Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2016B 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-2016B-Q-83	Cochetti	AR	Be stars spectroscopic variability in the infrared	GNIRS	2.60
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20160803 20160809 20161116 20161117 20161118		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2016B-Q-85	Placco	US	Identifying Very and Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Best & Brightest Catalog	GMOS	30.00
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20160913 20160914 20160930 20161003 20161006 20161017 20161019 20161023 20161024 20161025 20161028 20161029 20161030 20161031 20161101 20161107 20161108 20161112 20161116 20161117 20161118 20161119 20161120 20161121 20161122 20161124 20161127 20161225 20161226 20161227		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2016B-Q-88	Arias	GS	Evolutionary state and circumstellar environment of evolved massive stars	GNIRS	1.75
Execution Status:		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2016B-Q-89	Hillwig	GS	Spectroscopic follow-up of close binary central stars of planetary nebulae	GMOS	4.69
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20161116 20161117 20161124 20170105 20170114 20170115 20170125		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2016B-Q-90	Armentrout	US	High-Mass Star Formation in the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm	GMOS / GMOS-S	5.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2016B-Q-91	Lundquist	US	A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Survey of Galactic IMSFRs	GNIRS	30.20
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20161019 20161023 20161024 20161028 20161030 20161031 20161101 20161113 20161114 20161116 20161117 20161118 20161119 20161120 20161123 20161124 20161125 20161126 20161127 20161128 20161130 20161215 20161216 20161226 20161227 20161228		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2016B-Q-92	Maille	US	Spectroscopy of Very High Redshift Blazars	GNIRS	0.20
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20161214 20161216 20161217		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2016B-Q-93	Schwamb	GS	Spectroscopy of rare radio galaxy candidates from Radio Galaxy Zoo	GMOS	4.72
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20170112 20170114 20170115 20170116		Completion Status: 100%

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