Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2012A GN

The queues shown in the tables below summarise the programs that constitute the "Poor Weather Queue" on GN. 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.

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-2012A-Q-120	Mason	GS	NIR spectroscopy of Palomar emission-line galaxies	GNIRS	14.50
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20120301 20120417 20120418 20120526 20120530 20120607 20121205 20131203		Completion Status: 89%
GN-2012A-Q-121	Geballe	US	Additional Probes of the Galactic Center's Interstellar Medium - continuation	GNIRS	40.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20120606		Completion Status: 1%
GN-2012A-Q-122	McDermid	GS	Gas phase metallicity in molecule rich early-type galaxies	GMOS	17.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20120407 20120408 20120409 20120504 20120508 20120509 20120512 20120514 20120522 20120610 20120616 20120716		Completion Status: 91%
GN-2012A-Q-123	Levan	UK	Extreme coronal line emitters and tidal disruption events	GMOS	9.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2012A-Q-124	Hillwig	US	Determining the System Parameters for Poorly Studied Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae -- Spectroscopy	GMOS	18.45
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20120706 20120708 20120709 20120711 20120716 20120903 20120904 20120905		Completion Status: 55%
GN-2012A-Q-125	Schimoia	BR	Short time monitoring of the Halpha double-peaked lines from 3C59 and M81 nuclei.	GMOS	7.50
Execution Status:		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%

Last updated on: 24 Jul 2020 17:21:52 GMT