Accepted proposals for Semester S09A

The Call for Proposals for Semester S09A received 151 submitted proposals all for the Normal Program, requesting a total of 429.5 nights. After screening by TAC, 98 + 4 ToO nights were newly allocated to the following 53 proposals. Besides, 11 nights will be used for the running Intensive Program proposals (5 nights for S08A-018, 6 nights for S08B-051), and 5 nights for the Service Program.

S09A-002	Tomotsugu Goto	A search for high redshift QSOs at 6.5<z<7.8	FOCAS	0.5
S09A-006	Masatoshi Imanishi	Distinguishing the compact energy sources of nearby ULIRGs	COMICS	2
S09A-011	Nobunari Kashikawa	Concluding the Census of Faint Galaxies at the Reionization Epoch	DEIMOS	2
S09A-014	Masaomi Tanaka	Spectropolarimetry of Stripped-Envelope Supernovae and GRB-Supernovae	FOCAS	1 ToO
S09A-016	Masayuki Tanaka	Deep NIR spectroscopy of record-breaking cluster candidates at z~1.8	MOIRCS/MOS	3
S09A-017	Masami Ouchi	Follow-up Wide-Field Survey for z~7 Galaxies:Final Push of the Subaru Limit	S-Cam	4
S09A-018	Nobuo Arimoto	Detecting the Invisibles: The Next Generation of Ultra Faint dSphs	S-Cam	3
S09A-020	Nobunari Kashikawa	The First Direct Detection of the First Stars	MOIRCS/MOS	2
S09A-022	Poshak Gandhi	Resolving the mid-infrared cores of a complete distance-limited 3CRR sample	COMICS	4
S09A-025	Alexander Scholz	Reaching for the Bottom: Spectroscopy of Ultra-Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs	MOIRCS/MOS	2
S09A-026	Lorenzo Monaco	Chemical abundances in the remote globular cluster NGC2419	HDS	1
S09A-028	Susan Kassin	MOIRCS Multi-PA Kinematics of Galaxies at z~2+: A Search for Disks	MOIRCS/MOS	2
S09A-030	Tohru NAGAO	Nitrogen-Loud QSOs --- A Critical Test for Metallicity Measurements in High-z QSOs	MOIRCS	1
S09A-038	Misato Fukagawa	Variability in Protoplanetary Disks II	IRCS+AO	2
S09A-039	Nobuyuki Kawai	Subaru Observation of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows	various	3 ToO
S09A-043	Nobuo Arimoto	Mapping the Highest Concentrations of Passive Galaxies at z~2	MOIRCS/MOS	3
S09A-044	Toru Yamada	Spectroscopic Identification of Infrared-Selcted Clusters of Galaxies at z>1.4	MOIRCS/MOS	1
S09A-045	Paul Ho	Structure of Dark Matter and Baryons in AMIBA SZE Galaxy Clusters	S-Cam	1.5
S09A-046	Philip Lucas	Spectroscopic confirmation of the coolest brown dwarfs with Subaru	IRCS	2
S09A-047	Pascale Hibon	Searching z~7 galaxies with Suprime-Cam	S-Cam	2
S09A-048	Sakurako Okamoto	Chemical Signatures of Genuine Building Blocks of the Milky Way	HDS	3
S09A-049	Masato Onodera	H alpha kinematics of z=1.5 disk galaxies hosting giant molecular gas reservoirs	OSIRIS /LGS-AO	1
S09A-051	Mike Watson	IR properties of a sample of Extreme FX/Fopt objects (EXOs)	MOIRCS	1
S09A-062	Masayuki Akiyama	Revealing the dynamical structure of the disk-like galaxies at z~3 II	NIFS/LGS-AO	1
S09A-063	Sune Toft	Redshifts and environmental impacts on massive evolved galaxies at z~2	MOIRCS/MOS	2.5
S09A-065	Masanori Iye	Deep SDF survey for Lyman alpha Emitters at z=7.3 with new SuprimeCam	S-Cam	4
S09A-067	Kazuya Matsubayashi	Line Ratio Maps of Galactic Winds in Nearby Edge-on Starburst Galaxies	Kyoto3DII	2
S09A-069	David Bowen	Echelle Observations of QSO Absorption Lines from QSOs	HDS	2
S09A-071	Ikuru Iwata	Revealing the nature of galaxies emitting strong Lyman continuum	LRIS	1
S09A-082	Neil Dello Russo	The chemical composition of comet C/2007 N3 Lulin	IRCS+AO	1
S09A-084	Yuki Nakamura	A Search for Emission-Line Objects in the Proto-Cluster Region at z=2.4	S-Cam	1
S09A-093	Koji Kawabata	Late-time Spectroscopy of Type Ib/c SNe: probing inner ejecta and asphericity	FOCAS	2
S09A-096	Norio Narita	A Search for Weather Variations in the Transiting Extrasolar Planet HD189733b	HDS	2
S09A-097	Norio Narita	New Searches for Atmospheric Absorption in Transiting Extrasolar Planets I.	HDS	3
S09A-099	Nobunari Kashikawa	The first QSOs at z~7	S-Cam	3
S09A-101	Masahide Takada-Hidai	Exploring the [S/Fe] Behavior of Metal-Poor Stars with the S I 1.046 μm Lines	IRCS+AO	2
S09A-103	Masamune Oguri	Characterizing the strongest lenses in the universe	S-Cam	1
S09A-104	Yuichi Matsuda	How Did Galaxies Form in the Large-scale HI Gas Reservoir at z=5?	S-Cam	2
S09A-108	Scott Sheppard	A Neptune Trojan Survey for the New Horizons Spacecraft	S-Cam	3
S09A-113	Hajime Sugai	Testing the tip of the starburst X-ray luminosity function	MOIRCS	2
S09A-114	Naoyuki Tamura	Characterizing star-forming galaxies in overdense regions at z = 1-2	MOIRCS/MOS	2
S09A-115	Takeshi Oka	Exploring the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way by H3+ Spectroscopy	IRCS+AO	4
S09A-117	Masafumi Yagi	Slitless spectroscopy of small bodies on a dark cloud curtain	S-Cam	1
S09A-119	Masafumi Yagi	Spectroscopy of peculiar extended emission-line regions in the Coma cluster	FOCAS	1
S09A-121	Hitomi Kobayashi	Hydrogenation of Hydrocarbon Molecules in Comets: Case of C/2007 N3	IRCS+AO	1
S09A-124	Hideaki Fujiwara	Warm Debris Dust around Planet Host Stars (Northern Sources)	COMICS	1
S09A-127	Hideaki Fujiwara	Warm Debris Dust around Planet Host Stars (Southern Sources)	T-ReCS	3
S09A-128	Yutaka Komiyama	Coma Cluster of Galaxies -- Ultimate Imaging Survey (III)	S-Cam	2
S09A-129	Yutaka Ihara	A rate study of highest-z type Ia supernovae	FOCAS	1
S09A-135	Toru Misawa	Multi-Sightline Spectroscopy of Outflowing Winds in Quasar SDSS J1029+2623	FOCAS, HDS	0.5+1
S09A-138	Tomoki Saito	Spectroscopic follow-up of Ly alpha blobs at z~3 in the 2 deg2 COSMOS field	GMOS(N)	1
S09A-154	Seiji Sugita	Observation of LCROSS Collisions on a Permanent Shadow of the Moon	IRCS	0.5
S09A-157	Masayuki Kuzuhara	Deep Spectroscopy of a Possible Cluster of Young Planetary-Mass Objects	MOIRCS/MOS	1.5

We have time-exchange programs with Gemini and Keck. The instruments written in italics are those of Gemini or Keck.