Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2017B 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:

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 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-2017B-Q-84	Schlaufman	US	An All-Sky Search for the Brightest Metal-poor Stars (South)	GMOS-S	107.82
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20170803 20170805 20170807 20170816 20170830 20170831 20170901 20170902 20170903 20170904 20170908 20170919 20170924 20171003 20171015 20171016 20171018 20171019 20171021 20171024 20171026 20171028 20171102 20171105 20171107 20171124 20171129 20171205 20171206 20171218 20171219 20171231 20180101 20180103 20180108 20180112 20180114 20180124 20180125		Completion Status: 48%
GS-2017B-Q-85	Silva	GS	Period determination of polars	GMOS-S	42.00
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20170724 20170805 20170806 20170807 20170808 20170815 20170816 20170825 20170830 20170901 20170902 20170903 20170907 20170908 20170915 20170916 20170920 20171021 20180101 20180102 20180112		Completion Status: 100%
GS-2017B-Q-86	Weidmann	AR	Searching for white dwarfs in planetary nebulae	GMOS-S	9.20
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20171028 20171105 20171109 20171213 20171218 20180102 20180112		Completion Status: 100%
GS-2017B-Q-87	Schirmer	GS	Confirming a low mass group merger of the fossil group J0454-0309	Flamingos2	16.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20170919 20171002 20171015		Completion Status: 33%
GS-2017B-Q-88	Britt	US	Spectroscopy of a new X-ray Transient and Black Hole Candidate	Flamingos2	1.25
Execution Status: complete		Dates Taken: 20171002		Completion Status: 100%
GS-2017B-Q-89	Schirmer	US	Verification of the Single-Band Photometric Reverberation Mapping Method	GMOS-S	27.50
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20171020 20171023 20171025 20171026 20171027 20171028 20171107 20171129 20171206		Completion Status: 13%
GS-2017B-Q-90	Hernandez Padilla	CL	Towards solving the SN Ia progenitor problem	GMOS-S	158.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken: 20171219		Completion Status: 2%
GS-2017B-Q-106	Macintosh	US	Optimizing the GPI Exoplanet Survey	GPI	50.00
Execution Status:		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%

Last updated on: 7 Jun 2021 12:23:18 GMT