Monitoring, ToO & Service Programmes
Period 69: 20240401 - 20241001

Proposal	Rank	P.I.	Programme	Type	Instrument	Time Allocation	Nights	Comments		Report
68-505	10	Erkki Kankare, Maximilian Stritzinger, Thomas Reynolds	The local transient Universe	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC+NOTCam+FIES	10 hard ToOs 10h, rest soft 60h	7.0	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
69-506	20	Rubina Kotak	Finding electromagnetic counterparts to Ligo/VIRGO/KAGRA sources using the gravitational wave transient observer (GOTO)	SoftToO	ALFOSC	15 triggers, ~75 min/obs.	20h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
68-507	30	Giorgos Leloudas, Luca Izzo, Daniele B. Malesani	Discovering and characterizing optical counterparts of gravitational wave sources	ToO	ALFOSC/StanCam+NOTCam	Detection trigger imag. 100min. Clas. spec. 1h. Follow-up 10x1.2h	24.5h	Override	Instructions	ToO
69-004	40	Panos Charalampopoulos	Deducing physical parameters of TDEs through spectroscopic lag studies	SoftToO	ALFOSC	Classification 4h total, follow-up of 2 TDEs, 6h each	16.0h	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
68-501	50	Jesper Sollerman	Kilonovae and Supernovae with ZTF during LVK O4	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC/StanCam+NOTCam+FIES	Hard triggers 10x(1-2)x1.5h, follow-up 4x5x1.5h	5.0	Override. Follow-up soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
69-108	60	Francesca Onori	Understanding the crucial early emission in TDEs with fast-response discovery and high-cadence follow-up	SoftToO	ALFOSC	2 targets, 3 obs./target, total of 2.7h/target	0.5	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
69-013	70	Thomas Killestein	Resetting the clock: precision ephemerides for CW searches of Cyg X-2	Mon	FIES	18 observations of Cyg X-2, 50m/obs.	15.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
69-502	80	Marcus Lovmand Marcussen	Planets around Subgiants	Mon	FIES	15 sets of obs., 1.5h/obs.	1.5	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-504	90	Erik Kool, Thomas Reynolds	A NOTCam and JWST partnership: Near-infrared detection and study of tidal disruption events	ToO+SoftToO	NOTCam	Hard triggers 7h, detection and follow-up of JWST targets, rest soft	3.0	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-509	100	Hakon Dahle	Cluster-lensed quasars as probes of H0	Mon	ALFOSC	8x20m J0909, 15x13m J1326, 10x13m CJ0219, 6x20m CJ0335, 3x20m CJ0542, 9x35m CJ1153, 6x20m J2222	18.3h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-803	110	Karri Muinonen,Mikael Granvik	ESA S2P Program	ToO	ALFOSC	Follow-up and triggers in case regular obs. fails	1.0	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO
69-007	120	Mikkel N. Lund	Exploring Asteroseismic Binaries	Mon	FIES	13 targets, 8 targets 3-5 epochs, 5 targets 20 epochs	43.7h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
66-502	130	Jane Luu	Active Asteroids and Other Unusual Solar System Objects	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	2 triggers, 3h per target	6.0h	Override. Follow-up soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
69-501	140	Karsten Brogaard	Establishing the accuracy of asteroseismic mass, radius, and age estimates of giant stars using eclipsing binaries.	Mon	FIES	Multi epoch of 8 targets, ~1h/obs.	30.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
69-023	150	Daniele Bjorn Malesani	Chasing the most exotic gamma-ray bursts	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC/StanCam+NOTCam	12 triggers, follow-up 4x5 epochs up to 3h. NOTCam 3h obs	24h+3h	Override. Follow-up soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
69-002	160	Pouya M. Kouch	Multi-band polarization observations of IXPE targets	Mon	ALFOSC	30 obs. total, 22 min/obs.	11.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled ~2 weeks in advance	Instructions	Mon
69-811	170	Dong Xu	EP and SVOM transients	ToO	ALFOSC	Trigger EP and SVOM transients	4.0	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO
69-009	180	K. Koljonen	Disentagling the optical emission mechanisms in tidal disruption events	Mon	ALFOSC	2 targets, 8 obs./target, 50m/obs.	13.3h	Fixed dates to be scheduled after trigger	Instructions	Mon
69-018	190	Sandra Raimundo	Flares or changing-states? - A pilot study of black hole transients	Mon	ALFOSC	Spec. obs. of 6 targets	6.5h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
69-030	200	Victoria Antoci	Oscillating wildly-Characterising the nature of unusually pulsating stars III	Mon	FIES	2 separate observations of 8 sources	20.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
69-103	210	Anna Franckowiak	Spectroscopic follow-up of candidate counterparts to IceCube high-energy neutrinos	ToO	ALFOSC	2 triggers, ~1.5h per trigger	0.3	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO
69-027	220	Elina Lindfors	Polarization Monitoring of VHE gamma-ray Blazars	Mon	ALFOSC	Multiple (11-26) visits of 13 sources	32.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
69-507	230	Grigori Fedorets	Probing the diversity of smallest building blocks of the Solar System	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	6 hard triggers spec., 6 soft triggers phot. 2h/triggers	2x12.0h	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-302	240	Peter Jonker	Determining the origin of the elusive Fast X-ray Transients	ToO	ALFOSC	Follow-up on first 3 night of a trigger	1.6	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO
69-101	250	dr. Zsofia Nagy	Photometry and spectroscopy of FUor-type eruptive young stars	Mon	NOTCam	Ima+spec of 4 targets	1.0	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-506	260	Jeppe Sinkbaek Thomsen	Anomalous radial velocities in the eclipsing binary KIC10001167	Mon	FIES	27 obs., 1 spectrum/week, ~21min/obs.	9.4h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
69-001	270	Karsten Brogaard	Improving our understanding of stellar physics with open star clusters.	Mon	FIES	Obs. of 6 targets in NGC6866, 5 in NGC6633. Expo. can be split	12.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
69-014	280	Charlotte Angus	Unlocking the power of fast-evolving tidal disruption events with NOT	ToO+Mon	ALFOSC	~10 triggers, ~36min/obs. 1 target, 3 epochs monitoring	6.0h+3.0h	Should aim for (soft) triggers. Monitoring Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	ToO Mon
69-028	290	Diego Farias	Unveiling transitional interacting core-collapse supernovae	Mon	ALFOSC	3 targets, 4-5 epochs, ~3000sec/obs.	12.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled when target known	Instructions	Mon
69-015	300	Giorgos Leloudas	The BlackGEM Local Transient Survey: investigating late stellar evolution	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	6-10 triggers, <1h/trigger. Follow-up 6 epochs, 3.5h/target	6.0h+7.0h	Should aim only for soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
69-005	310	Luca Izzo	The very early emission in relativistic supernovae at optical wavelengths	ToO	ALFOSC	2 triggers, 4 epochs, 3.5h total/target	7.0h	Should aim for only soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO