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Principal Investigator Email Address

• as110@st-andrews.ac.uk

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 5.0

General Description

• Long-term Accretion Monitoring Project: the first season (LAMP-I)
  
  The idea of LAMP is to monitor the accretion in young stars by high/medium resolution
   spectroscopy. In run A, we want to use FLAMES to obtain 6 spectra for a large sample
   of young stars in the star forming region Cha-I
  
  We therefore submit six identical OBs, one for each epoch; the OBs are named in
   the following way: ChaI_x, where 'x' is a number running from 1 to 6. 
  
  All OBs include one very short exposure (for bright sources) and one long exposure
   for the majority of the targets. We use standard FLAMES settings and require only
   standard calibrations.
  
  IMPORTANT:
  The science goal of this program is to monitor our targets over timescales of a
   few months. In an ideal scenario, the OBs for this run should be spread out over
   several months. To guarantee a minimum of time coverage, we ask NOT to execute two
   OBs in the same week. Please do NOT observe the OBs consecutively, as this would
   be detrimental to our science goals.

Waiver Requests

• No Waiver Request was submitted

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• N.A.

Time-Critical Aspects

• IMPORTANT:
  The science goal of this program is to monitor our targets over timescales of a
   few months. In an ideal scenario, the OBs should be spread out over several months.
   To guarantee a minimum of time coverage, we ask NOT to execute two OBs in the same
   week. Please do NOT observe the OBs consecutively, as this would be detrimental
   to our science goals.

Special Execution Requirements

• 1) For many of the targets in our field, the coordinates come from UCAC2
   and are accurate to within 0.3" or better. The faintest sources, however, are not
   covered by UCAC2. We made sure that there coordinates are still within the same
   astrometric system. They should be accurate to within 0.5" or better. Still, some
   of them might be off. Don't be puzzled if some fibres do not show a strong spectrum.
  
  2) Again, the goal of the project is to provide information about timescales of
   weeks and months. Ideally, the observations should be spread out over several months.
   Please do NOT carry out the OBs consecutively.

Special Calibration Information

• Standard calibrations are sufficient.

ToO Information

• N.A.

ToO Activators List

• N.A.

Do all your OBs comply with the instrument-specific requirements listed
 on the instrument-specific Phase 2 web page ?

• YES

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

Did you specify in your OBs the hour angle range for which your Target
 Setup files are valid ?

• YES

Did you specify in your OBs the magnitudes of FACBs and Guide Star for
 all your fields ?

• YES

Are the FACBs and Guide Star in the brightness ranges specified in the
 FLAMES manual ?

• YES

Did you enter the expected signal to noise in your OBs ?

• YES