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Daily 3588
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science
DAILY REPORT # 3588 PERIOD COVERED: DOY 99 OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/HRC 9747 An Imaging Survey of the Statistical Frequency of Binaries Among Exceptionally-Young Dynamical Families in the Main Asteroid Belt We propose an ambitious SNAPSHOT program to determine the frequency of binaries among two very young asteroid families in the Main Belt, with potentially profound implications. These families {of C- and S-type} have recently been discovered {Nesvorny et al. 2002, Nature 417, 720}, through dynamical modeling, to have been formed at 5.8 MY and 8.3 MY ago in catastrophic impact events. This is the first time such precise and young ages have been assigned to a family. Main-belt binaries are almost certainly produced by collisions, and we would expect a young family to have a significantly higher frequency of binaries than the background, because they may not yet have been destroyed by impact or longer-term gravitational instabilities. In fact, one of the prime observables from such an event should be the propensity for satellites. This is the best way that new numerical models for binary production by collisions {motivated largely by our ground-based discoveries of satellites among larger asteroids}, can be validated and calibrated. We will also measure two control clusters, one being an "old" family, and the other a collection of background asteroids that do not have a family association, and further compare with our determined value for the frequency of large main-belt binaries {2%}. We request visits to 180 targets, using ACS/HRC. ACS/HRC/WFC 10044 ACS internal CTE monitor The charge transfer efficiency {CTE} of the ACS CCD detectors will decline as damage due to on-orbit radiation exposure accumulates. This degradation will be closely monitored at regular intervals, because it is likely to determine the useful lifetime of the CCDs. All the data for this program is acquired using internal targets {lamps} only, so all of the exposures should be taken during Earth occultation time {but not during SAA passages}. This program emulates the ACS pre-flight ground calibration and post-launch SMOV testing {program 8948}, so that results from each epoch can be directly compared. Extended Pixel Edge Response {EPER} and First Pixel Response {FPR} data will be obtained over a range of signal levels for both the Wide Field Channel {WFC}, and the High Resolution Channel {HRC}. ACS/HRC/WFC 10060 CCD Daily Monitor This program consists of basic tests to monitor, the read noise, the development of hot pixels and test for any source of noise in ACS CCD detectors. This programme will be executed once a day for the entire lifetime of ACS. ACS/WFC/WFPC2 9822 The COSMOS 2-Degree ACS Survey We will undertake a 2 square degree imaging survey {Cosmic Evolution Survey -- COSMOS} with ACS in the I {F814W} band of the VIMOS equatorial field. This wide field survey is essential to understand the interplay between Large Scale Structure {LSS} evolution and the formation of galaxies, dark matter and AGNs and is the one region of parameter space completely unexplored at present by HST. The equatorial field was selected for its accessibility to all ground-based telescopes and low IR background and because it will eventually contain ~100, 000 galaxy spectra from the VLT-VIMOS instrument. The imaging will detect over 2 million objects with I 27 mag {AB, 10 sigma}, over 35, 000 Lyman Break Galaxies {LBGs} and extremely red galaxies out to z ~ 5. COSMOS is the only HST project specifically designed to probe the formation and evolution of structures ranging from galaxies up to Coma-size clusters in the epoch of peak galaxy, AGN, star and cluster formation {z ~0.5 to 3}. The size of the largest structures necessitate the 2 degree field. Our team is committed to the assembly of several public ancillary datasets including the optical spectra, deep XMM and VLA imaging, ground-based optical/IR imaging, UV imaging from GALEX and IR data from SIRTF. Combining the full-spectrum multiwavelength imaging and spectroscopic coverage with ACS sub-kpc resolution, COSMOS will be Hubble's ultimate legacy for understanding the evolution of both the visible and dark universe. STIS 9786 The Next Generation Spectral Library We propose to continue the Cycle 10 snapshot program to produce a Next Generation Spectral Library of 600 stars for use in modeling the integrated light of galaxies and clusters. This program is using the low dispersion UV and optical gratings of STIS. The library will be roughly equally divided among four metallicities, very low {[Fe/H] lt -1.5}, low {[Fe/H] -1.5 to -0.5}, near-solar {[Fe/H] -0.3 to 0.1}, and super-solar {[Fe/H] gt 0.2}, well-sampling the entire HR-diagram in each bin. Such a library will surpass all extant compilations and have lasting archival value, well into the Next Generation Space Telescope era. Because of the universal utility and community-broad nature of this venture, we waive the entire proprietary period. STIS/CCD 10018 CCD Dark Monitor-Part 2 Monitor the darks for the STIS CCD. STIS/CCD 10020 CCD Bias Monitor - Part 2 Monitor the bias in the 1x1, 1x2, 2x1, and 2x2 bin settings at gain=1, and 1x1 at gain = 4, to build up high-S/N superbiases and track the evolution of hot columns. STIS/CCD 9776 Black Holes in Big Galaxies with Small Bulges In early-type galaxies the black hole {BH} mass is tightly correlated with the bulge velocity dispersion. This correlation suggests that the BH mass is determined by local processes in the central part of the galaxy. However, the bulge dispersion in these galaxies is correlated with the disk circular speed which in turn correlates with the inferred halo circular speed {the "disk-halo conspiracy"}. For this reason, existing data cannot decide whether the BH mass is set by the bulge dispersion or the disk or halo circular speed. We propose to break this degeneracy by weighing the BH in 3 Sc galaxies in which the ratio of bulge circular speed to bulge velocity dispersion is large, leading to large differences between BH masses predicted from these quantities. These measurements will increase the number of carefully studied Sc bulges from one to four and will determine whether the masses of nuclear BHs are set by {presumably baryonic} processes in galaxy bulges or by {presumably non-baryonic} processes in their dark halos. STIS/CCD 9854 Anomalous Flux Ratios in Quadruple Gravitationally Lensed QSOs We propose to observe eight {8} gravitationally lensed systems which exhibit quadruple images of the background high redshift quasars. Models invoking a smooth potential fit the observed image positions accurately, in most cases better than 5 milliarcseconds. But the same models dramatically fail to predict the observed flux ratios. These anomalous flux ratios can be attributed to micro- or milli-lensing in the massive lensing halo. In this proposal, we will isolate the source of the anomalous flux ratios by using the superior resolution of HST/STIS to obtain spectrophotometric data and compare the emission line flux ratio of the QSOs to the continuum flux ratios. Due to the much larger size of the broad emission line regions, the flux ratios in the emission lines should only be affected by milli-lensing if the sub-halos are comparable or larger in projected size than the source region. That is, flux ratios observed in the QSO continuum are senstive to substructure on all scales {both micro- and milli-lensing}, while the broad emission lines are insensitive to micro-lensing due to the larger physical size of the source emission region. This sample of eight quasars will provide the definitive evidence to distinguish between possible sources causing the observed anomalous flux ratios. WFPC2 10070 WFPC2 CYCLE 12 Supplemental Darks Part 2/3 This dark calibration program obtains 3 dark frames every day to provide data for monitoring and characterizing the evolution of hot pixels. FLIGHT OPERATIONS SUMMARY: Significant Spacecraft Anomalies: (The following are preliminary reports of potential non-nominal performance that will be investigated.) HSTAR 9369: GS Acquisition (1,2,2) @ 099/15:42:53Z resulted in FL backup on FGS 1 due to SSLE on FGS 2. Prior FHST RD Update @ 099/15:10:04Z showed good attitude error vector. Following GS Reacquisition @ 099/17:17:11Z also resulted in FL backup on FGS 1. Under investigation. HSTAR 9370: GS Acquisition (1,2,2) @ 100/09:12:15Z resulted in FL backup on FGS 1 only. No flags were set at AOS. Further information after engineering recorder dump. Under investigation. COMPLETED OPS REQs: None OPS NOTES EXECUTED: None SCHEDULED SUCCESSFUL FAILURE TIMES FGS GSacq 7 7 FGS REacq 9 9 FHST Update 15 15 LOSS of LOCK SIGNIFICANT EVENTS: NICMOS Proposal 10097, adjust NCS setpoint temperature to the current seasonal setting @ 100/13:49Z via SMS. |
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