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Principal Investigator Email Address

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Coralie.Neiner@obspm.fr
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Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

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29.1
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General Description

The AP program of CoRoT aims at studying variable stars in its exoplanet
 fields. CoRoT has already classified 1040 new periodic variables and identified
 2274 other variables of unknown kind in its first field (IR1). A similar number
 of variables has been discovered in the LRA1 field. The CoRoT light curves are not
 sufficient to characterize these new variables. The spectra requested here are needed
 (i) to classify the stars accurately in types of pulsators, and (ii) to determine
 their fundamental parameters. The spectroscopic and CoRoT results will be homogenous,
 each descending from a single methodology. The CoRoT AP sample will then constitute
 a unique tool in the study of variability phenomena. It will allow to study the
 internal structure of the targets via seismic modelling, to study for the first
 time the boundaries of instability strips from unbiased large samples of class members,
 to constrain models of stellar evolution, and to discover new classes or subclasses
 of pulsators.

Waiver Requests

A waiver request was submitted on July 24th to usd-help (problem number
 USD-24528). We asked for a delay to submit the OBs. Claudio Melo granted this delay
 on July 24th.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

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None.
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Time-Critical Aspects

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None.
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Special Execution Requirements

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None.
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Special Calibration Information

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None.
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ToO Information

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None.
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ToO Activators List

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None.
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Do all your OBs comply with the instrument-specific requirements listed on the instrument-specific Phase 2 web page ?

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

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

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

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

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N/A
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Last creation of page: Tue Oct 6 15:40:28 2009
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