Status of Subaru Open Use and Notice for S08B Call for P ｒ oposals

Subaru Users Meeting 2008.1.29-31 Subaru Open Use Team

＝ Notice for S08B Applicants ＝1. 　 Opening of AO 188

The Subaru new AO system(AO188) using natural guide stars is available only in combination with IRCS. The mode of observations, the number of observing nights and the number of executable proposals may be limited, since it is still under commissioning. Those who submit proposals using AO188+IRCS are required to make contact with the AO188 development team, Dr. Yutaka Hayano (hayano ＠ naoj.org) in advance. The previous AO system (AO36) is going to be decommissioned and thus hereafter not available any more.

2. 　 Change of Scientific Categories

The category of "high-z galaxies" has been divided into "high-z galaxy properties" and "galaxy formation".

3. 　 CIAO Available as PI Instrument Only without AO

In S08B, CIAO is still available as a PI instrument, but only without AO. Please be sure to make contact with the CIAO team (PI: Dr. M. Tamura: hide ＠ optik.mtk.nao.ac.jp) in advance.

4. 　 Time Exchange Programs with Gemini and Keck

Gemini 5 nights GMOS(N) 　 NIFS(N) 　 NIRI(N)

　　　　　　 　　 Altair(LGS/NGS-AO for NIFS or NIRI)

　　　　　　 GMOS(S) 　 T-ReCS(S)

Keck 5 nights LRIS 　　 DEIMOS 　 ESI NIRSPEC

　　　　　　　　 OSIRIS 　 NIRC2,

　　　　　　　 　 LGS-AO/NGS-AO(for OSIRIS or NIRC2)

5. 　 Necessity of Abstract also for Service Proposals

Regarding Service Proposals, we newly require that a brief abstract (ca. several lines) should be presented at the beginning of Scientific Justification.

6. 　 Duplicated Submission Unallowable

An identical proposal using the same instrument/telescope should not be submitted twice at the same time by making use of the time-exchange opportunity. For example, if a proposal using Keck (or Gemini) telescope was submitted to Subaru time-exchange program, it should not be applied to the ordinary proposal selection on the Keck (or Gemini) side at the same semester. (And vice versa.)

7. 　 Indication of Moon-Affected Unacceptable Dates

When one particular source or several sources whose coordinates are concentrated to a particular range are planned to observe in bright or grey nights, observations may be severely affected by the Moon in some particular nights. In such cases, those inconvenient or unacceptable dates should be explicitly indicated in Entry 10 (Schedule Requirements) of the proposal.

8. 　 Notice for MOIRCS Applicants

(i) Due to a technical trouble in the detector on channel-1, we are temporarily using an engineering-grade chip. Though it will be replaced by a new science-grade detector when it becomes available, its exact schedule has not yet been decided (maybe after S08B).

For the latest information on the status of the detector, please check the MOIRCS website.

(ii) If you are planning to observe in the MOS mode of MOIRCS, the number of required masks must be clearly specified at the beginning of Entry 11 (Instrument Requirements) of your proposal.

＝ Subaru TAC Members ＝Kazuhiro Shimasaku (Univ.of Tokyo): Chair

Mamoru Doi (Univ. of Tokyo) : Structure formation and Cosmology

Hideyo Kawakita (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.): Solar system and Extrasolar planets

Tadayuki Kodama (NAOJ): Galaxies and Clusters of galaxies

Takashi Murayama (Tohoku Univ.) : AGN and galaxies

Tetsuya Nagata (Kyoto Univ.) : Star/Planet formation and ISM

Takashi Onaka (Univ. of Tokyo): Stars

Toshikazu Shigeyama (Univ. of Tokyo) : General

Tomonori Totani (Kyoto Univ.) : General

＝ Subaru Open Use Team ＝Hideki Takami : negotiation with Gemini/Keck

Yoichi Takeda : manager of proposal selection procedure

Nobunari Kashikawa : service program

Masatoshi Imanishi : scheduling and time-exchange program

Hiroshi Terada: operation

Yasushi Nakajima : electronic submission

Yosuke Minowa : electronic submission

Chie Yoshida : administrative assistant

=How the Proposal Selection Proceeds?=

Time Schedule for S08B

January 2008 : Discussion/decision about the details for the S08B semester

(schedule, instruments to be opened, time exchange program, etc.)

February 8 : “Call for Proposals” starts

　　　　　　　　　　 Note: Please avoid submission on February 14 (JST), since our server is expected to be down and a submitted proposal would not be correctly registered on this day.

March 7 : Deadline of Normal/Intensive proposals

mid- March : Grouping proposals into 7-8 categories (by TAC)

Nomination of referee candidates (by TAC)

(About 5 referees for each category, usually 3 Japanese and 2 foreigners)

mid to late- March: Inquiring each referee candidate whether he/she is willing to accept

(When declined, go to another candidate)

end of March : Sending review forms and proposals to referees

April 11 : Deadline of Service proposals

mid-April : Sending Service proposals to TAC members

late-April : Receiving referee reports

mid-May : Time Allocation Committee (2 days)

Hearing of Intensive proposals

Selection of Normal/Intensive proposals based on referee scores

Tentative time allocation

Ranking of Service proposals

mid to late-May : Editing the referee comments and adding TAC comments to each proposal

Scheduling

by early June : Informing the results of Normal/Intensive proposal selection

Announcement of schedule and observing procedure

Informing the results of Service proposal selection

August 1: Start of S08B

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***Top-5 Most Frequently Cited Subaru Papers for Each Instrument (As of December 18, 2007)***S-Cam

p_Author co_Authors Instr. ADS Published Title Citation1 Barger, A.J . 8 S-Cam 2003AJ , 126, 632 08/ 2003 Optical and Infrared Properties of the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field North XRAY Sources 169

2 Kodaira, K.44

S-Cam/ FOCAS 2003PASJ , 55, L17 04/ 2003 The Discovery of Two Lyman α Emitters beyond Redshift 6 in the Subaru Deep Field

149

3 Miyazaki, S. 14 S-Cam 2002PASJ , 54, 833 12/ 2002 Subaru Prime Focus Camera - Suprime-Cam 1424 Hu, E. M. 5 S-Cam 2004AJ , 127, 563 02/2004 The Luminosity Function of Lyα Emitters at Redshift z~5.7 1075 Kodama, T. 5 S-Cam 2001ApJ , 562, L9 11/ 2001 The Transformation of Galaxies within the Large-Scale Structure around a z=0.41 Cluster 101

FOCASp_Author co_Authors Instr. ADS Published Title Citation

1 Kodaira, K.44

S-Cam/ FOCAS 2003PASJ , 55, L17 04/ 2003 The Discovery of Two Lyman α Emitters beyond Redshift 6 in the Subaru Deep Field

149

2 Mazzali, P.A. 20 FOCAS 2002ApJ , 572, L61 06/ 2002 The Type Ic Hypernova SN2002ap 1313 Kashikawa, N. 18 FOCAS 2002PASJ , 54, 819 12/ 2002 FOCAS: The Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope 89

4 Kodama, T.31

S-Cam,FOCAS 2004MNRAS, 350, 100505/2004

Down-sizing in galaxy formation at z~ 1 in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey(SXDS)

74

5 Kawai, N. 27 FOCAS 2006Natur.440..184K 03/2006 An optical spectrum of the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst at a redshift of z = 6.295 67

IRCSp_Author co_Authors Instr. ADS Published Title Citation

1 Martin, E. 7 IRCS 2001ApJ , 561, L195 11/ 2001 Four Brown Dwarfs in the Taurus Star-Forming Region 612 Cushing, M.C. 2 IRCS 2005ApJ , 623, 1115 04/ 2005 An Infrared Spectroscopic Sequence of M, L, and T Dwarfs 58

3 Pyo, T.S. 8 IRCS 2002ApJ , 570, 724 05/ 2002Velocity- resolved [Fe II] Line Spectroscopy of L1551 IRS 5: A Partially Ionized Wind underCollimation around an Ionized Fast J et 27

4 Pyo, T.S. 14 IRCS/ AO 2003ApJ , 590, 340 06/ 2003 Adaptive Optics Spectroscopy of the [Fe II] Outflow from DG Tauri 27

5 Takami, M. 5 IRCS 2002ApJ ,568, L53 03/ 2002He I 1.083 μ m Emission and Absorption in DG Tauri: Line Excitations in the J et, Hot Wind,and Accretion Flow 23

5 Goto, M. 14 IRCS 2002ApJ , 567, L59 03/ 2002Near- Infrared Adaptive Optics Spectroscopy of Binary Brown Dwarfs HD 130948B and HD130948C 23

HDSp_Author co_Authors Instr. ADS Published Title Citation

1 Frebel, A. 18 HDS 2005Natur.434..871F 04/ 2005 Nucleosynthetic signatures of the first stars 1082 Sato, B. 20 HDS 2005ApJ ...633..465S 11/ 2005 The N2K Consortium. II. A Transiting Hot Saturn around HD 149026 with a Large Dense 103

3 Aoki, W. 5 HDS 2002ApJ , 580, 1149 12/ 2002A Subaru/ High Dispersion Spectrograph Study of Lead (Pb) Abundances in Eight s-ProcessElement- rich, Metal-poor Stars 69

4 Noguchi, K. 14 HDS 2002PASJ , 54, 855 12/ 2002 High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) for the Subaru Telescope 60

5 Honda, S. 7 HDS 2004ApJ , 607, 474 05/ 2004Spectroscopic Studies of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars with the Subaru High DispersionSpectrograph. II. The r-Process Elements, Including Thorium 57

CISCO,OHSp_Author co_Authors Instr. ADS Published Title Citation

1 Hu, E.. 7 CISCO 2002ApJ , 568, L75 04/ 2002 A Redshift z=6.56 Galaxy behind the Cluster Abell 370 1942 Maihara, T. 33 CISCO 2001PASJ , 53, 25 02/ 2001 Subaru Deep Survey I. Near- Infrared Observations 813 J ewitt, D. 1 CISCO 2001AJ , 122, 2099 10/ 2001 Colors and Spectra of Kuiper Belt Objects 52

4 Totani, T. 4 CISCO 2001ApJ , 559, 592 10/ 2001Near- Infrared Faint Galaxies in the Subaru Deep Field: Comparing the Theory withObservations for Galaxy Counts, Colors, and Size Distributions to K ~ 24.5 49

5 Kaifu, N. 92 CISCO 2000PASJ , 52, 1 / 2000 The First Light of the Subaru Telescope: a New Infrared Image of the Orion Nebula, 47

COMICSp_Author co_Authors Instr. ADS Published Title Citation

1 Honda, M. 7 COMICS 2003ApJ , 585, L59 03/ 2003 Detection of Crystalline Silicates around the T Tauri Star Hen 3-600A 432 Sugita, S. 22 COMICS 2005Sci...310..274S 10/ 2005 Subaru Telescope Observations of Deep Impact 403 Mohanty, S. 5 COMICS 2004ApJ , 609, L33 07/ 2004 Flared Disks and Silicate Emission in Young Brown Dwarfs 344 Okamoto, Y. 9 COMICS 2004Nature, 431, 660 10/ 2004 An early extrasolar planetary system revealed by planetesimal belts in beta Pictoris 22

5 Chiba, M. 4 COMICS 2005ApJ ...627...53 07/ 2005Subaru Mid- Infrared Imaging of the Quadruple Lenses PG 1115+080 and B1422+231: Limitson Substructure Lensing 18

CIAOp_Author co_Authors Instr. ADS Published Title Citation

1 Fukagawa, M. 22 CIAO 2004ApJ , 605, L53 04/ 2004 Spiral Structure in the Circumstellar Disk around AB Aurigae 512 Neuhauser, R., 5 CIAO 2005A&A...435L..13N 05/ 2005 Evidence for a co-moving sub-stellar companion of GQ Lup 51

3 Siegler, N. 4 CIAO,AO 2005ApJ , 621, 1023 03/ 2005Discovery of Two Very Low Mass Binaries: Final Results of an Adaptive Optics Survey ofNearby M6.0-M7.5 Stars 37

4 Itoh, Y. 11 CIAO 2000PASJ , 52, 81 02/ 2000 A Pair of Twisted J ets of Ionized Iron from L 1551 IRS 5 235 Fukagawa, M. 4 CIAO 2003ApJ , 590, L49 06/ 2003 Near- Infrared Imaging of the Circumstellar Disk around Herbig Ae Star HD 150193A 15

MOIRCS, AO, Othersp_Author co_Authors Instr. ADS Published Title Citation

1 Takami, H. 11 AO 2004PASJ , 56, 225 02/ 2004 Performance of Subaru Cassegrain Adaptive Optics System 212 Tomono, D. 3 MIRTOS 2001ApJ , 557, 637 08/ 2001 Mid infrared spectral energy distribution of NGC1068 with 0.1 arcsec spatial resolution 173 Guyon, O. 2 AO 2006ApJ S..166...89G 09/ 2006 Near- Infrared Adaptive Optics Imaging of QSO Host Galaxies 9

4 Kostiuk, T. 9 HIPWAC 2005GeoRL..3222205K 11/ 2005Titan's Stratospheric Zonal Wind, Temperature, and Ethane Abundance a Year Prior toHuygens Insertion 7

5 Kodama, T. 7 MOIRCS 2007MNRAS.377.1717K 06/ 2007 The first appearance of the red sequence of galaxies in proto-clusters at 2 <~ z <~ 3 4