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Principal Investigator Email Address

• pnb@roe.ac.uk

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 22:29:50.000

General Description

• [Note to OB reviewer: this final submission contains the remaining OBs.
   Added to those already submitted this should fill the allocated time. Thanks.]
  
  This is an MOS spectroscopy run. There are 9 fields, tiling the UKIDSS-UDS field.
   The observations in each field are split into either 2 or 3 OBs (_1, _2, _3 in the
   names), summing to a total of just over 1.5 hours on-sky in each case. The splitting
   into 2 and 3 OBs has been done to give a variety of different OB executation times
   to assist in scheduling the project. Longer OBs have been allocated higher priority
   so that these are observed where possible, instead of more easily schedulable shorter
   OBs. The longest OBs go slightly beyond the 1 hour limit, and a waiver has been
   obtained for these.
  
  The primary targets on the masks are objects selected as narrow-band emitters in
   our near-IR narrow-band project. They are thus emission line objects. The aim of
   the project is to confirm the redshifts. Many objects are optically faint: *most
   will not be visible in the through-slit image* but there should be enough detections
   to allow centering. Continuum detections in the spectra may also be weak or absent
   - but the aim is to detect the emission lines and measure the redshift from these.
   A significant fraction of the emitters are expected to have a strong emission line
   at around 6840Ang.
  
  No night-time flats or arcs are requested: sky lines will be used to correct wavelength
   calibration errors to sufficient accuracy, while dithering along the slit will minimise
   flat-fielding errors.

Waiver Requests

• Waiver request 082.A-0832B.01.WAV was submitted and approved on 23rd July
   2008. It permits OBs up to 
  75 minutes in length for this project.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• None

Time-Critical Aspects

• None

Special Execution Requirements

• None

Special Calibration Information

• None

ToO Information

• None

ToO Activators List

• None

Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

• None

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 ?

• YES

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 suitable guide stars for all your OBs using Guidecam
 ?

• YES

Did you check that the chosen guide stars are suitable for all the offset
 positions and that they do not produce unacceptable vignetting of the field of view
 ?

• YES