HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4696 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 15 - 5am September 16, 2008 (DOY 259/0900z-260/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11158 HST Imaging of UV Emission in Quiescent Early-type Galaxies We have constructed a sample of early type galaxies at z~0.1 that have blue UV-optical colors, yet also show no signs of optical emission, or extended blue light. We have cross-correlated the SDSS catalog and the Galax ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4693 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 10 - 5am September 11, 2008 (DOY 254/0900z-255/0900z) 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 e ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4692 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 9 - 5am September 10, 2008 (DOY 253/0900z-254/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 11820 NICMOS Post-SAA Calibration - CR Persistence Part 7 Internals for CR persistence NIC2 11548 NICMOS Imaging of Protostars in the Orion A Cloud: The Role of Environment in Star Formation We propose NICMOS observations of a sample of 252 protostars identified in the Orion A ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4691 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 8 - 5am September 9, 2008 (DOY 252/0900z-253/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2 11818 NICMOS Confirmation of an Extrasolar Panet Candidate Directly Detected with ACS With ACS/HRC coronagraphy, we have achieved the direct detection of a planet candidate in F606W and F814W around a bright nearby star with a debris belt. The planet candidate lies 18 astronomi ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4690 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 5 - 5am September 8, 2008 (DOY 249/0900z-252/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC2 11826 NICMOS Pre-/post-SM4 Photometry Test This proposal contains the necessary exposures to re-calibrate NICMOS. We will observe all filters that are not part of the standard monitoring program with a standard 4-point (NIC1 & NIC2) and 7-point (NIC3) dither pattern. NIC1/NIC2/N ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4689 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 4 - 5am September 5, 2008 (DOY 248/0900z-249/0900z) 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 eas ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4688 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 3 - 5am September 4, 2008 (DOY 247/0900z-248/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 11820 NICMOS Post-SAA Calibration - CR Persistence Part 7 Internals for CR persistence NIC2 11219 Active Galactic Nuclei in Nearby Galaxies: a New View of the Origin of the Radio-loud Radio- quiet Dichotomy? Using archival HST and Chandra observations of 34 nearby early-ty ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4687 PERIOD COVERED: 5am September 2 - 5am September 3, 2008 (DOY 246/0900z-247/0900z) 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 f ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4686 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 29 - 5am September 2, 2008 (DOY 242/0900z-246/0900z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 11820 NICMOS Post-SAA Calibration - CR Persistence Part 7 Internals for CR persistence WFPC2 11797 Supplemental WFPC2 CYCLE 16 Intflat Linearity Check and Filter Rotation Anomaly Monitor Supplemental observations to 11029, to cover period from Aug 08 to SM4. Intflat observations w ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4685 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 28 - 5am August 29, 2008 (DOY 241/0900z-242/0900z) 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 pr ...Continue Reading