Spitzer Cycle 4 Approved Theoretical Research Proposals Principal Investigator Institution Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charnley, Steven SETI Inst. Theoretical Models of Interstellar Ice Evolution Dave, Romeel Arizona TOGA: A Web Interface for Testing Galaxy Formation Models Against Observations Elitzur, Moshe Kentucky The AGN Obscuring Torus Frank, Adam Rochester Star Formation Ecology: YSO Outflow Feedback in Young Clusters Komatsu, Eiichiro Texas Anisotropy in the Cosmic Near Infrared Background: Simulations vs Observations Li, Aigen U. Missouri-Columbia Modeling the Infrared Emission Spectra of Specific PAH Molecules in Interstellar Space Marley, Mark NASA ARC Understanding L/T Transition Binaries and Y Dwarfs Mathews, William UCSC Evolution of Dust in Elliptical Galaxies Quillen, Alice Rochester Simulating 3D disks with planets and central clearings Thommes, Edward Northwestern Observational signatures of extrasolar Late Heavy Bombardments Whitney, Barbara SSI An Improved Grid of YSO Radiative Transfer Models, and Further Analysis of SEDs and Images from Spitzer Spitzer Cycle 4 Approved Archival Research Proposals Principal Investigator Institution Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allamandola, Louis NASA ARC PAH Spectra for Everyone Allamandola, Louis NASA ARC IR Spectroscopy of PAHs in Dense Clouds Bergin, Edwin Michigan Peering into the Heart of Galactic Star Formation Brodie, Jean UCSC Star Clusters in M31: Stellar Populations and Mass Loss Brunner, Gregory Rice Mapping Molecular Hydrogen Excitation and Mass in Nearby Galaxies from the SINGS Archive Cohen, Martin UC Berkeley LMC Planetary Nebulae: IR Luminosity Functions, AGB Halos, and a Spitzer Search for New Candidates Cooray, Asantha UC Irvine A Reanalysis of IR Background Fluctuations in Spitzer IRAC GOODS fields Gawiser, Eric Rutgers A SIMPLE Proof that Lyman Alpha Emitters are Galaxies in the Act of Formation Goodman, Alyssa SAO All c2d Spitzer Outflows Hamilton-Drager, Catrina Dickinson Coll. Extending the Timeline for Angular Momentum Evolution: What Role Do Disks Play in Regulating Stellar Rotation at 5 Myr? Jackson, James Boston U Protostars in Infrared Dark Clouds Krolik, Julian JHU Measuring the Fraction of Obscured Quasars by the Infrared Luminosity of Unobscured Quasars Lee, Timothy NASA ARC Computing the Temperature Dependent Rovibrational Spectrum of Ammonia Liu, Michael Hawaii A Wide-Field Low-Mass Census of the Nearest Star-Forming Region Madore, Barry OCIW GALEX-Spitzer study of resolved galaxies Massey, Philip Lowell Obs. Circumstellar dust around Red Supergiants in the Local Group: When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Mighell, Kenneth NOAO Improving the Photometric Precision of IRAC Channels 1 & 2 Monroe, TalaWanda Indiana U The Effects of Stellar Metallicity on the Frequency of Debris Disks in Young Star Clusters Moro-Martin, Amaya Princeton Study of solar-type stars with planets, planetesimals and dust Muench, August SAO Constraints on the stellar initial mass function from Spitzer Trilling, David U. Arizona The Spitzer Asteroid Catalog II: 10,000 more asteroids Van Dyk, Schuyler SSC Galactic Evolved Massive Stars Survey (GEMSS) Veilleux, Sylvain Maryland Opening the Window on Warm Dust in Starburst- and AGN-Driven Superwinds Wooden, Diane NASA ARC Mining the Deep Impact Spitzer Archive for Crystalline Silicates Yan, Haojing OCIW A Systematic Study of the Global Stellar Mass Density at 0.56 Quasars Frayer, David NHSC Deep MIPS-70 and 160-micron Imaging of the z=1.16 SMG-P4 Frieswijk, Wilfred Kapteyn Institute Probing the initial phases of cluster formation in an outer Galaxy dark cloud Gelino, Dawn MSC Determining Stellar Black Hole Masses: Assessing the Non-Stellar Infrared Component of Black Hole Systems Getman, Konstantin Penn State Triggered star formation in the mysterious high-latitude cometary globule CG 12 Ghavamian, Parviz JHU A Mid-IR Imaging Survey of G292.0+1.8: Mapping the Ejecta and Circumstellar Interaction Gonzalez, Anthony Florida Quenched Star Formation in the Bullet Cluster Gordon, Karl Arizona Probing Dust Grains Emissions in High Latitude Molecular Clouds Gould, Andrew Ohio State Are LMC/SMC microlensing events due to dark matter? Greaves, Jane St. Andrews The composition of debris around HD 12039: water from asteroids? *Grillmair, Carl SSC A Spitzer/IRS Legacy Reference Spectrum for Exoplanet HD 189733b Groussin, Olivier LA Marseille Measuring the physical properties of the nucleus of comet 8P/Tuttle Guinan, Edward Villanova Spitzer Observations of Eclipsing Binaries with Cepheid Components: a Key to the Extragalactic Distance Scale Guinan, Edward Villanova The Secret IR Lives of Cepheids: Spitzer IRS Spectroscopy of Circumstellar Envelopes, Winds and Chromospheric Emissions in Nearby Cepheids Haas, Martin Astronomisches I. IRS 19-38 micron spectra of 3CRR radio galaxies and quasars at z>1: Testing AGN unification at the peak of cosmic activity Harrington, Joseph UCF Intense Photometry of the Exotic Exoplanet HD 149026b *Harrington, Joseph UCF Target of Opportunity: New Transiting Exoplanets Harrison, Thomas NMSU Cyclotron or Synchrotron? Additional IRS Spectroscopy of Three Intermediate Polars Heckman, Tim JHU Are Starbursts the Progenitors of Supermassive Black Holes? Howell, Steve NOAO Dust disks or cyclotron emission? Why are magnetic CVs so bright in the mid-IR? Howell, Steve NOAO Characterization of the Dust Environment in and around WZ Sge Hsieh, Henry U. Hawaii Albedos of Small Hilda Asteroids Huang, Jiasheng SAO Deep IR imaging of Submillimeter Galaxies detected by SMA: Unambiguously Identifying SMGs at High Redshifts Huard, Tracy SAO The Silicate-Extinction Relationship as a Tracer of Evolution of Dust in Dense Cores Hurley, Kevin UC Berkeley Spitzer-Chandra ToO Observations of a Short Duration GRB Ingalls, James SSC Heating and Cooling in the Translucent ISM: PAHs and [C II] in High Galactic Latitude Clouds Jaffe, Walter Leiden Cooling the cores of protoclusters: Molecular Hydrogen as a diagnostic of feedback physics in the early Universe. Jameson, Richard Leicester T dwarfs in the Pleiades Jarrett, Thomas SSC Unveiling the Hidden Heart of the Great Attractor Jarvis, Matt Hertfordshire An Independent search for Starbursting/AGN components within a Lyman Alpha Blob at High Redshift Jayaraman, Sumita PSI Traversing the Trailing Dust Cloud in the Earth's Resonant Ring - Part 4 Jeffries, Robin Keele Debris disks at the epoch of terrestrial planet formation Joblin, Christine CESR Physical evolution of Very Small Grains: excitation and processing in extreme environments Jones, Christine SAO GRBs as Beacons of Star Formation at High Redshifts Jura, Michael UCLA Infrared Spectra of Dust Orbiting Single White Dwarfs Kelley, Michael UCF An In-depth Study of the Dust of Comet 46P/Wirtanen Kenyon, Scott SAO MIPS 24 micron observations of h & chi Persei: debris disk evolution at 13 Myr Knez, Claudia Maryland A systematic study of ice and dust properties in large clouds and their relation to star formation activity *Knutson, Heather Harvard Portraits of Distant Worlds: Mapping the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters Kocevski, Dale UC Davis Galaxy Evolution in the Cluster/Filament Environment Kotak, Rubina Queen's U Belfast Spitzer Studies of Supernova ejecta and dust Lacy, Mark SSC A Spitzer study of the hosts of young, dust-reddened quasars *Lacy, Mark SSC The Masses and Ages of Galaxies in the Era of Reionization Lada, Charles SAO A spectroscopic study of the giant infrared jet powering NGC 2264 G Lahuis, Fred Leiden Obs. YSO inner disk chemistry - pushing the IRS limits Lamy, Philippe LA Marseille Characterization of Asteroid 2867 Steins, A Target of the Rosetta Mission Laughlin, Gregory UCSC The Big Swing: Observing the Periastron Passage of HD 80606b Le Floc'h, Emeric Hawaii A mid-infrared study of Hickson Compact Groups: Probing the Effects of Environment in Galaxy Interactions Leggett, Sandy Gemini Target of Opportunity Observations of Extreme-T or Y Dwarfs Found in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Looney, Leslie Illinois An Evolutionary Survey of Massive YSOs Luhman, Kevin Penn State An IRS Survey of Disks around Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Lupus *Majewski, Steven Virginia Galactic Structure and Star Formation in Vela-Carina Mamajek, Eric SAO Search for Terrestrial Temperature Debris Around Needles in the Haystack: A Survey for Disks in a Newly Discovered Nearby 20-30 Myr Old Association Marchis, Franck UC Berkeley Survey of Binary Asteroids with Spitzer/IRS Marengo, Massimo SAO IRAC Search for Planetary Mass Companions of Extrasolar Planetary Systems: Probing the Inner 400~AU McCabe, Caer-Eve JPL Going Long: a 70 micron Survey of Nearby Young Stellar Objects McCullough, Peter STScI Secondary eclipses of XO planets *Meisenheimer, Klaus MPIA Infrared SEDs and dust emission from z > 5 quasars. Part I. Probing the hottest dust with Spitzer. Metchev, Stanimir UCLA The L/T Transition in the Photospheres of Young Sub-Stellar Companions Miroshnichenko, Anatoly UNC Greensboro Dust Formation near Hot Non-Supergiant Stars Morris, Mark UCLA IRS Observations of the Double Helix Nebula Mulchaey, John OCIW A MIPS Survey of a Representative Sample of Galaxy Groups Mullally, Fergal Texas Directly Detecting a Planet around a White Dwarf Muzerolle, James Arizona Mid-infrared variability as a probe of protoplanetary disk structure Najita, Joan NOAO [NeII]: A Powerful New Probe of Dissipating Disks *Neff, Susan NASA GSFC Star Formation in the Tidal Streams of the M81 Group *Neufeld, David JHU Spitzer spectral line mapping of interstellar shock waves: probing the physics and chemistry of shocked molecular clouds Ogle, Patrick SSC Shocked Baryons and Star Formation in a High-Redshift Protocluster Oliver, Sebastian Sussex IRS Observation of Four Exceptionally Red 24 micron Sources Papovich, Casey Arizona Survey of Paschen Alpha in High Redshift Galaxies Polletta, Mari UCSD The obscuring dust in the Compton-thick type 2 QSO SW104409 *Ramirez, Solange IPAC Spectroscopic Study of Massive YSO Candidates in the Galactic Center Rand, Richard New Mexico Spitzer Spectroscopy of Gaseous Halos of Nearby Edge-on Galaxies Reynolds, Stephen NCSU Quasi-Historical Type Ia Supernova Remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud: "Massive" Ia's and Dust Destruction Riaz, Basmah Delaware Disk characteristics of TW Hydrae Association brown dwarfs Riechers, Dominik MPIA Probing the Peak of the Dust SED of the z=3.9 Quasar APM 08279+5255 Rines, Kenneth SAO Evolution of Star Formation in the 400 Square Degree Galaxy Cluster Survey Rubin, Robert NASA ARC Galactic Chemical Evolution & the Hot Star - H II Region Connection in NGC6822 Sajina, Anna SSC Water ice and warm CO in extremely obscured ULIRGs at z~2 Sellgren, Kris Ohio State Search For C_60 Shukla, Sonali Vanderbilt Inner disk activity in T Tauri stars Siana, Brian SSC Harnessing High Redshift Beacons: IRS Spectra of Lensed Lyman Break Galaxies Skillman, Evan Minnesota The AGB Star Census of Local Group Irregular Galaxies Skillman, Evan Minnesota Spatially Resolved PAH Emission in Nearby Low-Metallicity Galaxies Slane, Patrick SAO IRS Spectroscopy of the Shell Surrounding the Pulsar Wind Nebula Smith, JD Arizona After the Fall: Dust and PAHs in Post-Starburst Galaxies Smith, Graham Birmingham A Joint Spitzer/Lensing Survey - Exploring the Connection Between Hierarchical Assembly and Starburst Activity in Galaxy Clusters at z=0.2 Sonnentrucker, Paule JHU IRS Spectral Mapping of Interstellar Ices, Silicates and Gas-phase CO2 Spoon, Henrik Cornell Absorption line diagnostics of hidden star formation in ULIRGs Stacey, Gordon Cornell Warm H2 at the Edge of NGC 891: Determining the Excitation and Mass of the Most Common Molecule *Stanford, Spencer UC Davis A Unique IR, SZE, and X-ray Galaxy Cluster Survey Stassun, Keivan Vanderbilt The first brown-dwarf eclipsing binary: Fundamental tests of brown-dwarf formation and evolution Stencel, Robert Denver The circumstellar - interstellar interface revealed Stockton, Alan Hawaii The Origin of QSO Extended Emission Regions: Superwinds from Starbursts or QSO Ignition? Trilling, David U. Arizona Regoliths on small asteroids: Testing hypotheses with Spitzer Ueta, Toshiya Denver Excavating the Mass Loss History in the Circumstellar Dust Shells of Evolved Stars (Spitzer-MLHES) Verbiscer, Anne U. Virginia A Search for Debris From Phoebe: A New Saturnian Ring? Vidal-Madjar, Alfred IAP CO and H2O in the exoplanetary atmosphere of HD189733b (continued) von Hippel, Ted Texas Time Variable Accretion in White Dwarfs with Debris Disks Wang, Zhongxiang McGill U. Search For Debris Disks Around A Few Radio Pulsars Waters, Laurens Amsterdam The Composition of Interstellar Dust Waters, Rens Amsterdam Evolution of photoevaporating disks around massive Young Stellar Objects Watson, Darach Copenhagen The first extinction curve of a gamma-ray burst afterglow Watson, Dan Rochester Spitzer-IRS observations of water-line emission in protostars Whittet, Douglas RensselaerPI Ices at the lowest temperatures: Spitzer IRS observations of Lynds 134N Wolk, Scott SAO A Deep and Wide View of the RCW 108 Star Forming Complex Wood, Kenneth St. Andrews In search of Class I brown dwarfs Wooden, Diane NASA ARC Dust in the Coma and Trail of Spectacular Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) Spitzer Cycle 4 Approved Guaranteed Time Observer Proposals Principal Investigator Institution Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appleton, Philip NHSC IRS Spectroscopy and MIPS Mapping of the Intracluster Medium in the Bullet Cluster 1E0657-56 Bernard-Salas, Jeronimo Cornell Measuring the Metallicity Gradient in the Outer Disk of the Milky Way Brandl, Bernhard Leiden Spectral Mapping of W49A Brookes, Mairi JPL Line emission associated with the Northern inner radio lobe of Centaurus A Farrah, Duncan Cornell Do FeLoBALs mark the transition between a ULIRG and a QSO? Fazio, Giovanni SAO MIPS imaging of infrared PDRs Fazio, Giovanni SAO Distributed vs. Clustered Star Formation in Mon OB1 - NGC 2264 Fazio, Giovanni SAO The Extended Halos of Planetary Nebulae Fazio, Giovanni SAO Circumstellar Debris Disks Around Nearby, Young M Dwarfs Fazio, Giovanni SAO Decoding the colors of the interstellar medium Fazio, Giovanni SAO Mysterious PAHs in M31 Fazio, Giovanni SAO Star Formation and Mass Assembly in Three 1.2 < z < 1.4 Clusters of Galaxies Fazio, Giovanni SAO Search for star-formation in Lynds opacity class 6 clouds Fazio, Giovanni SAO Spectral Energy Distributions of the High-Redshift 3CR Sources: Testing Unification Fazio, Giovanni SAO Spitzer Studies of High-Redshift Radio Galaxies Fazio, Giovanni SAO IRS spectroscopy of type-2 quasars: the relation of IR spectra to X-ray absorption Fazio, Giovanni SAO Dual dust chemistry in Wolf-Rayet Planetary Nebulae Fazio, Giovanni SAO IRS Spectra of a Unique Infrared-Varying Galaxy in the IRAC-CF Fazio, Giovanni SAO Clusters Near Clusters Fazio, Giovanni SAO IRAC Imaging of the Unique, Face-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 309 Fazio, Giovanni SAO T Dwarf Explorer Fazio, Giovanni SAO Searching for Companions to a New Member of the 5 pc Sample Fazio, Giovanni SAO Dissecting the Star Formation Within Late-Type Galaxies Fazio, Giovanni SAO Star Formation in Early-type Spirals Fazio, Giovanni SAO MIPS 24 micron photometry of high-redshift 4C radio sources Fazio, Giovanni SAO W5 Map Extension Fazio, Giovanni SAO Subarray observations of bright young stars Fazio, Giovanni SAO Deep imaging of rich clusters in W5 Fazio, Giovanni SAO IRS Observation of IR luminous LBGs Fazio, Giovanni SAO Study AGN and Galaxy Environment and Evolution Since z=1: IRAC imaging of the DEEP2 fields Fazio, Giovanni SAO IRAC and MIPS Imaging of the Cygnus OB 2 Association Hao, Lei Cornell An IRS Survey of Infrared Sources in the IRAS and SDSS Houck, James Cornell Infrared Spectra of a Complete Bright Galaxy Sample Defined by Spitzer Houck, James Cornell The Starburst Luminosity Function at High Redshift Houck, James Cornell Abundance gradients in NGC 6052 Houck, James Cornell Dust properties in the extremely metal-poor BCD: IZw18 - from IRS mapping Houck, James Cornell Early T Tauri Stars with the IRS Houck, James Cornell Disk structure and planet formation around young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs Houck, James Cornell Dust and Gas in Extremely Low-Metallicity Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies Houck, James Cornell IRS Mapping of Attorocks Houck, James Cornell IRS Spectra of the Highest Redshift Sources in the Bootes Field Houck, James Cornell Protoplanetary disk evolution in the Orion, Serpens and Perseus clouds Houck, James Cornell Spitzer/IRS View of Very Metal-pool Mergers Houck, James Cornell Characterizing Warm Debris Around Main Sequence Stars Lebouteiller, Vianney Cornell Dense and diffuse H2 in star-forming galaxies Leggett, Sandy Gemini IRS Observations of Two Very Low Mass T Dwarfs Mainzer, Amanda JPL High-resolution Spectroscopy of Bright L and T Dwarfs Rieke, George Arizona Mid-Infrared Variability of AGN Rieke, George Arizona Debris disks in tight binary systems Rieke, George Arizona Infrared Echoes and the Structure of the ISM Rieke, George Arizona Cold Dust in Isolated Dwarf Galaxies Rieke, George Arizona Methanol Masers in the Galactic Center Rieke, George Arizona The nature of extreme IR excesses in two solar-type stars discovered by Spitzer Rieke, George Arizona The Relation Between the IR Emission and Optical Colors of Galaxies Rieke, George Arizona Accurate Effective Temperatures for M, L, and T Dwarfs Rieke, George Arizona Deep IRAC Survey of H and Chi Persei Rieke, George Arizona Deep MIPS Imaging of M101: Probing the Gas-to-Dust Ratio versus Metallicity Relationship in a Single Galaxy Rieke, George Arizona IRAC/MIPS Survey of the Rosette Nebula Rieke, George Arizona An Unusual Type of AGN: A Challenge to the Unification Model Rieke, George Arizona Debris Disk Study of the Lindroos Sample Rieke, George Arizona IRS Spectroscopy of Gravitationally Lensed z>1 Infrared-Luminous Galaxies Rieke, George Arizona Extraplanar Dust in Nearby Galaxies Rieke, George Arizona A Search for AU Mics out to 50pc Rieke, George Arizona Debris Disks around Low-Mass Stars Rieke, George Arizona The clustering and environment of ULIRGs at 0.7