Program Notes and Contact Person
The program notes may be submitted in ELECTRONIC FORM. Alternatively, if the
PI is going to submit a folder with finding charts, a hardcopy of the program
notes may be sent in that folder.
Note that in recent times (e.g., 2022 onward) it is relatively uncommon for PIs to submit Program Notes. The Resident Astronomers have access to the observing proposals from UT and PSU, and additional details/requests are usually handled via email to astronomer(at)het.as.utexas.edu.
Still, you may elect to include a one page summary for the program. This summary includes:
- program number
- program title
- PI name
- contact person
- contact e-mail address
- owner for the hydra data directory
- TAC allocated time
- instrument setup(s) that will be used
- calibrations needed, including flux, radial velocity, or telluric
standards [see Calibration Information ]
- explanation for targets of opportunity
- explanation for synoptic targets
- explanation for moving targets
- explanation for grouped exposures
- clarifying if the target object will be visible in the acquisition camera image and if that object will be centered in the IFU. If the objects are not visible in the acquisition camera then noting this as a blind setup in the target notes would be worthwhile as well.
- any information that enables the RA to make best use of the assigned time
- special design requirement: fill the track starting right from first access
- special design requirement: collect maximum (safely unsaturated) total
flux possible, minimizing number of exposures (and thus overhead) to fill
the track
- special design requirement: quasi-equivalent spectral exposure level on all
splits (software enables this) by automatic integration control
- for multi-visit targets with synoptic frequency blank, the convention
is that more than one visit per night may be executed when
feasible ; please notify the RAs by Program Note, comment keyword
item, or e-mail,
if instead a maximum of one visit per night is the intention. Note that for an IFU and non-point sources the PI should specify either a West or an East track (perhaps in a group of type pool).
You can submit your program notes from your interface on hydra by clicking on "Program Notes" within your program's tab.
