Accepted proposals for Semester S02A

The Call for Proposals for Semester S02A saw 186 and 5 submitted proposals for the Normal and Intensive Programs, respectively, requesting a total of 460 nights. The available 79 nights were awarded to the following 39 proposals:

ID	PI	Proposal Title	Inst	Nts
S02A-001	Myung Gyoon Lee	Kinematic Origin of Globular Cluster Systems in Virgo Elliptical Galaxies	FOCAS	2
S02A-002	Masatoshi Imanishi	Buried AGNs in LINER-Type Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies	IRCS	2
S02A-004	Tae-Soo Pyo	Probing the Nature of Young Stellar Outflows toward rho Ophiuchi Jet Driving Sources	IRCS+AO	1.5
S02A-006	Masashi Chiba	Multi-object Spectroscopy of Stream Stars in the Galactic Halo	FOCAS	1
S02A-008	Tadashi Nakajima	Infrared Spectroscopy of Brown Dwarfs	CISCO	2
S02A-015	Takashi Murayama	How Opaque Are Dusty Tori in Type 2 Seyfert Galaxies?	IRCS	2
S02A-023	Michihiro Takami	A Search for young binaries using spectro-astrometry	IRCS	2
S02A-030	Jochen Greiner	Identifying the first supersoft X-ray source(s) in M31	FOCAS	1
S02A-034	Shuji Deguchi	COMICS Observations of Maser Stars with no IRAS or MSX association	COMICS	1
S02A-045	Takashi Hamana	New Constraints on Lambda from Observations of Lensing Galaxies	FOCAS	2
S02A-046	Koji Sugitani	Infrared study of protoplanetary disks in the nearest star-forming region	IRCS	1.5
S02A-051	Nobuo Arimoto	Stellar Abundance Pattern of Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy	HDS	3
S02A-052	Kazuhiro Shimasaku	Follow-up imaging of a large-scale distribution of Ly-alpha emitters at z=4.86	Suprime-Cam	2
S02A-053	Nobuo Arimoto	Spectroscopic Age Determination of Elliptical Galaxies in Virgo Cluster	FOCAS	2
S02A-056	Ryoko Ishioka	Velocity-field mapping of dwarf-nova accretion disks	FOCAS	1
S02A-080	Toru Yamada	A Photometric Search for Extrasolar Planets by the Transit Method	Suprime-Cam	2
S02A-081	Chris Simpson	The reddening and gas-to-dust ratios in high-redshift hard X-ray quasars	OHS	2
S02A-082	Chris Simpson	Uncovering the Hidden Star Formation History of the Universe	OHS	3
S02A-085	Yoichi Itoh	Thermal History during Formation Process of Planetesimals	IRCS	1
S02A-098	Ikuru Iwata	NIR Spectroscopy of H-alpha emitters at z~1.5	OHS	2
S02A-109	Tsuko Nakamura	Spin and Shape Distributions for Sub-km Main Belt Asteroids	Suprime-Cam	2
S02A-110	Wako Aoki	Isotope ratios of Eu and Pb in s-process-rich, very metal-poor stars	HDS	3
S02A-112	Takahiro Fujii	Chemical composition study of post-AGB stars in globular clusters with HDS	HDS	1
S02A-113	Yuhri Ishimaru	The origin of r-process nuclei	HDS	2
S02A-115	Nobunari Kashikawa	Deep Spectroscopy of an Unusually Red Galaxy Discovered in the Subaru Deep Field	OHS	2
S02A-122	Tomoki Hayashino	Search for Large Scale Structures at Redshift 3	Suprime-Cam	2
S02A-127	Tadayuki Kodama	The Transformation of Galaxies from Field to Cluster	Suprime-Cam	1
S02A-128	Masataka Fukugita	The Mass Assembly History of Field Galaxies	CISCO	2
S02A-136	Daisuke Kinoshita	Search for Cold Disk beyond 50 AU from the Sun	Suprime-Cam	3
S02A-146	Arthur Wolfe	BVRiz' imaging of fields around z~4 Damped Lyman alpha Absorbers	Suprime-Cam	1
S02A-148	Wei Zheng	A Search for Quasars at Redshift 6-7	FOCAS	2
S02A-157	Ryosuke Nakamura	Search for ethane and complex hydrocarbons on Pluto	IRCS	2
S02A-168	Nobuo Arimoto	The Evolution of Disk Galaxies in Clusters	FOCAS	2
S02A-170	Misato Fukagawa	Direct Coronagraphic Imaging of Disks around Herbig Ae/Be stars	CIAO+AO	2
S02A-174	Mamoru Doi	Cosmology with High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae	FOCAS	3
S02A-177	Takeshi Oka	Observation of H3+ toward the Galactic Center and in Translucent Couds	IRCS	1
S02A-179	Naoto Kobayashi	A Systematic Study of High-z DLA Evolution with Fe II/Mg II Absorption Lines	IRCS	2

Also during Semester S02A, three nights are reserved for a Target Of Opportunity observation program (PI A.Yoshida). The Director will determine when it is to be conducted. Any loss of time suffered by general Open Use proposals will be compensated in subsequent semesters.

Intensive Programs

ID	PI	Proposal Title	Inst	Nts
S02A-IP-1	Yuzuru Yoshii	Subaru Super Deep Field using Adaptive Optics	IRCS+AO	10
S02A-IP-2	Yoshiaki Taniguchi	A Very Deep Search for Lyman-alpha Emitters at z=5.7 and 6.6	Suprime-Cam	5