ToO Information

Request ID: 43707
Request Type: NEW
ToO Urgency: WITHIN A WEEK
Proposal ID: 5105

Target Info

Target Name: GX 339-4
Target No.: 6792
Category: X-RAY BINARIES
Coordinates[J2000]: (255.70567, -48.78967)
Exp (ks): 2
Extended: N
Extent Size:
Background Restriction: N
Remarks:

Constraint Details

Monitor: N
Criteria:
Phase Dependent: N
Epoch:
Period:
Min:
Max:
Remarks:
Specific Time: Y
Start: 2022-10-07 22:59 UTC
End: 2022-10-08 03:00 UTC
Remarks: We have and observation planned with Gemini: 2022 Oct 7/8 23:00--03:00 UT This should cover five NICER windows, totalling ~2000s.
ToO: Y
Coordinate Observation: Y
Observatory: GEMINI OBSERVATORY
Description: Optical/Infrared telescope, located at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and Cerro Pach n, Chile.
Uninterrupted: N
Justification:
Estimated Count Rate (cts s-1): 134.000

Requester Information

Name: DR. JOHN ALEXANDER PAICE

Status

Request Date (UTC): 2022-10-03 11:09:41
Disposition: GO-preapproved
Date:
Reason:
Person:
Status: Complete
Date: 2022-10-24 18:52:18.108392
Person:

Misc

Note:

Target Details

Nearest Target No: 2080
Nearest Taget Name: GX_339-4
Separation (arcmin): 0.0000
Nearby Target (<3.0'): 2080[GX_339-4],6586[GX_339-4],6650[GX_339-4],6653[GX_339-4],6673[GX_339-4],6674[GX_339-4],6791[GX_339-4],6792[GX_339-4],6871[GX_339-4]
Referenced Target Catalogue: /Home/eud/nicerweb/too/ags/NICER2_Xray_Target_List_V33s.csv.gz
Sun Angle: 56.0 deg at 2022:294:19:07:00 (UTC), 44.5 deg after 2 weeks

Planned Observations

AGS6 Reference: AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222781100_20222911324_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222781800_20222931200_V02.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222791400_20222931200_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222801300_20222911800_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222821900_20222951200_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222831300_20222951200_V02.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222871500_20222962359_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222901500_20223000000_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222911200_20223000000_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222911900_20223020000_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222931400_20223050600_V02.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222941700_20223091200_V01.txt.gz,AGS6_STSCH_schedule_20222960100_20223091200_V01.txt.gz
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