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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2009B 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-2009B-Q-92 Clowes UK Verifying large-scale structures at z~2. GMOS-S bright sample GMOS-S 20.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20090826 20090917 20090918 20090922 20091015 20091016 20091018 20091025		 Completion Status:
72%
GS-2009B-Q-93 Rantakyro GS Making an Phoenix Atlas of Brackett-Gamma lines in Quiscent Be stars Phoenix 19.40
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20090806 20090809 20090831 20090901 20090915 20091025 20091103 20091105 20091108 20091111 20091228 20091229 20100104 20100112 20100222 20100224 20100225 20100226 20100227 20100321 20100424 20100426 20100627 20101111		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2009B-Q-95 Mahony AU Unveiling the high radio frequency source population GMOS-S 40.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20090913 20090914 20090915 20090916 20090917 20091014 20091015 20091016 20091018 20091026 20091107 20091111 20091118 20091121 20100125 20100129 20100512 20100513 20100522 20100524 20100526 20100608 20100630 20100705		 Completion Status:
97%
GS-2009B-Q-96 Maxted UK A new eclipsing subdwarf star GMOS-S 4.50
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20091024 20091025 20091026 20091106		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2009B-Q-97 Volk US Spectroscopy of Post-AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds GMOS-S 7.50
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20091111 20091205 20100203 20100206		 Completion Status:
53%
GS-2009B-Q-98 Maxted UK ASAS1023 - core helium burning star or low mass white dwarf? GMOS-S 2.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20100220 20100225 20100226 20100227		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2009B-Q-99 Schimoia BR The broad double-peaked Halpha profile from the LINER nucleus of NGC 1097 GMOS-S 1.50
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20100304 20100305 20100311		 Completion Status:
100%

 

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