Monitoring, ToO & Service Programmes
Period 70: 20241001 - 20250401

Proposal	Rank	P.I.	Programme	Type	Instrument	Time Allocation	Nights	Comments		Report
69-506	10	Rubina Kotak	Finding electromagnetic counterparts to Ligo/VIRGO/KAGRA sources using the gravitational wave transient observer (GOTO)	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	15 triggers, ~75 min/obs.	20h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-502	20	Hakon Dahle	Cluster-lensed quasars as probes of Hnaut	Mon	ALFOSC	15x764s SJ1326, 15x1214s CJ0335, 17x1214s CJ0542, 15x2114s CJ1153, 4x1214s SJ2222, 6x1214s SJ0909	2.6	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
68-507	30	Giorgos Leloudas, Luca Izzo, Daniele B. Malesani	Discovering and characterizing optical counterparts of gravitational wave sources	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC/StanCam+NOTCam	Detection trigger imag. 100min. Clas. spec. 1h. Follow-up 10x1.2h	24.5h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-503	40	Erkki Kankare, Maximilian Stritzinger, Thomas Reynolds	The local transient Universe	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	10 hard ToOs override 10h, 60h SoftToO	7	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-504	50	Thomas Reynolds, Erik Kool	A NOTCam and JWST partnership: Near-infrared detection and study of tidal disruption events	SoftToO	NOTCam	25h SoftToOs	2.5	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
69-502	60	Marcus Lovmand Marcussen	Planets around Subgiants	Mon	FIES	15 sets of obs., 1.5h/obs.	1.5	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-014	70	Thomas Killestein	Probing the Geometry of Fast Extragalactic Transients	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	2 targets, 2-3 epochs, Classification spectra and first imapol as hard ToO, rest as SoftToO	11h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-101	80	Onori	Understanding the crucial early emission in TDEs with fast-response discovery and high-cadence follow-up	SoftToO	ALFOSC	3 visits of 2 TDEs	0.6	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
70-110	90	Miriam Nyamai	Investigating the second bump in the light curve of the closest recurrent nova	ToO+SoftToO	FIES	5 epochs simultaneous with e-MERLIN	0.3	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-108	100	Clark	Developing our understanding of extreme coronal line emitters	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	Max 6 triggers, total 4h ALFOSC and 7h NOTCam	1	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
66-502	110	Jane Luu	Active Asteroids and Other Unusual Solar System Objects	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	2 triggers, 3h per target	6h	Override. Follow-up soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-501	120	Jesper Sollerman	Kilonovae and Supernovae with ZTF during LVK O4	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC,NOTCam,FIES,StanCam	Hard triggers 10x(1-2)x1.5h, follow-up 4x5x1.5h	5	Override. Follow-up soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-501	130	Jesper Sollerman	External Project: Extragalactic transient classifications for the Vera Rubin Observatory Community	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC/StanCam+FIES	Roughly half as hard ToO, half as SoftToO	7	Override. Follow-up soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-106	140	Cruz Saenz	Spectroscopic follow-up of new eruptive young star candidates found with Gaia and ZTF	ToO+SoftToO	NOTCam	~3 triggers	0.8	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-103	150	Nagy	Photometry and spectroscopy of FUor-type eruptive young stars	Mon	NOTCam	4 targets	0.7	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-107	160	Reguitti	Determining the progenitor types of interacting supernovae	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	2-3 transients followed over 6 epochs	1.3	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-803	170	Karri Muinonen,Mikael Granvik	ESA S2P Program	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	Follow-up and triggers in case regular obs. fails	1	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-804	180	Ana Acebron Munoz	Galaxy Cluster SNe	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	Follow-up and triggers in case regular obs fails	3h	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-109	190	Concepcion	Luminous flares from the supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei	SoftToO	ALFOSC	10 targets SoftToO	0.6	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
70-811	200	NTE	Einstein Probe transients	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	20h hard ToO and 20h SoftToO	4	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-012	210	Panos Charalampopoulos	Deducing physical parameters of TDEs through spectroscopic lag studies	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	2 TDEs x (2h hard ToO for Classification + 6h SoftToO follow-up)	16h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-507	220	Daniele Bjorn Malesani, Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo, Dong Xu	The new populations of gamma-ray bursts revealed by SVOM and Einstein Probe	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC+NOTCam	85h ALFOSC + 5h NOTCam, 55h hard ToO, follow-up as SoftToO	9	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-004	230	Mikkel N. Lund	Exploring Asteroseismic Binaries	Mon	FIES	7 targets 5 epochs each + 6 targets 13 epochs each, spread out across period	33.42h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-152	240	Jian	Search for the imprints of accretion-induced collapse of a white dwarf	Mon	FIES	8 epochs of 50 min each	7h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-301	250	Peter Jonker	Determining the origin of the elusive Fast X-ray Transients	ToO+SoftToO	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 SoftToO
70-003	260	Pouya M. Kouch	Optical polarization observations of IXPE targets	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	30 obs of 8 min to be ~ simultaneous with IXPE	4h	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
69-501	270	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.	30h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-009	280	Thomas Killestein	Resetting the clock: precision ephemerides for CW searches of Cyg X-2	Mon	FIES	12 obs of Cyg X-2, 1h/obs, to be scheduled Oct-Jan	12h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-008	290	K. Koljonen	Disentagling the optical emission mechanisms in tidal disruption events	SoftToO	ALFOSC	2 TDEs x 8 obs x 1.2h of SoftToO	19h	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
70-018	300	Hanindyo Kuncarayakti	Unraveling the nature of fast blue optical transients	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC+NOTCam	5.2h hard ToO +16.8h SoftToO + 3h NOTCam	25h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-005	310	Luca Izzo	The very early emission in relativistic supernovae at optical wavelengths	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	2 triggers, 3.5 hours in total per target spread over 4 epochs	7h	Override, but should aim for (soft) triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-016	320	Takashi Nagao	Unknown mass loss at the final evolutionary stage of massive stars	SoftToO	ALFOSC	5 targets followed at 4 epochs with imalpol+spec SoftToO	26h	Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	SoftToO
70-508	330	Grigori Fedorets	Probing the diversity of the smallest building blocks of the Solar System	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	6 triggers of 2h hard ToO + 6 triggers of 2h SoftToO	24h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-002	340	Mikkel N. Lund	Calibrating models of M-dwarf stars using eclipsing binary stars	Mon	FIES	spread over period	12h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-011	350	Giorgos Leloudas	Capitalizing on the BlackGEM Local Transient Survey	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	5h hard ToO for classification + 7h SoftToO follow-up	12h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
68-506	360	Jeppe Sinkbaek Thomsen	Anomalous radial velocities in the eclipsing binary KIC10001167	Mon	FIES	2.9 hours to be scheduled in 8 different nights Oct-Nov	2.9h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-019	370	Jens R. Larsen	Facilitating asteroseismology -- spectroscopy of planet-hosting red giants	Mon	FIES	5 targets optimally scheduled: 0.84h Oct, 0.29h Dec, 4.8h Mar	5.9h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-013	380	Elina Lindfors	Polarization Monitoring of VHE gamma-ray Blazars	Mon	ALFOSC	Multiple (11-26) visits of 13 sources	39h	Fixed dates to be scheduled	Instructions	Mon
70-020	390	Diego Farias	Unveiling the nature of young transients detected by the YSE survey	ToO+SoftToO	ALFOSC	10 triggers hard ToO for classification + follow-up 5 targets SoftToO	15h	Override. Soft triggers during Nordic service or Technical nights	Instructions	ToO SoftToO
70-505	400	Jeppe Sinkbaek Thomsen	Spectroscopic confirmation and study of evolved asteroseismic binaries	Filler	FIES	Multiple epochs of 14 Kepler targets	40h	Scheduled with filler status	Instructions	Filler
70-017	410	Victoria Antoci	Exploring Magnetic Phenomena in the Pleiades delta Scuti pulsator V534 Tau	Filler	FIES	October-December	15h	Scheduled with filler status	Instructions	Filler
70-022	420	L. Fuglsang	Exploration into an unbiased Quasar sample - potential low-z LRDs	Filler	ALFOSC	16 targets	1	Scheduled with filler status	Instructions	Filler
70-205	430	Aguado	Pursuing the first lights from core-collapse supernovae: rapid follow-up observations of Einstein Probe alerts	ToO	ALFOSC	Max 10 tiggers of 1 hour each		Only allowed to override CAT service and CAT visitor nights	Instructions	ToO
70-206	440	Agudo	POLTerDEIST: POLarimetry of Tidal Disruption Events and quasi-periodic eruptions wIth Skinakas and other Telescopes	ToO	ALFOSC	Max 6 triggers of 4.5 hours each; only in CAT service nights		Only allowed to trigger in CAT service nights	Instructions	ToO