HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4828 PERIOD COVERED: 5am April 7 - 5am April 8, 2009 (DOY 097/0900z-098/0900z) 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 absorption toward a handful of QSOs at 2.7<z&l ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4825 PERIOD COVERED: 5am April 2 - 5am April 3, 2009 (DOY 092/0900z-093/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11704 The Ages of Globular Clusters and the Population II Distance Scale Globular clusters are the oldest objects in the universe whose age can be accurately determined. The dominant error in globular cluster age determinations is the uncertain Population II distance scale. We propose to use FGS ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4824 PERIOD COVERED: 5am April 1 - 5am April 2, 2009 (DOY 091/0900z-092/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11794 Cycle 16 Visible Earth Flats This proposal monitors flatfield stability. This proposal obtains sequences of Earth streak flats to construct high quality flat fields for the WFPC2 filter set. These flat fields will allow mapping of the OTA illumination pattern and will be used in conjunction wit ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4823 PERIOD COVERED: 5am March 31 - 5am April 1, 2009 (DOY 090/0900z-091/0900z) 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 absorption toward a handful of QSOs at 2.7<z& ...Continue Reading

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