ToO Information

Request ID: 41952
Request Type: NEW
ToO Urgency: WITHIN A WEEK
Proposal ID: 4118

Target Info

Target Name: IGR J17091-3264
Target No.: 6691
Category: X-RAY BINARIES
Coordinates[J2000]: (349.52480, 2.21266)
Exp (ks): 60
Extended: N
Extent Size:
Background Restriction: N
Remarks:

Constraint Details

Monitor: Y
Criteria: We request the observing time to be split into 12 observations each 5 ks long, to cover the hard state, (possible) state transitions, and (possible) the decay back to the hard state, preferably 5 observations in each stage. Considering the unpredictable evolving timescale of black hole transients (especially if the source does a state transition), a two-day cadence is preferred.
Phase Dependent: N
Epoch:
Period:
Min:
Max:
Remarks:
Specific Time: Y
Start: 2022-03-20 00:00 UTC
End: 2022-04-13 00:00 UTC
Remarks: NICER has planned to observe this source on 2022-03-18 and 03-19. We can trigger our GO program after that, with a two-day cadence and a 5 ks exposure. We are also ok with sharing the data with the team who put in the first request.
ToO: Y
Coordinate Observation: Y
Observatory: NUSTAR
Description: Our active GO program has 3 joint NuSTAR observations, each 20 ks long. We request, when possible, that NICER tries to achieve some overlapping coverage given the complementary nature of the instruments which is beneficial for both spectral and timing analysis.
Uninterrupted: N
Justification:
Estimated Count Rate (cts s-1): 200.000

Requester Information

Name: MS. JINGYI WANG

Status

Request Date (UTC): 2022-03-16 21:25:37
Disposition: GO-preapproved
Date: 2022-03-30 13:41:01.303081
Reason:
Person:
Status: Complete
Date: 2022-04-18 14:11:30.440422
Person:

Misc

Note:

Target Details

Nearest Target No: 5063
Nearest Taget Name: SZ_Psc
Separation (arcmin): 75.7523
Nearby Target (<3.0'):
Referenced Target Catalogue: NICER2_Xray_Target_List_V31p.csv
Sun Angle: 34.7 deg at 2022:105:18:20:58 (UTC), 48.2 deg after 2 weeks

Planned Observations

AGS6 Reference:
Planned Snapshots:

Observation Start Observation End Span Mode Observation ID
(YYYY-DDDTHH:MM:SS) (YYYY-DDDTHH:MM:SS) (seconds) Man/Opt

Visibility

AGS3 Reference:
Visibility Report:

Target Name Target ID Visibility Start Visibility End Span Initial Final Relative
(YYYY-DDDTHH:MM:SS) (YYYY-DDDTHH:MM:SS) (seconds) Interference Interference Orbits