THE UNITED KINGDOM INFRARED TELESCOPE
ANNUAL REPORT 2003-2004

Appendix B: Time Allocations

Semesters 03A and 03B were normal-length semesters, except that semester 03A ended a month early for realuminisation of the primary. CGS4, UFTI and UIST were available. Due to changes in the WFCAM delivery schedule (see Chapter 4), semesters 04A and 04B merged into one semester which ran from January 16th to September 26th 2004, at which point UKIRT was closed for WFCAM commissioning. Between February and April 2004 Michelle was offered; CGS4 was only available when Michelle was not, as they share the same port. Between January and March 2004 UIST was not available due to a cryogenic problem followed by planned engineering (see Section 3.4). A call for UFTI backup proposals was issued at that time.

UKIRT PATT time continued to be oversubscribed by about a factor of two. The ratio of the total number of nights requested to the number of nights allocated ranged between 1.7 and 2.3.

Figure 12: UKIRT PATT time oversubscription factor.

The tables below show successful PATT proposals grouped by instrument and science; where a proposal requested more than one instrument these have been given equal weight in the first table.

We list below 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. Up to ten nights of telescope time per semester is awarded to the Japanese astronomical community in exchange for the Japanese contributions to WFCAM. The University of Hawaii continues to receive 15% of UKIRT time as part of the agreement of use for the Mauna Kea site.

Balogh	Infrared Properties of Post-Starburst SDSS Galaxies
University of Durham
Barlow	Detection of Main Sequence Dust Debris Disks
University College London
Brocksop	Trigger and Outburst Mechanisms of X-Ray Transients
Liverpool John Moores
Burleigh	Cool, Low Mass Companions to Hot White Dwarfs
University of Leicester
Chrysostomou	A Polarimetric Survey of the Orion Nebula
University of Hertfordshire
Clayton	Winds in R Coronae Borealis Stars
Louisiana State University
Crawford	Serendipitous Type II Quasars from Chandra
University of Cambridge
Davies	What are Little Asteroids Made Of?
UK ATC Edinburgh
Davis	Accretion and Outflow from Very-Low-Mass YSOs and Proto-Brown-Dwarfs
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Dunlop	Deep K-band Imaging of the Most Massive Galaxies at z~2
Edinburgh University
Edge	Mapping the Hot Molecular Hydrogen in Cooling Flow Cores
University of Durham
Eyres	IR Spectroscopic Monitoring of V4334 Sgr
University of Central Lancashire
Gledhill	Circumstellar Envelopes around Proto-Planetary Nebula Stars
University of Hertfordshire
Gunn	The Nature of Absorption Line Galaxies in X-Ray Surveys
University of Southampton
Hawarden	Spectra of Candidate Molecular Hydrogen Emission Galaxies
UK ATC Edinburgh
James	A Survey of Nuclear Activity in Nearby Late-Type Galaxies
Liverpool John Moores
Jameson	Candidate Low Mass Stellar and Substellar Members of Mel 111
University of Leicester
Jeffries	Disc Retention Timescales in High Mass Star Forming Regions
Keele University
Kewley	An L'-Band Survey of Normal Galaxies
Harvard University
Kuhn	Optical/UV Continua of z>3 Quasars
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Leggett	M' Photometry of L and T Dwarfs
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Little	The Temperature of Neutral Carbon in Molecular Clouds
University of Kent
Littlefair	The Existence of a Population of Young, Metal-Rich CVs
University of Exeter
Lumsden	Near Infrared Spectroscopy of Massive YSO Candidates
University of Leeds
Mobasher	Pα Nebular Emission as a New Star-Formation Diagnostic
Space Telescope Science Institute
Mundell	The Mysterious HI cloud in NGC 3227/6
Liverpool John Moores
O'Brien	Unvealing the Nature of ULIRGs with IFU Observations
University of Leicester
Pak	The Interaction of Sgr A East with Giant Molecular Clouds
Seoul National University
Pinfield	An Intermediate Age Population of Very Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs
Liverpool John Moores
Roueff	Search for H2D+ and D2H+ in Dark Clouds
Observatory Paris Meudon
Seigar	IFU Spectroscopy of Nearby HST Spiral Galaxy Nuclei
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Serjeant	Optical/IR Emission Lines in Bright ISO Quasars
University of Kent
Smail	Restframe Optical Emission-Line Maps of High-z SCUBA Galaxies
University of Durham
Tanvir	Rapid Infrared Follow-Up of GRB Afterglows
University of Hertfordshire
Varricatt	A Near IR Search for Jets and Outflows from High Mass Protostars
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
University of Hawaii
Bresolin	Wolf-Rayet Populations in Starbursts
Joseph	IFU Spectroscopy of Merging Galaxies
Martin	Substellar Objects Around Solar-Type Stars
McGrath	Search for High-z Radio Galaxies
Sanders	MAMBO 1.2mm Deep Fields - Redshifts
Japan
Akiyama	Broad Balmer Lines in Absorbed QSOs
Fukagawa	Inner-Protoplanetary Disks around Herbig Ae Stars
Goto	Morphology of Passive Spiral Galaxies
Hasegawa	The 3µm Absorption Band on Large Asteroids
Ishii	Spectral Classification of Luminous YSOs
Tamura	Color Gradients in Cluster Ellipticals

Adamson	Nature and Extinction Properties of the Quintuplet
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Bailey	Near IR Spectral Mapping of Mars
Anglo-Australian Observatory
Buckle	Tracing the Infalling Regions in Protostellar Disks
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Casali	The Scale and Evolution of Magnetic Activity on Young Stars
UK ATC Edinburgh
Chiar	Organic Refractory Mantles or Small Grain Population
NASA Ames Research Center
Clements	The Site of Power Generation in ULIRGs
Imperial College London
Edge	Mapping the Hot Molecular Hydrogen in Cooling Flow Cores
University of Durham
Evans	The Infrared Evolution of V838 Mon: What Will Happen Next?
Keele University
Geballe	H3+ and CO in high AV translucent clouds
Gemini Observatory
Inskip	The Characteristic Radii and Old Stellar Populations of z~1 Radio Galaxies
Cavendish Astrophysics Cambridge
Jackson	The Road to H0: Galaxies in the Field of CLASS B0218+357
University of Manchester
Jameson	Ultra Low Mass Substellar Members of the Taurus Star Forming Region
University of Leicester
Joblin	The Size of Interstellar PAHs Determined by the CH Stretch Overtone
CESR France
Kaufman	IFU Imaging of Multiple H2 Transitions in the Orion Outflow Bullets
San Jose State University
Leggett	IJ Spectroscopy of Late-L and T Dwarfs
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Little	The Temperature of Neutral Carbon in Molecular Clouds
University of Kent
Littlefair	Testing the Disc Instability Model of Dwarf Nova Outbursts
University of Exeter
Marsh	Carbon Deficient Cataclysmic Variables
University of Southampton
Mason	A Polarimetric Investigation of Dust in Nearby Galaxies
Edinburgh University
McLure	The Extinction Law of Dust in Quasars
Edinburgh University
Meikle	Detailed Study of the Physics of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae
Imperial College London
Oka	Metastable H3+ in the Galactic Center and Molecular Clouds
University of Chicago
Oliveira	L'-band Observations of Young Very Low-Mass Dtars Near sigma-Orionis
Keele University
Page	Dust Obscuration in Serendipitous XMM-Newton Hard-Spectrum AGN
MSSL/University College London
Patel	K,L and M Band Imaging of an Intermediate Mass Young Stellar Object
Harvard University
Nikolic	The Distribution of the 3.3µm UIB in IR-Bright Starbursts
Cavendish Astrophysics Cambridge
Rawlings	Quasars Within the Epoch of Reionization
University of Oxford
Seigar	The Mechanisms Responsible for Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
Joint astronomy Centre Hawaii
Smail	The Emission-Line Morphologies and Environments of SCUBA galaxies
University of Durham
Smail	Hα Emission-Line Maps of Distant ULIRGs
University of Durham
Stevens	Do Elliptical Galaxies Form by Hierarchical Merging at High Redshifts?
UK ATC Edinburgh
Tadhunter	The Impact of Activity on the Host Galaxies of Radio Sources
University of Sheffield
Tanvir	Rapid Infrared Follow-Up of GRB Afterglows
University of Hertfordshire
van Loon	Monitoring AGB Variables in M33
Keele University
Varricatt	A Near IR Search for Jets and Outflows from High Mass Protostars
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Ward	High Resolution Imaging of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in Galaxies
University of Leicester
Ward	Understanding AGN Broad Lines, Using the Paschen β Flux and Profile
University of Leicester
University of Hawaii
Bresolin	Hidden Clusters in the Galactic Plane
Connelley	Multiplicity of YSOs
Hodapp	The Edge-On Disk YSO ASR41
Joseph	Merging and Seyfert 2 Galxies
McGrath	The LF of mJy Radio Sources
Stockton	Formation of Early Type Galaxies at High z
Takamiya	SF History of Galaxies between z=0.6 and 0.8
Japan
Goto	Morphology of Passive Spiral Galaxies
Ishii	Spectral Classification of Luminous YSOs
Nakano	Precessing H2 Jet in Barnard 1
Ohyama	Superwind Around Powerful Radio Galaxies at z=2.4
Pyo	FeII Survey for Embedded Low Mass YSOs in TMC
Takahashi	Evolution of Asteroidal Surface

Bandyopadhyay	Orbital Parameters of GX13+1: An Evolved X-Ray Binary
University of Oxford
Banerjee	Monitoring of the Nova-Like Variable V43332 Sgr
Phys. Research Lab. Gujarat India
Bellamy	Morphology and Kinematics of Molecular Hydrogen in Cygnus A
University of Sheffield
Bower	Galaxy Formation Through the Cosmic Microscope
University of Durham
Brocksop	Trigger and Outburst Mechanisms of X-Ray Transients
MSSL/University College London
Buckle	Probing Hot Core Gas in Massive YSOs
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Buckle	Origins of Molecular H2 Emission Towards T Tauri
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Chaty	Observations of Black Hole X-Ray Transients during Outburst
CEA Cedex France
Clayton	The Highly Variable Winds in R Coronae Borealis Stars
Louisiana State University
Clements	Energy Generation in ULIRG Multiple Mergers
Imperial College London
Cotter	The Hosts of Young Radio Sources from the 9C Survey
University of Oxford
Crawford	Mapping the Molecular Gas Around NGC 1275
University of Cambridge
Davis	The Kinematics of Fast Winds and Post-AGB Envelopes in Proto-PN
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Edge	The Fundamental Plane for Luminous Elliptical Galaxies
University of Durham
Evans	IR Observations of SIRTF ToO Novae
Keele University
Eyres	The Cooling Dust of Sakurai's Object
University of Central Lancashire
Fabian	Warm Molecular Gas in the Perseus Cluster
IoA Cambridge University
Furlan	Young Stellar Objects in Ophiuchus Unveiled
Cornell University
Gledhill	Do Magnetic Fields Shape Planetary Nebulae?
University of Hertfordshire
Gunn	The Nature of Absorption Line Galaxies in X-Ray Surveys
University of Southampton
Howell	Radial Velocity and Atmospheric Study of Mass Donors in CVs
NOAO/WIYN
Howell	IFU Spectroscopy of the Environs of Iron Stars
NOAO
Hughes	Hidden Nuclear Star Formation in Nearby Spiral Galaxies
University of Hertfordshire
Huxor	Photometry of Newly Discovered M31 Halo Globular Clusters
University of Hertfordshire
Ivison	High-Resolution Imaging Spectroscopy of Luminous Lyman-Break Galaxies
UK ATC Edinburgh
Ivison	High-Resolution Imaging Spectroscopy of Luminous Lyman-Break Galaxies
UK ATC Edinburgh
Jameson	Two Planets in the Pleiades?
University of Leicester
Jarvis	AGN Feedback Processes in Massive Galaxy Formation
University of Oxford
Jarvis	Identifying the Highest Redshift Radio Galaxies
University of Oxford
Jeffery	The Helium Absorption-Line Spectrum in Early-Type Stars
Armagh Observatory
Jeffries	Disc retention Timescales for Young Suns
Keele University
Jeffries	Disc Retention Timescales for Young Suns
Keele University
Jones	Do the Brightest Cluster Galaxies Form Via Mergers in "Fossil" Groups?
University of Birmingham
Kewley	An L′-Band Survey of Normal Galaxies: Hot Dust and Star Formation
Harvard University
Knapen	Bar-induced Circumnuclear Star Formation in Galaxies
University of Hertfordshire
Kuhn	Environment and Formation Mechanisms of QSOs at Intermediate Redshift
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Kumar	Spectral Types and Evolutionary Phases of Massive Protostars
University of Portugal
Leggett	Enhancing the Early T Dwarf Population
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Leggett	Further Enhancement of the Early T Dwarf Population
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Lowe	Probing the Onset of Fast Winds Around Post-AGB stars
University of Hertfordshire
Lucas	Magnetic field structures in YSO envelopes
University of Hertfordshire
Lucas	Linear Polarimetry to Probe Atmospheric Dust in Field Brown Dwarfs
University of Hertfordshire
Lumsden	The Young Massive Star Population of the Milky Way
University of Leeds
Lumsden	Near Infrared Spectroscopy of Massive YSO Candidates
University of Leeds
Lumsden	Near Infrared Imaging of Massive YSO Candidates
University of Leeds
Mason	The Composition and Origin of Hydrocarbons in a Dusty ULIRG
NOAO
McCall	H3+ in the Perseus OB2 Association
University of California Berkeley
Meikle	The Physics of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae
Imperial College London
Mitchell	The Evolutionary State of Compact Cores in Orion B
St Marys University Canada
Oka	Observations of Metastable H3+ in the Galactic Center
University of Chicago
Page	The Mid-IR Output of X-Ray Bright Intermediate Redshift Type-2 QSOs
MSSL/University College London
Peletier	The Formation of Spiral Bulges
University of Nottingham
Rigby	The Space-Density of High Redshift FRI Radio Galaxies
University of Edinburgh
Roche	The Magnetic Field Structure Around the Galactic Centre
University of Oxford
Roueff	Search for H2D+ and D2H+ in dark clouds
Observatory Paris Meudon
Sarre	Evolution of 3.3 um and Related Bands in Extended Objects
University of Nottongham
Snellen	The secondary eclipse of exoplanet HD209458b
University of Edinburgh
Stallard	The Characteristics of Saturn's Auroral Atmosphere
University College London
Swinbank	Restframe Optical Emission-Line Maps of High-z SCUBA Galaxies
University of Durham
Tanvir	Follow-Up of GRBs: Searching for Dark and Distant Afterglows
University of Hertfordshire
Trafton	Response of Uranus' Thermosphere/Ionosphere to Solar Variability
University of Texas
van Loon	Monitoring AGB variables in M33
Keele University
Varricatt	Spectroscopic Study of High Mass Young Stellar Outflows
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Varricatt	Photometric Study of High Mass Young Stellar Outflow Objects
Joint Astronomy Centre Hawaii
Vink	Infrared Line Polarimetry on Massive Young Stellar Objects
Imperial College London
Watson	The Accretion Disc:Jet Connection in X-Ray Binaries
University of Sheffield
Webb	The Quiescent Soft X-Ray Transient XTE J1118+480
CESR Toulouse France
Whelan	Paschen β as a Probe of Outflow/Infall Activity Close to YSOs
Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies
Wilman	A Search for Pure Rotational H2 Emission in Cooling Flows
University of Durham
Zijlstra	The Disk Around NGC6302
U. Manchester Inst. Science and Tech.
University of Hawaii
Bernardi	Spectroscopy of Fast Rotator Objects
Connelley	A Survey of Binary YSOs
Evans	Spectroscopy of IRAS Luminous Radio Galaxies
Fernandez	Interpreting Mid-IR radiometry of NEAs
Gaidos	HK Spectroscopy of Very Red Main-Belt Asteroids
Kakazu	A Wide-Field Survey for High Redshifts QSOs
Kuhn	High Dynamic Range Polarimetry
Rothberg	Mid-IR Spectrum of a New Class of Mergers
Sanders	Imaging Missing Objects in the IRAS Galaxy Sample
Stalder	Spectroscopy of HzRGs Near Guide Stars
Takamiya	Star Formation History of Galaxies at z=0.4-1
Japan
Koda	Galactic Shock in the Barred Galaxy NGC4303
Takahashi	Mineralogy of Asteroids
Tamura	Stellar Populations in Cluster Ellipticals