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Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2007B 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-2007B-Q-118 Dall AU/GS/US VSOP: Fixing the variable sky with one-shot typing of neglected variables GMOS 60.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20070809 20070904 20070911 20070912 20070916 20070926 20070927 20070928 20070929 20071006 20071014 20071015 20071103 20071122 20071123 20071124 20071215 20071218 20071219 20071220 20071221 20071227 20071229 20071230 20080101 20080102 20080109 20080111 20080119 20080121 20080123 20080124 20080128
Completion Status:
76%
GN-2007B-Q-119 Gaensicke UK Identification of a large sample of post common envelope binaries GMOS 10.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
Completion Status:
0%
GN-2007B-Q-120 Kavelaars CA Resonance in the Kuiper Belt: The History of the Outer Solar System GMOS 60.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20071124 20071125 20071126
Completion Status:
7%
GN-2007B-Q-121 Kepler BR/US The Most Massive White Dwarf Stars GMOS 35.10
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20070820 20070821 20070909 20070927 20070929 20071002 20071005 20071015 20080120 20080121 20080123 20080128
Completion Status:
30%

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-2007B-Q-56 Dall AU VSOP: Fixing the variable sky with one-shot typing of neglected variables GMOS-S 60.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20070724 20070725 20070916 20070918 20071002 20071003 20071004 20071126 20080126 20080127
Completion Status:
17%
GS-2007B-Q-57 Davidge CA The Outer Disk of NGC 7793 GMOS-S 15.60
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20070716 20070720 20070803 20070904 20070905 20070911 20070912 20070917 20070918 20070919 20070921 20070922 20071005 20071006 20071008 20071009 20071015 20071017
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2007B-Q-234 Bergmann GS Stellar Populations in Abell 4038: A GMOS-S bright time spectroscopy proposal GMOS-S 20.00
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20070725 20070803 20070804 20070807 20070808 20070904 20070910 20070913 20070914 20070915 20070916 20070918 20070919 20070921 20070924 20070926 20071009 20071010 20071011 20071012
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2007B-Q-235 Stubbs GS Sky Brightness as a function of moon phase and angular distance on Cerro Pachon: preparing for LSST GMOS-S 19.50
Execution Status Dates Taken:
20070725
Completion Status:
6%
GS-2007B-Q-236 Diaz GS Hexagonal orbits in NGC 7020? AcqCam / GMOS-S 2.50
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20070914 20070917
Completion Status:
100%
GS-2007B-Q-240 Winge GS Identifying star formation and nuclear activity in interacting galaxies GMOS-S 28.00
Execution Status Dates Taken:
20071013 20071014 20071015 20071016 20071031 20071104 20071105 20071106 20071109 20071118 20071206 20071209 20080106 20080108 20080116 20080123
Completion Status:
81%
GS-2007B-Q-241 McNeil AU The Dynamics of Two Fornax Galaxies GMOS-S 8.00
Execution Status active Dates Taken:
20071221 20071222 20071223 20071226
Completion Status:
16%
GS-2007B-Q-251 Diaz GS Discovery of a [WO] central star at the planetary nebula Th 2-A GMOS-S / Phoenix 1.50
Execution Status complete Dates Taken:
20080116 20080127 20080128
Completion Status:
100%

 

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