Chandra Large, Very Large and X-ray Visionary Projects

EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION & SURVEYS

Proposal Number	Subject Category	PI Name	Type	Time (ks)	Title
02900196	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Brandt	LP	475	THE CHANDRA DEEP SURVEY OF THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD NORTH (HDF-N) AREA
02900378	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	GIACCONI	LP	1000	AN ULTRADEEP SURVEY IN THE CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH
03900164	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Brandt	LP	1000	THE CHANDRA SURVEY OF THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD NORTH AREA: A PUBLIC RESOURCE FOR THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY
04900340	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Jones	LP	515	A CHANDRA WIDE-FIELD SURVEY TO MAP THE COSMIC WEB AND INVESTIGATE THE EVOLUTION OF NUCLEAR ACCRETION
04901014	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Jones	LP	25	A CHANDRA WIDE-FIELD SURVEY TO MAP THE COSMIC WEB AND INVESTIGATE THE EVOLUTION OF NUCLEAR ACCRETION
05900218	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Brandt	VLP	1980	The Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: A Public Chandra Legacy
05900547	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Wilkes	LP	630	The Balance of Power between Starbursts and AGN: a Chandra/SIRTF Survey.
06900144	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Nicastro	TOO/LP	340	Continuing X-Raying the Intergalactic Medium with Blazars in Outburst: Deeper in Redshift and Wider in Area.
06900444	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Nandra	VLP	1400	Deep Chandra Imaging of the Extended Groth Strip: The Co-evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies
07900865	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Zappacosta	TOO/LP	300	Searching for WHIM in Large-Scale Structures
08900073	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Elvis	VLP	1800	THE CHANDRA-COSMOS SURVEY
08900745	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Alexander	LP	400	The Chandra Deep Proto-cluster Field: Black-Hole Growth and Feedback in Dense Environments
08900784	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Treu	LP	453.6	The Duty Cycle of Supermassive Black Holes: X-raying Virgo
09900660	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Nandra	VLP	1800	The Evolution of Faint AGN at High Redshift
10900836	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Fang	LP	500	A Benchmark Observation of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
11900514	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Gultekin	LP	510	COMBH: Chandra Observations of M-sigma Black Holes
12900343	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Nicastro	LP	500	Securing a Detection of the Bulk of the Missing Baryons
12900635	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Wang	LP	335	A CHandra survey of Extended Emission-line Regions in nearby Seyfert galaxies (CHEERS)
14900904	EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS	Civano	XVP	2800	The COSMOS Legacy Survey

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 02900196

Title: THE CHANDRA DEEP SURVEY OF THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD NORTH (HDF-N) AREA

Type: LP Total Time: 475

PI Name: William Brandt

We propose to extend the Chandra X-ray survey of the HDF-N and its vicinity with a 475 ks exposure; this will give 1 Ms of total coverage on this field and will fulfill one of Chandra's central design goals. We should remain photon limited to 1 Ms and will probe the X-ray Universe more than four times deeper than any observation to date. We should resolve essentially all of the X-ray background from 0.5-8 keV and will study obscured and high-redshift active galaxies, advection dominated sources, starbursts, X-ray binaries, clusters and groups, and diffuse X-ray emission. The HDF-N field is an ideal one for multiwavelength follow-up studies due to the enormous database already in place. All data are to be placed in the public archive immediately and we will request no GO science funding.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
12:36:49.40	+62:12:58.00	HDF-N	ACIS-I	NONE	475

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 02900378

Title: AN ULTRADEEP SURVEY IN THE CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH

Type: LP Total Time: 1000

PI Name: RICCARDO GIACCONI

We propose to exploit the unique combination of angular resolution, sensitivity and field-of-view of the Chandra ACIS imager to perform the deepest X-ray survey ever in the well-studied "Chandra Deep Field South" (CDFS). With a total integration time of 1.5 Msec (request for this AO: 1 Msec) we reach a 0.5-2 keV flux limit of 2E-17 cgs. We aim to detect >500 sources, i.e. AGN to z=10, clusters to z=3 and starburst galaxies to z~1. Simulations based on the existing 130 ksec observation in the CDFS and realistic source counts and correlation function models show, that Chandra exposures will not be background or confusion limited up to 3Msec. We propose to make the Chandra data public immediately.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
03:32:27.50	-27:48:23.00	CDFS	ACIS-I	NONE	500

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 03900164

Title: THE CHANDRA SURVEY OF THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD NORTH AREA: A PUBLIC RESOURCE FOR THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY

Type: LP Total Time: 1000

PI Name: William Brandt

We propose to extend the Chandra deep survey of the HDF-N and its vicinity. The ultimate goal is to obtain 5 Ms of coverage over the next 5 years; currently we have 1 Ms coverage. Here we propose two public 500 ks observations. This project will fulfill one of Chandra's central design goals and will be a long-lasting legacy of Chandra, laying the groundwork for the next generation of X-ray observatories. We should remain nearly photon limited for point-sources near the aim point. We will study obscured and high-redshift AGN, starbursts, normal galaxies, clusters, groups, and diffuse X-ray emission. The HDF-N field is the ideal region for multiwavelength follow-up studies due to the enormous database already in place. Our ACIS team expertise will be extensively utilized.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
12:36:49.40	+62:12:58.00	HDF-N	ACIS-I	NONE	1000

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 04900340

Title: A CHANDRA WIDE-FIELD SURVEY TO MAP THE COSMIC WEB AND INVESTIGATE THE EVOLUTION OF NUCLEAR ACCRETION

Type: LP Total Time: 515

PI Name: Christine Jones

We propose a wide-field X-ray imaging survey with deep and shallow components in order to map the structure and evolution of the Universe to redshift unity, and to probe the nature, environment and evolutionary history of AGN. The observations will cover the Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey, that is unique in its wide-field coverage and availability of deep multiwavelength imaging (including VLA and SIRTF) and optical spectroscopy. The Chandra survey is designed to sample volumes appropriate for statistical investigations of cluster environments, the space density of groups, biases in the optical and X-ray selection of groups and clusters, and AGN phenomena in relation to galaxy host properties and their evolution.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
14:25:44.40	+32:56:47.40	SS1	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:27:00.60	+32:56:47.40	SS2	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:28:16.90	+32:56:47.40	SS3	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:29:33.20	+32:56:47.40	SS4	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:30:49.50	+32:56:47.40	SS5	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:33:22.00	+32:56:47.40	SS7	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:34:38.30	+32:56:47.40	SS8	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:35:54.50	+32:56:47.40	SS9	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:37:10.80	+32:56:47.40	SS10	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:38:27.00	+32:56:47.40	SS11	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:25:43.20	+33:12:47.50	SS12	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:26:59.70	+33:12:47.50	SS13	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:28:16.20	+33:12:47.50	SS14	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:29:32.70	+33:12:47.50	SS15	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:30:49.20	+33:12:47.50	SD16	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:32:05.70	+33:12:47.50	SD17	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:34:38.70	+33:12:47.50	SS19	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:35:55.20	+33:12:47.50	SS20	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:37:11.70	+33:12:47.50	SS21	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:38:28.20	+33:12:47.50	SS22	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:25:42.10	+33:28:47.60	SS23	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:26:58.80	+33:28:47.60	SS24	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:28:15.50	+33:28:47.60	SS25	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:29:32.30	+33:28:47.60	SS26	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:30:49.00	+33:28:47.60	SD27	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:32:05.70	+33:28:47.60	SD28	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:33:22.50	+33:28:47.60	SD29	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:35:55.90	+33:28:47.60	SS31	ACIS-I	NONE	5
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14:25:40.90	+33:44:47.40	SS34	ACIS-I	NONE	5
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14:25:39.70	+34:00:47.50	SS45	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:26:56.90	+34:00:47.50	SS46	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:28:14.10	+34:00:47.50	SS47	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:29:31.30	+34:00:47.50	SS48	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:30:48.50	+34:00:47.50	SD49	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:32:05.70	+34:00:47.50	SD50	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:33:22.90	+34:00:47.50	SD51	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:34:40.20	+34:00:47.50	SD52	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:35:57.40	+34:00:47.50	SS53	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:37:14.60	+34:00:47.50	SS54	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:38:31.80	+34:00:47.50	SS55	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:33:22.20	+33:12:47.50	SD18	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:34:39.20	+33:28:47.60	SD30	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:35:56.60	+33:44:47.40	SS42	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:32:05.70	+32:56:47.40	SS6	ACIS-I	NONE	5

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 04901014

Title: A CHANDRA WIDE-FIELD SURVEY TO MAP THE COSMIC WEB AND INVESTIGATE THE EVOLUTION OF NUCLEAR ACCRETION

Type: LP Total Time: 25

PI Name: Christine Jones

We propose a wide-field X-ray imaging survey with deep and shallow components in order to map the structure and evolution of the Universe to redshift unity, and to probe the nature, environment and evolutionary history of AGN. The observations will cover the Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey, that is unique in its wide-field coverage and availability of deep multi- wavelength imaging (including VLA and SIRTF) and optical spectroscopy. The Chandra survey is designed to sample volumes appropriate for statistical investigations of cluster environments, the space density of groups, biases in the optical and X-ray selection of groups and clusters, and AGN phenomena in relation to galaxy host properties and their evolution.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
14:26:59.40	+32:41:23.00	SS57	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:28:12.00	+32:41:32.00	SS58	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:25:41.80	+32:41:09.00	SS56	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:29:29.70	+32:41:40.00	SS59	ACIS-I	NONE	5
14:30:42.20	+32:41:44.00	SS60	ACIS-I	NONE	5

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 05900218

Title: The Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: A Public Chandra Legacy

Type: VLP Total Time: 1980

PI Name: William Brandt

We propose to extend the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) survey with six public 330 ks flanking observations: the Extended CDF-S (E-CDF-S). Using these, we will study the detailed cosmic history of accretion onto supermassive black holes, the role of moderate-luminosity AGN at high redshift, AGN clustering, and X-ray groups and low-luminosity clusters. The proposed observations are optimized to fill the X-ray luminosity/redshift plane at z > 1.5 where the AGN source statistics are still limited. Follow-up studies will exploit the superb E-CDF-S multiwavelength coverage including VLT/Keck spectroscopy (6000+ VLT redshifts), HST imaging (GEMS, GOODS, ACS Ultradeep Field; 734 HST orbits), intensive ground-based imaging, and scheduled SIRTF observations.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
03:33:03.64	-27:41:20.68	Extended CDF-S #1	ACIS-I	NONE	250
03:31:50.54	-27:41:18.28	Extended CDF-S #2	ACIS-I	NONE	250
03:31:50.31	-27:57:31.89	Extended CDF-S #3	ACIS-I	NONE	250
03:33:03.69	-27:57:33.23	Extended CDF-S #4	ACIS-I	NONE	250

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 05900547

Title: The Balance of Power between Starbursts and AGN: a Chandra/SIRTF Survey.

Type: LP Total Time: 630

PI Name: Belinda Wilkes

We propose a moderate-depth (70 ksec), 0.6 sq.deg. Chandra survey, the deepest/largest CONTIGUOUS area to date, in the Lockman Field of the SIRTF/SWIRE Legacy Survey coincident with a completed, ultra-deep VLA survey with deep optical and near-IR imaging in-hand. SWIRE, the largest SIRTF program, will detect >500 000 dusty galaxies to z > 2.5 in 7 fields covering 65 sq.degs. The prime science goal is to study the structure, evolution and environments of AGN, starbursts and ellipsoids over the SAME SPATIAL VOLUME out to z > 2.5. Key to this study is an X-ray survey deep enough to distinguish starbursts and AGN, including the significant, highly obscured (log Nh>22) subset. Chandra will secure X-ray identification and fluxes for ~550 (0.6 sq deg) of the field's ~7000 SWIRE sources.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
10:46:00.00	+59:00:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 5 (center)	ACIS-I	NONE	70
10:43:60.00	+58:45:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 1	ACIS-I	NONE	70
10:46:00.00	+58:45:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 2	ACIS-I	NONE	70
10:48:00.00	+58:45:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 3	ACIS-I	NONE	70
10:43:60.00	+59:00:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 4	ACIS-I	NONE	70
10:48:00.00	+59:00:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 6	ACIS-I	NONE	70
10:43:60.00	+59:15:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 7	ACIS-I	NONE	70
10:46:00.00	+59:15:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 8	ACIS-I	NONE	70
10:48:00.00	+59:15:60.00	SWIRE LOCKMAN 9	ACIS-I	NONE	70

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 06900144

Title: Continuing X-Raying the Intergalactic Medium with Blazars in Outburst: Deeper in Redshift and Wider in Area.

Type: TOO/LP Total Time: 340

PI Name: Fabrizio Nicastro

We propose to extend our highly succesful Chandra-AO4 and -AO5 TOO programs to the 6th Chandra cycle, to observe up to 2 blazars in exceptionally high states with the Chandra HRCS-LETG (hereinafter HLETG) for a total exposure time of {\bf 340 ks} (2 orbits). We shall dramatically reduce the uncertainty on the cosmological baryon mass density $\Omega_b$ in the local Universe studying the ``warm'', low-redshift, phase of the intergalactic medium (WHIM), where most of the baryonic matter of the $z \ls 1$ Universe is believed to hide.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
		high-z blazar in outburst	HRC-S	LETG	170
		moderate-z blazar in outburst	HRC-S	LETG	170

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 06900444

Title: Deep Chandra Imaging of the Extended Groth Strip: The Co-evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies

Type: VLP Total Time: 1400

PI Name: Kirpal Nandra

The Extended Groth Strip (EGS) is a half square degree region that has been targeted intensively for galaxy evolution studies. A remarkable array of ultra-deep data have been or will be accumulated, to include radio, near/mid/far IR, optical and UV data of depth comparable to or better than any part of the sky. It is also the subject of the massive DEEP2 redshift survey, giving high quality Keck spectra for 16-17,000 galaxies. The clear gap in the coverage of the EGS is in the X-ray, and we therefore propose to augment the single deep Chandra pointing with 7 more, to image the whole strip. Our goal is to study the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes, by examining in detail the astrophysics of AGN activity, and its relationship to the host galaxy and surrounding large scale structure.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
14:22:54.80	+53:25:32.50	EGS-1	ACIS-I	NONE	200
14:21:45.20	+53:13:22.70	EGS-2	ACIS-I	NONE	200
14:20:40.50	+53:01:56.30	EGS-3	ACIS-I	NONE	200
14:19:36.40	+52:50:27.70	EGS-4	ACIS-I	NONE	200
14:18:32.90	+52:38:56.90	EGS-5	ACIS-I	NONE	200
14:16:49.50	+52:19:57.60	EGS-6	ACIS-I	NONE	200
14:15:47.50	+52:08:21.40	EGS-7	ACIS-I	NONE	200

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 07900865

Title: Searching for WHIM in Large-Scale Structures

Type: TOO/LP Total Time: 300

PI Name: Luca Zappacosta

Simulations and observations indicate that galaxy overdensities are good tracers of the dark matter large-scale structures and therefore of the diffuse warm-hot phase (WHIM) that should be associated with them. The WHIM in these large-scale structures should have large column densities, and therefore should be much easier to detect than the low column density WHIM which has been targeted so far. However, this efficient method of investigating WHIM has yet to be exploited. We have identified 5 bright blazars just in the background of known large-scale structures. We propose to probe and study the WHIM in these structures by identifying the associated absorption lines in the spectrum of these AGNs during their outburst phases, through TOO observations for a total of 300ks with HRC-S/LETG.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
16:53:52.20	+39:45:36.60	Mkn 501	HRC-S	LETG	99
22:02:43.30	+42:16:40.00	BL Lac	HRC-S	LETG	1
02:32:48.60	+20:17:17.00	1ES 0229+200	HRC-S	LETG	98
01:23:08.90	+34:20:50.00	1ES 0120+340	HRC-S	LETG	1
23:23:52.50	+42:10:55.00	1ES 2321+419	HRC-S	LETG	1

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 08900073

Title: THE CHANDRA-COSMOS SURVEY

Type: VLP Total Time: 1800

PI Name: Martin Elvis

We propose the Chandra-COSMOS survey which will provide an unprecedented combination of contiguous area, depth and resolution. 36 densely tiled observations will cover the central 0.7 sq.deg. COSMOS field to a uniform 200ksec depth. COSMOS explores the coupled evolution of galaxies, dark matter halos and AGNs (massive black holes) largely free of cosmic variance. COSMOS is a comprehensive survey including: HST, Spitzer, Subaru, VLT, Magellan, VLA, MAMBO, GALEX, & potentially EVLA & ALMA. Chandra resolution & sensitivity enables the study of large scale phenomena: (1) influence of the surrounding environment; (2) interaction between galaxies; (3) influence of groups and clusters: (4) BH growth and census; (5) star formation and stellar populations; (6) feedback from starbursts and AGNs.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
10:01:48.80	+02:37:23.90	C-COSMOS1-1	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:16.80	+02:37:23.90	C-COSMOS1-2	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:44.80	+02:37:23.90	C-COSMOS1-3	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:40.80	+02:37:23.90	C-COSMOS1-5	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:08.80	+02:37:23.90	C-COSMOS1-6	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:48.80	+02:29:24.00	C-COSMOS2-1	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:16.80	+02:29:24.00	C-COSMOS2-2	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:12.80	+02:29:24.00	C-COSMOS2-4	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:40.80	+02:29:24.00	C-COSMOS2-5	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:08.80	+02:29:24.00	C-COSMOS2-6	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:48.80	+02:21:24.10	C-COSMOS3-1	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:44.80	+02:21:24.10	C-COSMOS3-3	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:12.80	+02:21:24.10	C-COSMOS3-4	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:40.80	+02:21:24.10	C-COSMOS3-5	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:08.80	+02:21:24.10	C-COSMOS3-6	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:48.80	+02:13:23.90	C-COSMOS4-1	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:16.80	+02:13:23.90	C-COSMOS4-2	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:44.80	+02:13:23.90	C-COSMOS4-3	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:12.80	+02:13:23.90	C-COSMOS4-4	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:40.80	+02:13:23.90	C-COSMOS4-5	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:08.80	+02:13:23.90	C-COSMOS4-6	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:48.80	+02:05:24.00	C-COSMOS5-1	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:16.80	+02:05:24.00	C-COSMOS5-2	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:44.80	+02:05:24.00	C-COSMOS5-3	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:12.80	+02:05:24.00	C-COSMOS5-4	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:40.80	+02:05:24.00	C-COSMOS5-5	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:08.80	+02:05:24.00	C-COSMOS5-6	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:48.80	+01:57:24.10	C-COSMOS6-1	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:16.80	+01:57:24.10	C-COSMOS6-2	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:44.80	+01:57:24.10	C-COSMOS6-3	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:12.80	+01:57:24.10	C-COSMOS6-4	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:40.80	+01:57:24.10	C-COSMOS6-5	ACIS-I	NONE	50
09:59:08.80	+01:57:24.10	C-COSMOS6-6	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:12.80	+02:37:23.90	C-COSMOS1-4	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:00:44.80	+02:29:24.00	C-COSMOS2-3	ACIS-I	NONE	50
10:01:16.80	+02:21:24.10	C-COSMOS3-2	ACIS-I	NONE	50

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 08900745

Title: The Chandra Deep Proto-cluster Field: Black-Hole Growth and Feedback in Dense Environments

Type: LP Total Time: 400

PI Name: David Alexander

Deep X-ray surveys have revolutionized our understanding of the growth of black holes (SMBH). But these surveys only sample low-density regions at high-z due to their limited solid angle. There is no comparably sensitive X-ray census of AGN in high-density regions at high-z. Such environments evolve into the most massive clusters at z=0, regions which exhibit remarkable trends in galaxy properties - which may reflect early interactions between SMBHs and their host galaxies. A survey of a proto-cluster at high-z would provide a unique view of the interplay of the growth of galaxies and their SMBHs. Here we propose a 400ks survey of the best-studied proto-cluster at high-z, to enable the first definitive study of the growth of SMBHs and their host galaxies in a dense, young, environment.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
22:17:35.90	+00:15:58.90	SSA22 Protocluster	ACIS-I	NONE	400

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 08900784

Title: The Duty Cycle of Supermassive Black Holes: X-raying Virgo

Type: LP Total Time: 453.6

PI Name: Tommaso Treu

Nuclear accretion on to super-massive black holes (SMBHs) plays a key role in the evolution of their host galaxies, as inferred from the ubiquity of SMBHs and the correlations between BH mass, and host mass and velocity dispersion. A fundamental unadressed issue is the actual distribution of accretion rates; we propose snapshot observations of an unbiased sample of 84 early-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster. Together with joint Spitzer 24 um observations, and publicly available HST-ACS and UV data, this survey will probe low-level nuclear activity over four orders of magnitude in black hole mass, thereby delivering the first unbiased census of the duty cycle of local SMBHs.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
12:28:03.90	+09:48:14.00	1062	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:52:17.50	+11:18:50.00	2092	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:19:45.40	+12:47:54.30	369	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:24:55.50	+11:42:15.00	759	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:36:53.40	+07:14:47.00	1692	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:27:40.50	+13:04:44.20	1030	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:44:31.90	+11:11:25.10	2000	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:36:24.80	+10:23:04.60	1661	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:23:35.30	+16:43:22.30	654	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:42:47.40	+11:26:33.00	1938	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:30:17.40	+12:19:43.90	1279	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:37:30.60	+09:33:18.80	1720	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:19:30.60	+14:52:41.40	355	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:35:30.60	+12:13:15.40	1619	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:41:32.70	+07:18:53.00	1883	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:29:53.50	+14:04:07.00	1242	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:25:14.70	+15:36:27.20	784	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:34:06.10	+11:19:17.00	1537	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:25:12.30	+14:45:43.80	778	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:25:41.70	+12:48:38.00	828	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:29:59.10	+12:20:55.00	1250	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:35:38.00	+12:15:50.50	1630	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:28:57.60	+13:14:30.80	1146	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:27:36.70	+08:09:14.80	1025	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:30:40.60	+09:00:55.90	1303	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:42:10.70	+07:40:37.00	1913	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:30:57.60	+12:16:17.20	1327	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:28:43.40	+11:45:21.00	1125	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:33:05.00	+16:15:55.90	1475	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:30:18.40	+13:34:40.90	1283	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:30:10.40	+10:46:46.10	1261	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:24:05.00	+11:13:06.00	698	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:32:14.20	+10:15:05.00	1422	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:47:15.30	+10:12:13.00	2048	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:41:15.70	+11:23:13.50	1871	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:09:22.30	+13:59:33.10	9	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:22:43.30	+08:11:53.70	575	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:42:08.70	+11:45:14.90	1910	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:27:54.90	+08:05:25.20	1049	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:15:12.60	+14:25:59.10	140	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:31:20.00	+14:06:53.50	1355	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:28:14.90	+11:47:24.00	1087	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:40:58.50	+11:11:04.40	1861	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:22:19.50	+14:45:38.60	543	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:32:23.40	+11:15:46.20	1431	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:33:51.60	+13:19:21.30	1528	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:36:54.90	+12:31:12.50	1695	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:40:19.60	+15:56:07.20	1833	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:20:48.80	+17:29:13.40	437	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:11:07.80	+14:16:29.80	33	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:16:33.70	+13:01:53.10	200	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:22:41.10	+07:57:01.10	571	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:10:23.20	+10:11:17.60	21	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:33:13.40	+09:23:49.80	1488	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:39:04.70	+14:43:51.50	1779	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:41:52.00	+09:24:10.30	1895	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:33:19.80	+12:51:12.80	1499	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:34:11.50	+12:02:55.90	1545	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:29:30.20	+07:59:34.00	1192	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:28:12.30	+10:17:51.00	1075	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:42:58.00	+10:40:54.50	1948	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:35:37.30	+12:22:54.90	1627	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:32:33.40	+15:24:55.20	1440	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:17:19.60	+11:56:36.20	230	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:47:20.70	+12:09:58.70	2050	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:44:12.00	+12:56:30.10	1993	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:24:48.30	+18:11:42.00	751	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:40:13.40	+12:52:29.00	1828	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:22:14.80	+07:10:00.80	538	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:41:39.40	+12:14:52.40	1886	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:29:35.00	+08:03:31.40	1199	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:38:06.80	+10:04:56.60	1743	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:34:06.80	+12:44:30.10	1539	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:29:23.40	+12:27:02.40	1185	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:40:11.20	+09:53:45.90	1826	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:33:34.60	+11:15:42.80	1512	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:33:13.80	+10:55:43.60	1489	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:26:50.50	+09:35:02.00	944	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:30:52.20	+16:45:32.60	1321	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:29:21.30	+08:09:23.00	1178	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:25:57.80	+10:03:12.80	856	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:45:20.40	+13:41:33.00	2019	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:40:53.10	+10:28:34.00	1857	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4
12:32:02.70	+11:53:24.80	1407	ACIS-S	NONE	5.4

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 09900660

Title: The Evolution of Faint AGN at High Redshift

Type: VLP Total Time: 1800

PI Name: Kirpal Nandra

We propose a very deep (total 800ks/field) Chandra survey of 0.25 deg2 covering 3 contiguous fields in the Extended Groth Strip, which have exceptional multiwaveband coverage obtained by the AEGIS project. These data, in combination with the CDF North and South, will provide a definitive measurement of the evolution of faint, X-ray selected AGN from z=3-4, where the optical number counts start to drop dramatically. In combination with ultradeep Spitzer data in the same region, this survey will also provide a crucial step forward towards a more complete census of AGN activity and the importance of Compton thick AGN at high z, with associated implications for the total accretion budget of the universe.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
14:20:15.50	+53:00:09.70	AEGIS-1	ACIS-I	NONE	600
14:19:12.00	+52:48:38.20	AEGIS-2	ACIS-I	NONE	600
14:18:09.00	+52:37:04.40	AEGIS-3	ACIS-I	NONE	600

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 10900836

Title: A Benchmark Observation of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium

Type: LP Total Time: 500

PI Name: Taotao Fang

Searching for the ``Missing baryons'', in the form of the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), is a fundamental challenge faced by the current theory of structure formation. Cosmological simulations predict that majority of the WHIM can be probed in X-ray only, yet the reported detections are often in question due to statistical and systematical issues. Based on the tentative evidence in our joint XMM-Chandra ToO observations of H 2356-309, we propose a deep, non-ToO Chandra observation to definitively detect the WHIM absorption line with a measured column density expected from theory. A null detection would place an upper limit which cannot be explained by current cosmological simulations, and put future pursuit of the WHIM with current generation of X-ray telescopes in question.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
23:59:07.90	-30:37:41.00	H 2356-309	HRC-S	LETG	500

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 11900514

Title: COMBH: Chandra Observations of M-sigma Black Holes

Type: LP Total Time: 510

PI Name: Kayhan Gultekin

Galaxies with dynamically-measured central BH masses allow us to understand BH accretion, jets, and interactions between BHs and host galaxies with a clarity not possible in random surveys. By measuring true Eddington fractions, we can calculate the energy in radiation vs mechanical jet energy and the efficacy of BHs in heating nuclear regions and affecting star formation. Remarkably, 1/3 of SMBHs making up the M-sigma relation have been poorly observed or totally unobserved with Chandra. We propose a survey of 15 M-sigma galaxies to complete the sample of reliable M-sigma SMBHs. For each galaxy we propose to obtain 30-60 ks exposures and an hour-long VLA observation. This survey will test and extend the fundamental plane of BH activity and facilitate studies of the origin of M-sigma.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
03:19:41.10	-19:24:40.90	NGC1300	ACIS-S	NONE	30
09:13:43.00	+76:28:31.20	NGC 2748	ACIS-S	NONE	30
09:12:24.40	+35:01:39.10	NGC2778	ACIS-S	NONE	30
12:20:17.80	+75:22:15.20	NGC4291	ACIS-S	NONE	30
12:51:48.00	-10:27:17.00	NGC4742	ACIS-S	NONE	30
13:19:31.70	-12:39:25.10	NGC5077	ACIS-S	NONE	30
14:21:03.70	+03:16:15.60	NGC5576	ACIS-S	NONE	30
10:48:16.90	+12:37:45.40	NGC3384	ACIS-S	NONE	30
12:30:57.70	+12:16:13.30	NGC4486A	ACIS-S	NONE	30
12:28:60.00	+13:58:42.80	NGC4459	ACIS-S	NONE	30
12:39:55.90	+10:10:33.90	NGC4596	ACIS-S	NONE	30
23:00:59.90	+30:08:41.60	NGC7457	ACIS-S	NONE	30

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 12900343

Title: Securing a Detection of the Bulk of the Missing Baryons

Type: LP Total Time: 500

PI Name: Fabrizio Nicastro

We propose to optimize the use of X-ray and FUV observatories to settle unambiguously one of the most controversial and open problems of modern astrophysics: the existence of the Missing Baryons in a Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). We will do this by targeting a 500 ks Chandra-LETG observation on the best available tracers of the bulk (~80%) of the Missing Baryons in the Universe: two intergalactic absorption systems recently detected through Broad HI Lya and triple-OVI absorption, respectively, in a moderate S/N HST-COS spectrum of the bright and relatively high-redshift (z>0.4) blazar 1ES 1553+113. The proposed observation is carefully designed to finally secure a detection of the WHIM and to obtain a first robust estimate of its metal content.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
15:55:43.00	+11:11:24.00	1ES 1553+113	HRC-S	LETG	500

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 12900635

Title: A CHandra survey of Extended Emission-line Regions in nearby Seyfert galaxies (CHEERS)

Type: LP Total Time: 335

PI Name: Junfeng Wang

We propose the `ultimate' resolution Chandra imaging survey (CHEERS) of a far-IR selected sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) from Schmitt et al. (2003). With complementary high resolution HST and radio data, CHEERS will (1) resolve the detailed X-ray morphology of the extended narrow line region and obtain full picture of the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) with typical resolution of 0.4 arcsec; (2) investigate the X-ray emission mechanisms at AGN jet-ISM interaction regions and (3) measure mass and momentum outflow rates to evaluate the importance of AGN feedback. To achieve these goals, we request 335 ks ACIS-S observations and 5 HST orbits to supplement the archival data.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
03:36:46.20	-35:59:57.30	NGC 1386	ACIS-S	NONE	80
10:48:23.50	-25:09:43.40	NGC 3393	ACIS-S	NONE	70
12:25:46.80	+12:39:43.80	NGC 4388	ACIS-S	NONE	30
12:35:36.60	-39:54:33.40	NGC 4507	ACIS-S	NONE	45
06:15:36.40	+71:02:15.10	Mrk 3	ACIS-S	NONE	30
01:43:57.80	+02:21:00.00	Mrk 573	ACIS-S	NONE	80

Subject Category: EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION AND SURVEYS

Proposal Number: 14900904

Title: The COSMOS Legacy Survey

Type: XVP Total Time: 2800

PI Name: Francesca Civano

We propose the COSMOS-Legacy Survey covering the entire 1.7deg2 COSMOS/HST area to a uniform depth of ~160ks, expanding the current deep C-COSMOS area by a factor 3, with 56x50 ks pointings for a total of 2.8 Ms. This area and depth proposed are designed to detect~40 z>4, and ~4 z>5 Large Scale Structures on >15' scales, connecting luminous Chandra quasars (among over 200 z>3 quasars) and sub-mm galaxies, a method already proven in C-COSMOS. The area/depth combination also probes mini-quasars at z>7 using anistotropies of the unresolved XRB and the masses of the DM halos hosting X-ray AGN up to z~3 via autocorrelation functions on ~30' scales. Large programs with SCUBA2, NuSTAR, Subaru and Keck over the COSMOS field will identify and get redshifts for all COSMOS-Legacy sources.

R.A.	Dec.	Target Name	Det.	Grating	Exp.Time
10:00:29.90	+02:12:40.00	COSMOS Legacy	ACIS-I	NONE	2800

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