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Principal Investigator Email Address

• maltmann@ari.uni-heidelberg.de

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 32.0000

General Description

• This program (82.D-0339) serves for the preparation of the Gaia astrometric
   satellite mission. Gaia will not only measure precise astrometry of 10e+9 stars,
   but also radial velocities, abundances, logg and Teff of a large subset of the target
   stars. The purpose of this program (and all others related to observing the Ecliptic
   poles) is to achieve a database for initial checks of functionality and performance
   of the satellite once in space. Here we will obtain data to evaluate Gaia's hi-res
   spectrograph. We are thus observing stars with magnitudes between 14.5 and 16.8,
   near Gaia's spectrographic sensitivity limit.  
  
  Some remarks about this p2pp package:
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  -Magnitudes are only good to about 0.3 mag (our imaging data on which positions
   and magnitudes rely was not photometric), the position have been derived against
   UCAC2, they should be better than those of UCAC2, currently about 0.1"
  -The main goal is to get high S/N data for as many stars as possible. Therefore
   three of the four OBs (per grism) for each pointing should have been observed, before
   moving to another field. While there are not really priorities for the different
   pointing, it would be prudent to start with the central field. 
  -The finding charts have been prepared with skycat, they are normally oriented (i.e.
   East to the left, and North up, the orientation is also marked) and 25'x25' in size
   as required. The differnet fibres are represented by the blue and red symbols, the
   GS is marked by the red diamond, the fidicual stars be the red squares. The field
   centre is marked by a red point witihn a blue circle without any star inside.

Waiver Requests

• No Waiver Request was submitted

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• there are no critical observing constraints for this program. Per definitionem
   the moon is always more than 80 degrees from our target, the ecliptic pole. In order
   not to lose to much light the seeing should not be worse than 1.2".

Time-Critical Aspects

• this program does not have any time critical aspects. The OBs have been
   evaluated for hour angles for 150 days, starting Oct. 1st. I.e. every OB can be
   observed for HA<+/-4hrs from eary October to late February.

Special Execution Requirements

• there are not

Special Calibration Information

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ToO Information

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ToO Activators List

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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