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Director's Discretionary Time Summary : Semester 2018A GN

The data shown in the tables below summarise the programs that constitute the "Director's Discretionary Time" (DDT) on GN. DDT proposals are typically for time-critical observations which cannot wait for the normal proposal cycle (e.g. unexpected astronomical events) or for testing the feasibility of a technique or of a program. See the DDT web page for more information. DDT proposals may be submitted at any time by any astronomer world-wide.

In other respects - contact scientist support, Phase II definitions, Gemini Science Archive data distribution - DDT programs are similar to other Gemini queue programs.

This report is generated daily (see the bottom of the page for the current timestamp). The pages linked via Execution 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 Director's Discretionary Time Queue Band 1
Ref # PI Partner Title Instrument Hours
allocated
GN-2018A-DD-1 Thomas Kinematic confirmation of the existence of a faint distant stellar stream GMOS 1.80
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180305 20180314 20180511 20180603 20180604
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2018A-DD-102 Ono Spectroscopic confirmation of the most distant galaxy cluster at the epoch of reionization z=6.57 GMOS 3.60
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20180213 20180302
Completion Status:
43%
GN-2018A-DD-103 Wang A Twenty Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Hosted by A Young Quasar at Cosmic Dawn? GNIRS 1.30
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180307
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2018A-DD-104 Dupuy Confirming a Parallax-Discovered Wide Ultracool Companion GNIRS 3.50
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180306 20180307 20181010
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2018A-DD-105 Desrochers Potential interacting binary: radial velocity follow-up of a T6.5 brown dwarf with distinctive Hα emission GNIRS 1.60
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180605
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2018A-DD-106 Kavelaars Tracking the New Horizons target 2011 JW31 GMOS 1.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2018A-DD-107 Kelly A Bright Microlensing Event of a Highly Magnified Blue Supergiant Star at Redshift z=1.5 GMOS 5.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20180614
Completion Status:
27%
GN-2018A-DD-108 Bailey HIPPI-2 Commissioning Visitor 20.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180704 20180705 20180706
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2018A-DD-109 Geballe Photometry of Dust and Carbon Monoxide Emission in SN 2017eaw NIRI 2.90
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180711 20181102 20181106 20181107 20181108 20181109 20181113
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2018A-DD-110 Benecchi The Light Curves of Pluto and Charon at True Opposition Visitor 5.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180712 20180719
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2018A-DD-111 Schindler Support for SOFIA: Mitigate Mission Risk due to Stellar Duplicity of Occultation Target Star Visitor 0.50
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180719
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2018A-DD-112 Kelley Aftermath of an outburst at comet 129P/Shoemaker-Levy 3 GNIRS 1.60
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20180730
Completion Status:
100%
GN Director's Discretionary Time Queue Band 2
Ref # PI Partner Title Instrument Hours
allocated
GN-2018A-DD-201 Schwamb Gemini Legacy Image of an AGN-ionized gas cloud GMOS 3.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%

 

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