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Principal Investigator Email Address

• rl@mpia.de

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 27:45:54.000

General Description

• The program is a part of the preparatory program for astrometric planet
   search with PRIMA, the high-precision astrometry facility at ESO-Paranal, which
   is scheduled on 2007.
  Before we start the astrometric survey, we have carefully pre-selected target-reference
   star pair candidates. The use of FEROS at the 2.2m MPG/ESO telescope provide extensive
   spectroscopic study to select and characterize target and reference stars for the
   final PRIMA observations.
  The current target list contains a sample of young stars which are potential target
   candidates for astrometric planet search with PRIMA.

Waiver Requests

• No Waiver Request was submitted

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• Seeing must be better than 2.5

Time-Critical Aspects

• none

Special Execution Requirements

• A. Calibration:
  standard calibration as usual.
  --> saved session should be included in the archive which will be sent to us.
  --> please all files in fits format (please no MIDAS format).
  
  B. Beginning of the observations:
  In the beginning of the observation night or if long time intervall
  between different observations (pause due to weather, switching between obs.):
  --> please warm up the ThAr+Ne for 120 s before taking the first object spectrum.
  
  C. Data reduction:
  -->  Extraction mode, please set the extraction mode to M (in MIDAS DRS)
  SET/FEROS ext_mode = M
  
  -->  Rebinning, please separate the orders (no merging of the reduced spectra),
  by the command
  SET/FEROS merged_mtd = NOA (No Append)
  
  If you need further infos about the DRS, please ask me (e-mail below) or Mr. John
   Pritchard.
  
  D. Observation:
  Every target of this program will be observed once in the "Object-Sky" and in the
   "Object-Calibration" mode.
  For each spectra a signal-to-noise ratio per pixel of 100-200 in the
  wavelength region around 550 nm is required.
  You may check the SNR by using the command @@ snr .... (MIDAS procedures)
  
  Pixel counts: 2000 - 5000 are good, but not a must.
  Please repeat the observation with another exposure time if the
  signal-to-noise ratio is less than 100 (higher exposure time).
  
  E. Archiving
  Please burn all reduced data (FITS, no MIDAS format) and raw data on a DVD.
  Please add the ThAr and Flatfield-Sessions of each day.
  
  Address:
  Dr. Johny Setiawan
  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie
  Koenigsstuhl 17
  69117 Heidelberg
  Germany

Special Calibration Information

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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

If you use any lamp, did you check that it should never be left on at
 the end of any OB?

• YES