THE UNITED KINGDOM INFRARED TELESCOPE
ANNUAL REPORT
2001-2002

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 2.1, 2.1, 2.0 and 1.6 in semesters 01A, 01B, 02A and 02B, respectively. 02A was affected by the delayed delivery of UIST (see Chapter 4.2.) and was shortened by 15 nights; 02B was lengthened by 15 nights. The subscription figure for 02A represents the original requests for time and number of science nights available, i.e. as if UIST had been available.

The tables below show successful proposals grouped by instrument and science. The tables include proposals from the PATT, University of Hawaii and, for semester 02B, the Japanese communities; where a proposal requested more than one instrument these have been given equal weight in the first table. For semester 02A these numbers refer to the actual use of the telescope time, i.e. without the availability of UIST.

The following pages list the titles of, and principal investigators for, successful applications in each semester. Note that although only the principal investigator is given, in nearly every case the projects are collaborative efforts. For semester 02A the projects include only those able to use the telescope without UIST. Starting in 02B, 10 nights of telescope time per semester is awarded to the Japanese astronomical community in exchange for the Japanese contributions to WFCAM (see Chapter 5). The University of Hawaii continue to receive 15% of UKIRT time as part of the agreement of use for the Mauna Kea site.

Adamson	Dust components and their distribution in the Galactic Centre
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Best	Properties of host galaxies of distant radio sources
Institute for Astronomy Edinburgh
Best	The luminosity function and environments of mJy radio sources
Institute for Astronomy Edinburgh
Bryce	Searching for binary central stars in planetary nebulae
University of Manchester
Casali	Surface temperature distributions on T Tauris and YSOs
UK ATC Edinburgh
Charles	The microquasar GRS1915+105: high- or low-mass binary?
University of Southampton
Chaty	IR observations of the soft x-ray transient XTE J1118+480
The Open University Milton Keynes
Chrysostomou	Wavelength dependence of circular polarisation in young stars
University of Hertfordshire
Clark	G25.5+10.2: a more extreme twin of Eta Carinae?
University of Sussex
Crawford	Spectroscopy of hard x-ray background sources from Chandra
Institute for Astronomy Cambridge
Clayton	HeI 10830 in R Coronae Borealis stars
Louisiana State University
Currie	Structural analysis of ordinary and dwarf ellipticals
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Davies	Optical-IR colours of distant asteroids
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Davis	Gas excitation as an evolutionary tracer in proto-PN
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Eales	The sub-millimetre survey and elliptical galaxies
Cardiff University
Edge	Emission line imaging of central cluster galaxies in cooling flows
University of Durham
Edge	H2 emission in distant cooling flows
University of Durham
Evans	ToO observations of novae
University of Keele
Farrah	What powers hyperluminous infrared galaxies ?
Imperial College London
Fassia	Very late-time spectroscopy and photometry of SN1998S
Imperial College London
Fuller	Mid-IR imaging of candidate high-mass protostellar objects
UMIST Manchester
Gledhill	Envelopes around stars in the protoplanetary nebula phase
University of Hertfordshire
Green	Physical properties of the MUSES-C target asteroid 1998 SF36
The Open University Milton Keynes
Harris	Nature and origin of near-Earth asteroids
German Aerospace Center
Hawarden	H2 kinematics in molecular hydrogen emission galaxies
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Hughes	Gas, dust and stars at the centre of spiral galaxies
University of Hertfordshire
Hunt	Extremely metal-deficient blue compact dwarf galaxies
CAISMI-CNR Italy
Jones	Galaxy evolution in a high x-ray luminosity cluster at z=0.89
University of Birmingham
Kotilainen	Brγ imaging of circumnuclear star formation in galaxies
University of Turku Finland
Longmore	The lowest mass brown dwarfs and the limits of fragmentation
UK ATC Edinburgh
Lumsden	Disks around embedded massive YSOs
University of Leeds
Maxted	Cool companions to subdwarf B stars
University of Southampton
McCall	H3+ in classical diffuse clouds
University of Chicago
Mobasher	Evolution of dwarf galaxies in different environments
Space Telescope Science Institute
O'Brien	Atomic and molecular line diagnostics in ULIRGs
University of Leicester
Page	XMM-Newton selected EROs - AGN/starburst or clusters?
MSSL University College London
Pak	Molecular clouds in irregular galaxies
Seoul National University
Ramsay Howat	Excitation conditions in galactic HII regions
UK ATC Edinburgh
Rawlings	Interstellar ices towards early-type Stephenson stars
University of Helsinki Finland
Rawlings	Stellar properties of high-redshift radio galaxies
University of Oxford
Shahbaz	The short-term variability in soft x-ray transients
IAC Canaries
Shahbaz	Probing magnetic accretion in SW Sex-type cataclysmic variables
IAC Canaries
Smail	Testing the photometric classification of the ERO population
University of Durham
Tanvir	Follow-up imaging of GRB error boxes
University of Hertfordshire
Varricatt	Spectroscopic studies of the colliding wind binary WR140
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Varricatt	Spectral classification of Wolf Rayet stars
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Yuan	Are BAL QSOs extreme accretors? Spectroscopy of the Hβ region
University of Texas at Austin
University of Hawaii
Bendo	Star formation in a representative sample of spiral galaxes
Fernandez	Surface properties of near-Earth asteroids
Fernandez	Physical properties of Jovian Trojan asteroids
Jewitt	Spectral diversity in the Kuiper belt
Martín	Spectroscopic identification of nearby brown dwarfs
Miller	Infrared observations of the Uranian upper atmosphere
Rothberg	Spectrophotometric study of merger remnants
Tholen	Search for near-Earth asteroids at small solar elongations
Thornton	Extended emission around high-redshift radio galaxies

Blundell	The first z>4 radio quasars from 4-m wavelength imaging
University of Oxford
Bary	Spectroscopic survey of classical and weak-lined T Tauris
Vanderbilt University TN
Bowey	A 10µm survey of silicate properties
University College London
Chapman	Counterparts to sub-mm and radio sources in a z=3 protocluster
Carnegie Observatories CA
Chiar	Solid ammonia and methanol in the Taurus dark cloud
NASA-Ames Research Center
Davies	Albedo and diameter determinations for Centaur objects
UK ATC Edinburgh
Davies	Does the Centaur population have a bimodal distribution?
UK ATC Edinburgh
Davis	Probing the central engine of class I protostars
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Dhillon	A test of the common-envelope theory of binary star evolution
University of Sheffield
Eales	The sub-millimetre survey and elliptical galaxies
Cardiff University
Edge	H2 emission in distant cooling flows
University of Durham
Fassia	Very late-time spectroscopy and photometry of SN1998S
Imperial College London
Glasse	Mid-IR polarimetry and the mineralogy of cosmic dust
UK ATC Edinburgh
Gledhill	Do magnetic fields shape planetary nebulae?
University of Hertfordshire
Howell	Cool low-mass companions to hot white dwarfs
Planetary Science Institute AZ
Howell	Brown dwarf-like secondary stars in short-period CVs
Planetary Science Institute AZ
Hunt	Extremely metal-deficient blue compact dwarf galaxies
CAISMI-CNR Italy
Jones	Metallicities for low-mass dwarfs
Liverpool John Moores University
Knapp	Followup of SDSS sources: quantifying the T dwarf population
Princeton University
Kuhn	The rest frame near-IR continua of z>3 quasars
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Leggett	L' and M' photometry of late-L and T dwarfs
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Levine	Low mass binaries in young clusters: brown dwarf companions?
University of Florida
Lira	The nature of Seyfert 2 galaxies from MICHELLE spectroscopy
University of Leicester
Lumsden	The true luminosity of the central engine in Seyfert 2s
University of Leeds
Lumsden	The first complete survey for massive YSOs in our galaxy
University of Leeds
McCall	H3+ and CO in high AV diffuse clouds
University of Chicago
McKean	The cosmological constant from gravitational lens statistics
University of Manchester
McLure	The evolutionary connection between ULIRGs and QSOs
University of Oxford
Moustakas	The nature and origin of clusters of EROs
University of Oxford
O'Brien	Using [SiVI] to measure the intrinsic luminosity of type-2 AGN
University of Leicester
Pak	The nature of Sgr A East
Seoul National University
Pinfield	The minimum mass of brown dwarfs
Liverpool John Moores University
Pinfield	The effects of low gravity on dusty atmospheres
Liverpool John Moores University
Ramsay Howat	Are warm debris disks filled with H2?
UK ATC Edinburgh
Ramsay Howat	Mapping the temperature of the Orion bar PDR
UK ATC Edinburgh
Rawlings	A search for the signature of H2 formation in dark clouds
University College London
Rawlings	Stellar properties of high-redshift radio galaxies
University of Oxford
Ruiz	Testing dusty torus models of AGN
University of Hertfordshire
Seigar	Spiral arm structure and rotation curve type
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Smail	Morphologies for distant ULIRGs: bridging IRAS and SCUBA?
University of Durham
Smith	Resolving bow shocks in protostellar outflows
Armagh Observatory
Smith	Lensed EROs - breaking the elliptical/starburst degeneracy
University of Durham
Snellen	Dust and the emission line properties of radio loud AGN
Institute for Astronomy Edinburgh
Varricatt	Spectroscopic search for companions to dust-forming WC stars
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Viti	High resolution H2O spectra of low-mass stars using MICHELLE
University College London
Wright	Spectropolarimetry of dust in the nucleus of NGC1068
UK ATC Edinburgh
Yuan	Are BAL QSOs extreme accretors?
University of Texas at Austin
Zezas	Near-IR imaging of ultrahard x-ray sources
CfA Harvard
University of Hawaii
Chambers	Radio source hosts at high redshifts
Dahm	Very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in σ Orionis
Fernandez	Albedos of near-Earth asteroids and extinct comet candidates
Fernandez	Counterparts to new intermediate-luminosity x-ray sources
Kuhn	Polarimetric circumstellar disk studies: HD 169142
Magnier	Substellar objects in Taurus: Brγ detection
Tokunaga	Young brown dwarfs and superplanets in IC 348

Adamson	Dust components in the Galactic Centre
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Beckford	Near-IR imaging polarimetry of ρ Oph & Serpens
University of Hertfordshire
Best	The luminosity function and environments of mJy radio sources
Institute for Astronomy Edinburgh
Bowey	A 10µm survey of silicate properties in the diffuse ISM
University College London
Bowey	Magnetic field geometry of evolved stellar dust shells
University College London
Buckle	Probing hot core gas in massive YSOs
UMIST Manchester
Buckle	Origins of molecular H2 emission towards T Tauri
UMIST Manchester
Chaty	Black hole x-ray transients during outburst
The Open University Milton Keynes
Chiar	Solid Ammonia and Methanol toward the Galactic Centre
NASA-Ames Research Center
Chrysostomou	Tracing the magnetic field structure of W51A
University of Hertfordshire
Clemens	A MICHELLE study of PAH features in starbursts and AGN
University of Cambridge
Crawford	Highly absorbed quasars in the Chandra fields of clusters
Institute for Astronomy Cambridge
Davies	Albedo and diameter determination of 5 Centaur objects
UK ATC Edinburgh
Davies	Optical-IR colours of distant Asteroids
UK ATC Edinburgh
Davis	HH objects and their interaction with the ISM
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Davis	The PMS population and outflow sources in Serpens
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Eyres	The continuing development of V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's object)
University of Central Lancashire
Gunn	High spatial resolution imaging of Chandra x-ray galaxies
University of Southampton
Hirst	Quasars - dust, evolution and the radio loud/quiet dichotomy
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Israel	The structure of Hubble V and X
Leiden Observatory
Jones	Galaxy evolution in an x-ray luminous relaxed cluster at z=1
University of Birmingham
Knapp	T dwarf spectroscopy
Princeton University
Kumar	Probing the dark cores of compact star-forming clusters
Observatorio Nacional Madrid
Leggett	L' and M' photometry of late L and T dwarfs
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Leggett	10µm photometry of T dwarfs
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Lumsden	The mid-IR emission in Seyferts and the luminosity of the AGN
University of Leeds
Mason	Spectroscopy of interstellar dust at 7-9µm
Institute for Astronomy Edinburgh
McMahon	The molecular mass content of z~2 quasar host galaxies
Institute for Astronomy Cambridge
Meikle	The physics of nearby Type Ia supernovae
Imperial College London
Misawa	Imaging for the counterparts of QSO metal absorption lines
University of Tokyo
Mobasher	Mid-IR observations of a sample of star-forming galaxies
Space Telescope Science Institute
Neuhaeuser	Search for wide companions in radial-velocity planet host stars
Max Planck Institute Garching
Ramsay Howat	Do massive stars produce collimated outflows?
UK ATC Edinburgh
Ramsay	Excitation conditions in galactic HII regions
UK ATC Edinburgh
Roche	The magnetic field structure around the Galactic Centre
University of Oxford
Sarre	The 7.7, 8.6 and 11.3 µm UIR bands in the Red Rectangle
University of Nottingham
Seigar	Spiral arm structure and the link with rotation curve type
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Serjeant	A mid-IR imaging survey of hyperluminous galaxies
University of Kent
Smail	Morphologies for ULIRGs: A bridge between IRAS and SCUBA?
University of Durham
Steele	Outer disk structure in Be stars
Liverpool John Moores University
Tanvir	Rapid follow-up of GRB afterglows
University of Hertfordshire
Varricatt	Search for binary companions of dust-forming WC stars
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Willott	The redshift distribution and nature of red Chandra sources
University of Oxford
Wills	Black hole accretion & outflows at z=1-2
University of Texas at Austin
Wright	Mid-IR spectroscopy of the obscuring dust in AGN
UK ATC Edinburgh
Wyatt	Evolution of debris disks around main sequence stars
UK ATC Edinburgh
University of Hawaii
Chambers	HzRG morphologies, companions, clusters and filaments
Fernandez	Albedos of near-Earth asteroids and extinct comet candidates
Martín	Brown dwarf meteorology
Reipurth	Star formation in the North America/Pelican Nebulae
Sanders	Characterization of the extragalactic FIR background population
Sheppard	Physical observations of objects dynamically linked to Jupiter
Tholen	Origin of color diversity among trans-Neptunian objects

Balogh	IR properties of post-starburst galaxies in the SDSS
University of Durham
Barbosa	Massive YSOs in W31
University of Sao Paulo Brasil
Bergeron	An independent temperature scale for ZZ Ceti stars
University of Montreal
Bowey	The emissivity of silicate dust in HII regions
University College London
Bowey	Silicate properties in the Taurus molecular cloud
University College London
Brocksopp	Trigger and outburst mechanisms of x-ray transients
Liverpool John Moores University
Bunker	Star formation at z=3.4 in damped Lyα systems
Institute for Astronomy Cambridge
Clemens	Mid-IR PAH features in starbursts and AGN
University of Cambridge
Davies	Albedo and diameter determination for Centaur objects
ATC Edinburgh
Davies	Physical and thermal properties of near-Earth objects
ATC Edinburgh
Edge	The brightest cluster galaxies in the most massive clusters
University of Durham
Evans	The amazing V838 Mon
University of Keele
Eyres	The continuing development of V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's object)
University of Central Lancashire
Fuller	Mid-IR observations of young protostars in the Perseus cloud
UMIST Manchester
Geballe	The abundance of H3+ in the diffuse ISM
Gemini Observatory Hawaii
Glasse	Mid-IR polarimetry and the mineralogy of cosmic dust
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Gledhill	Do magnetic fields shape Planetary Nebulae?
University of Hertfordshire
Harries	Time-series Paschenβ spectroscopy of SU Aurigae
University of Exeter
Hoare	The young HII region population in M33
University of Leeds
Hodgkin	Limits on the shape of the Pleiades mass function
Institute for Astronomy Cambridge
Ivison	The proto-cluster environment of APM08279+5255
UK ATC Edinburgh
Jameson	Ultra-low-mass substellar members of the Taurus SFR
University of Leicester
Jameson	An IR spectral sequence for Pleiades brown dwarfs
University of Leicester
Leggett	L and T dwarf spectroscopy
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Leggett	M' photometry of late-L and T dwarfs
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Lumsden	Near-IR spectroscopy of YSO candidates
University of Leeds
Lumsden	The young massive star population of the Milky Way
University of Leeds
McLure	The black hole-bulge mass relation in narrow-line Seyferts
University of Oxford
McMahon	Understanding the origin of the x-ray background
Institute for Astronomy Cambridge
Meikle	The physics of nearby Type Ia supernovae
Imperial College London
Neuhauser	Search for wide companions in radial-velocity planet host stars
Max Planck Institute Garching
Oliveira	Young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs near σ Orionis
University of Keele
Ramsay Howat	Where is the warm H2 in disks?
ATC Edinburgh
Rawlings	Stellar properties of typical high-redshift radio galaxies
University of Oxford
Sarre	The 7.7, 8.6 and 11.3 µm UIR bands in the Red Rectangle
University of Nottingham
Seigar	The nuclei of giant elliptical galaxies in the local universe
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Shahbaz	The short-term variability in soft x-ray transients
IAC Canaries
Shahbaz	A search for Thorne-Zytkow objects
IAC Canaries
Smail	2-D dynamics and emission-line maps of SCUBA galaxies
University of Durham
Tanvir	Rapid follow-up of GRB afterglows
University of Hertfordshire
Viti	High-resolution H2O spectra of low mass stars using MICHELLE
University College London
Ward	The nature of Seyfert 2 galaxies with mid-IR spectroscopy
University of Leicester
Ward	Imaging of ultraluminous x-ray sources in galaxies
University of Leicester
Whittett	Ice mantle growth and extinction in the Taurus dark cloud
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
Willott	The extinction law of dust in quasars
University of Oxford
Wills	Black hole accretion & outflows at z=1-2
University of Texas at Austin
Wyatt	Search for a new class of tepid debris disk
UK ATC Edinburgh
Zijlstra	O-rich dust in C-rich PNe: clues to the evolution of AGB stars
UMIST Manchester
University of Hawaii
Bresolin	WR populations in luminous, metal-rich starburst galaxies
Chambers	High-z radio sources and their companions
Fernandez	Albedos of near-Earth asteroids and extinct comet candidates
Joseph	Mid-IR spectroscopy of luminous infrared galaxies
Magnier	Classification of objects near the substellar limit in Taurus
Sheppard	Physical observations of objects dynamically linked to Jupiter
Stockton	A search for old galaxies in the fields of z~2 radio sources
Tholen	Pluto's atmosphere, 14 years later
Japan
Fukagawa	Imaging polarimetry of envelopes around Herbig AeBe stars
Ishii	JH-band spectroscopy of luminous YSOs
Itoh	Search for roaster extra-solar planets by a new method
Misawa	Imaging for the counterparts of QSO metal absorption lines
Murakawa	Dust evolution by molecular cloud to the envelopes of YSOs
Okamoto	Ionization status of ultracompact HII regions
Sako	A search for warm H2 from circumstellar disks of T Tauri stars
Sugai	Fabry-Perot imaging of a merging galaxy VV 114
Takata	Near-IR imaging of optically faint or blank hard x-ray sources