Poor Weather Queue Summary : Semester 2008A 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.

The regular program queue for 2008A is available here.

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-2008A-Q-108	Nemmen	BR	The broad double-peaked Halpha profiles of the nuclei of low-luminosity AGN	GMOS	7.50
Execution Status active		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GN-2008A-Q-109	Geach	UK	Star-forming galaxies in the cores of clusters of galaxies	GMOS	27.10
Execution Status		Dates Taken: 20080429 20080502 20080608 20080609		Completion Status: 3%
GN-2008A-Q-110	Dall	AU	VSOP: Fixing the variable sky with one-shot typing of neglected variables	GMOS	10.00
Execution Status complete		Dates Taken: 20080428 20080429 20080501 20080502 20080503 20080506 20080507 20080510 20080608 20080609 20080614 20080615 20080616 20080617		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2008A-Q-111	Hodapp	UH	NIFS spectroscopy of the binary infrared companion of Sigma Orionis	NIFS+Altair	0.60
Execution Status complete		Dates Taken: 20080302 20080327		Completion Status: 100%
GN-2008A-Q-112	Stockton	UH	A Search for High-Velocity Outflows in Quasars at z ~ 1.5 and 2.3	NIRI	16.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20080315 20080425 20080510 20080511 20080530 20080611 20080614 20080616 20080617 20081103		Completion Status: 55%
GN-2008A-Q-113	Gelbord	UK	Confirming a tidal disruption event in a normal galaxy	GMOS	2.20
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).

GS Poor Weather Queue
Ref #	PI	Partner	Title	Instrument	Hours allocated
GS-2008A-Q-78	Dall	GS/AU	VSOP: Fixing the variable sky with one-shot typing of neglected variables	GMOS-S	100.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20080522 20080523 20080524 20080525 20080526 20080603 20080606 20080607 20080608 20080611 20080613 20080614 20080615 20080616 20080617 20080618 20080623 20080624 20080625 20080626 20080628 20080629 20080702 20080704 20080705 20080706 20080707 20080710 20080712 20080713 20080717 20080718 20080719		Completion Status: 86%
GS-2008A-Q-203	McNeil	AU	Determining the Dynamics of Two Galaxies	GMOS-S	12.50
Execution Status		Dates Taken:		Completion Status: 0%
GS-2008A-Q-204	Ryder	AU	The Nuclear Starburst Ring in IC 4933	GMOS-S	1.00
Execution Status complete		Dates Taken: 20080707		Completion Status: 100%
GS-2008A-Q-205	Davidge	CA	A Search for Eclipsing Binaries in NGC 247 During Poor Weather Conditions	GMOS-S	45.00
Execution Status active		Dates Taken: 20080628 20080630 20080702 20080706 20080707 20080709 20080710 20080711 20080717 20080719 20080725 20080728 20080813 20080901 20080908 20080910 20081007 20090104 20090105 20090106		Completion Status: 47%
GS-2008A-Q-206	Krabbe	GS	The Nature of Nurture: studiyng the chemical and kinematical properties of Minor Merger systems	GMOS-S	12.00
Execution Status complete		Dates Taken: 20080727 20080728 20080801 20080803 20080815		Completion Status: 100%

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