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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2006B 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-2006B-Q-102 Gil-Hutton AR Searching for the total mass of the Oort cloud: Bright targets I GMOS 5.31
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20061230
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2006B-Q-103 Mason GS Merging black holes in a nearby LINER? GMOS 1.50
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2006B-Q-104 Lee CA/GS Establishing the Mass-Metallicity Relation of Galaxies at Low Mass GMOS 9.00
Execution Status Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2006B-Q-105 Kepler BR/US Is the SDSS ZZ Ceti instability strip really pure? GMOS 6.40
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20061015 20061129 20061130 20061210 20070101 20070102 20070106 20070112
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2006B-Q-106 Richards US Spectroscopic Monitoring of SDSS J1004+4112 GMOS 12.30
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2006B-Q-107 Riffel BR Kinematic standard stars for NIFS NIFS 2.10
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20061230 20070102 20070103 20070104 20070105 20070130 20071015
Completion Status:
100%
GN-2006B-Q-108 Ebeling UH A spectroscopic survey of the brightest cluster galaxies in a complete sample of X-ray selected clusters GMOS 14.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20061129 20061130 20061230 20070128 20070129 20070130
Completion Status:
60%
GN-2006B-Q-109 Volk GS Imaging and Spectroscopy of Bright ABG and Post-AGB Objects with Michelle Michelle 6.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2006B-Q-110 Mason GS Spatially-resolved mid-IR spectroscopy of M17, the Omega Nebula Michelle 6.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2006B-Q-111 Lee GS Global Chemical Abundances of Northern Dwarf Irregulars in the Local Volume GMOS 6.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2006B-Q-112 Labrie GS [Fe II]-based calibration of the L_[FeII] = f(electron density) relation for supernova remnants NIRI 1.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20061008
Completion Status:
18%
GN-2006B-Q-113 Roth GS Spectroscopic Identification of Galaxies Causing Metal Absorption in QSO Spectra GMOS / NIRI 5.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%

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-2006B-Q-80 Gil-Hutton AR Searching for the total mass of the Oort cloud: Bright targets II GMOS-S 14.26
Execution Status Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2006B-Q-81 Wright AU Identifying the 11.2 micron absorption band in embedded sources TReCS 19.83
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20060910 20060913 20060925 20060928 20060930 20061004 20061005 20061007 20061013 20061015 20061018 20061020 20070127
Completion Status:
71%
GS-2006B-Q-82 Aspin GS A high resolution study of the prototype FUor, FU Orionis. bHROS 2.00
Execution Status Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2006B-Q-83 Lee GS/CA Establishing the Mass-Metallicity Relation of Galaxies at Low Mass GMOS-S 6.00
Execution Status Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2006B-Q-84 Ocvirk UK SPANS: Stellar Population Ages in Nearby Spiral bulges - Probing the Controversy. GMOS-S 25.50
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20060725 20060802 20060918 20060920 20061011 20061028 20061109 20061130 20061229 20070110 20070124
Completion Status:
31%
GS-2006B-Q-85 Kennefick US Spectroscopy of Faint $z>4.8$ Quasar Candidates from the BTC40 Survey GMOS-S 4.00
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20060901 20060913 20060924 20061223 20061224 20061227 20070110 20070111 20070115 20070116 20070117
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2006B-Q-86 Storchi-Bergmann BR The broad double-peaked H alpha profile from the nucleus of NGC 1097 GMOS-S 1.50
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20060808 20060810 20060918
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2006B-Q-87 Schnurr CA The Most Massive Binaries: Lifting the Fog GMOS-S 30.00
Execution Status Dates Taken:
20061215 20061221 20061228 20061229
Completion Status:
5%

 

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