GSU OBSERVING REQUESTS FOR SMARTS TIME IN 2012B (part 1)



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AUG 2012 THROUGH SEP 2012 (2 months only)
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                              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

                              # nights listed are equivalent user nights

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GSU PRIORITY 1 --- SCHEDULED 4.0 nights
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TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT        1.5m + RCSpec
TITLE                         Reverberation Mapping of Nearby AGN
ID #                          GSTU91
PI                            Misty Bentz (GSU), Mike Crenshaw (GSU)
CONTACT                       bentz@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6082
MODE (service or user)        service
TIME                          100 min X 15 (even) nights X 1.5 service = 38 hours = 4.2 nights
TRAINING RUN                  N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER              N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK?     yes
PREFERRED DATES               AUG only
ACCEPTABLE DATES              AUG only
ACCEPTABLE MOON               any

CADENCE                       ROUND 3 = AUG

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                2xTBD sec per target per visit = 30 min per target per visit with overheads

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.  Targets TBD.

                              Object           RA           DEC       mag        z

                              TBD          00 00 00.0    -00 00 00    00.0     0.0000

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GSU PRIORITY 2 --- SCHEDULED 6.7 nights
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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, 404-401-0769
MODE (service or user)        service
TIME                          2.0 hours every 3 nights = 40 hours X 1.5 service = 60 hours = 6.7 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 3 --- SCHEDULED 3.0 nights
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TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT        1.5m + CHIRON
TITLE                         Radial Velocities of Young Stars
ID #                          GSTU82
PI                            Russel White (GSU), Justin Cantrell (GSU)
CONTACT                       white@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6018
MODE (service or user)        service
TIME                          20 min X 54 visits = 18 hours X 1.5 service = 27.0 hours = 3.0 nights
TRAINING RUN                  N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER              N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK?     yes
PREFERRED DATES               AUG-SEP
ACCEPTABLE DATES              AUG-SEP
ACCEPTABLE MOON               any

CADENCE                       2 observations/week on each star

PREFERRED SETUP               TBD normal or fiber mode, 10 m/s precision needed on V=8 targets

EXPOSURE TIMES                assumed 600 sec per target per visit + 600 sec overhead

SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION        Pilot program to detect hot Jupiters orbiting young stars.

                              Object          RA   J2000   DEC        mag      notes

			      HD 8558      01 23 21.3   -57 28 51    V=8.51    G5.5
                              HD 12039     01 57 49.0   -21 54 05    V=8.07    G2.5
                              HD 222259    23 39 39.5   -69 11 45    V=8.49    G4

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GSU PRIORITY 4 --- SCHEDULED 8.0 nights
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TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT        0.9m + 2K CCD (1.0m CANNOT BE USED)
TITLE                         CTIOPI
ID #                          GSTU01
PI                            Todd Henry (GSU)
CONTACT                       thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054
MODE (service or user)        user
TIME                          8.0 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 8 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.

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GSU PRIORITY 5 --- SCHEDULED 2.0 nights
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TELESCOPE + INSTRUMENT        0.9m + 2K CCD (1.0m CANNOT BE USED)
TITLE                         CTIOPI
ID #                          GSTU01
PI                            Todd Henry (GSU)
CONTACT                       thenry@chara.gsu.edu, 404-413-6054
MODE (service or user)        user
TIME                          2.0 nights
TRAINING RUN                  N/A
OBSERVER/TRAINER              N/A
INTERPOLATED PROGRAMS OK?     yes
PREFERRED DATES               04 and 05 AUG
ACCEPTABLE DATES              04 and 05 AUG
ACCEPTABLE MOON               any

CADENCE                       one run of 2 nights --- add-on to 2012A schedule
PHOTOMETRIC?                  no
FILTERS                       VRI
                              
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION        Continuing parallax/perturbation search effort.  Requires roughly one
                              week/month to catch appropriate parallax factors for all targets.

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