LBO Science Program 2017B
A total of 45 new proposals were received for the 1 February submission deadline for Semester 2017B. The table below summarizes the approved observing programs for the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) / High Sensitivity Array (HSA). 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 LBO in 17B are included.
For each approved program, the Proposal Finder Tool will have access to its authors, title, abstract, and total approved hours.
Long Baseline Observatory 2017B Science Program
PI | ID | Title | Hours | Type |
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Beasley, Anthony | VLBA/17B-177 | Astrometric VLBA Observations of AR Sco - a WD pulsar? | 30 | Regular |
Bietenholz, Michael | VLBA/17B-290 | The Star S2 and its Coming Encounter with the Galactic Centre | 6 | Regular |
Bower, Geoffrey | VLBA/17B-212 | Is the GC Pulsar in a Black Hole Binary? Improved Long-Term Astrometry | 12 | Regular |
Brisken, Walter | VLBA/17B-364 | Deep-wide VLBA observations of the JWST-NEP Survey Field | 52 | Regular |
Brunthaler, Andreas | VLBA/15B-162 | Measuring the proper motions of M81 and M82 | 24 | Regular |
Brunthaler, Andreas | VLBA/17B-150 | On the nature of M31* | 16 | Regular |
Busch, Michael | VLBA/16A-075 | Radar Speckle Observations of Near-Earth Asteroids In 2016-2018 | 6.6 | Triggered |
Caccianiga, Alessandro | VLBA/17B-095 | THE TRUE NATURE OF SDSSJ143244.91+301435 | 7 | Regular |
Chen, Xi | VLBA/17B-032 | Where is the nearest place to form massive stars | 9 | Regular |
Cho, Ilje | VLBA/17B-139 | Measuring the frequency dependent core shift of Sgr A* | 13.6 | Regular |
CUTINI, Sara | VLBA/16B-127 | Morphological changes after a bright optical-gamma-ray flare in S51803+78 | 4 | Regular |
Deller, Adam | VLBA/16B-317 | MSPSRPI: VLBI astrometry of millisecond pulsars | 56 | Regular |
Deller, Adam | VLBA/16B-327 | VLBA astrometry of J0737-3039: improved GR tests + moment of inertia measurement | 4 | Regular |
Dzib, Sergio | VLBA/17A-173 | The distance to the LkHa 101 region | 12 | Regular |
Edwards, Philip | VLBA/17A-252 | The Final TeV Blazars Until the CTA | 8 | Regular |
Forbrich, Jan | VLBA/17B-168 | A VLBA proper motion census of Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster | 16 | Regular |
Gabuzda, Denise | VLBA/17A-014 | 5.0-1.4 GHz VLBA Polarization Observations of the 191 MOJAVE-II Sources | 120 | Large |
Hales, Chris | VLBA/17B-274 | Is the emission from the wind-collision region of WR 146 polarized? | 12 | Regular |
Hough, David | VLBA/17B-339 | Morphology & Kinematics of Parsec-scale Jets in Lobe-dominated Quasars, Part II | 8 | Regular |
Immer, Katharina | VLBA/16A-196 | 3D motions of gas clouds in the Central Molecular Zone | 14 | Regular |
Issaoun, Sara | VLBA/17B-228 | Imaging launch regions and magnetic fields of an outflow from a high-mass YSO | 25 | Regular |
Jones, Dayton | VLBA/16A-002 | VLBA Astrometry of the Juno Spacecraft in Jupiter Orbit | 18 | Regular |
Kim, Dong-Chan | VLBA/17B-109 | VLBA Observation of a potential recoiling SMBH CXO J101527.2+625911 | 4 | Regular |
Koay, Jun Yi | VLBA/17B-094 | The origin of low accretion state radio emission in the changing-look AGN Mrk590 | 12.6 | Regular |
Linford, Justin | VLBA/17B-316 | Shocks in Classical Novae: Imaging the Sources of Gamma-rays | 84 | Triggered |
Lister, Matthew | VLBA/16B-175 | MOJAVE: Long Term VLBA Polarimetric Observations of Pc-Scale AGN Jets | 720 | Large |
Lister, Matthew | VLBA/17B-209 | TXS 0128+554: A Rare Young Gamma-Ray Loud AGN? | 13 | Regular |
Loinard, Laurent | VLBA/10B-131 | The Gould's Belt Distances VLBA Survey | 169 | Large |
Maccarone, Thomas | VLBA/17B-152 | A trigonometric parallax for a globular cluster | 7.5 | Regular |
Ma, Chopo | VLBA/17A-051 | VLBA Geodesy/Astrometry Observations for 2017 | 72 | Regular |
Marscher, Alan | VLBA/17B-056 | Sub-milliarcsecond Imaging of the Gamma-ray Emission Regions of Blazars | 144 | Large |
Melis, Carl | VLBA/17A-262 | California's puzzling lack of stars | 18 | Regular |
Menten, Karl | VLBA/17B-086 | Dynamics of (Proto-)Stellar Merger Remnants -- Tracking the Smoking Guns | 28 | Regular |
Menten, Karl | VLBA/17B-087 | Examining the Stellar Merger V838 Mon in Detail | 14 | Regular |
Miller-Jones, James | VLBA/16B-137 | A geometric distance to the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1753.5-0127 | 10 | Regular |
Miller-Jones, James | VLBA/17A-191 | Probing transient jet launching in stellar-mass black holes | 30 | Triggered |
Moscadelli, Luca | VLBA/17A-049 | Studying ejection at 10-100 AU in a binary system of massive YSOs | 28 | Regular |
Orosz, Gabor | VLBA/16A-378 | Extending the parallax measurement of hydroxyl masers in OH/IR stars | 5 | Regular |
Orosz, Gabor | VLBA/17B-279 | Improving the parallax distance of PSR B1913+16 for testing General Relativity | 24 | Regular |
Perley, Daniel | VLBA/17B-199 | Radio monitoring of a serendipitous transient in Cygnus A | 16 | Regular |
Pihlstrom, Ylva | VLBA/17B-161 | Candidate VLBI Q-band Calibrators: X-band positions | 26 | Regular |
Piner, Glenn | VLBA/17B-058 | The super-luminal TeV sources | 12 | Regular |
Reid, Mark | VLBA/16B-001 | A Parallax Distance for the Microquasar Cyg X-3 | 24 | Regular |
Reynolds, Cormac | VLBA/17B-065 | Determining the Current State of Activity in the Jet in Hercules A | 8 | Regular |
Rioja, Maria Jose | VLBA/17B-080 | MultiView Astrometry to Measure the Structure of the Galactic Magnetic Field | 24.5 | Regular |
Sanna, Alberto | VLBA/16B-089 | Dynamical properties of High-mass Star-Forming Regions - Cepheus A | 88 | Regular |
Savolainen, Tuomas | VLBA/17B-337 | Testing the magnetic flux paradigm of AGN jet production | 32 | Regular |
Simard, Dana | VLBA/17B-064 | Scintillation of FRB121102 and the associated persistent radio source | 50 | Regular |
Tseng, Chih-Yin | VLBA/17B-308 | What Powers the Jet in NGC 6251? The Spinning Black Hole or the Accretion Disk? | 22 | Regular |
Waisberg, Idel | VLBA/17B-085 | Resolving the Radio Core of SS433 in the mm: Connection to the Optical Jets | 10 | Regular |
Yang, Wenjin | VLBA/17A-112 | Locating the very distant Outer Scutum Centaurus spiral arm of the Milky Way | 18 | Regular |
Zhang, Bo | VLBA/17B-091 | Calibrating the PL Relation for Long Period Variables | 20 | Regular |
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