Science Program 2010B
Science Program 2010B
The approved EVLA, GBT, and VLBA/High Sensitivity Array (HSA) observing programs for NRAO Trimester 2010-B are given below. For each approved program, we list: (a) Principal Investigator (PI), (b) proposal title, (c) total hours allocated for the program, and (d) proposal type (Regular or Large). Additional information is available via the Proposal Finder Tool. Time allocated to Large Proposals and monitoring projects may extend over more than one trimester.
Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA)
To maximize early EVLA science while simultaneously commissioning the hardware and introducing new capabilities, three separate programs were created. The Open Shared Risk Observing (OSRO) program provides first-light EVLA capabilities to the general user community; the Resident Shared Risk Observing (RSRO) provides access to enhanced EVLA capabilities to those who are able to spend a period of time in Socorro to help with commissioning; and a modest (<500 hrs/year) EVLA Commissioning Staff Observing (ECSO) program provides access to commissioning staff to push new science capabilities.
Of the 62 approved OSRO proposals, only those that have dynamic priorities of E0 through to E3 are listed below. Given typical summer weather conditions and the expected demand for telescope commissioning time (especially near 10-12 hours LST), we anticipate that projects with lower priorities may experience difficulties being fully scheduled on the telescope, though this is only an estimate. We encourage users to view the EVLA LST pressure plots as they prepare to submit observing files.
| PI | ID | RSRO Title | Hours | Type |
| Claussen | VLA/10B-186 | Imaging Line Surveys of Circumstellar Envelopes: A Pilot Project |
42
|
Regular |
| Hallinan | VLA/10B-209 | Broadband Periodic Dynamic Spectra of Ultracool Dwarf Pulsars |
38
|
Regular |
| Hofner | VLA/10B-124 | RSRO Program: Deep Radio Continuum Observations of Massive Proto-Stars |
6
|
Regular |
| Kellermann | VLA/10B-104 | Bimodal Luminosity Distribtion of QSOs: Starbursts and AGN? |
60
|
Regular |
| Russell | VLA/10B-218 | Testing the requirements for jet production in accreting black holes |
3
|
Regular |
| Sokoloski | VLA/10B-200 | What Shape Are Novae? --- Early Radio Emission from Nova Explosions |
60
|
Regular |
| Takahashi | VLA/10B-126 | A Millimeter Study of the Embedded Star-Cluster in the Orion Molecular Cloud |
40
|
Regular |
| White | VLA/10B-173 | Deep Observations of Crowded Stellar Fields |
24
|
Regular |
| PI | ID | ECSO Title | Hours | Type |
| Bastian | VLA/10B-211 | Dynamic Spectroscopy of the Radio Flares on AE Aquarii |
10.5
|
Regular |
| Fomalont | VLA/10B-105 | The Lobes of Fornax-A at 5 GHz |
20
|
Regular |
| Marvil | VLA/10B-183 | A sensitive, multi-frequency continuum study of M82 and NGC2146 |
40
|
Regular |
| Momjian | VLA/10B-161 | Resolved Physics and Chemistry in Nearby Star Forming Galaxies |
16
|
Regular |
| Ott | VLA/10B-177 | The Massive Star/ISM Interplay in the Galactic Center: An EVLA Pilot Study |
9
|
Regular |
| Owen | VLA/10B-154 | The Magnetized Intracluster Plasma |
40
|
Regular |
| PI | ID | OSRO Title | Hours | Type |
| Brown | VLA/10B-153 | EVLA Deep Cluster Survey: Pilot Study |
23
|
Regular |
| Brunthaler | VLA/10B-133 | Monitoring the evolution of SN2008iz |
24
|
Regular |
| Cannon | VLA/10B-187 | An EVLA HI Survey of Extremely Low-Mass Galaxies |
180
|
Regular |
| Dougherty | VLA/10B-165 | The variable radio emission in Cyg OB2 #5 |
3.5
|
Regular |
| Frail | VLA/10B-140 | A New Search for Evidence of Hadronic Cosmic Rays in Supernova Remnants |
8.5
|
Regular |
| Greene | VLA/10B-220 | A Black Hole Mass-Halo Mass Correlation? |
30
|
Regular |
| Hardcastle | VLA/10B-137 | Broad-band spectra of the lobes of FRII radio galaxies |
14
|
Regular |
| Ivison | VLA/10B-195 | Imaging CO(1-0) in submm galaxies |
118
|
Regular |
| Kasliwal | VLA/10B-221 | Exploring Transients in the Local Universe |
20
|
Regular |
| Mehault | VLA/10B-215 | Understanding the origin of the TeV source HESS J1834-087 |
4
|
Regular |
| Miller-Jones | VLA/10B-158 | The connection between gamma-ray emission and radio jets in Cygnus X-3 |
8
|
Regular |
| Miller-Jones | VLA/10B-218 | Probing jet acceleration and collimation in stellar-mass compact objects |
55
|
Large |
| Murphy | VLA/10B-174 | Star Formation in XUV Disks Revealed in the Radio |
42
|
Regular |
| Neufeld | VLA/10B-121 | Probing the chemistry of interstellar OH and H2O |
12.5
|
Regular |
| Pihlstrom | VLA/10B-146 | High frequency methanol masers in SNR shock regions |
25
|
Regular |
| Privon | VLA/10B-203 | HI Observations of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the GOALS Sample |
76.5
|
Regular |
| Rand | VLA/10B-148 | Gaseous Halos as Clues to Galaxy Evolution |
79
|
Regular |
| Reynolds | VLA/10B-125 | The High Frequency Flares in Mrk 231 |
7
|
Regular |
| Ricci | VLA/10B-102 | Dust properties in a massive disk in the Orion Nebula |
6
|
Regular |
| Rivilla | VLA/10B-175 | Variability sources in Orion KL |
16
|
Regular |
| Rodriguez | VLA/10B-145 | A Search for 1720 MHz OH Masers toward HESS J1858+020 |
2
|
Regular |
| Roy | VLA/10B-109 | CCS 22.3 GHz Zeeman observations of 3 molecular cores |
42
|
Regular |
| Rudnick | VLA/10B-103 | Abell 2319: from cosmic-rays to gamma-rays -- confusion reduction |
4.5
|
Regular |
| Sanchez-Mong | VLA/10B-151 | Understanding the dynamical gas motion around G75.78+0.34 |
3
|
Regular |
| Speights | VLA/10B-207 | The Pattern Speed of the Multiple-Armed Spiral Galaxy NGC 3992 |
7
|
Regular |
| Stockdale | VLA/10B-181 | ToO Observations of Core Collapse Supernovae (Type II) |
31
|
Regular |
| Suarez | VLA/10B-128 | The first water fountain in a planetary nebula |
1.5
|
Regular |
| Wang | VLA/10B-122 | Molecular gas from the host galaxies of optically faint quasars at z>6.2 |
30
|
Regular |
| Wilcots | VLA/10B-127 | Searching for AGN Feedback in Post-Starburst Galaxies |
24
|
Regular |
| Yusef-Zadeh | VLA/10B-168 | The Quiescent and Flaring Variability of Sgr A* |
28
|
Regular |
| Zhang | VLA/10B-213 | Resolving dense gas in ULIRGs via CS (1-0) with the EVLA |
24.5
|
Regular |
Green Bank Telescope (GBT)
The GBT accepted a limited number of high frequency proposals to be scheduled dynamically. Five of the 27 accepted proposals requested at least some observations at high frequencies (> 18 GHz) that have not been previously available during the summer months.
| PI | ID | Title | Max. Time Allocation | Type |
| Ruf | GBT/10B-001 | Observing Schumann Resonance Spectra on Jupiter and Venus |
22
|
Regular |
| Curran | GBT/10B-003 | Atomic and Molecular Gas in the Most Distant Galaxies |
40
|
Regular |
| Alves | GBT/10B-006 | Testing the effects of the magnetic field in the evolution of starless cores |
90
|
Regular |
| Kanekar | GBT/10B-008 | A search for redshifted HI-21cm absorption in strong MgII/FeII absorbers. |
140
|
Regular |
| Wagg | GBT/10B-010 | The molecular gas content of Lyman Alpha emitters at z~6.5 |
100
|
Regular |
| Rosolowsky | GBT/10B-012 | Are Dense Cores Pressure Confined? |
10
|
Regular |
| Frayer | GBT/10B-014 | GBT HI Observations of the GOALS LIRG Sample |
180
|
Regular |
| Lynch | GBT/10B-017 | Exploring the MSP Content of NGC5986 |
10
|
Regular |
| Lynch | GBT/10B-018 | Long-term Monitoring of Key Drift Scan Pulsars |
11.7
|
Regular |
| Ginsburg | GBT/10B-019 | Densitometry of young star-forming complexes throughout the Galaxy |
120
|
Regular |
| Chitsazzadeh | GBT/10B-020 | Ammonia Observations of a Super-Jeans Pre-stellar Core in L1689 |
11.1
|
Regular |
| Lovell | GBT/10B-021 | OH Observations of Comets C/2009 R1 McNaught and 103P/Hartley 2 |
64
|
Regular |
| Wootten | GBT/10B-022 | GBT Survey of 15N Ammonia in Dense Cores |
28
|
Regular |
| Hoffman | GBT/10B-023 | Renewed Interest in the Rare Ammonia Maser in NGC 7538 |
6
|
Regular |
| Willett | GBT/10B-026 | A targeted search for OH megamasers in the COSMOS field |
70
|
Regular |
| Lee | GBT/10B-027 | OH Observations of the Perseus Molecular Cloud |
50
|
Regular |
| Black | GBT/10B-030 | Radar Tracking of the Galilean Satellite Orbital Resonance |
5
|
Regular |
| Yusef-Zadeh | GBT/10B-032 | CH3OH and SiO Observations of the Circumnuclear Molecular Ring |
10
|
Regular |
| Kramer | GBT/10B-033 | Timing and General Relativity in the Double Pulsar System |
104.5
|
Regular |
| Nidever | GBT/10B-035 | Constraining the Milky Way Mass with the Magellanic Stream |
110.5
|
Regular |
| Suarez | GBT/10B-036 | Study of Velocity Distortions Using 21cm Intensity Mapping |
300
|
Large |
| Nigra | GBT/10B-037 | The Agents of Aging on the Magellanic Stream |
78
|
Regular |
| Stairs | GBT/10B-038 | The Pulsar Triple System in M4 |
9
|
Regular |
| Zeiger | GBT/10B-039 | 356 MHz (321-322) Formaldehyde as a Contaminant in Epoch of Reionization Surveys |
9.5
|
Regular |
| Langston | GBT/10B-042 | Temperature of TMC-CP from a Fit to Molecular Line HC_5N and HC_7N Intensities |
9
|
Regular |
| Breton | GBT/10B-044 | The neutron stars that didn't shine: A GBT pulsar search of `empty' SN remnants |
41.7
|
Regular |
| Hernandez | GBT/10B-045 | New Chemical Tracers of Hot Molecular Cores |
11
|
Regular |
Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and High Sensitivity Array (HSA)
The newly approved projects below for the VLBA and HSA make up only a part of the total science time available. Most of the time (65%) this trimester is going to observing existing Large Projects.
| PI | ID | Proposal Title | Hours | Type |
| Argo | VLBA/10B-127 | Wide-field observations of M31 |
8
|
Regular |
| Boboltz | VLBA/10B-132 | Multi-wavelength Imaging of the Mira Variable RR Aquilae |
10
|
Regular |
| Boyles | VLBA/10B-137 | Feasibility investagation of measuring astrometric values for pulsar J2222-01 |
4
|
Regular |
| Busch | VLBA/10B-122 | Radar Speckle Observations of Near-Earth Asteroids |
10
|
Regular |
| Cotton | VLBA/10B-123 | Magnetic Fields in the Atmosphere of IK Tau |
10
|
Regular |
| Fomalont | VLBA/10B-102 | Strong Source Search in Support of Radioastron Fringe-finding |
7
|
Regular |
| Giovannini | VLBA/10B-110 | VLBA Observations of a complete sample of radio sources |
24
|
Regular |
| Giovannini | VLBA/10B-109 | VLBA Observations of an old friend: B2 1144+35B |
8
|
Regular |
| Giroletti | VLBA/10B-129 | The jets of BL Lacs and their connection to the gamma-ray emission continued |
36
|
Regular |
| Greenhill | VLBA/10B-135 | Resolving Outflow Launch and Collimation 10-100 AU from a High-Mass YSO |
76
|
Regular |
| Liuzzo | VLBA/10B-120 | New VLBA observations of two peculiar Brightest Clusters Galaxies. |
8
|
Regular |
| Loinard | VLBA/10B-131 | The Gould's Belt Distances VLBA Survey |
2785
|
Large |
| Marecki | VLBA/10B-118 | Motions of the inner lobes of double-double radio galaxy 1151+384 |
4
|
Regular |
| Middelberg | VLBA/10B-112 | A wide-field VLBI survey of 508 sources in the Lockman Hole/XMM field |
36
|
Regular |
| Miller-Jones | VLBA/10B-141 | Probing jet acceleration and collimation in stellar-mass compact objects |
168
|
Large |
| Miller-Jones | VLBA/10B-126 | The connection between gamma-ray emission and radio jets in Cygnus X-3 |
48
|
Regular |
| Miller-Jones | VLBA/10B-121 | Astrometry of Aql X-1 and the luminosity of Type I X-ray bursts |
112
|
Regular |
| Reynolds | VLBA/10B-114 | The High Frequency Flares in Mrk 231 |
32
|
Regular |
| Reynolds | VLBA/10B-117 | The Nuclear Environment of the First Radio Loud BALQSO J1556+3517 |
8
|
Regular |
| Rioja | VLBA/10B-115 | Study of the Astrometric Alignment of SiO Maser Emission at 43/86-GHz in AGBs |
24
|
Regular |
| Rodriguez | VLBA/10B-111 | The Size and Morphology of the Non-Thermal Component in Cyg OB2 #5 |
27
|
Regular |
| Sokolova | VLBA/10B-106 | VLBA observations of low luminosity GHz-peaked spectrum sample. |
24
|
Regular |
| Taylor | VLBA/10B-105 | Radio Characteristics of Low Luminosity Fermi AGN |
44
|
Regular |
| Tingay | VLBA/10B-100 | Searching for dual radio cores in AGN with double-peaked optical emission lines |
15
|
Regular |
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