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Principal Investigator Email Address

• kuerster@mpia.de

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 15.0

General Description

• This program is the continuation of a long-term radial velocity survey
   for
  extrasolar planets begun in 1992. Goal is to look for long-period
  extrasolar planets. To this end the radial velocity of each program star
  is repeatedly measured over time.
  HARPS is used in standard mode for highly accurate RV measurements with
  the simultaneous ThAr technique.
  Since all our program stars are bright (V > 6 mag) finding charts do not
  make any sense and are not attached. Our stars are always the brightest
  stars in the field. In a few cases a visual binary is seen in the field,
  then the target is the brighter component. Only exception to this: Alpha
  Centauri A and B (HR5459 and HR5450) for which BOTH components are to be
  observed using the appropriate OBs: HR5459 (ALpCenA) is the brighter
  component, HR5460 (AlpCenB) the fainter one.

Waiver Requests

• No Waiver Request was submitted

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• None, but see section "Special Execution Requirements".

Time-Critical Aspects

• None, but see section "Special Execution Requirements".

Special Execution Requirements

• For stars that have more than one OB prepared:
  (a) In a given night, do not execute more than one OB for the same star.
  (b) The idea is to have the OBs distributed over the semester as much as
  possible, i.e. to reobserve the star several times with gaps of (ideally)
  several weeks between individual observations.

Special Calibration Information

• None, only standard calibrations for the high accuracy radial velocity
  mode are needed.

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 ?

• N/A

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