THE UNITED KINGDOM INFRARED TELESCOPE
ANNUAL REPORT
1998

Appendix B: Time Allocations

UKIRT PATT time continued to be oversubscribed. The ratio of the total number of nights requested to the number of nights allocated was 3.7 in 98A and 2.3 in 98B. The reduction in the number of nights requested in 98B was an anomaly, as the oversubscription factor increased the following year. The drop may have been due to a request from the Time Allocation Group for research groups not to submit multiple proposals, or, as other facilities experienced a similar decrease, it may have reflected the high productivity of the el Niño winter of 97B.

In the following list of successful applications only the principal investigator is given, although in nearly every case the projects are collaborative efforts. The grouping by instrument and scientific category of the telescope time awarded was as follows. Where a proposal requested more than one instrument these have been given equal weight in the first table.

Awards 1998A

Aragon-Salamanca	Star formation history of cluster spirals
IoA Cambridge
Barlow	SiC enrichment rate by extreme carbon stars
Univ College London
Bowen	Galaxies responsible for QSO absorption lines
ROE
Chiar	Origin, evolution and distribution of galactic hydrocarbons
NASA ARC
Chiar	Radiative processing in interstellar ices
NASA ARC
Chrysostomou	L-band circular polarimetry of OMC-1
JAC Hawaii
Crowther	The Galactic Center helium emission line sources
Univ College London
Davies	Optical-IR colours of distant planetesimals
JAC Hawaii
Efstathiou	AGN with polarized broad emission lines
Imperial College London
Ellis	Evolutionary history of field elliptical galaxies
IoA Cambridge
Elston	Star formation in z2.5 damped lyman-alpha galaxies
Univ of Florida
Evans	How many dusty stars in a globular cluster?
Univ of Keele
Eyres	Sakurai's object: IR spectroscopy
Univ of Keele
Geballe	Brown dwarf masses, chemical abundances and dust
JAC Hawaii
Haniff	Asymmetry in PN progenitor stars
MRAO Cambridge
Harris	Thermal studies of near-Earth asteroids
DLR IofPE Berlin
Haswell	Soft X-ray transients during outburst
Univ of Sussex
Hodgkin	The companion(s) to Lalande 21185
Univ of Leicester
Jensen	Disk inclinations in young binary systems
Arizona State Univ
Keenan	Abundance gradient in the inner Galaxy from B stars
Queens Univ Belfast
Lucas	Imaging polarimetry of the cores of YSOs
Univ of Oxford
Lumsden	Near-IR extinction law
AAO Australia
McHardy	Imaging of BL Lac host galaxies
Univ of Southampton
Miller	The luminosities of the host galaxies of QSOs
Univ of Oxford
Moore	20micron polarimetry and the magnetic field in bipolar outflows
Liverpool John Moores Univ
Morris	Spectral line imaging of nearby Seyferts
DAO Canada
Noll	Uranus' missing 5 micron flux
STScI
Noll	A search for methane in candidate brown dwarfs
STScI
Pettini	Mass, reddening and O2 abundance of z>3 galaxies
RGO
Puchnarewicz	Balmer line parameters of high redshift quasars
MSSL
Puxley	Molecular hydrogen excitation in dwarf galaxies
Gemini Tucson
Puxley	The stellar mass function in starburst galaxies
Gemini Tucson
Robinson	H-alpha profile shapes in high-luminosity quasars
Univ of Hertfordshire
Simpson	The obscuring tori of Seyfert galaxies
JPL
Smail	Luminous sub-mm galaxies found in a SCUBA survey
Univ of Durham
Smail	Optical luminosities of distant SCUBA galaxies
Univ of Durham
Snow	Depletion of CO: ice-phase observations
Univ of Colorado
Strauss	Ultraluminous IRAS galaxies: hidden broad lines
Princeton Univ
Sugai	Interacting galaxies and mergers: emission line imaging
Kyoto Univ
Sylvester	The hot dust around Vega-excess systems
Univ College London
Sylvester	Carbonaceous dust around oxygen-rich stars
Univ College London
Tanvir	Rapid IR imaging of GRB error boxes
IoA Cambridge
Whittet	Ices in molecular clouds towards the Galactic Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Young	The unified theory of type 1 and 2 active galaxies
Univ of Hertfordshire
1998A University of Hawaii
Cowie	The evolution of galaxy formation
Hodapp	Rotational velocity and magnetic fields in Class I IR sources
Hu	IR Spectroscopy of z>3 galaxies
Sanders	ULIG's in the IRAS 1Jy sample
Tholen	Properties of trans-Neptunian Objects
Whiteley	Spectroscopy of small Earth-approaching asteroids

Awards 1998B

Barthel	Outflow geometry in BAL QSOs
Kapteyn Astr. Inst.
Best	cD haloes at redshift one
Sterrewacht Leiden
Bowen	Galaxies responsible for QSO absorption lines
ROE
Ciardi	Temperatures and mass distribution in ultra-short period CVs
Univ of Wyoming
Clark	Circular polarimetry of YSO envelopes in Taurus
Univ of Hertfordshire
Coter	Close-separation quasar pairs
Univ of Cambridge
Cropper	RXJ1914.4+2456: the shortest period binary?
MSSL London
Davis	Near-IR line emission from embedded protostars
JAC Hawaii
Davies	Optical-IR colours of distant planetesimals
JAC Hawaii
Dhillon	Magnetic field of the secondary in cataclysmic variables
Univ of Sheffield
Emerson	Magnetic fields on T Tauri stars
QMW College London
Emerson	Veiling continuum of classical T Tauri stars
QMW College London
Emerson	Veiling T Tauri stars: Paschen-beta time series
QMW College London
Eyres	Sakurai's Object
Univ of Keele
Forbes	K-band imaging of Hickson Compact Group Ellipticals
Univ of Birmingham
Fuller	Search for methaine in protoplanetary disk systems
UMIST
Geballe	H3+ in new environments
JAC Hawaii
Harris	Sizes and physical nature of near-Earth asteroids
DLR Iof PE Berlin
Hatchell	CO cooling in shocks
UMIST
Jaffe	A lensed high-z hyperluminous dusty object
Leiden Observatory
Jameson	The luminosity and mass functions in the Pleiades and Praesepe clusters
Univ of Leicester
Jameson	Brown dwarfs in the Pleiades
Univ of Leicester
Kotilainen	Circumnuclear star formation in northern Seyferts
Tuorla Observatory
Law-Green	Imaging & spectroscopy of narrow-line Seyfert 1's
Univ of Leicester
Leggett	White dwarfs and the age of the Disk
JAC Hawaii
Lucas	How low can the IMF go?
Univ of Oxford
Meikle	Supernova 1998S in its nebular phase
Imperial College London
Meikle	Ejected 56Ni mass from type Ia SN 1998bu
Imperial College London
Mobasher	The luminosity function of galaxies in z0.2 clusters
Imperial College London
Nagata	Origin of the 3.4 micron absorption in YSOs
Nagoya Univ
Nakajima	Brown dwarf candidates in the Pleiades
NAO Japan
Pooley	Synchrotron emission from Black Hole X-ray binaries
MRAO Cambridge
Rawlings	Do black-hole masses in quasars correlate with luminosity?
Univ of Oxford
Reid	1-4 microns spectroscopy of 2MASS brown dwarfs
Caltech
Rivkin	High resolution 3 micron spectra of hydrated asteroids
Univ of Arizona
Roche	Spectroscopic detection of brown dwarfs and planets
Univ of Oxford
Smail	Luminous sub-mm galaxies found in SCUBA fields
Univ of Durham
Snow	Depletion of CO: ice-phase observations
Univ of Colorado
Tanvir	Rapid IR imaging of GRB error boxes
IofA Cambridge
Thuan	Low-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxies
Univ of Virginia
Trentham	K-band imaging of the MG2016+112 lensing cluster
IoA Cambridge
Ward	X-ray luminous starburst galaxies
Univ of Leicester
Yates	The role of dust in mass-loss from red giants
Univ of Hertfordshire
Young	Polarimetry of Seyferts with emission line cones
Univ of Hertfordshire
1998B University of Hawaii
Chambers	Dust in high redshift galaxies
Close	Thermal imaging of a protoplanet
Hodapp	Properties of young stars
Kobayashi	Beyond the optical disk of our Galaxy
Tholen	Properties of trans-Neptunian Objects
Owen	Titan, satellites of Saturn, Iapetus & asteroids
Vacca	Blue compact dwarf galaxies
Vacca	The massive X-ray binary Cyg X-3