Science Program 2011A
A total of 245 proposals were received as result of the October 2010 call for proposals for the first 2011 trimester. The GBT and the VLA/VLBA Proposal Selection Committees (PSC) met in the first week of December 2010 to review the referee rankings and technical reports for all proposals, with the goal of providing a recommended science program to the NRAO Director's Office.
A list of the approved EVLA, VLBA/High Sensitivity Array (HSA), and GBT observing programs for Trimester 2011-A is below. The following is provided for each approved program: (a) PI name; (b) approved proposal title, and the total hours allocated; and (d) proposal type (Regular or Large). Additional information is available via the Proposal Finder Tool. For Large proposals or monitoring projects the time allocated may be over more than one trimester.
Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA)
To maximize EVLA Early Science while simultaneously commissioning the hardware and introducing new capabilities, three separate programs were created. They are, in brief: (1) Open Shared Risk Observing (OSRO) which provides first-light EVLA capabilities to the general user community; (2) Resident Shared Risk Observing (RSRO) which provides access to enhanced EVLA capabilities to those who are able to spend time in Socorro to help with commissioning; and (3) an EVLA Commissioning Staff Observing (ECSO) program giving commissioning staff access to the telescope to push new science capabilities.
| PI | ID | RSRO Title | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liu | VLA/11A-150 | Satellite Dense Molecular Cores Around the Ultracompact HII Region | 9 | Regular |
| Melis | VLA/11A-188 | Mapping the Vertical and Radial Structure of Dust in Protoplanetary Disks | 8 | Regular |
| Neff | VLA/11A-216 | Radio Properties of Local UV-Luminous Galaxies | 24 | Regular |
| Sokoloski | VLA/11A-239 | The ENova Project: A Snapshot Imaging Survey of Middle-Aged Novae | 22 | Regular |
| Takahasi | VLA/11A-220 | Detailed Case Study of A Extremely Young Protostar Discovered in OMC-3 | 4 | Regular |
| PI | ID | ECSO Title | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claussen | VLA/11A-124 | The Connection Between SiO Masers and Atmospheric Water Layers Around AGB Stars | 12 | Regular |
| Hofstadter | VLA/11A-235 | Composition and Dynamics of the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune | 24 | Regular |
| Momjian | VLA/11A-231 | Physical Processes and Chemical Abundances in the Prototypical ULIRG Arp 220 | 28 | Regular |
| Perley | VLA/11A-126 | EVLA Observations of a New Population of Infrared-Luminous GRB Host Galaxies | 16 | Regular |
| Sjouwerman | VLA/11A-129 | OH/IR stars in the Sagitarius dwarf | 30 | Regular |
| Sjouwerman | VLA/11A-137 | Radio Spectral Index of M31* | 18 | Regular |
| PI | ID | OSRO Title | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bietenholz | VLA/11A-130 | The Central Component of SN1986J: CSM interaction or a Black Hole/Neutron Star? | 5 | Regular |
| Birkinshaw | VLA/11A-199 | Tight bends in two FR-I radio galaxies and the jet/intragroup gas interaction | 14 | Regular |
| Brown | VLA/11A-135 | EBootes: The EVLA Bootes Survey | 50 | Regular |
| Carrasco-Gonzalez | VLA/11A-208 | Synchrotron Emission from the Jet of the Planetary Nebula K3-35 | 11 | Regular |
| Castelletti | VLA/11A-184 | The first 74 MHz observation of the intriguing SNR RX J1713.7-3946 (G347.3-0.5) | 9 | Regular |
| Clarke | VLA/11A-203 | Low Frequency Mapping of the Spectacular Emission in Abell 2256 | 14 | Regular |
| Conway | VLA/11A-225 | Searching for broad atomic and molecular absorption from TORUS gas in Cygnus A | 9 | Regular |
| Corsi | VLA/11A-227 | Search for early and late radio emission from broad-line Ic SN detected by PTF | 13 | Regular |
| Engels | VLA/11A-154 | Angular sizes of the shells of three OH/IR stars | 7 | Regular |
| Fassnacht | VLA/11A-138 | Toward a Lens-based High-precision Measurement of Cosmological Parameters | 24 | Regular |
| Fu | VLA/11A-175 | EVLA High-Resolution Mapping of kpc-scale AGN Mergers | 17 | Regular |
| Gomez | VLA/11A-136 | Resolving the kinematics of the young PN Vy 2-2 | 6 | Regular |
| Goodger | VLA/11A-157 | EVLA Observations and Continued Monitoring of Centaurus A's Jet | 4 | Regular |
| Guedel | VLA/11A-183 | The Bi-Polar Jet of DG Tau | 5 | Regular |
| Harrison | VLA/11A-113 | A Deep Survey of Intermediate Polars | 11 | Regular |
| Henkel | VLA/11A-149 | Radio survey of luminous compact emission-line galaxies | 2 | Regular |
| Heywood | VLA/11A-210 | Molecular gas in the most distant galaxies | 44 | Regular |
| Hughes | VLA/11A-142 | A Cloud-Scale Map of Atomic Gas in M51 | 80 | Regular |
| Immer | VLA/11A-218 | Are Hyper-compact HII Regions Present in W33 Main? | 3 | Regular |
| Intema | VLA/11A-193 | The 74 MHz Ultra-Deep Field (resubmitting) | 36 | Regular |
| Intema | VLA/11A-246 | An Exploratory Study on Small-Scale Traveling Patterns in the Ionosphere | 16 | Regular |
| Ivison | VLA/11A-182 | High-resolution imaging of a unique sample of ultra-bright Herschel SMGs | 32 | Regular |
| Jackson | VLA/11A-161 | Gravitational lens central images: probing the central regions of galaxies | 24 | Regular |
| Jaeger | VLA/11A-201 | An EVLA Quest for the First Direct Detection of Extrasolar Planets | 12 | Regular |
| Lane | VLA/11A-118 | The Nature of Ultra-Steep Spectrum Cluster Radio Halos | 8 | Regular |
| Lang | VLA/11A-191 | Compact Radio Emission Associated with the Ultra Luminous X-Ray Source in IC342 | 14 | Regular |
| Li | VLA/11A-178 | The Murmur of The Hidden Monster: An Active Phase in M31* | 25 | Regular |
| Marti | VLA/11A-115 | Searching for new gamma-ray binaries: the case of 1FGL J0224.0+6201c | 1 | Regular |
| McKean | VLA/11A-198 | The internal structure of a proto-galaxy at redshift z = 4 | 12 | Regular |
| Melis | VLA/11A-179 | Towards a VLBA Resolution of the Pleiades Distance Controversy | 18 | Regular |
| Melis | VLA/11A-127 | Is There a Front Edge to the Orion Star Forming Complex? | 8 | Regular |
| Miller | VLA/11A-173 | Radio Properties of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources | 24 | Regular |
| Miller | VLA/11A-236 | EVLA testing of potentially relativistic hotspots in FRII radio sources | 2 | Regular |
| Miller | VLA/11A-123 | Do Accretion-Ejection Lags Scale with Black Hole Mass? | 8 | Regular |
| Miller-Jones | VLA/11A-139 | Following up new LOFAR-detected transients at GHz frequencies | 11 | Regular |
| Miller-Jones | VLA/11A-140 | Following the decay of the black hole candidate X-ray binary Swift J1753.5-0127 | 11 | Regular |
| Miller-Jones | VLA/11A-146 | Testing the link between polarization angle and jet axis in X-ray binary jets | 4 | Regular |
| Morganti | VLA/11A-166 | Locating the fast HI outflows in radio galaxies | 5 | Regular |
| Morganti | VLA/11A-169 | Atomic and molecular outflow in NGC1266 | 6 | Regular |
| Neff | VLA/11A-217 | Exploratory 74 MHz Observations of CenA | 5 | Regular |
| Osorio | VLA/11A-250 | The Inner Structure of the Protoplanetary Disk of HD 169142 | 8 | Regular |
| Osten | VLA/11A-189 | Radio Emission from the Three Super-Jupiters around HR 8799 | 20 | Regular |
| Perez-Torres | VLA/11A-160 | Unveiling the Hidden Population of SNe in Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies | 7 | Regular |
| Reid | VLA/11A-101 | Galactic Center Astrometry | 15 | Regular |
| Reines | VLA/11A-153 | Probing the Nature of the H2O Kilomaser in He 2-10: Star Formation or AGN? | 36 | Regular |
| Rivilla | VLA/11A-112 | High resolution imaging of the formation of superclusters in Arp220 | 9 | Regular |
| Rodriguez | VLA/11A-174 | Understanding the Rotation of MWC 349A | 9 | Regular |
| Rodriguez | VLA/11A-204 | The spectral index and variability of the compact radio sources in CEN 1 | 10 | Regular |
| Rodriguez | VLA/11A-158 | The Nature of the Compact Radio Sources at the Center of the HH92 System | 5 | Regular |
| Rushton | VLA/11A-144 | Resolving the emission mechanisms in SS 433 | 20 | Regular |
| Sahai | VLA/11A-120 | The Missing Link between Post-AGB Stars with and without Disks | 16 | Regular |
| Sanna | VLA/11A-111 | Exploring the peculiar case of the high-mass star-forming region G9.62+0.20E | 5 | Regular |
| Spangler | VLA/11A-229 | Measurement of Electrical Currents and Magnetic Fields in the Inner Solar Corona | 16 | Regular |
| Strazzullo | VLA/11A-241 | The reversal of fortune: a deeper look. Starbursts and AGN in distant clusters. | 30 | Regular |
| Tarchi | VLA/11A-145 | NLSy1 galaxies vs. H2O masers: the case of NGC4253 | 2 | Regular |
| Taylor | VLA/11A-102 | Checking for Cavities in the Binary Black Hole System 0402+379 | 7 | Regular |
| Thompson | VLA/11A-228 | Measuring the mass-to-flux ratio in molecular clouds | 16 | Regular |
| Tozzi | VLA/11A-163 | Measuring the radio power/cool-core relation in a complete sample of clusters | 30 | Regular |
| Umana | VLA/11A-171 | The rapid evolution of the proto-Planetary Nebula CRL 618 | 6 | Regular |
| van Weeren | VLA/11A-190 | 74 MHz Observations of Two Extreme Galaxy Cluster Mergers | 28 | Regular |
| Wang | VLA/11A-170 | Using HCN l-type absorption lines to detect hot gas in gas-rich radio galaxies | 12 | Regular |
| Yusef-Zadeh | VLA/11A-224 | Coordinated Study of Flare Emission from Sgr A* at Radio & NIR Wavelengths | 28 | Regular |
Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and High Sensitivity Array (HSA)
The 18 newly approved projects for the VLBA and HSA make up only a part of the total science time available. Existing and new Large projects continue to dominate the scheduled observing over Regular projects.
| PI | ID | Proposal Title | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Condon | VLBA/11A-120 | A Search for Inspiraling, Binary, and Recoiling Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies | 282 | Large |
| Lister | VLBA/11A-118 | The VLBA 2cm MOJAVE/Fermi Program | 816 | Large |
| Melis | VLBA/11A-122 | A VLBA Resolution of the Pleiades Distance Controversy | 630 | Large |
| Beasley | VLBA/11A-124 | Imaging the Magnetic Propeller in AE Aqr - II | 32 | Regular |
| Blundell | VLBA/11A-129 | Precession of the circumbinary ruff of the microquasar SS433 on milliarcs scales | 108 | Regular |
| Boyles | VLBA/11A-121 | Measuring the proper motion and parallax for nearby recycled pulsar J2222-0137 | 12 | Regular |
| Bruni | VLBA/11A-112 | Morphology and orientation of Radio Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars | 30 | Regular |
| Desmurs | VLBA/11A-101 | Further observations of SiO v=3 J=1-0 maser emission from AGB stars. | 24 | Regular |
| Giroletti | VLBA/11A-114 | Comprehensive VLBA monitoring of two TeV blazars | 90 | Regular |
| Hovatta | VLBA/11A-110 | Follow-up Investigation of Faraday Plasma in Quasar Jets | 24 | Regular |
| Johnston | VLBA/11A-100 | AGN Stability and the Celestial Reference Frame: Additional session | 8 | Regular |
| Lacy | VLBA/11A-123 | A search for highly obscured quasars and AGN in the Spitzer First Look Survey | 30 | Regular |
| Ma | VLBA/11A-102 | VLBA Geodesy/Astrometry Observations for 2011 | 144 | Regular |
| Miller-Jones | VLBA/11A-107 | Following up new LOFAR-detected transients at GHz frequencies | 54 | Regular |
| Reynolds | VLBA/11A-104 | The High Frequency Flares in Mrk 231 | 32 | Regular |
| Rioja | VLBA/11A-126 | High-Precision 22 & 43 GHz Astrometric Monitoring of the Cores in OJ287 and 3C273 | 156 | Regular |
| Tremblay | VLBA/11A-106 | Follow-up of the Candidate Recoiling Black Hole J11584+2450 | 10 | Regular |
| Walker | VLBA/11A-119 | Confirming the Association of Flaring TeV Emission with the Core of M87, III | 132 | Regular |
Green Bank Telescope (GBT)
| PI | ID | Proposal Title | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roshi | GBT/11A-002 | An enigmatic compact radio source in NGC1977: Is it a Millisecond Pulsar ? | 2.5 | Regular |
| Mangum | GBT/11A-005 | Kinetic Temperature in Starburst Galaxies | 21.0 | Regular |
| Mangum | GBT/11A-006 | Formaldehyde Densitometry of Starburst Galaxies | 79.0 | Regular |
| Mroczkowski | GBT/11A-009 | MUSTANG Imaging of the CLASH Cluster Sample | 97.0 | Regular |
| Mroczkowski | GBT/11A-010 | MUSTANG Imaging of Two Forming High-Redshift (z~1) Clusters | 45.0 | Regular |
| Rosen | GBT/11A-013 | Confirmation and Follow-up Observations of New Pulsars Discovered by the PSC | 21.0 | Regular |
| Gwinn | GBT/11A-015 | Probing Rapid Variability of Ultra-Compact Extragalactic Sources | 7.0 | Regular |
| Lockman | GBT/11A-016 | The Smith Cloud: Ablation and Entrainment | 181.0 | Regular |
| Chin | GBT/11A-017 | Confirmation of Interstellar Benzonitrile (C6H5CN) towards TMC-1 | 32.0 | Regular |
| Tarchi | GBT/11A-018 | NLSy1 galaxies vs. H2O masers: a prolific sample for new detections | 26.0 | Regular |
| Sakai | GBT/11A-019 | Tracing Formation of Methanol by Observations of Its 13C Isotopomer | 32.5 | Regular |
| Siemion | GBT/11A-020 | First Steps towards Commensal SETI Observations with the GBT | 50.0 | RRS-KT |
| Albrecht | GBT/11A-021 | Mapping mm excess emission towards M33 with MUSTANG | 32.0 | Regular |
| McLaughlin | GBT/11A-023 | Continued Timing of Three Rotating Radio Transients | 30.0 | Regular |
| DeCesar | GBT/11A-025 | A Search for Millisecond Pulsars in Gamma-ray-Detected Globular Clusters | 7.5 | Regular |
| Paladini | GBT/11A-026 | NH3 follow-up of pre-stellar cores observed by Planck and Herschel | 33.7 | Regular |
| Frayer | GBT/11A-027 | CO(1-0) Observations of the Brightest Herschel-ATLAS Sub-mm Galaxies | 64.0 | Regular |
| Trigilio | GBT/11A-028 | Unveiling the nature of Galactic Bubbles | 15.0 | Regular |
| Lynch | GBT/11A-029 | Searching for Pulsars in Ten Globular Clusters Using GUPPI2 | 78.3 | Regular |
| Boyles | GBT/11A-030 | shapiro delay and long-term timing of PSR J2222-0137 | 25.8 | Regular |
| Shirley | GBT/11A-031 | Studying the Evolution of High-mass Clumps in G111.8+0.6 with NH3 and Maser Maps | 36.0 | Regular |
| Zhang | GBT/11A-033 | Turbulence and massive star/cluster formation | 18.0 | Regular |
| Lazio | GBT/11A-034 | A Search for Radio Pulsar Companions to Subdwarf B Stars | 9.0 | Regular |
| Siemion | GBT/11A-035 | A Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Kepler Field | 24.0 | Regular |
| Ao | GBT/11A-036 | Search for ammonia absorption lines in the distant galaxies | 32.3 | Regular |
| Chynoweth | GBT/11A-037 | A Deep HI Study of the M101 Group | 85.0 | Regular |
| Coenen | GBT/11A-041 | A search for radio pulsars around subluminous B dwarfs | 5.5 | Regular |
| Sadavoy | GBT/11A-042 | Understanding Core Formation with Ammonia Observations of Perseus B1-E | 4.0 | Regular |
| Bania | GBT/11A-043 | Solving "The 3-Helium Problem" | 196.0 | Regular |
| Pineda | GBT/11A-044 | Is there a sharp temperature or density profile in B5? | 9.5 | Regular |
| Tabatabaei | GBT/11A-045 | The First Detection of Ammonia in M33 | 25.0 | Regular |
| Margot | GBT/11A-046 | Spin state and interior of Mercury | 10.5 | Regular |
| Wagg | GBT/11A-047 | A survey of cold molecular gas in strong C+ line emitters at z~2 | 14.3 | Regular |
| Pineda | GBT/11A-048 | COMPLETing Ammonia Mapping of Perseus with GBT | 27.5 | Regular |
| Boyles | GBT/11A-051 | Long-term monitoring of PSR J1328-07 | 3.3 | Regular |
| Chitsazzadeh | GBT/11A-052 | Ammonia Observations of Starless Cores with the KFPA | 10.4 | Regular |
| Pisano | GBT/11A-055 | A GBT HI Survey of THINGS Galaxies | 190.0 | Regular |
| Darling | GBT/11A-056 | A Water Maser Survey of Active Black Holes in the Local Universe | 76.0 | Regular |
| Ostlin | GBT/11A-057 | A Search for Neutral Hydrogen in the Lyman Alpha Reference Sample Galaxies | 19.0 | Regular |
| Rood | GBT/11A-058 | A Novel Search for SETI Beacons | 10.0 | Regular |
| Pennucci | GBT/11A-059 | Shapiro Delay Measurements of Two Binary Pulsars | 56.0 | Regular |
| Greenhill | GBT/11A-060 | AGN in Bulge-less Galaxies | 40.3 | Regular |
| Ries | GBT/11A-061 | Understanding Asteroid Light-curves at 3mm | 15.0 | Regular |
| Rabidoux | GBT/11A-062 | Probing star formation in local Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies | 21.1 | Regular |
| Roberts | GBT/11A-63 | Timing More New Fermi Millisecond Pulsars | 31.0 | Regular |
| Royster | GBT/11A-065 | An X-band Recombination Line Survey of the Galactic Center Region | 20.0 | Regular |
