From April 25–April 29, we will provide fast turnaround spectroscopic follow-up of Gaia sources using the MDM 2.4 meter (April 25–26) and 1.3 meter (April 25–29) telescopes. We will have low-resolution spectrographs mounted on each telescope with wavelength coverage from ~4000–7500Å.
Organizers:
- Jules Halpern
- Adrian Price-Whelan
- David Schiminovich
- David W. Hogg
- Kathryn V. Johnston
Observers:
- David Schiminovich
- Allyson Sheffield
- Joshua Tan
- TBD
Please read the collaboration policy and statement of data rights below, and check back for full affiliation information.
To request data through the MDM-Gaia effort, you must agree to a few collaboration policies. First, all organizers (see above) must be invited to collaborate on any scientific projects that use these data. If any organizer accepts, they must be invited to coauthor scientific publications or research products. Second, all observers must be included as coauthors on scientific publications or research products. Third, you must agree to include a standard acknowledgement (see below) in all research products that use data obtained through this collaboration.
Raw data will be made public on the following day. By requesting observations, you also must agree to release any reduced data products (e.g., extracted, wavelength-calibrated 1D spectra) and derived quantities (e.g., radial velocities, chemical abundances) produced for research projects.
This is a combination of the standard MDM acknowledgement, and an additional statement acknowledging the organizers of this follow-up effort:
This work is based on observations obtained at the MDM Observatory, operated
by Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Ohio State University, Ohio
University, and the University of Michigan.
Observations were coordinated by David Schiminovich, Adrian Price-Whelan,
Jules Halpern, David W. Hogg, and Kathryn V. Johnston.
Observations should be requested through a pull request with a very short Markdown document explaining the target list. See the template request file for an example.
Targets should be submitted as a table readable by astropy (i.e. FITS, ASCII, CSV, etc.).
Note that this is bright time: full moon is on April 29!
