Monitoring, ToO & Service Programmes
Period 68: 20231001 - 20240401

Proposal	Rank	P.I.	Programme	Type	Instrument	Time Allocation	Nights	Comments		Report
66-508	10	Rubina Kotak	Finding electromagnetic counterparts to Ligo/VIRGO/KAGRA sources using the gravitational wave transient observer (GOTO)	SoftToO	ALFOSC	15 triggers, ~75 min/obs.	10h	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
68-505	20	Erkki Kankare, Maximilian Stritzinger, Thomas Reynolds	The local transient Universe	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	10 hard ToOs 10h, rest soft 60h	7.0	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO 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
68-008	40	Jesper Sollerman	Transients with Zwicky Transient Facility -- the Final	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	6x(1-2)x1.5h + 1.0N + 6x(3-4)x1h	5.0	Override. Follow-up soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-501	50	Jesper Sollerman	Kilonovae and Supernovae with ZTF during LVK O4	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	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
68-105	60	Anna Franckowiak	Spectroscopic follow-up of candidate counterparts to IceCube high-energy neutrinos	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	2 triggers, ~1.5h per trigger	0.3	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-504	70	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
68-021	80	Jordan Simpson	A new view of spider companions: 3FGL J0212.3+5320 in high-resolution	Mon	FIES	10 observations, ~50min/obs	9.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-509	90	Hakon Dahle	Cluster-lensed quasars as probes of H0	Mon	ALFOSC	19x20m J0909, 15x13m J1326, 16x13m CJ0219, 15x20m CJ0335, 17x20m CJ0542, 15x35m CJ1153, 4x20m J2222	33.8h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-803	100	Karri Muinonen,Mikael Granvik	ESA S2P Program	ToO+SoftToO	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		ToO SoftToO
68-804	110	Ana Acebron Munoz	Galaxy Cluster SNe	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	Follow-up and triggers in case regular obs fails	1.5	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-811	120	Dong Xu	Einstein Probe transients	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	Trigger Einstein Probe transients	4.0	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-007	130	Miika Pursiainen	Probing the Geometry of Fast Extragalactic Transients	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	Trigger 4x20m spec., 2 follow-ups: 2x~1 hr spec. + 2-3x~hr Pol.	11.0h	Override. Follow-up soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-011	140	I. Liodakis	Multi-band polarization observations of IXPE targets	Mon	ALFOSC	3 obs/night, 55 obs total, 6 min/obs, plus standard star observations	6.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
66-502	150	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
68-020	160	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
68-108	170	Dr. Fernando Cruz Saenz de Miera	Spectroscopic follow-up of new eruptive young star candidates found with Gaia	ToO+SoftToO	NOTCam	3 triggers, ~3h/obs.	0.8	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-302	180	Peter Jonker	Determining the origin of the elusive Fast X-ray Transients	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	Follow-up on first 3 night of a trigger	0.2	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-027	190	Maryam Saberi	The 3DUP activity of AGB stars in fluorine nucleosynthesis studies	Mon	FIES	11 targets	5.5h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-502	200	Karsten Brogaard	Establishing the accuracy of asteroseismic mass, radius, and age estimates of giant stars using eclipsing binaries	Mon	FIES	Multiple epochs of 7 Kepler and K2 targets. ~1 hr per obs.	39.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
66-811	210	Martin Kuerster	Companions for lonely planets	Mon	FIES	Targets throughout the semester. 5-7 obs/target	4.0	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-012	220	Anlaug Amanda Djupvik	Probing the strongly variable inner surroundings of UX Orionis stars	ToO+SoftToO	FIES	3 triggers, 10 obs/event, 38 min/obs	19.0h	Override within a few days. Should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-104	230	dr. Zsofia Nagy	Classification and analysis of eruptive young star candidates	Mon	NOTCam	Ima+spec of 3 targets	0.8	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-018	240	Tapio Pursimo	Testing the binary black hole model: detecting expected Halpha flare	Mon	ALFOSC	12 observations, 85min/obs	17.0h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-030	250	Victoria Antoci	Oscillating wildly-Characterising the nature of unusually pulsating stars II	Mon	FIES	2 separate observations of 10 targets	10.6h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-506	260	Jeppe Sinkbæk Thomsen	Anomalous radial velocities in the eclipsing binary KIC10001167	Mon	FIES	8 observations, 1 spectrum per week. ~21min/obs.	2.8h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-013	270	Karsten Brogaard	Improving our understanding of stellar physics with open star clusters	Mon	FIES	Observations of 6 targets in NGC6866, and 4 in M44. Exp. can be split	35.5h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon