GSU OBSERVING REQUESTS FOR SMARTS TIME IN 2006B
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GSU PRIORITY 1
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TITLE Optical/IR Monitoring of Blazars
ID # GSTU51
PI Dick Miller (GSU)
CONTACT Wes Ryle (ryle@chara.gsu.edu), 404-651-1363
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.3m + ANDICAM
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 1.0 hour/night = 60 hours equivalent = 7 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A
PREFERRED DATES any
ACCEPTABLE DATES any, can be done in JAN 2007
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.
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GSU PRIORITY 2
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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 ***** YES, THIS IS A USER REQUEST !!! *****
TIME 7 nights consecutive
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER Subasavage, Henry (GSU)
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? no
PREFERRED DATES OCT-DEC (to balance MAY run)
ACCEPTABLE DATES any, can be done in JAN 2007
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE all one run
PREFERRED SETUP 09/I for blue; 32/I for red
EXPOSURE TIMES various
ORDER BLOCKING FILTERS no filter for blue, OG570 for red
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing spectroscopic effort to characterize
parallax targets. We will switch between blue and
red setups depending on need for white dwarf and
red dwarf candidates.
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GSU PRIORITY 3
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TITLE Seyfert Spectroscopic Monitoring
ID # GSTU53
PI Mike Crenshaw (GSU)
CONTACT crenshaw@chara.gsu.edu, 404-651-1365
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 12 hours = 1.5 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A
PREFERRED DATES any
ACCEPTABLE DATES any, can be done in JAN 2007
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE three visits on each object (including both gratings)
during the semester would be great
PREFERRED SETUP 26/I AND 47/Ib
EXPOSURE TIMES 60 minutes for each grating/visit
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Spectroscopic monitoring of two AGN:
NGC 2992 with V = 13, 2700 sec on each grating.
NGC 5252 with V = 13, 3600 sec on each grating.
Two gratings on each object need to be as close to
simultaneous as possible.
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GSU PRIORITY 4
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TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (user)
ID # GSTU01
PI Todd Henry (GSU)
CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-463-9954
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD
MODE (service or user) user
TIME 7 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES SEP
ACCEPTABLE DATES any
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE one run of 7 nights
PHOTOMETRIC? no
FILTERS VRI
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort.
Requires one week/month to catch appropriate
parallax factors for all targets.
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GSU PRIORITY 5
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TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (user)
ID # GSTU01
PI Todd Henry (GSU)
CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-463-9954
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD
MODE (service or user) user
TIME 7 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES NOV
ACCEPTABLE DATES any
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE one run of 7 nights
PHOTOMETRIC? no
FILTERS VRI
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort.
Requires one week/month to catch appropriate
parallax factors for all targets.
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GSU PRIORITY 6
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TITLE Massive LMC Eclipsing Binaries
ID # GSTU55
PI Doug Gies (GSU), Phil Massey (Lowell)
CONTACT gies@chara.gsu.edu, 404-651-1366
massey@lowell.edu
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.0m + CCD
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 25 hours = 3 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A
PREFERRED DATES NOV and DEC every night (7 weeks = 49 nights)
ACCEPTABLE DATES any when LMC is up, can be done in JAN 2007
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE 30 min/night
PHOTOMETRIC? no
FILTERS V only
OBSERVING DETAILS two 20 second frames of each cluster = 10 frames/night
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Search for eclipsing binaries in 5 different clusters ---
NGC 2044, NGC 2072, R136, N346, N602 --- in the LMC.
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GSU PRIORITY 7
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TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (service)
ID # GSTU01
PI Todd Henry (GSU)
CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-463-9954
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 7 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES OCT
ACCEPTABLE DATES any
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE one run of 7 nights
PHOTOMETRIC? no
FILTERS VRI
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort.
Requires one week/month to catch appropriate
parallax factors for all targets.
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GSU PRIORITY 8
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TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (service)
ID # GSTU01
PI Todd Henry (GSU)
CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-463-9954
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 7 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES DEC
ACCEPTABLE DATES any
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE one run of 7 nights
PHOTOMETRIC? no
FILTERS VRI
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort.
Requires one week/month to catch appropriate
parallax factors for all targets.
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GSU PRIORITY 9
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TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (service)
ID # GSTU01
PI Todd Henry (GSU)
CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-463-9954
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 7 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES JAN
ACCEPTABLE DATES any
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE one run of 7 nights
PHOTOMETRIC? no
FILTERS VRI
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort.
Requires one week/month to catch appropriate
parallax factors for all targets.
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GSU PRIORITY 10
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TITLE Massive Binary Orbits
ID # GSTU54
PI Doug Gies (GSU)
CONTACT gies@chara.gsu.edu, 404-651-1366
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 54 hours = 7 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A
PREFERRED DATES any
ACCEPTABLE DATES any, can be done in JAN 2007
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE any
PREFERRED SETUP 47/IIb
EXPOSURE TIMES 2-30 minutes/target
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Spectroscopic monitoring of O star binaries
to determine orbits.