ARCSAT ID NUMBER : AS01 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Time Domain Studies of Transients and Variable Stars PI: Guy Stringfellow OBSERVER(S): Guy Stringfellow, CU undergrads: Brandon Bell, Eliot Nelson, Amanda Koziol, Michael Hinton, Owen ... During the Summer we discovered a new nova in M31 - AstroTel #8048 (2015-9a). ... We are currently following ~8 eruptive young stars. ... We have a number of other targets in our broad program to fill in any time gaps between priority targets. ...
APO/SDSS/NMSU Purchasing, Travel, Receiving, and Shipping Procedures . APO purchase and travel procedures are used to obtain goods and services. ... Vendors . ... For all methods of purchasing goods and services, i.e. petty cash, procurement card, or purchase order, an e-mail showing approval by the Site Operations Manager or Program Manager is required. ... Upon request, and the Site Operations Manager's approval, NMSU issues Wells Fargo VISA procurement cards to NMSU/APO employees. ...
... 2013-06-27: A new instrument block was obtained this week. As a result of an important update to the camera firmware while it was at Princeton Instruments the orientation in images has now changed. ... Completed ion pump swap earlier in the week and vacuum pumpdown. ... 2014-06-23: Started to warm the instrument for a vacuum serving (ion pump change out) of the instrument. ... 2015-03-18: The instrument vacuum was soft as evidenced by the ion pump controller and independent MKS vacuum guage. ...
ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS08 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Short Term Variability for Stars of Similar Temperatures but Different Luminosities PI: Tiffany Pewett (GSU) OBSERVER(S): Tiffany Pewett (GSU), Michele Silverstein (GSU), Todd Henry (RECONS Institute) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: COLLABORATORS: CONTACT INFORMATION: Tiffany Pewett, pewett@astro.gsu.edu, (419)460-0072 TIME REQUESTED: We request one week for the Q4 semester. ...
ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS07 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Time Domain Studies of Transients and Variable Stars PI: Guy Stringfellow OBSERVER(S): Guy Stringfellow, CU undergrads: Tina Mazur, Maura ... UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: 1+TBDs CU undergrads. (all names identified specifically above have been fully checked out using ARCSAT ) COLLABORATORS: CONTACT INFORMATION: Guy.Stringfellow at colorado.edu 303-506-3160 cell NUMBER OF WEEKS REQUESTED: 3 ... M31 mostly a 1st half of the night target in Q4-2015. ...
ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS06 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Monitoring H-alpha Variability in Be Stars in Young Clusters PI: Steven Souza (Williams College) OBSERVER(S): Steven Souza UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: possibly, students in our course ASTR211: Astronomical Data Acquisition COLLABORATORS: none CONTACT INFORMATION: Steven Souza; ssouza@williams.edu; 413-441-9892 TIME REQUESTED: My request is for one week total during Q4. ...
ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS01 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW), Doug Branton (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Undetermined Pre-MAP students ... In addition, since typical white dwarfs are roughly Earth-sized, the transit of an Earth-sized planet can cause changes in brightness on the order of several tens of percent for durations on the order of one minute (Agol 2011). ...
... Photometric standard stars will be interspersed between science stars. ... INSTRUMENT: SurveyCam FILTERS: VRI COMMENTS: Here is the status of nights so far for this project: program nts backup nts total wipeouts 2014-JUL/AUG/SEP 2 3 12 2014-OCT/NOV/DEC 2 1 4 2015-JAN/FEB/MAR - - - 2015-APR/MAY/JUN 4 7 3 2015-JUL/AUG/SEP - - - TOTAL 8 11 19 program nts = used for primary photometric program backup nts = used for backup program (s) total wipeouts = no useful ...
ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS03 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Probing the Stellar Flare -Coronal Mass Ejection Relationship PI: Michael Crosley OBSERVER(S): Michael Crosley UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Michael Crosley COLLABORATORS: Dr. Rachel Osten, Dr. Colin Norman, Dr. Suzanne Hawley CONTACT INFORMATION: Michael ... 2011). ... Properties of the optical flares will then be examined in conjunction with those of the CME. ... 2011 A 536,62 Hilton, E.J, 2011 The Galactic M Dwarf Flare Rate 18,19 ...
ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS04 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Massive emission-line stars PI: John Wisniewski OBSERVER(S): John Wisniewski, Jamie Lomax, Evan Rich UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: COLLABORATORS: CONTACT INFORMATION: wisniewski@ou.edu; 206-427-0184 NUMBER OF WEEKS REQUESTED: 2 TIME REQUESTED: We request 2 weeks of observing time; optimally these should be separated by at least 5-6 weeks. If only 1 week is available, we'd prefer time in November. ...
ARCSAT ID NUMBER : AS02 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Kepler Eclipsing Binaries PI: Suzanne Hawley OBSERVER(S): Kolby Weisenburger, Jake Lustig-Yeager, Hannah Bish UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: COLLABORATORS: Leslie Hebb CONTACT INFORMATION: kweis@uw.edu, jlustigy@uw.edu, hvbish@uw.edu, slhawley@uw.edu NUMBER OF WEEKS REQUESTED : 1 (partial) TIME REQUESTED : Oct 19-25 (we only need Oct 19 and ...
Items in the Inst TUI menu and other instrument info. Expose window ; each instrument has a window to control exposure sequences. To open the expose window for a given instrument: bring up that instrument's main window, then press the Expose... button along the bottom. ... ARCTIC Imager . Agile High Speed Photometer . DIS Dual Imaging Spectrograph . Echelle spectrograph . ... NICFPS infrared Fabrey-P rot spectrograph and imager . TSpec TripleSpec infrared spectrograph ...
. Controls for the ARCTIC imaging camera are distributed among two windows: . The ARCTIC window displays status and allows configuring ARCTIC. The status portion is always displayed. The configuration controls are hidden by default. The ARCTIC Expose window controls and displays exposure sequences. See also the ARCTIC documentation at APO .
... Script Contents . ... Yield When You Wait . ... TUI scripts are a way to automate tasks you perform frequently. ... Other scripts may be found in <tui_root>/TUI/Scripts. ... It may NOT contain a "yield", and thus may not wait for anything. end(self, sr): (optional): executed whenever the script ( run(sr) ) ends for any reason, whether it succeeded, failed or was cancelled. ... Whenever your script calls an sr.wait... function (i.e. wants to wait for anything), it must use yield, as in: yield sr.wait...