ToO Information

Request ID: 43151
Request Type: NEW
ToO Urgency: WITHIN A WEEK
Proposal ID:

Target Info

Target Name: NGC 4388
Target No.: 1710
Category: ACTIVE GALAXIES AND QUASARS
Coordinates[J2000]: (186.44508, 12.66207)
Exp (ks): 100
Extended: N
Extent Size:
Background Restriction: N
Remarks:

Constraint Details

Monitor: Y
Criteria: Monitoring on a quasi-daily cadence is all that we need to clearly demonstrate that obscuring gas lies much closer to the black hole in NGC 4388 than is anticipated in standard models.
Phase Dependent: N
Epoch:
Period:
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Specific Time: N
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ToO: Y
Coordinate Observation: N
Observatory:
Description:
Uninterrupted: N
Justification:
Estimated Count Rate (cts s-1): 5.200

Requester Information

Name: DR. JON MILLER

Status

Request Date (UTC): 2022-06-02 17:50:40
Disposition: Accepted
Date: 2022-06-08 20:12:00.298777
Reason:
Person:
Status: Complete
Date: 2022-06-23 20:14:26.239803
Person:

Misc

Note:

Target Details

Nearest Target No: 1710
Nearest Taget Name: NGC_4388
Separation (arcmin): 0.0002
Nearby Target (<3.0'): 1710[NGC_4388]
Referenced Target Catalogue: NICER2_Xray_Target_List_V32e.csv
Sun Angle: 88.9 deg at 2022:174:17:56:35 (UTC), 75.9 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