MMT Observing Schedule
May-August 1997
MMT Observing Schedule for the Month of May 1997
May June July
August Programs
Postscript
Schedules
Date* Day Moon Observer Instrument Operator Program
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1 (8.7) Th -4.8 Kirshner Blue Channel Milone SAO4
2 (8.6) F -3.8 " " " "
3 ( " ) S -2.9 Kulkarni,Bechtold " " S26
4 ( " ) S -1.9 " " " "
5 (8.5) M -1.0 Director " " Director
6 ( " ) T 0.0 Ge,Bechtold/Hanson " Heller S6/S12
7 ( " ) W 0.9 "/" " " "/"
8 (8.4) Th 1.9 Barton " " SAO9
9 ( " ) F 2.8 " " " "
10 ( " ) S 3.8 " " " "
11 ( ) S 4.7 Caldwell " " SAO6
12 (8.3) M 5.7 " " " "
13 ( " ) T 6.6 Barton " McAfee SAO9
14 ( ) W 7.6 McGuire et al. Fasttrac " E2
15 (8.2) Th 8.5 Ge et al. " " S9
16 ( " ) F 9.5 " " " "
17 ( " ) S 10.4 " " " "
18 ( " ) S 11.4 " " " "
19 (8.1) M 12.3 McLeod " " SAO14
20 ( " ) T 13.3 " " Milone "
21 ( " ) W -13.8 " " " "
22 ( " ) Th -12.8 Hooper,Impey " " S4
23 ( " ) F -11.9 " " " "
24 (8.0) S -10.9 " " " "
25 ( " ) S -10.0 Rix et al. " " S10
26 ( " ) M -9.1 " " " "
27 (7.9) T -8.1 Rix et al./Hinz et al. " Heller S10/S18
28 ( " ) W -7.2 Hinz et al. " " "
29 ( " ) Th -6.2 Ge,Bechtold/Hanson Blue Channel " S6/S12
30 ( " ) F -5.3 "/" " " "/"
31 ( " ) S -4.3 Impey Red Channel " S22
* Numbers in parentheses are the number of hours for which the sun is
greater than 12 degrees below the horizon.
MMT Observing Schedule for the Month of June 1997
May June July
August Programs
Schedules
Date* Day Moon Observer Instrument Operator Program
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1 (7.9) S -3.4 Impey Red Channel Heller S22
2 ( " ) M -2.4 " " " "
3 (7.8) T -1.5 " " McAfee "
4 ( " ) W -0.5 " " " "
5 ( " ) Th 0.4 Kennicutt/Garcia Blue Channel " S5/SAO2
6 ( " ) F 1.4 "/" " " "/"
7 ( " ) S 2.3 Huchra/Garcia " " SAO3/SAO2
8 ( " ) S 3.3 "/" " " "/"
9 ( " ) M 4.2 McClintock PI Photometer " SAO13
10 ( " ) T 5.2 " " Milone "
11 ( " ) W 6.1 " " " "
12 (7.7) Th 7.1 Ge,Rieke F-Spec " S9
13 ( " ) F 8.0 Rieke,Biscaya " " S1
14 ( " ) S 9.0 " " " "
15 ( " ) S 9.9 Haller et al. " " S20
16 ( " ) M 10.9 " " " "
17 ( " ) T 11.8 Hanson et al. " Heller S11
18 ( " ) W 12.8 Hanson,Rieke " " S13
19 ( " ) Th 13.7 Hanson/Hanson,Rieke " " S19/S13
20 ( " ) F -13.3 Latham Echelle " SAO17
21 ( " ) S -12.4 " " " "
22 ( " ) S -11.5 " " " SAO15
23 ( " ) M -10.5 " " " "
24 ( " ) T -9.6 " " McAfee "
25 ( " ) W -8.6 " " " "
26 ( " ) Th -7.7 Holberg,Green Blue Channel " S35
27 ( " ) F -6.7 " " " "
28 ( " ) S -5.8 Liu " " S16
29 ( " ) S -4.8 " " " "
30 ( " ) M -3.9 Director " " Director
* Numbers in parentheses are the number of hours for which the sun is
greater than 12 degrees below the horizon.
MMT Observing Schedule for the Month of July 1997
May June July
August Programs
Schedules
Date* Day Moon Observer Instrument Operator Program
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1 (7.8) T -2.9 SAO TBS Blue Channel Milone SAO TBS
2 ( " ) W -2.0 Green et al. " " S8
3 ( " ) Th -1.0 " " " "
4 ( " ) F -0.1 Falco " " SAO5
5 ( " ) S 0.9 " " " "
6 ( " ) S 1.8 " " " "
7 ( " ) M 2.8 " " " "
8 ( " ) T 3.7 " " Heller "
9 (7.9) W 4.7 McNamara/Krockenberg " " SAO8/SAO12
10 ( " ) Th 5.6 "/" " " "/"
11 ( " ) F 6.6 "/" " " "/"
12 ( " ) S 7.5 Green et al. " " S8
13 ( " ) S 8.5 " " " "
14 (8.0) M 9.4 Corbin " " UAO
15 ( " ) T 10.4 Latham Echelle McAfee SAO16
16 ( " ) W 11.3 " " " "
17 ( " ) Th 12.3 " " " SAO15
18 ( " ) F 13.2 " " " "
19 (8.1) S -13.9 " " " "
20 ( " ) S -12.9 " " " "
21 ( " ) M -12.0 " " " "
22 ( " ) T -11.0 " " Milone "
23 (8.2) W -10.1 Engineering/Latham " " M&E/SAO15
24 ( " ) Th -9.1 Eng./Aldcroft (REMOTE) Blue Channel " M&E/SAO11
25 ( " ) F -8.2 Aldcroft (REMOTE) " " SAO11
26 ( " ) S -7.2 " (REMOTE) " " "
27 (8.3) S -6.3 Wagner/Foltz " " UAO/Director
28 ( " ) M -5.3 Berlind " " SAO
29 ( " ) T -4.4 Corbin " " UAO
30 (8.4) W -3.4 " " " "
31 ( " ) Th -2.5 " " " "
* Numbers in parentheses are the number of hours for which the sun is
greater than 12 degrees below the horizon.
MMT Observing Schedule for the Month of August 1997
May June July
August Programs
Schedules
Date* Day Moon Observer Instrument Operator Program
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* Numbers in parentheses are the number of hours for which the sun is
greater than 12 degrees below the horizon.
MMT Observing Programs May-August 1997
May June July
August Programs
Schedules
E2 McGuire, Lloyd-Hart, Shelton, Setup for FASTRAC II Science Run
Angel, Jacobsen, Roberts
S1 G. Rieke, Biscaya Variability of First and Second
Overtone CO Bandheads in
Accretion Disks around Young
Stellar Objects: IR Spectroscopy
and Photometry
S4 Hooper, Impey High Resolution Infrared Imaging
of the Host Galaxies and Nearby
Companions of LBQS Quasars
S5 Kennicutt, Huchra Cepheid Abundances and the Hubble
Constant
S6 Ge, Bechtold, Kulkarni Molecular Hydrogen and Dust
Content in the Damped Lyman
Alpha Absorber of Q 1232+0815
S8 Green, Liebert, Peterson The Unique Horizontal Branch
Stars of the Metal-Rich Old Open
Clusters NGC 6791 and NGC 188
S9 Ge, G. Rieke, Angel, The Starburst-AGN Connection
Lloyd-Hart, Engelbracht, in the Seyfert Galaxies
Kulesa, McCarthy, Hinz
S10 Rix, Ge, Angel, Lloyd-Hart, Lenses without a Cause?
McCarthy
S11 Hanson, Watson, G. Rieke The Spectral Types of Young O
Stars in Ultracompact H II
Regions
S12 Hanson, Hillier Quantitative Analyses of ZAMS
OB Stars
S13 Hanson, G. Rieke On the Nature of the Sinusoidal
Variations Seen in Cygnus X-3
S16 C. Liu Spectroscopy of Field Starburst
Galaxies at 0.3< z <0.5
S18 Hinz, McCarthy, Melia, Ge High Resolution Photometry of
Nearby Galactic Nuclei
S19 Hanson, G. Rieke Extremely Reddened OB Stars in
M17
S20 Haller, Melia, Stolovy, Shocks in the Galactic Center
G. Rieke, M. Rieke
S22 Impey, Becker, Gregg The FIRST Bright Quasar Survey
S26 Kulkarni, Bechtold, Ge Measurements of Key Element
Abundances in Damped Lyman-Alpha
Galaxies
S35 Holberg, Green Radial Velocities of Key Hot
White Dwarfs
SAO2 Garcia, Callanan The Mass Function of the Soft
X-Ray Transient Aql X-1
SAO3 Huchra, Kennicutt Cepheid Abundances and the
Hubble Constant
SAO4 Kirshner, Garnavich, Challis Supernova Spectroscopy
SAO5 Falco, Kochanek Redshifts of Flat-Spectrum Radio
Sources
SAO6 Caldwell, Rose Spectra of Early-Type Galaxies
in the Coma Cluster
SAO8 McNamara, Vikhlinin, Redshifts of Distant ROSAT
Forman, Jones Clusters
SAO9 Barton, Geller "Close" Pairs of Galaxies
SAO11 Aldcroft, Chiang Spectroscopy of Eclipsed Emission
Lines in Nova-like Variables
SAO12 Krockenberger, Stanek, DIRECT Distances to M31
Sasselov
SAO13 McClintock, Eikenberry The Black Hole V404 Cyg and
Advection-Dominated Accretion
SAO14 McLeod, Falco Searching for Lens Galaxies with
Adaptive Optics
SAO15 Latham, Carney, Stefanik, Thick Disk Origins
Naoumov, Laird, Rose
SAO16 Latham, Carney, Mazeh, Proper-Motion Binary Survey
Torres, Stefanik, Laird,
Goldberg
SAO17 Latham, Stefanik, Torres, G Dwarf Binary Survey
Mazeh, Goldberg, Mayor,
Udry, Andersen, Nordstrom,
Olsen