Semester 2022B Time Distribution

Overview

Time available on each of Gemini North and South is distributed according to the Observatory participants' shares. Engineering time is reserved each semester; this includes engineering time in the queue, instrument performance monitoring, engineering time to accommodate visiting instrumentation, and instrument commissioning. Any unused engineering time is returned to science. The science time includes time used for all observing modes, including standard semester programs (this call), limited-term partner (LTP) programs, Large and Long programs, Fast Turnaround programs, and Director's Discretionary time. The estimated time available for each participant and host institution is shown below.

Gemini North 2022B

37.5 nights (20.4%) are reserved for engineering, this includes: 25 nights of shutdown to recoat the primary mirror and perform other maintenance, and 5 nights for on-sky testing of the new Observatory software system, the Gemini Program Platform.
146.5 nights have been made available for science, which amounts to 79.6% of the total time available.
The science time in 2022B also includes:
- 7.1 nights for DD time,
- 13.6 nights for the host institution (Univ. of Hawaii),
- 0.7 nights for Limited Term Partners (Weizmann Institute of Science and Ben-Gurion University),
- 3.0 nights for the MAROON-X instrument team, in exchange for community use of MAROON-X.
The Table below shows the distribution of the time available per participant.

Participant	Estimated Science Time Available (hours)	Time Reserved for Fast Turnaround programs (hours) [A]	Time Reserved for Large and Long Programs (hours) [B]	Estimated Time Available for this Call (hours) [C]
US	810.0	86.4	144.5	579.1
Canada	217.1	23.0	38.5	155.6
Argentina	24.4	2.1	0	22.3
Brazil	78.1	8.3	0	69.8
Korea	84.2	5.3	0	78.9
Univ. of Hawaii (host)	143.5	7.2	0	136.3

[A] - Up to 10% of the available time is contributed by all participants and the host institution (University of Hawaii) to the Fast Turnaround program.
[B] - Up to 20% of the available time is contributed by the United States, and Canada, to Large and Long Programs.
[C] - As this time also includes weather loss and time lost to faults, approximately 80% of this time is allocated to programs during the ITAC process, distributed across Bands 1, 2 and 3.

Gemini South 2022B

42.0 nights (22.8%) are reserved for engineering, this includes: 25 nights of shutdown to recoat the primary mirror and perform other maintenance, 5 nights for commissioning of GHOST, and 5 nights for on-sky testing of the new Observatory software system, the Gemini Program Platform.
142.0 nights have been made available for science, which amounts to 77.2% of the total time available.
The science time also includes:
- 6.0 nights for DD time,
- 13.3 nights for host institution (Chile),
- 0.2 nights for Limited Term Partners (Ben-Gurion University),
- 9.4 nights for the IGRINS team, for use of guaranteed time in exchange for IGRINS,
The Table below shows the distribution of the time available per participant.

Participant	Estimated Science Time Available (hours)	Time Reserved for Fast Turnaround programs (hours) [A]	Time Reserved for Large and Long Programs (hours) [B]	Estimated Time Available for this Call (hours) [C]
US	757.1	79.8	121.6	555.7
Canada	201.4	21.2	32.4	147.8
Argentina	22.6	1.9	0	20.7
Brazil	72.4	5.3	0	67.1
Korea	78.1	4.9	0	73.2
Chile (host)	132.6	0	0	132.6

[A] - Up to 10% of the available time is contributed by all participants, not including the host institution (Chile), to the Fast Turnaround program.
[B] - Up to 20% of the available time is contributed by the United States, and Canada, to Large and Long Programs.
[C] - As this time also includes weather loss and time lost to faults, approximately 80% of this time is allocated to programs during the ITAC process, distributed across Bands 1, 2 and 3.