Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2020B 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-2020B-Q-401	Caso	AR	Revealing the mass profiles of elliptical galaxies in the field	GMOS	30.30
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20201013		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2020B-Q-402	Seccull	GS	A Search for Faint Solar Calibrators	GMOS	18.20
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200825 20200826 20200901 20200913 20200920 20200921 20201004 20201010 20201012 20201013 20201017 20201018 20201019 20201020 20201021		Completion Status: 65%
GN-2020B-Q-403	Weidmann	GS	Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Survey for Spectral Classification	GMOS	16.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200815 20200821 20200822 20200825 20200826 20200919 20200921 20201010 20201013		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2020B-Q-404	Pignata	GS	GMOS observations of planetary nebulae	GMOS	17.40
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20200919 20200921 20201010 20201012 20201013 20201016 20201018 20201019 20201020		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2020B-Q-405	Schambeau	GS	Preparing for the Next Decade of JWST Observations of Distantly Active Solar System Small Bodies	GMOS	15.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20201018 20201019 20201020 20201021 20201022		Completion Status: 44%
GN-2020B-Q-406	Maille	GS	High Redshift Blazar Candidates in Optical	GMOS	1.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20201017		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2020B-Q-407	Madrid	GS	Finding the Optical Counterparts of 3C409 and 3C454.2	GMOS	1.70
Execution Status:		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2020B-Q-408	Arias	GS	CO emission from the Yellow Hypergiant Rho Cas	GNIRS	2.85
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20201021 20201022		Completion Status: 23%

Last updated on: 23 Oct 2020 17:22:12 GMT