GSU/NAU SMARTS PROGRAMS FOR 2004A

GSU/NAU OBSERVING REQUESTS FOR SMARTS TIME IN 2004A

------------------ GSU/NAU PRIORITY 1 ------------------ TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (service) ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU), Dave Koerner (NAU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-463-9954 TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD MODE (service or user) service TIME 28 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS ok PREFERRED DATES none ACCEPTABLE DATES any ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE four runs of 7 nights/month PHOTOMETRIC? no FILTERS BVRI SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort. Requires one week/month to catch appropriate parallax factors for all targets. ------------------ GSU/NAU PRIORITY 2 ------------------ TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (user) ID # GSTU02 PI Todd Henry (GSU), Dave Koerner (NAU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-463-9954 TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD MODE (service or user) user (!) TIME 14 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER Beaulieu, Brown, Henry, Subasavage, Winters (GSU), Bartlett (U. Virginia) INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS ok PREFERRED DATES May 20 through July 31 (when students available) ACCEPTABLE DATES May 20 through July 31 (when students available) ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE two runs of 7 nights/month PHOTOMETRIC? no FILTERS BVRI SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort. Requires one week/month to catch appropriate parallax factors for all targets. ------------------ GSU/NAU PRIORITY 3 ------------------ TITLE CTIOPI Spectroscopy ID # GSTU31 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-463-9954 TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec MODE (service or user) user TIME 7 nights consecutive TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER Beaulieu, Henry, Subasavage (GSU) INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS no PREFERRED DATES March 6-14 (Spring Break for GSU) ACCEPTABLE DATES any ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE all one run GRATING # AND ORDER blue grating 09, red grating 32, both 1st order CENTRAL WAVE (A), ACCEPTABLE RANGE 5188 +/- 50 for blue, 7816 +/- 50 for red OTHER ACCEPTABLE GRATINGS none ORDER BLOCKING FILTERS no filter for blue, OG570 for red SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing spectroscopic effort to characterize new parallax targets. We will switch between blue and red setups depending on need for white dwarf and red dwarf candidates. ------------------ GSU/NAU PRIORITY 4 ------------------ TITLE Optical/IR Monitoring of Blazars ID # GSTU51 PI Dick Miller (GSU) CONTACT miller@chara.gsu.edu, 404-651-1368 TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.3m + ANDICAM MODE (service or user) service TIME 1.0 hour/night = 60 hours equivalent TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS N/A PREFERRED DATES none ACCEPTABLE DATES any ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE one observation set every 3 days FILTERS always: first R/K, then B/J, then V/H # OBJECTS 4 STANDARDS none, differential photometry only SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing monitoring effort of variable blazars. Cadence of one set of observations every 3 days works well. ------------------ GSU/NAU PRIORITY 5 ------------------ TITLE Optical/IR Monitoring of Seyfert 1.8 Galaxies ID # GSTU52 PI Matthias Dietrich (GSU) CONTACT dietrich@chara.gsu.edu, 404-651-1882 TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.3m + ANDICAM MODE (service or user) service TIME 0.75 hours/night = 27 hours equivalent TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS N/A PREFERRED DATES none ACCEPTABLE DATES any ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE one observation set every 5 days FILTERS always: first R/K, then B/J # OBJECTS 2 STANDARDS none, differential photometry only SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing monitoring effort of potentially variable Seyferts. Cadence of one set of observations every 5 days works well.