README web version of /home/usg/OPS/MTS/readme_xml/readme_75048400
Principal Investigator Email Address
Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)
General Description
In this run, we propose to use MIDI for probing the dust distribution
of HM Sge at a scale of a few tens of milliarcsecond. MIDI will allow to compare
the inner distribution and sizes of the dust (in particular the silicate features,
9-11 microns) and IR continuum regions. In order to measure some asymmetry in the
inner structures, the observations should fill in the spatial coverage of these
objects in 4 directions directions, ideally separated by roughly 3 hours (45 deg).
I realize that this might be difficult to fulfill, and a larger time span has been
given in the time-critical constraints for the earliest and latest OBs.
Waiver Requests
Critical Observing Condition Constraints
Time-Critical Aspects
The science object and its calibrator are observed 4 times, with ideally
a baseline rotation of 45 degrees (i.e. 3 hours in time) between them. These observations
do not need to be done within the same night.
This would impose very low elevation for the earliest and the latest OBs ; if observed
in july, HM Sge would have an elevation of about 30 degrees if observed at the ideal
sideral times (15:15 or 00:15). This is probably too low thus I let some flexibility
for these OBs, but the closest to these times, the better.
Special Execution Requirements
Special Calibration Information
ToO Information
ToO Activators List
Is this a Pre-imaging run ?
Pre-imaging Requirements
Source(s) of Pre-imaging
Pre-imaging sources not listed above
Do all your OBs comply with the instrument-specific requirements listed
on the instrument-specific Phase 2 web page ?
If this is a pre-imaging run, did you select PRE-IMAGING for the Observing
Category for each Observing Template ?
Do all your finding charts comply with both the general and instrument-specific
Phase 2 Web Pages ?
If you submitted OBs for standard stars, did you specify the magnitude
and spectral type of all standard stars in the OBs ?
Have you included OBs for any calibrations that you need but which are
not part of the Calibration Plan ?
If you are observing Moving Targets, have you attached suitable ephemeris
files to your OBs?
If you have preferences which OBs should be executed first, did you make
use of the User Priority field in the OBs ?
If this is a run that requires coordinated observations with other facilities,
did you give proper instructions in the Time-Critical Aspects Section ?
Did you indicate for each science star OB the corresponding calibrator
star OB (and vice versa) in the 'User Comments' field ?
If you use calibrator stars which are not in the CalVin database, did
you specify their characteristics in the README file and in the OBs ?
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