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Principal Investigator Email Address

• s.littlefair@shef.ac.uk

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 05:54:00

General Description

• This program intends to measure the rotation rates of young stars
  in the Rho Ophiuchus dark cloud. The rotation rates are measured
  by searching for PERIODIC photometric variability (caused by 
  starspots) in these stars. As such, the timing of OB execution
  is the critical parameter for the success of this program.
  
  Please read the Time Critical Aspects section for more information.

Waiver Requests

• No Waiver Request was submitted

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• As execution of OBs at the correct time is of the highest priority
  for this program, constraints are necessarily very relaxed. We
  have no moon requirements, relaxed seeing constraints and require 
  only thin cloud coverage or better.

Time-Critical Aspects

• Because of the need to detect and measure rotational periods for these
   stars, THE TIMING OF OB EXECUTION IS CRITICAL. Our simulations  show that the best
   observing strategy is for 3 OBs to be executed every night, for 12 consecutive nights.
   The spacing of these 3 OBs should be as close to evenly spaced as possible - we
   would like 1 OB executed at the start of the night, one in the middle and one towards
   the end of the night. Modest departures (i.e 1 hour or so) from this schedule are
   acceptable to us.
  
  If a single night of observations is missed, due to weather or other factors, WE
   WOULD LIKE 6 EVENLY SPACED OBs TO BE EXECUTED THE FOLLOWING NIGHT. This will minimise
   any aliassing problems in the resulting dataset.

Special Execution Requirements

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Special Calibration Information

• If sky flats are taken on the nights my OBs are executed, these would
  be useful. Dome flats would otherwise be used.

ToO Information

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ToO Activators List

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Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

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Source(s) of Pre-imaging

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Pre-imaging sources not listed above

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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

Did you set 'New Preset' flag in all acquisition templates to 'True'?

• YES

Have all your submitted OBs the same filter for the acquisition template
 and for the first science template?

• YES

Did you combine calibration templates with science templates for any
 OB?

• NO

Did you combine imaging and spectroscopic templates for any OB?

• NO

Did you submit any Focus template?

• NO