Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2011B GN

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

CC=70%, 90% or "Any", IQ="Any" and WV="Any" (no restriction on SB)
CC=90% or "Any" and WV="Any" (no restriction on IQ and SB)

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 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 Poor Weather Queue
Ref #	PI	Partner	Title	Instrument	Hours allocated
GN-2011B-Q-107	Proctor	BR	Stellar populations and kinematics of BCGs in fossil groups	GMOS	6.00
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20111203 20111224 20111225 20111227 20111228 20120104		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2011B-Q-108	Sullivan	UK	The Host Galaxies of Local PTF Type Ia Supernovae	GMOS	54.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20110810 20110903 20110904 20110907 20110921 20111224 20111226 20111227 20111228 20120130 20120131		Completion Status: 39%
GN-2011B-Q-109	Titov	AU	Testing the standard cosmology with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)	GMOS	15.00
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20110805 20110810 20110922 20110929 20111001 20111002 20111128 20111129 20111130 20111201 20111203 20111210 20111224 20111225 20111226 20120723 20121007		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2011B-Q-110	Zhang	UK	Spectroscopic observation of cool subdwarf binaries in the Galatic halo	GMOS / GNIRS	14.60
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20110806 20110808 20111002 20111023 20111127 20111226 20120114 20120118		Completion Status: 22%
GN-2011B-Q-111	Mason	GS	NIR spectroscopy of Palomar emission-line galaxies	GNIRS	16.50
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20111027 20111028 20111030 20111031 20111101 20111102 20111105 20111107 20111108 20111109 20111123 20111127 20111128 20111129 20111203 20111204 20111205 20111207 20111228		Completion Status: 100%

Last updated on: 24 Jul 2020 17:21:52 GMT