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Principal Investigator Email Address

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loic.le-tiran@obspm.fr
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Estimated Total Execution Time (hours, including overheads)

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32
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General Description

Our program is to obtain J band spectra of a sample of massive galaxies
at z~1.38 for which we have already obtained spectra of using SINFONI
in the H-band (with continuum, H-alpha, [NII] detections in all cases).
The H-band spectra to be observed will contain the [OIII] and H-beta
emission lines and optical continuum and will allow us to make a number
of deductions based on optical emission line ratios and continuum slope.
The sources are extremely faint and we do not expect to see much, if
anything, in subtractions of continguous pairs of exposures.  The galaxies
are located in the same region of the sky at roughly 23:30 +00:10 and
can be done early in the semester.

We emphasize that these data will add great value to our previous
SINFONI observations and completing even a few galaxies in the J-band
for this programme will be extremely valuable.  All sources are equally
interesting, but we have indicated our priorities based on the emission
line fluxes of H-alpha and [NII] and continuum magnitudes, favoring
those with truly outstanding H-band data.

Rmag of the offset stars :
USNO_A2 0900.20424817 13.7
USNO_A2 0900.20420575 14.1
USNO_A2 0900.20420437 13.8
USNO_A2 0900.20419909 17.9
2MASS 23294852+0010047 18.5
USNO_A2 0900.20420722 15.4
USNO_A2 0900.20423846 14.1
USNO_A2 0900.20423041 15.6

Waiver Requests

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No Waiver Request was submitted
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Critical Observing Condition Constraints

No critical observing condition constraints

Time-Critical Aspects

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No Time-Critical Aspects
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Special Execution Requirements

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No Special Execution Requirements
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Special Calibration Information

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No Special Calibration
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ToO Information

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NO ToO
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ToO Activators List

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No list
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Is this a Pre-imaging run ?

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false
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Pre-imaging Requirements

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No Pre-Imaging
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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 ?

If this is a pre-imaging run, did you select PRE-IMAGING for the Observing Category for each Observing Template ?

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N/A
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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 indicate the magnitude of the brightest object in the field in each SINFONI OB?

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)?

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

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

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

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N/A
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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?

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N/A
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