SOAR-4m GW Target of Opportunity (ToO) Nite: 2019-08-16

Proposal: 2019B-0233 (Full Text)

Observers

• Sahar Allam, Regis Cartier, Douglas Tucker, Matt Wiesner

Communication

• Contact Information
• DES GW Slack Channel (URL)
• OpenLVEM Wiki
• SOAR TelOps Staffing Calendar

Observing Strategy

• Preferred Instrument Setup
• Nightly Observing Plan
• (CTIO) Sky Almanac for 2019-08-16
• Targets:
  • GW
  • Standard Stars
• Nightly Observing Logs

Guides

• Observing with SOAR
• SOAR Instrumentation
• Goodman High Throughput Spectrograph
  • Goodman Spectrograph Cheat Sheet
  • Step-by-Step User's Guide (2017) (web version, local version)
  • Melissa Butner's Quick Guide
  • Available long slits
• Goodman Acquistion Camera (GACAM) Users's Manual (web version, local version)
  • Goodman Acquistion Camera (GACAM) Cheat Sheet (web version, local version)
• Remote Observing from FNAL (DECam-specific)

Sky Conditions

• Pachon and Tololo Weather, Sky Conditions, and Monitoring Tools

Utilities

• SkyView
• MAPS finder chart engine
• DES Labs
  • Cutout Server
  • Footprint Server
• Brian Casey's Astronomy Tools:
  • Hourly Airmass Tables
  • Monthly Sky Calendar
  • Object Seasonal Observability
• Sky Chart for CTIO

Data Processing Material

• SOAR Goodman Quick Reduce (Prototype for quick on-the-fly reductions.)
• The Goodman Data Reduction Pipeline (NEW -- but not currently useable for our 400_WD configuration.)
• Comparison Arc Spectra
  • HgAr: plot (3000A-7000A), linelists
  • HgAr+Ne: plot (3750A-7150A), plot (5000A-9000A), linelists

Forms

• General SOAR Instrument Setup Forms and Observing Reports
  • Instrument Setup Form
  • SOAR End-of-night form
  • SOAR End-of-run form
• Goodman Paper Log (web version, local version)
• Faint-Object Target Acquisition Checklist (print out a copy for each target fainter than i=19)