GSU OBSERVING REQUESTS FOR SMARTS TIME IN 2007A
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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
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 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
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 3
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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 FEB
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 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 MAR
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 MAY
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 any ???
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 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 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 APR
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 JUN or JUL
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.