HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4751 PERIOD COVERED: 5am December 5 - 5am December 8, 2008 (DOY         340/1000z-343/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11943 Binaries at the Extremes of the H-R Diagram We propose to use HST/Fine Guidance Sensor 1r to survey for binaries among some of the most massive, least massive, and oldest stars in our part of the Galaxy. FGS allows us to spatially resolve binary sy ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4750 PERIOD COVERED: 5am December 4 - 5am December 5, 2008 (DOY         339/1000z-340/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11943 Binaries at the Extremes of the H-R Diagram We propose to use HST/Fine Guidance Sensor 1r to survey for binaries among some of the most massive, least massive, and oldest stars in our part of the Galaxy. FGS allows us to spatially resolve binary systems ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4749 PERIOD COVERED: 5am December 3 - 5am December 4, 2008 (DOY 338/1000z-339/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11943 Binaries at the Extremes of the H-R Diagram We propose to use HST/Fine Guidance Sensor 1r to survey for binaries among some of the most massive, least massive, and oldest stars in our part of the Galaxy. FGS allows us to spatially resolve binary systems that are too faint for ground-b ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4748 PERIOD COVERED: 5am December 2 - 5am December 3, 2008 (DOY 337/1000z-338/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11943 Binaries at the Extremes of the H-R Diagram We propose to use HST/Fine Guidance Sensor 1r to survey for binaries among some of the most massive, least massive, and oldest stars in our part of the Galaxy. FGS allows us to spatially resolve binary systems that are too faint for ground-based, ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4747 PERIOD COVERED: 5am December 1 - 5am December 2, 2008 (DOY 336/1000z-337/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11212 Filling the Period Gap for Massive Binaries The current census of binaries among the massive O-type stars is seriously incomplete for systems in the period range from years to millennia because the radial velocity variations are too small and the angular separations too close for easy detec ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4746 PERIOD COVERED: 5am November 26 - 5am December 1, 2008 (DOY        331/1000z-336/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2/ACS/SBC 11957 Hubble Investigation of Asteroid 21 Lutetia in Support of the Rosetta Mission Flyby The Rosetta mission is gearing up for a flyby encounter with the large, main belt asteroid 21 Lutetia, with closest approach on 2010 June 10. The next op ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4745 PERIOD COVERED: 5am November 25 - 5am November 26, 2008 (DOY 330/1000z-331/1000z) 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 them in quite nearby galaxies {cz < 4 ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4744 PERIOD COVERED: 5am November 24 - 5am November 25, 2008 (DOY 329/1000z-330/1000z) 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 them in quite nearby galaxies {cz < 4 ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4743 PERIOD COVERED: 5am November 21 - 5am November 24, 2008 (DOY 326/1000z-329/1000z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFPC2 11289 SL2S: The Strong Lensing Legacy Survey Recent systematic surveys of strong galaxy-galaxy lenses {CLASS, SLACS, GOODS, etc.} are producing spectacular results for galaxy masses roughly below a transition mass M~10^13 Mo. The observed lens properties and their evolution up to z~0.2, ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4742 PERIOD COVERED: 5am November 20 - 5am November 21, 2008         (DOY 325/1000z-326/1000z) 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