Cycle 23 Approved Programs Phase II First Name Last Name Institution Country Type Resources Title 14066 Angela Adamo Stockholm University SWE GO 21 Hi-PEEC, Hubble imaging Probe of Extreme Environments and Clusters 14067 Chris Ahn University of Utah USA GO 1 Searching for a Supermassive Black Hole in the Brightest Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxy 14142 Loic Albert Universite de Montreal CAN GO 5 Direct Test of the Brown Dwarf Evolutionary Models Through Secondary Eclipse Spectroscopy of LHS 6343 14241 Daniel Apai University of Arizona USA GO 112 Cloud Atlas: Vertical Cloud Structure and Gravity in Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Atmospheres 14278 Daniel Apai University of Arizona USA AR 0 Scanning Red Skies: Contribution Functions for Interpreting HST Multi-Layer Observations of Ultracool Atmospheres 14186 Heddy Arab Space Telescope Science USA GO 4 Mapping dust extinction properties across the IC 63 Institute photodissociation region 14242 Nahum Arav Virginia Polytechnic Institute USA GO 9 Deep Multiwavelength Campaign on an AGN Outflow: and State University Absolute Abundances and the Warm Absorber Connection 14187 Vivienne Baldassare University of Michigan USA GO 3 Studying the nuclear morphology of a dwarf galaxy with a 50,000 solar mass black hole 14090 Gilda Ballester University of Arizona USA GO 12 New FUV diagnostics of the atmosphere of the hot-Jupiter HD 209458b with HST/COS 14068 Robert Barrows University of Colorado at USA GO 10 Resolving the Nuclear Regions of Confirmed Offset AGN Boulder 14091 Aaron Barth University of California - Irvine USA GO 2 Bulge structure and kinematics in an extreme spiral galaxy hosting megaparsec-scale radio jets 14069 Nate Bastian Liverpool John Moores GBR GO 25 Searching For Multiple Populations in Massive Young and Univeristy Intermediate Age Clusters 14118 Luigi Bedin Osservatorio Astronomico di ITA GO 66 The end of the White Dwarf Cooling Sequences of Omega Padova Centauri 14279 Eric Bell University of Michigan USA AR 0 A model-independent assessment of the effects of dust attenuation at 0.5<z<1 on HST-derived F814W galaxy morphologies, structures and luminosities 14092 Susan Benecchi Planetary Science Institute USA GO 19 Collisional Processing in the Kuiper Belt and Long-Range KBO Observations by New Horizons 14070 Philip Bennett Eureka Scientific Inc. USA GO 2 A Red Supergiant Mass Accurate to 1% 14093 Danielle Berg University of Wisconsin - USA GO 2 Stellar Populations and Physical Conditions at ~100 pc Milwaukee Resolution in a Lensed Galaxy at z ~ 4 1 6/30/15 Cycle 23 Approved Programs Phase II First Name Last Name Institution Country Type Resources Title 14218 Zachory Berta-Thompson Massachusetts Institute of USA GO 40 The Atmospheres of Two Low-Mass, Low-Density Technology Exoplanets Transiting a Young Star 14119 Luciana Bianchi The Johns Hopkins University USA SNAP 104 Understanding Stellar Evolution of Intermediate-Mass Stars from a New Sample of SiriusB-Like Binaries 14188 Beth Biller University of Edinburgh, GBR GO 5 Exometeorology: Characterizing Weather on a Young Free- Institute for Astronomy Floating Planet 14256 John Biretta Space Telescope Science USA GO 2 High-Precision Proper Motions in the M87 Jet Institute 14219 John Blakeslee Dominion Astrophysical CAN GO 34 Homogeneous Distances and Central Profiles for MASSIVE Observatory Survey Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes 14257 Dennis Bodewits University of Maryland USA GO 10 Far UV spectroscopic measurements of the deuterium abundance of comets 14189 Adam Bolton University of Utah USA GO 21 Quantifying Cold Dark Matter Substructure with a Qualitatively New Gravitational Lens Sample 14258 Howard Bond The Pennsylvania State USA GO 8 The Nature of SPIRITS Mid-Infrared Extragalactic Transients University 14071 Sanchayeeta Borthakur The Johns Hopkins University USA GO 100 How are HI Disks Fed? Probing Condensation at the Disk- Halo Interface 14094 Vincent Bourrier Observatoire de Geneve CHE GO 13 Characterization of the extended atmosphere and the nature of the hot super-Earth 55 Cnc e and the warm Jupiter 55 Cnc b 14143 Vincent Bourrier Observatoire de Geneve CHE GO 18 Probing the nature and evolution of the oldest known planetary system through Lyman-alpha observations 14172 Brendan Bowler California Institute of USA GO 12 Imaging Accreting Protoplanets in the Young Cluster IC 348 Technology 14072 Martha Boyer NASA Goddard Space Flight USA GO 20 The Evolution of Metal-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars Center 14073 Martha Boyer NASA Goddard Space Flight USA GO 14 Assessing the Impact of Metallicity on Stellar Dust Center Production 14280 Marusa Bradac University of California - Davis USA AR Breaking Cosmic Dawn: Observing the z>~7 Universe Through Cosmic Telescopes 14095 Gabriel Brammer Space Telescope Science USA SNAP 117 Calibrating the Dusty Cosmos: Extinction Maps of Nearby Institute - ESA Galaxies 14120 Jarle Brinchmann Leiden Observatory NLD GO 24 He II emission as a tracer of ultra-low metallicity and massive star evolution 2 6/30/15 Cycle 23 Approved Programs Phase II First Name Last Name Institution Country Type Resources Title 14281 Alyson Brooks Rutgers the State University of USA AR 0 Small Statistics No More: a suite of simulated dwarf galaxies New Jersey to interpret observations 14144 Peter Brown Texas A & M University USA GO 7 An Ultraviolet View of Overluminous Type Ia Supernonovae 14282 James Bullock University of California - Irvine USA AR 0 Simulating Ultra-faint Dwarf Glaxies: The Hallmark of Reionization at the Threshold of Galaxy Formation 14283 Nell Byler University of Washington USA AR 0 Detangling Galaxy Spectra: A Baseline Calibration Using Resolved Stars 14121 Edward Cackett Wayne State University USA GO 27 Probing the accretion disk in the Seyfert 1 NGC 4593 14284 Benjamin Cain University of California - Davis USA AR 0 Measuring the Subhalo Mass Function with Flexion 14190 Nuria Calvet University of Michigan USA GO 11 Trickles of Accretion: Catching a Final Glimpse of Gas in the Disk 14285 Daniela Calzetti University of Massachusetts - USA AR 0 The Young Star Groups in Dwarf Galaxies Amherst 14286 Marios Chatzikos University of Kentucky USA AR 0 Deciphering the Fossil Record in Quasar Ionization Echoes 14145 Hsiao-Wen Chen University of Chicago USA GO 33 Characterizing Circumgalactic Gas around Passive Galaxies 14287 Ena Choi Rutgers the State University of USA AR 0 Triggering and Quenching: simulations and mock New Jersey observations of Active Galactic Nuclei and their hosts 14288 Yumi Choi University of Washington USA AR 0 A New Method to Measure the UV Escape Fraction from Galaxies 14122 Lise Christensen University of Copenhagen, DNK GO 20 Unveiling stellar populations in absorption-selected galaxies Niels Bohr Institute 14096 Dan Coe Space Telescope Science USA GO 190 RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey Institute - ESA 14243 Deirdre Coffey University College Dublin IRL GO 9 True Jet Rotation Probed in NUV Jet Core 14074 Roger Cohen Universidad de Concepcion CHL GO 32 Opening the Window on Galaxy Assembly: Ages and Structural Parameters of Globular Clusters Towards the Galactic Bulge 14123 James Colbert Jet Propulsion Laboratory USA GO 26 Does All The Lyman Continuum Emission Escape From Young, Low Mass Starbursts? 14191 Andrew Cole University of Tasmania AUS GO 7 The Star Formation History and Proper Motion of NGC 6822 14289 Michael Cooper University of California - Irvine USA AR 0 The Faint Galaxy Frontier: Galaxy Formation at the Extremes of Mass and Density in the Deep Fields 14124 Matteo Correnti Space Telescope Science USA GO 1 Pushing to Sub-Gyr Globular Cluster Ages: the IR CMD of 3 Institute NGC 6397 6/30/15 Cycle 23 Approved Programs Phase II First Name Last Name Institution Country Type Resources Title 14290 D. Crenshaw Georgia State University USA AR 0 What is the Impact of Narrow-Line Region Outflows on AGN Research Foundation Feedback? 14259 Denija Crnojevic Texas Tech University USA GO 20 Resolved halo substructures beyond the Local Group: the assembly histories of NGC 253 and NGC 5128 14146 Arlin Crotts Columbia University in the City USA GO 5 Light Echoes and Environment of SN 2014J in M82 of New York 14291 Neal Dalal University of Illinois at Urbana - USA AR 0 Backsplash as a probe of cosmology Champaign 14125 Matthew Darnley Liverpool John Moores GBR GO 20 A Remarkable Recurrent Nova in M31: The Leading Single University Degenerate Supernova Ia Progenitor Candidate(?) 14097 Imke de Pater University of California - USA GO 2 Giant impacts on giant planets Berkeley 14260 Drake Deming University of Maryland USA GO 111 A Metallicity and Cloud Survey of Exoplanetary Atmospheres Prior to JWST 14292 Cody Dirks Northwestern University USA AR 0 Investigating the Gas within the Planck Galactic Cold Clumps 14147 Hui Dong Instituto de Astrofisica de ESP GO 5 Opening a New Window towards the Nuclear Star Cluster in Andalucia (IAA) the Milky Way 14192 Michal Drahus Uniwersytet Jagiellonski POL GO 6 Hubble Close-Up of the Disrupting Asteroid P/2012 F5 14220 Trent Dupuy University of Texas at Austin USA GO 8 Mapping the Substellar Mass-Luminosity Relation Down to the L/T Transition 14098 Harald Ebeling University of Hawaii USA SNAP 132 Beyond MACS: A Snapshot Survey of the Most Massive Clusters of Galaxies at z>0.5 14126 Zachary Edwards Louisiana State University and USA GO 2 Startlingly fast evolution of the Stingray Nebula A & M College 14148 Eiichi Egami University of Arizona USA GO 5 Near-IR Imaging of Three Spectacular Lensed Submillimeter Galaxies Discovered by the Herschel