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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2015A 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-2015A-Q-92 Schlaufman US An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-Poor Stars (South) GMOS-S 26.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20150421 20150424 20150426 20150427 20150515 20150521 20150522 20150523 20150525 20150526 20150531 20150602 20150603 20150604 20150605 20150606 20150611 20150612 20150613 20150614 20150615 20150623 20150627 20150630		 Completion Status:
87%
GS-2015A-Q-96 Geballe GS Additional Probes of the Galactic Center's Interstellar Medium - continuation Flamingos2 42.80
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20150408 20150414 20150421 20150503 20150509 20150515 20150518 20150522 20150525 20150526 20150531 20150603 20150604 20150606 20150609 20150610 20150611 20150612 20150613 20150614 20150615 20150617 20150707 20150708 20150725 20150726 20150826 20150827		 Completion Status:
90%
GS-2015A-Q-97 Hillwig US Determining the System Parameters for Poorly Studied Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae -- Spectroscopy GMOS-S 6.50
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20150602 20150605 20150606 20150612 20150617		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2015A-Q-98 Weidmann AR Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Survey for Spectral Classification GMOS-S 9.35
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20150415 20150420 20150421 20150426 20150503		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2015A-Q-99 Schirmer US Redshift survey of field galaxies around AGN ionization echoes GMOS / GMOS-S 14.40
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20150502 20150503 20150505 20150508 20150509 20150519 20150531 20150606 20150607 20150609 20150615 20150624 20150625 20150627 20150821 20150908 20151009		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2015A-Q-100 Andersen US Not alone: Identifying recent star formation in the vicinity of Westerlund 1 GMOS-S 1.20
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20150625 20150720 20150731 20151215		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2015A-Q-101 Gamen AR Characterizing a reddened population of stars in the Carina region. GMOS-S 8.40
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20150529 20150603 20150605 20150611		 Completion Status:
87%
GS-2015A-Q-102 van Dokkum GS The Stellar Population of Centaurus A GMOS-S 2.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20150612 20150613		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2015A-Q-103 Madrid US Struck by an AGN Jet GMOS-S 6.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20150720 20150727 20150912 20150913 20151009		 Completion Status:
31%
GS-2015A-Q-104 Kilic US Gemini South Poor-Weather Program: Finding the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs GMOS-S 29.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20151004 20151008 20151211 20160120		 Completion Status:
22%
GS-2015A-Q-205 Placco GS Identifying Bright CEMP Stars in the RAVE Catalog GMOS / GMOS-S 50.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20150206 20150226 20150321 20150323 20150415 20150420 20150421 20150422 20150426 20150502 20150503 20150505 20150508 20150510 20150511 20150516 20150521 20150522 20150523 20150606 20150609 20150611 20150612 20150614 20150619 20150620 20150621 20150622 20150625 20150701 20150705 20150707 20150708 20150709 20150719 20150720 20150722 20150729 20150730 20150821 20150824		 Completion Status:
100%

 

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