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Principal Investigator Email Address

• sstefl@eso.org

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 39 minutes (according to p2pp)

General Description

• This is a spectroscopic long-term monitoring of the bright Be star zeta
   Tau in support
  of the interferometric AMBER and polarimetric (LNA - Observatorio do Pico Dos Dias,
   Brazil) observations with the aim to detect and model the global (density wave)
   oscillations in the circumstellar disk of the star.
  All five OBs are identical.

Waiver Requests

• No Waiver Request was submitted

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• No strict observing conditions. Because the star is very bright, the Feros
   observations can be executed almost under any conditions, including thick clouds,
   provided that the integration time is adjusted appropriately.

Time-Critical Aspects

• It is very desirable that 
  - the OB  zeta Tau-Nov is executed simultaneously with our polarimetric observations
   
  (Oct 13/14 and 14/15) or only 1 day earlier
  - the OBs zeta Tau-Dec-1 and zeta Tau-Dec-2  are executed simultaneously with the
   AMBER observations on Dec 11/12, 2006, one at the beginning and the second in the
   end of the night in order to test the possible activity of the star and fast variations
   in the inner part of the disk during the interferometric observations. 
  - the OB zeta Tau-Nov is executed at the very beginning of the service window starting
   in the end of November (Nov 28 -30)
  - the OBs zeta Tau-Jan) completes the spectroscopic monitoring in January and its
   execution is not very time critical (Jan 10 - 31).

Special Execution Requirements

• None

Special Calibration Information

• Standard calibrations are sufficient

ToO Information

• none

ToO Activators List

• none

Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

• none

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 ?

• YES

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?

• N/A