Science Program 2017A
A total of 207 new proposals were received for the 1 August submission deadline for Semester 2017A. The table below summarizes the approved observing programs for the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). Listed are the PI name, proposal ID, proposal title, maximum hours approved, and proposal type (Regular, Triggered, or Large). Proposals from previous semesters that were awarded time by NRAO in 16B are included. Also listed are HSA/GMVA proposals that include the VLA as a VLBI station.
For each approved program, the Proposal Finder Tool will have access to its authors, title, abstract, and total approved hours.
Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA)
| PI | ID | Title | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJ, Nayana | VLA/17A-162 | JVLA observations of SNR G353.6-0.7 aka HESS J1731-347 | 4 | Regular |
| AJ, Nayana | VLA/17A-167 | JVLA OBSERVATIONS OF THREE RADIO BRIGHT SUPERNOVAE | 1.5 | Regular |
| Alexander, Kate | VLA/17A-231 | VLA Follow-Up of DECam Optical Counterparts to ALV Gravitational Wave Events | 12 | Triggered |
| Alexander, Kate | VLA/17A-368 | VLA Follow-Up of Candidate Tidal Disruption Events with Late-Time Radio Emission | 7 | Regular |
| Añez, Nacho | VLA/17A-039 | Testing particle acceleration in the archetypal protostellar shock L1157-B1 | 2 | Regular |
| Armentrout, William | VLA/16A-371 | How Many H II Regions Are There In Our Galaxy? | 40 | Regular |
| Ashley, Trisha | VLA/17A-372 | HI in an Extremely Isolated Early-Type Galaxy KIG 870 | 3.9 | Regular |
| Banerji, Manda | VLA/17A-131 | The Cold Gas Reservoirs of Heavily Reddened Quasars Observed with ALMA | 30.3 | Regular |
| Banfield, Julie | VLA/17A-166 | The JVLA-SAMI Cluster Survey | 100 | Regular |
| Barnes, Ashley | VLA/17A-321 | The dynamics of ionised gas within the Galactic Centre | 15 | Regular |
| Barro, Guillermo | VLA/17A-097 | Gas mass and kinematics of compact SFGs at z~2: Witnessing the bulge formation | 23 | Regular |
| Basu, Aritra | VLA/17A-081 | A broad-band polarimetric study of an unbiased sample of radio-loud AGN | 23 | Regular |
| Basu, Kaustuv | VLA/16A-232 | A Radio Training Set for Galaxy Cluster SZ Scaling Relations | 17 | Regular |
| Blain, Andrew | VLA/17A-198 | Cold molecular gas in extremely luminous mid-IR-selected AGNs | 40.72 | Regular |
| Bogdan, Akos | VLA/17A-265 | Probing particle acceleration models with a spectacular merging galaxy cluster | 11 | Regular |
| Bonafede, Annalisa | VLA/17A-083 | Magnetic field amplification by low Mach-number shocks | 27 | Regular |
| Borthakur, Sanchayeeta | VLA/17A-090 | How are HI Disks Fed? Probing Condensation at the Disk-Halo Interface | 234 | Large |
| Bower, Geoffrey | VLBA/17A-247 | Proper Motions of Galactic Center Pulsars | 16 | Regular |
| Brinks, Elias | VLA/16B-224 | Probing the Radio Continuum - Star Formation Rate relation | 100 | Regular |
| Burkutean, Sandra | VLA/17A-332 | Morphological disturbance - a sure bet for finding giant radio halos ? | 16.266 | Regular |
| Cannon, John | VLA/17A-157 | Exploring the Complete Census of Nearby Low-Mass Galaxies from ALFALFA | 69 | Regular |
| Cannon, John | VLA/17A-240 | HI Imaging Of The Lyman Alpha Reference Sample | 253.5 | Large |
| Cantwell, Therese | VLA/17A-308 | Testing the Mass-State Relation for Galaxy Clusters with Diffuse Radio Emission | 19 | Regular |
| Castelletti, Gabriela | VLA/17A-186 | New JVLA spectral and polarimetric radio study of 3C58 in the S and C bands | 9.62 | Regular |
| Cesaroni, Riccardo | VLA/17A-005 | Dissecting the Disk Around a Massive Protostar | 2 | Regular |
| Chacon-Tanarro, Ana | VLA/17A-288 | Search of grain growth towards the center of the pre-stellar core L1544 | 12.27 | Regular |
| Chakrabarti, Sukanya | VLA/17A-224 | HI Maps of Strong Spiral Lenses | 56 | Regular |
| Chandra, Poonam | VLA/17A-133 | Tracing the late epoch evolution of SN 2010jl with the JVLA | 1.5 | Regular |
| Corsi, Alessandra | VLA/17A-237 | Radio follow-up of GWs during Advanced LIGO O3 | 45 | Triggered |
| Coutens, Audrey | VLA/17A-155 | Grain growth in the star-forming cluster rho Oph A | 13.8 | Regular |
| de Blok, Erwin (W.J.G.) | VLA/17A-256 | The Extreme Outskirts of HI Disks | 168 | Regular |
| del Palacio, Santiago | VLA/17A-009 | Search of synchrotron radiation in two interacting stellar bubbles (2nd part) | 1.334 | Regular |
| de Pater, Imke | VLA/17A-036 | Context Maps of Jupiter During Juno's Last MWR Orbit | 9 | Regular |
| Djordjevic, Julie | VLA/17A-130 | The Mystery of Missing Massive Star Formation in the Outer Galaxy | 29.49 | Regular |
| Drout, Maria | VLA/17A-226 | VLA Observations as a Probe of Mass Loss from the Progenitors of Luminous IIn SN | 8 | Regular |
| Dubner, Gloria | VLA/17A-291 | The complex system SS433/W50 revisited using the power of the JVLA | 6 | Regular |
| Dutta, Rajeshwari | VLA/17A-180 | Mapping the extended diffuse HI gas in a z~0.02 galaxy | 3 | Regular |
| Ebisawa, Yuji | VLA/17A-111 | Exploring Molecular-Cloud Formation in Heiles Cloud 2 with OH Observations | 10 | Regular |
| Eckert, Kathleen | VLA/17A-323 | An HI view of Quenching in Nascent Groups | 30.9 | Regular |
| Emonts, Bjorn | VLA/17A-174 | Light up the Darkness: the Cold Molecular Medium across a Giant Lya Halo at z~2 | 25.98 | Regular |
| Engelke, Philip | VLA/17A-388 | Structure of Dark Gas in Star-Forming Regions: OH Excitation Temperatures | 92 | Regular |
| Filho, Mercedes | VLA/17A-030 | HI Gas in the Halo of an Extremely Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxy | 9 | Regular |
| Fogasy, Judit | VLA/17A-003 | Star-forming galaxies in the vicinity of powerful AGN: wet-dry merger candidates | 4.43 | Regular |
| Fong, Wen-fai | VLA/17A-218 | Uncovering the Explosion Properties of Short Gamma-ray Bursts with the VLA | 19 | Triggered |
| Gendron Marsolais, Marie-Lou | VLA/17A-263 | Radio lobes dynamics in NGC 4472 | 9 | Regular |
| Giovannini, Gabriele | VLA/17A-024 | Magnetic field properties in the bridge at the periphery of the Coma cluster | 6 | Regular |
| Giovannini, Gabriele | VLA/17A-025 | Non-thermal properties of a homogeneous sample of high-redshift clusters | 33 | Regular |
| Gonzalez, Jorge | VLA/17A-227 | Resolving the molecular gas in a z~2 extremely lensed starbursting galaxy. | 27.9 | Regular |
| Gowardhan, Avani | VLA/17A-034 | Using dense gas observations at high redshift to test star formation paradigms | 12.1 | Regular |
| Greene, Jenny | VLA/17A-356 | The search for AU-scale supermassive black hole binaries | 2.25; HST Orbits: 6 | Regular |
| Greve, Thomas | VLA/17A-362 | CO and HCN J=1-0 measurements of ultra-bright Planck/Herschel sources at z~2-3 | 7.18 | Regular |
| Hada, Kazuhiro | VLBA/17A-318 | Ultra-deep imaging of the spine-sheath structure of the M87 jet | 36 | Regular |
| Hales, Chris | VLA/17A-380 | Probing The Diffuse Halo of M31 with Faraday Rotation | 16 | Regular |
| Harwood, Jeremy | VLA/17A-250 | VLA GHz survey of extragalactic sources in the XMM-LSS field (AGES-XL) | 25 | Regular |
| Hatsukade, Bunyo | VLA/17A-140 | Probing Obscured Star Formation in the Host Galaxies of Superluminous Supernovae | 16 | Regular |
| Heywood, Ian | VLA/17A-170 | Faint, diffuse radio structures in the XMM-LSS field | 22 | Regular |
| Hodge, Jacqueline | VLA/17A-059 | Molecular Astrochemistry in the Primeval Universe | 44 | Regular |
| Hogge, Taylor | VLA/17A-299 | Investigating the Young, Energetic High-Mass Star-forming Region G23.33-0.30 | 7 | Regular |
| Hunik, Dominika | VLA/17A-134 | ULTRA-STEEP SPECTRUM GIANT RADIO GALAXY WITH RECURRENT ACTIVITY IN ABELL 449 | 3.5 | Regular |
| Jencson, Jacob | VLA/17A-365 | Radio Observations of Obscured Supernova Candidates | 7 | Regular |
| Jonker, Peter | VLA/17A-270 | VLA observations of Gaia-discovered tidal disruption events | 24.6 | Triggered |
| Kamble, Atish | VLA/17A-274 | SN2016coi/ASASSN-16fp: Exceptional Case in Type Ic Supernovae | 6 | Regular |
| Klement, Robert | VLA/17A-330 | Revealing the structure of the outer disks of classical Be stars | 3.5 | Regular |
| Kurtz, Stan | VLA/17A-254 | Molecular and ionized content of the jet-outflow system in rare MYSO W42-MME | 16.5 | Regular |
| Lacey, Christina | VLA/17A-337 | Search for Radio Shocks from a SMBH Outflow in NGC 5195 | 14.52 | Regular |
| Lacey, Christina | VLA/17A-341 | JVLA Observations of Galactic SNRs with Synchrotron-Dominated X-ray Spectra | 18.32 | Regular |
| Lacy, Mark | VLA/17A-109 | A detailed study of the jet-galaxy interaction in Minkowski's Object | 4 | Regular |
| Leisman, Lukas | VLA/17A-210 | The Origins of HI-rich Ultra Diffuse Galaxies | 94 | Regular |
| Leung, T.K. Daisy | VLA/17A-021 | 2-kpc resolution imaging of the cold gas in a lensed obscured quasar at z>2 | 11.25 | Regular |
| Linford, Justin | VLA/17A-335 | Tempests, Not Bombs: The Complex Evolution of Nova Ejecta | 18 | Regular |
| Liu, Daizhong | VLA/17A-233 | Is the total molecular gas the key to the nature of the strongest starbursts? | 26.32 | Regular |
| Liu, Mengyao | VLA/17A-371 | The Earliest Phases of Massive Star Birth | 15 | Regular |
| Lopez-Caniego, Marcos | VLA/17A-027 | VLA polarimetry of Planck selected sources in the QUIJOTE cosmological field-III | 6 | Regular |
| Macias, Enrique | VLA/17A-385 | Thermal Free-free Emission in PMS Stars: Radio Jets and Photoevaporating Disks | 7 | Regular |
| Man, Allison | VLA/17A-064 | Detecting Cold Molecular Gas in Two Distant Massive Quenched Galaxies | 24.4 | Regular |
| Margutti, Raffaella | VLA/17A-238 | Mapping the Zoo of Engine Driven Explosions with Deep Radio Observations | 9 | Triggered |
| Ma, Yik Ki | VLA/17A-327 | Anomalous RM Sources: Completing the Census of Outliers vs Outliars | 2.5 | Regular |
| Ma, Yik Ki | VLA/17A-328 | RM Variability: A Tracer of Turbulent ISM or AGN Activity? | 7 | Regular |
| McDonald, Michael | VLA/17A-258 | Mapping Past and Present Radio Outbursts in the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster | 7.5 | Regular |
| Melis, Carl | VLBA/17A-282 | Pleiades Binaries for the Masses | 20 | Regular |
| Meng, Fanyi | VLA/17A-061 | Mapping the ionized gas content in Sagittarius B2 | 4 | Regular |
| Menten, Karl | VLA/17A-197 | A comprehensive Galactic plane radio wavelength star formation survey | 39 | Large |
| Menten, Karl | VLA/17A-214 | A Renaissance of CH Radio Observations | 15.5 | Regular |
| Milisavljevic, Danny | VLA/17A-351 | Mapping the Outer Limits of Cas A's Jets | 6 | Regular |
| Miller-Jones, James | VLA/17A-220 | Probing transient jet launching in stellar-mass black holes | 15.96; Swift ksec: 27 | Triggered |
| Mok, Angus | VLA/17A-060 | Environmental Effects on the HI Distribution of CO-detected Spiral Galaxies | 14 | Regular |
| Momjian, Emmanuel | VLA/17A-093 | Simultaneous Zeeman Observations of two 25GHz Class I Methanol Maser Transitions | 3 | Regular |
| Mooley, Kunal | VLA/17A-374 | JAGWAR: Jansky VLA mapping of Gravitational Wave bursts as Afterglows in Radio | 266 | Large |
| Morris, Mark | VLA/17A-363 | High-Latitude Magnetic Fields at the Center of the Galaxy: Bridging the Gap | 10 | Regular |
| Mulcahy, David | VLA/17A-143 | Exploring the Origin of the Diffuse Radio Emission in Merging Groups of Galaxies | 2.1 | Regular |
| Mulcahy, David | VLA/17A-213 | Resolving magnetic structures in Faraday space for NGC628 | 3.85 | Regular |
| Murphy, Eric | VLA/16B-319 | A JVLA Public Legacy Survey of the Frontier Fields: Abell 370 and Abell 2744 | 16.1 | Regular |
| Murphy, Eric | VLA/16B-320 | Unveiling the High-Redshift Universe Through A Deep 10GHz Survey of GOODS-N | 32 | Large |
| Nakashima, Jun-ichi | VLA/17A-132 | The Enigmatic Methanol Emission in IRAS 19312+1950 | 8 | Regular |
| Nandi, Sumana | VLA/17A-087 | A misaligned DDRG with double peak emission lines | 3 | Regular |
| Neeleman, Marcel | VLA/17A-279 | Molecular Gas Emission from an Absorption-Selected Galaxy at z=4.258 | 13.29 | Regular |
| Oteo, Ivan | VLA/17A-148 | Cold gas in the most luminous starbursts at z > 4 | 25 | Regular |
| Oteo, Ivan | VLA/17A-151 | A dense molecular gas survey at high redshift | 60 | Regular |
| Pajdosz, Urszula | VLA/17A-135 | Deep high-frequency observations of a hybrid blazar | 2 | Regular |
| Parekh, Viral | VLA/17A-187 | JVLA L-band observation of nearby radio relic cluster A168 | 5 | Regular |
| Pavesi, Riccardo | VLA/17A-011 | Molecular gas properties of "normal" galaxies at z~6 | 28 | Regular |
| Pearson, Sarah | VLA/17A-296 | The Baryon Cycle of Dwarf Galaxy Interactions | 28.6 | Regular |
| Pesce, Dominic | VLA/17A-177 | New Physics Using Lensed Masers: Cluster Motions, ISW Effect, and Redshift Drift | 11 | Regular |
| Poggianti, Bianca | VLA/17A-293 | Deep HI imaging of 15 Jellyfish galaxies | 100 | Regular |
| Pokhrel, Riwaj | VLA/17A-349 | Dense gas structures, envelope kinematics and stellar multiplicity of protostars | 18 | Regular |
| Qiu, Keping | VLA/17A-107 | JVLA NH3 survey of massive cores in Cygnus X | 24 | Regular |
| Raimundo, Sandra | VLA/17A-242 | Probing the gas disc of MCG--6-30-15 after an external accretion event | 3.5 | Regular |
| Rice, Thomas | VLA/17A-333 | Tracing the Origins of Earth's Nitrogen: Mapping NH3 in a Class 0/I Protostar | 15 | Regular |
| Riechers, Dominik | VLA/17A-037 | Cold Molecular Gas Content of Hyper-Luminous z=4-5 AGN-Starburst Systems | 19 | Regular |
| Riechers, Dominik | VLA/17A-099 | Dense Gas Excitation in z=2-4 Dusty Starbursts | 33.1 | Regular |
| Rivilla, Victor M. | VLA/17A-041 | Unveiling the chemistry of interstellar phosphorus | 6 | Regular |
| Rodriguez, Luis | VLA/17A-069 | The Nature and Present Position of Source n in the Orion BN/KL Region | 2 | Regular |
| Rodriguez, Luis | VLA/17A-084 | The Nature of the Centimeter Continuum Emission from epsilon Eridani | 2 | Regular |
| Route, Matthew | VLA/17A-260 | EVLA Survey of White Dwarfs | 25.3 | Regular |
| Rugel, Michael | VLA/17A-055 | Staring through the Milky Way: Atomic and molecular gas at high S/N in HI & OH | 18 | Regular |
| Salas, Pedro | VLA/17A-283 | Mapping the 18 cm-OH lines towards Cassiopeia A | 13.4 | Regular |
| Sanchez-Monge, Alvaro | VLA/17A-067 | Orbital structure of the Central Molecular Zone under scrutiny | 6.5 | Regular |
| Sandstrom, Karin | VLA/16A-275 | The Dust-HI-Star Formation Connection Across the Local Universe | 20 | Regular |
| Sandstrom, Karin | VLA/17A-073 | The Dust-HI-Star Formation Connection Across the Local Universe | 26 | Regular |
| Sarma, Anuj | VLA/17A-038 | Multi-epoch and Zeeman Observations of 44GHz Class I methanol masers in DR21(OH) | 6 | Regular |
| Sartori, Lia | VLA/17A-004 | Characterisation of Voorwerpjes with VLA: probing the environment of fading AGN | 11 | Regular |
| Schruba, Andreas | VLA/17A-149 | The Bottleneck of Star Formation - Formation and Collapse of a Cold Gas Phase | 8 | Regular |
| Seethapuram Sridhar, Sarrvesh | VLA/17A-206 | Probing the magnetized interstellar medium in the Pinwheel galaxy (M101) | 3 | Regular |
| Sharon, Chelsea | VLA/17A-088 | Disentangling AGN and Star Formation Effects on the Molecular ISM of z~2 SMGs | 48 | Regular |
| Sharon, Chelsea | VLA/17A-091 | Super-thermal Gas Excitation or Missing Flux? Peculiar CO Line Ratios at z~2-3 | 2.25 | Regular |
| Siegler, Matthew | VLA/17A-387 | Measuring Lunar Heat Flow | 3 | Regular |
| Sjouwerman, Lorant | VLA/17A-284 | BAaDE: Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamic Evolution (V) | 134 | Large |
| Smith, Krista | VLA/17A-267 | Directly Observing Feedback: Star Formation and Quenching in the BAT AGN | 25 | Regular |
| Spekkens, Kristine | VLA/17A-225 | Mapping the extragalactic environment of SN2009ip | 4 | Regular |
| Spekkens, Kristine | VLA/17A-246 | Using Dynamics to Measure Dark Matter: Completing the HI Component of RINGS | 46 | Regular |
| Spolaor, Sarah | VLA/17A-396 | Testing Neutron Star Origins for Fast Radio Bursts with VLA Fast Imaging | 190 | Regular |
| Svoboda, Brian | VLA/17A-146 | A Systematic VLA Survey of the Most Massive Starless Clumps within 5 kpc | 31.02 | Regular |
| Taylor, Rhys | VLA/17A-278 | The Nature of Optically Dark HI Clouds In The Virgo Cluster | 16 | Regular |
| TROJA, ELEONORA | VLA/17A-248 | VLA observations of a candidate radio flare from a neutron star merger | 1.5 | Regular |
| Uscanga, Lucero | VLA/17A-215 | Interferometric confirmation of four ``water fountain'' candidates | 6 | Regular |
| Vacca, Valentina | VLA/17A-243 | Magnetic field investigation in a cosmic filament of the large scale structure | 144 | Regular |
| van der Wiel, Matthijs | VLA/17A-172 | On the brink of star formation: ammonia mapping of the Oph A star-forming ridge | 14 | Regular |
| van Loon, Jacco | VLA/17A-190 | Star cluster gas expulsion in action - matching gas to dust | 30 | Regular |
| van Velzen, Sjoert | VLA/17A-383 | Jet-disk coupling in a tidal disruption event | 18.9 | Triggered |
| van Weeren, Reinout | VLA/16B-251 | JVLA Observations of the HST Frontier Fields Clusters A370 and AS1063 | 46.4 | Regular |
| Venemans, Bram | VLA/16A-160 | Molecular gas in bright quasar host galaxies at z~7 | 8 | Regular |
| Venemans, Bram | VLA/17A-336 | Molecular gas in bright quasar host galaxies at z~7 | 42 | Regular |
| Vidal, Matias | VLA/17A-355 | Measuring the spectrum of anomalous microwave emission in NGC2023 | 22.6 | Regular |
| Walter, Fabian | VLA/17A-251 | Calibrating Dust- and CO-derived ISM masses at high redshift with JVLA and ALMA | 68 | Regular |
| White, Jacob | VLA/17A-239 | Measuring the Emission from Sirius A's Stellar Atmosphere | 5.49 | Regular |
| Whittam, Imogen | VLA/17A-183 | High frequency properties of faint radio galaxies | 2.65 | Regular |
| Wilcots, Eric | VLA/17A-378 | Searching for Large-Scale Magnetic Fields in the Galaxy Group NGC 2563 | 20 | Regular |
| Williams, Peter | VLA/17A-272 | Rapid Rotation and Intensely Polarized Emission in a Radio-Active T Dwarf? | 6 | Regular |
| Williams, Peter | VLA/17A-346 | Quantifying the Impact of High-Energy Electrons on Low-Temperature Dwarfs | 4; HST Orbits: 2 | Regular |
| Wilner, David | VLA/17A-156 | The HR 8799 Planetary System Debris Disk | 8 | Regular |
| Yang, Aiyuan | VLA/17A-070 | Searching for Hypercompact HII regions from candidate positive spectrum objects | 3 | Regular |
| Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad | VLA/17A-152 | A Study of Atomic Gas in the Inner few Parsecs of the Galaxy Using CII RRLs | 4 | Regular |
| Zaw, Ingyin | VLBA/17A-399 | Resolving AGN Obscuration: NGC 1068 | 12 | Regular |
| Zhang, Hongxin | VLA/16A-074 | Gas Properties of a Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy Triggered by Dwarf-Dwarf Merging | 3.2 | Regular |
| Zhang, Maolin | VLA/17A-008 | The origination of the HI tail in the IC 1459 group | 20 | Regular |
| Zhang, Qizhou | VLA/17A-181 | Filaments and Massive Star Formation | 19.5 | Regular |
