Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2020A 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-2020A-Q-401	Caso	AR	Revealing the mass profiles of satellite galaxies in dense environments	GMOS	25.55
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200216 20200221 20200222 20200227		Completion Status: 17%
GN-2020A-Q-402	Weidmann	GS	Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Survey for Spectral Classification	GMOS	16.90
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20200221 20200527 20200528 20200612 20200616 20200619 20200623 20200705 20200709 20200711 20200712 20200715		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2020A-Q-403	Lilly	GS	The search for and Multifaceted Characterization of Centaur Activity	GMOS	6.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200222 20200713		Completion Status: 13%
GN-2020A-Q-404	Seccull	GS	A Search for Faint Solar Calibrators	GMOS / GMOS-S	40.50
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200307 20200308 20200527 20200528 20200611 20200612 20200616 20200619 20200620 20200623 20200629 20200701 20200712 20200713 20200714 20200715 20200716 20200717 20200718 20200720		Completion Status: 61%
GN-2020A-Q-405	Xu	GS	The Gaia View of Dust Disks around White Dwarfs	Flamingos2 / NIRI	14.40
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200312 20200622 20200623 20200712 20200713 20200714 20200717		Completion Status: 70%
GN-2020A-Q-406	Dennihy	GS	Mapping the emitting line region of post-main-sequence planetary disks - GN	GMOS	13.20
Execution Status:		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2020A-Q-407	Chené	GS	What is Wolf-Rayet Stars Favorite Dance?	GMOS / GMOS-S	16.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200622 20200701 20200712 20200715 20200718		Completion Status: 18%
GN-2020A-Q-408	Peterson	GS	Testing the interferometric broad-line region radius of 3C 273 with near-IR reverberation	GNIRS	8.60
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200623		Completion Status: 8%

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