Science Program 2019B
A total of 151 new proposals were received for the 1 February submission deadline for Semester 2019B. The table below summarizes the approved observing programs for the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)/High Sensitivity Array (HSA) and the Global 3mm VLBI Array (GMVA). 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 are included. Also listed are HSA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander, Kate | VLA/19A-013 | Exploring Mass Ejection in SMBHs via Radio Observations of TDEs | 22 | Triggered |
| Alexander, Kate | VLA/19A-258 | Pinpointing the Radio Emission from NS Mergers in LIGO/Virgo's 3rd Observing Run | 46 | Triggered |
| Araya, Esteban | VLA/19B-255 | Shocks Revealed by THOR in Young High-Mass Star-Forming Regions | 6 | Regular |
| Arce-Tord, Carla | VLA/19B-260 | Quantifying the connection between ERE and AME in NGC 7023 | 10.01 | Regular |
| Bait, Omkar | VLA/19B-205 | Deep HI imaging of a 'pure' HI ring around a quiescient galaxy AGC 203001 | 24 | Regular |
| Barrett, Paul | VLA/19B-139 | A radio survey of nearby cataclysmic variables | 20 | Regular |
| Behar, Ehud | VLA/19B-113 | Revealing the Inner Core Behavior of a NLS1 | 6; Chandra: 22 ksec | Regular |
| Bhandari, Shivani | VLA/19B-070 | Uncovering the radio continuum properties of Fast Radio Burst host galaxies. | 6.25 | Triggered |
| Borthakur, Sanchayeeta | VLA/19B-183 | VLA-Disk: Gas Flows from the CGM and Subsequent HI-Disk Build-up in Galaxies | 49.5 | Regular |
| Cannon, John | VLA/19B-002 | The Enigmatic Dwarf Galaxy KK242 | 4 | Regular |
| Cao, Yue | VLA/19B-114 | High-mass star formation in the most quiescent phase in Cygnus X | 16.5 | Regular |
| Chen, Xi | VLA/19B-016 | Class I methanol megamasers - a new tracer for feedback of active galaxies | 4 | Regular |
| Claussen, Mark | VLA/19B-187 | Probing Star-Formation in Free-Floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules in Cygnus | 12 | Regular |
| Climent Oliver, Juan Bautista | VLA/19B-238 | A search for radio emission from exoplanets and M dwarfs | 20 | Regular |
| Coppejans, Deanne | VLA/19A-274 | Radio Observations of Rapid, Luminous and Blue Stellar Explosions | 12 | Triggered |
| Corsi, Alessandra | VLA/19B-230 | A VLA+ZTF SYSTEMATIC QUEST FOR RELATIVISTIC EXPLOSIONS | 12 | Triggered |
| Costa, Allison | VLA/19B-257 | Faraday Rotation Study of the Radio Variable, High Mass X-Ray Binary LSI+61303 | 12 | Regular |
| de Blok, Erwin (W.J.G.) | VLA/19B-081 | Cold Accretion in NGC 2403 | 16.6 | Regular |
| de Gasperin, Francesco | VLA/19B-100 | Cosmic shocks under the magnifying glass | 14 | Regular |
| Demorest, Paul | VLA/19A-356 | Optimizing frequency choice for pulsar timing arrays | 84 | Regular |
| Di Gennaro, Gabriella | VLA/19B-080 | A FIRST JVLA STUDY OF DIFFUSE CLUSTER RADIO EMISSION AT z=0.8 | 8 | Regular |
| Edge, Alastair | VLA/19B-189 | Cold accretion in silhouette - ISM absorption in Hydra-A | 10 | Regular |
| Eftekhari, Tarraneh | VLA/19B-252 | The First Radio Source Associated with a SLSN: Constraining the SED | 6.75 | Regular |
| Emonts, Bjorn | VLA/19B-184 | Cold molecular medium in 4C41.17 (z=4): in-situ birth of a giant cluster galaxy | 37 | Regular |
| Emonts, Bjorn | VLA/19B-225 | Cold Molecular Gas across Enormous Lya Nebulae: Evolution of the Multiphase CGM | 75 | Regular |
| Flanagan, Conor | VLA/19B-054 | A search for water masers in NGC6822 | 8 | Regular |
| Fong, Wen-fai | VLA/19B-217 | Elucidating the Explosion Properties of Cosmological Short GRBs with the VLA | 5.83 | Triggered |
| Frail, Dale | VLA/18B-320 | JAGWAR: Jansky VLA mapping of Gravitational Wave bursts as Afterglows in Radio | 8 | Large |
| Gonzalez Egea, Elena | VLA/19B-109 | The age-activity relationship for M dwarfs in the radio domain | 2.13 | Regular |
| Gorski, Mark | VLA/19B-196 | Methanol Masers in Global Starbursts | 4.07 | Regular |
| Gusinskaia, Nina | VLA/19A-188 | Mapping accretion states in transitional millisecond pulsars | 6 | Triggered |
| Gutierrez-Chaves, Carlos | VLA/19B-272 | Is the dynamical state of dense cores in filamentary clouds changing with time? | 34 | Regular |
| Henshaw, Jonathan | VLA/19B-037 | Turbulence in Central Molecular Zone clouds | 24 | Regular |
| Hofner, Peter | VLA/19B-158 | Molecular Jets in High-Mass Protostars | 4.25 | Regular |
| Horellou, Cathy | VLA/19B-162 | Double Irony in XXL-North: Magnetic Field & Cosmic-Rays in a Giant Radio Galaxy | 7 | Regular |
| Hsieh, Tien-Hao | VLA/19B-018 | Swimming of ions and neutrals in magnetic pool - The drift velocity in protostar | 16 | Regular |
| Izumi, Natsuko | VLA/19B-245 | Massive star formation activity in the extreme outer Galaxy: Sh2-209 | 7.1 | Regular |
| Jones, Gareth | VLA/19B-136 | Imaging Extended Gas Accretion in the Epoch of Galactic Assembly | 9.6 | Regular |
| Kanekar, Nissim | VLA/19B-271 | The Nature of the Host Galaxies of High-Redshift Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers | 31.96; HST: 4 orbits | Regular |
| Kao, Melodie | VLA/19B-232 | Testing Brown Dwarf Cloud Models with One Rotation Period | 17.2 | Regular |
| Kim, Dongjin | VLBA/19B-141 | Excited OH absorption in Cygnus A: torus or accretion flow? | 14 | Regular |
| Klose, Sylvio | VLA/19B-120 | Is there a magnetar-powered radio flare following a kilonova? | 1.5 | Regular |
| Kunert-Bajraszewska, Magdalena | VLA/19B-209 | Changing look AGNs - radio observations | 6 | Regular |
| Laskar, Tanmoy | VLA/19A-305 | Observations of the nearby, low-energy GRB 171205A: a once in a decade event | 5 | Regular |
| Laskar, Tanmoy | VLA/19B-124 | Exploring Extreme Explosions from the Cosmic Dawn | 5 | Triggered |
| Lewis, Megan | VLA/19B-216 | Molecular signatures of carbon stars | 18 | Regular |
| Linden, Sean | VLA/19B-215 | The Origin of Anomalous Microwave Emission in Extragalactic Star-Forming Regions | 24.2 | Regular |
| Linford, Justin | VLA/19A-313 | Direct Imaging of the Gamma-ray-Producing Shocks in Classical Novae | 18 | Triggered |
| Linford, Justin | VLA/19B-219 | Rapid Radio Monitoring to Uncover Shocks in Classical Novae | 3.3; Swift: 28 ksec | Triggered |
| Linford, Justin | VLA/19B-220 | VLA Follow-up of REALFAST Fast Radio Bursts | 3 | Triggered |
| Liu, Hauyu | VLA/19B-023 | Constraining dust opacity index from a disk which already formed planet(s) | 5.2 | Regular |
| Liu, Hauyu | VLA/19B-069 | Laminar gas accretion towards molecular clumps with extreme fragmentation? | 5.5 | Regular |
| Liu, Lijie | VLA/19B-150 | WISDOM: Star Formation in GMCs with Thermal Radio Continuum | 5 | Regular |
| Lucero, Danielle | VLA/19B-226 | Understanding the HI-H2 Transition in Early-type Galaxies | 22.5 | Regular |
| Malik, Sunil | VLA/19B-204 | Magnetic field profile in galaxy clusters by rotation measure of background QSOs | 2 | Regular |
| Margutti, Raffaella | VLA/19A-276 | The radio hunt for the power source in Super-luminous Supernovae | 12 | Triggered |
| Matthews, Lynn | VLA/19A-330 | Characterizing the Radio Photospheres of AGB Stars | 3 | Regular |
| Ma, Yik Ki | VLA/19B-128 | Zooming In to the Magnetized Turbulence Cascade in the Galactic ISM | 4.2 | Regular |
| McKinney, Jed | VLA/19B-254 | Molecular Gas in GSIRS20: A Detailed Study of the Multiphase ISM at Cosmic Noon | 9 | Regular |
| Miller-Jones, James | VLA/19A-217 | Transient jet launching in stellar-mass black holes | 15.96 | Triggered |
| Moutzouri, Maria | VLA/19B-105 | Hunting for non-thermal emission in stellar bow-shock candidates | 16 | Regular |
| Park, JongHo | VLBA/19B-108 | Mapping the Faraday rotation and the magnetic field of the M87 jet | 36 | Regular |
| Pineda, Jaime | VLA/19B-178 | Key observations to Constrain the Edge of Cores | 8 | Regular |
| Pineda, John | VLA/19B-145 | New Tests of Ultracool Dwarf Radio Emission | 20 | Regular |
| Plotkin, Richard | VLA/19B-001 | Opening the Radio Time Domain for the Faintest Black Holes | 40 | Regular |
| Riechers, Dominik | VLA/18A-040 | COLDz: Faint-End Slope of the CO Luminosity Function at z=2-3 | 210 | Regular |
| Riechers, Dominik | VLA/19B-131 | VLASPECS: Cold Gas Mass Density in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) | 82.5 | Regular |
| Rybak, Matus | VLA/19B-265 | Decoding the star-formation laws in submillimeter galaxies | 32.1 | Regular |
| Schinzel, Frank | VLBA/19B-048 | A Parallax for PSR J0002+6216 | 33 | Regular |
| Schmiedeke, Anika | VLA/19B-180 | Testing the dissipation of turbulence in dense cores | 14 | Regular |
| Sebastian, Biny | VLA/19B-198 | Examining Seyfert Outflows Through Polarimetry | 16 | Regular |
| Seo, Youngmin | VLA/19B-058 | Probing Density, Kinematics, and Chemistry of Fragmenting Core Candidate L1495AN | 28.2 | Regular |
| Sharon, Chelsea | VLA/19B-073 | Disentangling AGN and Star Formation Effects on the Molecular ISM of z~2 SMGs | 29.25 | Regular |
| Shinnaga, Hiroko | VLA/19B-273 | Mass Outflow and the Circumstellar Magnetic field of the Red Supergiant VY CMa | 8 | Regular |
| Shi, Yong | VLA/19B-072 | RESOLVING HI EMISSION AT 1 KPC OF A ULTRA DIFFUSE GALAXY | 3 | Regular |
| Soida, Marian | VLA/19B-027 | Hot gas and magnetic arms of M101 | 4.5 | Regular |
| Sokolovsky, Kirill | VLA/19B-244 | Continued multi-frequency monitoring of classical novae | 10.5 | Regular |
| Soler, Juan | VLA/19B-181 | The Orion dynamics of ionized and neutral gas (ODIN) survey | 22 | Regular |
| Spekkens, Kristine | VLA/19B-022 | Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy Formation through Interactions | 10; HST: 4 orbits | Regular |
| Stroh, Michael | VLA/19B-039 | Do SiO v=3 lines or line ratios uniquely trace circumstellar shell conditions? | 9 | Regular |
| Svoboda, Brian | VLA/19B-172 | JVLA-ammonia and ALMA-dust measure the origins of the IMF | 7.5 | Regular |
| Tahani, Mehrnoosh | VLA/19B-053 | Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds - A New Use for Faraday Rotation Measures | 64 | Regular |
| talia, margherita | VLA/19B-117 | The cool side of structure formation in a giant proto-supercluster at z~2.45 | 96 | Regular |
| Tendulkar, Shriharsh | VLA/19B-223 | Arcsecond Localization of CHIME-Discovered Repeating FRBs | 50 | Large |
| TROJA, ELEONORA | VLA/19A-222 | Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events | 104 | Triggered |
| van Velzen, Sjoert | VLA/19A-395 | Systematic radio follow-up of stellar tidal disruption flares | 24.8 | Triggered |
| Vidal, Matias | VLA/19B-246 | Measuring the spinning dust spectrum from NGC 2023 | 21 | Regular |
| Villadsen, Jackie | VLA/19B-222 | Search for the Radio Signature of Star-Planet Interaction | 23.5 | Regular |
| Villadsen, Jackie | VLA/19B-274 | Radio Follow-Up of Close-In Exoplanetary Systems Discovered During TESS | 24 | Triggered |
| Wharton, Robert | VLA/19B-188 | What is the Persistent Radio Source Associated with FRB 121102? | 3 | Regular |
| White, Jacob | VLA/19B-088 | An Outburst in Decline: The circumstellar environment of L1251 VLA 6 | 0.5 | Regular |
| WHITE, Stephen | VLA/19B-227 | The Sun's Basal Corona | 8 | Regular |
| Williams, Gwenllian | VLA/19B-168 | Interaction of two IRDC hubs: A complete evolutionary study of the SDC13 region | 16 | Regular |
| Xie, Chen | VLA/19B-121 | Testing turbulent re-acceleration in Abell S1063 | 5.6 | Regular |
| Yang, Aiyuan | VLA/19B-040 | A detailed study of PNe associated with OH and H2O masers | 10 | Regular |
| Yang, Aiyuan | VLA/19B-041 | A search for OH and H2O maser emissions towards obscured young planetary nebulae | 4.5 | Regular |
| Yang, Jinyi | VLA/19B-211 | Probing ISM of the FIR Brightest Quasar Host at Reionization Era | 13.8 | Regular |
| Zappacosta, Luca | VLA/18B-149 | Revealing the largest giant radio galaxy in the Universe. | 0.8 | Regular |
Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), High Sensitivity Array (HSA), and Global 3mm VLBI Array (GMVA)
| PI | ID | Title | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bietenholz, Michael | VLBA/19A-303 | Measuring the Size and Speed of AT2018cow's Outflow | 12 | Regular |
| Brisken, Walter | VLBA/18B-041 | FILLER: Extending the Deep-wide VLBA observations of the JWST-NEP Survey Field | 300 | Large |
| Burns, Ross | VLBA/19B-068 | Accretion burst in massive protostar G358.93-0.03 | 12 | Regular |
| Busch, Michael | VLBA/19A-260 | Radar Speckle Tracking Observations of Near-Earth Asteroids in 2019 - 2021 | 16.83 | Triggered |
| Cui, Yuzhu | GMVA/19B-207 | Unveiling the innermost jet collimation profile of BL Lac S5 1803+784 | 6 | Regular |
| Curiel, Salvador | VLBA/18A-223 | Unveiling the orbital motions of the sub-stellar companion of the WTTS DoAr21 | 9 | Regular |
| Ding, Hao | VLBA/19B-104 | VLBA astrometry for Aql X-1, the best-studied type I X-ray burster | 8 | Triggered |
| Dzib, Sergio | VLBA/18A-102 | Dynamical masses of young stellar multiple systems with the VLBA | 36 | Large |
| Eftekhari, Tarraneh | VLBA/19B-248 | The First Radio Source Associated with a SLSN: Resolving the Emission | 3 | Regular |
| Heinke, Craig | VLBA/19A-342 | Proper Motions of Steep-Spectrum Radio Sources: A VLBA Filler Program | 64 | Regular |
| Hoffman, Ian | VLBA/19B-256 | Proper Motion of the OH (1720 MHz) Masers in Supernova Remnant IC443 | 12 | Regular |
| IMAI, Hiroshi | VLBA/19B-240 | An ignition of bipolar jet bullets in a water fountain | 18 | Regular |
| Jiang, Wu | VLBA/19B-102 | Hotspot in M81*, an episodic jet ejection ? | 20 | Regular |
| Jones, Dayton | VLBA/18A-012 | The Orbit of Bennu: VLBA Astrometry of the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft | 8 | Regular |
| Kim, Dongjin | VLBA/19B-141 | Excited OH absorption in Cygnus A: torus or accretion flow? | 14 | Regular |
| Kovalev, Yuri | VLBA/19B-237 | Search for recollimation in AGN jets | 96 | Regular |
| Lister, Matthew | VLBA/19B-194 | MOJAVE: Probing Acceleration and Magnetic Field Evolution in AGN Jets | 216 | Large |
| Marscher, Alan | GMVA/19B-166 | Millimeter-wave Imaging of the Gamma-Ray Emitting Regions of Blazar Jets (cont.) | 48 | Regular |
| Marscher, Alan | VLBA/17B-056 | Sub-milliarcsecond Imaging of the Gamma-ray Emission Regions of Blazars | 432 | Large |
| Momjian, Emmanuel | VLBA/19B-175 | Resolving the Highest Redshift Radio-Loud Quasar Known-to-Date | 12 | Regular |
| Nagar, Neil | GMVA/19B-276 | EHT Sample: Toward <100 R_Schwarzschild resolution imaging of nearby black holes | 16 | Regular |
| Park, JongHo | VLBA/19B-108 | Mapping the Faraday rotation and the magnetic field of the M87 jet | 36 | Regular |
| Park, JongHo | VLBA/19B-143 | Investigating the peculiar jet collimator NGC 315 | 12 | Regular |
| Perley, Daniel | VLBA/19B-091 | VLBA Imaging of the Serendipitous Transient in Cygnus A | 22 | Regular |
| Petrov, Leonid | VLBA/19A-249 | Probing parsec-scale optical structure with observations of Gaia detected AGNs | 192 | Regular |
| Piner, Glenn | VLBA/17B-058 | The super-luminal TeV sources | 24 | Regular |
| Popkov, Alexander | VLBA/19B-142 | Study of the population of steep-spectrum compact radio sources (filler) | 84 | Regular |
| Schinzel, Frank | VLBA/19B-048 | A Parallax for PSR J0002+6216 | 9 | Regular |
| Spiewak, Renee | VLBA/18A-169 | A VLBA Distance for PSR J2322-2650: the lowest luminosity MSP? | 6 | Regular |
| Spolaor, Sarah | VLBA/19B-249 | Exploring Post-merger SMBH Evolution with the VLBA | 107 | Large |
| Taylor, Greg | VLBA/19B-019 | Constraining the Orbits of the Supermassive Binary Black Holes in 0402+379 | 12 | Regular |
