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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2017A 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-2017A-Q-86 Schlaufman US An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-poor Stars (South) GMOS-S 142.50
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20170215 20170305 20170308 20170310 20170315 20170316 20170320 20170324 20170325 20170326 20170327 20170328 20170329 20170330 20170331 20170401 20170402 20170403 20170404 20170407 20170408 20170409 20170413 20170414 20170415 20170419 20170423 20170424 20170425 20170429 20170501 20170506 20170510 20170517 20170528 20170529 20170530 20170531 20170619 20170620 20170703 20170707 20170710 20170711 20170712 20170724 20170805
Completion Status:
78%
GS-2017A-Q-87 Schirmer CL/US Characterizing low-redshift Lyman-alpha blobs (South) Flamingos2 / GMOS-S 122.80
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20170613 20170630 20170701
Completion Status:
2%
GS-2017A-Q-88 Lovos AR K2-33 b: a young transiting planet caught in the act Flamingos2 6.30
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2017A-Q-89 Jao US Search Close Companions around Cool Subdwarfs Phoenix 14.10
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2017A-Q-90 Weidmann AR Searching for white dwarfs in planetary nebulae GMOS-S 8.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20170316 20170320 20170329 20170702 20170703 20170710
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2017A-Q-91 Hillwig US Spectroscopy of Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae Discovered by Kepler GMOS-S 13.90
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20170720 20170728 20170802
Completion Status:
8%
GS-2017A-Q-92 Andersen US Towards a complete spectroscopic census of high proper motion ultracool dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood GMOS-S 7.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20170314 20170315 20170316 20170324 20170325 20170326 20170413 20170528 20170531 20170619 20170620 20170702 20170703 20170711 20170712 20170801 20170802
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2017A-Q-93 Soto King CL Follow-up Spectroscopy of Photometrically Selected Symbiotic Star Candidates GMOS-S 3.30
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20170423 20170424 20170425 20170510 20170530
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2017A-Q-94 Weidmann AR The mystery of WRAY 15-811 GMOS-S 2.40
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20170502 20170720 20170725
Completion Status:
49%
GS-2017A-Q-95 Geballe US Additional Probes of the Galactic Center's Interstellar Medium Flamingos2 21.80
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20170517 20170529 20170603 20170604 20170605 20170606 20170613 20170713 20170714 20170715 20170904 20170915 20170916
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2017A-Q-96 Schirmer US A search for ionized cometary globules around Spica GMOS-S 5.20
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20170528 20170801
Completion Status:
63%
GS-2017A-Q-97 Schreiber CL Towards solving the SN Ia progenitor problem GMOS-S 79.30
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20170802 20170803 20170804 20170819 20170820 20170830 20170831 20170908 20170914 20170915 20170916 20170917 20170919 20170920 20170927 20170929 20171015 20171103 20171104 20171106 20171107 20171108
Completion Status:
74%
GS-2017A-Q-98 Davidge CA C Stars in NGC 55 GMOS-S 11.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20170703 20170710 20170711 20170713 20170724
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2017A-Q-99 Bosch AR High resolution IFU observations of HII galaxies GMOS-S 10.40
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20170710 20170801 20170808 20170925 20171019 20171020 20171021 20171024
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2017A-Q-100 Andersen US Determining the orbital parameters of a newly discovered spectroscpic sdM dwarf binary Flamingos2 12.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20170715 20170724
Completion Status:
10%

 

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