Accepted proposals for Semester S06B

The Call for Proposals for Semester S06B saw 116 and 2 submitted proposals for the Normal and Intensive Programs, respectively, requesting a total of 369.7 nights. The available 88 + 3TOO nights were awarded to the following 40 proposals. 10 nights have already been allocated to S06A Intensive Program. Other 3 nights are reserved for the Service Programs.

ID	PI	Proposal Title	Inst	Nts
S06B-002	Masatoshi Imanishi	Star-formation and growth of supermassive blackholes in nearby QSOs	IRCS	2
S06B-010	Masami Ouchi	Completion of SXDS NB921 Imaging: Concluding the z=6.6 LAE Clustering	S-Cam	3
S06B-013	Nobunari Kashikawa	Clustering Segregation in High-z Universe	S-Cam	3
S06B-015	NOBUO ARIMOTO	Abundances in Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal	HDS	4
S06B-021	Masatoshi Imanishi	Distinguishing the compact energy sources of nearby ULIRGs	COMICS	1
S06B-024	Takashi Onaka	Mid-Infrared Observations of Embedded Star Clusters in NGC1569	COMICS	3
S06B-026	Yoshiaki Taniguchi	COSMOS-21: Deep Intermediate-band Survey of the COSMOS Field	S-Cam	4
S06B-027	Yoshiaki Taniguchi	Search for Obscured AGN in GOODS-South	S-Cam	3
S06B-030	Masayuki Tanaka	Probing the Cosmic Web and Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z~1.2	FOCAS, GMOS	4.5
S06B-031	Eiichi Egami	Characterizing the Sources Responsible for Reionization	MOIRCS	2
S06B-033	Zhibo Jiang	Studies of the circumstellar environments around massive protostellar objects	CIAO+AO	3
S06B-037	Michihiro Takami	IR High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Circumstellar Disks Associated with YSOs	IRCS	3
S06B-039	Takashi MIYATA	Fossils of AGB/PPNe dust? -- A broad 12um feature in NGC7027	COMICS, IRCS	1
S06B-041	Akemi Tamanai	Using new lab methods to understand silicate processing in circumstellar discs	COMICS	0.8
S06B-042	Naoki Yasuda	Spectral Properties of Supernovae Detected in the SDSS II	FOCAS	3
S06B-044	Itsuki Sakon	PAH 11.0um feature as a valid measure of the ISRF strength and Ne	COMICS	2
S06B-049	Christopher Leigh	Spectroscopic search for thermal emission from upsilon Andromeda b	IRCS	2
S06B-052	Nobuyuki Kawai	Observation of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows detected by Swift and HETE-2	various	3 ToO
S06B-058	Naoto Kobayashi	Investigating Initial Mass Function in Low-metallicity Environment	MOIRCS	2
S06B-060	Yoshiko Okamoto	10AU scale PAH and silicate dust distribution in protoplanetary disks	COMICS	3.5
S06B-061	Yoshiko Okamoto	Probing outer disk dust distribution through Q-band spectro-astrometry	COMICS	0.6
S06B-062	Motohide Tamura	In search of the bottom of the IMF	S-Cam, MOIRCS	2
S06B-063	Hideaki Fujiwara	Crystallinity of silicate dust in outer region of protoplanetary disk	COMICS	0.6
S06B-065	Yumiko Oasa	A Spectroscopic Confirmation of of Young Brown Dwarfs and Planetary-Mass Objects	MOIRCS	2
S06B-067	Wako Aoki	Chemical abundances of carbon-rich dwarfs/subgiants from the SDSS sample	HDS	1
S06B-069	Tohru NAGAO	The Mass-Metallicity Relation of Galaxies at z≥ 3	MOIRCS	3
S06B-070	Kentaro Aoki	Spectropolarimetry of FeLoBAL Quasars: Are they young quasars ? (1)	FOCAS	1
S06B-077	Koji Kawabata	Late-time Spectroscopy of GRB-SN 2006aj and other Type Ib/c SNe: probing asphericity and inner ejecta	FOCAS	3
S06B-083	Toshikazu Shigeyama	Identification of the donor star of a type Ia supernova in Tycho's remnant	FOCAS	2
S06B-085	Mamoru Doi	Dark Energy Measurements using SNIa in Elliptical Galaxies *	FOCAS	2
S06B-086	Masayuki Akiyama	Unveiling obscured black-hole growth phase of massive galaxies	MOIRCS	3
S06B-098	Tomoki Saito	Deep Narrowband Imaging of Extended Lyƒ¿ Sources in SXDF	Kyoto3DII	3
S06B-099	Hideyo KAWAKITA	Chemical Composition of Extra-solar Comets: Case of IRC +10216	IRCS	0.5
S06B-100	Naoto Kobayashi	Number Density of High-redshift MgII Absorption Systems	IRCS	2
S06B-103	Naohisa Inada	Spectroscopic Study of the Giant Quadruple QSO Lens SDSS J1004+4112	FOCAS	2
S06B-105	Miwa Goto	How Massive A Star Can Be to Have A Disk?	IRCS	3
S06B-106	Tadayuki Kodama	The First Appearance of a Red Sequence of Galaxies in Proto-Clusters	MOIRCS	3
S06B-107	Takafumi Ootsubo	Quantification of Crystalline-to-Amorphous Silicate Ratio in Ecliptic Comets	COMICS	1
S06B-117	Toshihiro KAWAGUCHI	Host Galaxies of the Youngest Black Holes	GMOS	1.5
S06B-120	Scott Sheppard	Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System	S-Cam	2

*This proposal has been accepted in the category of Intensive Program, and 2 nights will be carried over for S07A.

From this S06B semester, we have time-exchange programs with Gemini. The instrument written in italics is Gemini's.

Service Programs conducted in Semester S06B

The following proposals were conducted in S06B as Service Programs.

ID	PI	Proposal Title	Inst	Achievement
S06B-128S	Tadayuki Kodama	Completing Multicolour Imaging of a Dynamically Young Cluster at z=1.11	S-Cam	97%
S06B-129S	David Barrado y Navascues	Searching for planetary mass members of the 5 Myr Lambda Orionis Cluster	S-Cam	95%
S06B-133S	Kazuhiro Shimasaku	Dark-halo mass dependence of star formation properties for z~3 LBGs	S-Cam	31%
S06B-135S	Yoichi Itoh	A Circumstellar Disk of a Young Brown Dwarf Companion	COMICS	50%
S06B-139S	Michael Eracleous	Black Hole Masses in AGNs With Double-Peaked Emission Lines	HDS	50%
S06B-140S	Yoshiko Okamoto	N-band extended emission survey toward HAEBE disks I: Winter targets	COMICS	50%