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Principal Investigator Email Address

• abik@mpia.de

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• 6:57

General Description

• This programme aims at obtaining H+K band spectra of young massive stars
   embedded in a starburst cluster. The centre of the cluster as well as some selected
   pointings will be observed with SINFONI. Our strategy is as follows:
  
  1) Aquisition on a bright reference target (black square in finding charts) and
   then via a blind offset to the target fields (white squares in finding charts).
   Please place the reference star accurately in the center of the FOV during the aquisition,
   otherwise the offset pattern of the science poitings will be shifted.
  
  2) Several pointings are observed in 1 OB to cover as many targets in the cluster
   center as possible. 1 Pointing consists of 6 exposures of 30 seconds with a sky
   frame.
  
  Note: The offsets to the skyframes can be as large as 1 arcminute.
  
  As a telluric standard we would prefer an early type star observed as close as possible
   in time and location to our science target.
  
  An extra OB has been added to observe a standard star at a 5x5 grid over the field
   of view to improve the distortion calibration (see waiver request). The name of
   the OB: CAL_std_distortion_calibration. This OB can be observed in twilight, a suitable
   standard star should still be inserted. A DIT of 5 sec has been given, please change
   this when needed.

Waiver Requests

• 083.C-0658B.01.WAV: waiver asking for extra calibration to improve the
   distortion correction of the SINFONI data. The request has been granted to take
   an extra fibre frame as well as a standard star scanning the complete field of view.
   We have provided an OB for the standard star observations to be executed during
   twilight: CAL_std_distortion_calibration. No coordinates have been given as it is
   not clear when it will be executed. A DIT of 5 sec has been given, please change
   this when needed.

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• No critical observing constraints

Time-Critical Aspects

• No time critical aspects

Special Execution Requirements

• No special requirements

Special Calibration Information

• No special calibration needed

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)?

• N/A

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?

• YES

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?

• N/A