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AOT30 Call for proposals


CALL FOR PROPOSAL TNG & REM
also featuring HAN-GTO, GIANO-GTO and NOTTIME

AOT 30 (2014B) is now open for proposals
Applications for observing time for the period

September 1st, 2014 - February 28th, 2015

are solicited and should be submitted by
Friday 16th May, 2014, 12:00 UT



NOTICE: TNG
DUE TO THE SITUATION OF THIS SEMESTER, TNG TIME IS (ALMOST COMPLETELY) ALREADY AWARDED TO GUARANTEED OBSERVERS AND LONG TERM, ONGOING PROGRAMS.
DURING THIS SEMESTER 9 NIGHTS WILL BE RESERVED FOR THE SCIENCE VERIFICATION OF THE GIANO INSTRUMENT.
(SEE THE LETTER BY THE INAF SCIENCE DIRECTORATE AT link.
THEREFORE WE ARE OFFERING A LIMITED AMOUNT OF NIGHTS, STARTING WITH 10 AVAILABLE NIGHTS, TO WHICH FEW MORE CAN BE ADDED DEPENDING ON NON ASSIGNED NIGHTS FROM EXTERNAL TACS OR SCHEDULING CONSTRAINTS.
THE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MODE IS SERVICE, WHERE TNG STAFF ASTRONOMERS WILL PERFORM THE OBSERVATIONS IN THE SCHEDULED NIGHTS. THE QUEING MODE IS NOT OFFERED.

WE WILL BE ACCEPTING (FEW) DDT-LIKE PROPOSAL DURING THE WHOLE SEMESTER, WHICH WILL BE JUDGED IN FEW DAYS BY TNG STAFF AND INAF-TAC. SERVICE MODE WILL BE THE ONLY MODALITY FOR THESE OBSERVATIONS.

NOTICE: REM
DUE TO MAJOR DAMAGES BY A THUNDERSTORM IN JANUARY 2014 AND STILL NOT FULLY RECOVERED, REM WILL NOT BE OFFERED FOR AOT30.
DDT PROPOSAL WILL BE COLLECTED AFTER OPERATIONS WILL RESTART, PLEASE REFER TO REM WEB PAGE.

TNG is a 3.58m optical/infrared telescope located at Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory in the island of La Palma (Canary Island). Its primary mirror is corrected by Active Optics and it is equipped with instruments for imaging and spectroscopy, spanning the optical and near infrared wavelengths range.
Visit http://www.tng.iac.es

REM is a 60 cm robotic telescope located at La Silla ESO site (Chile) which can observe simultaneously with a visible and an infrared camera. The observations will be carried out in unmanned, queuing mode. INAF-TAC will allocate 1000 hours of observations.
Visit http://www.rem.inaf.it

Application forms and detailed instructions can be downloaded from
the TNG web pages ( http://www.tng.iac.es/submit.html).

TNG and REM LONG TERM PROGRAMS: PIs of ongoing long term programs shall not send a new proposal.
Instead, they should send to the TAC (via an e-mail to director@tng.iac.es) a conveniently detailed progress report.


All proposals will be judged strictly on their scientific merit.

NOTICE FOR AOT 30

NATIONALITY RESTRICTIONS APPLY

Since AOT28, INAF-TAC is receiving for TNG only Italian proposal, defined as PI and at least half of participants being affiliated to an Italian Institution. Non Italian proposals should be submitted with the OPTICON TNA program.
Special treatment is given to Nordic countries as explained in the next item. This restriction does not apply to REM proposals.

COMMON OFFER FOR OBSERVING TIME TNG-NOT

The astronomical communities of Italy, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden may apply for reserved observing time offered jointly on the TNG and NOT telescopes. Rules for applicants may be found at the page http://www.tng-not.iac.es Accordingly, Italian scientists can now submit normal observing proposals to the NOT, and vice versa. 10 TNG nights will be reserved for this joint call, in addition to the 10 quoted at the beginning of this call. Italian astronomers will have access to 20 nights with the NOT telescope. Applications for each telescope should use the proposal form for the telescope they are applying for, and will be evaluated by the telescope TAC.
INAF staff and Associates will benefit of the same FGG funding scheme as for TNG observations.

HARPS-N GUARANTEED TIME

It continues during this semester the guaranteed time GTO at TNG for the Harps-N Consortium.
40 nights will be allocated for this project.

GIANO GUARANTEED TIME FOR SCIENCE VERIFICATION

9 nights during semester AOT30 are reserved for the Giano Project Science Verification.
You can see the official appointment in this document by INAF Science Directorate at link.
The home page of GIANO is at URL: http://www.bo.astro.it/giano/GIANO/

AOT 30 TIME BREAKDOWN

For sake of completeness and clarity we report here the foreseen TNG time breakdown, expressed in nights, for coming semester:

  • 30 Spanish CAT
  • 7 ITP international time
  • 14 OPTICON TNA (up to 14, to be confirmed)
  • 10 TNG-NOT joint call (to be submitted with this call for proposals)
  • 40 GTO for Harps-N consortium
  • 9 GTO for Giano Project
  • 40 ongoing, approved, long term TAC program (ending 2014B)

REM available time is 0 hours.