Accepted proposals for Semester S09B

The Call for Proposals for Semester S09B received 140 submitted proposals all for the Normal Program, requesting a total of 379.5 nights. After screening by TAC, 95 + 4 ToO nights were newly allocated to the following 45 proposals. Besides, 11 nights will be used for the running Intensive Program proposals (5 nights for S08A-018, 6 nights for S08B-051), and 4 nights for the Service Program.

ID	PI	Proposal Title	Inst	Nts
S09B-001	Masatoshi Imanishi	Distinguishing the compact energy sources of nearby ULIRGs	T-ReCS	2
S09B-002	Masami Ouchi	Concerted Attack on Questions of LAEs with the Backup of Triple NB System	S-Cam	3.5
S09B-003	David Barrado y Navascués	The nature of Subaru Planetary Mass Candidates in the 5 Myr Col 69 cluster	IRCS	3
S09B-012	Tadayuki Kodama	Inside-out and down-sizing propagation of star formation in high-z clusters	MOIRCS	5
S09B-013	Christian Maier	Chemical evolution: Metallicities of vigorously star-forming galaxies at z~2.3	MOIRCS	2.5
S09B-016	Markus Janson	Spatially resolved L-band spectroscopy of the planets in the HR 8799 system	IRCS+AO188	3
S09B-018	Thayne Currie	Subaru/IRCS Observations of the HR 8799 and Fomalhaut Planetary Systems	IRCS+AO188	1
S09B-021	Nick Indriolo	Probing the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate Near Supernova Remnants Using H3+	IRCS+AO188	2
S09B-023	Hideaki Fujiwara	Warm Debris Dust around Planet Host Stars II	COMICS	1
S09B-024	Jae-Woo Lee	Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Galactic Bulge	HDS	1
S09B-025	Takuji Tsujimoto	Super metal-rich open clusters in the innermost Galactic disk	IRCS	2
S09B-030	Nobunari Kashikawa	Faint emissions from heavy absorbers II: NIR imaging	NIRI(+LGS-AO)	2
S09B-038	Kazuaki Ota	Spectroscopy of z=7 SXDS Galaxies to Determine Ly alpha LF at Reionization Era	DEIMOS	2
S09B-041	Masaomi Tanaka	Spectropolarimetry of Stripped-Envelope Supernovae and GRB-Supernovae	FOCAS	2 ToO
S09B-042	Masayuki Tanaka	NIR spectroscopic follow-up of three record-breaking high-z clusters in SXDF	MOIRCS	2
S09B-045	Keiichi Maeda	The weakest SN 2008ha: Are all Type Ia SNe an Explosion of a White Dwarf?	FOCAS	1
S09B-050	Nobuyuki Kawai	Subaru Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows	various	3 ToO
S09B-051	Koji Kawabata	Late-time Spectroscopy of Type Ib/c SNe: Probing inner ejecta and asphericity	FOCAS	2
S09B-053	Tohru Nagao	Quasar Evolution in the Early Universe	FOCAS	5
S09B-055	Masanori Iye	SXDF survey for Lyman alpha Emitters at z=7.3 with red-sensitive SuprimeCam	S-Cam	2
S09B-057	Philip Lucas	Discovering the coolest brown dwarfs and measuring the substellar mass function	IRCS	2
S09B-058	Takafumi Ootsubo	Evolution of silicate dust grains on the surfaces of Ecliptic comets	COMICS	1
S09B-060	Christian Thalmann	Piercing the Glare: High-Contrast Planet Search On Nearby A-Type Stars	IRCS+AO188	0.5
S09B-065	Gaspar Bakos	Confirmation of HATNet Transiting Hot Jupiter Candidates Using Subaru/HDS	HDS	3
S09B-067	Bertrand Goldman	Spectroscopic confirmation of young L-dwarf candidates in Taurus	IRCS	1
S09B-068	Marco Grossi	Stellar streams and the M33 halo towards the newly discovered HI cloud	S-Cam	3
S09B-070	Yuichi Matsuda	Do Ly alpha blobs evolve into cD galaxies?	S-Cam	3
S09B-071	Masami Ouchi	Ultimate Surveys for z~7 LAEs with Red-Sensitive SuperSuprime-Cam II	S-Cam	3
S09B-073	Nobuo Arimoto	A Panoramic View of the Outskirts of M81	S-Cam	3
S09B-077	Scott Sheppard	Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System	S-Cam	2
S09B-082	Rodrigo Ibata	Understanding the assembly of galactic halos	S-Cam	3
S09B-086	Yoichi Takeda	Be Abundances of Solar Analogs: Toward Clarifying the Mechanism of Mixing	HDS	2
S09B-088	Norio Narita	New Searches for Atmospheric Absorption in Transiting Extrasolar Planets II.	HDS	2
S09B-089	Norio Narita	Toward an Understanding of Migration Processes of Eccentric Exoplanets I.	HDS	2
S09B-093	Tomonori Usuda	Optical Spectroscopy of Galactic Supernovae: Tycho, Kepler, and Cas A	FOCAS	3
S09B-103	Kentaro Aoki	Probing Interstellar Medium in Quasar Hosts at High Redshift	HDS	1
S09B-106	Itsuki Sakon	Dust Formation in Massive Wolf-Rayet Binary Systems	COMICS	3
S09B-115	Aki Takigawa	Spectroscopy of a dust shell of R Cas: Evolution of dust-forming condition	COMICS	1
S09B-117	Hitomi Kobayashi	Mixing Ratios of Organic Volatiles in Comet 81P/Wild 2	IRCS+AO188	1
S09B-121	Junko Furusawa	Rest Optical Spectroscopy of Proto-cluster Candidates at z~2 in SXDF	MOIRCS	3
S09B-124	Olivier Guyon	Imaging of beta Pictoris disk and Planet(s)	IRCS+AO188	0.5
S09B-127	Takao Nakagawa	Probing Molecular Tori through CO Absorption toward AGN observed by AKARI	IRCS+AO188	4
S09B-133	Yasuyuki Tanaka	Polarization measurement of AXP 4U 0142+61 with Subaru/FOCAS	FOCAS	1
S09B-138	Tomoki Saito	Spectroscopic follow-up of Ly alpha blobs at z~3 in the 2 deg2 COSMOS field	GMOS(N)	2
S09B-140	Masayuki Kuzuhara	Suprime-Cam Survey of Planetary-Mass Objects down to 3 MJup in Taurus	S-Cam	2

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

Service Programs conducted in Semester S09B

The following proposals were conducted in S09B as Service Programs.

ID	PI	Proposal Title	Inst	Achievement
S09B-148S	Barry Welsh	Probing the Local Bubble/Halo Interaction Region	HDS	60%
S09B-152S	Michael Barker	Is Holmberg II Stripped by Ram Pressure or Tidal Forces?	S-Cam	95%
S09B-153S	Wako Aoki	Investigation of the Binary Nature of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars	HDS	80%
S09B-154S	Tadayuki Kodama	Formation Stages of Massive Galaxies in a Proto-Cluster at z=1.77	S-Cam	85%
S09B-156S	Paul Dobbie	Probing the pivotal initial mass between PNe and Type II SNe stellar endpoints.	S-Cam	85%
S09B-160S	Nicolas Martin	A deep view of three newly discovered Andromeda satellites	S-Cam	60%
S09B-162S	Masashi Chiba	Probing the stellar halo in a disk galaxy NGC~55 beyond the Local Group	S-Cam	30%
S09B-163S	Tomoki Morokuma	Star Formation Activity around a Low-Luminosity Quasar Pair at z~4	S-Cam	100%
S09B-165S	Willem-Jan de Wit	The mass-loss geometry of red supergiant stars	COMICS	100%
S09B-166S	Willem-Jan de Wit	Structure of the protostellar envelope in massive young stellar objects	COMICS	100%
S09B-174S	Diane Wong	A Suprime-Cam Snapshot Survey of ULXs	S-Cam	30%