Accepted proposals for Semester S07A

The Call for Proposals for Semester S07A saw 123 and 2 submitted proposals for the Normal and Intensive Programs, respectively, requesting a total of 391.9 nights. The available 107 + 1TOO nights were awarded to the following 45 proposals. 2 nights have already been allocated to S06B Intensive Program. Other 5 nights are reserved for the Service Programs.

ID	PI	Proposal Title	Inst	Nts
S07A-005	Donald Kurtz	3D pulsation and abundance maps of the extreme roAp star HD99563	HDS	3
S07A-007	Norio Narita	Ground-based Transmission Spectroscopy of a Very Hot Jupiter HD189733b	HDS	1
S07A-009	Motohide Tamura	In search of the bottom of the IMF	S-Cam, MOIRCS	0.5+2.5
S07A-010	Takashi Ichikawa	MOIRCS Deep Survey in GOODS-N Region*	MOIRCS	8
S07A-012	Ortwin Gerhard	Tracing the Subcluster Merger in the Coma Cluster Core with ICPN Velocities	FOCAS	4
S07A-013	Masami Ouchi	Completion of Suprime-Cam Red Band Imaging for Galaxies at z~7	S-Cam	4
S07A-021	Bruce Carney	Li abundances in halo subgiants	HDS	2
S07A-023	Wako Aoki	Chemical abundances of carbon-rich dwarfs/subgiants from the SDSS sample	HDS	2
S07A-029	Takashi Onaka	Nano-diamonds in Massive Star-Forming Regions	COMICS	3
S07A-030	Motohide TAMURA	Spectroscopic Confirmation of the First 'Y Dwarf' with Subaru	IRCS	2
S07A-032	Yasuhiro Hashimoto	Deep NIR Imaging of Optically Very Faint XMM X-ray Sources	MOIRCS	1
S07A-036	Ralph Neuhäuser	Astrometric search for sub-stellar companions in low-mass binary stars	CIAO+AO	1
S07A-037	Masataka Fukugita	Star Formation Rate at z~1 from H alpha -H beta Emission Lines	MOIRCS	2
S07A-038	Kouji Ohta	Luminosity Dependent Evolution of LBGs at z~5	GMOS(N)	3
S07A-039	Tohru NAGAO	An Observational Pursuit for PopIII Stars. III. Optical Search for HeII Emission from PopIII Stars	S-Cam, FOCAS	1+1
S07A-043	Tomonori Totani	An Ultra-Deep Survey for Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field	S-Cam	4
S07A-045	Yoshiko Okamoto	Detecting depletion of small silicate grains from protoplanetary disk atmosphere	COMICS	2
S07A-053	Hideyo KAWAKITA	Water in the Protoplanetary Disk around HD141569	IRCS	0.5
S07A-057	Yutaka Komiyama	Coma Cluster of Galaxies -- Ultimate Imaging Survey	S-Cam	4
S07A-058	Masato Onodera	Systematic investigation of the stellar populations of massive galaxies at z~2	MOIRCS	5
S07A-059	Kazuaki Ota	Probing Dawn of the Dark Age by Lyalpha Luminosity Functions at z=5.7-7.0	S-Cam	2
S07A-064	Toshifumi Futamase	The Ultimate Gravitational Lensing Study of Galaxy Clusters (IIb)	S-Cam	1
S07A-066	Sakurako Okamoto	Resolving Stellar Halos and Outer Disks Beyond the Local Group II	S-Cam	1
S07A-067	Moire Prescott	Mapping the Large Scale Structure Surrounding a z~2.7 Ly alpha Blob	S-Cam	1
S07A-070	Nobunari Kashikawa	Star-forming Galaxies During the Cosmic Reionization Epoch	FOCAS	4
S07A-072	Nobuyuki Kawai	Observation of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows detected by Swift and HETE-2	TOO	1
S07A-073	Takeshi Oka	Was H3+ really detected from a Circumstellar Structure?	IRCS	0.5
S07A-074	Theodor Kostiuk	Titan Wind and Stratospheric Structure	HIPWAC(PI instr.)	2
S07A-079	Tadayuki Kodama	The first appearance of red sequence in proto-clusters 2. Optical spectroscopy	FOCAS	2
S07A-080	Anton Koekemoer	High-Redshift Black Hole Growth in Dense Environments with COSMOS	MOIRCS	3
S07A-082	Masamune Oguri	Wide-Field Deep Imaging of Giant Arc Clusters	S-Cam	1
S07A-083	Masayuki Akiyama	Unveiling obscured black-hole growth phase of massive galaxies II	MOIRCS	4
S07A-087	Naoyuki Tamura	A New Explanation for the Globular Cluster Bimodal Color Distributions	FOCAS	4
S07A-088	Keiichi Maeda	Late-time Spectroscopy of Type Ib/c SNe Comprehensive Study of Asphericity	FOCAS	1
S07A-090	Takeo Minezaki	Mid-infrared imaging of lensed QSOs as a probe of CDM substructure --III	COMICS	3
S07A-098	Eiichi Egami	Ionization State and Metallicity of AEGIS/DEEP2 Galaxies at z~1 and Beyond	MOIRCS	2
S07A-099	Shinya Wanajo	Light neutron-capture elements as diagnostics of the weak r-process universality	HDS	2
S07A-102	Masanori Iye	FOCAS spectroscopy of a possible z=7.02 LAE candidate IOK-2	FOCAS	1
S07A-105	Masao Hayashi	Spectroscopy of Faint BzK Galaxies in the Subaru Deep Field	MOIRCS	2
S07A-115	Eiichi Egami	Characterizing the Sources Responsible for Cosmic Reionization	MOIRCS	3
S07A-116	Itsuki Sakon	Formation scenario of PAHs and PAH clusters in the history of stellar evolution	COMICS	2
S07A-118	Yosuke Minowa	Probing the IGM-galaxy connection using GRB absorbers	MOIRCS, S-Cam	0.5+0.5
S07A-123	Takuya Fujiyoshi	Revealing the central magnetic field configuration in M17-SO1	CIAO+AO	3
S07A-125	Masahiro Tsujimoto	Identification of the Faintest Discrete X-ray Sources in the Galactic Plane	MOIRCS	3
S07A-127	Jun-Ichi Morino	A Coronagraphic Search for Brown Dwarfs and Planets around Nearby Stars	CIAO+AO	2

*This proposal has been accepted in the category of Intensive Program, and 7 nights will be carried over for S08A.

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

Service Programs conducted in Semester S07A

The following proposals were conducted in S07A as Service Programs.

ID	PI	Proposal Title	Inst	Achievement
S07A-129S	Roland Gredel	A new approach towards the identification of diffuse interstellar bands	HDS	100%
S07A-138S	Ryoko Ishioka	The central double-degenerate binary in PN G135.9+55.9	HDS	65%
S07A-140S	Wako Aoki	Investigation of the Binary Nature of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars	HDS	100%
S07A-141S	Toru Yamada	Stellar Mass vs. Dynamical Mass: Compensation of S06A-046	MOIRCS	100%
S07A-143S	Daisuke Yonetoku	Host Galaxy of Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by Suzaku	S-Cam, MOIRCS	100%
S07A-147S	Motoko Suzuki	Spectroscopy of the optical counterpart of HETE J1900.1-2455	HDS	75%
S07A-149S	Bringfried Stecklum	NIR imaging of a very low mass FUor	IRCS	100%
S07A-151S	Yumiko Oasa	Investigation of the Initial Mass Function at Low-Mass End: Is it uniform?	MOIRCS	100%
S07A-154S	Hendrik Linz	The conundrum of H2CO masers: Do they arise from shocked gas?	IRCS	60%
S07A-155S	Yiping Wang	Identification of Lyman limit systems along the QSO sightlines	S-Cam	33%
S07A-161S	Suk-Jin Yoon	Detection of Color-dependent Variations of Globular Cluster Color Distributions	MOIRCS	25%