Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2013A 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 2013A 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-2013A-Q-113	Beers	BR/US	Missing metal-poor stars from the HK and Hamburg/ESO Surveys (North)	GMOS	54.55
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20130515		Completion Status: 3%
GN-2013A-Q-114	Geballe	GS	Additional Probes of the Galactic Center's Interstellar Medium - continuation	GNIRS	40.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20130306 20130308 20130311 20130322 20130323 20130329 20130415 20130416 20130428 20130518		Completion Status: 15%
GN-2013A-Q-115	Margheim	GS	A Poor Weather View on the Transient Universe	GMOS	10.00
Execution Status active / SToO		Dates Taken: 20130315 20130324 20130326 20130415		Completion Status: 29%
GN-2013A-Q-116	Limoges	BRDSGTJPUSUKAUUHCLARXCHKGSDDSV/CA	A spectroscopic binary white dwarf candidate in SUPERBLINK	GMOS	2.20
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20130415		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2013A-Q-117	Sales	BRDSGTJP/USUKAUUHCLARXCHKGSDDSVCA	The Gas kinematics and Optical Classification of OH Megamaser Galaxies	GMOS	10.70
Execution Status active		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2013A-Q-118	Gagne	BRDSGTJPUSUKAUUHCLARXCHKGSDDSV/CA	Spectroscopic confirmation of candidate young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in young moving groups	GNIRS	10.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20130517 20130518		Completion Status: 18%
GN-2013A-Q-119	Trujillo	BRDSGTJPUSUKAUUHCLARXCHK/GSDDSVCA	Recovery of Bright Kuiper Belt Objects	GMOS / GMOS-S	5.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20130510		Completion Status: 16%

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-2013A-Q-95	Beers	BR	Missing metal-poor stars from the HK and Hamburg/ESO Surveys (South)	GMOS-S	10.90
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20130120 20130124 20130302 20130306 20130509 20130510 20130514 20130515 20130516 20130517		Completion Status: 97%
GS-2013A-Q-96	Tisserand	GSXCHKDDCLBRARDSJPGTSVUSCAUHUK/AU	What is the nature of OGLE-2012-BLG-0577 source star ?	GMOS-S	0.90
Execution Status		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GS-2013A-Q-97	Gamen	GSXCHKDDCLBR/ARDSJPGTSVUSCAUHUKAU	Searching for very massive binary systems among faint galactic WN stars	GMOS-S	54.60
Execution Status		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GS-2013A-Q-98	Weidmann	GSXCHKDDCLBR/ARDSJPGTSVUSCAUHUKAU	Confirmation of very reddenig planetary nebulae	GMOS-S	3.50
Execution Status		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GS-2013A-Q-99	Titov	GSXCHKDDCLBRARDSJPGTSVUSCAUHUK/AU	Testing the cosmological model with Very Long Baseline Interferometry	GMOS-S	31.40
Execution Status		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%

Last updated on: 19 May 2013 18:08:26 GMT