LBO Science Program 2019A
A total of 46 new proposals were received for the 1 August submission deadline for Semester 2019A. 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 19A are included.
For each approved program, the Proposal Finder Tool will have access to its authors, title, abstract, and total approved hours.
| PI | ID | Title | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atri, Pikky | VLBA/19A-113 | Constraining black hole formation with triggered VLBA astrometry | 30 | Triggered |
| Bach, Uwe | GMVA/18B-225 | A high resolution multi-frequency study of the jet launching region in Cygnus A | 27 | Regular |
| Beasley, Anthony | VLBA/19A-368 | VLBA Flux-limited Surveys of VLASS Fields - Pilot Observations | 24 | Regular |
| Beasley, Anthony | VLBA/19A-389 | High-Precision VLBA Astrometry of AR Sco | 33 | Regular |
| Berton, Marco | VLBA/19A-231 | Is there a jet base in radio-quiet narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies? | 10 | Regular |
| Bietenholz, Michael | VLBA/19A-303 | Measuring the Size and Speed of AT2018cow's Outflow | 4 | Regular |
| Brisken, Walter | VLBA/18B-041 | FILLER: Extending the Deep-wide VLBA observations of the JWST-NEP Survey Field | 300 | Large |
| Busch, Michael | VLBA/19A-260 | Radar Speckle Tracking Observations of Near-Earth Asteroids in 2019 - 2021 | 16.83 | Triggered |
| Chen, Yongjun | VLBA/18B-112 | The Temporal and Spatial Spectral Variability of the Jet in B2 1420+32 | 7.5 | Regular |
| Curiel, Salvador | VLBA/18A-223 | Unveiling the orbital motions of the sub-stellar companion of the WTTS DoAr21 | 9 | Regular |
| Deane, Roger | VLBA/19A-428 | Filler time VLBA survey of the UDS field: a VLBI pilot for MeerKAT-MIGHTEE | 47.5 | Regular |
| Deller, Adam | VLBA/19A-154 | Characterizing Neutron Star Mergers with VLBI Afterglow Observations | 104 | Triggered |
| Dodson, Richard | VLBA/18A-057 | VLBA astrometric registration of the masers in the Calabash nebula | 8 | Regular |
| Gabuzda, Denise | VLBA/19A-079 | Completing 1.4-5.0 GHz VLBA Polarization Observations of 191 MOJAVE Sources | 84 | Regular |
| Gomez, Jose L. | GMVA/18B-164 | Imaging massive binary BH candidates in OJ287 and 3C345 with the GMVA+ALMA | 26 | Regular |
| Gupta, Neeraj | VLBA/19A-067 | Parsec-scale structure in the interstellar medium of a z=0.05 galaxy | 11 | Regular |
| Hada, Kazuhiro | GMVA/18B-196 | Imaging Magnetic Acceleration and Collimation of M87 Jet at Scales of 7-150Rs | 14 | Regular |
| Hada, Kazuhiro | GMVA/19A-224 | Imaging Magnetic Acceleration and Collimation of M87 Jet at Scales of 7-150Rs | 14 | Regular |
| Heinke, Craig | VLBA/19A-342 | Proper Motions of Steep-Spectrum Radio Sources: A VLBA Filler Program | 32 | Regular |
| Issaoun, Sara | GMVA/18B-240 | Sharpening the source model for Sgr A*: 3mm VLBI with GMVA+ALMA | 8 | Regular |
| Jones, Dayton | VLBA/16A-002 | VLBA Astrometry of the Juno Spacecraft in Jupiter Orbit | 8 | Regular |
| Jones, Dayton | VLBA/18A-012 | The Orbit of Bennu: VLBA Astrometry of the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft | 8 | Regular |
| JOSHI, RAVI | VLBA/19A-173 | Searching for Supermassive Black hole Binary in Double-Peaked, X-shaped AGNs | 20.8 | Regular |
| Kao, Melodie | VLBA/19A-437 | Do Brown Dwarfs have Radiation Belts? | 28 | Regular |
| Kharb, Preeti | VLBA/19A-026 | Studying Parsec-scale Structures in Six New Double-Peaked Emission-Line Seyferts | 50 | Regular |
| Kim, Dong-Chan | VLBA/19A-232 | VLBA Observation of a recoiling SMBH candidate SDSS J171304.46+352333.5 | 4 | Regular |
| Kim, Dongjin | VLBA/19A-335 | Imaging circum-nuclear gas and the torus via absorption line VLBI in 3 AGN | 9 | Regular |
| Koyama, Shoko | GMVA/19A-412 | Resolving the jet collimation region in Mrk 501 with the GMVA | 8 | Regular |
| Krichbaum, Thomas | GMVA/18B-091 | The polarization in the jet-launching region of gamma-ray blazars | 19 | Regular |
| Law, Casey | VLBA/19A-300 | A Size Test for the Luminous Extragalactic Radio Transient J141918.9+394036 | 8 | Regular |
| Linford, Justin | VLBA/19A-314 | Direct Imaging of the Gamma-ray-Producing Shocks in Classical Novae | 42 | Triggered |
| Lisakov, Mikhail | VLBA/19A-253 | Robust size estimation for the RadioAstron AGN scattering substructure project | 6 | Regular |
| Lister, Matthew | VLBA/16B-175 | MOJAVE: Long Term VLBA Polarimetric Observations of Pc-Scale AGN Jets | 288 | Large |
| MacDonald, Nicholas | GMVA/18B-039 | Disorder vs. Order: Discerning the nature of the magnetic field in PKS 1510-089 | 5 | Regular |
| Marscher, Alan | GMVA/19A-259 | Millimeter-wave Imaging of the Gamma-Ray Emitting Regions of Blazar Jets | 48 | Regular |
| Marscher, Alan | VLBA/17B-056 | Sub-milliarcsecond Imaging of the Gamma-ray Emission Regions of Blazars | 288 | Large |
| Menten, Karl | VLBA/17B-087 | Examining the Stellar Merger V838 Mon in Detail | 7 | Regular |
| Miller-Jones, James | VLBA/19A-210 | Transient jet launching in stellar-mass black holes | 52; Swift: 27 ksec | Triggered |
| Momjian, Emmanuel | VLBA/19A-106 | Resolving an Extremely Powerful Radio-Loud Quasar at z~5.1 | 20 | Regular |
| Mooley, Kunal | VLBA/18B-201 | Mapping the size and morphology of the GW170817 post-merger fireball | 19.5 | Regular |
| Morganti, Raffaella | VLBA/19A-043 | HI gas in the heart of 3C84: a view with the VLBA | 12 | Regular |
| Orienti, Monica | VLBA/19A-005 | Unveiling the particle acceleration regions in two X-ray emitting hotspots | 12 | Regular |
| Orosz, Gabor | VLBA/17B-279 | Improving the parallax distance of PSR B1913+16 for testing General Relativity | 12 | Regular |
| Petrov, Leonid | VLBA/19A-249 | Probing parsec-scale optical structure with observations of Gaia detected AGNs | 96 | Regular |
| Piner, Glenn | VLBA/17B-058 | The super-luminal TeV sources | 24 | Regular |
| Romero-Canizales, Cristina | VLBA/19A-214 | The young and obscured AGN in IC883: a Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum candidate | 26 | Regular |
| Ros, Eduardo | GMVA/18B-044 | Probing the high polarised emission in 4C 01.28 with mm-VLBI (GMVA+ALMA) | 6 | Regular |
| Ros, Eduardo | GMVA/18B-054 | The peculiar AGN PKS 0521-36 under the mm magnifying glass (GMVA+ALMA) | 4 | Regular |
| Schinzel, Frank | VLBA/19A-101 | Follow-up of 3C48 position change at 0.06 arcsec | 16 | Regular |
| Spiewak, Renee | VLBA/18A-169 | A VLBA Distance for PSR J2322-2650: the lowest luminosity MSP? | 6 | Regular |
| Stacey, Hannah | VLBA/19A-246 | A novel method to identify AGN-heated dust in quasar host galaxies | 30.5 | Regular |
| Verbena, Juan | VLBA/19A-404 | The Water Megamaser in IIZw96 | 6 | Regular |
| Villadsen, Jackie | VLBA/19A-441 | Anchoring the Radio Corona of Active M Dwarfs to the Photosphere | 71.5 | Regular |
| Williams, Montana | VLBA/19A-261 | Radio Bright High Proper Motion Stars | 4.5 | Regular |
