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SOAR Projects Status

Submitted by jelias on Thu, 2018-09-06 16:55

The SOAR Board meets in person every year, typically in August (more often if needed). As part of the meeting, the Director presents a report on SOAR projects. Since a lot has happened over the last year, and will be continuing into next year, the report (with some minor edits) is being more generally available at this link. The report summarizes the status on a variety of projects, where those of particular interest include:
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Solar System Occultations at SOAR

Submitted by jelias on Tue, 2018-07-17 13:19

SOAR has supported observations of stellar occultations by solar system objects for many years. Occultations are used to measure the sizes of solar system objects, as well as to search for companion objects, or features such a rings or atmospheres.

In the past, these observations were performed using high-speed cameras brought by visiting astronomers for temporary installation on the telescope. These small, portable instruments interface easily to SOAR, and have been used on multiple visits. However, such observations require significant logistics and advance planning.
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Release of the Goodman Spectrograph Data Reduction Pipeline

Submitted by cbriceno on Mon, 2018-04-30 22:27

We announce the first release of the Goodman Data-Reduction Pipeline (DRP), a Python-based package for producing science-ready, wavelength-calibrated, one-dimensional (1-D) spectra. The pipeline is an ongoing work aimed to provide SOAR users with an easy to use, documented software package for reducing images and spectra obtained with the Goodman High-Throughput Spectrograph.
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SOAR 2018B Proposals

Submitted by jelias on Fri, 2018-03-02 16:48

Proposals for observing time at SOAR are due at the end of March or early April for investigators from the SOAR partners. Details are summarized on the SOAR proposers' page; here we highlight a couple of significant changes to what is available.
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Deep SAM AO Imaging of a distant young cluster

Submitted by cbriceno on Fri, 2018-02-16 12:52

In a Jan 2018 paper, Kalari et al. 2018, ApJ, in press, report deep SAM AO images of the cluster NGC 796, located at 59 kpc in the diffuse intergalactic medium of the Magallanic Bridge.
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SOAR Projects Status

Solar System Occultations at SOAR

Release of the Goodman Spectrograph Data Reduction Pipeline

SOAR 2018B Proposals

Deep SAM AO Imaging of a distant young cluster

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