HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4565 PERIOD COVERED: UT March 11, 2008 (DOY 071) 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 detection. Here we propose to ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4564 PERIOD COVERED: UT March 10, 2008 (DOY 070) 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 the SAA. The darks will be ob ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4563 PERIOD COVERED: UT March 07,08,09, 2008 (DOY 067,068,069) 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 the SAA. ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4562 PERIOD COVERED: UT March 06, 2008 (DOY 066) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11050 ACS UV contamination monitor The observations consist of imaging and spectroscopy with SBC of the cluster NGC 6681 in order to monitor the temporal evolution of the UV sensitivity of the SBC. NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8795 NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 6 A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-p ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4561 PERIOD COVERED: UT March 05, 2008 (DOY 065) 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 propose to c ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       # 4560 PERIOD COVERED: UT March 04, 2008 (DOY 064) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11295 Trigonometric Calibration of the Distance Scale for Classical Novae The distance scale for classical novae is important for understanding the stellar physics of their thermonuclear runaways, their contribution to Galactic nucleosynthesis, and their use as extragalactic standard candles. Although it is known that th ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4559 PERIOD COVERED: UT March 3, 2008 (DOY 063) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/SBC 11230 HST FUV Observations of Brightest Cluster Galaxies: The Role of Star Formation in Cooling Flows and BCG Evolution The intracluster medium (ICM) now appears to be a very dynamic place where heating and cooling processes vie for dominance and an uneasy equilibrium is maintained. Since these same processes may operate du ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4558 PERIOD COVERED: UT February 29,March 01,02, 2008 (DOY 060,061,062) 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 the SA ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT    # 4557 PERIOD COVERED: UT February 28, 2008 (DOY 059) 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 detection. Here we propose to discover binar ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT    # 4556 PERIOD COVERED: UT February 27, 2008 (DOY 058) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED FGS 11298 Calibrating Cosmological Chronometers: White Dwarf Masses We propose to use HST/FGS1R to determine White Dwarf {WD} masses. The unmatched resolving power of HST/FGS1R will be utilized to follow up four selected WD binary pairs. This high precision obtained with HST/FGS1R simply cannot be equaled by any ground ...Continue Reading