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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2016B 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-2016B-Q-86 Placco US Identifying Very and Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Best & Brightest Catalog GMOS-S 50.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20160816 20160901 20160904 20160905 20160906 20160907 20160908 20160909 20160910 20160911 20160912 20160913 20160914 20160915 20160916 20161008 20161011 20161013 20161014 20161015 20161020 20161031 20161101 20161102 20161103 20161113 20161114 20161122 20161126 20161128 20161216 20161222 20161228 20161231 20170109 20170131		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2016B-Q-87 Donzelli AR Nuclear Variability in the Abell 85 BCG GMOS-S 2.10
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20160914 20161001 20161121 20161223 20161228		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2016B-Q-88 Andersen GS Towards a complete spectroscopic census of high proper motion ultracool dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood GMOS-S 34.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20161020 20161022 20161023 20161025 20161026 20161113 20161120 20161122 20161125 20161126 20161216 20161221 20161223 20161224 20161225 20161231 20170104 20170110 20170111 20170112 20170115 20170303		 Completion Status:
74%
GS-2016B-Q-89 Chick GS Characterization of Bowshock-Supporting Massive Runaway Stars Flamingos2 30.01
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2016B-Q-90 Chick GS Characterization of Bowshock-Supporting Massive Runaway Stars GMOS-S 12.42
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2016B-Q-91 Armentrout GS High-Mass Star Formation in the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm GMOS / GMOS-S 16.80
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2016B-Q-92 Weidmann AR Searching for white dwarfs in planetary nebulae GMOS-S 3.70
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20161124		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2016B-Q-93 Maille US Spectroscopy of Very High Redshift Blazars Flamingos2 / GNIRS+Altair 4.41
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20170103 20170108 20170110 20170307		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2016B-Q-94 Angeloni US Searching for flickering in southern symbiotic stars GMOS-S 84.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20161227 20161228 20161231 20170101 20170105 20170106 20170108 20170109 20170112 20170113 20170114 20170115 20170121 20170308 20170316 20170317 20170325 20170331 20170401 20170414 20170415 20170425 20170502		 Completion Status:
60%

 

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