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Principal Investigator Email Address

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ajbaker@physics.rutgers.edu
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Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

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03:53:12
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General Description

Information on targets:

OB name         target            comments
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sciG2104        z=0.137   K=13.9  Pa_alpha line expected near 2.1326um
sciG2116a       z=0.138   K=14.9  Pa_alpha line expected near 2.1157um
sciG2116b       z=0.138   K=14.9  Pa_alpha line expected near 2.1157um

The main characteristics of the observations are as follows.

- The OBs are prioritized 1,2,3 according to the quality of ancillary data.
- OBs are named after the targets, with "a" and "b" appended for the one source
 with 2 OBs.
- The DITs for our exposures of our faint targets are 600s.
- The spectral feature we wish to observe is Pa_alpha in emission;
  the expected wavelength is given in the table.  There are no previous
  spectroscopic observations in the near-IR, so their exact Pa_alpha fluxes
  and morphologies are not known.  Their sizes, however, are not expected
  to be very different from their optical continuum sizes.  We estimated 
  the Pa_alpha fluxes based on observed H_alpha from SDSS, together with 
  an estimate of the extinction from the Balmer decrement also from SDSS.
  Pa_alpha surface brightnesses are thus estimated to be in the range
  ~5.0e-15 - 3.8e-14 erg/s/cm^2/arcsec^2.
- We are using the 250mas scale, with field of view (FOV) of 8"x8".
  We use separate sky exposures given that the sources may be rather large 
  relative to the FOV.

Waiver Requests

One waiver request was submitted (081.B-0947B.01) on 11 Feb 2008 and granted
 on 12 Feb 2008; this request was to increase the OB execution time limit to 1h30.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

Clear sky and 0.8" seeing (per Phase 1 proposal).

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 ?

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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