NICI Campaign Science

NICI will be the first Gemini instrument to be used in "campaign" mode. A single planet-search program will be awarded a significant amount of observing time (approximately 50 nights over two to three years). NICI campaign observing is planned to start in semester 2006A following instrument commissioning and system verification phases (depending on instrument delivery and early commissioning progress). For more information about the NICI campaign, please see the following links:

• Announcement and call for Letters of Interest (7 July 2005)
• Letters of Interest team members [HTML, and PDF] and team formation information (31 August 2005)
• Campaign Science Call for Proposals introduction
• Campaign RFP Documents:
  • Request for Proposals (RFP)
  • Statement of Work (SOW)
  • RFP Addendum #1 - improved legibility of performance plots; tables added (16 Sep 2005)
  • RFP Addendum #2 - clarification of policy for adding individuals to winning team after team selection (7 Oct 2005)
  • RFP Addendum #3 - supplemental information on calculating performance and sensitivity (11 Oct 2005)
  • RFP Addendum #4 - extra information of filters, coronagraphic masks and WFS performance (15 Oct 2005)
  • RFP Addendum #5 - potential funding for additional filters or masks (28 Oct 2005)
  • RFP Addendum #6 - clarification of sensitivity estimates (1 Nov 2005)
  • RFP Addendum #7 - clarification on page limits (2 Nov 2005)
  • RFP Addendum #8 - additional information on CVs, filters and image quality (3 Nov 2005)
• Campaign Science Team Selected (4 Jan 2006)

Last update 4 Jan 2006; Joe Jensen, Phil Puxley