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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2011A GS

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

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 South 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).

GS Poor Weather Queue
Ref # PI Partner Title Instrument Hours
allocated
GS-2011A-Q-86 Placco BR A Survey for Unrecognized Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy GMOS-S 4.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20110317 20110318 20110413		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2011A-Q-87 Heiner CA Metals and molecules in HI-selected galaxies GMOS-S 4.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2011A-Q-88 Chene CL Constraining the evolution of young star clusters GMOS-S 8.70
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20110101 20110102 20110117 20110118 20110209 20110218 20110220 20110305 20110315 20110514		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2011A-Q-89 Titov AU Testing the standard cosmology with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) GMOS-S 36.73
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20110411 20110412 20110413 20110414 20110415 20110423 20110429 20110504 20110514 20110525 20110528 20110530 20110531 20110601 20110602 20110603 20110615 20110616 20110628 20110702 20110703 20110704 20110710 20110713 20110714 20110715 20111008 20111009 20111018 20111023		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2011A-Q-90 Rodgers GS GMOS-S staff poor weather bright time backup program GMOS-S 10.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20110319 20110320 20110329 20110414 20110415 20110509 20110513 20110625 20110711 20110712		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2011A-Q-91 Hillwig GS Determining the System Parameters for Poorly Studied Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae -- Spectroscopy GMOS-S 16.45
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20110319 20110320 20110321 20110423 20110507 20110509 20110527 20110528 20110530 20110601 20110602 20110612 20110703 20110710 20110712 20110721		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2011A-Q-92 Jao DD Investigating a mysterious unseen companion in the Solar Neighborhood GMOS-S 5.24
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20110507 20110508		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2011A-Q-93 Jao US Spectroscopic Survey of Nearby High Proper Motion Stars GMOS-S 61.11
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20110615 20110616 20110701 20110703 20110704 20110705 20110720 20110908 20110909 20110915 20110916 20111005 20111007 20111008 20111009 20111011 20111018 20111019 20111020 20111109 20111120 20111121 20111204 20111205 20111226 20111231 20120102 20120103 20120123 20120128 20120129 20120130 20120301 20120320 20120404 20120423 20120424		 Completion Status:
88%
GS-2011A-Q-94 Stringfellow US The Recurrent Nova T Pyx in Eruption after 45 years: Optical Spectral Monitoring from Gemini South GMOS-S 5.00
Execution Status: SToO Dates Taken:
20110724 20111018 20111022 20120118 20120301 20120505 20120507 20120516 20120531 20120601 20120728 20120729		 Completion Status:
67%

 

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