Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2015A 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-2015A-Q-99	Schirmer	US	Redshift survey of field galaxies around AGN ionization echoes	GMOS / GMOS-S	8.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20150528 20150704 20150706 20150707 20151105 20151108 20151227 20160123		Completion Status: 83%
GN-2015A-Q-401	Placco	GS	Identifying Bright CEMP Stars in the RAVE Catalog	GMOS / GMOS-S	30.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20150125 20150130 20150202 20150228 20150316 20150403 20150408 20150424 20150429 20150510 20150512 20150513 20150520 20150527 20150528 20150615 20150616 20150729		Completion Status: 86%
GN-2015A-Q-402	Geballe	GS	Additional Probes of the Galactic Center's Interstellar Medium - continuation	GNIRS	30.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20150511 20150615		Completion Status: 5%
GN-2015A-Q-403	Petric	UH	Estimating the Star Formation Histories of Obscured Quasars at Redshift ~ 2	GNIRS	12.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20150519 20150520 20150706		Completion Status: 27%
GN-2015A-Q-404	Oio	GS	Feedback in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies: unveiling the nuclear complex kinematics and star formation in SDSS J112813.02+102308.3	GMOS	9.60
Execution Status:		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2015A-Q-405	Weidmann	AR	Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Survey for Spectral Classification	GMOS / GMOS+AltairLGS	6.10
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20150429 20150430 20150510 20150512 20150513 20150605 20150607 20150615 20150617		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2015A-Q-406	Koljonen	GS	The nature of the binary components in enigmatic microquasar Cyg X-3	GNIRS	11.00
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20150613 20150614 20150616 20150617 20150629 20150704 20150706 20150729 20151105		Completion Status: 100%

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