GSU SMARTS PROGRAMS FOR 2007B

GSU OBSERVING REQUESTS FOR SMARTS TIME IN 2007B

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUG 2007 THROUGH SEP 2007 (2 months ~ 60 nights) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 1 ------------------- 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 every 3 nights = 20 hours = 2.5 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A PREFERRED DATES AUG-SEP ACCEPTABLE DATES AUG-SEP 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 PRIORITY 2 ------------------- TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (user) ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 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 (early if possible) yACCEPTABLE DATES SEP 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. ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 3 ------------------- TITLE Spectroscopy of Seyferts with Absorbers ID # GSTU56 PI Mike Crenshaw, Jay Dunn (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 AUG-SEP ACCEPTABLE DATES AUG-SEP ACCEPTABLE MOON dark/gray time for these faint targets preferred CADENCE only one visit on each object (including two gratings) PREFERRED SETUP 26/Ia AND 35/I preferred (26/I AND 47/Ib if necessary) EXPOSURE TIMES two observations of 3600 sec each for each grating two gratings per target SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION single spectroscopic observations of three AGN: WPVS 007 with V = 15, 14400 sec/visit (7200 sec/grating) IRAS F22456-5125 with V = 15, 14400 sec/visit (7200 sec/grating) MR2251-178 with V = 14, 14400 sec/visit (7200 sec/grating) ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 4 ------------------- TITLE Seyfert Spectroscopic Monitoring ID # GSTU54 PI Mike Crenshaw, Margaret Trippe (GSU) CONTACT crenshaw@chara.gsu.edu, 404-651-1365 TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec MODE (service or user) service TIME 8 hours = 1.0 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A PREFERRED DATES AUG-SEP ACCEPTABLE DATES AUG-SEP ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE one visit on each object each month (including two gratings) PREFERRED SETUP 26/I AND 47/Ib EXPOSURE TIMES two observations of 1800 sec each for each grating two gratings per target SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION spectroscopic monitoring of two AGN: NGC 2992 with V = 13, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating) NGC 5252 with V = 13, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating) Two gratings on each object need to be as close to simultaneous as possible. (other objects will be substituted as needed) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCT 2007 THROUGH JAN 2008 (4 months ~ 120 nights) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 1 ------------------- 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 every 3 nights = 40 hours = 5.0 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A PREFERRED DATES OCT-JAN ACCEPTABLE DATES OCT-JAN 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 PRIORITY 2 ------------------- TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (user) ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 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 OCT (late) ACCEPTABLE DATES OCT 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. SPECIAL SCHEDULING LATE OCT PREFERRED --- PLEASE PUT 3 TURNOS BETWEEN THE OCT AND NOV RUNS AS HENRY PLANS TO BE ON SABBATICAL IN CHILE AND WILL COVER BOTH USER RUNS ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 3 ------------------- TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (user) ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 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 (late) ACCEPTABLE DATES NOV 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. SPECIAL SCHEDULING LATE NOV PREFERRED --- PLEASE PUT 3 TURNOS BETWEEN THE OCT AND NOV RUNS AS HENRY PLANS TO BE ON SABBATICAL IN CHILE AND WILL COVER BOTH USER RUNS ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 4 ------------------- TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (user) ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 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 DEC ACCEPTABLE DATES DEC 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. ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 5 ------------------- TITLE CTIOPI Astrometry (service) ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 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 JAN 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. ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 6 ------------------- 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 0.5 hour every 2 nights = 30 hours = 3.8 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? this is interpolated program PREFERRED DATES OCT-JAN ACCEPTABLE DATES when LMC is up ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE 30 min/every other night (60 nights of 120 = 30 hours) 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. ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 7 ------------------- TITLE Seyfert Spectroscopic Monitoring ID # GSTU54 PI Mike Crenshaw, Margaret Trippe (GSU) CONTACT crenshaw@chara.gsu.edu, 404-651-1365 TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec MODE (service or user) service TIME 16 hours = 2.0 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A PREFERRED DATES OCT-JAN ACCEPTABLE DATES OCT-JAN ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE one visit on each object each month (including two gratings) PREFERRED SETUP 26/I AND 47/Ib EXPOSURE TIMES two observations of 1800 sec each for each grating two gratings per target SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION spectroscopic monitoring of two AGN: NGC 2992 with V = 13, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating) NGC 5252 with V = 13, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating) Two gratings on each object need to be as close to simultaneous as possible. (other objects will be substituted as needed) ------------------- GSU PRIORITY 8 ------------------- TITLE CTIOPI Spectroscopy (user) 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 any except JAN AAS ACCEPTABLE DATES any except JAN AAS 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.