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Principal Investigator Email Address

• dbaade@eso.org

Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

• < 20

General Description

• The project concerns SNe, which at the time of discovery may have V=16.
    
  
  Each SN will be observed 3-5 times, spread over 2-4 weeks.  More often and over
   a longer period of time if an SN is very bright.  
  
  The aimed-for accuracy is 0.1% in the degree of polarization.
  
  We provide OBs for SNe and spectrophotometric standards.  They come in 2 flavors,
   namely with and without order-sorting filter.  For any given set of observations,
   SN and standard must be observed with the same flavor.  The triggering message will
   provide the advice, which one to use.  
  
  All exposure times in the OBs are just dummy numbers.  They need to be replaced
   at the time of the execution.
  
  Finding charts will be submitted at the respective first trigger.

Waiver Requests

• Paranal accepted our request to be permitted to exceed the default time
   limit per OB of 
  one hour.
  
  Date: 	31-07-2009
  ID:	084.D-0799A.01.WAV

Critical Observing Condition Constraints

• Moon light is strongly polarized and should be avoided.  This will be
   taken into account when requesting observations.  
  
  The sky transparency may be slightly sub-photometric.

Time-Critical Aspects

• It will help if the respective first observation can be made within 2
   days of the request.  The observations will be typically reduced within 24 hours
   of receipt of the data to decide about follow-up observations.  For these, the requested
   response time will be 2-4 days.
  
  We will try to avoiud making too extensive use of the granted waiver of the 1-hour
   restriction on the OB execution time.  Rather, we may ask to execute two OBs within
   the same or at most the following night.

Special Execution Requirements

• None.

Special Calibration Information

• We request that spectropolarimetric standards be observed according to
   the calibration plan (but will not submit the corresponding OBs).  
  
  For every interval of 3-5 nights with SN observations, we will request one unpolarized
   spectrophotometric standard to be observed at ONE Wollaston PA _only_.

ToO Information

• This is a ToO project.

ToO Activators List

• Dietrich Baade		dbaade@eso.org
  Justyn Maund		justyn@astro.ku.dk
  Ferdinando Patat	fpatat@eso.org
  Lifan Wang		wang@physics.tamu.edu  or  lifanwang@gmail.com

Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

• false

Pre-imaging Requirements

• None.

Source(s) of Pre-imaging

• ---(Empty)---

Pre-imaging sources not listed above

• ---(Empty)---

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 ?

• N/A

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 ?

• YES

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

If you have prepared your finding charts with tools other than FIMS,
 do they comply with the specifications on the FORS1 Phase 2 web page ?

• N/A