Spitzer Cycle 3 Approved Archival Research Proposals Principal Investigator Institution Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allamandola, Louis NASA Ames Research Center Diamonds are a PAHs Best Friend Blanton, Michael New York U. K-corrections in the mid- and far-infrared Chu, You Hua U. of Illinois Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hester, Jeff Arizona State U. Archival Study of the Effects of Massive Stars on Low-mass Star Formation and Disk Evolution Holberg, Jay U. of Ariziona A White Dwarf-Based Investigation of the IRAC Photometric Absolute Calibration Jackson, James Institute for Astrophysical Re Protostars in Infrared Dark Clouds Johnson, Kelsey U. of Virginia The Formation and Early Evolution of Star Clusters McCandliss, Stephan Johns Hopkins U. A Comparison of the Infrared and Ultraviolet Properties of Photodissociation Regions Pascucci, Ilaria Steward Observatory Stellar Companions as a Trigger for Rapid Dust Evolution Richards, Gordon Johns Hopkins U. 9-D Bayesian Quasar Classification in the Mid-IR/Optical Surace, Jason Spitzer Science Center Mid-Infrared Variability from AGN in the IRAC Dark Field: Photometric Refinement, Discovery, and Characterization Trilling, David U. of Arizona The Spitzer Asteroid Catalog Whittet, Douglas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institu The thermal evolution of ices in the environments of newly formed stars: Archival studies of the CO2 bending mode observed with the Spitzer IRS Spitzer Cycle 3 Approved Theoretical Research Proposals Principal Investigator Institution Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adams, Fred U. of Michigan Theoretical Studies to Support Spitzer Cluster Surveys Barman, Travis University of California at L Planetary Atmosphere Models for Spitzer Targets Bergin, Edwin U. of Michigan Theoretical Studies of Ice Formation in the Dynamic Interstellar Medium Dave, Romeel U. of Arizona Comparing Simulations and Observations of Reionization-Epoch Galaxies Forrey, Robert Penn State U. Towards Complete Microphysical Modeling of Warm Interstellar Molecules: H2 Collisional Dissociation for Spitzer IR Observations Gallagher, Sarah U. of California, Los Angeles Illuminating the Dusty Wind: 3D Modeling of Quasar Silicate Emission Jonsson, Patrik U. of California, Santa Cruz Infrared Predictions from Simulations of Merging Galaxies Li, Aigen U. of Missouri-Columbia Modeling the PAH Emission Spectra of Protoplanetary and Debris Disks Li, Aigen U. of Missouri-Columbia Modeling the Destruction and Survival of PAHs in Astrophysical Regions: from Low-metallicity Galaxies to Elliptical Galaxies and Galactic Halos Marley, Mark NASA Ames Research Center The Role of Dust and Non-Equilibrium Chemistry in the Atmospheres of L and T Dwarfs as Constrained by Spitzer IRS and IRAC Observations Weidenschilling, Stuart Planetary Science Institute Collisional Evolution of Circumstellar Debris Disks Whitney, Barbara Space Science Institute A Tool to Analyze Spitzer Data on Stellar and Young Stellar Objects Spitzer Cycle 3 Approved Legacy General Observer Proposals Principal Investigator Institution Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allen, Lori Smithsonian Astrophysical Obse Gould's Belt: Star Formation in the Solar Neighborhood Armus, Lee Spitzer Science Center A Spitzer Spectroscopic Survey of a Complete Sample of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe Benjamin, Robert U. of Wisconsin-Whitewater GLIMPSE 3D: The Vertical Stellar and Interstellar Structure of the Inner Galaxy Carey, Sean Spitzer Science Center MIPSGAL II: Surveying the innermost part of the Galactic plane at 24 and 70 microns with MIPS Dickinson, Mark National Optical Astronomy Obs A Deep-Wide Far-Infrared Survey of Cosmological Star Formation and AGN Activity Padgett, Deborah Spitzer Science Center Taurus 2: Finishing the Spitzer Map of the Taurus Molecular Clouds Sanders, David U. of Hawaii S-COSMOS: The MIPS Deep Survey of the COSMOS 2-sqdeg Field Schiminovich, David Columbia U. SSGSS: The Spitzer SDSS GALEX Spectroscopic Survey Hubble Cycle 15 Approved Joint Spitzer/HST Proposals Principal Investigator Institution Title (truncated at 80 characters) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Berger, Edo Carnegie Institution of Wash Gotcha! Using Swift GRBs to Pinpoint the Highest Redshift Galaxies Brown, Michael California Institute of Tech The largest Kuiper belt objects Malkan, Matthew UCLA Identifying z>7 galaxies from J-dropouts Chandra Cycle 8 Approved Joint Spitzer/Chandra Proposals Principal Investigator Institution Title (truncated at 80 characters) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kastner, Joel Rochester Institute of Tech Hot gas and cool dust around B[e] Supergiants Treu, Tommaso U. C. Santa Barbara The Duty Cycle of Supermassive Black Holes: X-raying Virgo Ulmer, Melville Northwestern University Observations of a Distant X-ray Luminous Cluster of Galaxies Spitzer Cycle 3 Approved General Observer Proposals (* denotes medium or large proposal) Principal Investigator Institution Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apai, Daniel The U. of Arizona Quantitative Mineralogy of Brown Dwarf Disks: Measuring the Effect of Luminosity on Dust Evolution Arce, Hector American Museum of Natural His Gas Entrainment and Shock Physics in Giant Protostellar Outflows Armus, Lee Spitzer Science Center Dust in the Wind: Mapping Galactic Superwinds with Spitzer Balog, Zoltan U. of Arizona Evaporating disks Barsony, Mary Space Science Institute IRS Scan Mapping of IRAS16253-2429: A Textbook Example for Unlocking the Secrets of Protostellar Outflows Barth, Aaron U. of California, Irvine Infrared Emission from the Smallest Active Galaxies Bary, Jeffrey U. of Virginia A Multi-Epoch IRS Accretion Variability Study of Actively Accreting T Tauri Stars Bergvall, Nils Uppsala Astronomical Observato The Red Halos of Blue Compact Galaxies - Constraining the Dust Content. Bernard-Salas, Jeronimo Cornell university Spitzer-IRS's view of Halo PNe Birkmann, Stephan Max-Planck-Institute for Astro IRS spectroscopy of extremely young massive protostars *Bolatto, Alberto U. C. Berkeley A Complete Picture of the Dust in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Following up Spitzer Imaging with Spectroscopic Observations Bourke, Tyler Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Going Long: Studying the Initial Conditions for Brown Dwarfs and Low-Mass Stars with Spitzer at 160 microns Bouwens, Rychard UCO/Lick Observatory Measuring the Stellar Masses of Galaxies at z~7 Bouwman, Jeroen Max-Planck Institute for Astro Nature vs. Nurture: The influence of OB star environments on proto-planetary disk evolution. Bresolin, Fabio U. of Hawaii PINNING DOWN THE CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES OF METAL-RICH GIANT HII REGIONS Brinkworth, Carolyn Spitzer Science Center Testing the first direct measurement of cataclysmic variable evolution: the search for a circumbinary disk or a low-mass companion around NN Serpentis Brown, Michael Caltech Thermal properties of the largest Kuiper belt objects Bryden, Geoffrey JPL Fine-Scale Imaging of Newly Resolved Debris Disks around Solar-Type Stars Burleigh, Matt U. of Leicester The brown dwarf that was swallowed by a red giant and survived Burleigh, Matt U. of Leicester (UK) Are metal-rich hot white dwarfs accreting from dust disks or substellar companions? Calzetti, Daniela Space Telescope Science Instit Dust and Star Formation in the Extreme Outer Disks of Spiral Galaxies Campins, Humberto U. of Central Florida Rotationally-Resolved Surface Mineralogy of an Extinct Comet Carpenter, John California Institute of Techno Circumstellar Disks in the Upper Scorpius OB Association Chakrabarty, Deepto Massachusetts Institute of Tec Fallback Debris Disks Around Neutron Stars Charbonneau, David Harvard U. HD 189733b: As The World Turns Clayton, Geoffrey Lousiana State U. Looking for Dual Dust Chemistry in the Shells of Hot R Coronae Borealis Stars Clayton, Geoffrey Lousiana State U. The Shells of R Coronae Borealis Stars: Fossil Planetary Nebulae? Colbert, James Spitzer Science Center Solving the Mystery of the Lyman Alpha Blobs Dannerbauer, Helmut MPIA Revealing the Nature of one of the most H2-bright ULIRGs Darling, Jeremy U. of Colorado The Astrophysics of OH Megamasers in Merging Galaxies: the Role of Star Formation, Dust, Molecules, and AGN Davidson, Jacqueline USRA IRS Assessment of Star Formation and Galactic Evolution in Ellipticals with resolved Cold ISM DePoy, Darren The Ohio State U. Insight into the Progenitor of the Type Ia Supernova 2005gj Deming, Drake NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent Spitzer Characterization of Super Earths Devost, Daniel Cornell U. NeV and OIV in Wolf-Rayet Galaxies Dinerstein, Harriet The U. of Texas at Austin Do s-Process Enhanced Planetary Nebulae Have Unusual Dust Emission Spectra? *Dowell, Charles Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pushing the Far-IR Capability of Spitzer in the Study of High-Redshift ULIRGs Dunham, Michael U. of Texas at Austin Very Low Luminosity Objects: Investigating the Lowest Luminosity, Embedded Protostars with Spectra from 5-100 microns Dwek, Eli NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent THE INFRARED EVOLUTION OF SN1987A Eisenhardt, Peter JPL/Caltech A Census of LIRGs in Clusters of Galaxies in the First Half of the Universe from the IRAC Shallow Survey *Ellingson, Erica U. of Colorado Tracing Star Formation History in RCS Galaxy Clusters Evans, Aaron Stony Brook U. A Mid-Infrared Survey of the Warm ISM and Star Formation in Molecular Gas-Rich Radio Galaxies Evans, Aneurin Keele U. Spitzer observations of adolescent novae Evans, Aneurin Keele U. Spitzer observations of the born-again phenomenon Evans, Nancy Smithsonian Astrophysical Obse Mass Loss from Classical Cepheids and their Progenitors Fan, Xiaohui U. of Arizona Two Extreme IR-weak Quasars at z~6: Probing Dust Evolution Farihi, Jay Gemini Observatory Cool Material Around Metal-Rich White Dwarfs Farrah, Duncan Cornell U. An intensive Spitzer survey of FeLoBAL QSOs *Fernandez, Yanga U. of Central Florida Survey of Ensemble Physical Properties of Cometary Nuclei Figer, Donald RIT Massive Star Clusters Finn, Rose Siena College Star-Formation Rates of 9 Intermediate-Redshift Galaxy Clusters Fisher, David U. of Texas at Austin Star Formation In The Centers Of Galaxies Due To Secular Evolution Fox, Derek Pennsylvania State U. Spitzer Observations of the Highest-Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts Frinchaboy, Peter U. of Virginia Exploring the Luminosity Function for Prototypical Open Clusters with IRAC Garcia-Lario, Pedro European Space Astronomy Centr The hidden evolution of galactic post-AGB stars Geach, James Durham U. IRS spectroscopy of LIRGs in the cluster Cl0024+16 at z=0.4 Georgakakis, Antonis Imperial College The brightest Extremely Red Objects in the Sky from 2MASS/SDSS fields Georgakakis, Antonis Imperial College X-ray selected star-forming galaxies: the mid-IR view Gibson, Steven NAIC/Arecibo Observatory Cold Diffuse Clouds: The Missing Link in Molecular Cloud Formation Gladders, Michael Carnegie Observatories Spitzer Observations of a GRB-Selected Galaxy Cluster at z=1.8 Goldsmith, Paul JPL H2 Rotational Transition Emission From Molecular Cloud Edges: Tracing the Energy Input Affecting Cloud Structure and Evolution Gorjian, Varoujan JPL Probing Parsec Scale Structure of Nearby Seyferts Using Variability Greaves, Jane U. of St Andrews Forming the first planetary systems Grillmair, Carl Spitzer Science Center A Spitzer Spectrum of the Transiting Exoplanet HD 189733b Grossan, Bruce Eureka Scientific Realizing Spitzer's Far-IR Background Science Potential Harrington, Joseph Cornell U. Target of Opportunity: New Observable Transiting Extrasolar Planets Heckman, Timothy Johns Hopkins U. Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brightest Type 2 AGN in the SDSS Henning, Thomas Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astro Protoplanetary Disks Around Very Low-Mass Stars in the Coronet Cluster Hines, Dean Space Science Institute FEPS Follow-Up. II: MIPS Photometry Hines, Dean Space Science Institute The Scorched Atmosphere of a Low Mass Star Hoard, Donald Spitzer Science Center Circumbinary Dust in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables - Exploring Polars in the Mid-Infrared Holberg, Jay U. of Ariziona Looking For Low Mass Companions To White Dwarfs In All The Right Places Hony, Sacha Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The mass loss of S stars Howk, J. Christopher U. of Notre Dame A Spitzer-MIPS Study of Extraplanar Dust in Spiral Galaxies Hsieh, Henry U. of Hawaii Albedos of Main-Belt Comet Nuclei Hurley, Kevin U. of California, Berkeley Spitzer-Chandra ToO Observations of a Short/Hard GRB Hu, Esther U. of Hawaii Star formation rates in a sample of redshift 6.6 galaxies *Indebetouw, Remy U. of Virginia Stellar Feedback on Circumcluster Gas and Dust in 30 Doradus, the Nearest Super-Star Cluster. Iping, Rosina the Catholic U. of America The Vela X-1 and alpha Cam Bow Shocks as Probes of the Interstellar Medium Jackson, James Institute for Astrophysical Re Active star formation in Infrared Dark Clouds Jaffe, Daniel U. of Texas Evolution and Structure of Very Low Mass Disks Around YSOs Jaffe, Walter Leiden Observatory The missing energy in cooling flow clusters: dust and EUV radiation Jarvis, Matt U. of Oxford Decoupling luminosity, evolution and orientation effects in AGN Jayaraman, Sumita Planetary Science Institute Traversing the Trailing Dust Cloud in the Earth's Resonant Ring - Part 3 Jiang, Biwei Beijing Normal U. Spitzer Search for the 21 Micron Sources from the MSX PSC Catalog Kamp, Inga ESA/STScI The Nature of the Dust around Lambda Bootis Stars: Debris Disks or Reflection Nebulae Kaneda, Hidehiro Institute of Space and Astrona Environmental Effects on PAHs and VSGs in X-ray-bright Dusty Elliptical Galaxies Kannappan, Sheila U. of Texas at Austin Understanding the Blue-Sequence E/S0 Population: Fading Remnants and Future Spirals Kastner, Joel Rochester Institute of Technol Supersized: A Spitzer Survey of Dusty Disks around B[e] Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds *Kenney, Jeffrey Yale U. Spitzer Observations of Environomental Effects on Virgo Cluster Galaxies Kilic, Mukremin U. of Texas at Austin Resolving Mysteries: Ultra-Cool White Dwarfs and the Age of the Galaxy Kitayama, Tetsu Toho U. Far-infrared Emission from the Coma Cluster of Galaxies *Koerner, David Northern Arizona U. Completing the Census of Debris Disks around Nearby Stars Kraan-Korteweg, Ren'ee U. of Cape Town Spitzer Study of the Hidden Galaxy HIZOAJ0836-43 Labbe, Ivo Carnegie Instition of Washingt The ages and star formation rates of massive galaxies at z=2-3 Lada, Charles Smithsonian Astrophysical Obse The nature and evolutionary status of protostars in clustered environments Lanz, Thierry U. of Maryland The Density Structure of O Star Winds Le Floc'h, Emeric U. of Arizona A far-IR exploration of the diversity of Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies at 22 Fazio, Giovanni Harvard-Smithsonian Center For A Search for Widely-Separated Low-Mass Companions Around Extra-Solar Planetary Systems Fazio, Giovanni Harvard-Smithsonian Center For An Enigmatic Source Towards The LMC Fazio, Giovanni Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Cold Dust in Globular Clusters Fazio, Giovanni Harvard-Smithsonian Center For IRAC GTO Map Extensions Fazio, Giovanni Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Life Cycle of Dust in Elliptical Galaxies Fazio, Giovanni Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Redshift of 350-micron Selected Galaxy Fazio, Giovanni Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Star Formation in Bright Rimmed Clouds Fazio, Giovanni Harvard-Smithsonian Center For T Dwarf Variability Houck , James Cornell U. Spectroscopy of Crystalline Silicates in the SMC Houck, James Cornell U. High-resolution Spectroscopy of Apparent 14 Micron Features Houck, James Cornell U. A Complete IRS Sample of PAH-rich Star Forming Dwarves in the SWIRE ELAIS N1 Field Houck, James Cornell U. A systematic Spitzer-IRS survey of obscured starburst galaxies at 1.01 Infrared-Luminous Galaxies Rieke, George U. of Arizona Characterizing Debris Disks Around Young Suns Rieke, George U. of Arizona MIPS Imaging of the Hot Spots in Pictor A Rieke, George U. of Arizona MIPS Imaging of the Unusually Hot Type 1 QSO PG1307+085 Rieke, George U. of Arizona A 70 Micron Study of the Effects of Environment on Protoplanetary Disk Evolution Rieke, George U. of Arizona Cold Dust Halos in Nearby Galaxies Rieke, George U. of Arizona Completing the MIPS GTO Debris Disk Sample Rieke, George U. of Arizona Detecting extended intracluster dust emission in Abell 2029 Rieke, George U. of Arizona Dust Properties in Low-Metallicity Galaxies Rieke, George U. of Arizona Dust Properties in Nearby Sub-mm Galaxies Rieke, George U. of Arizona How do Buried "Compton-thick" AGN Reprocess Their Energy? Rieke, George U. of Arizona IRAC Mapping of IC 2391 Rieke, George U. of Arizona IRS Observations of IR-Selected Obscured QSOs in Deep X-ray Fields Rieke, George U. of Arizona IRS Spectral Mapping of a Representative Sample of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies Rieke, George U. of Arizona Illuminating the evolution of CNOC2 group galaxies with MIPS at 24microns Rieke, George U. of Arizona MIPS 24 micron Study of Debris Disks in Praesepe and Coma Berenices Rieke, George U. of Arizona Probing planetary system formation with Spitzer: Debris disks around early F stars Rieke, George U. of Arizona Tomographic imaging of IR echoes around Cas A - Spitzer's unique view on the 3-D structure Rieke, George U. of Arizona Dust Properties in Bright, Nearby Debris Disks Rieke, George U. of Arizona Extended Dust in M31: MIPS Imaging to the HI Edge Rieke, George U. of Arizona IRS Spectra of M101 HII Regions in the Aromatic Feature Transition Region