HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4613 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 16 - 5am May 19, 2008 (DOY 137/0900z-140/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8795 NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 6 A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS. Dark frames will be obtained immediately upon exiting the SAA contour 23, and every time a NICMOS exposure is scheduled within 50 minutes of coming ou ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4612 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 15 - 5am May 16, 2008 (DOY 136/0900z-137/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11211 An Astrometric Calibration of Population II Distance Indicators In 2002 HST produced a highly precise parallax for RR Lyrae. That measurement resulted in an absolute magnitude, M{V}= 0.61+/-0.11, a useful result, judged by the over ten refereed citations each year since. It is, however, unsatis ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science   DAILY REPORT    # 4611   PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 14 - 5am May 15, 2008 (DOY 135/0900z-136/0900z)   OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED   FGS 11210   The Architecture of Exoplanetary Systems   Are all planetary systems coplanar? Concordance cosmogony makes thatprediction. It is, however, a prediction of extrasolar planetary systemarchitecture as yet untested by direct observation for main sequencestars other th ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4610 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 13 - 5am May 14, 2008 (DOY 134/0900z-135/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8794 NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 5 A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS. Dark frames will be obtained immediately upon exiting the SAA contour 23, and every time a NICMOS exposure is scheduled within 50 minutes of coming ou ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4609 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 12 - 5am May 13, 2008 (DOY 133/0900z-134/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11220 Mapping the FUV Evolution of Type IIn Supernovae We will use the PR110L prism on the SBC of ACS to map the FUV evolution of Type IIn supernovae {SNe}. The main goal of this proposal is to measure the FUV continuum, Ly-a emission line flux, and their evolution to {1} quantify and interpret T ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4608 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 09 - 5am May 12, 2008 (DOY 130/0900z-133/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8795 NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 6 A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS. Dark frames will be obtained immediately upon exiting the SAA contour 23, and every time a NICMOS exposure is scheduled within 50 minutes of coming out of t ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT    # 4607 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 08 - 5am May 09, 2008 (DOY 129/0900z - 130/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11210 The Architecture of Exoplanetary Systems Are all planetary systems coplanar? Concordance cosmogony makes that prediction. It is, however, a prediction of extrasolar planetary system architecture as yet untested by direct observation for main sequence stars other than the Sun. To provide such a test, we ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4606 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 07 - 5am May 08, 2008 (DOY 128/0900z - 129/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 10896 An Efficient ACS Coronagraphic Survey for Debris Disks around Nearby Stars We propose to finish our Cycle 11 optical survey for nearby debris disks using the ACS/HRC coronagraph. Out of 43 orbits originally proposed for the survey, 23 orbits were allocated, leading to a survey of 22 stars, ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4605 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 06 - 5am May 07, 2008 (DOY 127/0900z - 128/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11024 WFPC2 CYCLE 15 INTERNAL MONITOR This calibration proposal is the Cycle 15 routine internal monitor for WFPC2, to be run weekly to monitor the health of the cameras. A variety of internal exposures are obtained in order to provide a monitor of the integrity of the CCD camera electronics in ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4604 PERIOD COVERED: 5am May 05 - 5am May 06, 2008 (DOY 126/0900z - 127/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1 10487 A Search for Debris Disks in the Coeval Beta Pictoris Moving Group Resolved observations of debris disks present us with the opportunity of studying planetary evolution in other solar systems. We propose to search for debris disks in the Beta Pictoris moving group {8-20 Myrs, 10-50 pc away} ...Continue Reading