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Principal Investigator Email Address

• lmfreyhammer@uclan.ac.uk

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 29:48:25

General Description

• This is a "filler" programme with 26 autonomous OBs to search for oscillations
   in 26 Ap stars. 
  We are searching for periodic RV shifts of 40-2000 m/s in lines such as Halpha,
   REEs, Fe and Ba to detect new roAp stars with periods of 5-20mins.
  
  The sample has a wide range in R.A. and brightness and can be observed throughout
   P80, especially under deteriorated weather conditions. Half the stars can be observed
   any month, while unsuitable months for the other half are stated in "Time-Critical
   Aspects"
  This programme CAN UTILIZE TWILIGHT, as we can still find usable stellar lines in
   the wide spectral region.
  
  Only the default day-time calibrations are required. Expected S/N is from ETC V.3.20
   using
  fast readout (ultrafast didn't work with the ETC).

Waiver Requests

• A request for long OBs + ultrafast CCDmode, submitted 5 Jul 2007, was
   approved:
  
  Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:46:59 +0200
  From: Ferdinando Patat 
  To: lmfreyhammer@uclan.ac.uk
  Subject: 080.D-0191(A)
  
  Dear Dr. Freyhammer,
  The wish to use the fast 4-port readout mode is granted.
  The wish to have OBs longer than one hour is also granted under
  the  usual restriction that should weather conditions degrade after
  one hour, the OB will not be  repeated.
  
  Best regards,
  
  Nando
  -- 
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  Ferdinando Patat      -      Users  Support  Dept.
  European Southern Observatory - Garching - Germany
  Phone: +49-89-32006-744      FAX: +49-89-32006-898
  WWW: http://www.eso.org/~fpatat      SKYPE: fpatat
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Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• N/A

Time-Critical Aspects

• The following targets cannot be observed in the mentioned months:
  HD7676 not visible in February & March,
  HD86976 not visible in October,
  HD88385 not visible in October,
  HD88701 not visible in October,
  HD91087 not visible in October,
  HD92499 not visible in October,
  HD96237 not visible in October,
  HD97394 not visible in October,
  HD110274 not visible in October & November,
  HD117290 not visible in October & November,
  HD121661 not visible in October-December,
  HD135815 not visible in October-December,
  HD143487 not visible in October-January (ie. only in February or March)

Special Execution Requirements

• N/A

Special Calibration Information

• N/A

ToO Information

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ToO Activators List

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Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

• N/A

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 specified the S/N ratio at given wavelength in the User Comments
 field of each OB?

• YES

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

If you need secondary guiding, are there suitable objects within 30 arcsec
 from your target ?

• N/A