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Principal Investigator Email Address

• pgroot@astro.ru.nl

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 30:04

General Description

• The aim of this proposal is to identify new members of the AM CVn class
   of interacting binaries. Candidates have been identified from the Sloan Digital
   Sky Survey on the basis of the optical colours of the six known AM CVn stars in
   the SDSS. This resulted in 98 candidates in the RA range 10 < RA < 24 hours,
   dec < +30 and 19.5 < g < 20.5. 
  
  Identification will be done through a single lowish resolution spectrum, where the
   defining trait of the family is the presence of strong Helium I emission lines at
   the rest wavelength (often double or triple peaked), and the absence of hydrogen
   lines. The emission lines originate in the accretion disk surrounding the primary
   white dwarf. 
  
  The observations can be obtained under any seeing condition and with up to thin
   cirrus. Exposure times have been made assuming no intervening cirrus. 
  
  All objects have g>19.5 and are blue, and therefore grey time is required. Each
   OB is self-contained and can be executed at any given time when the source is visible.
   For all OBs we request a slit position along the parallactic angle. All finding
   charts are from the SDSS and show the full field of view of FORS (6.8x6.8 arcminutes),
   with North up and East to the left.

Waiver Requests

• A request was submitted and approved to extend the allocation to 30hrs
   instead of 20hrs (USD-21876). OBs have been uploaded according to this new allocation.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• N/A

Time-Critical Aspects

• N/A

Special Execution Requirements

• N/A

Special Calibration Information

• N/A

ToO Information

• N/A

ToO Activators List

• N/A

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

• ---(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 ?

• N/A

If you have prepared your finding charts with tools other than FIMS,
 do they comply with the specifications on the FORS1 Phase 2 web page ?

• N/A