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Principal Investigator Email Address

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smengel@eso.org
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Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

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40:49
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General Description

Straightforward noAO spectroscopy of stars, using J, H and K gratings.
 Can be executed in
virtually any conditions, even violating the seeing constraint substantially to
 avoid
idle telescope. But the integration time was adjusted to obtain a desired SNR of
 a few 
100 per spectral pixel, so if you do execute the OBs at seeing much bigger than
 2" or 
transparency worse than THN, please increase the integration time to compensate
 for this.

If you see multiple targets in the FOV, try to include them both/all.

For one target (138475, M0I star), we found a mismatch between literature and DSS-2
 
coordinates, possibly due to high proper motion. We used the literature coordinates
for the OB, because they are more recent (observations from 2002). 
However, if you cannot see the star within the SINFONI FOV, you might try the RA
 from
DSS (given in the OB comments, to the west of the FOV), or a projected location
 for
2006 (unfortunately, we don't know when the DSS image used for the FC was taken).
 
Or simply give up, if it's too hard to find.

All sources are fainter (or expected to be fainter, from mV and spectral type) than
5.2 mag and should not saturate the detector. The target stars are always the 
brightest object in the FOV, K-mags given in the OB comments.

Waiver Requests

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No Waiver Request was submitted
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Critical Observing Condition Constraints

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none
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Time-Critical Aspects

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none
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Special Execution Requirements

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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 ?

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false
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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 ?

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

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N/A
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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 ?

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

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

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

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

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N/A
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Did you indicate the magnitude of the brightest object in the field in each SINFONI OB?

If you are using the AO: Did you indicate for every OB the magnitude of the guide star, and its distance to the target (if any)?

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N/A
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If you submitted OBs for standard stars, did you use the provided StandardStar templates?

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N/A
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If you are using a specific offset pattern or position angle: did you check carefully the definition in the manual?

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N/A
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Did you make really sure that none of your OBs ever saturates the detector?

If you are using the AO: did you enter the correct Strehl Ratio (on-axis, K-band) AND the seeing value in the constraint set?

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N/A
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Last creation of page: Tue Oct 6 15:40:10 2009
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