Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2017B 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-2017B-Q-79	Schlaufman	US	An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-poor Stars (North)	GMOS	63.64
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20171016 20171017 20171018 20171019 20171020 20171021 20171027 20171028 20171030 20171101 20171107 20171108 20171109 20171110 20171114 20171125 20171204 20171206 20171207 20171209 20171210 20171211 20171213 20171214 20171215 20171229 20180102 20180104 20180105 20180110 20180111 20180112 20180113 20180115 20180201		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2017B-Q-80	Ferrero	AR	A High Resolution Near Infrared Spectral Atlas of O stars with Gemini	GNIRS	3.20
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20180115 20180117 20180130		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2017B-Q-81	Cochetti	AR	Structure and physical properties of circumestellar envelopes of Be stars	GNIRS	7.84
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20170710 20171210 20171214 20171229 20180104 20180114		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2017B-Q-82	Gamen	AR	Characterizing the earliest stellar population in four galactic open clusters.	GMOS	7.00
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20171017 20171019 20171020 20171021 20171207 20171210		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2017B-Q-83	Xu	GS	Variability in the Accretion Rate of A Heavily Polluted White Dwarf	GMOS	2.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20171113 20171125 20171209 20171213 20180125 20180204		Completion Status: 8%
GN-2017B-Q-84	Placco	GS	Identification of Low-Metallicity Stars from Narrow Band Photometry	GMOS	39.00
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20171110 20171125 20171204 20171209 20171210 20171213 20171214 20171215 20180103 20180111 20180114		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2017B-Q-85	Andersen	GS	Binarity among metal-poor M dwarfs: the way forward to dynamical masses	GNIRS	80.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20171204 20171205 20171206 20171211 20180125 20180130 20180201 20180204 20180209 20180210 20180525 20180707 20180717 20180724		Completion Status: 16%
GN-2017B-Q-86	Arias	AR	Time evolution of EW Lac's circumstellar envelope	GNIRS	0.70
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20171227 20180111		Completion Status: 100%

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