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Principal Investigator Email Address

• astolte@ph1.uni-koeln.de

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 18

General Description

• The Quintuplet cluster shall be observed with the SINFONIE IFU in the
   H+K grism.
  
  The guide star is provided by a blue foreground giant. Fields are selected
  to cover the largest number of primary targets (15 < K <17.2). The RA/DEC
  positions of the guide star and each field are derived from the same NACO 
  image, and relative positions from the GS to each field are confirmed 
  from the same image.
  
  Guide star: GSC2.3 ID: S8DO062533 (GSC 2.2 ID: S222123062533)  (same for all fields!)
   
              GSC2.3 RA: 17:46:15.35   DEC: -28:49:41.6
              GSC2.3 R-mag 15.18       colour B_j-R = 2.52  mag	colour B-R = 3.24
   mag
  
              NACO RA: 17:46:15.371   DEC: -28:49:41.79
              NACO K=11.5 mag         H= 13.5 mag
  
  The NACO RA/DEC provide the reference coordinates for the target fields.
  
  Object/Field  	 RA          	DEC       K-mag    separ.  offset GS -> Field 
               	 NACO        	NACO       max      NGS[\"]   RA[\"] DEC[\"]
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Quintuplet-F1  17:46:15.560 -28:49:38.590  13.3      4.05   + 2.48  +3.20
  Quintuplet-F2  17:46:15.516 -28:49:32.040  12.9      9.93   + 1.91  +9.75
  Quintuplet-F3  17:46:15.671 -28:49:35.230  13.7      7.65   + 3.94  +6.56
  Quintuplet-F4  17:46:15.313 -28:49:38.030  12.6      3.84   - 0.76  +3.76
  
  All offsets are given in arcseconds, as offset when moving from the NGS 
  to the field. The same NGS is used for all fields. 
  
  A nearby, dark sky position without foreground stars is selected to avoid
  contamination from the dense Galactic Center population.

Waiver Requests

• The duration of each of the SINFONI OBs is 1h 6 min (according to p2pp,
   including aquisition time). The waiver approved the exceedance of the one hour OB
   duration limit for Service Mode observations.
  
  
  submitted: 26.01.2009
  approved:  26.01.2009 (by Vincenzo Mainieri)

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• To the best of our knowledge after extensive ETC simulations, we have
   derived
  DITs of 150s, which should never saturate in the H or K-band regime at K=12 mag
  and H=13.5 mag, the brightest star in all fields. Please make sure that 
  saturation under real observing conditions does indeed not occur in this setup.

Time-Critical Aspects

• NONE

Special Execution Requirements

• This project aims at depth, not area coverage. Please finish the OBs on
   one field
  before starting the next when conditions allow.

Special Calibration Information

• Please use G2/3V  stars for telluric calibration whenever possible. Hot
   stars may interfere with features in the hot stars we intend to calibrate,so G2V
   stars are required. The ideal situation is to have a B-star  in addition to the
   G2/3V for each night.
  Telluric standards should be obtained as stated in the calibration plan (one per
   observation),
  but at least every 2-3 hours at the same airmass as the target.

ToO Information

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ToO Activators List

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Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

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 ?

• 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 indicate the magnitude of the brightest object in the field in
 each SINFONI OB?

• YES

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)?

• YES

If you submitted OBs for standard stars, did you use the provided StandardStar
 templates?

• N/A

If you are using a specific offset pattern or position angle: did you
 check carefully the definition in the manual?

• N/A

Did you make really sure that none of your OBs ever saturates the detector?

• YES

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?

• YES