SAO TDC

MMT Observing Programs
September - December 2014

PROPIDPIPROPNAME INSTRUMENT
2014C-SAO-1 Rubin, Fumagalli, Hennawi, Prochaska Probing the Circumgalactic Medium with Close Quasar PairsBlueChannel
2014C-SAO-2 Brown, Kilic Merging White DwarfsBlueChannel
2014C-SAO-3 Lunnan, Chornock, Berger MMT Photometry of the Extraordinary Superluminous Supernovae PS1-14bjMMTCam
2014C-SAO-4 Kirshner, Challis, Mandel, Avelino, Foley Spectroscopic Follow up of Supernovae from Dark Energy SurveyBlueChannel
2014C-SAO-5 Kirshner, Berger, Challis, Chornock, ... Obtaining Redshifts and Host Galaxy Spectra for Supernovae in Pan-STARRSHectospec
2014C-SAO-6 Caldwell, Shara, Mikolajewska Finding Thousands of Symbiotic Stars - Type Ia Supernova Progenitors?Hectospec
2014C-SAO-7 Caldwell, Hargis, Willman, Strader, Walker, Seth The Detailed Substructure of a Milky Way Stellar StreamHectochelle
2014C-SAO-8 Geller, Hwang, Fabricant, Rines, Diaferio Scaling Relations for an Optically Selected Cluster Catalog: HeCS-redHectospec
2014C-SAO-9 Berger, Fong, Laskar, Chornock, Zauderer Identifying and Monitoring GRB Optical Afterglows with the MMT f/5 ImagerMMTCam
2014C-SAO-10 Dupree, Brickhouse, Cranmer, Kulesa, McCarthy, Smith Helium in Cool StarsARIES
2014C-SAO-11 Drout, Milisavljevic, Margutti, Parrent, Soderberg, Kamble, Villar Unveiling the Energy Sources within Peculiar Core-Collapse SupernovaeMMTCam
2014C-SAO-12 Meibom, Barnes, Furesz, Latham, Szentgyorgyi The Kepler Cluster Study: Exoplanets and GyrochronologyHectochelle
2014C-SAO-14 Saar, Curtis, Meibom, Wright, Barnes, Agueros, Giampapa Chromospheric Activity at Intermediate Age with NGC 752Hectochelle
2014C-SAO-15 Parrent, Milisavljevic, Margutti, Soderberg, Drout, Kamble, Challis, Kirshner Type I Supernovae: Signatures of Unburned Progenitor MaterialBlueChannel
2014C-SAO-16 Benbow, Cerruti, Furniss, Williams, Hughes, Johnson Parallel Observations to Determine Blazar Redshifts for Studies of the EBLHectospec
2014C-SAO-17 Benbow, Cerruti, Furniss, Williams, Hughes, Johnson Determining Blazar Redshifts for Studies of the EBLHectospec
2014C-SAO-18 Johnson, Caldwell, Koch, Hendricks Exploring the Disintegrating Globular Cluster Pal 13Hectochelle
2014C-UAO-G2 Ai, Smith, Shi, Wu An Unobscured Type 2 Quasar Candidate: SPOL ViewMMT-SPOL
2014C-UAO-G3 Park, Deshev, Ko, Kim, Hwang, J.-S. A Spectroscopic Survey of Three Merging Galaxy ClustersHectospec
2014C-UAO-G4 Park, Hwang, H.S, Hou, Deshev, Ko, Kim, Hwang, J.-S., Choi Dynamics and Physics of Galaxy Satellite SystemsHectospec
2014C-UAO-G5 Scarlata, Rutkowski, Jansen, Windhorst, Masters, Woodward Ly# Escape Fraction at z ~ 2BlueChannel
2014C-UAO-G6 Humphreys Unstable Luminous Stars in M31 and M33Hectospec
2014C-UAO-G7 Liss, Zucker, Stierwalt, Johnson Cosmic Building Blocks: The First Systematic Study of Dwarf Galaxy InteractionsMMTCam
2014C-UAO-G8 Yang, J., Wu, Fan, Wang, Q. Yang, Q., Dong Finding Quasars at z > 5.1
2014C-UAO-G9 Dong, Xiao, Wang, Jiang, N. First Systematic Search for IMBHs with MBH < 105 M#RedChannel
2014C-UAO-S3 Mommert, Pinilla-Alonso, Trilling, Emery, McCarthy, Kulesa, Heidt Near-Infrared Photometry of TNOs and Centaurs in Support of Existing Spitzer Space Telescope Data
2014C-UAO-S26 Massey, Neugent Getting the Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars in M31 and M33: Round IIHectospec
2014C-UAO-S27 Zheng, Jiang, Malhotra, Rhoads, Cai, Butler, Wang Confirming SDSS Sky-Fiber Selected Emission-line Galaxies and AGN in Stripe 82
2014C-UAO-S28 Jiang, Fan, McGreer, Bian Y-band Imaging of Quasar Candidates at z > 6.5 Selected in the SDSS Stripe 82SWIRC
2014C-UAO-S29 Jiang, Fan, Walter, Cai, McGreer Identifying z # 6 Quasars in the UKIDSS Deep Extragalactic Survey FieldsRedChannel
2014C-UAO-S30 McCarthy, Kulesa, Tanner, Plavchan Determining the Ability of ARIES to Search for Planets Around Our Nearest NeighborsARIES
2014C-UAO-S31 Wong, Zabludoff, Decker French, Ammons, Keeton, McCully Mapping the Most Powerful Gravitational Lens Telescopes with MMT HectospecHectospec
2014C-UAO-S32 Fan, McGreer, Wu, Wang, Bian, Green Probing Cosmic Reionization with a Ultra-Luminous Quasar at z = 6.3MAESTRO
2014C-UAO-S33 Milne, Smith, Brown Studying Absorption Lines as a Probe of Supernova Extinction and CSM
2014C-UAO-S34 Clément, Egami, Jiang, Walth Spectroscopic Identification of z~7 Candidates in Massive Lensing Cluster Fields
2014C-UAO-S35 Willmer, Burchett, Tripp, Prochaska, Tumlinson, Werk, Weiner A Search for Faint Galaxies Associated with Low-Redshift C IV AbsorbersHectospec
2014C-UAO-S36 Olszewski, Holberg, Axelrod, Narayan, Saha, Matheson A Network of Photometric Standard Stars for LSSTBlueChannel
2014C-UAO-S37 McGreer, Fan, AlSayyad An LSST Pilot Survey: High Redshift Quasars from Multiple-Epoch Imaging and the z ~ 4 Luminosity FunctionRedChannel
2014C-UAO-S38 De Rosa, Patience, McCarthy, Kulesa, Rajan, Ward-Duong Completing Second-Epoch Confirmation Measurements of Low-Mass Companions to A-Type StarsARIES
2014C-UAO-S39 Ward-Duong, Patience, McCarthy, Kulesa, De Rosa, Bulger, Rajan Companions to Nearby M-Dwarfs: A Large-Scale Survey of Multiplicity Across the Stellar/Substellar BoundaryARIES
2014C-UAO-S40 Ward-Duong, Patience, De Rosa, Rajan, Bulger, McCarthy, Kulesa, Pueyo, Morzinski Spectroscopic Characterization of Substellar CompanionsARIES
2014C-UAO-S41 Rajan, Patience, Wilson, Bulger, Ward-Duong, De Rosa, McCarthy, Kulesa BAM IV: Characterizing the Coldest VariablePISCES
2014C-UAO-S42 Smith, Massey, Drout Blasts from the Past: Resolving the Nebulae Around LBVs in M31 and M33BlueChannel
2014C-UAO-S44 Bezanson, Robertson, Stark, Weiner, Muzzin, Franx Spanning the Gap: Dissecting Galaxy Bimodality and Quenching with a Deep Survey of Galaxy Absorption Lines at z ~ 0.5Hectospec
2014C-UAO-S45 Stark, James, Olszewski, Koposov, Belokurov, Pettini Uncovering A New Population of Chemically-Pristine GalaxiesBlueChannel
2014C-UAO-S46 Kim, Fang, Sicilia-Aguilar, Eiroa, Wang A Final Step to Complete the Spectroscopic Survey of Young Stars in Orion
2014C-UAO-S47 Weiner, Geha, Tollerud, Wechsler Luminosity Functions of Satellite Populations Around Milky Way-like GalaxiesHectospec
2014C-UAO-S48 Smith, N., Williams, Milne, Matheson, Zaritsky, Smith, P., Andrews, Fong, Kilpatrick, Bilinski AZTEC: Arizona Transient Exploration and CharacterizationBlueChannel
2014C-UAO-S69 Wilson, Chen, Zabludoff Probing Galaxy Halos with Multiple Sightlines Using Multiply Imaged QuasarsMAESTRO