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Successful External Telescope Proposals

  1. "Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of activity" PI: M. Knight. Telescope: Gemini-N (NIRI, GMOS-N). Time awarded: 10.2 hr. Semester 2016A.
  2. "Post-Perihelion Imaging Polarimetry of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with ACS: Continued Support of the Rosetta Mission" PI: D. Hines. Telescope: Hubble. Time awarded: 16 orbits. Cycle 23 GO. [HST]
  3. "Discovery and activity of Kreutz sungrazing comets" PI: A. Fitzsimmons. Telescope: VST (OMEGACAM). Time awarded: 30 hr. Semester 2015B.
  4. "Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of activity" PI: M. Knight. Telescope: Gemini-N (NIRI, GNIRS). Time awarded: 13.4 hr. Semester 2015B.
  5. "P/1999 R1: Sunskirting comet or asteroid?" PI M. Knight. Telescope: Spitzer. Cycle 11. Time awarded: 1.6 hr. [ADS]
  6. "Recovery and photometric properties of the Sunskirting comet P/1999 R1 (SOHO)" PI: A. Fitzsimmons. Role: Co-I. Telescope: VLT (FORS2). Time awarded: 0.5 nights.
  7. "Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of activity" PI: M. Knight. Telescope: Gemini-S (Flamingos2). Time awarded: 7 hr. Semester 2015A.
  8. "Systematic Search for Un-Dead Comets in the Near-Earth Object Population" PI: M. Mommert. Role: Co-I. Telescope: VATT. Semester 2015A. Time awarded: 4 nights.
  9. "Rotation Period of the Mars Flyby Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)" PI: M.S.P. Kelley. Telescope Kepler. Campaign 22. [Kepler]
  10. "Imaging Polarimetry of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with ACS: Supporting the Rosetta Mission" PI: D. Hines. Telescope: Hubble. Time awarded: 21 orbits. Cycle 22 GO. [HST]
  11. "Multi-scale investigation of the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Combined Gemini and Rosetta study of early activity" PI: M. Knight. Telescope: Gemini-S (Flamingos2, GMOS-S). Time awarded: 20.5 hr. Semester 2014B. [ADS]
  12. "Synoptic Observations of Comet ISON" PI: T. Lister. Role: Co-I. Telescope: Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. Time awarded: 36 hr.
  13. "Perihelion Observations of Dynamically New Sungrazing Comet ISON/Observations of Io and the Plasma Torus" PI: J. Morgenthaler. Role: Co-I. Telescope: McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope. Time awarded: 12 days and nights.
  14. "Hubble Imaging of the Nucleus of Comet ISON" PI: P. Lamy. Role: Co-I. Telescope: Hubble. Time awarded: 12 orbits. Cycle 21 GO. [HST]
  15. "Imaging Polarimetry of the 2013 Comet ISON with ACS: A Study of the Heterogeneous Coma" PI: D. Hines. Role: Co-I. Telescope: Hubble. Time awarded: 12 orbits. Cycle 21 GO. [HST]
  16. "Warm Spitzer Characterization of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)" PI: C. Lisse. Role: Co-I. Telescope: Spitzer. Time awarded: 24 hours. Cycle 9 DDT. [Spitzer]
  17. "The First Pre-Perihelion Nucleus Size Measurement of a Sungrazing Comet, C/2012 S1 (ISON)" PI: J.-Y. Li. Role: Co-I. Telescope: Hubble. Time awarded: 3 orbits. Cycle 20 DDT. [HST]
  18. "Imaging Polarimetry of the 2013 Comet ISON with ACS: A Pre-Perihelion Study of the Heterogeneous Coma" PI: D. Hines. Role: Co-I. Telescope: Hubble. Time awarded: 2 orbits. Cycle 20 DDT. [HST]
  19. "Distant Activity of Comet ISON" PI: M. A'Hearn. Role: Co-I. Telescope: Hubble. Time awarded: 5 orbits. Cycle 20 DDT. [HST]
  20. "Is There Any Water Left in Sungrazing Comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy?" PI: M. Knight. Telescope: Swift. Time awarded: 2 orbits. January 2012. [Spitzer]
  21. "The First Detailed IR Observations of a Sungrazing Comet: C/2011 W3 Lovejoy". PI: M. Knight. Telescope: Spitzer Space Telescope. Time awarded: 4 hours. Cycle 8 DDT. [Spitzer]
  22. "High Spatial Resolution Photometric Imaging of the Area Around the Nucleus of C/2011 W3 Lovejoy". PI: M. Knight. Instrument: Hubble Space Telescope. Time awarded: 1 orbit. Cycle 19 DDT. [HST]
  23. "Submillimetre spectroscopy of sungrazing/Kreutz comets". PI: M. Drahus. Role: Co-I. Instrument: JCMT. Time: 20 hr. Semester: 2011B.
  24. "A Pilot Study of the Sungrazing Kreutz Comets". PI: M. Drahus. Role: Co-I. Instrument: IRAM 30-m. Time: 11.5 hr. Semester: 2011B.