GSU OBSERVING REQUESTS FOR SMARTS TIME IN 2008B
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AUG 2008 THROUGH JAN 2009 (6 months)
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GSU PRIORITY 1
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TITLE HK Emission in Solar-Type Stars
ID # GSTU09
PI Travis Metcalfe (NCAR)
CONTACT travis@ucar.edu, 303-497-8326
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 12 hours X 1.2 tax X 1.5 service = 21.6 hours = 2.3 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A
PREFERRED DATES any
ACCEPTABLE DATES any
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE 8 spectra/star/semester
PREFERRED SETUP 47/II
EXPOSURE TIMES average ~3 min/star = 12 min/star with overhead
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION spectroscopic monitoring of 32 bright stars
(~20 stars observable on a given night)
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GSU PRIORITY 2
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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 7.0 nights (need 7 nights to make it financially reasonable)
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes!
PREFERRED DATES AUG
ACCEPTABLE DATES AUG
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 3
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TITLE Optical/IR Monitoring of Blazars
ID # GSTU51
PI Joe Eggen (GSU), Dick Miller (GSU)
CONTACT eggen@chara.gsu.edu, 573-301-6769
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.3m + ANDICAM
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 1.0 hour every 3 nights = 60 hours X 1.5 service = 9.5 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A
PREFERRED DATES any
ACCEPTABLE DATES any
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE 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 4
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TITLE Spectral Monitoring of eta Car through periastron
ID # GSTU75
PI Noel Richardson (GSU), Doug Gies (GSU)
CONTACT gies@chara.gsu.edu, richardson@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6021
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + echelle
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 7.5 hours X 1.2 tax X 1.5 service = 13.5 hours = 1.4 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES DEC 15 - JAN 31
ACCEPTABLE DATES DEC 15 - JAN 31
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE 1 spectrum/night for the period 15 December - 31 January
PREFERRED SETUP echelle, no iodine cell, set to handle Halpha
EXPOSURE TIMES We wish to probe eta Car nightly during the period of 15 December
through the end of this semester, with 10 minutes (including
overhead) per exposure (5 min to acquire, 1 min comp, 4 min
exposure)
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION We believe that the new echelle spectrograph on the 1.5 meter
telescope may yield the resolution to thoroughly probe the
optical variability of this "protypical" LBV and resolve some
unanswered questions including, but not limited to:
are any of the secondary star's spectral features visible?
what is the variability of the unidentified emission feature
at 6307A at periastron? (currently only probed at apastron)
Target list:
Star V Type RA(2000.0) Dec(2000.0)
eta Car 6.2 LBV 10:45:03.6 -59:41:04
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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, 404-413-6054
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD
MODE (service or user) user
TIME 7.0 nights (need 7 nights to make it financially reasonable)
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes!
PREFERRED DATES NOV
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.
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GSU PRIORITY 6
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TITLE Spectroscopy of Seyfert 1.8/1.9s
ID # GSTU61
PI Margaret Trippe (GSU), Mike Crenshaw
CONTACT crenshaw@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6020
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 18 hours X 1.2 tax X 1.5 service = 32.4 hours = 3.4 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A
PREFERRED DATES AUG-DEC
ACCEPTABLE DATES AUG-DEC
ACCEPTABLE MOON dark/gray time preferred for the fainter targets
CADENCE only one visit per object (including two gratings)
except NGC 2992, which we would like to visit twice,
also with both gratings
PREFERRED SETUP 26/Ia AND 47/Ib
EXPOSURE TIMES single observations of 7200 sec each for the fainter targets, or
single observations of 3600 sec each for the brighter targets,
with each grating, two gratings per target
and
two observations of 3600 sec each of NGC 2992 with two gratings
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION single spectroscopic observations of Seyferts:
NGC 1808 with V=10.8, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating)
NGC 5674 with V=13.7, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating)
MRK 728 with V=15.5, 14400 sec/visit (7200 sec/grating)
NGC 1365 with V=10.2, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating)
MRK 915 with V=14.8, 14400 sec/visit (7200 sec/grating)
and the spectroscopic monitoring of the Seyfert:
NGC 2992 with V=13.1, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating)
two observations with each grating, one from beginning and
one from the end of the observing semester
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GSU PRIORITY 7
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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 (need 7 nights to make it financially reasonable)
TIME 7.0 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes!
PREFERRED DATES SEP
ACCEPTABLE 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.
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GSU PRIORITY 8
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TITLE Orbits for New Massive Eclipsing Binaries
ID # GSTU73
PI Steve Williams (GSU), Doug Gies (GSU)
CONTACT gies@chara.gsu.edu, swilliams@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6021
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 3 hours X 1.2 tax X 1.5 service = 5.4 hours = 0.6 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES AUG 01-03 / AUG 29-31 / SEP 01-06
ACCEPTABLE DATES AUG 01-03 / AUG 29-31 / SEP 01-06
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE 1 spectrum per night for 12 nights above if possible
PREFERRED SETUP 47/IIb
EXPOSURE TIMES 3x2=6 minutes exposure + 9 minutes overhead per observation
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Need to obtain spectra around periastron (when lines
are well separated) of massive eclipsing binary.
Previous SMARTS observations include only one spectrum
from this important phase interval (0.80-1.03),
where T(peri)=JD2452436.1 and P=34.536 d.
Target list:
Star V Type RA (2000) DEC
HD 166734 8.5 O7.7I+O9I 18:12:24.66 -10:43:53.1
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GSU PRIORITY 9
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TITLE Spectral Monitoring of Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs)
ID # GSTU74
PI Noel Richardson (GSU), Doug Gies (GSU)
CONTACT gies@chara.gsu.edu, richardson@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6021
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 12.6 hours X 1.2 tax X 1.5 service = 22.7 hours = 2.4 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES any
ACCEPTABLE DATES any
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE 3-6 total spectra needed/target when available
PREFERRED SETUP 47/Ib or 47/Id for most, 47/IIb (also) for eta Car
EXPOSURE TIMES varies by target (10-40 minutes, including overhead)
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Second semester of 3-year project to monitor LBVs to
search for evidence of spectroscopic variations caused
by multiplicity. (HD 5980 and HD 269128 are eclipsing binaries).
eta Car will be going through its periastron passage and we
wish to increase cadence when the star becomes visible again,
making this the only target on our list after December 15.
Target list:
Star V Type RA(2000.0) Dec(2000.0)
HD 5980 11.5 WNp 00:59:26.6 -72:09:54
HD 6884 10.2 B9Iae 01:07:18.2 -72:28:04
HD 269321 10.8 B5Iae 05:17:56.1 -69:16:03
HD 269128 10.4 B2.5Iabe 05:10:22.8 -68:46:24
S Dor (HD 35343) 9.7 A0e 05:18:14.3 -69:14:59
HD 269662 9.8 B9:Iabe 05:30:51.5 -69:02:59
HR Car (HD90177) 7.6 B2ev 10:22:53.8 -59:37:28
eta Car 6.2 LBV 10:45:03.6 -59:41:04
AG Car (HD 94910) 7.1 B2:pe 10:56:11.6 -60:27:13
V432 Car 11.8 WR 11:08:40.1 -60:42:52
zeta01 Sco (HD 152236) 4.8 B1Iape 16:53:59.7 -42:21:43
HD 326823 9.1 O+ 17:06:53.9 -42:36:40
HD 160529 6.8 A3Iae 17:41:59.0 -33:30:14
HD 168607 8.3 B9Ia 18:21:14.9 -16:22:32
HD 168625 8.4 B6Ia 18:21:19.6 -16:22:26
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GSU PRIORITY 10
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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 7.0 nights X 1.5 service = 10.5 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.
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GSU PRIORITY 11
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TITLE Continuing monitoring of Intermediate Seyferts
ID # GSTU62
PI Margaret Trippe (GSU), Mike Crenshaw
CONTACT crenshaw@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6020
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 8 hours X 1.2 tax X 1.5 service = 14.4 hours = 1.5 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? N/A
PREFERRED DATES AUG-DEC
ACCEPTABLE DATES AUG-DEC
ACCEPTABLE MOON dark/gray time preferred for the fainter targets
CADENCE only one visit per object (including two gratings)
PREFERRED SETUP 26/Ia AND 47/Ib
EXPOSURE TIMES single observations of 3600 sec each with each grating,
two gratings per target
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION single spectroscopic observations of Seyferts:
MRK 1018 with V=14.3, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating)
Mrk 1126 with V=14.0, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating)
NGC 5506 with V=12.8, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating)
NGC 7314 with V=11.9, 7200 sec/visit (3600 sec/grating)
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GSU PRIORITY 12
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TITLE Orbit for Contact Binary R47
ID # GSTU76
PI Doug Gies (GSU), Steve Williams (GSU), Noel Richardson (GSU)
CONTACT gies@chara.gsu.edu, swilliams@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6021
TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + fiber echelle spectrograph
MODE (service or user) service
TIME 14.7 hours X 1.2 tax X 1.5 service = 26.5 hours = 2.8 nights
TRAINING RUN N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes
PREFERRED DATES AUG 01-JAN 31
ACCEPTABLE DATES AUG 01-JAN 31
ACCEPTABLE MOON any
CADENCE 1 spectrum every 2 weeks for six months
PREFERRED SETUP 4800 - 6400 Angstroms, 150 micron slit (R=20,000)
EXPOSURE TIMES 3x20=60 minutes exposure + 8 minutes overhead per observation
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Need to obtain spectra around orbit for a remarkable
massive binary in the LMC. R47 is a contact and eclipsing
binary with an orbital period of 181 days.
Target list:
Star V Type RA(2000.0) Dec(2000.0)
R47 11.5 F0 Iae 01:29:17.26 -72:43:20.2