From: Danny Lennon (djl@ing.iac.es)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 08:05:57 PST
ING ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR OBSERVING TIME IN 2003B
Contents
1. Change to UK PATT Proposal Deadlines
2. ING Instrumentation in Semester 2003B
3. Time-share Agreement with TNG for NL and UK Observers
4. Discontinuation of the INT Service Programme
5. Telescope Support: new support model for the INT
6. Withdrawal of the JKT from normal service
1. Change to UK PATT Proposal Deadlines
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Following the recent review of PATT, PPARC has agreed to
move the deadlines for UK proposal submission earlier by two
weeks to 15th March for B Semesters, and 15th September for
A Semesters.
This change will take place with immediate effect; the
deadline for receipt of UK proposals for Semester 2003B
will be midnight GMT on 15th March, 2003. UK proposals for
the ING telescopes should be submitted in the usual way by
email to ingpatt@ing.iac.es on the latest version of the
PATT2 form. See
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/observing/patt/PATT_Appl.html
for further details.
2. ING Instrumentation in Semester 2003B
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General Information
Detailed information on ING instrumentation offered for the
forthcoming semester can be found in the ING web pages at
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/observing/instruments.html
and guidelines for proposal submission can be found at
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/observing/INGinfo_home.html
Applicants should refer to these pages for the latest information,
and are reminded that occasionally highly rated proposals may not
be awarded time due to scheduling constraints.
Prospective NAOMI/INGRID applicants are encouraged to read the
most recent performance summary:
http://www.ing.iac.es/~crb/wht/aoperf.html
and prospective applicants for NAOMI/INGRID with the coronograph
OSCA are encouraged to read:
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/instruments/osca/
Instrumentation Overview
WHT http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/telescopes/wht/
---WHT applicants are encouraged to submit proposals for larger time applications. For the UK community, the PATT2 application form allows a 2-page scientific justification for WHT proposals which are for *eight* or more nights, are long-term (multi-semester) or are coordinated with other telescopes.
The following instrument/detector configurations are available:
Instrument Detector
ISIS BLUE EEV12 ISIS RED MARCONI2 AUX-port TEK1 PRIME 2xEEV Mosaic AUTOFIB2/WYFFOS TEK6 (2xEEV if long-camera commissioned) INGRID 1kx1k HgCdTe NAOMI/INGRID 1kx1k HgCdTe NAOMI/INGRID/OSCA 1kx1k HgCdTe (shared-risks)
Prospective applicants wishing to submit proposals to use a visitor instrument on the WHT should contact the relevant Instrument Contact in the first instance. WHT visitor instruments and contacts are:
INTEGRAL Evencio Mediavilla, emg@ll.iac.es PN.S Nigel Douglas, ndouglas@astro.rug.nl SAURON Tim de Zeeuw, tim@strw.leidenuniv.nl S-CAM Michael Perryman, mperryma@astro.estec.esa.nl Ultracam Vik Dhillon, vik.dhillon@sheffield.ac.uk
Notes ----- NAOMI: Observations will be carried out in service mode. AUTOFIB2: The large fibres module has been withdrawn. WYFFOS: The WYFFOS long camera may be commissioned in 2003A, or 2003B, and following successful commissioning the existing camera will be withdrawn. Any AF2 and INTEGRAL runs in 2003B before commissioning of the long camera will be with the existing camera and Tek6 detector, and any AF2 and INTEGRAL runs following commissioning will be with the long camera and 2xEEX mosaic detector, and will be shared-risk.
INT - http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/telescopes/int/ --- Prospective applicants to the INT are reminded that due to the impact of cost savings at ING, the Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph, IDS, is no longer offered. Only one instrument/detector configuration is available on the INT:
Instrument Detector
WFC 4xEEV
INT observing time is allocated in blocks of one week on average, and observing programmes shorter than *4* nights are not accepted, unless explicitly agreed in advance by the Head of Astronomy or the Director of ING.
For the UK community, the PATT2 application form allows a 2-page scientific justification for INT proposals which are either long-term (multi-semester) or are coordinated with other telescopes.
3. Time-share Agreement with TNG for NL and UK Observers --------------------------------------------------------
The time-share agreement with the TNG has proved to be very successful in the previous two semesters, and continues in semester 2003B. In this scheme, NL and UK observers may apply to use three TNG instruments. These are:
+ The high resolution spectrograph, SARG + The near infrared camera-spectrometer, NICS, in non-AO spectroscopy mode only + The multi-object low-resolution optical spectrograph, DOLORES
A minimum of five nights is available in total in semester 2003B to the NL and UK communities, and in return the Italian community obtains access to the WHT for the same number of nights.
For further details on the TNG observing guidelines and for instrumentation details, refer to:
Select "instruments" for detailed information on SARG, NICS and DOLORES.
Please note that NL and UK applicants for SARG, NICS or DOLORES should apply using their standard PATT form and should send these to their own national TAGs. DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO TNG. (CAT observers should apply for TNG time in the usual way).
4. Discontinuation of the INT Service Programme -----------------------------------------------
Due to the impact of cost savings at ING, the scheme of service observing on the INT carried out by observatory personnel will be discontinued at the end of Semester 2003A. Limited opportunity will remain for urgent service-mode observations with the WFC on INT engineering nights; details will be published on our web pages.
5. Telescope Support: new support model for the INT ---------------------------------------------------
Due to the impact of cost savings at ING, and operation of the INT as a single-instrument telescope, Telescope Operator (TO) support will no longer be provided on the INT. TO support continues to be provided for each night of all WHT runs.
Astronomical support is provided on the first night of each run on the WHT and INT.
Observers are reminded that filter and/or grating changes within a run will be accommodated provided that they have been explicitly requested in the telescope proposal. However, due to limited human resources, additional changes to the instrumental configuration may not be accommodated.
6. Withdrawal of the JKT from normal service --------------------------------------------
Due to the impact of cost savings at ING, the JKT will be taken out of normal service at the end of semester 2003A, and is no longer offered as a general-user facility.
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