HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4781 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 29 - 5am January 30, 2009 (DOY 029/1000z-030/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11579 The Difference Between Neutral- and Ionized-Gas Metal Abundances in Local Star-Forming Galaxies with COS The metallicity of galaxies and its evolution with redshift is of paramount importance for understanding galaxy formation. Abundances in the interstellar medium (ISM) are typica ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4780 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 28 - 5am January 29, 2009 (DOY 029/1000z-030/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11316 HST Cycle 16 & Pre-SM4 Optical Monitor This is a continuation of the Cycle 15 & pre-SM4 Optical Monitor, 11020. Please see that proposal for a more complete description of the observing strategy. The 6 visits comprising this proposal observe two single standard stars with WF ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science   DAILY REPORT       #4779   PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 27 - 5am January 28, 2009 (DOY                          027/1000z-028/1000z)   OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED   WFPC2 10877   A Snapshot Survey of the Sites of Recent, Nearby Supernovae   During the past few years ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4777 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 23 - 5am January 26, 2009 (DOY         023/1000z-026/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11970 HST Observations of Titan's Escaping Atmosphere in Transit and in Emission We propose UV observations using the ACS/SBC of Titan's extended escaping atmosphere for the Jan/Feb 2009 period of transits of Titan across Saturn. A combination of ab ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4776 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 22 - 5am January 23, 2009 (DOY 022/1000z-023/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11963 FGS1r AMA Re-Optimization This proposal re-optimizes FGS1r interferometric performance (S-curves) by adjustment of the instrument's AMA. This will improve the FGS1r angular resolution in Transfer Mode while improving the reliability of Position Mode observations. Observations of close binar ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4775 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 21 - 5am January 22, 2009 (DOY         021/1000z-022/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 10877 A Snapshot Survey of the Sites of Recent, Nearby Supernovae During the past few years, robotic {or nearly robotic} searches for supernovae {SNe}, most notably our Lick Observatory Supernova Search {LOSS}, have found hundreds of SNe, many of ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4774 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 16 - 5am January 21, 2009 (DOY         016/1000z-021/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11968 The Light Echoes Around V838 Monocerotis: Cycle 16 DD This is a DD program in which we propose to obtain WFPC2 imaging of the light echo around V838 Mon in late 2008 or early 2009. We were awarded Cycle 17 time to image the echo with ACS at 2 epoc ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4773 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 15 - 5am January 16, 2009 (DOY 015/1000z-016/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ASC/SBC 11236 Did Rare, Large Escape-Fraction Galaxies Reionize the Universe? Lyman continuum photons produced in massive starbursts may have played a dominant role in the reionization of the Universe. Starbursts are important contributors to the ionizing metagalactic background at lower redshifts as ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4772 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 14 - 5am January 15, 2009 (DOY        014/1000z-015/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11236 Did Rare, Large Escape-Fraction Galaxies Reionize the Universe? Lyman continuum photons produced in massive starbursts may have played a dominant role in the reionization of the Universe. Starbursts are important contributors to the ionizing metagalac ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4771 PERIOD COVERED: 5am January 13 - 5am January 14, 2009 (DOY 013/1000z-014/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11130 AGNs with Intermediate-mass Black Holes: Testing the Black Hole-Bulge Paradigm, Part II The recent progress in the study of central black holes in galactic nuclei has led to a general consensus that supermassive {10^6-10^9 solar mass} black holes are closely connected with the forma ...Continue Reading