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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2011B Gemini North and Gemini South

The queues shown in the tables below summarise the programs that constitute the "Poor Weather Queue" on Gemini North and Gemini South. 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 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 active 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 active 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%

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-2011B-Q-91 Beers US/BR A Survey for Unrecognized Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy GMOS-S 75.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20110720 20110723 20110903 20110905 20110915 20111011 20111012 20111017 20111018 20111023 20111108 20111109 20111119 20111120 20111121 20111201 20111226 20111228 20120102 20120103 20120118 20120123 20120128 20120304 20120426 20120505 20120507 20120511
Completion Status:
69%
GS-2011B-Q-92 Chene CL Search for new Galactic LBV candidates GMOS-S 7.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20120102 20120127 20120329 20120330 20120401 20120403 20120405 20120408 20120507
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2011B-Q-93 Chene CL Spectroscopic Follow-Up Observations of Bow Shock-Producing Stars GMOS-S 12.00
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20110829 20120317 20120320 20120405 20120407 20120408 20120506 20120507 20120604
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2011B-Q-94 Titov AU Testing the standard cosmology with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) GMOS-S 7.60
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20111116 20111117 20111118 20111120 20111121 20111126 20111204 20120301
Completion Status:
100%

 

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