Night Report 2014-04-20
Observers: Sandra Benitez, Joe Polshaw
Support: Matt Nicholl, Stephen Smartt
TAT on duty: Morgan Fraser, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Joe Anderson
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WEATHER CONDITIONS:
start: wind 0.3 m/s; temp. 16 C; humid. 9%; Clear.
middle: wind 2 m/s; temp. 17 C: humid. 8%; Clear.
end: wind 4.6 m/s; temp. 14.9; humid. 13%; Clear
Conditions were photometric. The seeing fluctuated a bit at the start of the night, between 0.4” to 1.2”, and then settled to ~0.8" to 0.9” for the rest of the night.
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INSTRUMENT: EFOSC2 (SOFI is not available tonight)
CALIBRATIONS
Afternoon:
-- Bias
-- Spectroscopic dome flats
-- Arcs
*** The first set of arcs are useless - the TO forgot to turn the HeAr lamp on. We repeated the OB for arcs so the second set should be OK. We will repeat the arc OB in the morning to be sure. ***
Evening twilight:
-- Sky flats: gri
Morning twilight:
-- Arcs
-- Sky flats: RV
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OBSERVATIONS
Target Type UT-Start Filter/Grism Slit (") Seeing (") Comments
L745a STD (SPEC) 23:31 Gr11/13/16 1/1.5 0.75 -
LSQ14mo Follow. (IMAG) 23:55 gri N/A 0.8 (1)
LSQ14mo Follow. (SPEC) 00:55 Gr13 1 0.9 (2)
SN2014ad Follow. (SPEC) 03:45 Gr11/16 1 0.8 -
LTT3864 STD (SPEC) 04:30 Gr11/13/16 1/1.5 0.7 -
LSQ14asn Class. 05:02 Gr13 1 0.7 (3)
LSQ14baz Class. 05:40 Gr13 1 0.9 (4)
LSQ14aym Class. 06:00 Gr13 1 0.9 (5)
LSQ14bcj Class. 06:20 Gr13 1 0.9 (6)
LSQ14azr Class. 06:40 Gr13 1 0.9 (7)
PSNJ21461482 Class. 07:02 Gr13 1 0.9 (8)
SN2009ip Follow. (IMAG) 07:24 VRi N/A 0.8 (9)
LSQ14azm Class. 08:45 Gr13 1 1.0 (10)
Comments:
(1) Some fluctuation in the DIMM (1-1.3") in seeing at first, but the seeing measured on the images is ~0.8" and improved later (even down to 0.4). There was some 'mis-communication' with the TO, the offset away from the bad column was not applied. Looking at the images after reduction, it should still be possible to do the photometry since the bad column is well masked by the pipeline.
(2) Very faint trace, if anything at all in single exposures.
(3) There was some trouble finding a suitable guide star so a little bit of time was lost. Type II at peak, z=0.054. A *very* long and well sampled rise-time of 25 to 35 days, interesting for a type II. At this redshift and magnitude (m~19.5), the absolute mag is M~-17.2. The host also appears to be very faint.
(4) Normal Type Ia at z~0.07 at peak.
(5) Normal Type Ia at z~0.06, around peak
(6) Normal Type Ia, z=0.025, around 1 week before peak
(7) Type Ia, 91T-like, z=0.077, around peak to 1 week after max.
(8) High airmass. Normal Ia 1 week to 9 days before peak, z~0.036
(9) Very high airmass to start. We delayed the start by ~5 mins since it was so low. Clear detection in individual images in all bands
(10) High airmass. Normal type Ia, +8 days, z~0.11