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Accepted Proposals for Semester S15B

The Call for Proposals for Semester S15B received 160 and 1 submitted proposals for the Normal and Intensive Programs, respectively, requesting a total of 372.5 nights. After screening by TAC, 87 (+ 7 ToO) nights were allocated to the following 57 proposals. In addition, 27 nights are assigned to the HSC SSP Project, 7.5 nights are assigned to the Service Program observations, and 3 nights are assigned to the on-going S15A Intensive Program (S15A-134).

ID PI Proposal Title Inst Nts Abstract
S15B-002 Jun Hashimoto Is the Multi-Ring Disk of HL Tau Excited by Planet(s) ? IRCS+LGS-AO 0.5 abstract
S15B-003 Jun Hashimoto Direct Imaging of Young Planets in Transitional Disk Systems II IRCS+LGS-AO 1 abstract
S15B-006 Toru Misawa Characterizing Clump Sizes in Outflow through Multi-Sightline Spectroscopy HDS 1 abstract
S15B-009 Tomonori Totani Follow-up of Fast Radio Bursts to Discover Other-Wavelength Counterparts HSC or S-Cam (+Others) 2 ToO abstract
S15B-010 Masatoshi Imanishi QSO feedback to low mass galaxy formation at high redshift S-Cam 1 abstract
S15B-012 Masatoshi Imanishi Growth of supermassive blackholes in gas-rich galaxy mergers IRCS+LGS-AO 2 abstract
S15B-013 Tomotsugu Goto Extremely dusty objects in the AKARI NEP field HSC 3 abstract
S15B-014 Jin Koda The Building History of XUV disks with TRGB Archaeology HSC 1 abstract
S15B-017 Hisakazu Uchiyama Systematic study of QSO radiative feedback in high-z Universe III S-Cam 2 abstract
S15B-022 Tsuguru Ryu Direct imaging for intermediate mass giants with RV trends HiCIAO+NGS-AO 1 abstract
S15B-023 Michitoshi Yoshida Spectro-polarimetry survey of starburst superwinds: kinematics of dust outflow FOCAS 2 abstract
S15B-025 Masayuki Tanaka The Size-Mass Relation of Quiescent Galaxies at z~4 IRCS+LGS-AO 1 abstract
S15B-027 Shogo Nishiyama Post-Newtonian Effects on Stellar Dynamics near Massive Black Hole IRCS+LGS-AO 1 abstract
S15B-030 Katsuhiro Murata FMOS Follow-up Survey for Clumpy Galaxies at z~0.8 in COSMOS FMOS 1 abstract
S15B-033 Nozomu Tominaga Detection and Follow-up Observations of Type II Plateau Supernovae HSC & GMOS(N) 2 abstract
S15B-034 Nozomu Tominaga Spectroscopy of host galaxies of supernovae with shock breakout detection GMOS(N) 1 abstract
S15B-036 Yosuke Minowa GANBA-Subaru: Dissecting star-forming activities in field galaxies at z~2 IRCS+LGS-AO 5 abstract
S15B-040 Tomoki Morokuma High-z Low-Mass Active BHs Selected via Hour-Scale Variability GMOS(N) 1 abstract
S15B-045 Toshihiro Kawaguchi Mapping the feedback in the host galaxies of [O III] outflowing active nuclei Kyoto3DII+LGS-AO 1 abstract
S15B-047 Nobunari Kashikawa Mapping the most massive overdensity through HI S-Cam 2 abstract
S15B-049 Yasumasa Kasaba MIR spectroscopic study of Jupiter's polar regions with JAXA/Hisaki COMICS 2 abstract
S15B-050 Yosuke Utsumi Custom-made narrow-band filter imaging around a QSO at z = 6.4 S-Cam 2 abstract
S15B-051 Hideyo Kawakita The chemical compositions of comets C/2013 US10 (Catalina), C/2013 X1 (PanSTARRS) and P/2010 V1 (Ikeya-Murakami) NIRSPEC 1 abstract
S15B-055 Keiichi Maeda Systematic Study on Relations between Supernova Explosions and Environment FOCAS 2 abstract
S15B-056 Nobuhiro Okabe Probing the Assembly Histories of BCGs and Dark Matter Halos by Exploiting Synergies between the MaNGA Survey and HSC at z~0.1 HSC 1 abstract
S15B-059 Suraphong Yuma Follow-up FOCAS Spectroscopy for [O iii] Blobs at z~0.7 FOCAS 3 abstract
S15B-060 Toru Misawa Direct Measurement of Quasar Outflow Wind Acceleration HDS 1 abstract
S15B-061I Masashi Chiba Probing faint substructures in the outer halo of the Andromeda galaxy HSC 6 abstract
S15B-062 Toshifumi Futamase Systematic Weak-lensing Study of Subhalos in Very Nearby Galaxy Clusters III HSC 1 abstract
S15B-070 Yoshiki Matsuoka Spectroscopic identification of HSC-SSP high-z quasar candidates FOCAS 4 abstract
S15B-073 Sakurako Okamoto M81; Near field cosmology beyond the Local Group 3 HSC 1 abstract
S15B-075 Masami Ouchi MOSFIRE Spectroscopy for the Highest-z Subaru LAE Candidates III MOSFIRE 2 abstract
S15B-078 Takuji Tsujimoto Unraveling the Ba feature of the least massive galaxy Segue 2 HDS 2 abstract
S15B-084 Francesco Ferraro The final word on the mass-transfer process as BSS formation mechanism HDS 2 abstract
S15B-085 Teruyuki Hirano ESPRINT: A New Search for Transiting Planets Unveiled by K2 HDS & HiCIAO+NGS-AO 2 abstract
S15B-087 Wako Aoki Subaru/HDS study of very metal-poor stars found with LAMOST HDS 2 abstract
S15B-088 Yoshiharu Shinnaka Early solar system environment from the 14N/15N ratio in cometary ammonia HDS 1 abstract
S15B-090 Hajime Kawahara Subaru Planetary Radial Velocimetry of the Extremely Hot Exoplanet HDS 1 abstract
S15B-094 Ekaterina Koptelova A survey for z>6.5 QSOs in the PanSTARRS1 stack images FOCAS 1 abstract
S15B-096 Bunei Sato Confirming Transiting Neptunes and M Dwarf Planets From HAT HDS 2 abstract
S15B-111 Thayne Currie Constraining the Orbits of HR 8799 bcde with SCExAO SCExAO+NGS-AO 1 abstract
S15B-119 Tomoyuki Kudo First direct imaging of disk rotation pattern around young stellar objects. HiCIAO+NGS-AO 1.5 abstract
S15B-121 Krzysztof Helminiak IR spectroscopy of detached eclipsing binaries – spotting cool companions IRCS+NGS-AO 0.5 abstract
S15B-122 Nemanja Jovanovic A high angular-resolution study of mass-loss in highly evolved stars SCExAO+NGS-AO 1 abstract
S15B-125 Nobuyuki Kawai Subaru Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows any of FOCAS, S-Cam, HSC, HDS, IRCS, MOIRCS, and FMOS 1 ToO abstract
S15B-126 Takafumi Ootsubo Study of the diversity of dust properties in Oort cloud comets COMICS 1 abstract
S15B-128 Yuhei Takagi Disk Evolution Timescale of PMS stars in IC 348 and NGC 1333 HDS 2 abstract
S15B-136 Yuriko Saitoh Completing secure measurements of SMBH-bulge mass ratio for z ~ 3 quasars IRCS+LGS-AO 0.5 abstract
S15B-137 Michitoshi Yoshida Optical--infrared follow-up observation of gravitational wave sources any of Subaru instr. 1 ToO abstract
S15B-139 Daisuke Ishihara Investigating non-steady processes in warm debris disks II COMICS 2 abstract
S15B-141 Mamoru Doi Testing for time-varying dark energy with z>1 Type Ia Supernovae FOCAS 3 abstract
S15B-145 Toru Yamada Huge volume tomographic survey in the SSA22 proto-cluster with Keck/DEIMOS DEIMOS 2 abstract
S15B-154 Akira Arai Nucleosynthesis in Thermonuclear Runaway of Classical Novae HDS 3 ToO abstract
S15B-160 Takayuki Kotani Probing the Cepheid mass discrepancy with SCExAO SCExAO+NGS-AO 0.5 abstract
S15B-163 Kento Masuda Unveiling the True Nature of the Evaporating Planet Candidates HDS 1 abstract
S15B-172 Nao Suzuki Mapping z~2 Large-Scale Structure with 3D Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography LRIS 1 abstract
S15B-173 Malte Schramm Evolution of the MBH-Mstell relation at z~4 IRCS+LGS-AO 1.5 abstract

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

  • This proposal has been accepted in the category of Intensive Program.

Service Programs Conducted in Semester S15B

The following proposals were conducted in S15B as Service Programs.

ID PI Proposal Title Inst Achievement
S15B-175S Albert Kong Optical Counterparts of Black Widow Type Millisecond Pulsars FOCAS 100%
S15B-176S Yuu Niino Search for the Host Galaxy of GRB 111225 at z = 0.297 FOCAS 100%
S15B-177S Baha Dincel Detection of supernova debris on runaway stars in SNRs S147 and IC443 HDS 100%
S15B-179S Masao Hayashi Star-forming galaxies and AGNs in the large-scale structures of a z=0.8 cluster S-Cam 90%
S15B-186S Satoru Katsuda Probing a Possible Cosmic-Ray Precursor in front of the Cygnus Loop's Shock HDS 85%
S15B-187S Keiichi Maeda Disappearance of the Supergiant Progenitor of SN 2013df FOCAS 100%
S15B-188S Yoshiaki Ono Spectroscopy for Very Rare Bright Dropouts Identified by the HSC Survey FOCAS 100%
S15B-191S Hajime Kawahara Final Piece of a Superflat Triple System HDS 100%
S15B-192S Katsutoshi Takaki Late-phase Observation of Selected Type II Supernovae FOCAS 50%
S15B-193S Ikuyuki Mitsuishi Weak Lensing Analysis for Clusters of Galaxies in Non-Virialized Eras S-Cam 10%
S15B-194S Misa Aoki Follow-up high-S/N spectroscopy for J1645+4357 found with LAMOST/Subaru HDS 100%
S15B-195S Norio Narita Immediate Validation of Transiting Planet Candidates in K2 Field 2 and 3 IRCS+NGS-AO 85%
S15B-198S Wei-Hao Wang A Close View of Damped Lyman-alpha Absorption Systems FOCAS 36%
S15B-200S Masaaki Otsuka Physical Properties of C60 Planetary Nebulae and Their Environment HDS 100%
S15B-203S Wako Aoki Follow-up high-S/N spectroscopy for EMP giants found with LAMOST/Subaru HDS 50%
S15B-204S Masafusa Onoue Spectroscopy for a Very Faint High-z quasar at z~6 FOCAS 100%
S15B-206S Wako Aoki Binary Nature of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars HDS 70%
S15B-210S Haining Li Follow-up spectroscopy for a super-Li-rich red giant found with LAMOST/Subaru HDS 100%
S15B-212S Takayuki Kotani Constraining the fundamental parameters of M dwarfs with asteroseismology IRCS+NGS-AO 100%