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| Program Number | Principal Investigator | Program Title | Links |
| 10786 | Marc Buie, Lowell Observatory | Rotational state and composition of Pluto's outer satellites | Abstract |
| 10798 | Leon Koopmans, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute | Dark Halos and Substructure from Arcs & Einstein Rings | Abstract |
| 10800 | Keith Noll, Space Telescope Science Institute | Kuiper Belt Binaries: Probes of Early Solar System Evolution | Abstract |
| 10826 | Inger Jorgensen, Gemini Observatory, Northern Operations | Galaxy Evolution During Half the Age of the Universe: ACS imaging of rich galaxy clusters | Abstract |
| 10832 | Brian M. Patten, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory | Solving the microlensing puzzle: An HST high-resolution imaging approach | Abstract |
| 10855 | Mark Swain, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | The Near-IR Spectra and Thermal Emission of Hot Jupiters | Abstract |
| 10858 | Lin Yan, California Institute of Technology | NICMOS Imaging of the z ~ 2 Spitzer Spectroscopic Sample of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies | Abstract |
| 10862 | John Clarke, Boston University | Comprehensive Auroral Imaging of Jupiter and Saturn during the International Heliophysical Year | Abstract |
| 10877 | Weidong Li, University of California - Berkeley | A Snapshot Survey of the Sites of Recent, Nearby Supernovae | Abstract |
| 10880 | Henrique Schmitt, Naval Research Laboratiry | The host galaxies of QSO2s: AGN feeding and evolution at high luminosities | Abstract |
| 10886 | Adam Bolton, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory | The Sloan Lens ACS Survey: Towards 100 New Strong Lenses | Abstract |
| 10888 | Andrew Cole, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities | Complexity in the Smallest Galaxies: Star Formation History of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal | Abstract |
| 11080 | Daniela Calzetti, University of Massachusetts | Exploring the Scaling Laws of Star Formation | Abstract |
GO 10786: Rotational state and composition of Pluto's outer satellites
Hubble Space Telescope image of Pluto, Charon and the two new moons, Nix & Hydra |
Pluto, one of the largest members of the Kuiper Belt and, until recently (still, for some), the outermost planet in the solar system, has been in the news over the last year or two. Besides the great "planet"/"dwarf planet" debate, Pluto is the primary target of the New Horizons Mission, and Hubble observations in 2005 led to the discovery of two small moons. Together with Charon, itself only discovered in 1978, these additions make Pluto a 4-body system. Christened Nix and Hydra, the two new moons are 5,000 fainter than Pluto itself, implying diameters as small as ~30-50 km if the surface composition is similar to Pluto itself. The present program aims to better characterise these bodies through multicolour observatioins with WFPC2. The observations will also look for systematic photometric variations that might probe the rotation period. with the aim of testing whether these moons are in synchronous rotation with Pluto itself. |
GO 10880: The host galaxies of QSO2s: AGN feeding and evolution at high luminosities
Artist's impression of the black hole and surrounding torus in an AGN
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The peculiar nature of active galaxies was first discerned almost 100 years, when
Edward A. Fath obtained a photographic spectrum on the Lick 36-inch of the nucleus
of the the spiral galaxy, M77. Unlike most systems, which had star-like
absorption line spectra, M77 (now more popularly known as NGC 1068) exhibited
several strong emission lines that were also known to be present in gaseous nebulae.
The emission was also concentrated near the galactic nucleus. We now know that these
lines are due to hydrogen and ionised oxygen and nitrogen, generated by hot gas within
a toroidal disk around a central supermassive black hole. There are still a number of
significant questions concerning these active galactic nuclei (AGNs): when do the black holes form? how are they fed? how do they evolve with time? and how do they affect the surrounding galaxy? The present program aims to tackle some aspects of these questions by using WFPC2 to image QSOs at redshifts between 0.3 and 0.4, investigating the central morphology at high angular resolution. |
GO 10886: The Sloan Lens ACS Survey: Towards 100 New Strong Lenses
ACS images of galaxy-galaxy Einstein ring lenses from the Sloan survey
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Gravitational lensing is a consequence the theory of general relativity. Its importance as an astrophysical tool first became apparent with the realisation (in 1979) that the quasar pair Q0957+561 actually comprised two lensed images of the same background quasar. In the succeeding years, lensing has been used primarily to probe the mass distribution of galaxy clusters, using theoretical models to analyse the arcs and arclets that are produced by strong lensing of background galaxies, and the large-scale mass distribution, through analysis of weak lensing effects on galaxy morphologies. Gravitational lensing can also be used to investigate the mass distribution of individual galaxies. Until recently, the most common background sources were quasars. Galaxy-galaxy lenses, however, offer a distinct advantage, since the background source is extended, and therefore imposes a stronger constraints on the mass distribution of the lensing galaxy than a point-source QSO. The Sloan sky survey provides a powerful tool for identifying candidate galaxy-galaxy lenses; this program is using HST-ACS imaging to verify the nature of those candidates, and provide the angular resolution necessary to model the mass distribution. |
GO 11080: Exploring the Scaling Laws of Star Formation
A composite BVJ image of NGC 972, one of the galaxies targeted in this program
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Understanding the star formation process is crucial to our developing viable theories of galaxy formation. The present program aims to investigate this process by obtaining NICMOS Paschen-alpha images of the central regions of an all-sky sample 84 nearby spiral and S0 galaxies. The near-infrared images will be combined with CO and HI interferometric radio maps, and, where such data are available, mid-infrared imaging by Spitzer, probing the relative distributions of gas, dust and star formation in these galaxies. In addition to studying how the star formation rate (SFR) varies as a function of gas density, the NICMOS data will permit high spatial-resolution investigations of where (and whether) Schmidt-type star-formation "laws" (power-law relations between the SFR and gas density) are valid in external galaxies. |