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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2016A 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:

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-2016A-Q-89 Fang US Spectroscopic observations of faint young stars in Orion nebula cluster GMOS-S 19.60
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160305 20160307 20160309 20160310 20160311 20160312 20160315 20160329 20160331 20160403 20160408 20160409 20160411 20160413		 Completion Status:
61%
GS-2016A-Q-100 Andersen US Towards a complete spectroscopic census of high proper motion ultracool dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood GMOS-S 80.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160208 20160302 20160309 20160311 20160329 20160402 20160403 20160404 20160406 20160407 20160408 20160409 20160410 20160411 20160412 20160417 20160420 20160422 20160426 20160501 20160503 20160504 20160505 20160506 20160508 20160526 20160615 20160618 20160620 20160623 20160712 20160715 20160716 20160717 20160718 20160721 20160722 20160728 20160731 20160801 20160811 20160913 20160914 20161003		 Completion Status:
78%
GS-2016A-Q-101 Weidmann AR Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Survey for Spectral Classification GMOS-S 10.70
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20160302 20160303 20160307 20160308 20160316 20160403 20160404		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2016A-Q-102 Geballe GS Additional Probes of the Galactic Center's Interstellar Medium - completion Flamingos2 7.60
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20160420 20160731 20160801 20160802 20160902 20160913 20160914 20160915 20160929		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2016A-Q-103 Hinkle US Orbital Survey of Red Giant - White Dwarf SNe Ia Progenitors Phoenix 10.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GS-2016A-Q-104 Madrid AU Monitoring the host galaxy of fast radio burst FRB 150418 Flamingos2 / GMOS-S 7.30
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160315 20160411 20160412		 Completion Status:
28%
GS-2016A-Q-105 Lundquist GS Near Infrared Survey of Intermediate-Mass Star-Forming Regions Flamingos2 31.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160317 20160319 20160329 20160404 20160408 20160411 20160412 20160420 20160615 20160717 20160718 20160724 20160811 20170603 20170612 20170613 20170615 20170621 20170622		 Completion Status:
90%
GS-2016A-Q-106 Hernandez-Fernandez BR Spectroscopic Survey of Star-Forming Compact Groups (SFCGs) GMOS-S 47.60
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160716 20160730 20161003 20161008 20161025 20161026 20161120 20161121 20161122 20161125 20161126 20161228 20170108 20170325 20170329 20170419 20170501 20170530 20170712 20170713		 Completion Status:
63%
GS-2016A-Q-107 Placco GS Identifying Very and Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Best & Brightest Catalog GMOS-S 50.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20160420 20160501 20160503 20160504 20160506 20160508 20160509 20160526 20160528 20160609 20160615 20160620 20160623 20160624 20160625 20160627 20160708 20160715 20160716 20160718 20160721 20160722 20160723 20160724 20160801 20160811		 Completion Status:
100%
GS-2016A-Q-108 Marchesini AR Looking for blazars in a sample of southern unidentified high-energy emitting Fermi sources GMOS / GMOS-S 11.60
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160710 20160715 20160721 20160730 20160801 20160804 20160807		 Completion Status:
41%
GS-2016A-Q-109 Molina Lera AR Characterizing a reddened population of stars in the Carina region. GMOS-S 9.00
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160525 20160526 20160623 20160716 20160802		 Completion Status:
46%
GS-2016A-Q-110 Hillwig US Spectroscopy of Close Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebula Discovered by Kepler GMOS-S 13.80
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160701 20160710 20160729		 Completion Status:
0%
GS-2016A-Q-111 Chene GS Binarity of the very massive star WR62-2: How can we form such a massive star? Flamingos2 7.50
Execution Status: Dates Taken:
20160801 20170621		 Completion Status:
22%

 

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