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Principal Investigator Email Address

• nuno.santos@oal.ul.pt

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 8.0

General Description

• This program aims at determining precise radial-velocities for a set
  of stars known to follow well defined solar-type magnetic cycles.
  The goal is to follow this stars for several years, and to check if there are
  radial-velocity variations during the cycle, that could be
  missinterpreted as due to the presence of a long-period giant planet.
  In the OB's, multiple exposures are done to avoid CCD saturation (conservative
  seeing of 0.4'' considered); long total exposures are needed to
  average the noise induced by stellar acoustic modes.
  
  Given the brightness of the targets, no finding charts are needed.

Waiver Requests

• No Waiver Request was submitted

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• No critical observing condition constraints.

Time-Critical Aspects

• At the time the OBs were submitted we had not yet the final schedule of
  the observations. Usually we ask for 5 different and separate runs, since 
  the goal is to follow the stars in the long term.
  
  We have thus decided to schedule observations in 5 different runs (A-E). The
  OBs are names accordingly. For each run, the following dates were tentatively
  used to check for the observability of the objects:
  
  25 Abril - Run A
  25 May - Run B
  25 June - Run C
  25 July - Run D
  25 September - Run E
  
  These dates were chosen since they correspond to moments of guaranteed time
  observations with HARPS, and thus it is imaginable that the current 
  service mode runs will be executed at the same moment.
  In case the final schedulle is very different from this please let us know
  so that we can change the OBs.

Special Execution Requirements

• No special execution requirements.

Special Calibration Information

• Only usual ThAr and FF calibrations (as in GTP time; high precision in
   radial velocity
  needed).

ToO Information

• Not a ToO programme.

ToO Activators List

• Not a ToO programme.

Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

• No pre-imaging requirements

Source(s) of Pre-imaging

• ---(Empty)---

Pre-imaging sources not listed above

• ---(Empty)---

Do all your OBs comply with the instrument-specific requirements listed
 on the instrument-specific Phase 2 web page ?

• YES

If this is a pre-imaging run, did you select PRE-IMAGING for the Observing
 Category for each Observing Template ?

• N/A

Do all your finding charts comply with both the general and instrument-specific
 Phase 2 Web Pages ?

• YES

If you submitted OBs for standard stars, did you specify the magnitude
 and spectral type of all standard stars in the OBs ?

• N/A

Have you included OBs for any calibrations that you need but which are
 not part of the Calibration Plan ?

• N/A

If you are observing Moving Targets, have you attached suitable ephemeris
 files to your OBs?

• N/A

If you have preferences which OBs should be executed first, did you make
 use of the User Priority field in the OBs ?

• N/A

If this is a run that requires coordinated observations with other facilities,
 did you give proper instructions in the Time-Critical Aspects Section ?

• N/A