 15 June 2015. NOAO staff managed the TAC process for the Gemini Observatory’s 2015B call for Large and Long Programs (GLP), on behalf of Gemini, with the participation of the Gemini partners, Argentina, Canada, and the US. The GLP TAC panel met in Tucson on 29–30 April 2015 and consisted of 6 members from the US community, 2 from Canada, and 1 from Argentina. A total of 24 GLP programs were received requesting 346 hours on Gemini-N in semester 2015B and 415 hours on Gemini-S in 2015B.

Status of FY15 Milestones

§ Work with SUS to issue calls for proposals for regular programs (twice a year) and survey programs (once a year). Status: Completed. In FY15 calls for proposals were issued on 1 March 2015 (for semester 2015B) and on 1 September 2015 (for semester 2016A). Due to the current time commitments for ongoing NOAO surveys, no survey call was issued in FY15.

§ Coordinate with SUS and non-federal observatories to provide timely technical reviews of the proposals. Status: SUS and the TAC programs arranged for technical reviews of proposals for non-federal telescopes, which in FY15 consisted of proposals to AAT, CHARA, Subaru, and the visitor instrument DSSI on WIYN and Gemini-N.

§ Convene Time Allocation Committee (TAC) panels twice a year to review the proposals and provide recommendations to the NOAO director. Status: Completed. During FY15 TAC panels met in Tucson 27–31 October 2014 (for semester 2015A) and 4–8 May 2015 (for semester 2015B).

§ Keep the membership of the TAC panels current and ensure that they include the expertise required to review the scientific and technical aspects of the proposals. Status: Successfully completed.

§ Work with the federal and non-federal observatories to prioritize and schedule the approved proposals.

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Status: Successfully completed.

§ Ensure timely announcements of the results of the time allocation process. Status: Done. Announcements concerning proposals submitted for semester 2015A (starting on 1 February 2015) were sent to PIs on 15 December 2014. Announcements concerning proposals submitted for semester 2015B (starting on 1 August 2015) were sent to PIs on 15 June 2015.

§ If advised by the NOAO director, manage an NOAO Survey Call for Proposals and convene a Survey TAC during FY15. Status: Due to the current time commitments for ongoing NOAO surveys, it was decided by the NOAO directorate to not issue a survey call in FY15.

§ Work with the Gemini Observatory to implement a Gemini Large Program International TAC panel that is managed by NOAO as part of the overall time allocation process. Status: A Gemini Large Program TAC panel was created for the time period beginning with semester 2015B. This panel met in Tucson, in a meeting managed and hosted by NOAO, on 28–29 April 2015.

4.4 NOAO SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY CENTER

The NOAO System Technology Center (NSTC) is responsible for NOAO’s engagement in technological enhancements to the US Ground-Based Optical/Infrared System (System). NSTC carries out technical activities needed to realize new telescope projects or to enhance the instrument complements on existing System telescopes operated by NOAO or other entities. NSTC is supported through a combination of NOAO’s base budget and supplemental awards such as the Renewing Small Telescopes for Astronomical Research (ReSTAR) award from the NSF. The primary result achieved by NSTC during FY15 was the completion of the TripleSpec4 project under the ReSTAR program (see milestone reports below). With the delivery and commissioning of this final ReSTAR instrument, NSTC has completed its portfolio of work and has been discontinued as an NOAO reporting center as of the end of FY15.

4.4.1 System Instrumentation

FY15 Program Review

The ReSTAR project to build a version of the TripleSpec near-infrared spectrograph for the Blanco 4-m telescope reached a successful conclusion in FY15 with the delivery and commissioning of the spectrograph mid-year. The Cornell team visited CTIO for the first two commissioning runs, in late April and late June of 2015, and worked closely with the CTIO staff to complete all required commissioning tests and a handful of science verification observations. The Cornell team included one graduate student, Everett Schlawin, who had worked on the TripleSpec4 project from shortly after its construction start. Dr. Schlawin received his PhD from Cornell during the commissioning process, and he is now employed as a postdoctoral researcher.

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Status of FY15 Milestones

§ Deliver the fully integrated detector-controller subsystems for TripleSpec4 to Cornell University for incorporation into the instrument during laboratory integration. Status: Completed. The system was delivered to Cornell in January 2015 and installed in the instrument with the support of visiting NOAO engineering staff in February 2015.

§ Receive the fully assembled and tested TripleSpec4 instrument at the Blanco 4-m telescope. Status: Completed. Instrument was received at CTIO in April 2015.

§ Complete commissioning of TripleSpec4 on the Blanco telescope and release the instrument for scientific use by the US astronomical community. Status: Completed. TripleSpec4 successfully completed two commissioning runs by 3 July 2015. It was offered to the US astronomical community for regular observing in the Semester 2015B call for proposals. Cornell supplied an Acceptance Test Report documenting the satisfactory completion of all instrument requirements on 21 July 2015. NOAO has formally accepted the instrument and closed out the construction contract with Cornell.

§ Provide oversight for two TSIP instrumentation projects still underway (Binospec: a multi-object, dual- beam spectrograph for MMT being built by the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard-Smithsonian; and KCWI: an optical integral field spectrograph for Keck) and ensure completion and close-out of both TSIP project subawards by the end of FY15. Status: Continuing but not completed. Monthly progress reports were received from both projects, and follow-up status teleconferences were held with both. Both projects are progressing towards completion, although neither was completed by the end of FY15. NOAO has obtained a no-cost extension of the TSIP award authority into FY16 and has provided no-cost extensions under that authority to the projects. KCWI is now projected to be complete in December 2015, and Binospec is likely to be complete sometime in Q3 of FY16 (a detailed schedule review is underway by the Binospec team as of this writing).

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5.1 OFFICE OF SCIENCE

FY15 Program Review

Monday Science@10. In April, at the request of scientific staff members, the Office of Science (OS) resurrected the traditional Monday morning science discussion in Tucson. In the revamped format, we review recent press releases and have special guests from among our own scientific staff as well as LSST and Steward Observatory colleagues. In particular, invitees have included scientific colleagues who have recently moved to Tucson (B. Willman, D. Nidever, A. Reines) to help people get to know each other. The guest contributions include reviews of scientific papers or meetings attended, as well as discussions of science results and work in progress. The feedback has been positive, with some postdocs commenting that the format is a valuable way for them to interact in a more formal way with the rest of the scientific staff. Other staff members have commented that it is a useful way to keep abreast of the activities of their colleagues. Communication. In order to communicate NOAO science results to the public and to the astronomical community, OS wrote press releases and articles for the e-newsletter Currents as well as science highlights for the NOAO homepage. Using these stories as material, OS also wrote the science section of a KPNO report. Additional stories were solicited and edited as science highlights for the NOAO Newsletter. Community Science Planning. In collaboration with LSST Deputy Director B.Willman, OS has also begun to plan a community science activity to identify and prioritize OIR supporting capabilities for LSST science. Postdocs. After a successful postdoctoral stint at NOAO, our Goldberg Fellow (and OS mentee) C. Salyk accepted a professorship at Vassar College. Several other postdocs also moved on to new adventures (H. Inami, D. Atlee, J. Kartaltepe). OS organized postdoc farewell events, to which all staff were invited, in order to celebrate the achievements of our departing postdocs and to wish them well. Recruitment. OS also reached out to contacts in the astronomical community to help identify and recruit candidates for the NSSDC Associate Director position. OS participated actively in the review process and in recruiting the successful candidate. NOAO/Steward Joint Colloquium. OS invited and help to host Steward-NOAO Joint Colloquium speakers for Fall 2015. Other. The OS program head and the chair of the P&T Committee drafted a periodic review policy for tenured NOAO staff. OS staff assisted in planning and implementing two successful FY15 NOAO workshops: “Tools for Astronomical Big Data” (Tucson, Arizona, 9–11 March 2015) and “DECam Community Science Workshop” (Tucson, Arizona, 11–13 March 2015).

5.2 EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH

FY15 Program Review

The Education and Public Outreach (EPO) group maintained a highly effective and productive educational program in FY15, which is described in detail below. The group members were also active in national and international education service with duties, for example, as Astronomical Society of the Pacific Board President; TMT Workforce, Education, and Public Outreach Advisory Board Chair; AAS Astronomy Education Board member; LSST Outreach Advisory Board member; International Dark-Sky Association Education Committee Chair; Global Astronomy Month “Dark Skies Awareness” Chair; International Dark-

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Sky Association Board member; and IAU Commission 50 Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites Vice-President. The group also published widely in astronomy and science education venues. The following are highlights of the various Education and Public Outreach (EPO) programs and activities that took place during FY15.

Educational Outreach The EPO North group supported approximately 2 to 3 Public Outreach events every week during the year for a total of over 143 Information Requests & Inquiries educational events during the fiscal year. The EPO (October 1, 2014, through September 30, 2015) students supported most of these events, which were largely local community engagement events. About 20% Type/Origin of Request Number of the events were related to dark skies education and were hosted at the Cooper Center for Environmental Information requests/inquiries about Learning, run by the Tucson Unified School District and astronomy/science (phone calls, e- the University of Arizona. More than 15% of the events 573 mails, and walk-ins/requests for were in support of science events at festivals, fairs, and posters, bookmarks, brochures, etc. family science nights. More than 13% were with classroom testing of a new dark skies education kit for Requests and inquiries for use of 985 the International Year of Light 2105, developed by NOAO images NOAO with an IAU grant. Over 10% of the events were Total 1,558 in producing audio podcasts highlighting NOAO science and light pollution, 9% were Tohono O’odham events, 7% were school star parties, 7% were conference presentations, 6% were related to the Colors of Nature NSF-funded Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program; 6% were educator workshops, 3% were Project ASTRO classroom visits, and 5% were other events (e.g., Boys & Girls Club STEM activities). Some of the event highlights include events for the Tohono O’odham Nation (e.g., a tent for 2 days at the Sells Rodeo, 2 school star parties, and 2 school science fairs). Seven additional fairs and festivals were supported, including the Tucson-wide St. Michael’s Optics Fest for middle school students, held for the 10th year, as well as 4 star parties, and 13 Cooper Center for Environmental Learning sessions on light pollution awareness. One of the most notable events was our booth at the Tucson Festival of Books on March 14 and 15. With our lead EPO student (R. Levy) in charge, we had the most successful set of activities yet at that festival. The festival draws over a hundred thousand people.

Dark Skies Education Program During the first quarter, three educational sessions at the American Geophysical Union conference were co- convened and co-chaired by EPO staff on teacher development programs that teach authentic science and on citizen science; one talk on Globe at Night was given in the citizen science session. Two proposals (one for IAU and the other for the OSA Foundation) were awarded for development of a new program on Quality Lighting Teaching (QLT) Kits, the impetus being the International Year of Light (IYL2015). Globe at Night became an official IYL2015 citizen science campaign, and preparations were made for the 10th year of campaigns (one per month). The Globe at Night report page is now available in 28 languages. During Q2 and Q3 of FY15, EPO staff worked on the development of a new Quality Lighting Teaching Kit for the International Year of Light (IYL2015). C. Walker co-hosted a splinter session on light pollution issues and solutions at the AAS meeting in January. As part of the IAU International Year of Light: Cosmic Light Working Group for IYL2015, C. Walker and S. Pompea were invited to participate in the IYL2015 opening ceremony in January in Paris. In February a paper on “Worldwide Variations in Artificial Skyglow,” with C. Walker as a co-author, was published in Scientific Reports. Globe at Night received over 20,000 data points in one year’s campaign time, and it was recognized as a citizen science campaign of IYL2015. As an IYL2015 event, NOAO EPO hosted Globe at Night’s first flash mob measurements in Tucson on Super Pi Day (3.14.15) at 9:26 pm.

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A “Version 1” of the Quality Lighting Teaching Kit was completed in March 2015. To test the activities, the NOAO EPO staff conducted a focus group and training meeting with teachers on the activities in mid-April. From mid-April through mid-May, 17 classrooms were visited to observe their tests of the activities at 5th grade, middle school, and high school levels. The goal of the Quality Lighting Teaching Kit is to increase student and public awareness of light pollution issues and quality lighting solutions through a teaching kit and hands-on activities. Support for the activities is provided through an online tutorial and Google+ Hangout on Air for instructors. Six activities use quality lighting to solve realistic cases on how light pollution affects wildlife, the night sky, our eyes, energy consumption, safety, and light trespass into buildings. An article on this and the other IYL2015 “Cosmic Light”–themed programs was written by EPO staff member C. Walker for the AAS Sparks newsletter. NOAO EPO helped to host Global Astronomy Month (GAM) in April through a Globe at Night challenge to 5,000 locations where an observation has been made but there hasn’t been a new one in the last five years. Also for GAM, NOAO EPO co-hosted the 6th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest, which highlighted the natural beauty of the night sky and its growing battle with light pollution. The 10 winners of the 2015 contest, selected from about 1,000 entries, are from China, Iceland, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, and the United States. The contest video is at https://vimeo.com/130777773. The Globe at Night citizen science campaign on monitoring light pollution continued for 10 moonless evenings each month during the entire fiscal year. EPO staff member C. Walker presented a poster and paper at both the Light Pollution: Theory, Modeling and Measurements conference, May 26–28, and the Artificial Light at Night conference, May 29–31, both in the province of Quebec, Canada. C. Walker also made four presentations to the IAU General Assembly in August. Walker and Richard Green (University of Arizona) organized and led the Focus Meeting on light pollution August 11–13 and conducted the business meeting to shape future plans for Commission B7, “Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites.” The Gabriela Mistral Dark Sky Sanctuary at the AURA Observatory facilities in Chile was designated the first International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world by the International Dark-Sky Association.

Tohono O’odham Outreach There were a total of 15 outreach events on the Tohono O’odham Nation this year. These events included school visits, star parties, Indian Day, the Truck of Love Summer Camp, science fair judging at Sells Middle School and Tohono O’odham High School, and a two-night campout on Kitt Peak for Ha:san Preparatory and Leadership School. Three students from the Tohono O’odham Nation attended the NSF- funded Colors of Nature Summer Academy. Tohono O’odham Family Night was held at Kitt Peak on May 2. About 400 people attended this event. EPO worked with the KPNO office to advertise to schools and other groups, and recruited NOAO staff to help at this event. A Kitt Peak tour and discussion was held with the new superintendent of schools on the Nation to identify ways we can help them. NOAO staff taught elementary astronomy at Tohono O’odham Community College in the fall semester of 2014. The four-credit lab course met twice a week and had a total of 14 students. The class made several visits to Kitt Peak, concluding with an evening observing with the 0.9-m telescope. Changes in the college administration has led to new discussions about how and when astronomy can be taught in the future at the community college.

Social Media NOAO has participated in the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, producing one episode per month highlighting the research of an NOAO astronomer. In addition to these podcasts, five podcasts have aired this year promoting NOAO’s Dark Sky and Globe at Night programs. NOAO has over 2,200 likes on Facebook and over 1,700 followers on Google+.

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Teaching With Telescopes The Teaching With Telescopes website is running and being maintained for teachers to obtain information on using Galileoscopes in the classroom. The website is updated as needed, especially the Galileoscope Observing Guide, which is revised each year to help teachers and students observe the planets, Moon, and other interesting astronomical events. A major Galileoscope build took place on 10 February 2015, when NOAO led approximately 180 students building Galileoscopes as part of the Math Moves U Event (in cooperation with Raytheon and the University of Arizona MESA program), including a class of students from Ha:san Preparatory and Leadership School. A Galileoscope program was run at Marana Middle School this year with sponsorship from Science Foundation Arizona. Professional development took place for teachers on 1 November 2014, followed by a star party on 9 December 2015. The star party was attended by approximately 120 people. NOAO staff supported planning efforts for the Astronomy Night at the White House, planned for October 2015.

Colors of Nature This NSF Advancing Informal Science Learning project, titled “Project STEAM: Integrating Art with Science to Build Science Identities among Girls” (known as Colors of Nature), has continued to develop its program and materials while organizing summer academies in Tucson and Fairbanks and conducting educational research on science identity formation in girls. The Tucson Colors of Nature Summer Academy was held June 8–19 and attended by 30 girls, including 3 from the Tohono O’odham Nation. The Colors of Nature Summer Academy in Fairbanks, Alaska, was held July 6–17 and attended by 30 girls. The Colors of Nature Summer Academy students attended a special star party at Kitt Peak National Observatory on 18 October 2014. The students and their families enjoyed telescope tours, solar observing, dinner, and a star party. The program that night was part of support activities that include science cafes. The Colors of Nature team is working on adapting the lessons developed during the program for use in other venues such as museums and science centers. Educational kits are being developed as well to focus on the project’s very successful design challenges, which are built around investigations using both art and optics. The project team is correlating the materials with the Next Generation Science Standards and is providing extensive background material in each lesson for educators not well versed in one of the key fields of optics, biology, or art.

Public Information Office Over the past year, EPO hosted 11 varied groups from film media production crews to college student tours.

Table 2. FY15 Media Releases by EPO Release No. Date Source Title NOAO 15-06 September 21, 2015 NOAO Dark Energy Spectrometer for Kitt Peak Receives Funding Green Light NOAO 15-05 August 9, 2015 NOAO Chilean Astronomical Site Becomes World’s First International Dark Sky Sanctuary NOAO 15-04 July 27, 2015 NOAO Hiding in Plain Sight: Undergraduates Discover the Densest Galaxies Known NOAO 15-03 July 9, 2015 NOAO NGC 2346—A Cosmic Butterfly’s Delicate Wings NOAO 15-02 February 9, 2015 NASA/ NASA Solicits Proposals for a World-Class Precision NOAO Doppler Spectrometer at Kitt Peak National Observatory NOAO 15-10 January 5, 2015 NOAO Smashing Results about Our Nearby Galactic Neighbors NOAO 14-08 December 18, 2014 NOAO Compact Galaxy Groups Reveal Details of Their Close Encounters

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Project ASTRO The NOAO Project ASTRO program has supported numerous star parties at schools this year, and it continues to partner teachers and astronomers and to provide professional development for both. Project ASTRO maintain an inventory of kits that are loaned to teachers throughout the year for use in their classrooms. The spring Project ASTRO workshop took place 18 April 2015. At this workshop there were 22 Project ASTRO teachers and astronomers in attendance. The workshop included project updates, recognition of our Partnership of the Year, and a star party. The fall 2015 Project ASTRO workshop was held at Kitt Peak National Observatory on 11 September and at NOAO on 12 September 2015. This workshop was attended by 16 teachers and 11 astronomers. (Some astronomers have more than 1 teacher partner.) NOAO will support these new partnerships as well as existing partnerships during the upcoming school year.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates NOAO’s NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site programs at KPNO and CTIO offer undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in challenging research activities with scientists working at the forefront of astronomy and astrophysics. Students are hired as full-time research assistants to work with NOAO staff members on selected research projects for a period of 10 to 12 weeks during the summer in the respective hemispheres. As part of their research activities, REU students gain firsthand experience with state-of-the art telescopes and instrumentation and develop expertise in the data analysis tools specific to astronomical research. Six students (two women and four men) participated in the CTIO REU program at NOAO South, and six students (three women and three men) participated in the KPNO REU program at NOAO North. Table 3 lists the participating REU students, their mentors, and their summer projects. The REU students were involved in other activities in addition to working on their projects. KPNO REU students took a field trip to the National Solar Observatory and the Very Large Array. The students observed at the KPNO WIYN 0.9-m telescope with the Half Degree Imager (HDI) June 26–July 2. The CTIO REU students visited the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, Gemini Observatory South, and the Southern Astrophysical Research telescope. The CTIO REU students also observed with the SMARTS 0.9- m telescope on Cerro Tololo February 6–13. Both the 2015 KPNO REU and CTIO REU students will be attending and presenting posters at the January 2016 AAS meeting in Kissimmee, Florida. The KPNO REU program was renewed for FY13–FY16 (AST-1262829; PI: K. Mighell). The Final Project Report for the previous five-year KPNO REU program (AST-0754223) was submitted to the NSF in September 2013.

Table 3. REU students at CTIO and KPNO during FY15 CTIO REU Students Mentor Project Institution Scott Carlsten Dr. Alfredo Zenteno (CTIO) “Ionized Gas Kinematics and Stellar Populations of Rice University and Dr. George Hau (ESO) Shell Galaxies” Samuel Castle Dr. Bryan Miller (Gemini) “Automated Image Processing to Detect the Shells Davidson College of Elliptical Galaxies” Alex Gagliano Dr. Juan Madrid (Gemini) “Analysis of Globular Cluster Systems in the Coma Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Cluster Using HST/ACS Data” State University Brittany Howard Dr. Katherina Vivas (CTIO) “Photometric Calibration of DECam Images in the University of Michigan–Dearborn Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy” Md. Tanveer Karim Dr. César Briceño (CTIO) “Characterizing the Variability of the 4–10 Myr Old University of Rochester T-Tauri Stars in the Orion OB1 Association” Cherish Prickett Dr. Catherine Kaleida (CTIO) “Photometry of Orbital Space Debris at the Georgia Perimeter College Geosynchronous Earth Orbit”

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KPNO REU Students Mentor Project Institution Rose Gibson Dr. Chuck Claver (LSST) “The Effects of Commercial Airline Traffic on LSST Wellesley College Observing Efficiency” Logan Jones Dr. David Atlee (NOAO) “A Census of Star Formation and Black Hole Growth University of Arkansas in Abell 1689” Elizabeth Juelfs Dr. Knut Olsen (NOAO) “Investigation of Reddening in Fields of the SMASH Austin Peay State University Survey” Jacklyn Pezzato Dr. Ken Mighell (NOAO) “Analysis of Kepler Observations of ASAS Variables” Swarthmore College Erick Sandberg Drs. Jayadev Rajagopal, Susan “Detection Methods for Low-Level Mass Loss in Main University of Montana Ridgway, and Lori Allen Belt Asteroids” (NOAO) Tayeb Zaidi Dr. Gautham Narayan (NOAO) “Photometric Supernova Data Reduction and Macalester College Classification”

NOAO South Education and Outreach The EPO South team finished FY15 working on CTIO Visitor Center & Tours several joint projects with long-term partners in Summary of Participants community and student science education. These (October 1, 2014, through September 30, 2015) partners include CEAZA (Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones), the University of Santo Group/Program # of Participants

Tomás, and Explora-CONICYT. During the year CADIAS Center many projects were conducted in most of the towns 1,969 and communities of the Region of Coquimbo. NOAO-S/out of CADIAS Outreach One important event during Q1 was the EPO 7,103 department’s support of the creation by AURA Tololo Guided Tours Observatory in Chile of the annual AURA “Picetti 1,970 School Groups K–12 Prize.” At the first award ceremony Father Juan 1,690 Bautista Picetti was presented with this award in Special Tours recognition of his more than 50 years of devotion 503 and exemplary service to science education. The Total 13,235 award was created by AURA-Chile to recognize the contributions of individuals to formal and informal science education in the Region of Coquimbo. On December 2014, the team participated in the third Habla Educador seminar for teachers, organized by the Environmental and Education Ministries with the support of CTIO and CEAZA. More than 120 teachers from the Region of Coquimbo participated. The fourth seminar was held on July 2015, with similar attendance. This professional development effort is aimed at encouraging teachers to use the Inquiry Method of science instruction in the classroom. In Q2 of FY15, part of the EPO-S team travelled to Tucson to participate in the first all-NOAO EPO retreat, where many of the issues and challenges for the future of the group were discussed. These included the revision of current programs and goals and discussions to define our audiences, our efforts to engage our larger organization staff, and the efforts to increase collaboration among the EPO-N and EPO-S groups.

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Figure 11: 1st Chile-U.S. Astronomy Education Summit participants in ALMA base camp

In March 2015, all of the EPO-S team participated in the first Chile-U.S. Astronomy Education Summit, which took place in Santiago and San Pedro de Atacama at the ALMA Observatory facilities. The EPO department head in Tucson was one of the original organizers of this program, and all EPO South group members were involved in this major effort. The participants in this program were approximately 40 specialists in formal and informal astronomy education, including EPO group members of US and Chilean scientific observatories, science centers, planetariums, universities, and public schools. Several topics were discussed and many collaboration projects were outlined for the current year and beyond. In Q3 of FY15, the EPO-S team was busy organizing and implementing the activities of the joint project with CEAZA on science training for park rangers of the Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park and Starlight Reserve. The project aims to develop capabilities in park rangers to help them run programs for future scientific tourism and night sky observations. The team members also supported the activities related to the LSST First Stone Ceremony that took place in Cerro Pachón on April 14. In June 2015, while dealing with visitors from neighbor countries to La Serena and Tololo due to Copa America (the South American Soccer Cup), the NOAO EPO team received the visiting NSF-sponsored ACEAP (Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassador Program) group. This program is an initiative to bring astronomy-related educators to Chile to learn about the efforts of US-funded observatories in scientific research and in outreach initiatives. The EPO-S team coordinated all the activities of the group during their stay in La Serena/Tololo 22–26 June 2015.

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Figure 12: Galactic center from Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park—Starlight Reserve (Image credit: D. Munizaga EPO-NOAO-S)

During Q2, Q3, and Q4 of FY15, the team participated in the organization, coordination, and implementation of the "Science for Sustainable Tourism in the Biosphere Reserve Park Fray Jorge" project in collaboration with CEAZA, SERNATUR (the Chile Tourism National Office), and CONAF (the Park Rangers National Office). The program had the financial support of the regional government. The project aims to implement a sustainable model that will link scientific knowledge and information technologies with the tourism industry and local communities to promote the development of this activity and to add value to tourist products of the park. It will also contribute to maintaining the park as a Starlight Reserve, which was awarded to the park in 2013. In summary, during FY15, a total of 111 events were held by the EPO-South team, reaching a total of 13,235 people.

Status of FY15 Milestones

• Support the strategic plan for NOAO South outreach and the Centro de Apoyo a la Didáctica de la Astronomía (CADIAS) astronomy teaching center in Chile. This includes programs involving dark skies education and teaching with Galileoscopes. Status: We have a vigorous dark skies education program in place in Chile, with numerous teacher professional development workshops and student programs. Similarly, the Galileoscope education program is in place and active. For example, a Galileoscope workshop was conducted at Observatorio Cruz del Sur with telescopes and tripods purchased through an SPIE education grant. The CADIAS building and its programs were evaluated in May, and a supplemental plan has been produced to refurbish the facility and update its educational materials.

• Execute a wide-ranging, dark skies awareness program for Chile and Arizona, including the national/international citizen science program, Globe at Night, started and run by NOAO. Status: Our dark skies education program has an international reputation with the highly successful Globe at Night citizen science program operating all year worldwide. We have developed a new

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teaching kit, with IAU funds, based on problem-based learning. The kit has been tested and revised and is responsive to the U.S. Next Generation Science Standards. Multiple copies of the kit are being built for distribution through the partners SPIE, OSA, the International Commission on Illumination (CIE), and the International Dark-Sky Association.

• Work with the Tohono O’odham Nation to support an astronomy program at the Tohono O’odham Community College and to support a science fair program in the Tohono O’odham high schools. Status: We supported an astronomy course taught by NOAO staff at the Tohono O’odham Community College and a science fair program at Tohono O’odham high schools and provided support for the Tohono O’odham Family Night on Kitt Peak on May 2. We also worked closely with the Nation to recruit students for the NSF-funded Colors of Nature program.

• Support the Teaching with Telescopes program in Arizona and Chile with teacher professional development on telescope and optics concepts, making use of Galileoscopes. Support to the extent possible the current Galileoscope star party programs in Arizona cities. Maintain the national Teaching with Telescopes teacher support website. Status: We supported the Teaching with Telescopes program with professional development workshops and have updated the website. The Galileoscope has become a cornerstone project of the International Year of Light 2015, and NOAO has supported that effort. The Galileoscope star party program in Marana was conducted successfully with support from Science Foundation Arizona.

• Conduct professional development workshops and programs for formal and informal science educators in coordination with professional organizations such as the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Status: Several sessions were organized and held at the AGU meeting in order to promote authentic research by teachers and students. Other workshops and focus groups were held at the AAS and at the IAU meeting. C. Walker co-hosted a splinter session on light pollution issues and solutions at the AAS meeting in January. Walker and R. Green (University of Arizona) organized and led the Focus Meeting on light pollution August 11–13 at the IAU General Assembly. Professional development workshops for teachers not at national meetings were also held in Tucson and in Chile. Planning is underway for an NSTA presentation on informal science education at the annual National Science Teacher Association meeting in Nashville in 2016.

• Support the training of guides and provide support for astronomy programs for the public at the major municipal and touristic observatories in northern Chile. Status: We continue our support for the tourist observatories in Chile and support for amateur astronomy organizations in Chile. We helped organize several efforts that brought tourist observatories together with other partners in astronomy education. This Astronomy Education Summit was the first to be held in Chile and involved tourist observatories.

• Support dark skies education programs in northern Chile with education partners such as the El Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA). Status: We continue as an important partner to CEAZA in our work on eco-tourism. Currently we are training park rangers in the Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park on how to conduct night programs in the park.

• Maintain an active southern Arizona Project ASTRO teacher/scientist partnership program with professional development activities held at least twice a year.

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Status: The NOAO Project ASTRO site remains one of the most vigorous ASTRO sites in the country and has held professional development programs twice this year.

• Design and deliver (with grant partners) a successful two-week Colors of Nature summer academy for middle school girls during the summer of 2015 in Tucson, Arizona, and Fairbanks, Alaska. Status: The program was highly successful in both Tucson and Fairbanks. The Tucson Colors of Nature Summer Academy was held June 8–19 and attended by 30 girls, including 3 from the Tohono O’odham Nation. The Colors of Nature Summer Academy in Fairbanks, Alaska, was held July 6–17 and attended by 30 girls. Research results from “Project STEAM: Integrating Art with Science to Build Science Identities among Girls” (Colors of Nature) have been disseminated at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) and through the American Educational Research Association (AERA) meetings.

5.3 NOAO DIRECTOR’S OFFICE

FY15 Program Review Beyond normal day-to-day operations activity, the NDO activity was dominated by two overriding activities: completion of the NOAO transformation plan and initial implementation of the new Cooperative Agreement (CA) between AURA and the NSF. In mid-2013, the NSF issued new programmatic and financial guidance to AURA and NOAO. In parallel, the NSF issued a solicitation for proposals to manage and operate NOAO in the period FY16– FY25. Based on those documents, NOAO developed and submitted a transformation plan in October 2013 that was reviewed and approved by the NSF. All actions and deliverables defined in that plan have been completed, as reviewed and verified by the NSF Program Review Panel (PRP), during mid-FY15. Initial implementation of the new Cooperative Agreement required completion of various tasks, including negotiation of CA terms and conditions, development of an NOAO Strategic Plan, definition of a Performance Evaluation and Measurement Plan (PEMP) (in collaboration with AURA Corporate and the NSF Astronomical Sciences, AST), iterative out-year budget development based on feedback from the NSF Division of Contracts and Complex Agreements (DACS) and Cost Analysis and Audit Resolution Branch (CAAR) (in collaboration with AURA Central Administrative Services; CAS), and development of proposals for Mayall and WIYN facilities supplementary funding (in collaboration with Associate Director for KPNO and AURA CAS). Per standard procedure, the NDO completed and delivered the following major documents during this fiscal year: the Annual Program Plan for FY15 (APP15), the Fiscal Year Annual Report for FY14 (FYAR14), quarterly reports for FY15 Q1 and Q2, an Annual Progress Report for FY15 (APR15), an NOAO-2016 Transformation Plan Status Report, and the Program Operations Plan for FY16 (POP16). The NDO organized and conducted quarterly NOAO Safety Council meetings. Members of this council include the NOAO Director and Deputy Director, the Associate Directors for KPNO and NOAO South, the Safety Officers for KPNO and NOAO South, and the Facilities Operations managers for Arizona and Chile. In collaboration with the AURA Human Resources group, the NDO organized and managed the recruitment process for a new Associate Director for the NOAO System Science and Data Center (NSSDC). Dr. Adam Bolton (Utah) will be joining NOAO in this role during the first quarter of FY16. In collaboration with the AURA Human Resources group, the NDO organized and participated in senior management training based on the online Blanchard Situational Leadership 2 (SLII) course. The AURA directors for NOAO and the LSST Project Office (Steven Kahn) worked with the NSF and the Kavli Foundation to develop a workshop to bring together community scientists to analyze LSST user

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cases and better define what follow-up facilities, tools, and processes will be needed in the LSST era. This workshop is scheduled to occur in May 2016. In January 2015, the director conducted the Annual NOAO Town Hall at the AAS meeting, with a 30- minute presentation followed by 30 minutes for discussion with the audience. The director repeated this format in small groups throughout NOAO in Arizona and Chile to provide NOAO employees with an opportunity to see the latest strategic vision and discuss it with the director. The director attended and made presentations at the following meetings: AAS/Seattle (January 2015), AURA Board (September 2015), AURA Annual Meeting (April 2015), AURA Observatory Council (April 2015, September 2015), NOAO Users Committee (May 2015), NRC OIR System Optimization Study (October 2014), and NSF Program Review Panel (May 2015). The deputy director attended and made presentations at the AURA Board (February), the AURA Observatory Council, the Users Committee, and the Program Review Panel. The deputy director attended the AAS/Seattle meeting (January 2015). The deputy director participated and presented in the NOAO-DESI Installation PDR (Tucson, March 2015), the DESI (LBL) Director’s Review (Berkeley, June 2015), and the DESI DOE Critical Decision 2 Review (Berkeley, July 2015). The director was a member of the following governance and/or oversight boards: AURA Management Council for LSST (AMCL), Gemini Board of Directors, LSST Corporation Executive Board, and TMT International Observatory Board of Governors (non-voting). The deputy director was a member of the SOAR Board of Directors, the DESI Executive Council, the DESI Institutional Board, and the GMT Science Advisory Committee, and the Chair of the DESI Membership Committee. The director participated in the following meetings or events as an invited participant: AURA Workforce and Diversity Committee (December 2014), LSST First Stone Ceremony (April 2015), NAOJ External Review Committee (February 2015), TMT International Observatory Groundbreaking Ceremony (October 2015), and Workshop on Collaborations between NSF/MPS and Private Foundations (May 2015). The deputy director participated in the LSST First Stone Ceremony, the DESI Science Readiness Workshop (SLAC, January 2015), the DESI DECaLS Imaging Survey Workshop (Tucson, August) 2015, and the LSST Cadence Workshop (Bremerton, August 2015). Both the director and deputy director participated in the NOAO “Tools for Astronomical Big Data” and “DECam Community Science Workshop” (Tucson, March 2015). The director finished his three-year term as President of IAU Division B (Facilities, Technology, and Data Science). In the role, the director organized a two-day division meeting in Honolulu, held as part of the IAU General Assembly meeting.

Status of FY15 Milestones

Observatory Management

• Develop an annual program plan for FY16, to be delivered during the first quarter of FY16.

Status: Completed, delivered on schedule.

• Deliver scientific quarterly and annual progress reports as required by the NSF under the terms of its cooperative agreement with AURA for the management and operations of NOAO.

Status: Completed, delivered on schedule. The following reports were delivered to the NSF and posted to the NOAO News & Reports web page: “NOAO Quarterly Scientific Report (1) FY2015,” “NOAO Quarterly Scientific Report (2) FY2015,” and “NOAO Annual Project Report FY2015.” In addition to these reports and the annual program plan noted above, NOAO submitted the following reports to the NSF on behalf of AURA: the program operations plan for FY16, annual project reports for AST-

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1262829 and AST-1062976, and final reports and project outcomes reports for AST-1019067 and AST- 0936648. • Participate as required by AURA in reviews by the NSF and other federal agencies of AURA activities.

Status: The NSF Program Review Panel (PRP) reviewed AURA/NOAO in May 2015 and was highly complimentary of the execution of our transformation plan, our initial response to the management proposal review panel report, and our strategic vision. As needed, AURA/NOAO worked with the NSF DACS and CAAR groups to revise and finalize our budget projections for FY16 and beyond. There were no other major NSF reviews of NOAO activity during this reporting period.

• Participate as required by the NSF, DOE, and other federal agencies in planning and reporting meetings (e.g., the semi-annual NSF Program Review Panel meeting).

Status: NOAO hosted, organized, and participated in the preliminary design review for DESI at the Mayall in Tucson in March. For other NSF-related activity, see above. NOAO participated in two significant DOE reviews for DESI in FY15. In June, staff presented Mayall install and preparation efforts to the LBL Director’s Review. In August, staff presented the same areas at the DOE CD3 Review in Berkeley.

• Inform all current employees by the end of Q1 of FY15 of their planned FY16 employment status, with specific attention to employees who will separate from NOAO by the end of FY15 due to NOAO restructuring.

Status: Completed as planned, in Arizona and Chile.

• Organize and complete the annual EPO Advisory Committee meeting by the end of Q1 of FY15.

Status: The meeting was organized during Q1 of FY15 but conducted during Q4 of FY15 due to conflicts with other NOAO meetings and availability of committee members. A written committee report has not yet been received. NOAO will provide a written response in due course.

• Organize and complete the annual NOAO Users Committee meeting by the end of Q3 of FY15.

Status: Completed during stated quarter. A written committee report has been received and posted to the publicly accessible Users Committee website. NOAO will provide a written response in due course.

• Complete the transformation of NOAO to its FY16 structure and program by the end of FY15.

Status: Completed per 2013 plan. See above for further discussion.

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APPENDICES

68 A: FY15 BUDGET BY PROGRAM

A FY15 BUDGET BY PROGRAM

A.1 FY15 EXPENDITURES The following pie charts show the breakdown of the NOAO base fund expenditures for FY15 in three ways: (1) as a percentage of NSF base funding by program, (2) as a percentage of total funding by program, and (3) as a percentage of total funding by expense category.

Fee FY 2015 Base Expenditures 9% NDO 2% EPO Base fund expenditures 4% NS as a percentage of total 30% OS NSF base funding by 3% program NSTC 1%

NSSC 18%

NN 33%

Fee FY 2015 Total Expenditures NDO 7% 4% EPO 3% Total expenditures as a OS NS percentage of total 2% 34% funding by program NSTC 1% NSSC 14%

NN 35%

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FY 2015 Expenditures by Category

Total expenditures as a Services percentage of total 15% Sub-Awards 4% funding by category

Supplies & Materials 12%

Travel - Foreign 1% Travel - Domestic 2% Payroll Capital 65% Purchases 1%

Table A-1 shows the actual gross expense figures as of the end of FY15 for each major program work package as well as the carry-forward funds. The left-hand column contains total funding for each activity, i.e., the sum of NSF FY15 base funding, non-base FY15 funding or revenue, and FY14 carry-forward funding (if any). The key for Table A-1 provides descriptions of the work breakdown structure shown in the table. (See Section A.3 for a breakdown of the funds carried forward from FY15 to FY16.)

Table A-1: FY15 Total Funding vs. Actual Expenditures

FY15 Actual Work Package Total Budget Expenses

NOAO South (NS) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) 5,778,685 4,729,893 NS Engineering & Technical Services 1,664,815 1,145,716 NS Facilities Operations 2,577,959 2,809,065 NS Computer Infrastructure Services 633,898 724,921 NS Director's Office 948,630 705,935 NS Subtotal 11,603,986 10,115,530 NOAO North (NN) Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 4,766,287 5,642,709 NN Engineering & Technical Services 2,499,477 2,702,403 NN Central Facilities Operations 1,795,044 1,516,152 NN Computer Infrastructure Services 768,633 733,406 NN Subtotal 9,829,441 10,594,671

(Table A-1 is continued on the next page.)

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Table A-1: FY15 Total Funding vs. Actual Expenditures (continued)

FY15 Actual Work Package Total Budget Expenses NOAO System Science Center (NSSC) System User Support 936,664 867,465 Science Data Management 2,061,294 2,128,073 System Community Development 882,934 856,581 Time Allocation Committee 423,795 351,795 NSSC Subtotal 4,304,686 4,203,913 NOAO System Technology Center (NSTC) System Instrumentation 562,805 177,433 NSTC Subtotal 562,805 177,433 Office of Science (OS) 793,965 639,358 Education and Public Outreach (EPO) 1,114,658 1,024,614 NOAO Director's Office (NDO) 1,112,165 1,087,277 NOAO Director's Unallocated funds 5,097,266 233,004 AURA Services and Fees 2,243,727 2,108,628 Total Base Expenditures 36,662,699 30,184,427 Other NSF Funding REU South 220,189 80,768 Telescope System Instrumentation Program 104,052 2,944 La Serena School for Data Science 52,435 24,799 Subtotal Other NSF Expenditures 376,676 108,512 Non-NSF Science Research 29,038 74,273 Total NOAO Expenditures 37,068,413 30,367,212

FY15 Base Funding (25,500,000) FY14 Carry-Forward Applied to NOAO Base Programs (4,402,360) FY15 Program Outside Revenue (7,166,053)

FY15 Total NOAO Carry-Forward (6,701,202)

Key to Table A-1 FY15 Total Funding vs. Actual Expenditures NOAO South (NS) This NOAO division focuses on the administration, facilities, and IT support services for NOAO activities based in La Serena, Chile. Cerro Tololo Inter-American This work package includes the operational and mountain facilities support costs for CTIO. It Observatory (CTIO) does not include NOAO-wide administrative costs. NS Engineering & Technical This work package includes design, fabrication, installation, and operations support for the Services telescopes and instrumentation on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón.

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Key to Table A-1 FY15 Total Funding vs. Actual Expenditures NS Facilities Operations This work package includes the shared costs of operations of all of the AURA La Serena facilities, including warehouse, shipping/receiving, inventory control, security, water and sewer facilities, garage and transport, and the La Serena motel, as well as general maintenance and janitorial services. It also includes the shared costs of operations of all AURA mountaintop facilities on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón, including road maintenance, power line maintenance, water system maintenance, emergency medical services, communication and telephone system maintenance, kitchen operations, and dormitory operations. All activities related to the management of general NOAO activities in La Serena are contained in this work package. NS Computer Infrastructure This work package includes computer system support for NOAO South including network Services maintenance and software support. It includes system security and access. NS Director’s Office This work package includes all effort related to executing the management of NOAO South and CTIO. The work package also includes Facility support for NOAO South–only facilities, science research support, REU program management, visitor center activity apart from the NOAO EPO program, the NOAO South program-wide Safety Program, and academic affairs. NOAO North (NN) This NOAO division focuses on the administration, facilities, and IT support services for NOAO activities based in southern Arizona. Kitt Peak National This work package contains the operational and mountain support costs for KPNO including Observatory (KPNO) personnel, travel, miscellaneous equipment, tenant support, Site Director’s office, user support, NSO support, instrumentation and modernization upgrades, and other mountain facilities costs. Also included are costs of telescope operation and maintenance and partnerships. It does not include NOAO-wide administrative costs. NN Engineering & Technical This work package includes design, fabrication, installation, and operations support for the Services telescopes and instrumentation on Kitt Peak. NN Central Facilities This work package includes the NOAO North facilities operation costs of non-mountaintop Operations building maintenance, roads and grounds, utilities, vehicles, and the computer network in Tucson. NN Computer Infrastructure Included in this work package is computer system support for NOAO North, NSO, SOAR, Services and WIYN including network maintenance and software support. It also includes system security and access. NOAO System Science This NOAO division is a combination of the System User Support, Science Data Center (NSSC) Management, System Community Development, and Time Allocation Committee programs. System User Support This work package includes management of US community access to Gemini and other System telescopes, including periodic meetings of NOAO user constituencies, other informational workshops and committees, and the annual meeting of the survey teams. It also includes user support for observing proposal preparation and submission for all System facilities, as well as post-observing data processing. The work package includes personnel, travel, support, and equipment for NSSC to provide US community access and user support to the two Gemini telescopes. Science Data Management This work package contains the planning and management of SDM North and South, development and operation of the NOAO Science Archive, user support, and data management for other initiatives. It includes community involvement and data in the VAO. System Community This work package focuses on connecting the US community-at-large with the new science Development capabilities under development such as LSST, GMT, TMT, LCOGTN, and various emerging facilities for optical interferometry. Time Allocation Committee This work package encompasses support of the NOAO time allocation process and TAC meetings, including salaries, travel, supplies, and services required to support the TAC meetings. NOAO System Technology This NOAO division is responsible for coordinating technological enhancements to the US Center (NSTC) Ground-Based O/IR Observing System. It formerly incorporated System Instrumentation and the NOAO LSST Telescope and Site team. NSTC was phased out in FY15. System Instrumentation This work package includes projects funded through the NSF ReSTAR proposal. TripleSpec4 was the only (and final) project in FY15 for the Blanco 4-m. This work package provides support from non-NSF base funds for engineering effort on external projects. This package also includes support from outside funds for external programs in the NOAO North machine shop.

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Key to Table A-1 FY15 Total Funding vs. Actual Expenditures Office of Science (OS) This work package contains support to science staff, including administrative support, colloquia, travel, page charges, and conferences/workshops. It also includes salary support for fellowships and those science staff on sabbatical or directly supporting the OS activity. Education and Public This work package contains the NOAO North and South education and public outreach Outreach (EPO) programs, REU programs, public affairs, and graphic arts. NOAO Director’s Office This work package focuses on the activities of the NOAO director, deputy director, (NDO) administrative support staff, risk management, library, and safety coordination. NOAO Director’s This work package includes unallocated FY15 base funds combined with all unexpended or Unallocated funds uncommitted FY14 base funds. This reserve is used for unpredictable spending needs, such as major changes in the US dollar to Chilean peso exchange rate or unexpected maintenance needs that require immediate response. AURA Services and Fees This includes the cost of purchasing services from AURA for NOAO-wide human resources, accounting/financial management, procurement, payroll, and logistics. It also includes the AURA Facilities & Administration fee for new funds and carry-forward from unexpended FY14 funds. The AURA management fee for FY15 is 2.89 percent. Total Base Expenditures This total includes the total expenditures of NOAO programs from NSF base funds. Other NSF Funding NSF funding for NOAO programs awarded separately from CSA (1) AST-0950945. REU South This package includes support for the REU student costs while working at NOAO South. Telescope System The Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP) funds development of new Instrumentation Program instruments for, or operational costs of, non-federal observatories in return for US community access to observing time on those telescopes as administered by the NOAO TAC. La Serena School for Data Supplemental support for three one-week schools in Chile, in 2013, 2014, and 2015, to help Science train the next generation of scientists from Chile, the US, and other countries in the use of tools and techniques of “Big Data” in astronomy is in this work package. Subtotal Other NSF This total includes the expenditures for NSF awards to NOAO other than CSA (1) AST- Expenditures 0950495. Total NOAO Expenditures This total includes the total expenditures of NOAO programs from NSF funds. FY15 Base Funding Actual FY15 NSF funding provided to NOAO for base programming. FY14 Carry-Forward Applied FY14 carry-forward that was applied to the FY15 program. to NOAO Base Programs FY15 Program Outside FY15 NSF base program revenue applied to the FY15 program (from Table A-2). Revenue FY15 Total NOAO Carry- Total amount of unexpended carry-forward from all NOAO programs. Forward

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A.2 FY15 REVENUE Table A-2 summarizes the other revenue (non-NSF base funding) received by each program. The key to Table A-2 describes the revenue sources.

Table A-2: FY15 NOAO Program Outside Revenue Description FY15 Revenue NOAO South (NS) CTIO Indirects and Miscellaneous Revenue 155,788 CTIO SMARTS Labor Recharge and Indirects 36,360 NS Director's Office 23,667 NS ETS Projects Labor Recharges and Indirects 322,066 NS FO La Serena Facilities Support to Gemini, SOAR, and AURA-O 733,343 NS FO Mountain Facilities Support to Gemini, SOAR, and AURA-O 1,776,713 NS CIS Computer Network Support to AURA Centers, Las Campanas, ALMA, and Tenants 201,154 Subtotal 3,249,091 NOAO North Facility Operations KPNO DS3 Link 63,430 KPNO Meal and Dormitory Revenue 262,681 KPNO KPVC Sales Revenue and Memberships 661,149 KPNO Joint Use Fee 129,010 KPNO Misc. Facilities Use Fees 45,206 KPNO WIYN Operational Support 94,603 NN ETS Instrument Shop Support for NSO and Grants 358,393 NN CFO Support to NSO, WIYN, LSSTC, and Other Indirect Cost Revenue 1,219,614 NN CFO Space Lease 2,606 NN CIS Support for NSO and Gemini 274,633 Subtotal 3,111,325 NOAO System Science Center (NSSC) Science Data Management VAO Grant 49,309 Subtotal 49,309 NOAO System Technology Center (NSTC) System Instrumentation Support for Other Outside Programs 29 Subtotal -15,115 Office of Science Grant-Supported Staff Costs 45,699 Subtotal 45,699 Education and Public Outreach Support to NSO 112,112 Grant-Supported Staff Costs 76,500 Subtotal 188,612 NOAO Director's Office Grant Indirect Revenue 479,896 Support for AURA Recompetition for NOAO 0 AURA DDF 6,868 Library Support to NSO 50,368 Subtotal 537,132 Total Outside FY15 Program Revenue 7,166,053

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Key to Table A-2 FY15 NOAO Program Outside Revenue NOAO South (NS) NOAO Division CTIO Indirects and Miscellaneous Revenue Revenue from small projects for Gemini and other external entities and general indirect cost recovery CTIO SMARTS Labor Recharge and General indirect cost recovery from SMARTS operational support Indirects NS Director’s Office This includes support from Gemini to the NOAO South Library and rental income from PIA students. NS ETS SOAR Projects Labor Recharges Revenue for labor provided by NS Engineering & Technology staff for SOAR and Indirects project support NS FO La Serena Facilities Support to Revenue from providing facilities services to the tenants Gemini, SOAR, and AURA-O NS FO Mountain Facilities Support to Revenue for support of mountain operations from Gemini, SOAR, AURA-O, and Gemini, SOAR, and AURA-O other tenants on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón NS CIS Computer Network Support to NOAO support revenue from the users AURA Centers, Las Campanas, ALMA, and Tenants NOAO North Facility Operations NOAO Program KPNO DS3 Link Revenue from tenants for maintenance and support KPNO Meal and Dormitory Revenue Revenue from nighttime programs, meals sold, and dormitory rental on Kitt Peak KPNO KPVC Sales Revenue and Revenue from Visitor Center, sales, night observing programs, etc., and the Memberships Friends of Kitt Peak program KPNO Joint Use Fee Annual fee charged to all tenants on KP for joint support services provided KPNO Misc. Facilities Use Fees Miscellaneous revenue from use of the facilities KPNO WIYN Operational Support Support funds from the WIYN partners toward support of operations NN ETS Instrument Shop Support for NSO Revenue from NSO or grant accounts to cover payroll costs of instrument shop and Grants work requested by NSO or grant awardees, respectively NN CFO Support to NSO, WIYN, LSSTC, Indirect revenue from grants and support for facilities and services rendered to and Other Indirect Cost Revenue NSO, WIYN, LSSTC, etc. NN CFO Space Lease Revenue from leasing Tucson space to LSSTC, University of Arizona, etc. NN CIS Support for NSO and Gemini Revenue from labor support by NOAO North Computer Infrastructure Services to NSO and Gemini NOAO System Science Center (NSSC) NOAO Division Science Data Management VAO Grant NSF grant support for NOAO work on the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) NOAO System Technology Center NOAO Division (NSTC) System Instrumentation Support for Other Miscellaneous support work done by the System Instrumentation staff for Outside Programs Gemini, Steward Observatory, Lunar Planetary Lab, and other local astronomical institutions Office of Science (OS) NOAO Program Grant-Supported Staff Costs Grant and outside support for postdocs including Hubble fellowships, etc. Education and Public Outreach (EPO) NOAO Program Support to NSO Revenue provided by NSO for work done by the Photo Imaging Lab and to support NSO EPO efforts on Kitt Peak, some public information functions, and general EPO outreach locally and regionally on behalf of NSO Grant-Supported Staff Costs Grant and outside support for various EPO staff, e.g., the Colors of Nature grant NOAO Director’s Office (NDO) NOAO Division

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Key to Table A-2 FY15 NOAO Program Outside Revenue Grant Indirect Revenue A portion of grant revenue goes to the Director’s Office for miscellaneous science support and NSO library support Support for AURA Recompetition for Funding from AURA Corporate for NOAO labor support in developing the NOAO AURA proposal to manage and operate NOAO in FY16–25 AURA DDF Funding from AURA Corporate for discretionary expenditures Library Support to NSO Contributions from NSO for support of the NOAO Library Total FY15 NOAO Program Outside Outside revenue not provided by the NSF core program. Includes supplemental Revenue funds used for NOAO base programs. (Refer to revenue table for full detailed revenues per program.)

A.3 FY15 FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD TO FY16 Table A-3 shows a breakdown of carry-forward from FY15 base funding and external revenue and the total carry-forward available for distribution in the NOAO FY16 program. Table A-4 shows a breakdown of how the FY14 funds carried forward to FY15 were applied to the FY15 budget.

Table A-3: Carry-Forward after FY15 Expenditures

Program FY15 Carry-Forward NOAO Funds Carried Forward 6,701,202 Other NSF Funds Carried Forward REU 139,421 Interagency Transfers (45,235) Total Funds Carried Forward to FY15 6,795,387

Table A-4: Application of FY14 Carry-Forward in FY15

Program FY14 Carry-Forward NOAO Funds Carried Forward from FY14 4,153,133 NN Engineering & Technical Services (90,000) NN Central Facilities Operations (72,824) NOAO System Instrumentation (316,812) NOAO Director's Office (7,500) NOAO Director's Reserve (3,509,510) La Serena School for Data Science (52,435) Telescope System Instrumentation Program (104,052) FY14 Carry-Forward Funds Remaining after FY15 0

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B NOAO KEY MANAGEMENT & SCIENTIFIC STAFF ACTIVITY

B.1 NOAO KEY MANAGEMENT DURING FY15 ¡ David Silva, NOAO Director ¡ Robert Blum, NOAO Deputy Director ¡ Lori Allen, Associate Director for KPNO ¡ Stephen Heathcote, Associate Director for CTIO ¡ Nicole van der Bliek, Deputy Director for CTIO ¡ Verne V. Smith, Associate Director for NOAO System Science Center ¡ Joan Najita, Head of Program, Office of Science ¡ David Sprayberry, Head of Program, NOAO System Technology Center ¡ Stephen Pompea, Head of Program, Education and Public Outreach

B.2 SCIENTIFIC STAFF CHANGES DURING FY15 New Appointments Date Name Position Location 08/01/2015 Reines, Amy Postdoctoral Associate NOAO-N

Departures Date Name Position Location 11/28/2014 Narayan, Gautham Postdoctoral Associate NOAO-N 6/25/2015 Inami, Hanae Postdoctoral Associate NOAO-N 07/02/2015 Salyk, Colette Postdoctoral Associate NOAO-N 08/12/2015 Atlee, David Postdoctoral Associate NOAO-N 8/21/2015 Kartaltepe, Jeyhan Assistant Scientist NOAO-N 9/30/2015 Garmany, Catharine Associate Scientist NOAO-N

Status Changes Date Name Position Change Location 04/01/2015 Rajagopal, Jayadev Associate Scientist Promoted from Assistant Scientist NOAO-N 01/01/2015 James, David Associate Scientist Promoted from Assistant Scientist NOAO-S 9/30/2015 Ridgway, Susan Associate Scientist From Assistant Astronomer NOAO-N

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B.3 DIVISION OF EFFORT—NOAO SCIENTIFIC/MANAGEMENT STAFF

The fractional division of actual effort for each NOAO scientific staff member across FY15 budgeted programs is shown in Table B-1 on the following pages. Scientific staff members and programs shown in Table B-1 are those funded under NSF funds allocated to the FY15 NOAO base budget. Programs and scientists (e.g., postdoctoral research associates) funded under external grants or non-AST/NSF sources are included. All columns show the actual FTEs by program. Also included in Table B-1 are the technical, engineering, and other staff who are either partially or totally funded by other funding as defined by the NSF/AURA Cooperative Agreement. Table B-2 provides a breakdown of the sources of other funding by FTE. Table B-1 and Table B-2 show the actual FY15 effort by each listed staff member within the NOAO functional programs. These tables may be compared with Table 21 and Table 22, respectively, in the “NOAO Annual Program Plan FY 2015,” in which the predictions at the start of the year are listed. Scientific staff fills out biweekly timecards indicating the hours spent on each activity. These hours are converted to fractions of a pay period, taking charges to grants and functional activities first, then research, up to the 80 hours per pay period limit. The nominal allocation for research is shown with a code after the staff member’s name as follows: ¡ Director, Deputy Director, and Associate Director (D): max of 20% ¡ Head of Program (H): typically a max of 20% ¡ Full, Associate, and Assistant Astronomer (A): max of 50% ¡ Senior, Observatory, Full, Associate, and Assistant Scientist (S): max of 20% ¡ Postdocs and Goldberg Fellows (P): max of 100%

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Table B-1 FY15 Fractional Division of Effort of NOAO Scientific Staff/Key Management by Budgeted Program with Technical, Engineering, and Other Staff with Other Funding (FY15 NSF-Allocated Funds Only)

Scientific Staff and Key Management

NSSC NSTC NOAO Grants / Name Title Research CTIO NS KPNO NN SDM SCD SUS TAC SI LSST OS EPO Dir. Outside1 Total Abbott, T Scientist 0.14 0.86 ------1.00 Allen, L E Director, KPNO 0.05 - - 0.95 ------1.00 Blum, R D Deputy Director, NOAO 0.01 ------0.99 - 1.00 Briceño, C Associate Scientist - 1.00 ------1.00 Dey, A Astronomer/Tenure 0.25 - - 0.74 - - - 0.01 ------1.00 Dickinson, M E Associate Astronomer/Tenure 0.16 - - - - 0.20 0.64 ------1.00 Elias, J H Director, SOAR - 0.99 - 0.01 ------1.00 Garmany, C D Associate Scientist 0.11 ------0.40 - - 0.50 Gregory, B2 Senior Scientist 0.01 0.43 ------0.07 0.50 Heathcote, S R Director, CTIO 0.02 0.93 0.05 ------1.00 Hinkle, K H Scientist 0.06 ------0.94 ------1.00 James, D J Assistant Astronomer 0.55 0.29 ------0.16 - - - - - 1.00 Joyce, R R Scientist 0.03 - - 0.90 - - - 0.07 ------1.00 Kartaltepe, J S3 Assistant Scientist ------1.00 1.00 Lauer, T R4 Astronomer 0.28 - - 0.06 - - 0.03 - 0.01 - - 0.30 0.04 - 0.28 1.00 Matheson, T D Associate Astronomer/Tenure 0.34 - - - - - 0.60 0.06 ------1.00 Mighell, K J Scientist ------0.65 - - - - - 0.30 - 0.05 1.00 Najita, J R Head of Program-Science 0.36 ------0.64 - - - 1.00 Norman, D J Associate Scientist 0.10 ------0.75 - - - - - 0.15 - 1.00 Olsen, K Head of Program-SCD 0.37 - - - - - 0.63 ------1.00 Points, S D Associate Scientist 0.13 0.77 - 0.10 ------1.00 Pompea, S M Head of Program-EPO 0.18 - - - - - 0.08 - - - - - 0.56 - 0.18 1.00 Probst, R G Scientist 0.07 - - 0.87 - - - - - 0.06 - - - - - 1.00 Rajagopal, J Associate Scientist 0.01 - - 0.96 - - - 0.03 ------1.00 Ridgway, S E Assistant Scientist 0.44 ------0.56 ------1.00 Ridgway, S T Astronomer/Tenure 0.23 - - - - - 0.70 - - - - 0.02 - - 0.05 1.00 Saha, A Astronomer/Tenure 0.44 - - - - - 0.53 - 0.03 ------1.00 Shaw, R A Scientist - - - - - 0.98 ------0.02 1.00 Silva, D Director, NOAO 0.07 ------0.93 - 1.00

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Scientific Staff and Key Management

NSSC NSTC NOAO Grants / Name Title Research CTIO NS KPNO NN SDM SCD SUS TAC SI LSST OS EPO Dir. Outside1 Total Smith, M G5 Astronomer/Tenure 0.32 0.13 0.02 ------0.05 - - - 0.50 Smith, R C Astronomer/Tenure 0.25 0.26 ------0.50 Smith, V V Director, NSSC 0.28 ------0.40 0.32 ------1.00 Sprayberry, D Head of Program-NSTC 0.01 - - 0.97 - - - - - 0.02 - - - - - 1.00 Stanghellini, L Head of Program-SUS 0.30 ------0.69 - - - 0.01 - - - 1.00 Stobie, E B Head of Program-SDM - - - - - 0.99 ------0.01 1.00 Tokovinin, A Astronomer/Tenure 0.46 0.54 ------1.00 Valdes, F G Scientist 0.02 - - - - 0.98 ------1.00 van der Bliek, N S Deputy Director, CTIO 0.02 0.04 0.94 ------1.00 Vivas, A K Assistant Astronomer 0.73 0.25 - - - - 0.02 ------1.00 Walker, A R Astronomer/Tenure 0.12 0.83 - - - - 0.01 - - - - 0.04 - - - 1.00 Walker, C Associate Scientist 0.22 ------0.78 - - 1.00

1 For the grant and other funding sources, see Table B-2. 2 B. Gregory is a half-time employee. 3 J. Kartaltepe left NOAO 21 August 2015. 4 T. Lauer was on sabbatical 5 M. Smith is a half-time employee.

Technical, Engineering, and Other Staff with Outside (Other) Funding NSSC NSTC NOAO Grants / Name Title Research CTIO NS KPNO NN SDM SCD SUS TAC SI LSST OS EPO Dir. Outside1 Total Abraham, D Craftsperson I - 0.00 - 0.98 ------0.02 1.00 Aguirre, V Electronic Technician 3 - 0.95 ------0.05 1.00 Alvarez, R Electronic Technician 2 - 0.68 ------0.27 - - - - 0.05 1.00 Bird, N J Administrative Manager - - - 0.93 - - - - 0.02 - - - - - 0.05 1.00 Bonati, M Computer Programmer 1 - 0.40 ------0.47 - - - - 0.14 1.00 Briones, J Telescope Mechanic 1 - 0.90 ------0.10 1.00 Cantarutti, R Manager Computer Services - 0.32 ------0.68 1.00 Cardemil, R Computer Programmer 3 - 0.18 0.53 ------0.02 - 0.26 1.00 Cho, M K Principal Engineer - - - 0.22 ------0.14 - - - 0.64 1.00

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Technical, Engineering, and Other Staff with Outside (Other) Funding NSSC NSTC NOAO Grants / Name Title Research CTIO NS KPNO NN SDM SCD SUS TAC SI LSST OS EPO Dir. Outside1 Total Claver, J A Associate in Research ------1.00 1.00 Coil, K F Prog. Coord. II, Public Affairs ------0.94 - 0.06 1.00 David, N M Assistant Engineer - 0.95 ------0.05 1.00 Donaldson, J B Electronic Technical Supervisor - - - 0.95 ------0.05 1.00 Dunlop, P Engineer - - - 0.96 ------0.04 1.00 Estay, O J Computer Programmer 2 - 0.83 ------0.02 - - - 0.15 1.00 Feriend, R W Craftsperson III - - - 0.90 0.09 ------0.01 1.00 Fitzpatrick, M J Principal Software Systems Eng. - - - 0.00 - 0.97 ------0.02 1.00 Fitzpatrick, M R Special Projects Assistant I ------0.92 - 0.08 1.00 Flores, S Electronic Technician 3 - - 0.91 ------0.09 1.00 Garcia, L General Maintenance Person I - - - 0.94 ------0.06 1.00 Harris, R C Technical Associate II - - - 0.21 0.01 - - 0.01 ------0.78 1.00 Hawes, M T KP Facilities Manager - - - 0.99 ------0.01 1.00 Herrera, D A Senior Associate in Research - - - 0.02 - 0.97 ------0.01 1.00 Hughes, J B Senior Scientific Programmer - - 0.48 ------0.52 1.00 Keith, H M Special Projects Assistant I ------0.98 - 0.02 1.00 Villarreal, L A Craftsperson I - - - 0.00 0.99 ------0.01 1.00 Lambert, R R LSST Network Architect - - 0.41 ------0.59 1.00 Lane, S C Technical Associate II - - - 0.98 ------0.02 1.00 Levy, R Special Projects Assistant II ------0.87 - 0.13 1.00 McManus, S G SDM Operations Manager - - - - - 0.93 ------0.07 1.00 McQuiston, D General Maintenance Person I - - - 0.96 ------0.04 1.00 Moore, P C Senior Engineer - 0.22 0.23 ------0.05 - - - - 0.50 1.00 Moreno, V Craftsperson II - 0.00 - 0.97 ------0.03 1.00 Newhouse, M A Senior Web Developer ------0.94 - 0.06 1.00 Ogalde, N H Electrical Technician 2 - 0.86 ------0.14 1.00 Ordenes, I Electronic Technician 3 - 0.99 ------0.01 1.00 Orrego, H Assistant Engineer - 0.97 ------0.03 1.00 Ortega, C J Special Projects Assistant I ------0.99 - 0.01 1.00 Parkes, E TelOps Manager - 0.97 ------0.03 1.00

Pinto, V M Instrument Maker - 0.60 ------0.29 - - - - 0.11 1.00

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Technical, Engineering, and Other Staff with Outside (Other) Funding NSSC NSTC NOAO Grants / Name Title Research CTIO NS KPNO NN SDM SCD SUS TAC SI LSST OS EPO Dir. Outside1 Total Optics & Coatings Lab Poczulp, G A Supervisor - - - 0.68 ------0.32 1.00 Reddell, L R Engineering Associate - - - 0.99 ------0.01 1.00 Repp, R A Instrument Shop Facilities Sup. - - - 0.47 - - - 0.03 ------0.50 1.00 Rivera, R Designer Draftsman 2 - 0.57 ------0.43 1.00 Roddy, W T Special Projects Assistant III ------0.18 - 0.82 1.00 Rojas, D Senior Engineer - 0.98 ------0.02 1.00 Rojas, J Senior Engineer - 0.98 ------0.02 1.00 Rojas, M C Computer Programmer 3 - 0.05 0.73 ------0.22 1.00 Schurter, P. Senior Engineer 0.78 0.10 - 0.10 ------0.02 0.80

See, M A Craftsperson II - - - 0.90 0.09 ------0.01 1.00 Segovia, C E Computer Programmer 3 - 0.05 0.92 ------0.03 1.00 Sparks, R T Science Education Specialist I ------0.84 - 0.16 1.00 Stover, D M CAD Design Leader - 0.01 - 0.97 - - - 0.00 ------0.02 1.00 Stupak, R J Technical Associate II - - - 0.99 ------0.01 1.00 Tirado, H Observer Support Specialist 2 - 0.86 ------0.14 1.00 Warner, M Senior Engineer - 0.27 ------0.02 0.05 - - - 0.66 1.00 Watson, Z T Special Projects Assistant I ------0.93 - 0.07 1.00 Winsky, J AOP Imager Guide - - - 0.63 ------0.37 1.00

Tech/Eng FTE Totals - 13.41 4.23 15.63 1.18 2.88 - 0.04 0.02 1.10 0.21 - 7.62 - 10.58 58.08

1 For the grant and other funding sources, see Table B-2.

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Table B-2 Sources for Grant and Other Funding FTEs Noted in Table B-1

Sources of Grants and Other Funding (Non-NSF Base)

NSO/ATST/ Las TMT/ Univ. Name Title AURA LSST Gemini SOAR WIYN Companas SMARTS NASA VAO GSMT Projects Totals Abraham, D Craftsperson I 0.02 0.02 Aguirre, V Electronic Technician 3 0.03 0.01 0.01 0.05 Alvarez, R Electronic Technician 2 0.02 0.03 0.05 Atlee, D Research Associate 1.00 1.00 Bird, N J Administrative Manager 0.05 0.05 Bonati, M A Computer Programmer 1 0.11 0.03 0.14 Briones, J D Telescope Mechanic 1 0.06 0.04 0.10 Cantarutti, R E Manager Computer Services 0.67 0.01 0.68 Cardemil, R C Computer Programmer 3 0.13 0.13 0.26 Cho, M K Principal Engineer 0.19 0.08 0.37 0.64 Claver, J A Associate in Research 1.00 1.00 Coil, K F Program Coordinator III, Public Affairs 0.06 0.06 David, N M Assistant Engineer 0.03 0.01 0.01 0.05 Donaldson, J B Electronic Technical Supervisor 0.05 0.05 Dunlop, P Engineer 0.04 0.04 Estay, O J Computer Programmer 3 0.15 0.15 Everett, M Research Associate 1.00 1.00 Feriend, R W Craftsperson III 0.01 0.01 Fitzpatrick, M J Principal Software Systems Engineer 0.02 0.02 Fitzpatrick, M R Special Projects Assistant I 0.08 0.08 Flores, S D Electronic Technician 3 0.02 0.06 0.01 0.09 Garcia, L Gen. Maintenance Person I 0.06 0.06 Gregory, B Senior Scientist 0.05 0.09 0.14 Harris, R C Technical Associate II 0.08 0.44 0.25 0.77 Hawes, M T KP Facilities Manager 0.01 0.01 Herrera, D A Senior Associate in Research 0.01 0.01 Hughes, J B Senior Scientific Programmer 0.01 0.51 0.52 Inami, H Research Associate 1.00 1.00 Kaleida, C C Research Associate 0.11 0.11 Kartaltepe, J S Assistant Scientist 1.00 1.00 Keith, H M Special Projects Assistant I 0.02 0.02 Lambert, R R Manager, CIS 0.14 0.45 0.59 Lane, S C Technical Associate II 0.01 0.01 0.02 Lauer, T R Head of Program-Science 0.28 0.28 Levy, R Special Projects Assistant II 0.13 0.13 McManus, S G SDM Operations Manager 0.07 0.07 McQuiston, D General Maintenance Person I 0.04 0.04

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Mighell, K J Scientist 0.05 0.05 Moore, P C Senior Engineer 0.23 0.04 0.16 0.07 0.50 Moreno, V Craftsperson II 0.03 0.03 Narayan, G S Research Associate 1.00 1.00 Newhouse, M A Web Designer 0.06 0.06 Ogalde, N H Electrical Technician 2 0.08 0.06 0.14 Ordenes, I Electronic Technician 3 0.01 0.01 Orrego, H Assistant Engineer 0.03 0.03 Ortega, C J Special Projects Assistant I 0.01 0.01 Parkes, E TelOps Manager 0.03 0.03 Pinto, V M Instrument Maker 0.11 0.11 Poczulp, G A Optics & Coatings Lab Supervisor 0.22 0.10 0.32 Pompea, S M Head of Program-EPO 0.18 0.18 Reddell, L R Engineering Associate 0.01 0.01 Repp, R A Instrument Shop Facilities Supervisor 0.09 0.01 0.03 0.37 0.50 Ridgway, S T Astronomer/Tenure 0.02 0.03 0.05 Rivera, R Designer Draftsman 2 0.40 0.01 0.02 0.43 Roddy, W T Special Projects Assistant III 0.82 0.82 Rojas, D Senior Engineer 0.01 0.01 0.02 Rojas, J Senior Engineer 0.01 0.01 0.02 Rojas, M C Computer Programmer 3 0.03 0.12 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.22 Schirmer, K H Research Associate 0.14 0.14 Schurter, P. Senior Engineer 0.02 0.02 See, M A Craftsperson II 0.01 0.01 Segovia, C E Computer Programmer 3 0.01 0.02 0.03 Shaw, R A Scientist 0.02 0.02 Sparks, R T Science Education Specialist I 0.16 0.16 Stobie, E B Head of Program-SDM 0.01 0.01 Stover, D M CAD Design Leader 0.02 0.02 Stupak, R J Technical Associate II 0.01 0.01 Tirado, H A Observer Support Specialist 2 0.14 0.14 Villarreal, L A Craftsperson I 0.01 0.01 Warner, C M Senior Engineer 0.66 0.66 Watson, Z T Special Projects Assistant I 0.07 0.07 Winsky, J AOP Imager Guide 0.37 0.37 Totals: 1.02 2.20 0.59 1.06 0.51 0.51 0.69 6.05 0.18 0.08 3.62 16.50

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B.4 SCIENTIFIC STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PLANS ÊNew appointment in FY15 p Non-NSF (external) funding ÏTerm ended in FY15

TIMOTHY ABBOTT, Scientist

Research Interests Telescopes; instrumentation; telescope operations; late stages of binary star evolution; observational cosmology.

FY15 Accomplishments As telescope scientist for the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope, Abbott worked to ensure that CTIO and the Blanco telescope and its instruments—including the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), COSMOS, and the newly commissioned TripleSpec4—serve the NOAO community with the best performance possible. Abbott continued his participation in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), marked in part by the appearance of scientific papers from data produced for that collaboration during the scientific verification of DECam and the first season of DES. Abbott participates in community observing programs using DECam. Abbott chaired the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) installation review. In FY15 Abbott visited Columbia University, Cornell University, The University of Texas at Austin, and The Australian Astronomical Telescope, giving colloquia and other presentations describing the Blanco telescope’s recent history and current capabilities.

FY16 Plans Abbott will continue to support CTIO in general and the Blanco telescope in particular as facilities of excellence for astronomy. He will continue participation in DES and community observing programs.

HELMUT A. ABT, Astronomer Emeritus

Research Interests Stellar evolution; stellar dynamics; publication studies

FY15 Accomplishments Since 1973 Abt has studied stellar disks around rapidly rotating A-type stars. After five published papers on this topic, he summarized and extended the observed results in “Hot Gaseous Stellar Disks Avoid Regions of Low Interstellar Densities,” to appear in the December issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Such disks occur only in regions of moderate to dense interstellar environments. The proposed model is that as an A-type star passes through sheets of interstellar matter, it accretes a disk. When it moves to a rare region, the disk is blown off by the stellar wind. This takes several decades, so the disks come and go on that timescale. Abt also studied the lifetimes of astronomers and learned that they peak at 85 years, whereas for the general population they peak at 77 years. He published “The Lifetimes of Astronomers” in the August issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He continues to guide two PhD candidates at Peking University.

FY16 Plans Abt continues to be concerned about the assumption that all exoplanets are disk systems like the solar system. The orbital elements of most of them are like double stars, not like the solar system. In a paper currently under review by Astronomical Journal, he shows that all the observed characteristics of the exoplanets are well explained if roughly 90% were formed as independent condensations and 10% in disks.

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LORI ALLEN, Scientist (Associate Director for KPNO)

Research Interests Star and planet formation; young stellar clusters; near-Earth objects; infrared instrumentation

FY15 Accomplishments Allen continued work on the DECam NEO Survey, of which she is P.I. The second of three 10-night observing allocations was completed in April. Allen continued her collaboration with S. Willis and M. Marengo (Iowa State University), M. Dunham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S.T. Megeath (U. Toledo), J. Stauffer (IPAC), and H. Bouy (Center for Astrobiology, Madrid) on infrared and sub-millimeter observations of galactic star-forming regions. She is a collaborator on the University of Arizona–led Astrobiology project EOS (Earths in Other Solar systems). Allen was co-author on nine refereed publications on star formation in the Milky Way.

FY16 Plans At least one paper on the DECam NEO Survey will be submitted by Allen and team in Q1 of FY16. Allen will observe a minimum of 10 nights for the DESI MzLS in FY16. She will continue collaborations on star and planet formation research.

DAVID ATLEE, Research Associatep Ï

ROBERT DAVID BLUM, Astronomer (Deputy Director, NOAO)

Research Interests Galactic star formation; resolved Stellar Populations in the Local Group, galaxy formation, near field cosmology

FY15 Accomplishments Blum continued collaborations with D. Nidever (U. Michigan) and K. Olsen (NOAO) on the SMASH project to find and characterize stellar streams due to the interaction of the Magellanic Clouds. Blum established new compute resources at NOAO to process the many SMASH images through the crowded field photometry pipeline PHOTRED in collaboration with Nidever and Olsen and the SMASH team. Blum has been processing SMASH data. Blum worked on observing for the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) galaxy imaging survey, which will provide targets for DESI as well. Blum published a paper with C. Barbosa (UNIVAP, Brazil), A. Damineli (Universidade de São Paulo), and F. Navarete (University of São Paulo, first author) on molecular hydrogen emission in massive star-forming regions in the Galaxy.

FY16 Plans Blum will continue to work on the SMASH and DECaLS projects and also the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS) to begin on the Mayall telescope in February 2016. MzLS is a northern galaxy survey for DESI targeting. Blum will work with the DESI Milky Way working group to plan a DESI stellar program to be done in bright time by the DESI collaboration.

CESAR BRICEÑO, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Star formation; young stellar populations in OB Associations and star-forming regions; T Tauri stars; young brown dwarfs; protoplanetary disks; large-scale photometric and spectroscopic surveys

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FY15 Accomplishments Briceño continued exploiting SOAR capabilities for studies of young objects and nearby star-forming regions. On 14 February 2015, with S. Heathcote (CTIO), he carried out a pilot program to use the SOAR AO Module (SAM), equipped with narrowband filters, to obtain ~0.3 arcsec resolution images of Herbig- Haro (H-H) objects. This led to a successful 2015B proposal in collaboration with P. Hartigan (Rice University) to study H-H objects using very narrowband filters of their own design that will isolate the individual lines of [SII] and [NII], allowing the team to probe the physics of the shocked material over wide spatial scales at high angular resolution. Additionally, with colleague A. Tokovinin (CTIO) and collaborators at ESO and the University of Michigan, Briceño obtained time during 2015B to carry out a Speckle+SAM program in the Orion OB1 association to study multiplicity among members of the off- cloud regions of the complex. In addition to SOAR, through his Michigan collaborators, Briceño also used the recently new M2FS multifiber spectrograph on Magellan to conduct a large-scale spectroscopic study of the young, low-mass population in Orion OB1. Briceño tutored REU student Md. Karim (University of Rochester), who analyzed time-series photometry of ~2000 confirmed T-Tauri stars in the Orion OB1 association, based on observations from various telescopes and observatories that, as planned in FY14, were successfully combined into a single dataset by K. Vivas (CTIO). The derived rotation periods for these 4–10 Myr old stars fill an important age gap in our current inventory for young, low-mass stars, providing needed constraints for models of angular momentum evolution. A paper, with K. Stassun (Vanderbilt) and Vivas, will submitted shortly. During August and September Briceño worked with G. Suarez, a visiting student from the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) at Ensenada campus, on analyzing VISTA Ks-band images of a sample of ~700 confirmed T Tauri stars from Briceño's large-scale study of the Orion OB1 association, to look for multiplicity. Other work in which Briceño participated was reported in three refereed papers: a study of the disk fraction in brown dwarfs in the 25 Ori cluster (Downes et al. 2015) and two VLA studies of galactic star- forming regions (Dzib et al. 2015 and Ortiz-León et al. 2015). He also was coauthor in several poster presentations at the January 2015 AAS meeting: Kaleida et al. 2015, Lackey et al. 2015, Contreras and Briceño 2015, and Grant et al. 2015.

FY16 Plans Briceño expects to publish the large Orion OB1 survey paper, which is now largely complete. With Vivas, he will work on the ensemble variability properties of the Orion OB1 samples of T Tauri stars, across differing ages; because this is the only existing, optical large-scale multi-epoch photometric survey using variability to identify young stellar populations, this study will provide key metrics to inform future large- scale synoptic surveys, like the Galactic Plane component of LSST. The use of SOAR AO for multiplicity studies of young stars and high angular resolution studies of H-H objects will be projects in which Briceño will be actively involved in during 2016. Finally, he will continue the multi-object spectroscopic survey in Orion using M2FS on Magellan.

ARJUN DEY, Astronomer

Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution; large-scale structure; AGN; observational cosmology

FY15 Accomplishments Dey is the co-PI of the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) and the PI of the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS), two very large public imaging surveys that will deliver spectroscopic targets for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. DECaLS began in August 2014 and had its first data release in May 2015; the second data release is scheduled for December 2015. The MzLS survey will be carried out with an upgraded camera with enhanced z-band throughput (the MOSAIC camera will be equipped with

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two 500-micron-thick CCDs from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab). Dey is leading the commissioning of the upgraded instrument and the on-sky tests in preparation for MzLS. Dey’s research focuses on different aspects related to the study of galaxy evolution: investigations of large, spatially extended Lyman- alpha “Blobs”; understanding the evolution and large-scale structure traced by Lyman-alpha emitters at high redshift; studies of high-redshift clusters; and investigating applications of network analyses to studies of large-scale structure and cosmology. The first two studies resulted in the discovery of a very large rotating gaseous disk at z = 1.7 and the discovery of a large protocluster at z = 3.8. The network analyses project is generating new tools for the analyses of large survey data. Dey also studied the evolution of the Mg/Fe abundance ratio in quasi-stellar object (QSO) absorption lines observed by the SDSS spectroscopic survey. Dey also participated in the scientific effort associated with the DESI project, attending a scientific collaboration meeting at FNAL. Dey has submitted a paper on the discovery and follow-up of high-redshift galaxy clusters in the Boötes field. Dey attended a working group meeting at the Aspen Center for Physics, working on the DECaLS data and initiating two projects, one aimed at discovering low surface brightness galaxies and the other on measuring proper motions of stars in the DECaLS field. He organized a workshop at NOAO for the DECaLS team to investigate issues associated with the pipeline processing, calibration, and analyses of DECam data.

FY16 Plans Dey will remain NOAO Project Scientist for the DESI project and will continue to be involved in many scientific and technical aspects of the project. His primary scientific effort will be focused on DECaLS, MzLS, and the pre-imaging effort for DESI. He will continue to work primarily on galaxy evolution and clustering, using various survey data. He plans to investigate the Lyman-alpha emitter population at high redshift and investigate their utility in understanding galaxy formation and clustering. He will continue projects studying the most ultraviolet-luminous galaxy population at high-redshift, specifically the very bright star-forming galaxies at 3.5 < z < 5.5. He will investigate the properties of the extremely dust- obscured galaxies at redshift z ~ 2 that were uncovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope, the space density and physical properties of large Lyman-alpha emitting nebulae, and the properties of a sample of z < 3 Lyman-alpha emitters. Dey is a Co-PI of the DECaLS project and PI of the MzLS project. He is also a Co-I on the eBOSS project (part of SDSS IV) and a Co-I on a NEWFIRM survey of the Andromeda Galaxy.

MARK DICKINSON, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Galaxy formation and evolution; active galactic nuclei

FY15 Accomplishments Dickinson uses deep, multi-wavelength surveys to study galaxy formation and evolution. He has continued to use data from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) and the Cosmic Assembly Near- infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), two multiwavelength deep field observing programs using the premier space- and ground-based observatories. Recently, he was the principal investigator (PI) for a large program of far-infrared (100 to 500 microns) observations of the CANDELS fields with the Herschel Space Observatory. In FY15, he was also PI for a NASA Keck observing program of MOSFIRE spectroscopy for distant, dusty galaxies. Dickinson supervised NOAO research associates H. Inami and J. Kartaltepe in FY15, until their departures for new positions elsewhere. He was an author on 23 refereed papers that appeared in print during FY15.

FY16 Plans Dickinson and his collaborators will continue analyzing the complete Hubble Space Telescope (HST) + Herschel CANDELS dataset, studying the evolution of the infrared luminosity function and cosmic star formation history, and the relation between the mode of star formation (e.g., secularly evolving “main

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sequence” galaxies versus merger-induced “starbursts”), galaxy morphology, and stellar population properties, particularly at redshifts 1 < z < 3. He also will analyze data from recent Keck MOSFIRE observing programs that obtained near-infrared spectroscopy of IR-luminous galaxy candidates at higher redshifts, z > 3, and H-alpha kinematics for star-forming IR-luminous galaxies at redshift z ≈ 1.5. Dickinson expects to be on sabbatical during the second half of FY16.

JONATHAN H. ELIAS, SOAR Director

Research Interests Star formation and evolution; Magellanic Clouds; supernovae and novae; observatory operations

FY15 Accomplishments Elias’s functional responsibilities as SOAR Director did not allow time for an active research program.

FY16 Plans Elias’s research time in FY16 is also likely to be limited.

MARK EVERETT, Research Associatep

Research Interests Exoplanet characterization; spectroscopy and high-resolution imaging

FY15 Accomplishments Everett was a member of the NASA Kepler Mission Follow-up Observing Program (KFOP). KFOP is a coordinated observing campaign to validate and characterize transiting exoplanets found by Kepler. Everett carried out observations and managed data reduction and analysis for two key follow-up programs during this final KFOP observing season. One program determined the fundamental properties for candidate planet host stars by modeling spectra obtained with the Ritchey-Chrétien Spectrograph at the Mayall 4-m telescope. Stellar properties, especially radii, were used to characterize the properties of transiting planets (e.g., equilibrium temperatures and radii). A second program used speckle imaging at the WIYN and Gemini North telescopes to obtain high-resolution images toward planet host stars in order to detect and put limits on the presence of other nearby stars. Speckle images were used to determine the origin of the transit signals and validate the planets whenever possible. For host stars with previously unresolved neighbors, corrections were made to planet properties (e.g., radii), and hierarchical binary host stars were identified and characterized.

FY16 Plans Final data products and publications from Everett’s work in KFOP will be completed early in FY16. Everett anticipates continuing work to characterize exoplanets, especially through the use of high- resolution imaging.

STEPHEN HEATHCOTE, Astronomer (Associate Director for NOAO South)

Research Interests Young stellar objects; Herbig-Haro outflows; supernova remnants

FY15 Accomplishments In collaboration with A. Crotts (Columbia University) and S. Lawrence (Hofstra University), Heathcote continued his program to monitor the close surroundings of SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud as the

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high-speed ejecta from the supernova explosion overran the circumstellar nebula formed by mass loss from the progenitor star, giving birth to a supernova remnant (SNR). During the 2014B semester the Goodman spectrograph on SOAR was used to obtain low- and medium-resolution spectra, which are being used in combination with data obtained with HST to probe the physical conditions and kinematics of the shock and extreme ultraviolet (EUV)-excited gas within the forming SNR. In collaboration with C. Briceño (NOAO) and P. Hartigan (Rice University), Heathcote obtained images of the prototypical HH objects HH46/47 using the SAM ground layer adaptive-optics system on SOAR. These images have delivered image quality of ~0.45 arcsec FWHM, good enough to allow their use, in conjunction with images obtained at earlier epochs with HST, in order to measure the proper motions and study temporal evolution of shock structures within this Herbig-Haro outflow over a longer time-base.

FY16 Plans Building on the success of the pilot study of HH46/47, Heathcote, Briceño, and Hartigan will continue to use SAM on SOAR to probe physical conditions in Herbig-Haro objects. A set of state-of-the-art narrowband filters has been procured that will be used to cleanly separate the members of the [SII] 6717,31 doublet and to separate Hα from the bracketing lines of [NII] 6548,84. In this way it will be possible to study the distribution of electron density and excitation across these radiative shocks with sub-half arcsecond spatial resolution. Time awarded in the 2015B semester will be used to obtain data on the HH 1/2 and HH 34 systems in Orion. As was done in the case of HH46/47, the resulting images will also be used, in conjunction with existing HST data, to measure proper motions and study the temporal evolution of the shock structures.

KATY GARMANY, Associate Scientist (half time)

Research Interests Formation and evolution of massive stars; astronomy education and outreach

FY15 Accomplishments Garmany published a study of rotational velocities of outer disk B stars (2015, AJ, 150, 41) as first author; co-authors include J. Glaspey and K. Cunha. She co-taught astronomy at Tohono O’odham Community College and recruited postdocs for future classes there. She continued as Deputy Press Officer and worked with J. Najita, who will take over this role in FY15.

FY16 Plans Garmany has retired as of 30 September 2015; she has requested emeritus status. If granted, she will work on completing a photometric and spectroscopic study of northern open clusters. Much of these data were taken with NOAO REU students. She also expects to work with the Kitt Peak docent program to improve the presentation of NOAO science to public visitors.

KENNETH H. HINKLE, Scientist

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

FY15 Accomplishments R. Hargreaves and P. Bernath (Old Dominion University) published a paper in collaboration with Hinkle on small carbon chain molecules in circumstellar envelopes. With E. Hartig (University of Vienna), J. Cash (South Carolina State University), and others, Hinkle published a paper that uses Kepler data to explore

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micro-magnitude photometric variations in the light curves of long period variables. Hinkle collaborated with C. Gałan and J. Mikołajewska (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center) on a publication on abundances of CNO and iron peak elements in the giant star in symbiotic binaries. Hinkle also co-authored a paper on the orbits of three S-type symbiotic binary systems with F. Fekel (Tennessee State University), R. Joyce (NOAO), and P. Wood (Australian National University). Hinkle was a co-author with T. Lebzelter (University of Vienna), O. Straniero (Universita di Padova), and others on a paper discussing oxygen isotopic ratios in intermediate-mass red giants. During FY15 Hinkle started work on moving the Phoenix spectrograph from Kitt Peak to Gemini South.

FY16 Plans Hinkle, Lebzelter, and Straniero will be completing a paper on the carbon and oxygen isotope ratios for a large set of TP-AGB variables. Hinkle also plans to complete a paper with C. Pilachowski (Indiana University) on carbon isotope ratios for a large set of bright field giants. Hinkle and Lebzelter will continue their research on the inner circumstellar envelopes of large-amplitude LPVs. Hinkle will continue his work with R. Joyce on the expanding debris cloud around Sakurai’s Object using observations from Gemini. He also will continue work on circumstellar disks of post-AGB stars in collaboration with Joyce, S. Brittain (University of Florida), R. Gehrz (University of Minnesota), Lebzelter, S. Margheim (Gemini), J. Rajagopal (NOAO), and S.T. Ridgway (NOAO). Hinkle plans to continue his research on symbiotic binaries with Joyce, Fekel, Gałan, and Mikołajewska. Late in the 2015A semester Hinkle expects to start observing with the Phoenix spectrograph at Gemini South.

HANAE INAMI, Research AssociateÏ

DAVID JAMES, Associate Scientist

RICHARD R. JOYCE, Scientist

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

FY15 Accomplishments Joyce continued a long-term project with K. Hinkle (NOAO), F. Fekel (Tennessee State University), and P. Wood (Australian National University) to determine orbits of symbiotic stars by measurement of their radial velocities at infrared wavelengths, emphasizing the largely unstudied southern sky. The observing portion of this program is complete, and publication of the results is continuing. Continuing observations of the final flash object V4334 Sgr with the Gemini instruments GMOS and NIFS confirmed the continuing brightening of the object in the near-infrared and the spatial extent of the emission from [He I] and [C I] resulting from the high-velocity wind from this object. Unfortunately, the important high-resolution imaging part of the program could not be carried out. The initial results of the pilot program for the “SweetSpot” near-infrared survey of Type Ia supernovae also have been published.

FY16 Plans The observational portion of the infrared radial velocity measurements of the southern symbiotic stars has been effectively completed, although the planned shipment of Phoenix to Gemini South may permit additional observations. The current dataset will permit several publications, which are ongoing. Joyce and Hinkle have submitted a proposal to continue monitoring the expansion of the ejecta from V4334 Sgr using Altair+NIRI on Gemini North. As the Mayall 4-m Telescope Scientist, he will continue to act as a liaison with the DESI project, dealing primarily with issues of interfacing the instrument to the Mayall telescope and improving the delivered image quality and mechanical performance of the telescope. He will also be

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involved in the Mosaic MzLS program on the Mayall 4-m telescope to obtain accurate coordinates for the northern DESI targets. Joyce is also a member of the WIYN Science Steering Committee and Board.

CATHERINE KALEIDA, Postdoctoral Research Associate, REU/PIA Student Coordinator (CTIO)

Research Interests Star clusters; stellar associations; stellar populations; galaxy formation, evolution, and structure; space debris; T-Tauri Stars, Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) Stars

FY15 Accomplishments Kaleida continues to study stellar populations in nearby galaxies, with specific interest in characterizing stellar populations as a function of morphological type, luminosity, and size. In FY15, Kaleida extended these interests to the Milky Way galaxy, working with C. Briceño (CTIO) to reduce spectra of low-mass young stars in the Orion OB1 association. She has continued her work on near-IR radial color profiles of galaxies in the Nearby Fields Galaxy Survey (R. Jansen 2000) using data from the ISPI infrared imager, and she spent a week in FY15 with collaborator R. Jansen (ASU) creating a pipeline for reducing and analyzing this data. Kaleida mentored 2015 CTIO REU student Cherish Prickett (Georgia Perimeter College) in a project characterizing space debris in images taken with the SMARTS consortium 0.9-m telescope. Kaleida took observations for two research projects that she is a collaborator on: “Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History—SMASH” (PI: D. Nidever) and “Identifying Bright CEMP Stars in the RAVE Catalog” (PI: V. Placco). These projects are ongoing and results will be published in subsequent years.

FY16 Plans Kaleida plans to continue reduction of near-IR images of galaxies in the Nearby Fields Galaxy Survey and produce radial profiles for these galaxies in collaboration with R. Jansen (ASU), V. Parkash (Union College), and S. Loeffler. She also will train an REU student in FY16 to help with producing these galaxy radial profiles and begin work on a draft for publication in the Astronomical Journal. She plans to complete the reduction of spectra of low-mass young stars in the Orion OB1 association in collaboration with C. Briceño. These two projects will bring new insights to the fields of galaxy evolution and young stellar populations, respectively.

JEYHAN KARTALTEPE, Assistant Scientistp Ï

TOM KINMAN, Astronomer Emeritus

Research Interests Galactic structure; variable stars, particularly RR Lyrae stars and far-UV GALEX variables

FY15 Accomplishments Kinman continued his attempts to identify the far-ultraviolet variables in the catalogs of Welsh+ (2005), Wheatley+ (2008) and Gezari+ (2013). The 84 sources in the Welsh+ (2005) catalog comprise 47 pulsating stars, 17 K and M stars, and 15 of earlier type. This catalog contains only 2 extragalactic sources compared with the Gezari+ (2013) which goes deeper and more than half of which are extragalactic sources of known redshift. The Welsh+ catalog contains 5 known cataclysmic variables and 5 white dwarf/Mdwarf binaries. Far UV variability is an under utilized indicator of interesting stellar activity. W. Brown (Smithsonian) has taken spectra of a number of these stellar sources.

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FY16 Plans Kinman plans to continue his identifications in these GALEX catalogs of variable UV sources. A paper on the subject is in preparation.

TOD R. LAUER, Astronomer

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

FY15 Accomplishments Lauer conducted several research programs on external galaxies, based on HST and Gemini observations. With co-investigators M. Postman (STScI) and M. Strauss (Princeton University), Lauer continued to work on the structure of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), based on CTIO and KPNO imaging and spectroscopy. Lauer and Postman (with other Co-Is) formulated a spectroscopic investigation of the A2261-BCG, a galaxy that has possibly ejected its central black hole in the course of a merger. Lauer also joined the New Horizons science team, helping with the advance reconnaissance of the Plutonian system for objects potentially hazardous to the spacecraft, as well as assisting with the image processing of observations taken at the time of the Pluto encounter. Lauer served on the WIYN Board of Directors and as editor of the NOAO Newsletter, and chaired a community workshop, “Tools for Astronomical Big Data.”

FY16 Plans Lauer will be on sabbatical leave for most of this year. His primary activity will be supporting the science analysis of New Horizons imagery of Pluto and its system of satellites. Lauer will continue his work on the NOAO-based survey of BCGs in the nearby Universe. Papers planned will relate the BCGs to normal giant ellipticals, measure their ongoing interaction rates, and estimate the local peculiar velocity of the Local Group using a reference frame defined from the BCGs. Lastly, Lauer will be working on a tutorial concerned with the problem of image formation.

ROGER LYNDS, Astronomer Emeritus

THOMAS MATHESON, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Supernovae; novae; gamma-ray bursts; transient phenomena; cosmology

FY15 Accomplishments Matheson was co-author on three refereed publications in FY15. One (Ridgway et al. 2014) was an analysis of the expected number of transient and variable alerts that can be expected from large-scale time-domain surveys. White et al. (2015, ApJ, 799, 52) used data from the Palomar Transient Factory to study an unusual subclass of supernovae with low expansion velocities. The properties seem to imply that there are two distinct channels that can produce these events. Another paper (Ben Ami et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 40) used ultraviolet spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope of a Type IIb supernova to study the diversity of these objects. In addition, the effects of circumstellar interaction are quite distinct in the ultraviolet. There were also conference proceedings on light echoes of ancient supernovae and eta Carina, as well as presentations at meetings on faint white dwarfs that can be used as spectrophotometric standards and on the Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES), a software infrastructure that will act as a broker for alerts from time-domain surveys. Matheson also helped to

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develop the science case and operations proposal for a feasibility study for a potential Gemini instrument (GEONIS) with colleagues at Caltech.

FY16 Plans Matheson will continue to work on spectroscopic studies of the light echoes of ancient SNe, including Cas A and Tycho’s SN in our Galaxy, as well as light echoes of eta Carina. Matheson will work on low-redshift Type Ia SNe looking for spectroscopic correlations with intrinsic luminosity. There will be other studies of general properties of low-redshift supernovae. Matheson is also directing spectroscopic observations of white dwarfs observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (PI: A. Saha) that will be used to develop a network of faint spectrophotometric standards.

KENNETH J. MIGHELL, Scientist (KPNO REU Site Director)p

Research Interests Stellar populations in Local Group galaxies; precision stellar photometry and astrometry; parallel- processing astronomical image-analysis applications; data science applications of large astronomical databases

FY15 Accomplishments Mighell was Site Director for the 2015 KPNO Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program (details about the FY15 participants are in Section 5.2 (Education and Public Outreach). In collaboration with E. Hartig (University of Vienna), J. Cash (University of South Carolina), K.H. Hinkle (NOAO), T. Lebzelter (University of Vienna), and D.K. Walter (University of South Carolina), Mighell published an article on Kepler Space Telescope observations of AGB stars (Hartig et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 123). In collaboration with Hartig, Cash, Lebzelter, and Walter, Mighell published a conference paper on Kepler and long period variables (Hartig et al. 2015, ASPC, 497, 115). In collaboration with S.T. Ridgway (NOAO), T. Matheson (NOAO), and K.A. Olsen (NOAO), Mighell published an article on the variable sky of deep synoptic surveys (Ridgway et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 53). As a NOAO Data Lab (see Sections 4.3.2 [Science Data Management] and 4.3.3 [System Community Development]) team member, Mighell was the Requirements Lead for the Conceptual Design Review for the Data Lab, which was held 16–17 March 2015. In collaboration with M. Fitzpatrick (NOAO), K. Olsen (NOAO), E.B. Stobie (NOAO), and P. Norris (NOAO), Mighell published a conference paper on the NOAO Data Lab. A Table Access Protocol (TAP) data access service was developed by Mighell to serve the USNO-A2 and USNO-B catalogs. Mighell started the development of a quick-look SourceExtractor–based pipeline for the analysis of DECam observations to aid the Data Lab group in the exploration of the needs of time-domain astronomical science.

FY16 Plans As part of his NASA-funded ADAP research, Mighell will improve the precision of stellar photometry of IRAC Warm Mission observations of transiting exoplanets. As a NOAO Data Lab team member, Mighell will support development activities in preparation for the Data Lab concept demonstration at the 228th meeting (June 2016) of the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Diego, CA.

JOAN NAJITA, Astronomer (Head of Program, Office of Science)

Research Interests Star and planet formation; circumstellar disks; infrared spectroscopy; chemistry and evolution of circumstellar disks

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FY15 Accomplishments Najita and S. Kenyon (CfA) showed that planet detection statistics and the measured solid reservoirs in T Tauri discs indicate that planet formation is underway at ages of a few Myr, with a large fraction of solids having been converted into large objects with low millimeter opacity and/or sequestered at small disc radii where they are difficult to detect at millimeter wavelengths. This comparison also implies that planet formation is highly efficient (>30%?) in converting disk solids into planets. With S. Andrews (CfA) and J. Muzerolle (STScI), Najita studied the demographics of transition disks in Ophiuchus and Taurus. The study confirms the earlier result that the accretion rates and disk masses of transition disks, when compared to those of normal T Tauri stars, are most consistent with the interpretation that transition disks have formed single or multiple giant planets. A. Glassgold (UC Berkeley) and Najita described the photochemical heating of dense molecular gas using simple quantitative estimates. Najita also worked with M. Ádámkovics (UC Berkeley) and Glassgold on the effect of stellar Lyα radiation on the thermal-chemical structure of inner disk atmospheres. They found that it produces a new component of the disk atmosphere (hot molecular gas), which may explain the origin of the UV fluorescent molecular hydrogen emission that is detected commonly from young stars.

FY16 Plans Najita and Kenyon are currently investigating the constraints placed by the incidence rate debris disks with warm IR excesses on how and how frequently terrestrial planets form. Najita, Ádámkovics, and Glassgold will extend their study of disks irradiated by stellar Lyα to larger disk radii in order to search for evidence that the magnetorotational instability is active in T Tauri disks, as manifest by its heating of disk gas. Several ongoing projects involving infrared spectroscopy with the Spitzer Space Telescope and TEXES on Gemini are also advancing toward publication.

GAUTHAM NARAYAN, Research Associatep Ï

DARA NORMAN, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Quasars and their environments; galaxy evolution; large-scale structure

FY15 Accomplishments Norman was on sabbatical leave at Howard University as an HU ADVANCE-IT Fellow from January to July 2015. Norman organized and contributed to a white paper for the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on a Strategy to Optimize the US Optical and Infrared (OIR) System in the Era of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) entitled, “Maximizing the LSST’s Scientific Return: Ensuring Participation from Smaller Institutions” by Liu, et al. Norman was an organizer of the 2015 Inclusive Astronomy conference, a meeting to build a more diverse and inclusive astronomical community, and she was the primary organizer of the meeting’s Policy, Power and Leadership (PPL) sessions. Norman also served on the scientific organizing committee for the NOAO “Tools for Astronomical Big Data” conference and organized the ASTRO scientific and mentoring sessions for the National Society of Black Physicists Meeting in February. She worked on research projects with three Howard undergraduate students: one compared public and custom DECam data reductions; two students worked on data from the Resolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) survey, on which Norman is a collaborator. Norman continued her tenure as an AAS councilor, liaison to the Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (CSMA), and Demographics Committee member.

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FY16 Plans Norman will present scientific results from her work on AGN in the RESOLVE survey at the January 2016 AAS conference. She also plans to present recommendations to astronomy stakeholders from the Inclusive Astronomy PPL sessions and organize the NOAO “Mini-Workshop on Adaptive Optics.”

KNUT A.G. OLSEN, Associate Astronomer (Head of Program, SCD)

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

FY15 Accomplishments Olsen co-led the SMASH survey (PI: D. Nidever, University of Michigan and LSST Project), a NOAO Survey Program of the Magellanic Clouds and their distant periphery. Olsen helped with planning observations, processing the photometry, and with several aspects of survey management. Olsen was co- author on a paper announcing the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, Hydra II, from the SMASH data (Martin et al. 2015, ApJL, 804, L5). Olsen continued as the primary supervisor of H. Dong (NOAO, now Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía) on work for the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) project, an 825-orbit HST multicycle treasury survey of the disk and bulge of M31. Olsen was co-author of a paper reporting the discovery of an intermediate-age population in the M31 bulge (Dong et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 4126). Olsen was co-author of two other papers in FY15.

FY16 Plans Olsen will continue co-leading the SMASH survey. Specific tasks will be organizing the Year 1 data release, helping to publish the survey overview paper as well as additional science papers, and working with the DES Collaboration on a project to search for new dwarf galaxies associated with the Magellanic Clouds. Olsen will complete a project using PHAT data. Olsen will also complete work on a project to understand the dynamics of an accreted population of stars from the Small Magellanic Cloud in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

SEAN D. POINTS, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Interstellar medium; Magellanic Clouds; evolved stars; astronomical instrumentation; data pipelines

FY15 Accomplishments Points continued his work calibrating the data obtained by the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) with R. C. Smith and L. Paredes (NOAO/CTIO) and A. Rest (STScI). Points was an active member of a team performing an X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using XMM led by F. Haberl (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik). This X-ray survey, in conjunction with MCELS data, has led to one peer-reviewed article in FY15: “XMM-Newton Study of 30 Doradus C and a Newly Identified MCSNR J0536-6913 in the Large Magellanic Cloud’’ (2015, A&A, 573, A73). Points also successfully used the COSMOS spectrograph on the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope with visiting observers.

FY16 Plans Points plans to continue his work in obtaining the final flux calibration of the MCELS dataset and his collaboration with Haberl in determining the physical properties of supernova remnants in the LMC. Points also will work with L. Paredes and P.F. Winkler (Middlebury College) in examining selected MCELS

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fields containing previously identified LMC planetary nebulae (PNe). They will use these data to determine color-color diagnostics that may be used to identify previously unknown PNe in the LMC. Finally, Points will work with T. Beers and V. Placco (Notre Dame University) to perform a spectroscopic investigation of carbon-enhanced, metal-poor stars in the Milky Way. Points is also working with E. Olszewski (University of Arizona) to perform a White Dwarf (WD) standard observing program for future LSST studies with the Goodman spectrograph at SOAR.

STEPHEN POMPEA, Observatory Scientist (Head of Program, EPO)

Research Interests Inquiry- and research-based science education; science identity formation; astronomical instrumentation; illumination engineering

FY15 Accomplishments Pompea continued his research work on the spectral characterization of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting and on spectrally selective surfaces for stray light control. He served as founding chair of the NSF- sponsored Thirty Meter Telescope Workforce, Education, and Public Outreach Advisory Group and on the LSST National Outreach Advisory Board. Pompea was active as a Fellow of both the Optical Society of America and SPIE–The International Society for Optics and Photonics. Pompea is the Co-PI of the NSF Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings “Collaborative Research: Project STEAM: Integrating Art with Science to Build Science Identities among Girls,” which has now run six summer academies. He served as PI of the now completed Science Foundation Arizona Galileoscope Star Party Program and as co-director of an IAU project for the International Year of the Light to develop teaching kits on quality lighting.

FY16 Plans Pompea will continue his service work in science education and to support various other national initiatives in science education, including work exploring how best to work with Native Americans in science education settings. He will continue his research work on the formation of science identities in middle school girls in support of Project STEAM and his research on high contrast/low stray light for imaging and spectroscopic systems. Pompea will assist in protecting dark skies around observatories through a better understanding of LED street lighting spectral characteristics. He will also be active in the educational activities that he proposed in the now-approved plan for the creation of the Gabriela Mistral Dark Sky Sanctuary.

RONALD G. PROBST, Scientist

Research Interests Instrumentation for large telescopes; star formation; telescope image quality improvement

FY15 Accomplishments Probst, together with G. Stringfellow (University of Colorado), continued an observational program, “variability studies of protostars and young stellar objects in star forming regions,” with the WIYN 0.9-m telescope on Kitt Peak. Probst was a co-investigator on several NEWFIRM programs on the Mayall 4-m telescope. He was engaged as NOAO DESI System Scientist in planning the implementation of DESI on the Mayall telescope. He served as an ad hoc reviewer for proposals to CONICYT (Chile) in the areas of instrument and observatory development.

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FY16 Plans Probst will continue the WIYN 0.9-m telescope program mentioned above. He will be a co-investigator on a NEWFIRM program focused on galaxy evolution at high redshift. He will continue his involvement with DESI preparations, including presentations at the 2016 SPIE meeting on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation. He will continue to serve as a reviewer for CONICYT.

JAYADEV RAJAGOPAL, Associate Scientist

Research Interests Circumstellar dust disks; high angular resolution techniques in optical/infrared; wide-field imaging of asteroids and comets

FY15 Accomplishments Rajagopal continued a study of Active Asteroids (asteroids that show commae and tails, indicating mass loss) on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope using the optical One Degree Imager (ODI). The side field and high resolution offered by ODI has enabled deep imaging of extended structure. Rajagopal collaborated with D. Jewitt (University of California, Los Angeles), S.E. Ridgway (NOAO), Ralph Kotulla (U. Wisconsin), and W. Liu (WIYN) on this program. Rajagopal is a member of the team led by L. Allen (NOAO) that is using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) wide-field imager on the Blanco 4-m telescope at CTIO to initiate a three-year survey targeting near-Earth objects (NEOs). Rajagopal mentored a 2015 KPNO REU student, Erik Sandberg, who worked on methods to select active asteroids from the numerous Main Belt asteroids detected by this NEO survey. Rajagopal also led the team that conducted a six-night science verification program as part of the commissioning of the enlarged focal plane One Degree Imager at WIYN. The SV data will help characterize the photometric capability of ODI and produce a variable source catalog to explore the cadence metrics.

FY16 Plans Rajagopal will continue the investigation of the Active Asteroids and publish the results. He will continue to participate in the NEO search program using DECam and aid in the data analysis and publication of its first results. This will include an ancillary science goal to investigate pervasive low-level mass loss from Main Belt asteroids, an effort initiated through the 2015 REU program. He will continue the study, at high angular resolution, of circumstellar material around evolved (post-AGB) stars using interferometric techniques and extreme adaptive optics.

AMY REINES, Postdoctoral Associate (Hubble Fellow)p Ê

Research Interests Massive black holes in dwarf galaxies and the origin of supermassive black hole seeds; evolution of galaxies and massive black holes, scaling relations; Active galactic nuclei, impact on their host galaxies and star formation; Dwarf starburst galaxies; super star clusters and the formation of globular clusters

FY16 Plans Reines plans to continue searches for massive black holes in dwarf galaxies, conduct follow-up studies of existing samples of dwarf galaxies hosting massive black holes, and conduct further investigations of black hole–host galaxy scaling relations.

STEPHEN T. RIDGWAY, Astronomer

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Research Interests Synoptic surveys; LSST Survey strategy; variable sky; transients; alerts; high angular resolution imaging; stellar physics; exoplanetary systems; high dynamic range imaging; coronagraphy

FY15 Accomplishments Ridgway and collaborators T. Matheson, K. Mighell, and K. Olsen (NOAO) and S. Howell (NASA Ames Research Center) published "The Variable Sky of Deep Synoptic Surveys" (2014, ApJ, 796, 53), with numerical predictions for the total numbers and the rates of discovery of variable targets in the LSST survey. He collaborated in the publication of a number of research papers in the area of stellar physics based on infrared interferometry. Ridgway also supported WFIRST/AFTA mission development by participating in an ongoing NASA technical advisory committee, and he participated in the CHARA Array adaptive optics upgrade project.

FY16 Plans Ridgway will work with the NOAO System Science and Data Center, and the NOAO Data Lab and ANTARES projects, developing NOAO plans and capabilities in the area of synoptic surveys. He will continue his research with optical interferometry and continue his work as a collaborator in adaptive optics implementation at the CHARA interferometer and as a consultant in the area of high dynamic range imaging technology for space missions.

SUSAN RIDGWAY, Assistant Astronomer

ABHIJIT SAHA, Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar populations; extragalactic distance scale; RR Lyrae stars, Cepheids, and long period pulsating variables; photometry and spectrophotometry; Magellanic Clouds; Galactic bulge; Galactic structure; time- domain astronomy; near field cosmology

FY15 Accomplishments Saha led the collaborative project on establishing DA white dwarfs as standard SED sources. Photometry from HST imaging from Cycle 20 has been complemented by spectroscopic data from Gemini (and other telescopes). Predictions of the spectral energy distributions for these stars from parameters derived from their spectra (from Gemini and other telescopes) are compared to photometry from HST images. The information has been analyzed in multiple ways and yield self-consistent standardization of these stars to sub-percent accuracy. The submission of a paper is imminent. A separate high-priority project has been the analysis of the Synoptic Survey of the Galactic Bulge (SSGB) using DECam imaging. The multiband colors at minimum light of over 600 fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars has been used to derive line of sight reddening and extinction. The data permit a reexamination of the reddening law. They enable the de- reddening of CMDs and Hess diagrams, which in turn will reveal the star formation history of the central regions of the Galaxy. Saha has also been active in the SMASH collaboration to study the exterior regions around the Magellanic Clouds. Work on the metallicity distribution functions in four dwarf galaxies spanning a range of star formation histories from HST data has been completed and published.

FY16 Plans Saha will continue to focus on establishing DA white dwarfs as spectrophotometric standard stars. Additional comprehensive data from HST and Gemini Observatory are currently being obtained, which will be analyzed to build upon the work so far. When completed (estimated in 2017), about 20 SED standards will be defined in equatorial and northern declinations and distributed uniformly in RA. A search for

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suitable southern targets is also being pursued and is very relevant for accurate calibration of LSST photometry. The analysis of the SSGB data will continue and when completed (estimated in 2017) will sample select regions from both the bar as well as the spheroidal component of the central Galaxy. Population analysis from the de-reddened Hess diagrams will begin in late FY16. Saha will also continue to supervise the PhD thesis work of Brian Brondel on deriving star formation histories of the outer regions of the Magellanic Clouds.

COLETTE SALYK, Research Associate (Leo Goldberg Fellow)Ï

Research Interests Formation of planetary systems; observations of protoplanetary disks; infrared and millimeter wave spectroscopy

FY15 Accomplishments Salyk continued her studies of protoplanetary disks. She was a co-author on “Dimming and CO Absorption toward the AA Tau Protoplanetary Disk: An Infalling Flow Caused by Disk Instability?” (Zhang et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 55). She was lead author of “Detection of Water Vapor in the Terrestrial Planet Forming Region of a Transition Disk” (Salyk et al. 2015, ApJL, 810, L24). This paper was highlighted by AAS NOVA. Salyk was also a co-investigator on an accepted NASA NExSS grant, “Earths in Other Solar Systems: Toward Forming and Discovering Planets with Biocritical Ingredients.” Salyk gave invited colloquia at the University of Washington, New Mexico State University, Vassar College, and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She also taught introductory astronomy, Astro 102: Stars and Galaxies, at Tohono O’odham Community College, contributing to NOAO’s outreach efforts on the Tohono O’odham Nation.

RICHARD A. SHAW, Scientistp

Research Interests Late stages of stellar evolution; planetary nebulae; Magellanic Clouds; astrophysical plasmas; variable and transient phenomena; astronomical software and data standards; processing, archiving, and analysis of astronomical datasets

FY15 Accomplishments Shaw and collaborators R. Dufour (Rice University), R. Henry (Oklahoma University), B. Balick (Univ. Washington), K. Kwitter (Williams College), and R. Corradi (IAC) analyzed long-slit, co-spatial spectra with HST/STIS of ten Galactic PNe to conduct a detailed study of abundances and ISM enrichment mechanisms. The primary focus is on elemental abundance yields and validating direct abundance measurement techniques using observational constraints and photoionization modelling. Shaw, along with collaborators V. Luridiana (IAC) and C. Morisset (UNAM), released the PyNeb package, which is the successor to the popular nebular analysis package in STSDAS. As a part of the IAU FITS Working Group, Shaw, L. Chiappetti (INAF), W. Pence (GSFC), and collaborators prepared new technical chapters for v4.0 of the FITS Standard, which is under review.

FY16 Plans Shaw, with PI L. Stanghellini (NOAO) and others, will continue collecting data and analyzing an extensive imaging and IR spectroscopic survey of angularly small Galactic PNe. They are collaborating with T.-H. Lee (Western Kentucky University) to analyze deep optical spectra of these nebulae. These spectra, along

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with archival HST images and Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph spectra, will allow them to understand the earliest phase of PN evolution and, in particular, explore alpha-element yields in low-mass PN progenitors.

DAVID SILVA, Senior Scientist (Director, NOAO)

Research Interests Formation and evolution of early-type galaxies; extragalactic stellar populations; host stars of exoplanets, observatory operations; end-to-end data management systems

FY15 Accomplishments Based on high-spatial resolution imaging, Everett et al. (2015, AJ, 149, 55) published revised parameters for exoplanets for a small sample of gravitationally bound binary star systems. Silva contributed to the conceptual design of the NOAO Data Lab (Fitzpatrick et al. 2014, Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 9149). Silva finished a three-year term as President for IAU Division B, Facilities, Technologies, and Data Science.

FY16 Plans Silva is part of a team awarded HST Cycle 23 time to extend the Next Generation Spectral Library (NGSL), which was created from the results of previous successful HST programs led by Silva and M. Gregg (University of California at Davis; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). Silva is part of the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS) team, which will conduct a deep, wide-field z-band survey using the Mayall 4-m telescope and a new mosaic camera during the 2016A and 2017A semesters. Silva will also continue to participate in the NOAO Data Lab project as a co-investigator.

R. CHRIS SMITH, Astronomer (AURA Head of Mission in Chile)

MALCOLM SMITH, Astronomer (half time)

Research Interests Global environmental impact of light pollution; galaxy and quasar formation and evolution

FY15 Accomplishments Smith acted as designated leader of the successful four-person proposal by AURA—with C. Smith (AURA-O), S. Pompea (NOAO), and P. Sanhueza (Office for the Protection of the Quality of the Skies of Chile)—to the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) to have the AURA-O property in the Elqui Valley of Chile declared as the world’s first “International Dark Sky Sanctuary.” AURA-O has thus become the world’s first professional observatory to be recognized by IDA as a “Dark Sky Place.” Smith served on the organizing committees of two IAU Focus Groups at the General Assembly and gave an oral presentation (in collaboration with Smith and Sanhueza) covering the UNESCO Extended Case Study for AURA as a “Window to the Universe.”

FY16 Plans M. Smith plans to continue to work with the IAU and in collaboration with Smith and Sanhueza in support of obtaining some form of UNESCO World Heritage nomination for protecting the AURA-O and certain other international, professional observatories. He intends to work with the community of Rio Hurtado (in the valley immediately below Cerro Pachón) to propose to IDA some type of “Dark Sky Place” recognition for Rio Hurtado as part of a buffer zone to be developed in communities around the AURA-O.

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VERNE V. SMITH, Astronomer (Associate Director for NSSC)

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

FY15 Accomplishments Smith continued to work extensively on the SDSS IV project entitled the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2). Smith participated in several projects within APOGEE-2, and he is the leader on two of these projects. He was co-author on a number of APOGEE papers, including ones that derived chemical abundance gradients across the Milky Way and revealed the importance of stellar radial migration, as well as a paper producing large-scale chemical maps of the Milky Way. During FY15, Smith continued as science leader of the APOGEE-2 spectral line list, which is used to produce the theoretical stellar spectral grids that are then matched to observed spectra to derive stellar parameters and chemical abundances; this line list is updated regularly with improved atomic and molecular data. During FY15 Smith led the effort to include H2O spectral lines in the APOGEE-2 bandpass (which amounted to some 26 million lines), and this inclusion is allowing APOGEE-2 to push the effective temperature limits of the survey from 3500K down to 2500K, allowing for the analysis to include brown dwarfs. Another of Smith’s major research areas involves studies of exoplanet-hosting stars in which accurate stellar parameters and chemical abundance distributions are derived. In this field, he worked with and helped to mentor two postdoctoral fellows, one a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the other a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Goddard Spaceflight Center. Smith also worked on stellar rotation and lithium in red giant branch stars to study the possibility of sub-stellar mass accretion onto red giants as they evolve up the giant branch.

FY16 Plans Smith will continue to spend a significant fraction of his research time working on APOGEE-2, with the plan being to lead much of the work in improving the spectral line list used to construct the model spectra, which are then fit to the observed spectra, with the best fit yielding the stellar parameters and detailed chemical compositions. He will help the APOGEE-2 team prepare for a major data release in July 2016 (DR13), which for the first time will include results for dwarf stars and brown dwarfs with effective temperatures as cool as 2500K. He also will continue to vigorously pursue research on correlating detailed stellar chemistry in exoplanet-hosting stars with their planetary-system architectures, with much of this work being in the Kepler fields (both the original Kepler field and the K2 ecliptic fields).

DAVID SPRAYBERRY, Senior Scientist (Head of Program, NOAO System Technology Center)

Research Interests Instrument development and construction; observatory operations; technology development; galaxy population statistics and evolution; large-scale structure of the Universe; dark energy

FY15 Accomplishments Sprayberry managed the NOAO North Engineering & Technical Services (NN ETS) group in Tucson and on Kitt Peak. In connection with that role, Sprayberry also served as project manager for NOAO’s efforts to prepare the Mayall 4-m telescope for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Sprayberry oversaw the completion of the last instrument built under the ReSTAR supplemental funding, TripleSpec4, which was commissioned on the Blanco 4-m telescope in 2015. Sprayberry served as a member of the design review panel for a Director’s Review of the LSST Camera project at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) 30 June–2 July 2015.

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FY16 Plans Sprayberry will spend 10–15 nights observing at Kitt Peak, carrying out a portion of the data collection for the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey. Otherwise, Sprayberry expects to be fully committed to his programmatic responsibilities with NN ETS and DESI in FY16.

LETIZIA STANGHELLINI, Associate Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar structure and evolution; Galactic and extragalactic planetary nebulae (PNe); stellar populations

FY15 Accomplishments Stanghellini, L. Magrini (INAF-Arcetri), and collaborators completed a project on metallicity gradients of spiral galaxies that are morphological twins of well-studied nearby spirals. The published results show that radial oxygen gradients are similar in twin galaxies, unless strong environment or nuclear features are present. Stanghellini collaborated with T.-H. Lee (WKU) and R. Shaw (NOAO) to complete a set of optical spectra of compact Galactic PNe to probe the gradient of metallicity on the Galactic plane and constraint models of stellar evolution. With A. Manchado (IAC), Shaw, and other collaborators, Stanghellini published the GSAOI imaging data of Galactic PN NGC2346, disclosing unprecedented spatial resolution and many molecular filaments. Together with P. Ventura (INAF-Rome) and others, Stanghellini published a comparison between Magellanic Cloud PN data and the new yields of stellar evolution from models with dust production. In the last year Stanghellini submitted a proposal to the IAU for a new Commission focused on PNe. The application was successful, and Stanghellini is the current president and a member of the Division H steering committee.

FY16 Plans Stanghellini, with Magrini, plans to observe emission-line probes in additional spiral galaxies to detect their radial metallicity gradients, and she will complete the observable sample with NGC2403, to be observed with GMOS on Gemini. Lee, Shaw, and Stanghellini are now analyzing the Galactic PN ground-based data to study their abundances. The compact Galactic PN dataset will then be published as a catalog. Stanghellini will continue the collaboration with Ventura to compare the new evolutionary models to Galactic PNe. Stanghellini will work on a GAIA-related project in 2016 with Mario Lattanzi (INAF-Turin) to set the stage for precise Galactic metallicity gradients to be calculated when GAIA astrometry will be publicly available. Stanghellini is one of the chairs, with A. Karakas (MSSSO) and X. Liu (Peking University), of IAU Symposium 323, Planetary Nebulae, to be held in Beijing in 2016.

STEPEHN STROM, Astronomer Emeritus

ANDREI TOKOVININ, Astronomer

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

FY15 Accomplishments Tokovinin supported operations of the SAM AO system and speckle camera at SOAR, as well as the CHIRON instrument at the 1.5-m telescope. He developed and installed the slit-viewing camera for the Goodman spectrograph at SOAR. Together with B. Mason (USNO), W. Hartkopf (USNO), R. Mendez (Universidad de Chile), and E. Horch (South Connecticut State University), Tokovinin published results of speckle interferometry at SOAR in 2014 (1,636 measurements, 56 newly resolved pairs, 194 updated or new orbits; 2015, AJ, 150, 50). Tokovinin, D. Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and

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Mason discovered the unique quadruple system HD 91962 with architecture similar to planetary systems (2015, AJ, 149, 195). He also worked on radial velocity surveys of multiple systems, focusing on discovering subsystems in the secondary components (paper accepted by AJ). Tokovinin collaborated with L. Roberts (JPL), R. Riddle (California Institute of Technology), et al. on the follow-up work related to the large multiplicity survey with Robo-AO; two new companions to exoplanet hosts were discovered (2015, AJ, 149, 118), and observations with the Hale AO system are accepted for publication. Tokovinin reviewed several papers for astronomical journals and two NSF proposals. He gave invited talks at the Universidad Católica in Santiago and at the TRENDY workshop in Haifa.

FY16 Plans Tokovinin will continue observations of multiple stars using both imaging and spectroscopy, focusing on orbits and dynamics of stellar systems with three or more components. He will pursue the program of speckle imaging of Kepler-2 objects of interest started in FY15 in collaboration with J. Schmitt (Yale University) and D. Fisher (Yale University). He plans to publish the study of the eccentricity distribution of wide binaries using a novel statistical approach, in collaboration with O. Kiyaeva (Pulkovo Observatory). Tokovinin will prepare a paper on the SAM instrument for a refereed journal and will pursue various projects related to the improvement of the SOAR telescope operation. In collaboration with N. Law (UNC), he will work on the new high-order adaptive optics instrument for SOAR.

FRANCISCO VALDES, Scientist

Research Interests Cosmology; gravitational lensing; stellar spectroscopy; search for solar system objects; surveys; astronomical software; search for extra-terrestrial intelligence

FY15 Accomplishments Valdes was a primary co-investigator on two DECam survey programs: the DECam NEO Survey and the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS), which started taking data during FY14. DECaLS completed earlier and first data distributions. The remainder of Valdes’s time was program related as the lead for the SDM pipeline group, which is responsible for the DECam community, NEWFIRM, MOSAIC, and ODI pipelines and providing support for the IRAF science applications. He also created a pipeline for the DESI targeting survey using the University of Arizona Bok Telescope and a new version of the NOAO Mosaic Imager pipeline.

FY16 Plans Valdes will complete the DECam NEO Survey and publish initial results. He will participate in the ongoing DESI-related DECaLS, Bok, and Mosaic surveys, primarily in the areas of instrument calibration. He will collaborate with the LSST data management group.

NICOLE VAN DER BLIEK, Scientist (Deputy Director for NOAO South and Head of NOAO-S Facilities Operations)

Research Interests Instrumentation; young stars; cool stars

FY15 Accomplishments During FY15 van der Bliek became Head of Facilities Operations of NOAO South, originally on an interim basis but on a permanent basis beginning in January 2015. She is also deputy director of CTIO. Only a very small amount of time was left for research, which was focused on an ongoing project to study multiplicity

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of Herbig Ae/Be stars and the immediate surroundings of some of these multiple systems. These projects are collaborations with B. Rodgers and S. Thomas (LSST). Van der Bliek also continued the study of two star-formation regions, Musca and the Witch Head Nebula, IC2118, working together with T. Prusti (ESTEC/ESA), K. Rygl (ESTEC/ESA), and S. Vincente (University of Groningen).

FY16 Plans Van der Bliek will continue as head of Facilities Operations of NOAO South and deputy director of CTIO. Her scientific efforts will continue to be modest and will be focused on Herbig Ae/Be stars, multiplicity, and the surroundings of these multiple systems. Van der Bliek also will continue to pursue the research with T. Prusti and collaborators at ESTEC/ESA on the two star-forming regions Musca and IC 2118, for which optical and near-infrared data have been obtained.

A. KATHERINA VIVAS, Assistant Astronomer

Research Interests Variable stars; stellar populations in the Milky Way and its satellites; Galactic halo; stellar streams

FY15 Accomplishments During FY15 Vivas continued working on the detection and characterization of variable stars (RR Lyrae, dwarf cepheids, anomalous cepheids, eclipsing binaries) in satellites of the Milky Way. Preliminary results in the Sextans dwarf galaxy were presented at the “DECam Science Community Workshop” held in Tucson in March 2015. Also, a comprehensive search of variable stars in the newly discovered Hydra II ultra-faint satellite was concluded during FY15, with a paper, in which she is lead author, submitted to the Astronomical Journal. The discovery of an RR Lyrae star in this tiny galaxy made possible a more accurate determination of the distance to the satellite. Vivas also worked on searching for sub-structures in the Galactic halo using kinematic information from RR Lyrae stars, focusing in the region of the Virgo Over- Density (VOD). Results of this study were presented in two conferences: Satellites and Streams (Santiago, April 2015) and Local Group Astrostatistics (Ann Arbor, June 2015). Vivas has been active in several large collaborations, including the SMASH collaboration (PI: D. Nidever, LSST), the Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (PI: M. Rich, UCLA), the Near Field Cosmology with RR Lyrae stars Group (PI: M. Catelan, PUC, Chile), HiTS (PI: F. Forster, Universidad de Chile), and the Dark Energy Survey (PI: J. Frieman, Fermilab). Two papers from these collaborations were published during FY15 (Martin et al. 2015, Ting et al. 2015). Vivas is also working with C. Briceño (CTIO) in analysis of time series of T Tauri stars; preliminary results of this work were presented in the conference, Star Formation Frontiers (Ann Arbor, June 2015). Vivas also participated in the LSST Project and Community Workshop held in Bremerton, WA, in August 2015, and she is serving as co-leader in the writing of one of the chapters of a cadence white paper. Vivas mentored a REU student during the summer.

FY16 Plans Vivas plans to analyze, with collaborators from the Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS), time series obtained with Blanco/DECam in another of the new satellites of the Milky Way, Sagittarius II. The goal is to find RR Lyrae stars that serve as standard candles to improve the distance estimate to this galaxy. The presence of other types of variable stars such as anomalous cepheids or dwarf cepheids will provide additional information on the stellar populations present in the galaxy. Vivas will also work on an extension of a study for searching extra tidal populations around the Omega Centauri globular cluster. Debris from Omega Cen has been identified in the solar neighborhood. However, different surveys have failed to find debris material near the cluster itself. This project will try to identify such debris using kinematics of RR Lyrae stars, from the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey, as tracers. Data for this project were obtained with the SOAR telescope+Goodman spectrograph during 2015. Vivas will continue working with the

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collaborations mentioned in Accomplishments. In particular, she will work with the Milky Way Working Group in DES in the search for variable stars in the halo.

ALISTAIR WALKER, Astronomer

Research Interests Stellar populations; Local Group galaxies; the distance scale; astronomical instrumentation

FY15 Accomplishments Walker is an active member of several collaborations: DES, DECaLS, SMASH, and BRAVA-RR. His particular interest is in galactic structure and in determining the properties of nearby, faint, low surface– brightness galaxies, associated with our Galaxy or possibly with the Magellanic Clouds, that are being discovered in large numbers with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). Walker participated in the analysis and publication of results from the first year of observations from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) project. He continued work on stellar populations and variable star content of Local Group dwarf galaxies, with two published papers on Carina (led by G. Bono, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata) and one on the structure and extent of the Large Magellanic Cloud from DES science verification observations.

FY16 Plans As a member of the DES working group on Milky Way studies, Walker will continue to participate in the analysis and interpretation of DES stellar observations. Observations are planned to discover RR Lyraes in several of the newly discovered faint companion galaxies (led by K. Vivas, NOAO), to measure accurate distances and to help in characterizing the star formation history of these “building-block” structures. He is also involved in transient science—the follow-up of LIGO triggers and the discovery and follow-up of Trans-Neptunian objects found in DES supernova fields. The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA-RR) project (led by A. Kunder, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam) is measuring kinematics for many RR Lyrae in the galactic bulge found from the OGLE survey, and more AAO and VLT observations are planned for 2016. Walker will continue the analysis of CCD photometry for the outer halo globular cluster NGC 5824, with S. Cassisi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica–Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania) and G. Andreuzzi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica–Telescopio Nazionale Galileo).

CONSTANCE E. WALKER, Scientist

Research Interests Development of educational activities, research projects, and best pedagogical practices related to dark skies preservation issues; monitoring and modeling sources of light pollution locally and near observatories

FY15 Accomplishments Walker co-hosted a splinter session on light pollution issues and solutions at the AAS meeting in January. As part of the IAU Cosmic Light Working Group for IYL2015, S. Pompea and Walker (as lead) were awarded a grant by IAU and a second grant by the Optical Society to develop a Quality Lighting Teaching Kit for the International Year of Light (IYL2015). As part of the IAU Cosmic Light Working Group for IYL2015, Walker and S. Pompea were invited to participate in the IYL2015 opening ceremony in January in Paris. In February Walker became president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and a paper on “Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow” with collaborator Chris Kyba (lead author) was published in Scientific Reports. Celebrating its 10th year, Globe at Night (directed by Walker) continues to have campaigns once a month and is recognized a citizen science program of IYL2015. Its best year was 2014; 2015 will soon exceed the record at 21,000 observations. With lead EPO student B. Levy in charge of the

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NOAO booth at the Tucson Festival of Books on March 14 and 15, NOAO had the most successful set of activities yet at that festival, focusing on detectors in astronomy. In April, Walker co-hosted the 6th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest, which highlighted the natural beauty of the night sky and its growing battle with light pollution. The 10 winners of the 2015 contest, selected from about 1,000 entries, are from China, Iceland, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, and the United States. Walker made presentations on dark skies education and research at five conferences during the year. To highlight one, Walker made four oral presentations at the IAU General Assembly in August. On behalf of Commission 50 (now C.B7) on Site Protection, R. Green and Walker hosted a three-day Focus Meeting on light pollution issues and solutions as well as an accompanying reception at the Bishop Museum, honoring the IDA award for the first Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world to AURA-O. Walker was promoted to the position of Scientist.

FY16 Plans Walker will continue to serve as President of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, as the Vice President of IAU’s Commission C.B7 on Observatory Site Protection, and as a member of the IDA Board of Directors. She will continue her light pollution research as well as the dissemination of and training for the Quality Lighting Teaching Kit. Walker looks forward to participating on educational aspects that may evolve with the NOAO Data Lab. Walker hopes to partner with an organization to produce online tools for the public to compare Globe at Night data with other datasets. She plans to co-organize the fourth annual AAS splinter session in January on light pollution issues and solutions.

LLOYD WALLACE, Astronomer Emeritus

SIDNEY WOLFF, Astronomer Emeritus

Research Interests Star formation; evolution of disks around pre-main sequence stars; astronomy education research

FY15 Accomplishments Wolff worked on two books. One is a popular book on telescopes and astronomical discovery designed to sell in observatory visitor centers, science museums, and tourism visitor centers. The other is an open source introductory college text that will be made available for free by OpenStax. Wolff also served on the search committees for the Director of the University of California Observatory and the Director of STScI.

FY16 Plans Wolff plans to finish work on the two books started in FY15. The popular book will be published in February 2016. The goal is to have the textbook finished in time for adoption for the fall semester of 2016. Wolff is also serving on the Program Review Committee for the Giant Magellan Telescope and on the Education Advisory Board for LSST.

ALFREDO ANDRES ZENTENO VIVANCO, Research Associate

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NOAO Scientific Staff were authors and or editors on a total of 185 publications in FY151

Abt, H.A. 2014, HAD Newsletter, 85, 7, "Alfred Joy's Method of Research" Abt, H.A. 2015, PASP, 127, 713, “The Lifetimes of Astronomers” Alam, S., … Smith, V.V., et al. 2015, ApJS, 219, 12, “The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III” Ansdell, M., … James, D., et al. 2015, ApJ, 798, 41, “The Near-Ultraviolet Luminosity Function of Young, Early M-type Dwarf Stars” Balbinot, E., … Walker, A.R., … Abbott, T.M.C., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 1129, “The LMC Geometry and Outer Stellar Populations from Early DES Data” Bally, J., … Probst, R., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 120, “Outflows, Dusty Cores, and a Burst of Star Formation in the North America and Pelican Nebulae” Bechtol, K., … Walker, A.R., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 807, 50, “Eight New Milky Way Companions Discovered in First-Year Dark Energy Survey Data” Beers, T.C. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 140, “Back to the Future: The Calcium HK Survey of Beers, Preston and Shectman” Ben-Ami, S., … Matheson, T., et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 40, “Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Type IIb Supernovae: Diversity and the Impact of Circumstellar Material” Blum, R.D., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 86, “Spitzer SAGE-Spec: Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Dust Shells, and Cool Envelopes in Extreme Large Magellanic Cloud Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars” Blum, R.D., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 87, “Erratum: ‘Spitzer SAGE-Spec: Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Dust Shells, and Cool Envelopes in Extreme Large Magellanic Cloud Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars’” Boyajian, T., … Ridgway, S., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 846, “Stellar Diameters and Temperatures—VI. High Angular Resolution Measurements of the Transiting Exoplanet Host Stars HD 189733 and HD 209458 and Implications for Models of Cool Dwarfs” Boyer, M.L., … Olsen, K.A.G., et al. 2015, ApJ, 810, 116, “Identification of a Class of Low-Mass Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars Struggling to Become Carbon Stars in the Magellanic Clouds” Boyer, M.L., … Olsen, K.A.G., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 479, “Where Is the Metallicity Ceiling to Form Carbon Stars?—A Scarcity of Carbon Stars in the Inner Disk of M31” Bragançca, G.A., … Garmany, C.D., Glaspey, J.W., et al. 2015, IAU Symp. 307, eds. G. Meynet, C. Georgy, J. Groh, P. Stee (Cambridge), 90, “Non-LTE Abundances in OB Stars: Preliminary Results for 5 Stars in the Outer Galactic Disk” Brittain, S.D., Najita, J.R., Carr, J.S. 2015, Ap&SS, 357, 54, “Near Infrared High Resolution Spectroscopy and Spectro-astrometry of Gas in Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars” Broekhoven-Fiene, H., … Allen, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 798, 65, “Erratum: ‘The Spitzer Survey of Interstellar Clouds in the Gould Belt. VI. The Auriga-California Molecular Cloud Observed with IRAC and MIPS’" Çalışkan, Ş., … Beers, T.C., et al. 2014, A&A, 571, A62, “Chemical Abundances of the Metal-Poor Horizontal-Branch Stars CS 22186-005 and CS 30344-033” Carlberg, J.K., Smith, V.V., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 7, “The Puzzling Li-rich Red Giant Associated with NGC 6819” Chang, C., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 73, “Modeling the Transfer Function for the Dark Energy Survey”

1 Author Name in bold = NOAO Scientific Staff member; Author Name underlined = Undergraduate student in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program or Prácticas de Investigación en Astronomía (PIA) program.

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Chang, C., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, Phys. Rev. Lett., 115, 051301, “Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data” Coughlin, M., … Smith, C., et al. 2015, Experimental Astronomy, 39, 387, “Real-Time Earthquake Warning for Astronomical Observatories” Cunha, K., Smith, V.V., et al., 2015, ApJ, 798L, L41, “Sodium and Oxygen Abundances in the Open Cluster NGC 6791 from APOGEE H-band Spectroscopy” Daddi, E., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, A&A, 577, A46, “CO Excitation of Normal Star-Forming Galaxies out to z = 1.5 as Regulated by the Properties of Their Interstellar Medium” de Boer, T.J.L., … Saha, A., et al. 2014, A&A, 572, A10, "The Episodic Star Formation History of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy" Dey, A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 1806, “On the Cosmic Evolution of Fe/Mg in QSO Absorption Line Systems” Dolley, T., … Dey, A., Atlee, D.W., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 125, “The Clustering and Halo Masses of Star- Forming Galaxies at z < 1” Dong, H., ... Lauer, T.R., Olsen, K.A.G., Saha, A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 4126, “Photometric Evidence of an Intermediate-Age Stellar Population in the Inner Bulge of M31” Dong, H., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 842, "Origins of Massive Field Stars in the Galactic Centre: A Spectroscopic Study" Downes, J.J., … Briceño, C., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 3490, “The Number Fraction of Discs around Brown Dwarfs in Orion OB1a and the 25 Orionis Group” Downes, J.J., Briceño, C., . . . Vivas, A.K., ... Allen, L. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 1793, "The Low-Mass Star and Sub-stellar Populations of the 25 Orionis Group" Drout, M.R., … Narayan, G., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 23, “Rapidly Evolving and Luminous Transients from Pan-STARRS” Dufour, R.J., … Shaw, R.A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 23, “Co-spatial Long-Slit UV/Optical AL Spectra of 10 Galactic Planetary Nebulae with HST/STIS. I. Description” Duncan, K., . . . Dickinson, M., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 2960, "The Mass Evolution of the First Galaxies: Stellar Mass Functions and Star Formation Rates at 4 < z < 7 in the CANDELS GOODS- South Field” Dunham, M.M., Allen, L.E., et al. 2014, “The Evolution of Protostars: Insights from Ten Years of Infrared Surveys with Spitzer and Herschel” in Protostars and Planets VI, eds. H. Beuther, R.S. Klessen, C.P. Dullemond, and T. Henning, 195. Dunham, M.M., Allen, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJS, 220, 11, “Young Stellar Objects in the Gould Belt” Dzib, S.A., … Briceño, C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 91, “The Gould Belt Very Large Array Survey IV: The Taurus-Auriga Complex” Erfanianfar, G., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 2725, “The Evolution of Star Formation Activity in Galaxy Groups” Espaillat, C., … Najita, J., et al. 2014, “An Observational Perspective of Transitional Disks” in H. Beuther, R.S. Klessen, C.P. Dullemond, and T. Henning, eds., 497, “Protostars and Planets VI” Everett, M.E., … Silva, D.R. 2015, AJ, 149, 55, “High-Resolution Multi-band Imaging for Validation and Characterization of Small Kepler Planets” Fabrizio, M., ... Walker, A.R. 2015, A&A, 580, A18, “The Carina Project. VIII. The α-element Abundances” Fekel, F.C., Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., Wood, P.R. 2015, AJ, 150, 48, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Symbiotic Stars. X. Orbits for Three S-type Systems: V1044 Centauri, Hen 3-1213, and SS 73-96” Fernández-Trincado, J.G., Vivas, A.K., et al. 2015, A&A, 574, A15, “Searching for Tidal Tails around ω Centauri Using RR Lyrae Stars” Finkelstein, S.L. ... Dickinson, M., et al., 2015, ApJ, 810, 71, “The Evolution of the Galaxy Rest-Frame Ultraviolet Luminosity Function over the First Two Billion Years”

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Fitzpatrick, M., Olsen, K., … Mighell, K.J., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 495, eds. A.R. Taylor and E. Rosolowsky (ASP), 215, “The NOAO Data Lab” Flaugher, B., … Abbott, T.M.C., … James, D.J., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 150, “The Dark Energy Camera” Fleming, S.W., ... Smith, V.V., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 143, “The APOGEE Spectroscopic Survey of Kepler Planet Hosts: Feasibility, Efficiency, and First Results” Fontana, A., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2014, A&A, 570, A11, “The Hawk-I UDS and GOODS Survey (HUGS): Survey Design and Deep K-band Number Counts” Friedman, A.S., … Narayan, G., et al. 2015, ApJS, 220, 9, “CfAIR2: Near-Infrared Light Curves of 94 Type Ia Supernovae” Gałan, C., Mikołajewska, J., Hinkle, K.H. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 492, “Chemical Abundance Analysis of Symbiotic Giants—II. AE Ara, BX Mon, KX TrA, and CL Sco” Gallenne, A., … Ridgway, S., et al. 2015, A&A, 579, A68, “Robust High-Contrast Companion Detection from Interferometric Observations. The CANDID Algorithm and an Application to Six Binary Cepheids” Garmany, C.D., Glaspey, J.W., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 41, “Projected Rotational Velocities of 136 Early B- type Stars in the Outer Galactic Disk” Giallongo, E., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, A&A, 578, A83, “Faint AGNs at z > 4 in the CANDELS GOODS-S Field: Looking for Contributors to the Reionization of the Universe” Goldstein, D.A., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 82, “Automated Transient Identification in the Dark Energy Survey” Grazian, A., … Dickinson, M.E., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A96, “The Galaxy Stellar Mass Function at 3.5 ≤ z ≤ 7.5 in the CANDELS/UDS, GOODS-South, and HUDF Fields” Günther, H.M., … Allen, L., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 122, “YSOVAR: Mid-infrared Variability in the Star- Forming Region Lynds 1688” Hargreaves, R.J., Hinkle, K., Bernath, P.F. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 3721, “Small Carbon Chains in Circumstellar Envelopes” Hartig, E., … Hinkle, K., … Mighell, K.J., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 115, “Kepler and the Long Period Variables” Haubois, X., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 103, “Interferometric Imaging Diagnostics of X Hya's Circumstellar Environment” Hayden, M.R., … Smith, V., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808,132, “Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Metallicity Distribution Functions and the Chemical Structure of the Milky Way Disk” Hernández, J., … Briceño, C., … Allen, L., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 36, “A Spectroscopic Census in Young Stellar Regions: The σ Orionis Cluster” Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 303, “The Brightening of Sakurai's Object” Hong, S., Dey, A. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 1999, “Network Analysis of Cosmic Structures: Network Centrality and Topological Environment” Hong, S., Dey, A., Prescott, M.K.M. 2014, PASP, 126, 1048, “On the Automated and Objective Detection of Emission Lines in Faint-Object Spectroscopy” Horch, E.P., … Everett, M., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 151, “Observations of Binary Stars with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument. V. Toward an Empirical Metal-Poor Mass-Luminosity Relation” Horch, E.P., Howell, S.B., Everett, M.E., Ciardi, D.R. 2014, ApJ, 795, 60, “Most Sub-arcsecond Companions of Kepler Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars Are Gravitationally Bound” Hren, A., … Hinkle, K.H., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 305, “Fluorine Abundances of AGB Stars in Stellar Clusters” Jönsson, H., … Hinkle, K.H. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 269, “The Role of AGB Stars in the Cosmic Fluorine Production”

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Juarez, A.J., Cargile, P.A., James, D.J., Stassun, K.G., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 143, “An Improved Determination of the Lithium Depletion Boundary Age of Blanco 1 and a First Look on the Effects of Magnetic Activity” Kartaltepe, J., et al. 2015, ApJL, 806, L35, “Rest-Frame Optical Emission Lines in Far-Infrared Selected Galaxies at z<1.7 from the FMOS-COSMOS Survey” Kavanagh, P.J., … Points, S., et al. 2015, A&A, 573, A73, “XMM-Newton Study of 30 Doradus C and a Newly Identified MCSNR J0536-6913 in the Large Magellanic Cloud” Kervella, P., ... Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2015, A&A, 578, A77, “The Dust Disk and Companion of the Nearby AGB Star L2 Puppis. SPHERE/ZIMPOL Polarimetric Imaging at Visible Wavelengths” Kinman, T.D., Brown, W.R. 2014, AJ, 148, 121, “The Identification of RR Lyrae and δ Scutti Stars from Variable Galaxy Evolution Explorer Ultraviolet Sources” Kunder, A., ... Walker, A., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 104, “The RR Lyrae Instability Strip in the Split Horizontal Branch Globular Cluster NGC 6569” Kwitter, K.B., ... Stanghellini, L., et al. 2014, RMxAA, 50, 203, "The Present and Future of Planetary Nebula Research. A White Paper by the IAU Planetary Nebula Working Group" Kyba, C.C.M., ... Walker, C.E., et al. 2015, Sci Reports, 5, 8409, “Worldwide Variations in Artificial Skyglow” Kyba, C.C.M., Lolkema, D.E., Walker, C.E. 2015, IAU Proc., Highlights of Astronomy, ed. T. Montmerle (Cambridge), 742, “A Standard Format for Measurements of Skyglow” Lackner, C.N., … Kartaltepe, J.S., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 137, “Late-Stage Galaxy Mergers in Cosmos to z ∼ 1” Lacy, M., Ridgway, S.E., et al. 2015, ApJL, 802, L102, “The Spitzer Mid-infrared AGN Survey. II. The Demographics and Cosmic Evolution of the AGN Population” Lauer, T.R., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 82, “Brightest Cluster Galaxies at the Present Epoch” Lebzelter, T., … Hinkle, K., et al. 2015, A&A, 578, A33, “Oxygen Isotopic Ratios in Intermediate-Mass Red Giants” Lebzelter, T., … Hinkle, K.H., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 283, “The Challenges of Abundance Analysis for Long-Period Variables” Lee, K.-S., Dey, A., Hong, S., … Inami, H., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 126, “Discovery of a Very Large Structure at z = 3.78” Lee, N., … Kartaltepe, J.S., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 80, “A Turnover in the Galaxy Main Sequence of Star 10 Formation at M∗ ∼ 10 M⊙ for Redshifts z < 1.3” Leiton, R., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, A&A, 579, A93, “GOODS-Herschel: Identification of the Individual Galaxies Responsible for the 80-290 µm Cosmic Infrared Background” Lentati, L., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 67, “COLDz: Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Discovery of a Gas-Rich Galaxy in COSMOS” Lu, N., … Inami, H., et al. 2015, ApJL, 802, L11, “Measuring Star-Formation Rate and Far-Infrared Color in High-Redshift Galaxies Using the CO (7-6) and [NII] 205 µm Lines” Luridiana, V., Morisset, C., Shaw, R.A. 2015, A&A, 573, A42, “PyNeb: A New Tool for Analyzing Emission Lines. I. Code Description and Validation of Results” Manchado, A., Stanghellini, L., ... Shaw, R.A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 115, “High-Resolution Imaging of NGC 2346 with GSAOI/GeMS: Disentangling the Planetary Nebula Molecular Structure to Understand Its Origin and Evolution” Martin, N.F., … Olsen, K., Walker, A.R., Vivas, A.K., … Kaleida, C.C., … Blum, R.D., Saha, A., et al. 2015, ApJL, 804, L5, “Hydra II: A Faint and Compact Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Found in the Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History” Mason, E., … Abbott, T.M.C., et al. 2014, ASP Conf. 490, eds. P.A. Woudt, V.A.R.M. Ribeiro (ASP), 63, “The Multiple Periods and the Magnetic Nature of CP Puppis”

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Melchior, P., … Abbott, T., … Smith, C., … Walker, A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 2219, “Mass and Galaxy Distributions of Four Massive Galaxy Clusters from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data” Mészáros, S., … Smith, V.V., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 153, “Exploring Anticorrelations and Light Element Variations in Northern Globular Clusters Observed by the APOGEE Survey” Miettinen, O., … Kartaltepe, J.S., et al. 2015, A&A, 577, A29, “(Sub)millimetre Interferometric Imaging of a Sample of COSMOS/AzTEC Submillimetre Galaxies—I. Multiwavelength Identifications and Redshift Distribution” Milne, P.A., Foley, R.J., Brown, P.J., Narayan, G. 2015, ApJ, 803, 20, “The Changing Fractions of Type Ia Supernova NU—Optical Subclasses with Redshift” Mobasher, B., … Pforr, J., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 101, “A Critical Assessment of Stellar Mass Measurement Methods” Monelli, M., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 90, "The Carina Project. VII. Toward the Breaking of the Age-Metallicity Degeneracy of Red Giant Branch Stars Using the C U, B, I Index” Montargès, M., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2014, A&A, 572, A17, “Properties of the CO and H2O MOLsphere of the Red Supergiant Betelgeuse from VLTI/AMBER Observations” Montargès, M., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 209, “VLT/NACO Imaging of the Nearest AGB Star, L2 Puppis” Morris, A.M., … Pforr, J., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 178, “A WFC3 Grism Emission Line Redshift Catalog in the GOODS-South Field” Mourard, D., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2015, A&A, 577, A51, “Spectral and Spatial Imaging of the Be+sdO Binary φ Persei” Najita, J.R., Andrews, S.M., Muzerolle, J. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 3559, “Demographics of Transition Discs in Ophiuchus and Taurus” Najita, J.R., Kenyon, S.J. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 3315, “The Mass Budget of Planet-Forming Discs: Isolating the Epoch of Planetesimal Formation” Nandra, K., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, ApJS, 220, 10, “AEGIS-X: Deep Chandra Imaging of the Central Groth Strip” Navarete, F., Damineli, A., Barbosa, C.L., Blum, R.D. 2015, IAU Symp. 307, eds. G. Meynet, C. Georgy, J. Groh, P. Stee (Cambridge), 431, “Accretion Signatures on Massive Young Stellar Objects” Navarete, F., Damineli, A., Barbosa, C.L., Blum, R.D. 2015, IAU Symp. 307, eds. G. Meynet, C. Georgy, J. Groh, P. Stee (Cambridge), 453, “Circumstellar Environments of MYSOs Revealed by IFU Spectroscopy” Navarete, F., Damineli, A., Barbosa, C.L., Blum, R.D. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 4364, “A Survey of Extended H2 Emission from Massive YSOs” Nayyeri, H., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 68, “A Study of Massive and Evolved Galaxies at High Redshift” Newman, J.A., … Beers, T.C., et al. 2015, APh, 63, 81, “Spectroscopic Needs for Imaging Dark Energy Experiments” Nidever, D., ... Olsen, K., ... Saha, A., ... Kunder, A., ... Kaleida, C., Walker, A., ... Blum, R., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 325, “Survey of MAgellanic Stellar History— SMASH!” Nidever, D.L., … Smith, V., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 38, “Tracing Chemical Evolution over the Extent of the Milky Way's Disk with APOGEE Red Clump Stars” Oey, M.S., … Points, S.D., Smith, R.C., et al. 2015, IAU Proc. H16, Highlights of Astronomy, ed. T. Montmerle (Cambridge), 587, “HII Radiative Transfer Revealed by Ionization Parameter Mapping” Olsen, K.A.G., Blum, R.D., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 257, “A Stellar Heist in the Magellanic Clouds” Ortiz-León, G.N., … Briceño, C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 9, “The Gould's Belt Very Large Array Survey. II. The Serpens Region”

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Pannella, M., ... Dickinson, M. et al. 2015, ApJ, 807, 141, “GOODS-Herschel: Star Formation, Dust Attenuation, and the FIR-radio Correlation on the Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies up to z≃4” Papadopoulos, A., … Smith, R.C., … Abbott, T.M.C., … James, D., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 1215, “DES13S2cmm: The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey” Papovich, C., … Dickinson, M., ... Inami, H., et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 26, “ZFOURGE/CANDELS: On the Evolution of M* Galaxy Progenitors from z = 3 to 0.5” Paredes, L., Points, S.D., Smith, R.C., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 366, “The MCELS Data Reduction Pipeline and Its Application to PNe Searches in the LMC” Petersen, C.C., Walker, C. 2015, IAU Proc. H16, Highlights of Astronomy, ed. T. Montmerle (Cambridge), 725, “Losing the Dark: A Planetarium PSA about Light Pollution” Petty, S.M., ... Inami, H., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 111, “The FUV to Near-IR Morphologies of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the GOALS Sample” Pinsonneault, M.H., … Smith, V.V., et al. 2014, ApJS, 215, 19, “The APOKASC Catalog: An Asteroseismic and Spectroscopic Joint Survey of Targets in the Kepler Fields” Points, S., Kunder, A., eds. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, “Fifty Years of Wide Field Studies in the Southern Hemisphere: Resolved Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge and the Magellanic Clouds” Popesso, P., ... Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, A&A, 574, A105, “The Evolution of Galaxy Star Formation Activity in Massive Haloes” Popesso, P., ... Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, A&A, 579, A132, “The Role of Massive Halos in the Star Formation History of the Universe” Prescott, M.K.M., Martin, C.L., Dey, A. 2015, ApJ, 799, 62, “Spatially Resolved Gas Kinematics within a Lyα Nebula: Evidence for Large-Scale Rotation” Quinn, S.M., … Everett, M.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 49,“KOI-1299: A Red Giant Interacting with One of Its Two Long-Period Giant Planets” Rapson, V.A., … Allen, L.E. 2014, ApJ, 794, 124, “A Spitzer View of the Giant Molecular Cloud MON OB1 EAST/NGC 2264” Rebull, L.M., . . . James, D., … Allen, L., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 92, “Young Stellar Object VARiability (YSOVAR): Long Timescale Variations in the Mid-infrared” Reipurth, B., … Tokovinin, A., et al. 2014, “Multiplicity in Early Stellar Evolution,” in eds. H. Beuther, R.S. Klessen, C.P. Dullemond, and T. Henning, 267, “Protostars and Planets VI” Rest, A., ... Matheson, T., Smith, R.C., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 247, “Light Echoes of Ancient Transients with the Blanco 4m Telescope” Riddle, R.L., Tokovinin, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 4, “A Survey of the High Order Multiplicity of Nearby Solar-Type Binary Stars with Robo-AO” Ridgway, S.T., Matheson, T., Mighell, K.J., Olsen, K.A., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 53, "The Variable Sky of Deep Synoptic Surveys” Rigliaco, E., … Najita, J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 31, “Probing Stellar Accretion with Mid-infrared Hydrogen Lines” Riguccini, L., ... Kartaltepe, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 470, “The Composite Nature of Dust-Obscured Galaxies (DOGs) at z~2-3 in the COSMOS Field: I. A Far-Infrared View” Roberts, L.C., Jr., Tokovinin, A., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 118, “Know the Star, Know the Planet. III. Discovery of Late-Type Companions to Two Exoplanet Host Stars” Rosario, D. J., … Kartaltepe, J., et al. 2015, A &A, 573, A85, “The Host Galaxies of X-ray Selected Active Galactic Nuclei to z = 2.5: Structure, Star Formation, and Their Relationships from CANDELS and Herschel/PACS” Ross, T.L., Holtzman, J.A., Saha, A., Anthony-Twarog, B.J. 2015, AJ, 149, 198, “Metallicity Distribution Functions of Four Local Group Dwarf Galaxies” Rumble, D., … Allen, L.E., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1551, “The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: Evidence for Radiative Heating in Serpens MWC 297 and Its Influence on Local Star Formation”

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Ryde, N., ... Najita, J., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 497, eds. F. Kerschbaum, R.F. Wing, and J. Hron (ASP), 67, “Evolved Stars with Complex Atmospheres—the High Spectral Resolution, Mid-IR View” Safarzadeh, M., … Inami, H., et al. 2015, ApJ, 798, 91, “A Novel Technique to Improve Photometry in Confused Images Using Graphs and Bayesian Priors” Safron, E.J., … Allen, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJL, 800, L5, “HOPS 383: An Outbursting Class 0 Protostar in Orion” Saha, A., Olszewski, E.W. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 317, “Old Stellar Populations as Structural Tracer of the Magellanic Cloud Complex” Salim, S., ... Dickinson, M. 2015, ApJ, 808, 25, “On the Mass-Metallicity-Star Formation Rate Relation for Galaxies at z ∼ 2” Salim, S., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 126, “A Critical Look at the Mass-Metallicity-Star Formation Rate Relation in the Local Universe. I. An Improved Analysis Framework and Confounding Systematics” Salmon, B., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 183, “The Relation between Star Formation Rate and Stellar Mass for Galaxies at 3.5 <= z <= 6.5 in CANDELS” Salyk, C., et al. 2015, ApJL, 810, L24, “Detection of Water Vapor in the Terrestrial Planet Forming Region of a Transition Disk” Sánchez, C., … Abbott, T., … Atlee, D., … Dey, A., … Smith, R.C., … Valdés, F., … Walker, A., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 1482, “Photometric Redshift Analysis in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data” Sanders, N., … Narayan, G., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 208, “Toward Characterization of the Type IIP Supernova Progenitor Population: A Statistical Sample of Light Curves from Pan-STARRS1” Santini, P., … Pforr, J., … Dickinson, M.E. 2015, ApJ, 801, 97, “Stellar Masses from the CANDELS Survey: The GOODS-South and UDS Fields” Schaefer, G.H., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2014, Natur, 515, 234, “The Expanding Fireball of Nova Delphini 2013” Schreiber, C., … Inami, H., Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A74, “The Herschel View of the Dominant Mode of Galaxy Growth from z = 4 to the Present Day” Scoville, N., … Kartaltepe, J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 70, “ALMA Imaging of HCN, CS, and Dust in Arp 220 and NGC 6240” Siana, B., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 17, “A Deep Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Search for Definitive Identification of Lyman Continuum Emitters at z~3.1” Silverman, J.D., … Kartaltepe, J.S., et al. 2015, ApJS, 220, 12, “The FMOS-COSMOS Survey of Star- Forming Galaxies at z~1.6. III. Survey Design, Performance, and Sample Characteristics” Simmons, B.D., … Kartaltepe, J.S., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 3466, “Galaxy Zoo: CANDELS Barred Discs and Bar Fractions” Simon, J.D., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, AJ, 808, 95, “Stellar Kinematics and Metallicities in the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II” Smith, M.G. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 39, “The Turn of the Millennium, CTIO and AURA-O, 1993-2007” Smith, M.G. 2015, IAU Proc. H16, Highlights of Astronomy, ed. T. Montmerle (Cambridge), 753, “An Introduction to IAU 2009 Resolution B5” Smith, M.G. 2015, IAU Proc. H16, Highlights of Astronomy, ed. T. Montmerle (Cambridge), 745, “Protection of Northern Chile as an ICOMOS/IAU ‘Window to the Universe’'' Smith, R.C. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 48, “CTIO: The Next 50 Years” Szkody, P., Everett, M.E., ... Silva, D.R., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 63, “Follow up Observations of SDSS and CRTS Candidate Cataclysmic Variables” Teske, J.K., … Smith, V.V., et al. 2015, ApJL, 801, L10, “Abundance Differences between Exoplanet Binary Host Stars XO-2N and XO-2S—Dependence on Stellar Parameters” Throop, H.B., … James, D., et al. 2015, 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2258,

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“Experimental Measurement of the Sub-micron Ejecta from Hypervelocity Impacts into Meteorites” Tilvi, V., … Dickinson, M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 5, "Rapid Decline of Lyα Emission toward the Reionization Era” Tokovinin, A. 2014, AJ, 148, 72, “Imaging Survey of Subsystems in Secondary Components to Nearby Southern Dwarfs” Tokovinin, A., et al., 2015, AJ, 150, 50, “Speckle Interferometry at SOAR in 2014” Tokovinin, A., Gorynya, N.A., Morrell, N.I. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 3082, “The Quadruple System ADS 1652” Tokovinin, A., Latham, D.W., Mason, B.D. 2015, AJ, 149, 195, “The Unusual Quadruple System HD 91962 with a ‘Planetary’ Architecture” Tokovinin, A., Pribulla, T., Fischer, D. 2015, AJ, 149, 8, “Radial Velocities of Southern Visual Multiple Stars” Torres, G., … Everett, M.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 99, “Validation of 12 Small Kepler Transiting Planets in the Habitable Zone” Trump, J.R., … Kartaltepe, J., et al. 2014, ApJ, 793, 101, “No More Active Galactic Nuclei in Clumpy Disks than in Smooth Galaxies at z ~ 2 in CANDELS/3D-HST” Valdes, F., DECam NEO Survey, 2015, ASP Conf. 495, eds. A.R. Taylor and E. Rosolowsky, 95, “A Moving Object Detection System (MODS) for the DECam NEO Survey” Wagner, C.R., … Dey, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 107, “Star Formation in High-Redshift Cluster Ellipticals” Walker, A.R. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 34, “CCD Imagers at CTIO: From 0.16 to 520 Megapixels” Walker, C.E., … Smith, M., et al. 2015, IAU Proc. H16, Highlights of Astronomy, ed. T. Montmerle (Cambridge), 758, “Summaries of SpS17 Discussions IAU GA 2012 Special Session on Light Pollution” Walker, C.E., Buxner, S. 2015, IAU Proc. H16, Highlights of Astronomy, ed. T. Montmerle (Cambridge), 732, “The Impact of Light Pollution Education through a Global Star-Hunting Campaign & Classroom Curricula” Walker, C.E., Kyba, C.C.M. 2015, IAU Proc. H16, Highlights of Astronomy, ed. T. Montmerle (Cambridge), 734, “Citizen Science Programs on Light Pollution Awareness: Where Do We Go with the Data?” White, C.J., … Matheson, T., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 52, “Slow-Speed Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Two Channels” Williams, B.F., … Lauer, T.R., et al. 2014, ApJS, 215, 9, “The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury. X. Ultraviolet to Infrared Photometry of 117 Million Equidistant Stars” Williams, B.F., … Lauer, T.R., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 49, “Tracing the Metal-Poor M31 Stellar Halo with Blue Horizontal Branch Stars” Willis, S., … Allen, L. 2015, ApJ, 809, 87, “The Schmidt Law in Six Galactic Massive Star-Forming Regions” Winkler, P.F., Smith, R.C., Points, S.D., et al. 2015, ASP Conf. 491, eds. S. Points, A. Kunder (ASP), 343, “The Interstellar Medium in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Results from MCELS” Xu, C.K., … Inami, H., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 11, “ALMA Observations of Warm Dense Gas in NGC 1614—Breaking of Star Formation Law in the Central kpc” Yuan, F., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 3047, “OzDES Multi-fibre Spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: First-Year Operation and Results” Zamora, O., … Smith, V.V., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 181, “New H-band Stellar Spectral Libraries for the SDSS-III/APOGEE Survey” Zhang, K., … Salyk, C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 55, “Dimming and CO Absorption toward the AA Tau Protoplanetary Disk: An Infalling Flow Caused by Disk Instability?”

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D PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

D.1 TELESCOPES AT CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY During FY15 (Oct. 2014–Sept. 2015), 178 publications used data taken at the CTIO telescopes (includes the Blanco, SOAR, and others) for which NOAO allocates observing time∞:

120 98 100 91 93 80 67 60 53 48 39 41 40 22 20 5 4 3

# of Publicaons in FY15 1 1 0 0 0

Telescopes/Data

Abbas, M.A., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 40, “Variable Stars in Metal-Rich Globular Clusters. IV. Long-Period Variables in NGC 6496” Aird, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 1892, “The Evolution of the X-ray Luminosity Functions of Unabsorbed and Absorbed AGNs out to z~5” Artigau, E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 254, "BANYAN. VI. Discovery of a Companion at the Brown Dwarf/Planet-Mass Limit to a Tucana-Horologium M Dwarf" Assef, R.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 27, “Half of the Most Luminous Quasars May Be Obscured: Investigating the Nature of WISE-Selected Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies” Astier, P., et al. 2014, A&A, 572, A80, “Extending the Supernova Hubble Diagram to z ~ 1.5 with the Euclid Space Mission” Balbinot, E., … Walker, A.R., … Abbott, T.M.C., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 1129, “The LMC Geometry and Outer Stellar Populations from Early DES Data” Banerji, M., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 2523, “Combining Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data with Near-Infrared Data from the ESO VISTA Hemisphere Survey” Baron, F., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 37, “Discovery and Characterization of Wide Binary Systems with a Very Low Mass Component” Bastian, N., Strader, J. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 3594, “Constraining Globular Cluster Formation Through Studies of Young Massive Clusters—III. A Lack of Gas and Dust in Massive Stellar Clusters in the LMC and SMC”

∞ Data from have resulted from time allocated by other than the NOAO TAC.

116 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Batista, V., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 170, “Confirmation of the OGLE-2005-BLG-169 Planet Signature and Its Characteristics with Lens-Source Proper Motion Detection” Bayliss, M.B., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 12, “SPT-CL J2040-4451: An SZ-selected Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.478 with Significant Ongoing Star Formation” Bechtol, K., … Walker, A.R., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 807, 50, “Eight New Milky Way Companions Discovered in First-Year Dark Energy Survey Data” Bennet, D.P., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 169, "Confirmation of the Planetary Microlensing Signal and Star and Planet Mass Determinations for Event OGLE-2005-BLG-169" Bhardwaj, A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 3342, “On the Variation of Fourier Parameters for Galactic and LMC Cepheids at Optical, Near-Infrared and Mid-infrared Wavelengths” Bleem, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 20, “A New Reduction of the Blanco Cosmology Survey: An Optically Selected Galaxy Cluster Catalog and a Public Release of Optical Data Products” Bleem, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 27, “Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ Survey” Blum, R.D., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 86, “Spitzer SAGE-Spec: Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Dust Shells, and Cool Envelopes in Extreme Large Magellanic Cloud Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars” Bocquet, S., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 214, “Mass Calibration and Cosmological Analysis of the SPT-SZ Galaxy Cluster Sample Using Velocity Dispersion σv and X-ray Yx Measurements” Bodaghee, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 49, “A First Look at the X-ray Population of the Young Massive Cluster VVV CL077” Bosh, A., et al. 2015, Icar, 246, 237, “The State of Pluto's Atmosphere 2012-2013” Bowler, B.P., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 62, “Planets around Low-Mass Stars (PALMS). V. Age-Dating Low- Mass Companions to Members and Interlopers of Young Moving Groups” Brahm, R., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 33, “HATS9-b and HATS10-b: Two Compact Hot Jupiters in Field 7 of the K2 Mission” Bray, V.J., Schenk, P.M. 2015, Icar, 246, 156, “Pristine Impact Crater Morphology on Pluto—Expectations for New Horizons” Britt, C.T., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 3455, “The Relationship between X-ray Luminosity and Duty Cycle for Dwarf Novae and Their Specific Frequency in the Inner Galaxy” Calderón, J.P., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 791, Early-Type Galaxies in the Antlia Cluster: A Deep Look into Scaling Relations” Calchi Novati, S., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 20, “Pathway to the Galactic Distribution of Planets: Combined Spitzer and Ground-Based Microlens Parallax Measurements of 21 Single-Lens Events” Carraro, G., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 12, “The Thickening of the Thin Disk in the Third Galactic Quadrant” Casey, C.M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 95, “Are Dusty Galaxies Blue? Insights on UV Attenuation from Dust- Selected Galaxies” Chang, C., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 73, “Modeling the Transfer Function for the Dark Energy Survey” Chen, C.-T.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 50, “A Connection between Obscuration and Star Formation in Luminous Quasars” Ciardullo, R., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 64, “Hubble Space Telescope Emission Line Galaxies at z ~ 2: The Lyα Escape Fraction” Cody, A.M., Hillenbrand, L.A. 2014, ApJ, 796, 129, “A Pulsation Search among Young Brown Dwarfs and Very-Low-Mass Stars” Coley, J.B., Corbet, R.H.D., Mukai, K., Pottschmidt, K. 2014, ApJ, 793, 77, “Probing the Mysteries of the X-ray Binary 4U 1210-64 with ASM, PCA, MAXI, BAT, and Suzaku” Collado, A., Gamen, R., Barba, R.H., Morrell, N. 2015, A&A, 581, A49, “A New Massive Double-Lined Spectroscopic Binary System: The Wolf-Rayet Star WR 68a” Corbelli, E., et al. 2014, A&A, 572, A23, “Dynamical Signatures of a ΛCDM-halo and the Distribution of the Baryons in M 33”

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Cortes, C., et al. 2015, A&A, 581, A68, “Stellar Parameters for Stars of the CoRoT Exoplanet Field” Costa, E., et al. 2015, A&A, 580, A4, “Insights into the Properties of the Local (Orion) Spiral Arm. NGC 2302: First Results and Description of the Program” Das, R., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 806, “Near-Infrared Studies of V5558 Sgr: An Unusually Slow Nova with Multiple Outbursts” Davison, C.L., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 106, “A 3D Search for Companions to 12 Nearby M-dwarfs” Draskovic, D., Parker, Q.A., Reid, W.A., Stupar, M. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 1402, “Four New Planetary Nebulae towards the Small Magellanic Cloud” de Boer, T.J.L., et al. 2014, A&A, 572, A10, “The Episodic Star Formation History of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy” de Los Reyes, M.A., 2015, AJ, 149, 79, “The Relationship between Stellar Mass, Gas Metallicity, and Star Formation Rate for Hα-selected Galaxies at z ≈ 0.8 from the New Hα Survey” de Jaeger, T., et al. 2015, ApJ, 807, 63, “SN 2011A: A Low-Luminosity Interacting Transient, with a Double Plateau and Strong Sodium Absorption” Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Weisz, D.R. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 77, “The Progenitors of the Milky Way Stellar Halo: Big Bricks Favoured over Little Bricks” Eigenthaler, P., Ploeckinger, S., Verdugo, M., Ziegler, B. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 2793, “Star-Formation Properties of Hickson Compact Groups Based on Deep Hα Imaging” Erwin, P., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 4039, “Composite Bulges: The Coexistence of Classical Bulges and Discy Pseudo-Bulges in S0 and Spiral Galaxies” Falocco, S., et al. 2015, A&A, 579, A115, “SUDARE-VOICE Variability-Selection of Active Galaxies in the Chandra Deep Field South and the SERVS/SWIRE Region” Fekel, F.C., Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., Wood, P.R. 2015, AJ, 150, 48, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Symbiotic Stars. X. Orbits for Three S-type Systems: V1044 Centauri, Hen 3-1213, and SS 73-96” Filippazzo, J.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 810, 158, “Fundamental Parameters and Spectral Energy Distributions of Young and Field Age Objects with Masses Spanning the Stellar to Planetary Regime” Finch, C.T., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 119, “UCAC4 Nearby Star Survey: A Search for Our Stellar Neighbors” Flaugher, B., … Abbott, T.M.C., … James, D.J., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 150, “The Dark Energy Camera” Forbes, D.A., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 2993, “The AIMSS Project II: Dynamical-to-Stellar Mass Ratios across the Star Cluster-Galaxy Divide” French, L.M., et al. 2015, Icar, 254, 1, “Rotation Lightcurves of Small Jovian Trojan Asteroids” Fukui, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 809, 74, “OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb: A Saturn-Mass Planet around an M Dwarf with the Mass Constrained by Subaru AO Imaging” Gałan, C., Mikołajewska, J., Hinkle, K.H. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 492, “Chemical Abundance Analysis of Symbiotic Giants—II. AE Ara, BX Mon, KX TrA, and CL Sco” Geier, S., et al. 2015, A&A, 577, A26, “The Catalogue of Radial Velocity Variable Hot Subluminous Stars from the MUCHFUSS Project” Goldstein, D.A., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 82, “Automated Transient Identification in the Dark Energy Survey” Guyonnet, A., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A41, “Evidence for Self-Interaction of Charge Distribution in Charge-Coupled Devices” Hansen, T., et al. 2015, ApJ, 807, 173, “An Elemental Assay of Very, Extremely, and Ultra-metal-poor Stars” Hartigan, P., Reiter, M., Smith, N., Bally, J. 2015, AJ, 149, 101, “A Survey of Irradiated Pillars, Globules, and Jets in the Carina Nebula” Hartman, J.D., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 166, “HATS-6b: A Warm Saturn Transiting an Early M Dwarf Star, and a Set of Empirical Relations for Characterizing K and M Dwarf Planet Hosts” Henderson, C.B., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 71, “Candidate Gravitational Microlensing Events for Future Direct Lens Imaging”

118 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Hermes, J.J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 1701, “Insights into Internal Effects of Common-Envelope Evolution Using the Extended Kepler Mission” Hernández, J., … Briceño, C., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 36, “A Spectroscopic Census in Young Stellar Regions: The σ Orionis Cluster” Hillwig, T.C., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 30, “Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae Discovered through Photometric Variability. III: The Central Star of Abell 65” Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 35, “X-ray Cavities in a Sample of 83 SPT-clusters of Galaxies: Tracing the Evolution of AGN Feedback in Clusters of Galaxies out to z=1.2” Hosey, A.D., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 6, "The Solar Neighborhood XXXVI: The Long-Term Photometric Variability of Nearby Red Dwarfs in the VRI Optical Bands" Hur, H., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 3797, “Reddening, Distance, and Stellar Content of the Young Open Cluster Westerlund 2” Inserra, C., Smartt, S.J. 2014, ApJ, 796, 129, “Superluminous Supernovae as Standardizable Candles and High-Redshift Distance Probes” Johnson, C.B., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 1584, “HD 314884: A Slowly Pulsating B Star in a Close Binary” Johnson, S.D., Chen, H.-W., Mulchaey, J.S. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 3263, “On the Possible Environmental Effect in Distributing Heavy Elements beyond Individual Gaseous Halos” Jones, A.G., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 168, “The Relationship between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission and Far-Infrared Dust Emission from NGC 2403 and M83” Kanarek, G., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 2858, “A Near-Infrared Survey of the Inner Galactic Plane for Wolf-Rayet Stars—III. New Methods: Faintest WR Stars” Kankare, E., et al. 2015, A&A, 581, A4, “On the Triple Peaks of SNHunt248 in NGC 5806” Keenan, R.C., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 157, “Evolution of the Major Merger Galaxy Pair Fraction at z < 1” Kim, D., et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 63, “Discovery of a Faint Outer Halo Milky Way Star Cluster in the Southern Sky” Kim, D., Jerjen, H. 2015, ApJ, 799, 73, “A Hero's Little Horse: Discovery of a Dissolving Star Cluster in Pegasus” Kim, D., Jerjen, H. 2015, ApJL, 808, L39, “Horologium II: A Second Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellite in the Horologium Constellation” Kirby, E.N., Simon, J.D., Cohen, J.G. 2015, ApJ, 810, 56, “Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Dwarf Galaxies Hydra II and Pisces II and the Globular Cluster Laevens 1” Kuncarayakti, H., et al. 2015, A&A, 579, A95, “Nebular Phase Observations of the Type-Ib Supernova iPTF13bvn Favour a Binary Progenitor” Kupfer, T., et al. 2015, A&A, 576, A44, “Hot Subdwarf Binaries from the MUCHFUSS Project. Analysis of 12 New Systems and a Study of the Short-Period Binary Population” Landoni, M., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 163, “Optical Spectroscopic Observations of γ-ray Blazar Candidates. III. The 2013/2014 Campaign in the Southern Hemisphere” Lauer, T.R., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 82, “Brightest Cluster Galaxies at the Present Epoch” Lee, C.-H., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 22, “Properties of M31. V. 298 Eclipsing Binaries from Pandromeda” Lee, J.-W. 2015, ApJS, 219, 7, “Multiple Stellar Populations of Globular Clusters from Homogenous Ca by Photometry I. M22 (NGC 6656)” Lemasle, B., et al. 2015, A&A, 572, A88, “VLT/FLAMES Spectroscopy of Red Giant Branch Stars in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy” Lemasle, B., et al. 2015, A&A, 579, A47, “Type II Cepheids in the Milky Way Disc. Chemical Composition of Two New W Vir Stars: DD Vel and HQ Car” Lim, D., et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 19, “Low-Resolution Spectroscopy for the Globular Clusters with Signs of Supernova Enrichment: M22, NGC 1851, and NGC 288” Lindsay, S.S., et al. 2015, Icar, 247, 53, “Composition, Mineralogy, and Porosity of Multiple Asteroid Systems from Visible and Near-Infrared Spectral Data”

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Lobo Gomes, A., Mario Magalhães, A., Pereyra, A., Vilega Rodrigues, C. 2015, ApJ, 806, 94, “A New Optical Polarization Catalog for the Small Magellanic Cloud: The Magnetic Field Structure” Lurie, J.C., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 91, “The Solar Neighborhood. XXXIV. A Search for Planets Orbiting Nearby M Dwarfs Using Astrometry” Macri, L.M., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 117, “Large Magellanic Cloud Near‐Infrared Synoptic Survey. I. Cepheid Variables and the Calibration of the Leavitt Law” Maderak, R.M., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 141, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. LXIII. Abundances in the Super- Metal-Rich Open Cluster NGC 6253 from Hydra Spectroscopy of the 7774 Å Oxygen Triplet Region” Mancini, L., et al. 2015, A&A, 580, A63, “HATS-13b and HATS-14b: Two Transiting Hot Jupiters from the HATSouth Survey” Marino, A.F., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 815, “Iron and S-elements Abundance Variations in NGC 5286: Comparison with ‘Anomalous’ Globular Clusters and Milky Way Satellites” Martin, N.F., Walker, A.R., Vivas, A.K., … Kaleida, C.C., et al. 2015, ApJL, 804, L5, “Hydra II: A Faint and Compact Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Found in the Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History” Martinazzi, E., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 2235, “New SX Phe Variables in the Globular Cluster NGC 288” Martinet, N., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A116, “The Evolution of the Cluster Optical Galaxy Luminosity Function between z=0.4 and 0.9 in the DAFT+FADA Survey” Martinez-Vazquez, C.E., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 454, 1509, “Variable Stars in Local Group Galaxies. I: Tracing the Early Chemical Enrichment and Radial Gradients in the Sculptor dSph with RR Lyrae Stars” McCleary, J., dell’Antonio, I., Huwe, P. 2015, ApJ, 805, 40, “Mass Substructure in Abell 3128” McMonigal, B., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 3139, “Sailing under the Magellanic Clouds: A DECam View of the Carina Dwarf” Mehner, A., et al. 2015, A&A, 578, A122, “Eta Carinae's 2014.6 Spectroscopic Event: Clues to the Long- Term Recovery from Its Great Eruption” Melchior, P., … Abbott, T., ... Smith, C., … Walker, A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 2219, “Mass and Galaxy Distributions of Four Massive Galaxy Clusters from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data” Mennickent, R.E., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1137, “Fundamental Parameters of the Close Interacting Binary HD 170582 and Its Luminous Accretion Disc” Miettinen, O., et al. 2015, A&A, 577, A29, “(Sub)millimetre Interferometric Imaging of a Sample of COSMOS+AzTEC Submillimetre Galaxies—I. Multiwavelength Identifications and Redshift Distribution” Mikołajewska, J., Caldwell, N., Shara, M.M. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 586, “First Detection and Characterization of Symbiotic Stars in M31” Mikołajewska, J., Caldwell, N., Shara, M.M., Iłkiewicz, K. 2015, ApJL, 799, L16, “Characterization of the Most Luminous Star in M33: A Super Symbiotic Binary” Mitchell, C.J., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 116, “The Rings Survey. I. Hα and H I Velocity Maps of Galaxy NGC 2280” Momcheva, I., et al. 2015, ApJS, 219, 29, “A Spectroscopic Survey of the Fields of 28 Strong Gravitational Lenses: The Redshift Catalog” Mortlock, A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 2, “Deconstructing the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function with UKIDSS and CANDELS: The Impact of Colour, Structure and Environment” Mudd, D., Stanek, K.Z. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 3811, “GALEX Catalogue of UV Point Sources in M33” Nardiello, D., et al. 2015, A&A, 573, A70, “Observing Multiple Stellar Populations with VLT/FORS2. Main Sequence Photometry in Outer Regions of NGC 6752, NGC 6397, and NGC 6121 (M 4)” Navarete, F., Damineli, A., Barbosa, C.L., Blum, R.D. 2015, IAU Symp. 307, eds. G. Meynet, C. Georgy, J. Groh, P. Stee (Cambridge), 431, “Accretion Signatures on Massive Young Stellar Objects” Navarete, F., Damineli, A., Barbosa, C.L., Blum, R.D. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 4364, “A Survey of Extended H2 Emission from Massive YSOs”

120 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Neff, S. G., Eilek, J.A., Owen, F.N. 2015, ApJ, 802, 88, “The Complex North Transition Region of Centaurus A: A Galactic Wind” Oksala, M.E., et al. 2015, A&A, 578, A112, “An Infrared Diagnostic for Magnetism in Hot Stars” Orosz, J.A., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 154, “The Mass of the Black Hole in LMC X-3” Pagnotta, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 811, 32, “The 2010 Eruption of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpii: The Multi- wavelength Light Curve” Palma, T., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 2122, “Probing the Large Magellanic Cloud's Recent Chemical Enrichment History through Its Star Clusters” Papadopoulos, A., … Smith, R.C., … Abbott, T.M.C., … James, D., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 1215, “DES13S2cmm: The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey” Peterson, B.M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 149, “Reverberation Mapping of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 7469” Piatti, A.E. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 3219, “The Age-Metallicity Relationship in the Small Magellanic Cloud Periphery” Piatti, A.E. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 2302, “Bruck 88: A Young Star Cluster with an Old Age Resemblance in the Outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud” Ranc, C., et al. 2015, A&A, 580, A125, “MOA-2007-BLG-197: Exploring the Brown Dwarf Desert” Rangelov, B., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 34, “Multiwavelength Study of the Northeastern Outskirts of the Extended TeV Source HESS J1809-193” Regnault, N., et al. 2015, A&A, 581, A45, “The DICE Calibration Project Design, Characterization, and First Results” Ricci, F., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 160, “Optical Spectroscopic Observations of γ-ray Blazar Candidates IV. Results of the 2014 Follow-up Campaign” Riguccini, L., ... Kartaltepe, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 470, “The Composite Nature of Dust-Obscured Galaxies (DOGs) at z~2-3 in the COSMOS Field: I. A Far-Infrared View” Roderick, T.A., Jerjen, H., Mackey, A.D., Da Costa, G.S. 2015, ApJ, 804, 134, “Stellar Substructures around the Hercules Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy” Salinas, R., Alabi, A., Richtler, T., Lane, R.R. 2015, A&A, 577, A59, “Isolated Ellipticals and Their Globular Cluster Systems. III. NGC 2271, NGC 2865, NGC 3962, NGC 4240, and IC 4889” Salinas, R., Strader, J. 2015, ApJ, 809, 169, “No Evidence for Multiple Stellar Populations in the Low- Mass Galactic Globular Cluster E 3” Saliwanchik, B.R., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 137, “Measurement of Galaxy Cluster Integrated Comptonization and Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope” Salmon, B., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 183, “The Relation between Star Formation Rate and Stellar Mass for Galaxies at 3.5 <= z <= 6.5 in CANDELS” Sand, D.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 95, “A Comprehensive Archival Search for Counterparts to Ultra- compact High Velocity Clouds: Five Local Volume Dwarf Galaxies” Sandoval, M.A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 32, “Hiding in Plain Sight: Record-Breaking Compact Stellar Systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey” Santini, P., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 97, “Stellar Masses from the CANDELS Survey: The GOODS-South and UDS Fields” Schaffenroth, V., Barlow, B.N., Drechsel, H., Dunlap, B.H. 2015, A&A, 576, A123, “An Eclipsing Post Common-Envelope System Consisting of a Pulsating Hot Subdwarf B Star and a Brown Dwarf Companion” Schimoia, J.S., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 63, “Short-Timescale Monitoring of the X-ray, UV and Broad Double-Peak Emission Line of the Nucleus of NGC 1097” Schwarz, G.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 149, 95, “Pan-chromatic Observations of the Remarkable Nova LMC 2012” Sheppard, S., Trujillo, C. 2015, AJ, 149, 44, “Discovery and Characteristics of the Rapidly Rotating Active Asteroid (62412) 2000 SY178 in the Main Belt” Siegel, M.H., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 131, “The Swift UVOT Stars Survey. I. Methods and Test Clusters”

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Silva, K.M.G., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 4183, “MLS110213:022733+130617: A New Eclipsing Polar above the Period Gap” Simet, M., Mandelbaum, R. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 1259, “Background Sky Obscuration by Cluster Galaxies as a Source of Systematic Error for Weak Lensing” Simon, J.D., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, AJ, 808, 95, “Stellar Kinematics and Metallicities in the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II” Skottfelt, J., et al. 2015, A&A, 573, A103, “Searching for Variable Stars in the Cores of Five Metal-Rich Globular Clusters Using EMCCD Observations” Skowron, J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 33, “OGLE-2011-BLG-0265Lb: A Jovian Microlensing Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf” Soto, M.G., Jenkins, J.S., Jones, M.I. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 3131, “RAFT I: Discovery of New Planetary Candidates and Updated Orbits from Archival FEROS Spectra” Stauffer, J., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 130, “CSI 2264: Characterizing Young Stars in NGC 2264 with Short- Duration, Periodic Flux Dips in Their Light Curves” Strader, J., et al. 2015, ApJL, 804, L12, “1FGL J1417.7-4407: A Likely Gamma-ray Bright Binary with a Massive Neutron Star and a Giant Secondary” Swiggum, J. K., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 156, “PSR J1930-1852: A Pulsar in the Widest Known Orbit around Another Neutron Star” Toala, J.A., Guerrero, M.A., Ramos-Larios, G., Guzman, V. 2015, A&A, 578, A66, “WISE Morphological Study of Wolf-Rayet Nebulae” Tokovinin, A. 2014, AJ, 148, 72, “Imaging Survey of Subsystems in Secondary Components to Nearby Southern Dwarfs” Tokovinin, A., Gorynya, N.A., Morrell, N.I. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 3082, “The Quadruple System ADS 1652” Tokovinin, A., Latham, D.W., Mason, B.D. 2015, AJ, 149, 195, “The Unusual Quadruple System HD 91962 with a ‘Planetary’ Architecture” Tokovinin, A., Pribulla, T., Fischer, D. 2015, AJ, 149, 8, “Radial Velocities of Southern Visual Multiple Stars” Tokovinin, A., et al., 2015, AJ, 150, 50, “Speckle Interferometry at SOAR in 2014” Tottle, J., Mohanty, S. 2015, ApJ, 805, 57, “Testing Model Atmospheres for Young Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in the Infrared: Evidence for Significantly Underestimated Dust Opacities” Urata, Y., Huang, K., Yamazaki, R., Sakamoto, T. 2015, ApJ, 806, 222, “Extremely Soft X-ray Flash as the Indicator of Off-Axis Orphan GRB Afterglow” Vajgel, B., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 88, “X-ray-selected Galaxy Groups in Boötes” van Weeren, R.J., et al. 2014, ApJ, 793, 82, “LOFAR Low‐Band Antenna Observations of the 3C 295 and Boötes Fields: Source Counts and Ultra-steep Spectrum Sources" Vanderbeke, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 2692, “G2C2-III: Structural Parameters for Galactic Globular Clusters in SDSS Passbands” Vanderbeke, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 275, “G2C2 - IV: A Novel Approach to Study the Radial Distributions of Multiple Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters” Vučetić, M.M., Arbutina, B., Urošević, D. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 943, “Optical Supernova Remnants in Nearby Galaxies and Their Influence on Star Formation Rates Derived from Hα Emission” Wagner, C.R., … Dey, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 107, “Star Formation in High-Redshift Cluster Ellipticals” Waisberg, I.R., Romani, R.W. 2015, ApJ, 805, 18, “Echelle Spectroscopy of Gamma-ray Binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856” Walker, M.G., et al. 2015, AJ, 808, 108, “Magellan/M2FS Spectroscopy of the Reticulum 2 Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy” Walsh, J.R., Rejbuka, M., Walton, N.A. 2015, A&A, 574, A109, “An Imaging and Spectroscopic Study of the Planetary Nebulae in NGC 5128 (Centaurus A). Planetary Nebulae Catalogues”

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Wei, J.-J., Wu, X.-F., Melia, F. 2015, AJ, 149, 165, “Testing Cosmological Models with Type Ic Super Luminous Supernovae” Winters, J.G., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 5, “The Solar Neighborhood. XXXV. Distances to 1404 m Dwarf Systems within 25 pc in the Southern Sky” Wright, J.T., Eastman, J.D. 2014, PASP, 126, 838, “Barycentric Corrections at 1 cm s-1 for Precise Doppler Velocities” Wu, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1900, “Gemini Spectroscopy of Galactic Bulge Sources: A Population of Hidden Accreting Binaries Revealed?” Yang, Y., Zabludoff, A., Jhanke, K., Dave, R. 2014, ApJ, 793, 114, “The Properties of Lyα Nebulae: Gas Kinematics from Nonresonant Lines” Yee, J.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 76, “First Space-Based Microlens Parallax Measurement of an Isolated Star: Spitzer Observations of OGLE-2014-BLG-0939” Yeh, S.C.C., Seaquist, E.R., Matzner, C.D., Pellegrini, E.W. 2015, ApJ, 807, 117, “Molecular and Ionized Hydrogen in 30 Doradus. I. Imaging Observations” Yuan, F., ... Abbott, T., ... James, D., ... Smith, R.C., ... Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 3047, “OzDES Multi‐fibre Spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: First-Year Operation and Results” Zemcov, M., et al. 2014, Sci, 346, 732, “On the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy” Zhou, Z.-M., Cao, C., Wu, H. 2015, AJ, 149, 1, “Star Formation Properties in Barred Galaxies. III. Statistical Study of Bar‐Driven Secular Evolution Using a Sample of Nearby Barred Spirals” Zhu, W., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 8, “Spitzer as a Microlens Parallax Satellite: Mass and Distance Measurements of the Binary Lens System OGLE-2014-BLG-1050L” Ziegler, C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 30, “Multiplicity of the Galactic Senior Citizens: A High-Resolution Search for Cool Subdwarf Companions”

D.2 TELESCOPES AT KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY During FY15 (Oct. 2014–Sept. 2015), 177 publications used data taken at the KPNO telescopes (includes the Mayall, WIYN,♠1.2-m, and others) for which NOAO allocates observing time:

Adams, E.A.K., et al. 2015, A&A, 573, L3, “AGC198606: A Gas-Bearing Dark Matter Minihalo?” Adams, E.A.K., et al. 2015, A&A, 580, A134, “AGC 226067: A Possible Interacting Low-Mass System” A’Hearn, M.F., Krishna Swamy, K.S., Wellnitz, D.D., Meier, R. 2015, AJ, 150, 5, “Prompt Emission by OH in Comet Hyakutake” Aird, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 1892, “The Evolution of the X-ray Luminosity Functions of Unabsorbed and Absorbed AGNs out to z~5” An, D., Terndrup, D.M., Pinsonneault, M.H., Lee, J.-W. 2015, ApJ, 811, 46, “The Distances to Open Clusters from Main-Sequence Fitting. V. Extension of Color Calibration and Test Using Cool and Metal-Rich Stars in NGC 6791” Assef, R.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 27, “Half of the Most Luminous Quasars May Be Obscured: Investigating the Nature of WISE-Selected Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies” Bally, J., … Probst, R., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 120, “Outflows, Dusty Cores, and a Burst of Star Formation in the North America and Pelican Nebulae” Boberg, O.M., Friel, E.D., Vesperini, E. 2015, ApJ, 804, 109, “Chemical Abundances in NGC 5053: A Very Metal-Poor and Dynamically Complex Globular Cluster” Boquien, M., et al., 2015, A&A, 578, A8, “Measuring Star Formation with Resolved Observations: The Test Case of M 33”

♠ Data may have resulted from time allocated by other than the NOAO TAC.

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Borkovits, T., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 3068, “HD 183648: A Kepler Eclipsing Binary with Anomalous Ellipsoidal Variations and a Pulsating Component” Bouwens, R.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 34, “UV Luminosity Functions at Redshifts z ∼ 4 to z ∼ 10: 10,000 Galaxies from HST Legacy Fields” Bouy, H., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A120, “Messier 35 (NGC2168) DANCe I. Membership, Proper Motions and Multi-wavelength Photometry” Bowler, B.P., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 62, "Planets around Low-Mass Stars (PALMS). V. Age-Dating Low- Mass Companions to Members and Interlopers of Young Moving Groups" Bragaglia, A., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 68, "Searching for Chemical Signatures of Multiple Stellar Populations in the Old, Massive Open Cluster NGC 6791" Bruno, G., et al. 2015, A&A, 573, A124, "SOPHIE Velocimetry of Kepler Transit Candidates XIV. A Joint Photometric, Spectroscopic, and Dynamical Analysis of the Kepler-117 System" Burgasser, A.J., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 104, “WISE J072003.20-084651.2: An Old and Active M9.5 + T5 Spectral Binary 6 pc from the Sun” Burggraf, B., et al. 2015, A&A, 581, A12, "Var C: Long-Term Photometric and Spectral Variability of a Luminous Blue Variable in M 33" Çakırlı, Ö. 2015, NewA, 35, 71, “The Early B-type Eclipsing Binary GT Cephei: A Massive Triple System?” Cales, S.L., Brotherton, M.S. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 2374, “Post-Starburst Quasars: Bridging the Gap between Post-Starburst Galaxies and Quasars” Capellupo, D.M., Hamann, F., Barlow, T.A. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 1893, “A Variable P v Broad Absorption Line and Quasar Outflow Energetics” Casey, C.M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 95, “Are Dusty Galaxies Blue? Insights on UV Attenuation from Dust- Selected Galaxies” Cauley, P.W., Johns-Krull, C.M. 2014, ApJ, 797, 112, “Diagnosing Mass Flows around Herbig Ae/Be Stars Using the He I λ 10830 Line” Chen, C.-T.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 50, “A Connection between Obscuration and Star Formation in Luminous Quasars” Choi, Y., et al. 2015, ApJ, 810, 9, “Testing Density Wave Theory with Resolved Stellar Populations around Spiral Arms in M81” Corbelli, E., et al. 2014, A&A, 572, A23, “Dynamical Signatures of a ΛCDM-halo and the Distribution of the Baryons in M 33” Cordero, M.J., Pilachowski, C.A., Johnson, C.I., Vesperini, E. 2015, ApJ, 800, 3, “Light-Element Abundances of Giant Stars in the Globular Cluster M71 (NGC 6838) Cortés, J.R., Kenney, J.D.P., Hardy, E. 2015, ApJS, 216, 9, “Integral-Field Stellar and Ionized Gas Kinematics of Peculiar Virgo Cluster Spiral Galaxies” Cunha, K., Smith, V.V., et al., 2015, ApJL, 798, L41, “Sodium and Oxygen Abundances in the Open Cluster NGC 6791 from APOGEE H-band Spectroscopy” Dahm, S.E., Hillenbrand, L.A. 2015, AJ, 149, 200, “An Optical Survey of the Partially Embedded Young Cluster in NGC 7129” Darvish, B., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 121, “A Comparative Study of Density Field Estimation for Galaxies: New Insights into the Evolution of Galaxies with Environment in COSMOS out to z˜3” Davis, B.L., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 13, “A Fundamental Plane of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies” de los Reyes, M.A. 2015, AJ, 149, 79, “The Relationship between Stellar Mass, Gas Metallicity, and Star Formation Rate for Hα-selected Galaxies at z ≈ 0.8 from the New Hα Survey” De Marco, O., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 3587, “Identifying Close Binary Central Stars of PN with Kepler” de Meulenaer, P., Narbutis, D., Mineikis, T., Vansevičius, V. 2015, A&A, 581, A111, “Deriving Physical Parameters of Unresolved Star Clusters. IV. The M 33 Star Cluster System” Deason, A.J., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 3975, “TriAnd and Its Siblings: Satellites of Satellites in the Milky Way Halo”

124 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Denney, K.D., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 134, “The Typecasting of Active Galactic Nuclei: Mrk 590 No Longer Fits the Role” Dolley, T., … Dey, A., Atlee, D.W., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 125, “The Clustering and Halo Masses of Star- Forming Galaxies at z < 1” Donati, P., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 1411, “The Old, Metal-Poor, Anticentre Open Cluster Trumpler 5” Douchin, D., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 3132, “The Binary Fraction of Planetary Nebula Central Stars—II. A Larger Sample and Improved Technique for the Infrared Excess Search” Douglas, S.T., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 161, “The Factory and the Beehive. II. Activity and Rotation in Praesepe and the Hyades” Endl, M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 151, “Kepler-424 b: A ‘Lonely’ Hot Jupiter that Found a Companion” Erickson, K.L., et al. 2015, AJ, 149,103, “An Optical Spectroscopic Survey of the Serpens Main Cluster: Evidence for Two Populations?” Erwin, P., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 4039, “Composite Bulges: The Coexistence of Classical Bulges and Discy Pseudo-bulges in S0 and Spiral Galaxies” Everett, M.E., … Silva, D.R. 2015, AJ, 149, 55, “High-Resolution Multi-band Imaging for Validation and Characterization of Small Kepler Planets” Fasano, G., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 3927, “Morphological Fractions of Galaxies in WINGS Clusters: Revisiting the Morphology-Density Paradigm” Fekel, F.C. 2015, AJ, 149, 83, “HD 207651: A Composite Spectrum Triple System” Fekel, F.C., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 63, “New Precision Orbits of Bright Double-Lined Spectroscopic Binaries. IX. HD 54371, HR 2692, and 16 Ursa Majoris” Fekel, F.C., Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., Wood, P.R. 2015, AJ, 150, 48, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Symbiotic Stars. X. Orbits for Three S-type Systems: V1044 Centauri, Hen 3-1213, and SS 73-96” Filippazzo, J.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 810, 158, “Fundamental Parameters and Spectral Energy Distributions of Young and Field Age Objects with Masses Spanning the Stellar to Planetary Regime” Foster, H.M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 94, “The Discovery of Differential Radial Rotation in the Pulsating Subdwarf B Star KIC 3527751” Franck, J.R., McGaugh, S.S., Schombert, J.M. 2015, AJ, 150, 46, "Three Candidate Clusters around High Redshift Radio-Loud Sources: MG1 J04426+0202, 3C 068.2, and MS 1426.9+1052" Freeman, M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 99, “The Chandra Planetary Nebula Survey (CHANPLANS). II. X-ray Emission from Compact Planetary Nebulae” Geller, A.M., Latham, D.W., Mathieu, R.D. 2015, AJ, 150, 97, “Stellar Radial Velocities in the Old Open Cluster M67 (NGC 2682). I. Memberships, Binaries, and Kinematics” Gilbert, K.M., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 76, “Global Properties of M31's Stellar Halo from the SPLASH Survey. II. Metallicity Profile” Gizis, J.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 203, “WISEP J004701.06+680352.1: An Intermediate Surface Gravity, Dusty Brown Dwarf in the AB Dor Moving Group” Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y., et al. 2014, A&A, 572, A50, “The EBLM Project. II. A Very Hot, Low-Mass M Dwarf in an Eccentric and Long-Period, Eclipsing Binary System from the SuperWASP Survey” Granata, V., et al. 2014, AN, 335, 797, “TASTE IV: Refining Ephemeris and Orbital Parameters for HAT- P-20b and WASP-1b” Haines, C.P., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 101, “LoCuSS: The Slow Quenching of Star Formation in Cluster Galaxies and the Need for Pre-processing” Haines, T., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 4952, “Testing the Modern Merger Hypothesis via the Assembly of Massive Blue Elliptical Galaxies in the Local Universe” Hallenbeck, G., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 69, “HighMass—High H I Mass, H I-rich Galaxies at z ~ 0 High- Resolution VLA Imaging of UGC 9037 and UGC 12506” Hansen, T., et al. 2015, ApJ, 807, 173, “An Elemental Assay of Very, Extremely, and Ultra-metal-poor Stars”

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Hargis, J.R., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 62, "Globular Cluster Systems and Their Host Galaxies: Comparison of Spatial Distributions and Colors" Harrison, T.E., Campbell, R.K. 2015, ApJS, 219, 32, “The WISE Light Curves of Polars” Haurberg, N.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 121, “Oxygen Abundance Measurements of SHIELD Galaxies” Heinze, A.N., Metchev, S., Kellogg, K. 2015, ApJ, 801, 104, “Weather on Other Worlds. III. A Survey for T Dwarfs with High Amplitude Optical Variability” Hills, S., von Hippel, T., Courteau, S., Geller, A.M. 2015, AJ, 149, 94, “Bayesian Investigation of Isochrone Consistency Using the Old Open Cluster NGC 188” Hoffmann, S.L., Macri, L.M. 2015, AJ, 149, 183, “Cepheid Variables in the Maser-Host Galaxy NGC 4258” Horch, E.P., Howell, S.B., Everett, M.E., Ciardi, D.R. 2014, ApJ, 795, 60, “Most Sub-arcsecond Companions of Kepler Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars Are Gravitationally Bound” Horch, E. P., … Everett, M., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 151, “Observations of Binary Stars with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument. V. Toward an Empirical Metal-Poor Mass-Luminosity Relation” Humphreys, R.M., Martin, J.C., Gordon, M.S. 2015, PASP, 127, 347, “A New Luminous Blue Variable in M31” Jaffé, Y.L., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1715, “BUDHIES II: A Phase-Space View of HI Gas Stripping and Star-Formation Quenching in Cluster Galaxies” Janesh, W., et al. 2015, ApJ, 811, 35, "Searching for Optical Counterparts to Ultra-compact High Velocity Clouds: Possible Detection of a Counterpart to AGC 198606" Janowiecki, S., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 96, “(Almost) Dark HI Sources in the ALFALFA Survey: The Intriguing Case of HI1232+20” Janowiecki, S., Salzer, J. J. 2014, ApJ, 793, 109, "The Unique Structural Parameters of the Underlying Host Galaxies in Blue Compact Dwarfs" Jaskot, A.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 66, “From H I to Stars: H I Depletion in Starbursts and Star-Forming Galaxies in the ALFALFA Hα Survey” Jeon, Y., et al. 2014, ApJS, 214, 20, “J- and H-band Imaging of AKARI North Ecliptic Pole Survey Field” Jiang, L., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 188, “Discovery of Eight z ~ 6 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Overlap Regions” Johnson, M.C., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 196, “The Shape of LITTLE THINGS Dwarf Galaxies DDO 46 and DDO 168: Understanding the Stellar and Gas Kinematics” Kapala, M.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 798, 24, “The Survey of Lines in M31 (SLIM): Investigating the Origins of [C II] Emission” Kawka, A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 3514, “New Binaries among UV-selected, Hot Subdwarf Stars and Population Properties” Keel, W.C., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 155, “HST Imaging of Fading AGN Candidates. I. Host-Galaxy Properties and Origin of the Extended Gas” Kelly, P.L., et al. 2015, Sci, 347, 1459, "Distances with <4% Precision from Type Ia Supernovae in Young Star-Forming Environments" Knight, M.M., Mueller, B.E.A., Samarasinha, N.H., Schleicher, D.G., 2015, AJ, 150, 22, “A Further Investigation of Apparent Periodicities and the Rotational State of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 from Combined Coma Morphology and Lightcurve Datasets” Krumpe, M., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 911, “Chandra Survey in the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole Deep Field—I. X-ray Data, Point-Like Source Catalogue, Sensitivity Maps, and Number Counts” Lacki, B.C. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 1858, “On the Use of Cherenkov Telescopes for Outer Solar System Body Occultations” Lauer, T.R., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 82, “Brightest Cluster Galaxies at the Present Epoch” Leahy, D.A., Abdallah, M.H. 2014, ApJ, 793, 79, “HZ Her: Stellar Radius from X-ray Eclipse Observations, Evolutionary State, and a New Distance”

126 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Lebzelter, T., ... Hinkle, K., et al. 2015, A&A, 578, A33, “Oxygen Isotopic Ratios in Intermediate-Mass Red Giants” Lee-Brown, D.B., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 21, “Spectroscopic Abundances in the Open Cluster, NGC 6819” Lee, C.-H., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 22, “Properties of M31. V. 298 Eclipsing Binaries from Pandromeda” Lee, K.-S., Dey, A., Hong, S., … Inami, H., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 126, “Discovery of a Very Large Structure at z = 3.78” Leiner, E.M., Mathieu, R.D., Gosnell, N.M., Geller, A.M. 2015, AJ, 150, 10, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. LXVI. Spectroscopic Binary Orbits in the Young Open Cluster M35” Leja, J., van Dokkum, P.G., Franx, M., Whitaker, K.E. 2015, ApJ, 798, 115, “Reconciling the Observed Star-Forming Sequence with the Observed Stellar Mass Function” Lim, S., Lee, M.G., 2015, ApJ, 804, 123, “The Star Cluster System in the Local Group Starburst Galaxy IC 10” Limoges, M.-M., Bergeron, P., Lépine, S. 2015, ApJS, 219, 19, “Physical Properties of the Current Census of Northern White Dwarfs within 40 pc of the Sun” Luchsinger, K.M., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 87, “The Host Galaxies of Micro-Jansky Radio Sources” Lurie, J.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 95, “Kepler Flares III: Stellar Activity on GJ 1245A and B” Maguire, K., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 3258, “Exploring the Spectral Diversity of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using the Palomar Transient Factory” Malyuto, V., Zubarev, S., Shvelidze, T. 2014, AN, 335, 850, "Homogenized Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram for the Open Cluster NGC 188" Marchesini, D., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 65, “The Progenitors of Local Ultra-massive Galaxies across Cosmic Time: From Dusty Star-Bursting to Quiescent Stellar Populations” Marsan, Z.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 133, “Spectroscopic Confirmation of an Ultra Massive and Compact Galaxy at z = 3.35: A Detailed Look at an Early Progenitor of Local Giant Ellipticals” Martinet, N., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A116, “The Evolution of the Cluster Optical Galaxy Luminosity Function between z=0.4 and 0.9 in the DAFT/FADA Survey” Martinez-Manso, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 169, “The Spitzer South Pole Telescope Deep-Field Survey: Linking Galaxies and Haloes at z = 1.5” Massaro, F., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A124, “Optical Spectroscopic Observations of γ-ray Blazar Candidates. II. The 2013 KPNO Campaign in the Northern Hemisphere” Matson, R.A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 155, “HST/COS Detection of the Spectrum of the Subdwarf Companion of KOI-81” McEvoy, C.M., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 1396, “Early-Type Stars Observed in the ESO UVES Paranal Observatory Project—V. Time-Variable Interstellar Absorption” Meibom, S., et al. 2015, Natur, 517, 589, “A Spin-Down Clock for Cool Stars from Observations of a 2.5- Billion-Year-Old Cluster” Miettinen, O., … Kartaltepe, J.S., et al. 2015, A&A, 577, A29, “(Sub)millimetre Interferometric Imaging of a Sample of COSMOS/AzTEC Submillimetre Galaxies—I. Multiwavelength Identifications and Redshift Distribution” Mikołajewska, J., Caldwell, N., Shara, M.M., Iłkiewicz, K. 2015, ApJL, 799, L16, “Characterization of the Most Luminous Star in M33: A Super Symbiotic Binary” Mikołajewska, J., Caldwell, N., Shara, M.M. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 586, “First Detection and Characterization of Symbiotic Stars in M31” Milliman, K.E., Mathieu, R., Schuler, S.C. 2015, AJ, 150, 84, “Barium Surface Abundances of Blue Stragglers in the Open Cluster NGC 6819” Momcheva, I., et al. 2015, ApJS, 219, 29, “A Spectroscopic Survey of the Fields of 28 Strong Gravitational Lenses: The Redshift Catalog” Montiel, E.J., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 57, “The Identification of Extreme Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars and Red Supergiants in M33 by 24µm Variability”

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Mourard, D., … Ridgway, S.T., et al. 2015, A&A, 577, A51, “Spectral and Spatial Imaging of the Be+sdO Binary φ Persei” Mudd, D., Stanek, K.Z. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 3811, "GALEX Catalogue of UV Point Sources in M33" Mulroy, S.L., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 3309, “LoCuSS: The Near-Infrared Luminosity and Weak- Lensing Mass Scaling Relation of Galaxy Clusters” Muñoz, J.A., Peeples, M.S. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1430, “A Framework for Empirical Galaxy Phenomenology: The Scatter in Galaxy Ages and Stellar Metallicities” Nandra, K., ... Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, ApJS, 220, 10, "AEGIS-X: Deep Chandra Imaging of the Central Groth Strip" Ngo, H., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 138, “Friends of Hot Jupiters. II. No Correspondence between Hot-Jupiter Spin-Orbit Misalignment and the Incidence of Directly Imaged Stellar Companions” Oman, K.A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 3650, "The Unexpected Diversity of Dwarf Galaxy Rotation Curves” Overbeek, J. C., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 177, “Erratum: ‘NGC 7789: An Open Cluster Case Study’" Overbeek, J.C., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 15, “NGC 7789: An Open Cluster Case Study” Pagnotta, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 811, 32, “The 2010 Eruption of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpii: The Multi- wavelength Light Curve” Pan, Y.-C., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 354, “Type Ia Supernova Spectral Features in the Context of Their Host Galaxy Properties” Pannella, M., ... Dickinson, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 807, 141, “GOODS-Herschel: Star Formation, Dust Attenuation, and the FIR-radio Correlation on the Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies up to z≃4” Peterson, R.C., Kurucz, R.L. 2015, ApJS, 216, 1, "New Fe I Level Energies and Line Identifications from Stellar Spectra" Pike, R.E., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 202, “The 5:1 Neptune Resonance as Probed by CFEPS: Dynamics and Population” Pilachowski, C.A., Pace, C. 2015, AJ, 150, 66, “The Abundance of Fluorine in Normal G and K Stars of the Galactic Thin Disk” Quinn, S.M., … Everett, M.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 49,“KOI-1299: A Red Giant Interacting with One of Its Two Long Period Giant Planets” Ricci, F., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 160, “Optical Spectroscopic Observations of γ-ray Blazar Candidates IV. Results of the 2014 Follow-up Campaign” Richards, E.E., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 3981, “Baryonic Distributions in the Dark Matter Halo of NGC5005” Riddle, R.L., Tokovinin, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 4, “A Survey of the High Order Multiplicity of Nearby Solar-Type Binary Stars with Robo-AO” Riguccini, L., ... Kartaltepe, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 470, “The Composite Nature of Dust-Obscured Galaxies (DOGs) at z~2-3 in the COSMOS Field: I. A Far-Infrared View” Roche, N., Humphrey, A., Binette, L. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 3795, "Spectroscopy of 7 Radio-Loud QSOs at 2 < z < 6: Giant Lyma α Emission Nebulae Accreting on to Host Galaxies" Rubin, K.H.R., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 38, “Dissecting the Gaseous Halos of z ∼ Damped Lyα Systems with Close Quasar Pairs” Sabin, L., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 3388, “First Release of the IPHAS Catalogue of New Extended Planetary Nebulae” Safron, E.J., … Allen, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJL, 800, L5, “HOPS 383: An Outbursting Class 0 Protostar in Orion” Sandberg Lacy, C.H., Fekel, F.C. 2014, AJ, 148, 71, "Absolute Properties of the Eclipsing Binary Star v501 Herculis" Sandberg, A., et al. 2015, A&A, 580, A91,“Trident: A Three-Pronged Galaxy Survey. I. Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at z~2 in GOODS North"

128 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Schechtman-Rook, A., Bershady, M.A. 2014, ApJ, 795, 136, “Near-Infrared Structure of Fast and Slow- Rotating Disk Galaxies” Scheirich, P., et al. 2015, Icar, 245, 56, “The Binary Near-Earth Asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3—An Observational Constraint on Its Orbital Evolution” Schlaufman, K.C., Casey, A.R. 2014, ApJ, 797, 13, “The Best and Brightest Metal-Poor Stars” Schombert, J., McGaugh, S. 2015, AJ, 150, 72, “Stellar Populations and the Star Formation Histories of LSB Galaxies. V. WFC3 Color–Magnitude Diagrams” Sell, P.H., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 3579, “Shell-Shocked: The Interstellar Medium near Cygnus X-1” Shen, Y., et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 4, “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Technical Overview” Shimizu, T.T., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 1841, “Decreased Specific Star Formation Rates in AGN Host Galaxies” Siegel, M.H., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 131, “The Swift UVOT Stars Survey. I. Methods and Test Clusters” Sifón, C., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A48, “Constraints on the Alignment of Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters from ~14 000 Spectroscopic Members” Skelton, R.E., et al. 2014, ApJS, 214, 24, “3D-HST WFC3-selected Photometric Catalogs in the Five CANDELS/3D-HST Fields: Photometry, Photometric Redshifts, and Stellar Masses” Speagle, J.S., Steinhardt, C.L., Capak, P.L., Silverman, J.D. 2014, ApJS, 214, 15, “A Highly Consistent Framework for the Evolution of the Star-Forming ‘Main Sequence’ from z ~ 0–6” Szkody, P., Everett, M.E., Howell, S.B., . . . Silva, D.R., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 63, “Follow up Observations of SDSS and CRTS Candidate Cataclysmic Variables” Tanaka, M. 2015, ApJ, 801, 20, "Photometric Redshift with Bayesian Priors on Physical Properties of Galaxies" Tang, B., Worthey, G., Davis, A.B. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 1538, “Composite Stellar Populations and Element by Element Abundances in the Milky Way Bulge and Elliptical Galaxies” Thompson, B., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 85, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. LXII. Comparison of Isochrone Systems Using Deep Multi-band Photometry of M35” Tofflemire, B.M., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 61, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. LIX. Radial Velocity Membership of the Evolved Population of the Old Open Cluster NGC 6791" Tollerud, E.J., et al. 2015, ApJL, 798, L21, “Two Local Volume Dwarf Galaxies Discovered in 21 cm Emission: Pisces A and B” Torres, G., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 31, “The G+M Eclipsing Binary V530 Orionis: A Stringent Test of Magnetic Stellar Evolution Models for Low-Mass Stars” Tremblay, G. R., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 3768, “Far Ultraviolet Morphology of Star Forming Filaments in Cool Core Brightest Cluster Galaxies” Ural, U., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 761, “An Inefficient Dwarf: Chemical Abundances and the Evolution of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy” Vaccaro, T.R., Wilson, R.E., Van Hamme, W., Terrell, D. 2015, ApJ, 810, 157, “The V471 Tauri System: A Multi-data-type Probe” Vajgel, B., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 88, “X-ray-selected Galaxy Groups in Boötes” van de Sande, J., et al. 2014, ApJL, 793, L31, “The Fundamental Plane of Massive Quiescent Galaxies Out to z ~ 2” Van Eylen, V., Albrecht, S. 2015, ApJ, 808, 126, “Eccentricity from Transit Photometry: Small Planets in Kepler Multi-planet Systems Have Low Eccentricities” van Weeren, R.J., et al. 2014, ApJ, 793, 82, “LOFAR Low-Band Antenna Observations of the 3C 295 and Boötes Fields: Source Counts and Ultra-steep Spectrum Sources” Veljanoski, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 320, “The Globular Cluster System of NGC 6822” Vida, K., et al. 2015, A&A, 580, A64, "Study of FK Comae Berenices. VII. Correlating Photospheric and Chromospheric Activity" Vijayaraghavan, R., Gallagher, J.S., Ricker, P.M. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 3623, “The Dynamical Origin of

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Early-Type Dwarfs in Galaxy Clusters: A Theoretical Investigation” Vučetić, M.M., Arbutina, B., Urošević, D. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 943, “Optical Supernova Remnants in Nearby Galaxies and Their Influence on Star Formation Rates Derived from Hα Emission” Wagner, C.R., … Dey, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 107, “Star Formation in High-Redshift Cluster Ellipticals” Walker, M.G., Olszewski, E.W., Mateo, M. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 2717, “Bayesian Analysis of Resolved Stellar Spectra: Application to MMT/Hectochelle Observations of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal” Wang, J., Fischer, D.A., Horch, E.P., Xie, J.-W. 2015, ApJ, 806, 248, “Influence of Stellar Multiplicity On Planet Formation. III. Adaptive Optics Imaging of Kepler Stars With Gas Giant Planets” Welsh, W.F., et al. 2015, ApJ, 809, 26, “Kepler 453 b—The 10th Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet” Whitaker, K.E., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 104, “Constraining the Low-Mass Slope of the Star Formation Sequence at 0.5 < z < 2.5” Zamora, O., … Smith, V.V., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 181, “New H-band Stellar Spectral Libraries for the SDSS-III/APOGEE Survey” Zeimann, G.R., et al. 2015, ApJ, 798, 29, “Hubble Space Telescope Emission-Line Galaxies at z ~ 2: The Mystery of Neon” Zemcov, M., et al. 2014, Sci, 346, 732, “On the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy” Zhou, Z.-M., Cao, C., Wu, H. 2015, AJ, 149, 1, “Star Formation Properties in Barred Galaxies. III. Statistical Study of Bar-Driven Secular Evolution Using a Sample of Nearby Barred Spirals”

D.3 GEMINI TELESCOPES During FY15 (Oct. 2014–Sept. 2015), 98 publications used data taken at the Gemini telescopes:

Arabsalmani, M., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 990, “On the Mass-Metallicity Relation, Velocity Dispersion, and Gravitational Well Depth of GRB Host Galaxies” Bally, J., Ginsburg, A., Silvia, D., Youngblood, A. 2015, A&A, 579, A130, “The Orion Fingers: Near-IR Adaptive Optics Imaging of an Explosive Protostellar Outflow” Beauvalet, L., Marchis, F. 2014, Icar, 241, 13, “Multiple Asteroid Systems (45) Eugenia and (87) Sylvia: Sensitivity to External and Internal Perturbations” Biller, B.A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 4446, “The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: Asymmetries in the HD 141569 Disc” Blair, W.P., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 118, “A Newly Recognized Very Young Supernova Remnant in M83” Bleem, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 27, “Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in the 2500-Square-Degree SPT-SZ Survey” Bocquet, S., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 214, “Mass Calibration and Cosmological Analysis of the SPT-SZ

Galaxy Cluster Sample Using Velocity Dispersion σv and X-ray Yx Measurements” Bowler, B.P., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 62, “Planets around Low-Mass Stars (Palms). V. Age-Dating Low- Mass Companions to Members and Interlopers of Young Moving Groups” Brandt, T.D., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 159, “A Statistical Analysis of Seeds and Other High-Contrast Exoplanet Surveys: Massive Planets or Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs?” Breedt, E., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 3174, “1000 Cataclysmic Variables from the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey” Brodwin, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 26, “The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. III. Sunyaev- Zel’dovich Masses of Galaxy Clusters at z ~ 1” Casey, A.R., Schlaufman, K.C. 2015, ApJ, 809, 110, “Chemistry of the Most Metal-Poor Stars in the Bulge and the z ≳ 10 Universe” Cauley, P.W., Johns-Krull, C.M. 2014, ApJ, 797, 112, “Diagnosing Mass Flows around Herbig Ae/Be Stars Using the HE I λ 10830 Line” Chiang, P., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 522, “Searching for T Dwarfs in the ρ Oph Dark Cloud L 1688”

130 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Collinson, J.S., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 2174, “Reaching the Peak of the Quasar Spectral Energy Distribution—I. Observations and Models” Contini, M. 2014, A&A, 572, A65, “Activity and Quiescence in Galaxies at Redshifts 1.4 < z < 3.5. The Role of the Starburst Temperature” Cooke, E.A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 2318, “The Formation History of Massive Cluster Galaxies as Revealed by CARLA” Crighton, N.H.M., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 217, “The Neutral Hydrogen Cosmological Mass Density at z = 5” Cucchiara, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 51, “Unveiling the Secrets of Metallicity and Massive Star Formation Using DLAs along Gamma-ray Bursts” Davidson, K., et al. 2015, ApJL, 801, L15, “Eta Carinae’s 2014.6 Spectroscopic Event: The Extraordinary

HeII and NII Features” de Jaeger, T., et al. 2015, ApJ, 807, 63, “SN 2011A: A Low-Luminosity Interacting Transient with a Double Plateau and Strong Sodium Absorption” de Kleer, K., de Pater, I., Davies, A.G., Ádámkovics, M. 2014, Icar, 242, 352, “Near-Infrared Monitoring of Io and Detection of a Violent Outburst on 29 August 2013” De Marco, O., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 3587, “Identifying Close Binary Central Stars of PN with Kepler” de Pater, I., Davies, A.G., Ádámkovics, M., Ciardi, D.R. 2014, Icar, 242, 365, “Two New, Rare, High- Effusion Outburst Eruptions at Rarog and Heno Paterae on Io” de Pater, I., et al. 2014, Icar, 242, 379, “Global Near-IR Maps from Gemini-N and Keck in 2010, with a Special Focus on Janus Patera and Kanehekili Fluctus” De Rosa, R.J., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 3694, “The VAST Survey—IV. A Wide Brown Dwarf Companion to the A3V Delphini” Den Brok, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 809, 101, “Measuring the Mass of the Central Black Hole in the Bulgeless Galaxy NGC 4395 from Gas Dynamical Modeling” Do, T., et al. 2015, ApJ, 809, 143, “Discovery of Low-Metallicity Stars in the Central Parsec of the Milky Way” Dong, H., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 842, “Origins of Massive Field Stars in the Galactic Centre: A Spectroscopic Study” Drout, M.R., … Narayan, G., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 23, “Rapidly Evolving and Luminous Transients from Pan-STARRS1” Everett, M.E., … Silva, D.R. 2015, AJ, 149, 55, “High-Resolution Multi-band Imaging for Validation and Characterization of Small Kepler Planets” Fekel, F.C., Hinkle, K.H., Joyce, R.R., Wood, P.R. 2015, AJ, 150, 48, “Infrared Spectroscopy of Symbiotic Stars. X. Orbits for Three S-Type Systems: V1044 Centauri, Hen 3–1213, and SS 73–96” Fischer, T.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 234, “A Minor Merger Caught in the Act of Fueling the Active Galactic Nucleus in Mrk 509” Gałan, C., Mikołajewska, J., Hinkle, K. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 492, “Chemical Abundance Analysis of Symbiotic Giants—II. AE Ara, BX Mon, KX TrA, and CL Sco” Garcia-Bernete, I., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 1309, “The Nuclear and Extended Infrared Emission of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 2992 and the Interacting System Arp 245” Gezari, S., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 28, “GALEX Detection of Shock Breakout in the Type IIP Supernova PS1-13arp: Implications for the Progenitor Star Wind” Gizis, J.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 203, “WISEP J004701.06+680352.1: An Intermediate Surface Gravity, Dusty Brown Dwarf in the AB DOR Moving Group” González-Martín, O., et al. 2015, A&A, 578, A74, “Nuclear Obscuration in LINERs. Clues from Spitzer/IRS Spectra on the Compton Thickness and the Existence of the Dusty Torus” Greiner, J., et al. 2015, Natur, 523, 189, “A Very Luminous Magnetar-Powered Supernova Associated with an Ultra-long γ-ray Burst”

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Grundy, W.M., et al. 2015, Icar, 257, 130, “The Mutal Orbit, Mass, and Density of the Large Transneptunian Binary System Varda and Ilmarë” Guérou, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 70, “The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XII. Stellar Populations and Kinematics of Compact, Low-Mass Early-Type Galaxies from Gemini GMOS-IFU Spectroscopy” Hennawi, J.F., Prochaska, J.X., Cantalupo, S., Arrigoni-Battaia, F. 2015, Sci, 348, 6236, “Quasar Quartet Embedded in Giant Nebula Reveals Rare Massive Structure in Distant Universe” Hoffmann, S.L., Macri, L.M. 2015, AJ, 149, 183, “Cepheid Variables in the Master-Host Galaxy NGC 4258” Horch, E.P., Howell, S.B., Everett, M.E., Ciardi, D.R. 2014, ApJ, 795, 60, “Most Sub-arcsecond Companions of Kepler Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars Are Gravitationally Bound” Horch, E.P., … Everett, M.E., et al. 2015, AJ 149, 151, “Observations of Binary Stars with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument. V. Toward an Empirical Metal-Poor Mass-Luminosity Relation” Hrivnak, B.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 78, “Variability in Proto-planetary Nebulae. III. Light Curve Studies of Magellanic Cloud Carbon-Rich Objects” Hsiao, E.Y., et al. 2015, A&A, 578, A9, “Strong Near-Infrared Carbon in the Type Ia Supernova iPTF13ebh” Hung, L.-W., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 138, “Discovery of Resolved Debris Disk around HD 131835” Ichikawa, K., et al. 2015, ApJ, 803, 57, “The Differences in the Torus Geometry between Hidden and Non- hidden Broad Line Active Galactic Nuclei” Janson, M., et al. 2014, ApJS, 214, 17, “Orbital Monitoring of the AstraLux Large M-Dwarf Multiplicity Sample” Jørgensen, I., … Bergmann, M., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 117, “RX J0848.6+4453: The Evolution of Galaxy Sizes and Stellar Populations in a z = 1.27 Cluster” Kilic, M., Hermes, J.J., Gianninas, A., Brown, W.R. 2015, MNRASL, 446, L26, “PSR J1738+0333: The First Millisecond Pulsar + Pulsating White Dwarf Binary” Leggett, S.K., Morley, C.V., Marley, M.S., Saumon, D. 2015, ApJ, 799, 37, “Near-Infrared Photometry of Y Dwarfs: Low Ammonia Abundance and the Onset of Water Clouds” Leloudas, G., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 917, “Spectroscopy of Superluminous Supernova Host Galaxies. A Preference of Hydrogen-Poor Events for Extreme Emission Line Galaxies” Li, B., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 133, “A Gemini/GMOS Study of Intermediate Luminosity Early-Type Virgo Cluster Galaxies. I. Globular Cluster and Stellar Kinematics” Li, D., Mariñas, N., Telesco, C.M. 2014, ApJ, 796, 74, “The Immediate Environments of Two Herbig be Stars: MWC 1080 and HD 259431” Loebman, S.R., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 17, “The Continued Optical to Mid-infrared Evolution of V838 Monocerotis” Maguire, K., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 3258, “Exploring the Spectral Diversity of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using the Palomar Transient Factory” Mason, R.E., et al. 2015, ApJS, 217, 13, “The Nuclear Near-Infrared Spectral Properties of Nearby Galaxies” Millar-Blanchaer, M.A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 811, 18, “β Pictoris’ Inner Disk in Polarized Light and New Orbital Parameters for β Pictoris b” Muzzin, A., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 65, “The Phase Space and Stellar Populations of Cluster Galaxies at z ~ 1: Simultaneous Constraints on the Location and Timescale of Satellite Quenching” Nielsen, E.L., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 158, “The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Orbit of the Young Exoplanet β Pictoris b” Ohyama, Y., Terashima, Y., Sakamoto, K. 2015 ApJ, 805, 162, “Infrared and X-ray Evidence of an AGN in the NGC 3256 Southern Nucleus” Olling, R.P., et al. 2015, Natur, 521, 332, “No Signature of Ejecta Interaction with a Stellar Companion in Three Type Ia Supernovae”

132 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Pagnotta, A., Schaefer, B.E. 2015, ApJ, 799, 101, “Investigation of the Progenitors of the Type Ia Supernovae Associated with the LMC Supernova Remnants 0505–67.9 and 0509–68.7” Pan, Y.-C., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 354, “Type Ia Supernova Spectral Features in the Context of Their Host Galaxy Properties” Pinfield, D.J., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 1931, “Discovery of a New Y Dwarf: WISE J030449.03– 270508.3” Pota, V., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 1962, “A SLUGGS and Gemini/GMOS Combined Study of the Elliptical Galaxy M60: Wide-Field Photometry and Kinematics of the Globular Cluster System” Reiter, M., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 3429, “Disentangling the Outflow and Protostars in HH 900 in the Carina Nebula” Rest, A., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 44, “Cosmological Constraints from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae Discovered during the First 1.5 yr of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey” Ricci, T.V., Steiner, J.E., Giansante, L. 2015, A&A, 576, A58, “A Hot Bubble at the Centre of M81” Riffel, R., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 3069, “The Stellar Spectral Features of Nearby Galaxies in the Near Infrared: Tracers of Thermally Plusing Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars?” Riffel, R.A., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 2823, “Differences between CO- and Calcium Triplet-Derived Velocity Dispersions in Spiral Galaxies: Evidence for Central Star Formation?” Romani, R.W., Filippenko, A.V., Cenko, S.B. 2015, ApJ, 804, 115, “A Spectroscopic Study of the Extreme Black Widow PSR J1311–3430” Rubin, K.H.R., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 38, “Dissecting the Gaseous Halos of z ~ 2 Damped Lyα Systems with Close Quasar Pairs” Ruel, J., et al. 2014, ApJ, 792, 45, “Optical Spectroscopy and Velocity Dispersions of Galaxy Clusters from the SPT-SZ Survey”

Rupke, D.S.N., Veilleux, S. 2015, ApJ, 801, 126, “Spatially Extended NA I D Resonant Emission and Absorption in the Galactic Wind of the Nearby Infrared-Luminous Quasar F05189–2524” Saliwanchik, B.R., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 137, “Measurement of Galaxy Cluster Integrated Comptonization and Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope” Sanders, N.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 208, “Toward Characterization of the Type IIP Supernova Progenitor Population: A Statistical Sample of Light Curves from Pan-STARRS1” Schlaufman, K.C., Casey, A.R. 2014, ApJ, 797, 13, “The Best and Brightest Metal-Poor Stars” Scolnic, D., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 45, “Systematic Uncertainties Associated with the Cosmological Analysis of the First Pan-STARRS1 Type Ia Supernova Sample” Singer, L.P., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 52, “The Needle in the 100 deg2 Haystack: Uncovering Afterglows of Fermi GRBs with the Palomar Transient Factory” Slater, C.T., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 230, “A Deep Study of the Dwarf Satellites Andromeda XXVIII and Andromeda XXIX” Smith, N., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 1876, “PTF11iqb: Cool Supergiant Mass-Loss that Bridges the Gap between Type IIn and Normal Supernovae” Sromovsky, L.A., et al. 2015, Icar, 258, 192, “High S/N Keck and Gemini AO Imaging of Uranus during 2012–2014: New Cloud Patterns, Increasing Activity, and Improved Wind Measurements” Støstad, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 106, “Mapping the Outer Edge of the Young Stellar Cluster in the Galactic Center” Strader, J., Dupree, A.K., Smith, G.H. 2015, ApJ, 808, 124, “The 10830 Å Helium Line among Evolved Stars in the Globular Cluster M4” Torres, G., … Everett, M.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 99, “Validation of 12 Small Kepler Transiting Planets in the Habitable Zone” van de Sande, J., et al. 2014, ApJL, 793, L31, “The Fundamental Plane of Massive Quiescent Galaxies out to z ~ 2”

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van de Sande, J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 125, “The Relation between Dynamical Mass-to-Light Ratio and Color for Massive Quiescent Galaxies out to z ~ 2 and Comparison with Stellar Population Synthesis Models” Vergani, S.D., et al. 2015, A&A, 581, A102, “Are Long Gamma-ray Bursts Biased Tracers of Star Formation? Clues from the Host Galaxies of the Swift/BAT6 Complete Sample of LGRBs I. Stellar Mass at z < 1” Wahhaj, Z., et al. 2015, A&A, 581, A24, “Improving Signal-to-Noise in the Direct Imaging of Exoplanets and Circumstellar Disks with MLOCI” Walsh, J.L., et al. 2015, ApJ, 808, 183, “The Black Hole in the Compact, High-Dispersion Galaxy NGC 1271” Wang, W.-H., Kanekar, N., Prochaska, J.X. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 2832, “A Search for Hα Emission in High-Metallicity Damped Lyman α Systems at z ~ 2.4” Weidmann, W.A., Méndez, R.H., Gamen, R. 2015, A&A, 579, A86, “Improved Spectral Descriptions of Planetary Nebulae Central Stars” Worseck, G., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 1745, “The Giant Gemini GMOS Survey of zem > 4.4 Quasars—I. Measuring the Mean Free Path across Cosmic Time” Wu, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 1900, “Gemini Spectroscopy of Galactic Bulge Sources: A Population of Hidden Accreting Binaries Revealed?” Wu, X.-B., et al. 2015, Natur, 518, 7540, “An Ultraluminous Quasar with a Twelve-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole at Redshift 6.30”

D.4 W. M. KECK OBSERVATORY: KECK I AND II During FY15 (Oct. 2014–Sept. 2015), 5 publications used data taken at Keck telescopes as a result of available community-access time:

Cauley, P.W., et al. 2015, ApJ, 810, 13, “Optical Hydrogen Absorption Consistent with a Thin Bow Shock Leading the Hot Jupiter HD 189733b” Cooke, R.J., Pettini, M., Jorgenson, R.A. 2015, ApJ, 800, 12, “The Most Metal-Poor Damped Lyα Systems: An Insight into Dwarf Galaxies at High-Redshift” Fumagalli, M., et al. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 1282, "Directly Imaging Damped Lyα Galaxies at z > 2—II. Imaging and Spectroscopic Observations of 32 Quasar Fields” (NOAO-granted time: NOAO Prop. ID 2009A-0184; PI: J.M. O’Meara; Keck I+Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) Giguere, M.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 89, “Newly Discovered Planets Orbiting HD 5319, HD 11506, HD 75784 and HD 10442 from the N2K Consortium” (NOAO-granted time: NOAO Prop. IDs 2004A- 0008, 2004B-0016, 2006A-0012, 2006A-0103; PI: D. Fischer; Keck I) Marsan, Z.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 133, “Spectroscopic Confirmation of an Ultra Massive and Compact Galaxy at z = 3.35: A Detailed Look at an Early Progenitor of Local Giant Ellipticals”

D.5 HET AND MMT During FY15 (Oct. 2014–Sept. 2015), 1 publication used data taken at the HET and 4 used data taken at the MMT as a result of available community-access time:

Gizis, J.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 799, 203, “WISEP J004701.06+680352.1: An Intermediate Surface Gravity, Dusty Brown Dwarf in the AB Dor Moving Group” Hong, S., Dey, A., Prescott, M.K.M. 2014, PASP, 126, 1048, “On the Automated and Objective Detection of Emission Lines in Faint-Object Spectroscopy” Lamb, M.P., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 42, “Chemical Abundances in the Globular Clusters NGC 5024 and NGC 5466 from Optical and Infrared Spectroscopy”

134 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Li, B., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 133, “A Gemini/GMOS Study of Intermediate Luminosity Early-Type Virgo Cluster Galaxies. I. Globular Cluster and Stellar Kinematics” Zhang, H.-X., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 30, “The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. The Kinematics of Ultra-compact Dwarfs and Globular Clusters in M87”

D.6 MAGELLAN During FY15 (Oct. 2014–Sept. 2015), 1 publication used data taken at the Magellan telescopes as a result of available community-access time:

Azadi, M., et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 187, “PRIMUS: The Relationship between Star Formation and AGN Accretion”

D.7 AAT, CHARA, AND HALE During FY15 (Oct. 2014–Sept. 2015), 3 publications used data taken at the Anglo-Australian Telescope, CHARA interferometer, or Hale telescope as a result of available community-access time:

Kunder, A., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, ApJL, 808, L12, “A High-Velocity Bulge RR Lyrae Variable on a Halo-Like Orbit” Sexton, R.O., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 1047, "Extended Red Objects and Stellar-Wind Bow Shocks in the Carina Nebula” Yuan, F., … Abbott, T., … James, D., … Smith, R.C., … Walker, A.R., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 452, 3047, “OzDES Multi-fibre Spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: First-Year Operation and Results”

D.8 NOAO SCIENCE ARCHIVE Aird, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 1892, “The Evolution of the X-ray Luminosity Functions of Unabsorbed and Absorbed AGNs out to z~5” Bleem, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 20, “A New Reduction of the Blanco Cosmology Survey: An Optically Selected Galaxy Cluster Catalog and a Public Release of Optical Data Products” Bleem, L.E., et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 27, “Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 2500-Square-Degree SPT-SZ Survey” Bonifaco, P., et al. 2015, A&A, 579, L6, "Chemical Abundances of Giant Stars in the Crater Stellar System" Bouy, H., et al. 2015, A&A, 575, A120, “Messier 35 (NGC2168) DANCe I. Membership, Proper Motions and Multi-wavelength Photometry” Bragaglia, A., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 68, "Searching for Chemical Signatures of Multiple Stellar Populations in the Old, Massive Open Cluster NGC 6791" Burggraf, B., et al. 2015, A&A, 581, A12, "Var C: Long-Term Photometric and Spectral Variability of a Luminous Blue Variable in M 33" Çakırlı, Ö. 2015, NewA, 35, 71, “The Early B-type Eclipsing Binary GT Cephei: A Massive Triple System?” Chen, C.-T.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 50, “A Connection between Obscuration and Star Formation in Luminous Quasars” Corbelli, E., et al. 2014, A&A, 572, A23, “Dynamical Signatures of a ΛCDM-halo and the Distribution of the Baryons in M 33” de Meulenaer, P., Narbutis, D., Mineikis, T., Vansevičius, V. 2015, A&A, 581, A111, “Deriving Physical Parameters of Unresolved Star Clusters. IV. The M 33 Star Cluster System” Dolley, T., … Dey, A., Atlee, D.W., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 125, “The Clustering and Halo Masses of Star- Forming Galaxies at z < 1”

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Johnson, S.D., Chen, H.-W., Mulchaey, J.S. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 3263, “On the Possible Environmental Effect in Distributing Heavy Elements beyond Individual Gaseous Halos” Jones, A.G., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 168, “The Relationship between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission and Far-Infrared Dust Emission from NGC 2403 and M83” Kapala, M.J., et al. 2015, ApJ, 798, 24, “The Survey of Lines in M31 (SLIM): Investigating the Origins of [C II] Emission” Kim, D., Jerjen, H. 2015, ApJL, 808, L39, “Horologium II: A Second Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellite in the Horologium Constellation” Kirby, E.N., Simon, J.D., Cohen, J.G. 2015, ApJ, 810, 56, “Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Dwarf Galaxies Hydra II and Pisces II and the Globular Cluster Laevens 1” Koposov, S.E., et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 130, “Beasts of the Southern Wild. Discovery of a Large Number of Ultra Faint Satellites in the Vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds" Lee, C.-H., et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 22, “Properties of M31. V. 298 Eclipsing Binaries from Pandromeda” Lee, K.-S., Dey, A., Hong, S., … Inami, H., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 126, “Discovery of a Very Large Structure at z = 3.78” Leja, J., van Dokkum, P.G., Franx, M., Whitaker, K.E. 2015, ApJ, 798, 115, “Reconciling the Observed Star- Forming Sequence with the Observed Stellar Mass Function” Lim, S., Lee, M. G. 2015, ApJ, 804, 123, “The Star Cluster System in the Local Group Starburst Galaxy IC 10” Lurie, J.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 95, “Kepler Flares III: Stellar Activity on GJ 1245A and B” Marchesini, D., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 65, “The Progenitors of Local Ultra-massive Galaxies across Cosmic Time: From Dusty Star-Bursting to Quiescent Stellar Populations” Marsan, Z.C., et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 133, “Spectroscopic Confirmation of an Ultra Massive and Compact Galaxy at Z = 3.35: A Detailed Look at an Early Progenitor of Local Giant Ellipticals” Martinez-Manso, J., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 169, “The Spitzer South Pole Telescope Deep-Field Survey: Linking Galaxies and Haloes at z = 1.5” Mikołajewska, J., Caldwell, N., Shara, M.M. 2014, MNRAS, 444, 586, “First Detection and Characterization of Symbiotic Stars in M31” Mikołajewska, J., Caldwell, N., Shara, M.M., Iłkiewicz, K. 2015, ApJL, 799, L16, “Characterization of the Most Luminous Star in M33: A Super Symbiotic Binary” Montiel, E.J., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 57, “The Identification of Extreme Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars and Red Supergiants in M33 by 24µm Variability” Mudd, D., Stanek, K.Z. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 3811, "GALEX Catalogue of UV Point Sources in M33" Piatti, A.E. 2014, MNRAS, 445, 2302, “Bruck 88: A Young Star Cluster with an Old Age Resemblance in the Outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud” Piatti, A.E. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 3219, “The Age-Metallicity Relationship in the Small Magellanic Cloud Periphery” Piatti, A.E., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 552, “The VMC Survey—XV. The Small Magellanic Cloud-Bridge Connection History as Traced by Their Star Cluster Populations” Rangelov, B., et al. 2014, ApJ, 796, 34, “Multiwavelength Study of the Northeastern Outskirts of the Extended TeV Source HESS J1809-193” Skelton, R.E., et al. 2014, ApJS, 214, 24, “3D-HST WFC3-Selected Photometric Catalogs in the Five CANDELS/3D-HST Fields: Photometry, Photometric Redshifts, and Stellar Masses” Speagle, J.S., Steinhardt, C.L., Capak, P.L., Silverman, J.D. 2014, ApJS, 214, 15, “A Highly Consistent Framework for the Evolution of the Star-Forming ‘Main Sequence’ from z ~ 0–6” Tanaka, M. 2015, ApJ, 801, 20, "Photometric Redshift with Bayesian Priors on Physical Properties of Galaxies" Thompson, B., et al. 2014, AJ, 148, 85, “WIYN Open Cluster Study. LXII. Comparison of Isochrone Systems Using Deep Multi-band Photometry of M35”

136 D. PUBLICATIONS USING DATA FROM NOAO TELESCOPES & ARCHIVES

Umetsu, K., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 163, "CLASH: Weak-Lensing Shear-and-Magnification Analysis of 20 Galaxy Clusters” Urata, Y., Huang, K., Yamazaki, R., Sakamoto, T. 2015, ApJ, 806, 222, “Extremely Soft X-ray Flash as the Indicator of Off-axis Orphan GRB Afterglow” Vajgel, B., et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, 88, “X-ray-selected Galaxy Groups in Boötes” van de Sande, J., et al. 2014, ApJL, 793, L31, “The Fundamental Plane of Massive Quiescent Galaxies Out to z ~ 2” van Weeren, R.J., et al. 2014, ApJ, 793, 82, “LOFAR Low-Band Antenna Observations of the 3C 295 and Boötes Fields: Source Counts and Ultra-steep Spectrum Sources” Vučetić, M.M., Arbutina, B., Urošević, D. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 943, “Optical Supernova Remnants in Nearby Galaxies and Their Influence on Star Formation Rates Derived from Hα Emission” Wagner, C.R., … Dey, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 800, 107, “Star Formation in High-Redshift Cluster Ellipticals” Whitaker, K.E., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 104, “Constraining the Low-Mass Slope of the Star Formation Sequence at 0.5 < z < 2.5” Zemcov, M., et al. 2014, Sci, 346, 732, “On the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy” Zhou, Z.-M., Cao, C., Wu, H. 2015, AJ, 149, 1, "Star Formation Properties in Barred Galaxies. III. Statistical Study of Bar-Driven Secular Evolution Using a Sample of Nearby Barred Spirals"

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E USAGE STATISTICS FOR ARCHIVED DATA

The NOAO Science Archive (http://portal-nvo.noao.edu) provides principal investigators (PIs) access to their raw data and pipeline-reduced data originating from NOAO's Chilean (CTIO + SOAR) and Arizona (KPNO + WIYN) telescopes and instruments. A search portal interface enables data discovery and retrieval for images ranging from 2004 to present. After the requisite proprietary period (usually 18 months), data become accessible to the general public. In addition, the NOAO Survey Archive (http://archive.noao. edu/nsa) provides specific access to high-level science products from the NOAO Surveys Program. The tables below illustrate access to and usage of the NOAO Science Archive and Survey Archive for FY15. For each quarter, the table on the left shows the total data download volume in gigabytes, the number of files retrieved, and the number of unique visitors who downloaded archive data through the ftp site. The table on the right shows the website visitor activity, which represents users searching, browsing, and visualizing data online.

NOAO Archive Download Activity NOAO Archive Website Activity (ftp) Retrieved Files Unique Bandwidth Pages Unique Date (GB) Retrieved Visitors Date (GB) Viewed Visitors Q1 FY15 10,400 102,274 262 Q1 FY15 117 1,732,464 4,195 Q2 FY15 23,077 183,066 260 Q2 FY15 662 253,990 4,730 Q3 FY15 23,418 196,354 257 Q3 FY15 250 176,963 5,124 Q4 FY15 28,562 172,898 214 Q4 FY15 292 306,875 4,578 Total: 85,457 654,592 993 Total: 1,321 2,470,292 18,627

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F TELESCOPE PROPOSAL STATISTICS

F.1 SEMESTER 2015A PROPOSAL STATISTICS The following tables list 2015A observing request statistics for standard and survey proposals requesting resources in the US ground-based observing system coordinated by NOAO.

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

Nights Nights Subscription Nights Average Nights DD Nights Scheduled for Telescope Requests Previously Rate for New Requested Request Allocated (*) New Allocated Programs Programs

CT-4m 41 175.8 4.29 91 0 23.5 67.5 2.60

SOAR 29 74.5 2.57 46 0 7 39 1.91

CT-1.5m 11 37.1 3.37 26.1 0 0 26.1 1.42

CT-1.3m 10 21.6 2.16 16.7 0 6 10.7 2.02

CT-0.9m 3 22.0 7.33 21 0 7 14 1.57

Kitt Peak National Observatory Nights Nights Subscription Nights Average Nights DD Nights Scheduled for Telescope Requests Previously Rate for New Requested Request Allocated (*) New Allocated Programs Programs

KP-4m 50 153.0 3.06 119.5 3.5 18.5 101 1.51

WIYN 22 70.0 3.18 69.5 3.5 13 56.5 1.24

KP-0.9m 4 24.0 6.00 11 0 0 11 2.18

Gemini Observatory Nights Nights Subscription Nights Average Nights DD Nights Scheduled for Telescope Requests Previously Rate for New Requested Request Allocated (*) New Allocated Programs Programs

GEM-N 185 156.9 0.85 63.034 0 4.8 58.234 2.69

GEM-S 144 107.5 0.75 56.91 0 6.47 50.44 2.13

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Community-Access Telescopes Nights Nights Subscription Nights Average Nights DD Nights Scheduled for Telescope Requests Previously Rate for New Requested Request Allocated (*) New Allocated Programs Programs

CHARA 6 11.5 1.92 5 0 0 5 2.30

AAT 12 28.5 2.38 10 0 0 10 2.85

* - Nights allocated by NOAO Director

F.2 SEMESTER 2015B PROPOSAL STATISTICS The following tables list 2015B observing request statistics for standard and survey proposals requesting resources in the US ground-based observing system coordinated by NOAO.

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Nights Nights Subscription Nights Average Nights DD Nights Scheduled for Telescope Requests Previously Rate for New Requested Request Allocated (*) New Allocated Programs Programs CT-4m 52 143.0 2.75 36.5 0 9 27.5 5.20

SOAR 30 90.9 3.03 46 0 9 37 2.46

CT-1.5m 6 17.4 2.90 17.4 0 0 17.4 1.00

CT-1.3m 7 13.1 1.87 20.9 0 8.36 12.54 1.04

CT-0.9m 3 18.0 6.00 17 0 0 17 1.06

WIYN 26 86.8 3.34 68 4 3 65 1.34

KP-0.9m 5 28.0 5.60 27 0 0 27 1.04

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Gemini Observatory Nights Subscription Nights Nights Average Nights DD Nights Scheduled for Rate for Telescope Requests Previously Requested Request Allocated (*) New New Allocated Programs Programs GEM-N 188 141.5 0.75 45.158 0 5.258 39.9 3.55

GEM-S 120 72.5 0.60 36.031 1.62 7.3 28.731 2.52

Community-Access Telescopes Nights Nights Subscription Nights Average Nights DD Nights Scheduled Telescope Requests Previously Rate for New Requested Request Allocated (*) for New Allocated Programs Programs AAT 6 16.6 2.77 10 0 0 10 1.66

* - Nights allocated by NOAO Director

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G OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR 2015

The following statistics and observing programs describe only those standard and survey proposals from the NOAO time allocation process that were scheduled for observing time in semesters 2015A/B.

G.1 DEMOGRAPHICS Demographics for the 317 unique observing programs, which cover slightly more than 831.4 nights, and their investigators are provided below.

Annual Summary Data for Semesters 2015A/B Observing Programs (Excludes NOAO Staff except for unique observing programs)

Description US Foreign Unique NOAO TAC observing programs scheduled on NOAO telescopes 289 28 (includes programs under TSIP/FIP on private telescopes)

Total number of nights scheduled for above unique observing programs 751 74

Investigators (PIs + Co-Is) associated with approved observing programs 797 449 (14 investigators were classified as both US and Foreign)

PhD thesis observers 65 18

Non-thesis graduate students 56 26

Discrete institutions represented 163 163

US states represented (including District of Columbia) 42 N/A

Foreign countries represented N/A 30

Breakdown of Investigators from US Institutions for Approved 2015 A/B Observing Programs (Excludes NOAO Staff) 2 4 NH 2 3 0 6 1 VT 2 0 61 MA 0 11 35 0 3 3 18 RI 2 39 25 1 22 18 CT 0 0 NJ 5 49 14 13 1 157 0 3 2 12 DE 1 63 9 MD

11 83 12 10 8 0 7 DC 4 10 0 42 4 0 12 Investigators by State 0 0 9 PR 15 1 – 4 16 HI 5 – 15 15 16 – 39 5 40 – 157 7

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Investigators by Country Top 10 US Institutions with the Most Unique Investigators Observing Programs for Observing Programs for Semesters 2015A/B Semesters 20145/B (Excludes NOAO Staff) (Excludes NOAO Staff) # of Country* # Rank US Institution Investigators USA 809 1 University of Arizona 37 UK 97 2 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 34 Germany 79 3 University of Texas, Austin 24 Chile 54 4 University of Chicago 21 Canada 44 5 University of California, Berkeley 20 Australia 36 6 Yale University 19 Brazil 18 7 Johns Hopkins University 18 France 18 8 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 17 Spain 17 9 Arizona State University 16 South Africa 16 10 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Taiwan 14

The Netherlands 13 Italy 10 China 8 Top 10 Foreign Institutions with the Most Unique Investigators Israel 7 Observing Programs for Semesters 2015A/B (Excludes NOAO Staff) Japan 7 # of Denmark 6 Rank Foreign Institution Investigators Austria 4 1 European Southern Observatory 21 Portugal 3 2 Universidad de Chile 17 Sweden 3 3 Max Planck Institute für extraterrestrische Physik 13 Czech Republic 2 4 Max Planck Institute für Astronomie 13 Korea 2 5 University of Cambridge 13 Poland 2 6 Gemini Observatory South 12 Russia 2 7 Australian National University 11 Finland 1 8 University of Warwick 11 Hungary 1 9 South African Astronomical Observatory 10 Mexico 1 10 University of Toronto 10 New Zealand 1 Norway 1 South Korea 1

* The location of the investigator’s institution determines the country of origin for the investigator.

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G.2 CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY

¡ Blanco 4-m Telescope: The US community has access through the NOAO TAC to 90% of Blanco time, with 10% available to Chilean proposers.

¡ SOAR 4.1-m Telescope: The US community has access to approximately 30% of SOAR time, with 10% available to Chilean proposers.

¡ CTIO Small Telescopes: NOAO has access to 15% time on each of the three telescopes now operated by the SMARTS consortium: CTIO 1.5-m, 1.3-m (former 2MASS), and 0.9-m telescopes. The 1.0-m telescope was closed during FY15.

CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (63) and US Theses (17)♦ Telescope(s) Nights

L. Allen (NOAO), D. Trilling (Northern Arizona U.), F. Valdes (NOAO), C. Fuentes CT-4m 10 (Northern Arizona U.), E. Christensen (Lunar and Planetary Lab), M. Brown (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), T. Axelrod (LSST), B. Burt (O) (Northern Arizona U.), A. Earle (U) (Siena College), D. James (CTIO), D. Herrera (O) (NOAO), S. Larson (Lunar and Planetary Lab): "The DECam NEO Survey"

B. Barlow (High Point University), B. Dunlap (G) (U. of North Carolina), S. Geier (ESO): SOAR 2 "Finding and Characterizing the Ejected Donor Remnants of Double- Detonation SN Ia"

C. Bell (U. of Rochester), D. James (CTIO), T. Naylor, J. Rees (G) (University of Exeter), E. CT-4m 0.5 Mamajek, F. Moolekamp (G) (U. of Rochester): "Environmental impact on disk lifetimes - Robust ages for low density star-forming regions"

B. Bowler (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), M. Liu CT-1.5m-SVC 3.5 (U. of Hawaii), B. Riaz (University of Hertfordshire), J. Gizis (U. of Delaware), E. Shkolnik (Lowell Observatory): "Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups"

B. Bowler (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), M. Liu CT-1.5m-SVC 2.7 (U. of Hawaii), E. Shkolnik (Lowell Observatory), B. Riaz (U. of Maryland), J. Gizis (U. of Delaware): "Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups"

C. Briceno, A. Tokovinin (CTIO), M. Petr-Gotzens (ESO), N. Calvet (U. of Michigan): "A SOAR 2.5 Multiplicity survey in the Orion OB1 Association"

C. Briceno, S. Heathcote (CTIO), P. Hartigan (Rice U.): "High Resolution Optical Imaging of SOAR 1 HH 46/47 with SAM"

C. Briceno, S. Heathcote (CTIO), P. Hartigan (Rice U.): "A SOAR Adaptive Optics study of SOAR 4 Herbig-Haro Objects"

A. Calamida (STScI), S. Randall (ESO), G. Bono (Universita tor Vergata de Roma), A. CT-4m 3 Kunder (Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik), A. Rest (STScI): "The newly discovered Extreme Horizontal Branch pulsators in Centauri: a class apart?"

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

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CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (63) and US Theses (17)♦ Telescope(s) Nights

B. Cobb (George Washington University), C. Bailyn (Yale U.): "Optical/IR Follow-Up of CT-1.3m 1.5 Gamma-Ray Bursts from SMARTS"

D. Crnojevic (Texas Technical University), J. Hargis (Haverford College), D. Sand (Texas CT-4m 2 Technical University), B. Willman (Haverford College): "The faint end of the galaxy luminosity function: digging into the halo of NGC 3109"

A. Crotts (Columbia U.), S. Heathcote (CTIO), S. Lawrence (Hofstra University): "SN 1987A SOAR 2 Becomes SN Remnant 1987A"

S. Dhital, T. Oswalt (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.), J. Holberg (U. of Arizona): SOAR 4 "Observational Constraints on the White Dwarf Mass- Radius Relation"

T. Esplin (G), K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.), E. Mamajek (U. of Rochester), E. Miller CT-4m 3 (U) (Pennsylvania State U.): "A Complete Survey for Disk-bearing Members of the Upper Sco Association"

W. Fischer, D. Padgett (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): "Optical Spectroscopy of SOAR 2 WISE-Identified Young Stellar Objects in Canis Major"

R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Rest (STScI), D. Scolnic (U. of Chicago), Y. SOAR 6 Pan (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Jha (Rutgers U.), R. Hounsell (STScI): "The Next Generation Low-z Type Ia Supernova Sample for Cosmology"

R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Rest (STScI), D. Scolnic (U. of Chicago), G. SOAR 4 Narayan (NOAO), Y. Pan (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): "The Next Generation Low-z Type Ia Supernova Sample for Cosmology"

L. French (Illinois Wesleyan U.), R. Stephens (O) (GMARS Center for Solar System Studies), CT-4m 5 L. Wasserman (Lowell Observatory), D. James (CTIO), K. Connour (U) (Illinois Wesleyan U.): "In Search of the Trojan Spin Barrier"

M. Geha, A. Bonaca (G) (Yale U.), K. Johnston (Columbia U.), N. Kallivayalil (U. of CT-4m 2 Virginia), A. Kupper (Columbia U.), D. Nidever (U. of Michigan): "An Abridged Tail: Mapping the Palomar 5 Tidal Stream with DECam"

J. Hargis, B. Willman (Haverford College), D. Crnojevic, D. Sand (Texas Technical CT-4m 2 University), A. Zolotov, A. Peter (Ohio State U.): "Dwarfs Around Dwarfs: Dwarf satellites and stellar halos around the dIrr WLM and IC 1613"

T. Harrison, B. McNamara (New Mexico State U.): "Searching for Photometric Variations CT-1.3m 0.6 from the Irradiated Donor Star in Sco X-1"

C. Johns-Krull, P. Hartigan (Rice U.), P. Cauley (Wesleyan U.): "Confirming Young CT-1.3m 0.52 Eclipsing Binaries in Carina"

C. Kaleida, R. Students (U) (CTIO), J. Masiero (CalTech-JPL), F. Walter (SUNY), D. Kopac CT-0.9m 8 (Liverpool John Moores University), N. van der Bliek, D. James, S. Points (CTIO): "CTIO REU/PIA Student Observations: Targets of Opportunity"

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CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (63) and US Theses (17)♦ Telescope(s) Nights

L. Keller (Ithaca College), G. Sloan (Cornell U.): "Near infrared study of gas emission from SOAR 0.5 proto-planetary disks in the Small Magellanic Cloud"

A. Koekemoer (STScI), J. Mould, J. Cooke (Swinburne U.), S. Wyithe (U. of Melbourne), L. Wang (Texas A&M U.), M. Trenti (U. of Melbourne), T. Abbott (CTIO), S. Uddin (G), A. Katsianis (G), E. Tescari (U. of Melbourne): "Luminous Supernovae in the Epoch of CT-4m 3 Reionization"

T. Lee (Western Kentucky U.), R. Shaw, L. Stanghellini (NOAO): "Chemical Abundances of SOAR 3 Compact Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Disk"

B. Mason (US Naval Observatory), A. Tokovinin (CTIO), W. Hartkopf (US Naval SOAR 1 Observatory): "Speckle interferometry of ``fast'' binaries"

N. Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory), D. Trilling (Northern Arizona U.), C. Thomas (NASA CT-1.3m 12 Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Polishook, F. DeMeo, R. Binzel (MIT), P. Abell (NASA Johnson Space Center), M. Person (MIT), M. Busch (CalTech-JPL), M. Willman (U. of Hawaii), E. Christensen (Lunar and Planetary Lab), T. Endicott (U) (University of Massachusetts, Boston), M. Hinkle (Northern Arizona U.), A. Thirouin (Lowell Observatory): "Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS)"

J. Muzerolle (STScI), K. Flaherty (Wesleyan U.), Z. Balog (Max Planck Institute fuer CT-1.3m 3.2 Astronomie), T. Beck (STScI), E. Furlan (IPAC), R. Gutermuth (U. Mass): "Photometric Monitoring of Close Binary T Tauri Stars: Connecting Accretion Activity with Inner Disk Structure"

D. Nidever (U. of Michigan), K. Olsen (NOAO), G. Besla (Columbia U.), R. Gruendl (U. of CT-4m 16 Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Saha (NOAO), C. Gallart (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), E. Olszewski (U. of Arizona), R. Munoz (Universidad de Chile), M. Monelli CT-0.9m 7 (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), A. Kunder (CTIO), C. Kaleida (Arizona State U.), A. Walker (CTIO), G. Stringfellow (U. of Colorado), D. Zaritsky (U. of Arizona), R. Van Der Marel (STScI), R. Blum (NOAO), K. Vivas (Centro de Investigacion de Astronomia), Y. Chu (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), N. Martin, B. Conn, N. Noel (Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), S. Jin (University of Groningen), H. Kim (G) (Arizona State U.), M. Cioni (University of Hertfordshire), E. Bell, A. Monachesi (U. of Michigan), T. De Boer (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute): "Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History - SMASH"

E. Olszewski, J. Holberg, L. Camarota (G) (U. of Arizona), A. Saha, T. Matheson (NOAO), SOAR 5 C. Stubbs (Harvard U.), G. Narayan (NOAO), T. Axelrod (U. of Arizona): "Southern DA White Dwarf Calibration Standards"

M. Person, A. Bosh, S. Levine (MIT): "Investigation of Pluto's Atmosphere with Stellar SOAR 1.5 Occultations in the New Horizons Epoch"

V. Placco (Gemini Observatory), T. Beers (U. of Notre Dame), S. Points, C. Kaleida (CTIO), SOAR 4 Y. Lee (Chungnam National University), D. Carollo (Macquarie U.), V. Smith (NOAO): "Identifying Bright CEMP Stars in the RAVE Catalog"

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CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (63) and US Theses (17)♦ Telescope(s) Nights

S. Points (CTIO), P. Maggi (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), P. Kavanagh SOAR 3 (University of Tuebingen), F. Haberl (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), M. Sasaki (University of Tuebingen), R. Smith (CTIO), Y. Chu (ASIAA), R. Williams (Columbus State U.), J. Dickel (U. of New Mexico): "Optical Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnant Candidates in the LMC"

A. Rest (STScI), F. Bianco (NYU), R. Chornock (Ohio U.), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), D. James (CTIO), S. Margheim (Gemini Observatory South), T. Matheson (NOAO), J. Prieto (Universidad Diego Portales), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Smith (U. CT-4m 3 of Arizona), N. Walborn (STScI), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Zenteno (CTIO): "Photometric Time Series of Carinae's Great Eruption"

A. Rest (STScI), F. Bianco (NYU), R. Chornock (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for CT-4m 2.5 Astrophysics), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), D. James (CTIO), T. Matheson, G. Narayan, K. Olsen (NOAO), S. Points (CTIO), J. Prieto (Universidad Diego Portales), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Smith (U. of Arizona), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Zenteno (CTIO): "Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions"

A. Rest (STScI), J. Andrews (U. of Arizona), F. Bianco (NYU), R. Chornock (Harvard- CT-4m 2 Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), D. James (CTIO), S. Margheim (Gemini Observatory South), T. Matheson (NOAO), J. Prieto (Universidad Diego Portales), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Smith (U. of Arizona), N. Walborn (STScI), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Zenteno (CTIO): "Photometric Time Series of Carinae's Great Eruption"

A. Rest (STScI), F. Bianco (NYU), R. Chornock (Ohio U.), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia CT-4m 7 Universidad Catolica de Chile), R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), D. James (CTIO), T. Matheson, G. Narayan, K. Olsen (NOAO), S. Points (CTIO), J. Prieto (Universidad Diego Portales), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Smith (U. of Arizona), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Zenteno (CTIO): "Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions"

M. Reynolds, J. Miller (U. of Michigan): "Constraining the Orbital Period of a Enigmatic X- CT-1.3m 1 ray Binary"

R. Rich (UCLA), A. Kunder (CTIO), C. Johnson (UCLA), S. Michael (Indiana U.), W. CT-4m 6 Clarkson (U. of Michigan Dearborn), M. Irwin (University of Cambridge), R. Ibata (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg), M. Soto (Universidad de La Serena), Z. Ivezic (U. of Washington), R. De Propris (ESO), A. Robin (Observatoire de Besancon), A. Koch (Heidelberg University), M. Young (O), C. Pilachowski (Indiana U.), K. Vivas (CTIO), M. Collins (Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie): "The Blanco DECam Galactic Bulge Survey"

C. Rusu, C. Fassnacht (UC Davis), T. Treu (UC Santa Barbara), S. Suyu (ASIAA), M. Auger CT-4m 2 (University of Cambridge), L. Koopmans (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute), P. Marshall (Stanford U.), K. Wong (ASIAA), T. Collett (University of Cambridge), A. Agnello (UC Santa Barbara), R. Blandford (Stanford U.), F. Courbin (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne), S. Hilbert (Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), G. Meylan (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne), D. Sluse (Universitat Bonn): "Quantifying the line-of-sight mass distributions to time-delay lenses"

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CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (63) and US Theses (17)♦ Telescope(s) Nights

D. Schlegel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), A. Dey (NOAO), D. Lang (Carnegie Mellon U.), P. Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), D. Eisenstein (Harvard U.), G. Rudnick (U. of Kansas), J. Moustakas (Siena College), A. Myers (U. of Wyoming), R. CT-4m 22 Wechsler (Stanford U.), S. Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), E. Bell (U. of Michigan), D. Bizyaev (New Mexico State U.), M. Blanton (NYU), A. Bolton (University of Utah), M. Brodwin (U. of Missouri, Kansas City), K. Bundy (University of Tokyo), R. Carlberg (University of Toronto), F. Castander (U Barcelona), J. Comparat (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), K. Dawson (University of Utah), T. Dwelly (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), T. Delubac (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne), M. Dickinson (NOAO), P. Eisenhardt (CalTech-JPL), X. Fan (U. of Arizona), E. Fernandez (U Barcelona), D. Finkbeiner (Harvard U.), P. Fosalba (Institut de Ciencies de L'Espai), S. Foucaud (National Taiwan Normal University), J. Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), E. Gaztanaga (U Barcelona), M. Geha (Yale U.), A. Gonzalez (U. of Florida), O. Graur (Johns Hopkins U.), J. Guy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), N. Hetherington (G) (University of Toronto), K. Honsheid, E. Huff (Ohio State U.), Z. Ivezic (U. of Washington), G. Kauffmann (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), J. Kneib (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne), R. Kron (U. of Chicago), T. Lan (Johns Hopkins U.), M. Levi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), B. Menard (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Merloni (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), R. Miquel (U Barcelona), J. Mohr (Ludwig- Maximilian Universitat-Muchen), D. Monet (US Naval Observatory), K. Nandra (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), J. Newman (U. of Pittsburgh), P. Norberg (University of Durham), B. Nord (FNAL), E. Ofek (Weizmann Institute of Science), C. Padilla (U Barcelona), N. Palanque-Delabrouille (CEA), P. Predehl (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), C. Prieto (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), K. Reil (SLAC), C. Rockosi (UC Santa Cruz), E. Rozo (Stanford U.), N. Ross (Drexel U.), E. Rykoff (Stanford U.), M. Salvato (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), E. Sanchez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), E. Schlafly (Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), U. Seljak (UC Berkeley), A. Stanford (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), R. Thomas (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), F. Valdes (NOAO), A. Walker (CTIO), M. White (UC Berkeley), G. Zhu (Johns Hopkins U.): "The DECam Legacy Survey of the SDSS Equatorial Sky"

S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): "The CT-4m 2 Inner Oort Cloud Population"

S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution of Washington), C. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory): "The CT-4m 5 Inner Oort Cloud Population"

J. Smith (Austin Peay State U.), D. Tucker, S. Allam (FNAL), D. Gulledge (U) (Austin Peay CT-0.9m 10 State U.), W. Wester (FNAL), E. Juelfs (U) (Austin Peay State U.): "Targeted Samples of the Hot Stellar Content in the Southern Sky"

R. Smith (CTIO), F. Forster (Universidad de Chile), K. Vivas (CTIO), M. Hamuy, J. SOAR 3 Maureria, G. Cabrera (Universidad de Chile), J. Anderson (ESO), S. Gonzalez, L. Galbany (Universidad de Chile), F. Bufano (Universidad Andres Bello), T. De Jaeger (Universidad de Chile), E. Hsiao (Carnegie Observatories), G. Pignata (Universidad Andres Bello), R. Munoz, E. Vera (Universidad de Chile): "HITS Follow-up: High cadence Transient Survey, real-time follow-up of stellar explosions"

S. Sonnett, A. Mainzer, J. Bauer (CalTech-JPL), T. Grav (PSI), J. Masiero, C. Nugent CT-4m-TOO – (CalTech-JPL): "Determining Orbits and Sizes of Near-Earth Objects Discovered by NEOWISE, Continued"

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CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (63) and US Theses (17)♦ Telescope(s) Nights

S. Sonnett, A. Mainzer (CalTech-JPL), T. Grav (PSI), J. Bauer, J. Masiero (CalTech-JPL): SOAR 4 "Confirming Binary Asteroid Candidates to Constrain the Dynamical Evolution of the Solar System"

G. Stringfellow (U. of Colorado): "LBVs - Caught in the Act!" CT-1.5m-SVC 4 CT-1.3m 1.3

G. Stringfellow (U. of Colorado): "LBVs - Caught in the Act!" CT-1.5m-SVC 4

G. Stringfellow (U. of Colorado): "Spectral Confirmation of New Galactic LBV and WN CT-1.3m 1.3 Stars Associated With Mid-IR Nebulae"

G. Stringfellow (U. of Colorado): "Spectral Confirmation of New Galactic LBV and WN CT-1.3m 1.1 Stars Associated With Mid-IR Nebulae"

C. Thomas, L. Lim (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Trilling (Northern Arizona U.), SOAR 3 N. Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory): "Search for a Differentiated Asteroid Family"

C. Thomas, L. Lim (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Trilling (Northern Arizona U.), SOAR 2 N. Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory): "Search for a Differentiated Asteroid Family"

A. Tokovinin (CTIO), B. Mason, W. Hartkopf (US Naval Observatory): "Dynamics of SOAR 2 resolved triple systems and ``fast'' binaries"

A. Tokovinin (CTIO): "Snapshot RV survey of secondary components" CT-1.5m-SVC 2

A. Tokovinin (CTIO): "Spectroscopic orbits in nearby triple systems" CT-1.5m-SVC 4

B. Tucker (UC Berkeley), A. Rest (STScI), R. Smith (CTIO), F. Forster (Universidad de CT-4m 1.5 Chile), P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), D. James, A. Zenteno (CTIO): "Catching Supernovae in the Act with KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey) and DECam"

K. Vivas (CTIO), J. Fernandez-Trincado (G) (Observatoire de Besancon), M. Catelan SOAR 3 (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), G. Torrealba (G) (University of Cambridge): "Where is the debris of the progenitor galaxy of Cen?"

F. Walter (SUNY): "Recent Novae 2004-2012: What Are They Now?" CT-4m 4

F. Walter (SUNY): "Post-ouburst observations of the recurrent nova V745 Sco" CT-1.5m-SVC 2.4 CT-1.3m 1.13

F. Walter (SUNY), G. Denicolo (Suffolk Community College, Selden), S. Kafka (AAVSO), CT-1.5m-SVC 1.7 A. Pagnotta (American Museum of Natural History): "The Denoument of KT Eridani" CT-1.3m 0.6

US Thesis Programs (17)

C. Belardi (T), M. Kilic (U. of Oklahoma), B. Jannuzi (U. of Arizona), A. Dey (NOAO), P. CT-4m 4 Stetson (National Research Council of Canada), S. Barber (G) (U. of Oklahoma): "A Search for Habitable Planets Around White Dwarfs"

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CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (63) and US Theses (17)♦ Telescope(s) Nights

E. Berger (Harvard U.), M. Soares-Santos (FNAL), P. Cowperthwaite (T) (Harvard U.), J. Annis (FNAL), G. Bernstein (U. of Pennsylvania), D. Brown (Syracuse University), E. Buckley-Geer (FNAL), L. Cadonati (Georgia Institute of Technology), S. Cenko (NASA CT-4m-TOO – Goddard Space Flight Center), H. Chen (G) (U. of Chicago), R. Chornock (Ohio U.), S. Desai (Universitaets-Sternwarte Munchen), H. Diehl (FNAL), M. Drout (G) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Fairhurst (Cardiff University), B. Farr (U. of Chicago), D. Finley, B. Flaugher (FNAL), R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), W. Fong (U. of Arizona), D. Fox (Pennsylvania State U.), J. Frieman (FNAL), C. Fryer (LANL), C. Hanna (Pennsylvania State U.), D. Holz (U. of Chicago), D. Kasen (UC Berkeley), R. Kessler (U. of Chicago), H. Lin (FNAL), R. Lunnan (G) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), R. Margutti (Harvard U.), J. Marriner (FNAL), T. Matheson (NOAO), B. Metzger (Columbia U.), E. Neilsen (FNAL), E. Quataert (UC Berkeley), A. Rest (STScI), M. Sako (U. of Pennsylvania), D. Scolnic (U. of Chicago), N. Smith (U. of Arizona), R. Smith (CTIO), F. Sobreira (FNAL), P. Sutton (Cardiff University), A. Villar (G), P. Williams (Harvard U.), B. Yanny (FNAL), D. Gerdes (U. of Michigan), R. Gruendl (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Walker (CTIO): "DECam Follow-Up of the First Advanced LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave Detection"

T. Esplin (T), K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.), E. Mamajek (U. of Rochester): "Searching CT-4m 1 for the Bottom of the Initial Mass Function"

C. Grillmair (IPAC), N. Hetherington (T), R. Carlberg (University of Toronto), B. Willman CT-4m 1 (Haverford College): "Mapping the Orphan Stream with DECam"

K. Gullikson (T), A. Kraus (U. of Texas, Austin): "Searching for Companions to A and B CT-1.5m-SVC 5 stars: Follow up"

S. Kannappan, K. Eckert (T) (U. of North Carolina), D. Norman (NOAO), M. Norris (Max SOAR 3 Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), E. Hoversten, D. Stark (G), A. Moffett (G), A. Baker (U) (U. of North Carolina), A. Berlind (Vanderbilt U.), S. Crawford (SAAO), I. Damjanov (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), I. dell'Antonio (Brown U.), R. Gonzalez (U. of Chicago), K. Hall (U) (U. of North Carolina), S. Khochfar (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), A. Leroy (NRAO), Y. Lu (Stanford U.), C. Maraston (University of Portsmouth), S. McGaugh (Case Western Reserve U.), L. Naluminsa (G) (SAAO), J. Salzer (Indiana U.), J. Sellwood (Rutgers U.), P. Vaisanen (SAAO), L. Watson (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE: The RESOLVE Survey in Stripe 82"

M. Kiminki (T), N. Smith (U. of Arizona): "Using 3D Kinematics to Pinpoint the Birthplaces CT-1.5m-SVC 2 of Distributed Massive Stars: Targeted Follow-up of Radial-Velocity Variables"

M. Lucas (T), J. Emery, N. Pinilla-Alonso (U. of Tennessee), C. Thomas (NASA Goddard SOAR 1 Space Flight Center): "Building Blocks of the Terrestrial Planets: Mineralogy of Hungaria Asteroids"

L. Macri, W. Yuan (T) (Texas A&M U.), A. Riess (Johns Hopkins U.): "Towards a 2% CT-1.3m 4.31 measurement of H_0: Near-infrared light curves of Galactic Cepheids"

E. Mamajek, F. Moolekamp (T), C. Bell (U. of Rochester), K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State CT-4m 2 U.), S. Metchev (University of Western Ontario), D. James (CTIO), M. Pecaut (Rockhurst University): "DECam Survey for Benchmark Brown Dwarfs in the Nearest OB Association"

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CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (63) and US Theses (17)♦ Telescope(s) Nights

J. McCleary (T), I. dell'Antonio, P. Huwe (Brown U.): "The low-redshift end of the cluster CT-4m 2 mass substructure function"

B. Montet (T) (California Institute of Technology--Exolab), B. Bowler (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), L. Hillenbrand (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), A. Kraus (U. of Texas, Austin): "Fundamental Parameters CT-1.5m-SVC 1 of Pre-Main Sequence M Dwarfs"

T. Pewett (T), T. Henry, M. Silverstein (G) (Georgia State U.): "Deciphering the Wide Low CT-1.5m-SVC 3 Mass Main Sequence"

S. Rice (T), D. Batuski, A. Favia (U. of Maine), P. Howell (Boston U.): "Mapping Dark CT-4m 1 Matter through Weak Lensing in the Extremely Overdense Aquarius and Microscopium Supercluster Cores"

B. Tofflemire (T), R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), D. Ardila (The Aerospace CT-1.3m 3.11 Corporation): "Accretion in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries"

B. Tofflemire (T), R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), D. Ardila (The Aerospace CT-1.3m 2.7 Corporation): "Accretion in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries"

A. von der Linden, S. Allen (Stanford U.), A. Mantz (U. of Chicago), A. Wright (T) (Stanford CT-4m 2.5 U.), D. Applegate (Universitat Bonn), P. Kelly (UC Berkeley), G. Morrison (Stanford U.), D. Rapetti (Dark Cosmology Center): "Weighing the f_ gas Giants"

CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Foreign Programs (6) and Foreign Telescope(s) Nights Theses (4)♦

T. De Boer, V. Belokurov, M. Irwin, S. Koposov, D. Erkal, I. Simion (University of CT-4m 2 Cambridge): "Galactic Dark Matter properties with the Orphan stream"

F. Dufour, R. Rutledge (O) (McGill University): "A Continued Survey of Unclassified CT-0.9m 6 ROSAT-BSC Sources for qLMXB Candidates"

M. Galiazzo, P. Wiegert (University of Western Ontario), G. Carraro (ESO), W. Zeilinger CT-1.3m 1.73 (Universitat Wien (University of Vienna)), V. Carruba (Sao Paulo State University): "Taxonomy discrimination of the Tina asteroid family via photometric color indices"

M. Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal), M. Hasselfield (Princeton U.), J. Hughes (Rutgers SOAR 5 U.), T. Marriage (Johns Hopkins U.), C. Sifon (G) (Leiden University), N. Battaglia (Princeton U.): "Redshift confirmation of distant ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy cluster candidates"

H. Hsieh (ASIAA): "The Rotation Rate of Active Asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS" SOAR 1

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

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CTIO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Foreign Programs (6) and Foreign Telescope(s) Nights Theses (4)♦

N. Richardson (University of Montreal), T. Gull, M. Teodoro, M. Corcoran (NASA Goddard CT-1.5m-SVC 0.8 Space Flight Center), A. Moffat (University of Montreal), D. Hillier (U. of Pittsburgh), T. Madura (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): "Fundamental Properties of eta Carinae Revealed through High Resolution Spectroscopy"

Foreign Thesis Programs (4)

E. Balbinot, M. Gieles, A. Zocchi, V. Henault-Brunet (University of Surrey), A. Kupper CT-4m 2 (Columbia U.), I. Claydon (T) (University of Surrey): "A southern wide-field survey of Galactic globular clusters and their tidal tails"

T. Ramiaramanantsoa (T), A. Moffat, N. Richardson (University of Montreal), T. Eversberg CT-1.5m-SVC 4 (Schnorringen Telescopt Science Institute), B. Heathcote (O) (Barfold Observatory), A. Chene (Gemini Observatory South), W. Waldron (Eureka Scientific), B. Miszalski (SAAO): "Probing the photospheric origin of large scale wind structures in the hot supergiant Puppis"

N. Richardson, A. Moffat, T. Ramiaramanantsoa (T) (University of Montreal), G. Hill (Keck), CT-1.5m-SVC 3.4 P. Tuthill (U. of Sydney), N. St-Louis (University of Montreal), A. Chene (Gemini Observatory South), O. Schnurr (Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik), B. Heathcote (O) (Barfold Observatory), E. Aldoretta (G), M. Munoz (G), H. Pablo (University of Montreal), M. Corcoran (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): "The Spectroscopic Variability of the Rosetta Stone Binary gamma Velorum"

M. Sullivan (University of Southampton), P. Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley National CT-4m 6.5 Laboratory), D. Howell (UC Santa Barbara), R. Nichol (University of Portsmouth), J. Cooke (Swinburne U.), R. Smith (CTIO), P. Brown (Texas A&M U.), S. Smartt (Queen's U. Belfast), A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), C. D'Andrea (University of Portsmouth), B. Bassett (SAAO), K. Barbary (Argonne National Laboratory), A. Papadopoulos (T) (University of Portsmouth), L. Bildsten (UC Santa Barbara), M. Sako (U. of Pennsylvania), R. Quimby (Institute of Physics and Mathematics of The University of Tokyo), S. Gonzalez-Gaitain, F. Buron (Universidad de Chile), C. Inserra (Queen's U. Belfast), P. Martini (Ohio State U.), M. Smith (University of Southampton): "SUDSS: Survey Using Decam for Superluminous Supernovae"

152 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

G.3 KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY

¡ Mayall 4-m Telescope: The US community has access to 60% of science time on the Mayall. (Approximately 40% of Mayall time will be devoted to the DESI targeting survey (MzLS in 2016 and 2017, almost all in the “A” semesters). MzLS data will be public.

¡ WIYN 3.5-m Telescope: The US community has access to approximately 40% of WIYN time.

¡ Kitt Peak 0.9-m Telescope: The US community has access to approximately 30% of KP 0.9-m time.

KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (49) and US Theses (22)♣ Telescope(s) Nights

T. Allen (Lowell Observatory), S. Megeath (U. of Toledo), J. Prchlik (G) (Case Western KP-4m 2.5 Reserve U.), N. Karnath (G) (U. of Toledo), R. Gutermuth (U. Mass), L. Allen (NOAO), J. Pipher (U. of Rochester): "Kosmos Spectroscopy of Cep OB3b"

F. Bastien (Pennsylvania State U.), K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), W. Chaplin (University of WIYN 5 Birmingham), D. Huber (U. of Sydney): "Correlating Photometric Variability and Chromospheric Activity in Kepler Stars"

M. Batiste, M. Bentz (Georgia State U.), M. Bershady (U. of Wisconsin, Madison): WIYN 4 "Deconstructing Dynamics: Improving AGN Measurements for Calibration of the M_BH - Relation"

B. Bowler (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), M. Liu KP-4m 1.5 (U. of Hawaii), B. Riaz (University of Hertfordshire), J. Gizis (U. of Delaware), E. Shkolnik (Lowell Observatory): "Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups"

B. Bowler (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), M. Liu WIYN 7.5 (U. of Hawaii), E. Shkolnik (Lowell Observatory), B. Riaz (U. of Maryland), J. Gizis (U. of Delaware): "Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: New Targets for Direct Imaging Planet Searches"

M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute), L. Wasserman (Lowell Observatory): "KBO orbits KP-4m 5 for occultation predictions"

M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute), L. Wasserman (Lowell Observatory): "KBO KP-4m 3 astrometry for an improved occultation sample"

P. Cauley, S. Redfield (Wesleyan U.), A. Jensen (University of Nebraska, Kearney), M. Endl, WIYN 4 W. Cochran (U. of Texas, Austin), T. Barman (U. of Arizona), G. Duvvuri (G), J. Dann (G) (Wesleyan U.): "Searching for Pre-Transit Hydrogen Absorption Around Hot Planets"

R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.), K. Gebhardt (U. of Texas, Austin), J. Feldmeier KP-4m 10 (Youngstown State University), C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Hill, S. Tuttle (U. of Texas, Austin), G. Zeimann (Pennsylvania State U.), S. Finkelstein, E. McLinden, I. Wold (U. of Texas, Austin), A. Hagen (G), J. Bridge (G) (Pennsylvania State U.): "An Imaging Survey for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment"

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

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KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (49) and US Theses (22)♣ Telescope(s) Nights

S. Dhital, T. Oswalt (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.), J. Holberg (U. of Arizona): KP-4m 5 "Observational Constraints on the White Dwarf Mass- Radius Relation"

M. Everett (NOAO), S. Howell (NASA Ames Research Center), D. Silva (NOAO), P. Szkody KP-4m 7 (U. of Washington): "Spectroscopy of Kepler Candidate Exoplanet Host Stars"

R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A. Rest (STScI), D. Scolnic (U. of Chicago), Y. KP-4m 2 Pan (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), S. Jha (Rutgers U.), R. Hounsell (STScI): "The Next Generation Low-z Type Ia Supernova Sample for Cosmology"

A. Geller (Northwestern U.), S. Meibom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. WIYN 2 Barnes (Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik), R. Mathieu (U. of Wisconsin, Madison): "The Solar-Type Hard-Binary Frequency and Distributions of Orbital Parameters in the Open Cluster M37"

M. Giampapa (National Solar Observatory), J. Hall (Lowell Observatory): "Contemporaneous WIYN 4 WIYN/Hydra and K2 Measurements of the Magnetic Properties of Sun-like Stars"

C. Griffith, R. Zellem (G) (U. of Arizona), K. Pearson (G) (Northern Arizona U.), I. KP-4m 1 Waldmann (University College London), A. Alvarez-Candal (Observatorio Nacional Brazil), J. Turner (G) (U. of Virginia): "Clouds on extrasolar planets with inflated atmospheres"

J. Hartman, G. Bakos, X. Huang (G) (Princeton U.): "Confirming the Inflated Size of a WIYN 3.5 Transiting Super-Jupiter with WHIRC"

J. Hartman, G. Bakos, X. Huang (G) (Princeton U.): "Searching for Faint Stellar Companions WIYN 2.5 to Transiting Planet Systems From HATNet With DSSI/WIYN"

K. Herrmann (Pennsylvania State U.), D. Hunter (Lowell Observatory), R. Ciardullo WIYN 4 (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Jacoby (GMT), M. Johnson (CSIRO), H. Zhang (Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics): "Planetary Nebula Dynamics in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies"

K. Herrmann (Penn State Mont Alto), R. Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State U.): "Planetary WIYN 4 Nebula Kinematics of NGC 6946"

J. Holberg (U. of Arizona), M. Burleigh, I. Braker (G), K. Lawrie (University of Leicester): KP-4m 3 "Spectroscopic characterisation of Kepler 2 White Dwarfs"

S. Howell (NASA Ames Research Center), E. Horch (SCSU), M. Everett (NOAO), D. Ciardi WIYN 8 (IPAC): "Exoplanet Validation and Host Star Binarity of Kepler and K2 Discovered Candidates"

J. Hughes (Rutgers U.), F. Menanteau (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), F. Barrientos, L. KP-4m 4 Infante (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile): "On the Trail of the Most Massive Galaxy Clusters in the Universe"

W. Keel (University of Alabama), M. Bershady (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), V. Bennert WIYN 4 (California Polytechnic State University), K. Schawinski (ETH), C. Lintott (University of Oxford), C. Urry (Yale U.), W. Maksym (University of Alabama): "Giant Ionized Clouds and Fading AGN"

K. Leighly (U. of Oklahoma), D. Terndrup (Ohio State U.), S. Gallagher (University of KP-4m 3 Western Ontario): "Probing the Physics of Quasar Outflows using Mini-LoBALs"

154 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (49) and US Theses (22)♣ Telescope(s) Nights

R. Mason (Gemini Observatory), P. Lira (Universidad de Chile), L. Ho (Peking University), KP-4m 4 R. Riffel (UFRGS), A. Ardila (CNPq), R. Riffel (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria), L. Martins (Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul): "Stellar populations in the Palomar Galaxy Sample"

C. McGahee (Appalachian State U.), J. King (Clemson U.), C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.): WIYN 7 "Abundances in M67 Red Giants: Constraints on Stellar Mixing and the Origin of Yellow Stragglers"

R. McMillan (U. of Arizona), J. Larsen (US Naval Academy), J. Scotti (O), T. Bressi (O) (U. KP-4m 2 of Arizona), S. Sonnett (CalTech-JPL): "Astrometry and Photometry of Faint, High Priority Solar System Objects"

R. McMillan (U. of Arizona), J. Larsen (US Naval Academy), J. Scotti (O), T. Bressi (O), C. KP-4m 3 Maleszewski (G) (Lunar and Planetary Lab): "Astrometry and Photometry of Faint, High Priority Solar System Objects"

N. Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory), D. Trilling (Northern Arizona U.), C. Thomas (NASA KP-4m 10 Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Polishook, F. DeMeo, R. Binzel (MIT), P. Abell (NASA Johnson Space Center), M. Person (MIT), M. Busch (CalTech-JPL), M. Willman (U. of Hawaii), E. Christensen (Lunar and Planetary Lab), T. Endicott (U) (University of Massachusetts, Boston), M. Hinkle (Northern Arizona U.), A. Thirouin (Lowell Observatory): "Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS)"

B. Mueller, N. Samarasinha (PSI), J. Eluo (Vatican Observatory): "Decoding activity one (or KP-0.9m 6 two) comet(s) at a time"

J. Orosz, W. Welsh (San Diego State U.): "An optical search for black holes and neutron stars KP-4m 3 in the Kepler field"

V. Placco (Gemini Observatory), T. Beers (U. of Notre Dame), S. Points, C. Kaleida (CTIO), KP-4m 7 Y. Lee (Chungnam National University), D. Carollo (Macquarie U.), V. Smith (NOAO): "Identifying Bright CEMP Stars in the RAVE Catalog"

S. Redfield, P. Cauley (Wesleyan U.), A. Jensen (University of Nebraska, Kearney), M. Endl, WIYN 2 W. Cochran (U. of Texas, Austin), T. Barman (U. of Arizona): "Rayleigh Scattering in Exoplanet Atmospheres"

A. Rest (STScI), F. Bianco (NYU), R. Chornock (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for KP-4m 6.5 Astrophysics), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), D. James (CTIO), T. Matheson, G. Narayan, K. Olsen (NOAO), S. Points (CTIO), J. Prieto (Universidad Diego Portales), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Smith (U. of Arizona), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Zenteno (CTIO): "Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions"

A. Rest (STScI), F. Bianco (NYU), R. Chornock (Ohio U.), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia KP-4m 4.5 Universidad Catolica de Chile), R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), D. James (CTIO), T. Matheson, G. Narayan, K. Olsen (NOAO), S. Points (CTIO), J. Prieto (Universidad Diego Portales), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Smith (U. of Arizona), N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M U.), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Zenteno (CTIO): "Light Echoes of Galactic Explosions and Eruptions"

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KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (49) and US Theses (22)♣ Telescope(s) Nights

J. Rhoads, S. Malhotra (Arizona State U.), R. Probst, R. Swaters (NOAO), P. Hibon (Gemini KP-4m 25 Observatory South), B. Mobasher (UC Riverside), V. Tilvi (Texas A&M U.), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), J. Wang (University of Science & Technology of China), S. Finkelstein (U. of Texas, Austin), Z. Zheng, A. Gonzalez (G) (Arizona State U.), J. Zabl (G) (University of Copenhagen), J. Trahan (U), K. Emig (G), T. Jiang (G), H. Yang (G), J. Pharo (G), B. Joshi (G), M. Smith (U) (Arizona State U.): "The Cosmic Deep And Wide Narrowband (Cosmic DAWN) Survey"

W. Romanishin (U. of Oklahoma): "Shapes of Hilda ``Asteroids" (continuation)" KP-0.9m 4

A. Shporer (CalTech-JPL), S. Faigler (G), L. Tal-Or (G), T. Mazeh (Tel Aviv University), A. WIYN 9.5 Prsa (Villanova U.), T. Boyajian (Yale U.), K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.): "Studying low-mass short-period binary companions to stars across the main sequence"

V. Smith (NOAO), K. Cunha (U. of Arizona), J. Teske (Carnegie Institution of Washington), WIYN 10 S. Howell (NASA Ames Research Center): "Precision Stellar Characterization for Kepler Extended Mission (K2) Exoplanet Host Stars"

S. Sonnett, A. Mainzer (CalTech-JPL), T. Grav (PSI), J. Bauer, J. Masiero (CalTech-JPL): KP-0.9m 4 "Confirming Binary Asteroid Candidates to Constrain the Dynamical Evolution of the Solar System"

S. Sonnett, A. Mainzer (CalTech-JPL), T. Grav (PSI), J. Bauer, J. Masiero, E. Kramer KP-0.9m 17 (CalTech-JPL): "Confirming Binary Asteroid Candidates to Constrain the Dynamical Evolution of the Solar System"

K. Stevenson, J. Bean, G. Gilbert (G) (U. of Chicago), J. Desert, C. Huitson (U. of Colorado), KP-4m 4 J. Fortney, M. Line (UC Santa Cruz): "From Exoplanets to Exoworlds: Atmospheric Characterization with KOSMOS"

C. Thomas, L. Lim (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), J. Emery (U. of Tennessee), K. KP-4m 2 Noll (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), A. Rivkin (Johns Hopkins U.), M. Brown (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science): "Visible Spectroscopy of Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids"

B. Twarog (U. of Kansas), C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), B. Anthony-Twarog (U. of Kansas): WIYN 4 "Constraining the Origin and Stellar Evolution of Li Using Giants in M92 and NGC 2506"

T. Vaccaro (St. Cloud State U.), G. Peters (USC), R. Wilson (U. of Florida): "Orbital and KP-4m 4 Systemic Parameters for Algol Binaries in the Kepler and K2 Fields"

S. Van Velzen (Johns Hopkins U.), T. Weevers (G), P. Jonker (Radboud University), A. Rest KP-4m 4 (STScI), S. Hodgkin (University of Cambridge), D. Jones (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), M. Fraser (University of Cambridge): "Spectroscopic follow-up of stellar tidal disruption flares discovered by Gaia"

J. Wang, D. Fischer (Yale U.), B. Ma (G) (U. of Florida), T. Boyajian, J. Brewer (G) (Yale WIYN 3.5 U.): "Confirming the Planet-Metallicity Correlation For Small Planets"

K. Williams (U. of Texas, Austin): "Too Small To Fail: Using White Dwarfs to Better KP-4m 2 Constrain the Supernova Mass Limit"

156 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (49) and US Theses (22)♣ Telescope(s) Nights

US Thesis Programs (22)

W. Barkhouse, S. Kalawila (T), C. Rude (G), M. Sultanova (G), H. Archer (U) (U. of North KP-4m 2.5 Dakota): "H-alpha Mapping of Star Formation in Cluster Dwarf Galaxies"

W. Barkhouse, S. Kalawila (T), C. Rude (G), M. Sultanova (G), H. Archer (U), G. Foote (U) KP-4m 3 (U. of North Dakota): "Probing Star Formation in Cluster Dwarf Galaxies via H-alpha Imaging"

C. Black (T), R. Fesen (Dartmouth College), P. Hoeflich (Florida State U.), J. Parrent, D. KP-4m 1 Milisavljevic (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "An Investigation of Secondary Spectral Emission Features in the Nebula Phase of SNe Ia"

Z. Cai (T), X. Fan (U. of Arizona), A. Dey (NOAO), B. Frye, R. Green (U. of Arizona), Y. KP-4m 3 Yang (Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie), A. Zabludoff (U. of Arizona): "Mapping the Most Massive Overdensity Through HI: KPNO/MOSAIC Observations of Galaxy Overdensities at z=2.3"

Z. Cai (T), X. Fan (U. of Arizona), A. Dey (NOAO), B. Frye, A. Zabludoff, R. Green (U. of KP-4m 3 Arizona), Y. Huang (G) (Steward Observatory): "Mapping the Most Massive Overdensity Through HI: KPNO/MOSAIC Observations of Galaxy Overdensities at z=2.3"

P. Canton (T), A. Gianninas, M. Kilic (U. of Oklahoma), W. Brown, S. Kenyon (Harvard- KP-4m 4 Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "The ELM Survey: Finding the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs"

P. Canton (T), A. Gianninas, M. Kilic (U. of Oklahoma), W. Brown (Harvard-Smithsonian KP-4m 5 Center for Astrophysics), S. Kenyon (SAO): "The ELM Survey: Finding the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs"

C. Coker (T), B. Gaudi, R. Pogge (Ohio State U.): "Confirmation and Characterization of WIYN 2 Stellar Companions to the Host Stars of KELT Transiting Planets"

K. Colon (Lehigh U.), J. Rodriguez (T) (Vanderbilt U.), G. Zhou (G) (Australian National KP-4m 6 U.), D. Bayliss (Observatoire Astronomique de l Universite de Geneve), E. Martioli (CNPq), D. James (CTIO), K. Stassun (Vanderbilt U.), J. Pepper (Lehigh U.): "Comparative Exoplanetology: Connecting the Structure and Climate of Hot Jupiter Atmospheres to Irradiation"

D. Drozdov (T), M. Leising (Clemson U.), P. Milne (U. of Arizona), D. Yoder (G) (Clemson KP-4m 3 U.): "SNe Ia Light Echo Evolution"

157 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015

KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (49) and US Theses (22)♣ Telescope(s) Nights

S. Finkelstein, K. Gebhardt, S. Jogee (U. of Texas, Austin), V. Acquaviva (New York City KP-4m 23 College of Technology), C. Papovich (Texas A&M U.), R. Ciardullo, C. Gronwall (Pennsylvania State U.), R. Bender (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), G. Blanc (Carnegie Observatories), R. De Jong (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam), D. Depoy (Texas A&M U.), N. Drory (UNAM), M. Fabricius (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), K. Finkelstein (U. of Texas, Austin), E. Gawiser (Rutgers U.), J. Geach (McGill University), J. Greene (Princeton U.), A. Hagen (G) (Pennsylvania State U.), G. Hill (U. of Texas, Austin), U. Hopp (University Observatory Munich), K. Kaplan (T) (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Landriau (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), J. Marshall (Texas A&M U.), E. McLinden, E. Mentuch, R. Overzier (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Steinmetz (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam), N. Suntzeff, K. Tran (Texas A&M U.), S. Tuttle (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Viero (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), T. Weinzirl (T) (U. of Texas, Austin), L. Wisotzki (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam), H. Ziaeepour (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), G. Zeimann (Pennsylvania State U.), M. Stevans (T) (U. of Texas, Austin), H. Gebhardt (G) (Pennsylvania State U.), Y. Chiang (G) (U. of Texas, Austin), V. Tilvi (Texas A&M U.): "The NEWFIRM HETDEX Survey - Probing the Growth of Galaxies with Cosmic Time"

K. Hardegree-Ullman (T), M. Cushing (U. of Toledo), P. Muirhead (Boston U.): "Planet WIYN 5 Occurrence around Mid-M Dwarfs in the Field"

L. Hirsch (T), G. Marcy (UC Berkeley), D. Ciardi, E. Furlan (IPAC): "Planets in Binary WIYN 3 Systems"

S. Johnson (T), H. Chen (U. of Chicago), J. Mulchaey (Carnegie Observatories): "Deep KP-4m 1 optical photometry of galaxies in the field of 3C263"

K. Lee (Purdue U.), A. Dey (NOAO), A. Gonzalez (U. of Florida), K. Shi (T) (Purdue U.), B. KP-4m 6 Jannuzi (U. of Arizona), H. Inami (NOAO), N. Reddy (UC Riverside), S. Frampton (U) (Purdue U.): "Witnessing the Earliest Stage of Cluster Formation at Z=3.78"

C. Pilachowski (Indiana U.), K. Hinkle (NOAO), Z. Maas (T) (Indiana U.): "Last Gasp: HCl KP-4m 6 in Stellar Atmospheres with Phoenix"

A. Rajan (T), J. Patience (Arizona State U.), P. Wilson (G) (University of Exeter), C. Morley KP-4m 6 (G), J. Fortney (UC Santa Cruz), M. Marley (NASA Ames Research Center), F. Pont (University of Exeter): "Brown dwarf Atmosphere Monitoring: Surveying the Coolest Brown Dwarfs"

E. Richards (T), L. Van Zee (Indiana U.): "Ionized Gas Kinematics in the Central Regions of WIYN 1 EDGES Galaxies"

N. Troup (T), S. Majewski (U. of Virginia), D. Nidever (U. of Michigan), K. Stassun WIYN 1 (Vanderbilt U.), J. Wisniewski (U. of Oklahoma), C. Allende Prieto (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), J. Carlberg (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Nguyen (University of Toronto), S. Chojnowski (O) (New Mexico State U.): "Verification and Characterization of Hot Jupiter Candidates Discovered by SDSS-III APOGEE-1"

M. Wood-Vasey (U. of Pittsburgh), P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), T. Matheson (NOAO), WIYN 16 S. Jha (Rutgers U.), A. Rest (STScI), L. Allen (NOAO), A. Weyant (T) (U. of Pittsburgh), H. Marion (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), N. Jahan (G) (U. of Pittsburgh), B. Patel (G) (Rutgers U.): "Type Ia Supernovae in the Near-Infrared: A Three-Year Survey toward a One Percent Distance Measurement with WIYN+WHIRC"

158 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (49) and US Theses (22)♣ Telescope(s) Nights

M. Wood-Vasey, K. Ponder (T) (U. of Pittsburgh), T. Matheson, R. Joyce (NOAO), S. Jha WIYN 7 (Rutgers U.), P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame), L. Allen (NOAO): "Final Host Galaxy Observations for ``SweetSpot'': Calibrating the Supernova Host Galaxy Light and Environment"

R. Zellem (T), C. Griffith (U. of Arizona), K. Pearson (G) (Northern Arizona U.), I. KP-4m 3 Waldmann (University College London): "High Precision Measurements of an Exoplanet's Radius"

KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Foreign Programs (10) and Foreign Telescope(s) Nights

Theses (3) ♣

S. Blyth (University of Cape Town), D. Gilbank (SAAO): "How Important is the Cosmic WIYN 3 Web in Driving Galaxy Evolution?"

H. Bouy (CAB), E. Bertin (IAP), L. Allen (NOAO), Y. Beletsky (LCO): "Complementing KP-4m 3 Gaia from the ground: the DANCe survey"

J. Coronado (G), J. Chaname (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile): "Assembling the KP-4m 3 Largest, Most Distant Sample of Genuine Halo Wide Binaries for Galactic Structure and Dynamics"

F. Dufour, R. Rutledge (O) (McGill University): "A Continued Survey of Unclassified KP-0.9m 7 ROSAT-BSC Sources for qLMXB Candidates"

J. Farihi (University College London), H. Harris (US Naval Observatory), J. Subasavage (US KP-4m 2 Naval Observatory, Flagstaff), C. Bergfors (University College London), P. Green (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), B. Gansicke (University of Warwick): "An Ongoing Study of Dwarf Carbon Stars: Binary Fraction, Orbital Period Constraints"

L. Jiang (Peking University), X. Fan, I. McGreer (U. of Arizona): "Y-band Imaging of Quasar KP-4m 3 Candidates at z>6.5 Selected in the SDSS Stripe 82"

A. Kawka, S. Vennes (Astronomicky ustav): "Polluted, peculiar, and duplicitous: The true KP-4m 3 nature of local white dwarfs"

M. Kronberger (EBG MedAustron), G. Jacoby (GMT), A. Acker (Observatoire astronomique KP-4m 2 de Strasbourg), D. Harmer (O) (NOAO): "Narrow-Band Imagery and Spectroscopy of New Planetary Nebula Candidates at High Galactic Latitudes" WIYN 3

T. Lebzelter (Universitat Wien (University of Vienna)), K. Hinkle (NOAO), W. Nowotny KP-4m 2.5 (Universitat Wien (University of Vienna)), P. Wood (Australian National U.), O. Straniero (INAF): "Dredge-up and the Period-Luminosity-Mass-Abundance relation of AGB stars"

J. Weingrill, S. Barnes, K. Strassmeier, T. Granzer (Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik): WIYN 3 "Radial velocity membership for the open cluster M 48"

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

159 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015

KPNO Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Foreign Programs (10) and Foreign Telescope(s) Nights

Theses (3) ♣

Foreign Thesis Programs (3)

H. Jonsson (T), N. Ryde (Lund Observatory), K. Hinkle (NOAO), F. Matteucci, V. Grieco KP-4m 4 (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste), K. Cunha (Observatorio Nacional Brazil), P. De Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco, M. Schultheis (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur), V. Smith (NOAO): "The origin of fluorine in the Solar neighborhood: the possible contribution by Wolf-Rayet stars"

S. Yi, S. Oh (T) (Yonsei University), Y. Sheen (Universidad de Concepcion): "A WIYN 2 Spectroscopic Follow-up to Deep Optical Imaging for 3 Abell clusters at 0.04 < z < 0.08"

S. Yi, S. Oh (T) (Yonsei University), Y. Sheen (Universidad de Concepcion): "A WIYN 3 Spectroscopic Follow-up to Deep Optical Imaging for 3 Abell clusters at z ~ 0.08"

G.4 GEMINI OBSERVATORY

Gemini North and Gemini South. The US community has access to approximately 60% of the science time on each of the Gemini 8-m telescopes.

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

M. Alexander, M. McSwain (Lehigh U.): "Optical Spectroscopy of Two Gamma-ray binaries" GEM-SQ 1.57

S. Ammons (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of GEM-SQ 0.15 Astrophysics), B. Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Q. Konopacky (University of Toronto), B. Neichel (Gemini Observatory South), R. Galicher (Observatoire de Paris), E. Bendek (NASA Ames Research Center), O. Guyon (U. of Arizona): "A GEMS Probe for Superearths Orbiting Luhman 16AB"

A. Barth (UC Irvine) US Lead Scientist for J. Stern, J. Hennawi, J. Pott (Max Planck Institute GEM-NQ 1.5 fuer Astronomie): "Spatially Resolving the Kinematics of the ~100 uas Quasar Broad Line Region Using Spectroastrometry"

T. Beck (STScI), M. White (Australian National U.), M. Takami (ASIAA): "Characterizing GEM-NQ 1.5 "Typical" Jets from Young Stars"

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

160 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

E. Bell, D. Nidever, A. Monachesi (U. of Michigan), J. Bailin (University of Alabama), C. GEM-N 2 Slater (U. of Michigan), P. Price (Princeton U.): "The stellar halos and dwarf satellites of M82+/-1"

M. Bentz (Georgia State U.), C. Onken (Australian National U.), M. Valluri (U. of Michigan), GEM-NQ 1.38 M. Batiste (Georgia State U.): "A Stellar Dynamical Black Hole Mass for the Nearby Seyfert Galaxy NGC5273"

D. Berg, D. Erb (U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), C. Tremonti (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), R. GEM-NQ 0.52 Spiewak (O) (U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): "Ultra Extreme Star-Forming Galaxies: A Window On Low Metallicity Star Formation at High Redshift"

W. Blair (Johns Hopkins U.), P. Winkler (Middlebury College), K. Long (STScI): GEM-SQ 1.36 "Characterizing the Young Supernova Remnant Population in M83"

L. Bleem (Argonne Lab), M. Bayliss (Harvard Smithsonian), B. Benson (U. of Chicago), M. GEM-SQ 1 Brodwin (U. Missouri, KC), T. Crawford (U. of Chicago), A. Stanford (U. of California, Davis), A. Stark (Harvard Smithsonian)

J. Bochanski (Rider College), B. Willman (Haverford College), W. Brown, N. Caldwell GEM-SQ 5 (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. West (Boston U.), A. Brooks, M. Teyssier (Rutgers U.), K. Johnston (Columbia U.), A. Deason (UC Santa Cruz), R. Sanderson (Columbia U.): "The Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way"

B. Bowler (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), M. Liu (U. GEM-SQ 0.35 of Hawaii), B. Biller (University of Edinburgh), Z. Wahhaj (ESO): "Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Young Substellar Benchmark PZ Tel B"

B. Bowler (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science): GEM-NQ 1.8 "Reconnaissance of Young M Dwarfs: Confirming the Elusive Majority of Nearby Moving Groups"

B. Bowler (California Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), A. Kraus GEM-NQ 0.7 (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Liu (U. of Hawaii), S. Hinkley (University of Exeter), L. Hillenbrand (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), G. Herczeg (Peking University): "Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Planetary Companion ROXs12 b"

B. Burningham (NASA Ames Research Center), L. Smith (G), P. Lucas (University of GEM-NQ 0.21 Hertfordshire), D. Minniti (Universidad Andres Bello), H. Jones, D. Pinfield (University of Hertfordshire): "Characterising a very fast moving T dwarf in the Galactic Plane"

J. Carlberg (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), K. Cunha (Observatorio Nacional Brazil), GEM-N 1 V. Smith (NOAO), J. Do Nascimento, Jr (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Beryllium Abundances in Select Li-rich Red Giants as a Signature of Planet Engulfment"

S. Cenko (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), S. Kulkarni (California Institute of GEM-NQ 0.3 Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), I. Arcavi (UC Santa Barbara), L. Yan (IPAC), J. Bloom (UC Berkeley), G. Duggan (G) (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), A. GEM-SQ 0.3 Levan (University of Warwick), N. Tanvir (University of Leicester): "The Demographics of Tidal Disruption Flares"

161 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

C. Chen (STScI), Z. Draper (G) (University of Victoria), G. Duchene (UC Berkeley), P. GEM-SQ 0.8 Hibon (Gemini Observatory South), P. Kalas (UC Berkeley), B. Macintosh (Stanford U.): "Does the HR 4796 Debris Disk Contain Icy Grains?"

A. Chene (Gemini Observatory), N. St-Louis (University of Montreal), O. Schnurr (Leibniz- GEM-SQ 0.86 Institut fuer Astrophysik), A. Smith (Gemini Observatory): "WR 63: a new rare multiple massive star system"

J. Cook (Southwest Research Institute), F. DeMeo (Harvard U.): "Spectral Variablility of GEM-NQ 1.9 Charon"

C. Conroy (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) US Lead Scientist for J. Roediger GEM-SQ 1.5 (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), , S. Courteau (Queen's University), R. Schiavon (Liverpool John Moores University): "Towards a Panchromatic Understanding of Old Stellar Systems"

D. Crnojevic, D. Sand (Texas Technical University), M. Rejkuba (ESO), G. Da Costa GEM-SQ 1.87 (Australian National U.), S. Pasetto (Mullard Space Science Laboratory), E. Grebel (Astronomoisches Rechen Institute), N. Caldwell (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), P. Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), A. Seth (University of Utah), J. Simon (Carnegie Observatories), J. Strader (Michigan State U.), E. Toloba (UC Santa Cruz): "Environment and the evolution at low-mass galactic scales: clues from the Cen A group"

I. Crossfield (Lunar and Planetary Lab), I. Snellen, M. Kenworthy, T. Meshkat (G) (Leiden GEM-SQ 1.7 University), B. Biller (University of Edinburgh), D. Apai (U. of Arizona): "Exometeorology: Searching for Weather on Beta Pictoris b"

B. Curd (O), K. Mukremin, A. Gianninas (U. of Oklahoma): "A Search for Massive White GEM-NQ 1.2 Dwarf Pulsators"

W. Dawson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D. Wittman, M. Bradac, N. GEM-N 1 Golovitch (G) (UC Davis), M. Bruggen, F. de Gasperin (Universitat Hamburg), M. Jee (UC Davis), J. Merten (University of Oxford), R. van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), D. Sobral (University of Lisbon): "Two Ideal Dark Matter Colliders"

W. Dawson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D. Wittman, M. Bradac, N. GEM-NQ 0.9 Golovitch (G) (UC Davis), M. Bruggen, F. de Gasperin (Universitat Hamburg), M. Jee (UC Davis), J. Merten (University of Oxford), R. van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), D. Sobral (University of Lisbon): "Two Ideal Dark Matter Colliders"

M. Drahus (CalTech-JPL), W. Waniak (Jagiellonian University): "Rotation of Main Belt GEM-SQ 0.8 Comets (South)"

G. Duchene (UC Berkeley), S. Thomas (NASA Ames Research Center), J. Patience (Arizona GEM-SQ 1.85 State U.), R. de Rosa (UC Berkeley), L. Pueyo (STScI), E. Nielsen (SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center), Q. Konopacky (UC San Diego): "Assessing the fundamental limits of multiple star formation"

S. Eikenberry (U. of Florida) US Lead Scientist for P. Jonker (SRON), M. Torres (SRON), GEM-SQ 0.9 D. Steeghs (University of Warwick), D. Chakrabarty (MIT): "The unique opportunity to determine the mass of an accreting neutron star: the eclipsing accretion powered X-ray pulsar SWIFTJ1749.4-2807"

162 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

R. Fesen (Dartmouth College), P. Lundqvist (Stockholm University), Y. Shibanov, D. Zyuzin GEM-NQ 0.15 (Ioffe Institute): "Near-infrared identification of the young pulsar J0205+6449"

D. Figer (Rochester Institute of Technology), N. Bastian, B. Davies (Liverpool John Moores GEM-SQ 0.34 University), M. Andersen (Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble): "Constraining the Properties of GLIMPSE-C01 - potentially the most massive young cluster in the Galaxy"

R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), M. Childress (Australian National U.), R. GEM-NQ 1.8 Covarrubias (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), L. da Costa (Observatorio Nacional Brazil), GEM-SQ C. D'Andrea (University of Portsmouth), T. Davis (University of Queensland), J. Frieman 2.16 (FNAL), R. Kessler (U. of Chicago), A. Kim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), C. Lidman (Australian Astronomical Observatory), M. Sako (U. of Pennsylvania), D. Scolnic (U. of Chicago), R. Smith (CTIO), M. Smith, M. Sullivan (University of Southampton), R. Thomas (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), W. Wester (FNAL), F. Yuan (Australian National U.): "DES Supernova Cosmology"

H. Fu (U. of Iowa), J. Hennawi (Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), D. McGinnis (G) (U. GEM-NQ 1.26 of Iowa), A. Cooray (UC Irvine), J. Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz), D. Keres (UC San Diego): "How Massive Galaxies Get Cold Gas: The Circum-Galactic Medium of Dusty Starburst Galaxies at z ~ 2"

P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame) US Lead Scientist for B. Tucker (Australian National U.), S. GEM-NQ 0.22 Margheim (Gemini Observatory South), R. Mushotzky, R. Olling (U. of Maryland), A. Rest GEM-SQ (STScI), E. Shaya (U. of Maryland), D. Kasen (UC Berkeley): "Catching Supernovae in the 1.12 Act with KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey)"

P. Garnavich (U. of Notre Dame) US Lead Scientist for B. Tucker (Australian National U.), S. GEM-NQ 0.13 Margheim (Gemini Observatory South), R. Mushotzky, R. Olling (U. of Maryland), A. Rest GEM-SQ 0.3 (STScI), E. Shaya (U. of Maryland), D. Kasen (UC Berkeley): "Catching Supernovae in the Act with KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey)"

D. Gies (Georgia State U.) US Lead Scientist for S. Caballero-Nieves (University of GEM-NQ 0.28 Sheffield), , P. Crowther (University of Sheffield), D. Kiminki (U. of Arizona), R. Matson (Georgia State U.), N. Wright (University of Hertfordshire): "Young Companions to Massive Stars in Cygnus OB2"

M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), K. Sharon (U. of Michigan), H. Dahle (University of Oslo), M. GEM-NQ 0.32 Bayliss (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Rigby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), T. Johnson (U. of Michigan): "Time delays for the sextuply-lensed quasar SDSS J2222+2745 from GMOS"

E. Glikman (Middlebury College), S. Djorgovski (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of GEM-NQ 1.11 Astronomy), C. Urry (Yale U.), M. Graham (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), S. Lamassa (Yale U.): "Dust-Reddened Quasars as Probes of Feedback and Co- Evolution"

M. Graham (UC Berkeley), D. Sand (Texas Technical University), J. Parrent (Harvard- GEM-SQ 1.83 Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), D. Howell, S. Valenti (UC Santa Barbara), P. Mazzali (Liverpool John Moores University), I. Arcavi (UC Santa Barbara), S. Kumar (O) (UC Berkeley): "Understanding the Power Source in Type Ia Supernovae with Nebular Phase Spectroscopy"

163 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

H. Guenther (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), P. Scheider (Hamburger GEM-NQ 0.3 Sternwarte), S. Wolk (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Proto-stellar jets in the making"

A. Hayes (Cornell U.) US Lead Scientist for P. Rojo (Universidad de Chile), E. Turtle (Johns GEM-SQ 0.4 Hopkins U.), M. Adamkovics (UC Berkeley), J. Lunine, P. Corlies (G) (Cornell U.): "Investigating seasonal changes in Titan's meteorology through cloud monitoring with GPI"

T. Henry, J. Winters (G) (Georgia State U.), E. Horch (SCSU): "Searching for Companions to GEM-NQ 4 Nearby Stars on Solar System Scales"

K. Hinkle, R. Joyce (NOAO): "The Nascent Planetary Nebula around Sakurai's Object" GEM-NQ 0.3 GEM-SQ 0.1

E. Horch (SCSU), W. van Altena, P. Demarque (Yale U.): "Defining the Metal-Poor Mass- GEM-NQ 0.49 Luminosity Relation"

E. Horch (SCSU), W. van Altena, P. Demarque (Yale U.): "Understanding the Metal-Poor GEM-NQ 0.42 Mass-Luminosity Relation”

D. Howell (UC Santa Barbara), D. Moon (University of Toronto), S. Valenti, I. Arcavi, C. GEM-NQ .9 McCully, G. Hosseinzadeh (G) (UC Santa Barbara), D. Sand (Texas Technical University), GEM-SQ .9 H. Marion (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Sullivan (University of Southampton), M. Graham (UC Berkeley), C. Baltay (Yale U.), C. Wheeler, J. Silverman (U. of Texas, Austin), E. Hsiao, M. Phillips (Carnegie Observatories), X. Wang (NTHU), L. Wang (Texas A&M U.), S. Crawford (SAAO), M. Childress (Australian National U.), S. Smartt (Queen's U. Belfast), A. Conley (U. of Colorado), M. Smith, B. Bassett (SAAO), E. Levesque (U. of Colorado), J. Vinko (University of Szeged), D. Rabinowitz, N. Ellman, R. McKinnon (Yale U.), R. Scalzo, B. Schmidt, F. Yuan (Australian National U.), R. Maartens (UWC), A. Tekola, E. Kasai (SAAO), H. Niu, G. Feng, A. Esamdin (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory): "The LCOGT Supernova Key Project"

S. Howell (NASA Ames Research Center), E. Horch (SCSU), M. Everett (NOAO), D. Ciardi GEM-NQ 3.62 (IPAC), J. Teske (Carnegie Institution of Washington): "Characterization of the Properties of Binary Exoplanet Host Stars"

H. Hsieh (PSI): "Observations of the Activity of Main-Belt Comets P/2010 R2, 233P, and GEM-SQ 0.6 313P"

S. Jha (Rutgers U.), R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), C. McCully (UC Santa GEM-NQ 0.5 Barbara): "Spectroscopy of Type Iax Supernovae"

I. Jorgensen (Gemini Observatory), M. Bergmann (Gemini Observatory South), K. Chiboucas GEM-SQ 3.05 (Gemini Observatory), S. Toft, A. Zirm (Dark Cosmology Center), R. Gruetzbauch (University of Lisbon), R. Schiavon (Liverpool John Moores University): "RDCSJ1252-2927 - stellar populations in a massive z=1.24 galaxy cluster"

B. Keeney, J. Stocke, C. Danforth (U. of Colorado), B. Wakker, B. Savage (U. of Wisconsin, GEM-NQ 2.2 Madison), S. Morris (University of Durham): "Confirming the Discovery of Massive 10^6 K Gas Reservoirs in Spiral-Rich Galaxy Groups"

164 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

M. Kilic (U. of Oklahoma), J. Hermes (University of Warwick), W. Brown (Harvard- GEM-SQ 0.4 Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Gianninas (U. of Oklahoma): "The First Pulsar + Pulsating White Dwarf System"

M. Knight (Lowell Observatory), C. Snodgrass (Open U.), B. Conn (Gemini Observatory GEM-SQ 0.7 South), T. Lister (Las Cumbres Observatory): "Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of activity"

M. Knight (Lowell Observatory), C. Snodgrass (Open U.), M. Kelley, S. Protopapa (U. of GEM-NQ 1.34 Maryland), B. Conn (Gemini Observatory South), T. Lister (Las Cumbres Observatory): "Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of activity"

A. Kraus (U. of Texas, Austin) US Scientist for M. Ireland (Australian National U.), , D. GEM-SQ 0.8 Lafreniere (University of Montreal), L. Cieza (Universidad Diego Portales), A. Sivaramakrishnan, M. Perrin (STScI), A. Greenbaum (Johns Hopkins U.), P. Tuthill (U. of Sydney), J. Lloyd (Cornell U.), S. Lacour (Observatoire de Paris), J. Patience (Arizona State U.), A. Cheetham (U. of Sydney), A. Rizzuto (U. of Texas, Austin), J. Carpenter (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), L. Pueyo (STScI), D. Principe (Universidad Diego Portales): "The Planetary Systems of Young Massive Stars"

M. Lacy (NRAO), S. Ridgway (NOAO), A. Sajina (Tufts U.), M. Jarvis (University of GEM-SQ 1.62 Oxford), E. Gates (University of California Observatories), D. Farrah (Virginia Polytechnic Institute), P. Jagannanthan (G) (University of Cape Town), A. Petric (Gemini Observatory), J. Afonso (University of Lisbon): "The highest resolution view of distant massive galaxies"

S. Lamassa (Yale U.), E. Glikman (Middlebury College), B. Trakhtenbrot (Zurich Institute for GEM-NQ 1.2 Astronomy), C. Urry (Yale U.), M. Brusa (INAF), F. Civano (Yale U.): "Unveiling Obscured Supermassive Black Hole Growth with Infrared Spectroscopy"

S. Leggett (Gemini Observatory), D. Pinfield (University of Hertfordshire), M. Gromadzki GEM-NQ 2.1 (Universidad de Valparaiso), M. Ruiz (Universidad de Chile), C. Morley (UC Santa Cruz), M. Marley (NASA Ames Research Center), D. Saumon (LANL), R. Kurtev (Universidad de Valparaiso), N. Lodieu (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), A. Day-Jones (University of Leicester), R. Smart (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino), J. Frith (Jacobs Technology), F. Marocco (University of Hertfordshire), V. Ivanov (ESO): "Characterizing new late-T and Y dwarfs at the faint limits of WISE"

K. Leighly (U. of Oklahoma) US Scientist for S. Gallagher (University of Western Ontario), , GEM-NQ 0.74 D. Terndrup (Ohio State U.), X. Dai (U. of Oklahoma): "Looking for Feedback Signatures in Quasar Outflows"

J. Li (PSI), M. Kelley (U. of Maryland), S. Wiktorowicz (UC Santa Cruz), B. Yang (ESO), L. GEM-SQ 0.95 Kolokolova (U. of Maryland): "The First Polarimetric Mapping of Ceres"

G. Liu, N. Arav, C. Chamberlain (G) (Virginia Polytechnic Institute): "IFU mapping of the GEM-NQ 1.08 most energetic BAL quasar outflows: C IV absorption"

J. Lomax, J. Wisniewski (U. of Oklahoma), M. Corcoran, T. Gull (NASA Goddard Space GEM-SQ 0.48 Flight Center), N. Smith (U. of Arizona): "Illuminating New Circumstellar Paramter Space Around Eta Car with GPI"

165 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

J. Lu (U. of Hawaii), W. Clarkson (U. of Michigan Dearborn): "Young Massive Clusters in GEM-SQ 2.25 the Milky Way"

K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.): "Testing Model Atmospheres with the Coldest Known GEM-SQ 0.68 Brown Dwarf"

P. Martini, S. Tie (G) (Ohio State U.), R. McMahon (University of Cambridge): "Search for GEM-SQ 1 z>6 QSOs with the Dark Energy Survey"

R. Mason, A. Chene (Gemini Observatory), P. Hibon (Gemini Observatory South), I. GEM-NQ 1.7 Jorgensen, K. Labrie (Gemini Observatory), J. Madrid (Gemini Observatory South), A. Petric (Gemini Observatory), M. Schirmer (Gemini Observatory South), J. Shih (Gemini Observatory): "Nearby velocity-offset AGN: signposts of double supermassive black holes?"

H. Melin (Space Environment Technologies), T. Stallard (U. of Leicester), J. O'Donoghue GEM-NQ 3 (Boston U.), S. Badman (Lancaster U.), S. Miller (U. College London)

D. Milisavljevic (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), R. Margutti, A. Kamble GEM-NQ 0.33 (Harvard U.), D. Patnaude (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Bietenholz (York University), J. Parrent, A. Soderberg, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), R. Fesen (Dartmouth College), P. Challis, J. Raymond (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), W. Fong (U. of Arizona): "The Unprecedented Supernova Metamorphosis of SN 2014C"

J. Monnier, A. Aarnio, F. Adams (U. of Michigan), S. Andrews (Harvard-Smithsonian Center GEM-SQ 1.05 for Astrophysics), D. Brenner (American Museum of Natural History), N. Calvet (U. of Michigan), C. Espaillat (Boston U.), T. Harries (University of Exeter), L. Hartmann (U. of Michigan), S. Hinkley (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), S. Kraus (University of Exeter), M. McClure (U. of Michigan), D. Wilner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Imaging Planet Formation in situ with Gemini Planet Imager"

N. Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory), D. Trilling (Northern Arizona U.), C. Thomas (NASA GEM-NQ 9 Goddard Space Flight Center), D. Polishook, F. DeMeo, R. Binzel (MIT), P. Abell (NASA Johnson Space Center), M. Person (MIT), M. Busch (CalTech-JPL), M. Willman (U. of GEM-SQ 2.6 Hawaii), E. Christensen (Lunar and Planetary Lab), T. Endicott (U) (University of Massachusetts, Boston), M. Hinkle (Northern Arizona U.), A. Thirouin (Lowell Observatory): "Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS)"

M. Pereira (U. of Arizona) US Scientist for C. Haines (Universidad de Chile), E. Egami, A. GEM-NQ 0.56 Babul (University of Victoria), G. Smith, F. Ziparo (University of Birmingham), A. Finoguenov (University of Helsinki), T. Rawle (European Space Astronomy Center): GEM-SQ 0.24 "LoCuSS: Pre-processing within X-ray-selected groups infalling into z~0.2 clusters"

J. Orosz, W. Welsh (San Diego State U.): "An optical search for black holes and neutron stars GEM-NQ 1.75 in the Kepler field"

J. Rajagopal, S. Ridgway (NOAO), D. Jewitt (UCLA): "Imaging and Astrometry of the GEM-SQ 0.46 Active Asteroid P/2010 A2"

J. Rajagopal (NOAO) US Lead Scientist for P. Tuthill (U. of Sydney), A. Cheetham (G) (U. GEM-S 0.5 of Sydney), K. Hinkle (NOAO), B. Norris (U. of Sydney), A. Greenbaum (G) (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Sivaramakrishnan (STScI): "The circumbinary disk and immediate environs of post- AGB stars at high resolution and deep contrast"

166 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

A. Rest (STScI), F. Bianco (NYU), R. Chornock (Ohio U.), A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia GEM-SQ 1.43 Universidad Catolica de Chile), D. James (CTIO), S. Margheim (Gemini Observatory South), T. Matheson (NOAO), J. Prieto (Universidad Diego Portales), R. Smith (CTIO), N. Smith (U. of Arizona), N. Walborn (STScI), D. Welch (McMaster U.), A. Zenteno (CTIO): "Spectrophotometric Time Series of eta Carinae's Great Eruption"

S. Rodney (Johns Hopkins U.), R. Foley (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), T. Matheson GEM-NQ 0.5 (NOAO), S. Jha (Rutgers U.): "The Next Frontier: High-Redshift Supernovae in the HST Frontier Fields" GEM-SQ 0.25

D. Sand (Texas Technical University), S. Valenti, D. Howell, I. Arcavi (UC Santa Barbara), GEM-NQ 1.35 M. Graham (UC Berkeley), J. Parrent (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), H. Marion (U. of Texas, Austin), L. Tomasella (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova): GEM-SQ 0.85 "Constraining Type Ia Supernova Physics with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy"

B. Sargent (Rochester Institute of Technology), M. Meixner (STScI), S. Srinivasan (ASIAA), GEM-SQ 0.59 D. Riebel (US Naval Academy), M. Otsuka (ASIAA), N. Patel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), C. Kemper (ASIAA), J. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology): "Confirming Inner Galactic Bulge OH/IR Stars' Identities with Flamingos-2"

K. Schlaufman (MIT), A. Casey (University of Cambridge), T. Beers (U. of Notre Dame), V. GEM-NQ 0.69 Placco (Gemini Observatory): "An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-Poor Stars" GEM-SQ 1.03

K. Schlaufman (MIT), A. Casey (University of Cambridge), T. Beers, V. Placco (U. of Notre GEM-NQ 2.65 Dame): "An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-Poor Stars" GEM-SQ 4.29

D. Schmitz (G) (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), P. Yoachim (U. of GEM-NQ 0.75 Washington), V. Debattista (University of Central Lancashire): "Central Kinematics of Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies"

K. Sharon (U. of Michigan), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), H. Dahle (University of Oslo), M. GEM-NQ 0.45 Bayliss (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Rigby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), T. Johnson (G) (U. of Michigan): "Multi Object Spectroscopy of the field of SDSSJ2222+2745: A cluster-lensed sextuple quasar"

K. Sharon (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), M. Bayliss (Harvard Smithsonian), M. Gladders (U. GEM-NQ 3.15 of Chicago), T. Johnson (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), J. Rigby (NASA Goddard ), E. Wuyts (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Pysik)

A. Skemer (U. of Arizona), C. Morley (UC Santa Cruz), M. Marley (NASA Ames Research GEM-NQ 2.9 Center), J. Faherty (Carnegie Institution of Washington), K. Allers (Bucknell U.), J. Fortney (UC Santa Cruz): "The First Spectrum of the Coolest Brown Dwarf"

A. Tokovinin (CTIO), E. Horch (SCSU): "Testing multiple-star formation with speckle at GEM-NQ 0.7 Gemini-N"

167 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

G. Tremblay (Yale U.), M. Gladders (U. of Chicago), S. Baum, C. O'Dea (Rochester Institute GEM-NQ 0.4 of Technology), K. Sharon (U. of Michigan), M. Bayliss (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), K. Cooke (Rochester Institute of Technology), H. Dahle (University of Oslo), T. Davis (ESO), M. Florian (G) (U. of Chicago), B. Husemann (ESO), T. Johnson (G) (U. of Michigan), J. Rigby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), E. Soto (G) (Catholic U. of America), E. Wuyts (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik): "Mapping the wreckage of a gas-rich major merger in a strong-lensing galaxy cluster"

S. Valenti (UC Santa Barbara), A. Jerkstrand (Queen's U. Belfast), D. Howell (UC Santa GEM-NQ 0.6 Barbara), D. Sand (Texas Technical University), I. Arcavi (UC Santa Barbara), M. Graham (UC Berkeley), C. McCully, G. Hosseinzadeh (G) (UC Santa Barbara): "Nebular observtions of SNe type II"

A. Verbiscer (U. of Virginia), W. Grundy (Lowell Observatory), D. Rabinowitz (Yale U.), S. GEM-SQ 0.75 Benecchi (PSI): "Superior Mutual Event of (79360) Sila-Nunam"

P. Winkler (Middlebury College), K. Long (STScI), W. Blair (Johns Hopkins U.): "Supernova GEM-NQ 0.8 Remnants in the Most Fertile Galaxy: NGC 6946"

P. Winkler (Middlebury College), K. Long (STScI), W. Blair (Johns Hopkins U.), J. GEM-SQ 1.91 Raymond (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Fast SNR Shocks and Cosmic Rays: Unique Opportunities in SN1006"

B. Yanny (FNAL), B. Santiago (UFRGS), K. Bechtol, A. Drlica-Wagner (U. of Chicago), J. GEM-SQ 0.964 Simon (Carnegie Observatories), E. Luque, A. Pieres, A. Queiroz (UFRGS), M. Maia, L. da Costa (Observatorio Nacional Brazil), D. James (CTIO): "Imaging Follow-up of Milky-Way companions revealed by the Dark Energy Survey"

S. van Velzen (Johns Hopkins U.), A. Rest (STScI), T. Weevers (Radboud University GEM-NQ 0.5 Nijmegen), P. Jonker (Netherlands Institute for Space Research), S. Hodgkin (University of Cambridge): "Reverberation mapping of stellar tidal disruption flares"

US Thesis Programs (45)

R. Alexandroff (T), N. Zakamska (Johns Hopkins U.), M. Strauss, J. Greene (Princeton U.), GEM-NQ 1.05 G. Liu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute), F. Hamann (U. of Florida), C. Villforth (U. of St. Andrews), N. Ross (Drexel U.), I. Paris (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste): "Rest-frame optical spectra of high-redshift, dusty, galaxy-wide quasar outflow candidates"

R. Alexandroff (T), N. Zakamska (Johns Hopkins U.), J. Greene (Princeton U.), F. Hamann GEM-NQ 0.9 (U. of Florida), D. Wylezalek (Johns Hopkins U.), M. Strauss (Princeton U.), G. Liu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute): "Quasar feedback at the peak of the galaxy formation epoch"

S. Ammons (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), K. Wong (ASIAA), C. Keeton GEM-N 1 (Rutgers U.), A. Zabludoff, K. French (T) (U. of Arizona), K. Umetsu (ASIAA), O. Guyon (NAOJ): "Studying the Most Powerful Gravitational Lens Telescopes with Suprime-Cam"

168 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

T. Barman (Lunar and Planetary Lab) US Lead Scientist for C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of GEM-SQ 0.25 Astrophysics), Z. Draper (T) (University of Victoria), Q. Konopacky (University of Toronto), J. Patience (Arizona State U.), P. Ingraham, B. Macintosh (Stanford U.), D. Lafreniere (University of Montreal), B. Matthews (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), F. Rantakyro (Gemini Observatory South), B. Gerard (T), M. Johnson-Groh (T) (University of Victoria): "GPI detailed spectroscopic and astrometric characterization of HR 8799cde."

C. Britt, T. Maccarone (Texas Technical University), P. Jonker (Harvard-Smithsonian Center GEM-SQ 0.9 for Astrophysics), M. Torres (SRON), R. Hynes (Louisiana State U.), C. Heinke (University of Alberta), D. Steeghs, S. Greiss (University of Warwick), C. Johnson (T) (Louisiana State U.): "Dynamical Mass Measurements of Eclipsing Candidate Black Hole Binaries Discovered in Quiescence"

S. Brittain, C. Adams (T) (Clemson U.), C. Dougados (Universidad de Chile): "HI emission GEM-NQ 0.4 lines from Herbig Ae/Be: A spectro-astrometric study with GEMINI/NIFS"

M. Brotherton, A. Myers, M. Mason (T) (U. of Wyoming), J. Runnoe (Pennsylvania State GEM-NQ 0.75 U.), Z. Shang (Tianjin Normal University): "Rest-Frame Optical Properties of Luminous z~3 Quasars: Testing Mass and Redshift Improvements"

A. Burgasser, D. Bardalez Gagliuffi (T) (UC San Diego), J. Sahlmann (European Space GEM-SQ 0.92 Agency), C. Gelino (IPAC), M. Zapatero Osorio (CAB): "Mass Measurements Across the Hydrogen Burning Limit: Astrometric Orbits for Spectral Binaries"

A. Burgasser, D. Bardalez Gagliuffi (T) (UC San Diego), J. Sahlmann (European Space GEM-SQ 2.27 Agency), C. Gelino (IPAC): "Mass Measurements Across the Hydrogen Burning Limit: Astrometric Orbits for Spectral Binaries"

K. Chanchaiworawit (T), R. Guzman (U. of Florida): "Spectroscopic Confirmation of LAE GEM-SQ 4.6 Candidates at z=6.5: Evidence of the highest redshift protocluster"

Y. Chiang (U. of Texas, Austin), R. Overzier (Observatorio Nacional Brazil), G. Blanc (U. de GEM-NQ 1.55 Chile), K. Gebhardt (U. of Texas, Austin), B. Vajgel (Observatorio Nacional Brazil), J. Toshikawa (National Astronomical Observartory Japan), N. Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), C. Casey (U. Texas, Austin), S. Finkelstein (U. of Texas, Austin)

I. Damjanov (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) US Lead Scientist for R. Bassett GEM-SQ 1.2 (T), K. Glazebrook, D. Fisher (Swinburne U.), R. Abraham (University of Toronto),: "Local Counterparts to High-Redshift Turbulent Galaxies: What are the Stellar Kinematics?"

T. Diamond (T) (Florida State U.), E. Hsiao (University of Aarhus), D. Sand (Texas GEM-NQ 0.21 Technical University), G. Folatelli (Instituto de Astrofisica de La Plata), P. Hoeflich (Florida State U.), M. Phillips (Carnegie Observatories), M. Stritzinger (University of Aarhus), H. Marion (U. of Texas, Austin): "Late-time near-infrared spectroscopy of SN 2014J"

169 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

T. Esplin (T), K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.): "Searching for the Bottom of the IMF" GEM-NQ 1.03

T. Esplin (T), K. Luhman (Pennsylvania State U.), E. Mamajek (U. of Rochester): "Searching GEM-SQ 0.72 for the Bottom of the Initial Mass Function"

J. Faherty (Carnegie Institution of Washington) US Lead Scientist for D. Opitz (T), C. Tinney GEM-SQ 0.43 (U. of New South Wales), , C. Gelino (IPAC): "Astrometry and Binarity of WISE Y dwarfs with MCAO"

A. Ghez, L. Meyer (UCLA), J. Lu (U. of Hawaii), T. Do (University of Toronto), S. Yelda GEM-SQ 1.44 (UCLA), B. Ellerbroek (Thirty Meter Telescope), M. Morris, E. Becklin (UCLA), M. van Dam (Flat Wavefronts), M. Schoeck (Thirty Meter Telescope), G. Witzel, B. Sitarski (T), A. Boehle (T) (UCLA): "Using MCAO to Enable Unique Test of General Relativity at the Galactic Center"

C. Grady (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) US Lead Scientist for T. Currie (Subaru GEM-SQ 0.5 Telescope), R. Cloutier (T) (University of Toronto), S. Kenyon (SAO), M. Kuchner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), A. Burrows (Princeton U.): "Confirming and Characterizing Two Young Planetary Companions with GPI"

J. Graham, B. Dawson (UC Berkeley), M. Fitzgerald (UCLA), P. Kalas (UC Berkeley), Q. GEM-SQ 0.22 Konopacky (UC San Diego), B. Macintosh (Stanford U.), C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), J. Patience (Arizona State U.), L. Pueyo (STScI), J. Wang (UC Berkeley), P. Hibon (Gemini Observatory South), E. Nielsen (Stanford U.), R. De Rosa (UC Berkeley), M. Millar-Blanchaer (T) (University of Toronto), K. Morzinski (U. of Arizona), A. Sivaramakrishnan (STScI), J. Chilcote (University of Toronto): "Astrometry of beta Pic b with GPI"

J. Graham, B. Dawson (UC Berkeley), M. Fitzgerald (UCLA), P. Kalas (UC Berkeley), Q. GEM-SQ 0.07 Konopacky (University of Toronto), B. Macintosh (Stanford U.), C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), J. Patience (Arizona State U.), L. Pueyo (STScI), S. Thomas (NASA Ames Research Center), J. Wang (T) (UC Berkeley), P. Hibon (Gemini Observatory South), E. Nielsen (Stanford U.), R. De Rosa (UC Berkeley), K. Morzinski (U. of Arizona), A. Sivaramakrishnan (STScI), J. Chilcote (University of Toronto): "Astrometry of Beta Pic with GPI"

J. Graham, P. Kalas (UC Berkeley) US Lead Scientist for M. Millar-Blanchaer (T) GEM-SQ 0.3 (University of Toronto), C. Marois (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), P. Hibon (Gemini Observatory South), C. Chen (STScI), D. Moon (University of Toronto), F. Rantakyro (Gemini Observatory South), S. Hinkley (University of Exeter): "Constraining the Dust grain population of Beta Pic's Inner Disk"

K. Gullikson (T), A. Kraus (U. of Texas, Austin): "Stellar Companions to A and B stars: GEM-NQ 0.57 Follow up Observations"

T. Henry, J. Winters (T) (Georgia State U.), E. Horch (SCSU): "Searching for Companions to GEM-NQ 4 Nearby Stars on Solar System Scales"

170 G. OBSERVING PROGRAMS & INVESTIGATORS FOR FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

Y. Hezaveh (Stanford U.) US Lead Scientist for K. Rotermund (T), S. Chapman (Dalhousie GEM-SQ 1.55 University), G. Holder (McGill University), J. Vieira (California Institute of Technology- Dept. of Astronomy), K. Husband (University of Bristol), T. Crawford (U. of Chicago), T. Greve (University College London), D. Marrone (U. of Arizona), M. Aravena (ESO), J. Carlstrom (U. of Chicago), J. Spilker (T) (U. of Arizona), B. Stalder, M. Ashby (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Detecting Dark Matter Subhalos with ALMA and GMOS-S/IFU using Strongly Lensed Submm Galaxies"

S. Ho (T), C. Martin (UC Santa Barbara): "Studying Galaxy Disk Structures and its Relation GEM-NQ 0.72 with Gas Accretion in z=0.15-0.3 Galaxies"

J. Holtzman (New Mexico State U.) US Lead Scientist for N. Ouellette (T), S. Courteau GEM-NQ 1.605 (Queen's University) T. Puzia (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), M. Cappellari GEM-SQ 0.395 (University of Oxford), P. Cote (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), J. Dalcanton (U. of Washington), A. Dutton (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik), E. Emsellem (ESO), L. Ferrarese (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics), M. McDonald (MIT), J. Roediger (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): "The Dynamical Properties and Velocity Function of Virgo Cluster Galaxies"

R. Jensen-Clem (G), D. Mawet (California Institute of Technology-Dept of Physics, Math, GEM-SQ 0.95 Astronomy), M. Millar-Blanchaer (T) (University of Toronto), J. Graham (UC Berkeley), H. Knutson (California Institute of Technology-Dept of Physics, Math, Astronomy), S. Wiktorowicz (UC Santa Cruz), M. Perrin (STScI): "The first detection of polarized radiation from exoplanets"

S. Kannappan, K. Eckert (T) (U. of North Carolina), D. Norman (NOAO), M. Norris (Max GEM-S 6 Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), E. Hoversten, D. Stark (G), A. Moffett (G), A. Baker (U) (U. of North Carolina), A. Berlind (Vanderbilt U.), S. Crawford (SAAO), I. Damjanov (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), I. dell'Antonio (Brown U.), R. Gonzalez (U. of Chicago), K. Hall (U) (U. of North Carolina), S. Khochfar (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik), A. Leroy (NRAO), Y. Lu (Stanford U.), C. Maraston (University of Portsmouth), S. McGaugh (Case Western Reserve U.), L. Naluminsa (G) (SAAO), J. Salzer (Indiana U.), J. Sellwood (Rutgers U.), P. Vaisanen (SAAO), L. Watson (Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE: The RESOLVE Survey in Stripe 82"

K. Krafton (T), G. Clayton (Louisiana State U.), J. Andrews (U. of Arizona), A. Bevan, M. GEM-NQ 0.99 Barlow (University College London), B. Sugerman (Goucher College), M. Meixner (STScI), GEM-SQ 0.55 M. Matsuura (University College London), D. Welch (McMaster U.), R. Wesson (ESO), M. Otsuka (Subaru Telescope): "Late-Time Dust Formation in Core-Collapse Supernovae"

A. Kraus (U. of Texas, Austin)US Lead Scientist for M. Ireland (Australian National U.),, D. GEM-SQ 0.8 Lafreniere (University of Montreal), L. Cieza (Universidad Diego Portales), A. Sivaramakrishnan, M. Perrin (STScI), A. Greenbaum (Johns Hopkins U.), P. Tuthill (U. of Sydney), J. Lloyd (Cornell U.), S. Lacour (Observatoire de Paris), J. Patience (Arizona State U.), A. Cheetham (U. of Sydney), A. Rizzuto (U. of Texas, Austin), J. Carpenter (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), L. Pueyo (STScI), D. Principe (Universidad Diego Portales): "The Planetary Systems of Young Massive Stars"

T. Liu (T), S. Gezari (U. of Maryland): "Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Variability Selected GEM-NQ 0.53 Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidates"

171 NOAO FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT FY 2015

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

T. Liu (T), S. Gezari (U. of Maryland): "Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Variability Selected GEM-SQ 0.48 Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidates"

R. Lunnan (T) (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), R. Chornock (Ohio U.), E. GEM-NQ 0.2 Berger (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "The Beast's Lair: Observing the Host Galaxies of High-Redshift Superluminous Supernovae from Pan-STARRS1"

B. Montet (T) (California Institute of Technology--Exolab), B. Bowler (California Institute of GEM-NQ 1.19 Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), L. Hillenbrand (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), A. Kraus (U. of Texas, Austin): "Fundamental Parameters of Pre-Main Sequence M Dwarfs"

B. Montet (T) (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), B. Bowler (California GEM-NQ 1.41 Institute of Technology--Div of Geo and Planetary Science), L. Hillenbrand (California Institute of Technology-Dept. of Astronomy), A. Kraus (U. of Texas, Austin), M. Liu (U. of Hawaii), E. Shkolnik (Lowell Observatory): "Fundamental Parameters of Pre-Main Sequence M Dwarfs"

D. Nielsen (T), E. Wilcots (U. of Wisconsin, Madison): "Probing the intragroup medium with GEM-NQ 0.4 bent double lobed sources"

J. Patience (Arizona State U.), C. Marois (National Research Council of Canada), T. Barman GEM-SQ 0.6 (U. of Arizona), A. Burrows (Princeton U.), R. De Rosa, J. Graham (UC Berkeley), P. Ingraham (Stanford U.), P. Kalas (UC Berkeley), B. Macintosh (Stanford U.), M. Marley (NASA Ames Research Center), A. Rajan (T) (Arizona State U.), P. Rojo (Universidad de Chile), D. Saumon (LANL), K. Ward-Duong (T) (Arizona State U.): "Monitoring the Atmospheres of the HR 8799 Planets"

S. Perlmutter, G. Aldering, T. Spadafora (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), C. GEM-NQ 0.85 Lidman (Anglo-Australian Observatory), I. Hook (University of Oxford), D. Rubin (Florida State U.), K. Barbary (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J. Nordin (Humbolt GEM-SQ 2.55 Univesity), B. Hayden, C. Sofiatti (T), P. Fagrelius (T), C. Saunders (T), K. Boone (T) (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): "See Change: Testing for time-varying dark energy with z > 1 supernovae and their massive cluster hosts"

V. Rapson (T), J. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology), M. Millar-Blanchaer GEM-SQ 0.6 (University of Toronto): "Polarimetric Imaging of the Protoplanetary Disks TW Hya and V4046 Sgr"

A. Rudy (T), C. Max (UC Santa Cruz): "Giant Flares and Non-Thermal Activity in the Crab GEM-NQ 0.35 Nebula"

A. Seth, C. Ahn (T) (University of Utah), S. Mieske (ESO), R. McDermid (Macquarie U.), W. GEM-NQ 1.27 Boschi (Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), H. Baumgardt (University of Queensland), J. Strader (Michigan State U.), M. den Brok (University of Utah), L. Spitler (Macquarie U.), N. Neumayer (Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), A. Romanowsky (San Jose State U.), I. Chilingarian (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Hilker (ESO): "A Survey of Massive Black Holes in Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies"

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Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Programs for US Time (93) and US Telescope(s) Nights Theses (45)♣

A. Seth (University of Utah) US Lead Scientist for A. Feldmeier (T) (ESO), N. Neumayer GEM-SQ 3.76 (Max Planck Institute fuer Astronomie), M. Kissler-Patig (Gemini Observatory South), R. Schoedel (CSIC), M. Hilker, H. Kuntschner (ESO), N. Luetzgendorf (European Space Agency (ESTEC)), T. de Zeeuw (ESO), J. Walcher (Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik), A. Mastrobuono-Battisti, H. Perets (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology): "The Milky Way nuclear star cluster as a benchmark for the structure and build-up of galactic nuclei"

P. Szkody (U. of Washington), A. Pala (T), B. Gaensicke, O. Toloza (G), C. Manser (G) GEM-NQ 1.35 (University of Warwick), M. Schreiber, M. Zorotovic (Universidad de Valparaiso), T. Marsh (University of Warwick), L. Bildsten (UC Santa Barbara), D. Townsley (University of Alabama), D. de Martino (Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte), C. Knigge (University of Southampton), K. Long (STScI), I. Hubeny (U. of Arizona), A. Henden (AAVSO), P. Godon, E. Sion (Villanova U.): "Do white dwarfs in cataclysmic varibales grow in mass?"

M. Wilson (T) (U. of Arizona), H. Chen (U. of Chicago), A. Zabludoff (U. of Arizona), F. GEM-N 2 Zahedy (G) (U. of Chicago): "Spatially Resolving the Circumgalactic Medium at z=0.2-0.9"

A. von der Linden, S. Allen (Stanford U.), A. Mantz (U. of Chicago), A. Wright (T) (Stanford GEM-N 2 U.), D. Applegate (Universitat Bonn), P. Kelly (UC Berkeley), G. Morrison (Stanford U.), D. Rapetti (Dark Cosmology Center): "Weighing the f_gas Giants"

Gemini Telescopes: 2015A and 2015B Approved Foreign Programs for US Time (3) and Telescope(s) Nights Theses (2)♣

Foreign Programs (3)

M. Drahus, W. Waniak (Jagiellonian University): "Disruption of the Active Asteroid P/2012 GEM-NQ 0.7 F5 (Gibbs)"

D. Mast (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas), G. Caminha (Universita di Ferrara), M. GEM-NQ 0.3 Makler (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas), R. Diaz (Gemini Observatory South), K. Menendez-Delmestre, A. Charbonnier, T. Goncalves (Observatorio do Valongo), V. Motta (Universidad de Valparaiso): "Integral Field Spectroscopy of Arcs - Unveiling the hundreds pc of star-forming galaxies at redshift ~0.7 to 2.5"

B. Miller (Gemini Observatory South), T. Puzia (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), R. GEM-NQ 2 Sanchez-Janssen (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics): "Globular Cluster Spectroscopy of dEs in the Local Volume"

Foreign Theses (2)

R. Sung (T), S. Lai, T. Hsieh (G) (NTHU): "Mass Accretion Rate of Very Low Luminosity GEM-NQ 0.25 Objects"

R. Sung (T), S. Lai, T. Hsieh (G) (NTHU): "Mass Accretion Rate of Very Low Luminosity GEM-SQ 0.09 Objects"

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G.5 COMMUNITY ACCESS TO PRIVATE TELESCOPES An agreement between Georgia State University and NOAO led to community access of 50 hours per year to the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) optical interferometer located at Mt. Wilson. In addition, an agreement between the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and NOAO/CTIO allows a time exchange between the two observatories of up to 10 nights per semester, providing the US community access to the Australian Astronomical Telescope (AAT).

Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy 2015

CHARA Telescope: 2015 Approved US Programs (3) Telescope Nights

E. Baines (Naval Research Laboratory), M. Dollinger, A. Hatzes, E. Guenther CHARA 2 (Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenberg), M. Hrudkovu (Isaac Newton Group): "CHARA Array Measurements of Five Stellar Oscillators"

M. Kishimoto (Kyoto Sangyo University), R. Antonucci (UC Santa Barbara), S. Hoenig CHARA 2 (University of Southampton), F. Millour (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur), K. Tristram (ESO), G. Weigelt (Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie): "Scrutinizing AGN thermal emission at the highest spatial resolution"

I. Mendigutia, R. Oudmaijer (University of Leeds): "The H(alpha) line forming region of CHARA 1 Herbig Ae/Be stars"

Australian Astronomical Observatory 2015A and 2015B

Anglo-Australian Telescope: 2015A and 2015B Approved US Programs (5) and US Telescope Nights Theses (2)

A. Baker, E. Gawiser (Rutgers U.), S. Kannappan (U. of North Carolina), K. Sheth AAT 4 (NRAO), A. Lopez-Sanchez (Australia Telescope National Facility), S. Blyth (University of Cape Town), B. Holwerda (Leiden University), M. Jarvis (University of Oxford), N. Maddox (University of Cape Town), R. Somerville (Rutgers U.), M. Vaccari (UWC), A. Wasserman (U), J. Wu (G) (Rutgers U.): "Redshifts in the LADUMA Field to z ~ 0.6"

J. Cummings (Johns Hopkins U.), J. Kalirai, P. Tremblay (STScI), D. Geisler, F. Mauro AAT 2 (Universidad de Concepcion), C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.): "Survey of High-Mass White Dwarfs In Nearby Open Clusters"

C. Deliyannis (Indiana U.), B. Anthony-Twarog, B. Twarog (U. of Kansas), J. AAT 2 Cummings (Johns Hopkins U.), J. King (Clemson U.), A. Steinhauer (State University of New York Geneseo): "Li and Na in NGC 6752: Constraints for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, mixing on the Red Giant Branch, and Multiple Globular Cluster Populations"

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M. Geha (Yale U.), R. Wechsler (Stanford U.), R. Munoz (Universidad de Chile), E. AAT 3 Tollerud (Yale U.), B. Weiner (U. of Arizona): "The SAGA Project: Searching for Dwarf Galaxy Satellites Around Milky Way Analogs"

E. Young, L. Young, M. Buie, C. Olkin (Southwest Research Institute): "A Bright AAT 1 Occultation by Pluto Immediately Preceding the New Horizons Flyby"

US Thesis Programs (2)

J. Rodriguez (T), M. Lund (G) (Vanderbilt U.), J. Pepper (Lehigh U.), K. Stassun AAT 2 (Vanderbilt U.), K. Colon (Lehigh U.), R. Siverd (O) (Las Cumbres Observatory), D. James (CTIO), R. Kuhn (SAAO), J. Labadie-Bartz (G) (Lehigh U.): "Measuring the Masses of the Brightest Transiting Exoplanets from KELT- South with High-Precision Radial Velocities from AAT"

J. Rodriguez (T), M. Lund (G) (Vanderbilt U.), J. Pepper (Lehigh U.), K. Stassun AAT 2 (Vanderbilt U.), K. Colon (Lehigh U.), R. Siverd (O) (Vanderbilt U.), D. James (CTIO), R. Kuhn (G) (SAAO), J. Labadie-Bartz (G) (Lehigh U.): "Confirming the Brightest Transiting Exoplanets from KELT-South with High- Precision Radial Velocities from AAT"

Anglo-Australian Telescope: 2015A and 2015B Approved Foreign Programs (1) Telescope Nights

A. Kunder (Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik), A. Walker (CTIO), C. Johnson (Harvard- AAT 4 Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), R. Rich (UCLA), J. Storm (Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik), G. Bono (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), M. Cordero (Zentrum fur Astronomie der Universitat Heidelberg): "Bulge RR Lyrae Radial Velocity Assay"

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H BROADENING PARTICIPATION

NOAO is committed to fostering, encouraging, and enhancing geographic, gender, ethnic, and racial diversity among its employees and programs in promoting astronomical research. NOAO is proud to assist in preparing diverse, globally engaged science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities. The focus is to broaden participation from underrepresented groups, institutions that do not have access to activities in astronomy (especially smaller institutions and institutions with high percentages of underrepresented groups), and geographic areas that have not had the opportunity to participate in the field of astronomy. NOAO’s activities in this area are spearheaded by the NOAO Diversity Advocate (DA). She participates in a broad range of activities chosen to advance the goals of diversity and broader participation, as well as improve workplace climate. The DA participated in a number of activities this year to broaden participation of underrepresented minorities in the astronomy enterprise, that is, in scientific, engineering, and technological development for astronomy. Specific broadening participation activities are listed below.

AURA/NOAO Diversity Advocate Activities

¡ Served as panelist for the “State of the Universe” congressional briefing on the importance of diversity in astronomy (January 2015)

¡ Served on search committee for NOAO Associate Director hire (February–August 2015)

¡ Helped organize and attended ASTRO sessions at the National Society of Black Physicists (February 2015).

¡ Helped organize, attended, and gave a presentation at the Inclusive Astronomy 2015 conference (July 2015)

¡ Gave presentations on unconscious bias to search committees and staff at NSO (March), NOAO (March), and Gemini (August 2015).

¡ Diversity advocate was on sabbatical at Howard University from mid-January to mid-July.

Staff Diversity

The total number of employees at NOAO North and South during FY15 was approximately 273. Of those, approximately 97 are staff in Chile who are local hires (89 males and 8 females) employed under a collective bargaining agreement that is renegotiated every two years. FY15 demographics for the NOAO workforce, new hires, and promotions are illustrated below, with separate tables for the US-hired and expatriate staff and the Chilean local hires.

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Workforce Demographics

Table H-1: NOAO FY15 US-Hired Workforce Demographics*

MALES FEMALES

Total JOB GROUP Employees Total Males Total American Asian American Black/African Latino Hispanic or Other Native Hawaiin/or Pacific Islander Races More or Two White Females Total American Asian American Black/African Latino Hispanic or Other Native Hawaiin/or Pacific Islander Races More or Two White Indian/Alaskan Native Indian/Alaskan Native Managers and Executives 13 8 8 5 1 4

First-Level Managers 12 11 11 1 1

Professional, Science 37 26 5 2 19 11 1 1 1 8

Professional, Technical 26 23 3 20 3 3

Professional, Business 4 1 1 3 3

Operatives 1 1 1 0

Adminstrative 24 5 1 4 19 4 15

Sales Workers 1 0 1 1

Service Workers 8 5 2 1 2 3 3

Skilled Craft/Trades 15 15 2 1 5 7 0

Technicians 28 28 1 1 1 1 24 0

Laborers/Helpers 7 0 7 1 6

TOTAL 176 123 6 5 3 13 0 1 95 53 4 2 1 1 0 1 44 *Includes US-hired and expatriate staff (excludes temporary staff). Chileans employees are included in Table H-2.

Table H-2: NOAO South FY15 Chilean Workforce Demographics*

MALES FEMALES

Total JOB GROUP Employees Total Males Total American Indian/Alaskan Native Asian American Black/African Latino Hispanic or Pacific Islander Other Native Hawaiin/or Races More or Two White Females Total American Indian/Alaskan Native Asian American Black/African Latino Hispanic or Pacific Islander Other Native Hawaiin/or Races More or Two White Managers and Executives 0 0 0

First-Level Managers 8 7 7 1 1

Professional, Science 1 1 1 0

Professional, Technical 34 31 30 1 3 3 0

Professional, Business 0 0 0 0 0

Operatives 2 2 2 0

Adminstrative 11 7 7 4 4

Sales Workers 0 0 0

Service Workers 7 7 7 0

Skilled Craft/Trades 13 13 13 0

Technicians 21 21 21 0 0

Laborers/Helpers 0 0 0

TOTAL 97 89 0 0 0 88 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 * Includes Chilean permanent and temporary staff. US-hired and expatriate staff are included in Table H-1.

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New Hires Demographics

Table H-3: NOAO FY15 New US Hires*

MALES FEMALES

Total JOB GROUP Employees Asian White Asian White Native Native Total Males Total Total Females Total Pacific Islander Pacific Islander Hispanic or Latino Hispanic or Latino Hispanic or Two or More Races More or Two Races More or Two Black/African American Black/African American Black/African Native Hawaiin/or Other Other Native Hawaiin/or Other Native Hawaiin/or American Indian/Alaskan American Indian/Alaskan

Managers and Executives 0 0 0

First-Level Managers 1 1 1 0

Professional, Science 1 0 1 1

Professional, Technical 2 1 1 1 1

Professional, Business 0 0 0

Operatives 0 0 0

Adminstrative 1 1 1 0

Sales Workers 1 0 1 1

Service Workers 0 0 0

Skilled Craft/Trades 0 0 0

Technicians 2 2 1 1 0

Laborers/Helpers 0 0 0

TOTAL 8 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 % Of Total Hires 62.5% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 13% 50% 37.5% 13% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 25% *Includes US-hired and expatriate staff (excludes temporary staff). Chileans employees are included in Table H-4.

Table H-4: NOAO South FY15 Chilean New Hires*

MALES FEMALES

JOB GROUP Total Employees Asian White Asian White Native Native Total Males Total Total Females Total Pacific Islander Pacific Islander Hispanic or Latino Hispanic or Latino Hispanic or Two or More Races More or Two Races More or Two Black/African American Black/African American Black/African Native Hawaiin/or Other Other Native Hawaiin/or Other Native Hawaiin/or American Indian/Alaskan American Indian/Alaskan

Managers and Executives 0 0 0

First-Level Managers 0 0 0

Professional, Science 0 0 0

Professional, Technical 0 0 0

Professional, Business 0 0 0

Operatives 0 0 0 0

Adminstrative 1 1 1 0

Sales Workers 0 0 0

Service Workers 1 1 1 0

Skilled Craft/Trades 0 0 0 0

Technicians 4 4 4 0

Laborers/Helpers 0 0 0 0

TOTAL 6 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 % Of Total Hires 100.0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0.0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% *Temporary Employees Excluded

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Promotions Demographics

Table H-5: NOAO FY15 Promotions for US Hires*

Female Minority Total # of # of # of Female Minority JOB GROUP # of Females Incumbency Incumbency Incumbents Minorities Promotions Promotions Promotions % % Managers and Executives 13 5 38.5% 1 7.7% 0 0

First-Level Managers 12 1 8.3% 0 0.0% 0 0

Professional, Science 37 11 29.7% 10 27.0% 2 0 1

Professional, Technical 26 3 11.5% 3 11.5% 0 0

Professional, Business 4 3 75.0% 0 0.0% 1 0

Operatives 1 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0

Adminstrative 24 19 79.2% 5 20.8% 5 3

Sales Workers 1 1 100.0% 4 400.0% 0 0

Service Workers 8 3 37.5% 5 62.5% 0 0

Skilled Craft/Trades 15 0 0.0% 8 53.3% 0 0

Technicians 28 0 0.0% 3 10.7% 2 0

Laborers/Helpers 7 7 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0

176 53 30.1% 39 22.2% 10 3 1

*Includes US-hired and expatriate staff (excludes temporary staff). Chilean employees are included in Table H-6.

Total # of Female Minority # of Female Minority JOB GROUP # of Females # of Minorities Incumbents Incumbency % Incumbency % Promotions Promotions Promotions

Managers and Executives 0 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0

First-Level Managers 8 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 0

Professional, Science 1 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0

Professional, Tech. 34 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 0

Professional, Business 0 0 0.0% 0 0.0%

Operatives 2 0 0.0% 0 0.0%

Adminstrative 11 1 9.1% 1 9.1% 2 1

Sales Workers 0 0 0.0% 0 0.0%

Service Workers 7 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0

Skill Craft/Trade 13 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 5 0

Technicians 21 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 3 0

Laborers/Helpers 0 0 0.0% 0 0.0%

97 1 9% 1 1% 13 1 0 Table H-6: NOAO South FY15 Promotions for Chilean Staff Includes Chilean permanent and temporary staff. US-hired and expatriate staff are included in Table H-5. Categorization of NOAO staff by miority group is the same for North and South; therefore, most, if not all, Chilean staff are in a minority group.

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I GRANTS OBTAINED IN Q4

The following table lists the grant funding received by NOAO staff from non-NSF agencies during Q4 of FY15.

Principal Budget Period of Investigator Awarding Agency Title Amount Performance Amy E. Reines Space Science The Origin of Supermassive 65,459 8/1/15– David Silva Telescope Institute Black Holes 1/31/16

Verne V. Smith Jet Propulsion Precision Stellar 24,750 8/5/2015– Laboratory Characterization for Kepler 7/1/2017 Extended Mission (K2) Exoplanet Host Starts

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J SAFETY REPORT FOR Q4

South

During the fourth quarter of FY15, one incident and one accident were reported in NOAO South operations: 1. A gas leak in the boiler area of the technician building on Cerro Tololo resulted in a small grass fire, quickly controlled using a fire extinguisher. The incident was investigated by the NOAO-S safety engineer and separately by the gas supplier. It was determined that the leak was the result of improper installation of a pressure regulator during renovation of the gas distribution system by a subcontractor working for the gas supplier. It was then realized that a similar problem may have been the cause of the gas leak at the Pachón clinic reported in Q3. The gas supplier has addressed both the physical problem and the procedural issues that led to it, and the entire gas system has been reviewed by an independent inspector. 2. A worker suffered a burn on his hand while manipulating a faulty electric cable. The incident has been investigated and analyzed, and appropriate measures, including additional staff training, have been taken to prevent a recurrence.

The work to remediate asbestos in the Blanco building got underway in September. The work is proceeding floor by floor, with the work area carefully sealed and access restricted to properly trained personnel with appropriate EPP. Levels of airborne asbestos are being monitored to ensure they stay within safe limits. The contractor is coordinating closely with the NOAO South safety and environment engineer on all safety aspects and with the manager of the TelOps group to minimize disruption of normal operations. Completion of the work is expected to take approximately three months. During the reporting period, the safety and environment engineer performed a series of other preventive and coordination activities, which are summarized below: • Presentations to observatory staff on Tololo and in La Serena on the risks of asbestos exposure and the work being carried out to prevent it • Support of activities related to implementation of the new policlinic facility on Cerro Pachón • Coordination of the regular recharging of fire extinguishers and training activities for observatory staff in the use of fire extinguishers • Monthly meetings with representatives of paramedic contractor ESACHS • Regular inspections of work areas, and purchase and revision of personal safety equipment • Participation in a course on Safe Handling of Asbestos, held by the ACHS & Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña

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North

During the fourth quarter various safety activities occurred on Kitt Peak and the Tucson offices. They are as follows:

Kitt Peak • The Kitt Peak annual elevator inspection was performed. The public elevator needs cabling replaced by 1 December 2015, and we are obtaining quotes. • DESI CD-2 Review for Department of Energy was completed, and we are preparing for CD-3. • Tube weights at the 4-m telescope, during maintenance shutdown, were removed, inspected, and cleaned and then put back into the telescope with no safety issues. • The switchgear at the 4-m telescope was replaced during the annual outage. • Three workers compensation injuries occurred: 1. During shutdown, an employee was working on the dome rails, trying to loosen a bearing with a hammer, when a piece of metal flew off and struck him in the arm. The following morning the injury began to swell, and it was discovered that the puncture wound had a piece of metal stuck inside. It was removed and two stitches were applied. No further issues were reported. 2. An employee had injuries to her back/vertebrae while moving the WIYN telescope and is on light duty. Normal job activities were being performed when the accident occurred. 3. A student employee tripped over a rock while loading a van at night and sprained her knee. • Three incidents occurred: 1. An employee’s hands were pinched when a jack collapsed under the Levine 16” mirror. Only bruising occurred. Discussions were held with all involved on written procedures and job hazards prior to doing actual work to prevent this from happening again. 2. A cook caught the nail and tip of his finger while slicing green onions and took a piece out of his finger. No stitches were required; first aid was rendered. 3. An employee caught her foot on the edge of the rug at the Visitor Center and fell down, striking her head on the doorframe. A review of the incident with the employee and witnesses was completed. Employee is okay. • Progress continues with clean-up of the Lake for fire protection. • Safety meeting with potential candidates for the WIYN telescope through NASA was held. • General clean-up of the mountain is being performed without any safety issues. • Progress on safety items for the SE Annex platform is ongoing (rails, toe boards).

Tucson • Removal of batteries and bulbs by Safety Kleen was completed. • Safety room in Central Facilities Operations at NOAO-Tucson was relocated so that the Employees Association could expand its exercise room. • Housekeeping personnel cut hand. After discussions with outside contractor, it was decided to remove this person from the premises due to the high probability of theft when the incident occurred. • A 911 call was made from the CFO location to report someone lying on the sidewalk near our property. Tucson officials responded. This was an outside incident not an NOAO employee. • Monthly contact with Marty White, the Safety Manager for the DESI project from LBL. • A Southwest Gas contractor capped and removed some piping for an abandoned gas line in the CFO parking lot. • The Safety Manager completed a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act refresher course.

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