GSU SMARTS PROGRAMS FOR 2011B

GSU OBSERVING REQUESTS FOR SMARTS TIME IN 2011B

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUG 2011 THROUGH JAN 2012 (6 months) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- assumes 9.0 hours = 1.0 night during B semesters 1.5X --- for all service programs 1.2X --- if you need N hours of observations, including makeups 1.5m --- can request time in 2011B for new programs 1.5m --- CHIRON (echelle) can be used --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GSU PRIORITY 1 --- SCHEDULED 12.7 nights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.3m + ANDICAM TITLE Optical/IR Monitoring of Blazars ID # GSTU51 PI Joe Eggen (GSU), Dick Miller (GSU) CONTACT eggen@chara.gsu.edu, 573-301-6769 MODE (service or user) service TIME 1.25 hour every 3 nights = 76 hours X 1.5 service = 114 hours = 12.7 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GSU PRIORITY 2 --- SCHEDULED 16.0 nights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec TITLE Reverberation Mapping of Nearby AGNs ID # GSTU91 PI Misty Bentz (GSU), Mike Crenshaw (GSU) CONTACT bentz@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6082 MODE (service or user) service TIME 96 hours X 1.5 service = 144 hours = 16.0 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes PREFERRED DATES August 1 - October 31 ACCEPTABLE DATES August 1 - November 10 ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE two spectra per AGN per visit; visits spaced approximately every other day for 45 visits over 90 nights; program is more sensitive to timing than observing conditions and spectra should be obtained whenever possible regardless of moon phase or cloud cover PREFERRED SETUP 26/I, 26/Ia, 26/Ib all acceptable 4" slit required E-W slit orientation required (must be rotated back before observations if at non-standard orientation from previous program) EXPOSURE TIMES 2x720s per target per visit = 32 min per target per visit with overheads = 24 hours per target after 45 visits SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Spectrophotometric monitoring of nearby AGNs to determine the time lag between continuum variations and variations in the broad emission line flux; will ultimately lead to black hole mass measurements. Object RA DEC Bmag z NGC6814 19 42 40.6 -10 19 25 12.0 0.0052 NGC7213 22 09 16.3 -47 10 00 11.0 0.0058 NGC7469 23 03 15.6 +08 52 26 13.0 0.0163 NGC1566 04 20 00.4 -54 56 16 10.3 0.0050 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GSU PRIORITY 3 --- SCHEDULED 7.0 nights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD TITLE CTIOPI ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 MODE (service or user) user TIME 7.0 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes PREFERRED DATES SEP ACCEPTABLE DATES any ACCEPTABLE MOON ***** GRAY OR DARK TIME IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE ***** CADENCE one run of 7 nights PHOTOMETRIC? no FILTERS VRI SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort. Requires roughly one week/month to catch appropriate parallax factors for all targets. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GSU PRIORITY 4 --- SCHEDULED 7.0 nights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD TITLE CTIOPI ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 MODE (service or user) user TIME 7.0 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 roughly one week/month to catch appropriate parallax factors for all targets. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GSU PRIORITY 5 --- SCHEDULED 7.0 nights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD TITLE CTIOPI ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 MODE (service or user) user TIME 7.0 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes PREFERRED DATES NOV ACCEPTABLE DATES any ACCEPTABLE MOON ***** GRAY OR DARK TIME IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE ***** CADENCE one run of 7 nights PHOTOMETRIC? no FILTERS VRI SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort. Requires roughly one week/month to catch appropriate parallax factors for all targets. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GSU PRIORITY 6 --- SCHEDULED 7.0 nights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 0.9m + 2K CCD TITLE CTIOPI ID # GSTU01 PI Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 MODE (service or user) user TIME 7.0 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 roughly one week/month to catch appropriate parallax factors for all targets. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GSU PRIORITY 7 --- SCHEDULED 1.3 nights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec TITLE Activity Cycles of Southern Asteroseismic Targets ID # GSTU09 PI Travis Metcalfe (UCAR), Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT travis@ucar.edu, 303-497-8326 MODE (service or user) service TIME 9.0 hours X 1.5 service = 13.5 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 8 spectra/star/semester folded in with requests from STScI and Yale PREFERRED SETUP 47/II EXPOSURE TIMES average ~3 min/star = 12 min/star with overhead SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Synoptic Ca II H & K monitoring of 58 bright solar-type stars (~35 stars observable on a given night) to document their magnetic activity cycles, and rotation periods when possible. This request is a continuation of UCAR01 from 2010B. This program has also been submitted as a Director's Discretionary request, and if that is approved, this particular request from GSU can be dropped. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GSU PRIORITY 8 --- SCHEDULED 4.7 nights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT 1.5m + RCSpec TITLE Spectra of Suspected FINWIN (red/white dwarf) Binaries ID # GSTU04 PI Mark Boyd (GSU), Todd Henry (GSU) CONTACT boyd@chara.gsu.edu, thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054 MODE (service or user) service TIME 31 hours X 1.5 service = 46.5 hours = 5.2 nights TRAINING RUN N/A OBSERVER/TRAINER N/A INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK? yes PREFERRED DATES any ACCEPTABLE DATES any ACCEPTABLE MOON any CADENCE 2 spectra/star, one right after the other PREFERRED SETUP 13/I to cover 3200-9300 A prefer 4" slit EXPOSURE TIMES varies by target average ~7 min/star = 23 min/star for 2 exposures and overhead SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION Search for close RD-WD binaries selected using SuperCOSMOS colors. We will also be gathering imaging data in an attempt to resolve the systems and to measure VRI photometry. Dynamical masses for white dwarfs is the ultimate goal. Examples of targets: Star Rmag IntTime NLTT47370 13.19 2 x 300 sec LP272-087 14.02 2 x 600 sec SCR1709-2127 15.02 2 x 900 sec NLTT15518 16.07 2 x 1200 sec --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- END ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------