Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2010B Gemini North and Gemini South

The queues shown in the tables below summarise the programs that constitute the "Poor Weather Queue" on Gemini North and Gemini South. The Poor Weather Queue is a pilot program introduced in 2006B to fill telescope time under very poor, but usable, conditions. These programs are distinct from other queue programs in three important ways: 1) time spent on poor weather programs will not be charged to the PIs or the partner countries; 2) poor weather programs can exist in queue only, and must meet the observing condition constraints shown below; and 3) poor weather programs are lower priority than the "regular" queue (bands 1 to 3) and have no explicit or implicit guarantee of being observed. They will be executed only when nothing in the regular queue is observable.

The regular program queue for 2010B is available here.

In all other respects — NGO and Gemini contact scientist support, Phase II definitions, Gemini Science Archive data distribution — programs in the Poor Weather Queue are similar to all other Gemini queue programs. In the Observing Tool, poor weather queue programs are designated as Band 4, to distinguish them from the rest of the queue.

Observing condition constraints for poor weather programs must meet one of the following:

CC=70%, 90% or "Any", IQ="Any" and WV="Any" (no restriction on SB)
CC=90% or "Any" and WV="Any" (no restriction on IQ and SB)

This report is generated daily (see the bottom of the page for the current timestamp). The pages linked via Completion Status are updated approximately every 4 hours. Note that the completion fraction may change as the time accounting is adjusted during the quality assessment process.

The columns in the table for Gemini North are:
Ref # Gemini reference number (note that this is different from any internal National TAC reference number). Click on it to see the proposal abstract (when available).
PI Name of Principal Investigator. (If a joint proposal, the name of the primary contact for the entire program is listed).
Partner Partner (UH = University of Hawaii, GS=Gemini staff) or country (US, UK, CA, CL, AU, AR, BR) to which time will be charged. If a joint proposal, all contributors are shown.
Title The title of the science program.
Instrument Name of the instrument(s) required.
Hours Allocated Time allocated to the program (if a joint proposal, this is the total time for the program).
Execution Status Click on this hyperlink to see the current status of each observation in the program.
Data Taken The UT date(s) on which data were taken.
Completion Status This shows an estimate of the fraction of allocated time that has been used. Note that this is a preliminary estimate and is only an indication of the completion state of the program. The completion state may not reflect the formal time accounting. Also note that some programs may be completed in less than the allocated time (e.g. if conditions were better than requested or if the request was overestimated).

The assigned support staff (Gemini Contact Scientists and National Office staff) for each Gemini North ODB and Gemini South ODB program are listed in the interactive 'snapshots' of the Observing Database (ODB).

GN Poor Weather Queue
Ref #	PI	Partner	Title	Instrument	Hours allocated
GN-2010B-Q-119	Chene	CA	In Search of Large-Scale Variable Wolf-Rayet Stars. II	GMOS	4.00
Execution Status complete		Dates Taken: 20100920 20100921 20101018 20101026 20101027		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2010B-Q-120	Clark	UK	Unveiling the nature of the eclipsing X-ray binary ChASeM33 8 in M33	GMOS	11.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20101021 20101112 20101114 20101116 20101121 20101122 20101123		Completion Status: 69%
GN-2010B-Q-121	Conselice	UK	The Star Formation Rates in Ultra-Massive z > 2 Galaxies	NIRI	24.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2010B-Q-122	Geballe	GS	Additional probes of the Galactic center's interstellar medium	NIRI	25.00
Execution Status		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2010B-Q-123	Teodoro	BR	Comparison of the physical properties of galactic and extragalactic luminous blue variables	GMOS	1.70
Execution Status complete		Dates Taken: 20101017 20101018 20101117 20101121 20101123 20101128		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2010B-Q-124	Dobbie	AU	Candidate white dwarf members of Alpha Per	GMOS	8.70
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20110102		Completion Status: 30%

The columns in the table for Gemini South are:
Ref # Gemini reference number (note that this is different from any internal National TAC reference number). Click on it to see the proposal abstract (when available).
PI Name of Principal Investigator. (If a joint proposal, the name of the primary contact for the entire program is listed).
Partner Partner (UH = University of Hawaii, GS=Gemini staff) or country (US, UK, CA, CL, AU, AR, BR) to which time will be charged. If a joint proposal, all contributors are shown.
Title The title of the science program.
Instrument Name of the instrument(s) required.
Hours Allocated Time allocated to the program (if a joint proposal, this is the total time for the program).
Execution Status Click on this hyperlink to see the current status of each observation in the program.
Data Taken The UT date(s) on which data were taken.
Completion Status This shows an estimate of the fraction of allocated time that has been used. Note that this is a preliminary estimate and is only an indication of the completion state of the program. The completion state may not reflect the formal time accounting. Also note that some programs may be completed in less than the allocated time (e.g. if conditions were better than requested or if the request was overestimated).

GS Poor Weather Queue
Ref #	PI	Partner	Title	Instrument	Hours allocated
GS-2010B-Q-87	Bresolin	US	Testing for a variable upper IMF in star-forming galaxies	GMOS-S	10.80
Execution Status		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GS-2010B-Q-88	Kepler	AR/GS/BR	Time series imaging of a massive white dwarf (Same as Q69)	GMOS-S	18.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GS-2010B-Q-89	Malo	CA	Radial Velocity of Low-mass Candidate Members of Nearby Young Associations	Phoenix	20.50
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20100907 20100912 20100916 20100921 20100925 20100926 20100927 20101023 20101027 20101030 20101118 20101119 20101220		Completion Status: 69%
GS-2010B-Q-90	Schimoia	BR	Variations in the nuclear spectrum of the NGC 1097	GMOS-S	30.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20101222 20110101 20110102 20110111 20110115 20110118 20110208 20110210 20110214 20110317 20110318 20110321 20110614 20110702 20110710 20110720 20110910 20110916 20111010 20111018 20111117 20120102		Completion Status: 80%

Last updated on: 2 Dec 2013 18:09:38 GMT