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% |