HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4822 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 30 - 5am March 31, 2009 (DOY         089/0900z-090/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11982 Spanning the Reionization History of IGM Helium: a Large and Efficient HST Spectral Survey of Far-UV-Bright Quasars The reionization of IGM helium is thought to have occurred at redshifts of z=3 to 4. Detailed studies of HeII Lyman-alpha absorp ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4821 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 27 - 5am March 30, 2009 (DOY 086/0900z-089/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11987 The Recent Star Formation History of SINGS Galaxies The Spitzer Legacy project SINGS provided a unique view of the current state of star formation and dust in a sample of galaxies of all Hubble types. This multi-wavelength view allowed the team to create current star formation diagnosti ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science   DAILY REPORT       #4820   PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 26 - 5am March 27, 2009 (DOY                           085/0900z-086/0900z)   OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED   WFPC2 10877   A Snapshot Survey of the Sites of Recent, Nearby Supernovae   During the past few years, robot ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4818 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 24 - 5am March 25, 2009 (DOY 083/0900z-084/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11980 Deep FUV Imaging of Cooling Flow Clusters We propose to take deep ACS FUV images of a carefully selected sample of 19 bright central galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters. This program is the last critical element of a comprehensive investigation of the impact of stellar and AGN feedback ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4817 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 23 - 5am March 24, 2009 (DOY 082/0900z-083/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11113 Binaries in the Kuiper Belt: Probes of Solar System Formation and Evolution The discovery of binaries in the Kuiper Belt and related small body populations is powering a revolutionary step forward in the study of this remote region. Three quarters of the known binaries in the Kuiper Be ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4816 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 20 - 5am March 23, 2009 (DOY 079/0900z-082/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11987 The Recent Star Formation History of SINGS Galaxies The Spitzer Legacy project SINGS provided a unique view of the current state of star formation and dust in a sample of galaxies of all Hubble types. This multi-wavelength view allowed the team to create current star formation diagnosti ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4814 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 18 - 5am March 19, 2009 (DOY 077/0900z-078/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11151 Evaluating the Role of Photoevaporation of Protoplanetary Disk Dispersal Emission produced by accretion onto the central star leads to photoevaporation, which may play a fundamental role in disk dispersal. Models of disk photoevaporation by the central star are challenged by two potent ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4813 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 17 - 5am March 18, 2009 (DOY 076/0900z-077/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11978 Luminous and Dark Matter in Disk Galaxies from Strong Lensing and Stellar Kinematics The formation of realistic disk galaxies within the LCDM paradigm is still an unsolved problem. Theory is only now beginning to make predictions for how dark matter halos respond to galaxy formation and ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4812 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 16 - 5am March 17, 2009 (DOY 075/0900z-076/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11302 WFPC2 CYCLE 16 Standard Darks - Part III This dark calibration program obtains dark frames every week in order to provide data for the ongoing calibration of the CCD dark current rate, and to monitor and characterize the evolution of hot pixels. Over an extended period these data will a ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4811 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 13 - 5am March 16, 2009 (DOY 072/0900z-075/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11987 The Recent Star Formation History of SINGS Galaxies The Spitzer Legacy project SINGS provided a unique view of the current state of star formation and dust in a sample of galaxies of all Hubble types. This multi-wavelength view allowed the team to create current star formation diagnosti ...Continue Reading