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AOT 36 TNG REM Call for Proposal. Deadline 19.05.2017


CALL FOR PROPOSAL TNG & REM
also featuring GIARPS, HAN-GTO and NOT-TIME

AOT 36 (2017B) is now open for proposals
Applications for observing time for the period

October 1st, 2017 - March 31st, 2018

are solicited and should be submitted by
Friday 19th May, 2017, 12:00 UT



This semester the available time offered at TNG via INAF-TAC is 50 nights.
See at the bottom for a detailed schedule breakdown.
See below for the additional 20 (twenty!) nights available at NOT telescope, the proposals will be evaluated by the Nordic OPC.

Recommended mode is service, where TNG staff astronomers will perform the observations in the scheduled nights. Queuing mode is not offered.
We will be accepting (few) DDT-like proposals during the whole semester, which will be judged in few days by TNG staff. Service mode will be the only modality for these observations.

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.
Four instruments are now offered: Harps-N, NICS and Dolores.
Visit http://www.tng.iac.es
GIANO-B (Giano in Nasmyth B) is now offered.
The observing mode GIARPS, which uses simultaneously HARPS-N and GIANO-B, will be offered on a shared risk, best effort basis. (see also below)
GIARPS mode will be charged to the proposal with the highest of the two instruments requests, HARPS-N and GIANO-B, which have to be both selected in the form.

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
REM is equipped with ROS2 visible camera and REMIR infrared camera. The two are observing simultaneously thanks to a dichroic.
ROS2 will produce simultaneous images in the four Sloan-like passbands g, r, i, z. Charged time is therefore not the sum of ROS2 and REMIR but the highest of the two.

FORMS

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

LONG TERM PROGRAMS: This semester long term programs can NOT be submitted. 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 36

GIARPS, the new observational mode at TNG

Using a dichroic the light from the telescope is split into visible and infrared. The former will feed as usual HARPS-N, the latter will be beamed into the new preslit of GIANO-B.
The slit of GIANO-B will be now directly feed through a new optical relay instead of the previous fiber fed preslit. For efficiency and for overheads, please use the old GIANO page and recipe to prepare your proposals. The will serve as upper limit. You are also encouraged to contact the special helpdesk at giano-b@tng.iac.es.

For those proposals wishing to use the dual GIARPS mode, please check both HARPS-N and GIANO-B boxes in the submission form, and state this clearly in the text. The total time requested by the proposal will be the sum of the greater between HARPS-N and GIANO-B requested time of each observing block.

NATIONALITY RESTRICTIONS APPLY

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 here. Accordingly, Italian scientists can now submit normal observing proposals to the NOT, and vice versa. 10 TNG nights will be reserved to Nordic observers for this joint 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

HARPS-N GUARANTEED TIME: HAN-GTO

Continues during this semester the guaranteed time GTO at TNG for the Harps-N Consortium. 40 nights will be allocated for this project.
The list of protected targets that cannot be observed by other proposals will be shortly published in our web page.

AOT 36 TIME BREAKDOWN

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

  • 31 Spanish CAT
  • 8 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, proposal will be evaluated by INAF TAC)
  • 40 HAN-GTO
  • 5 other approved Long Term Programs
  • 50 nights for the INAF-TAC (this call)

REM available time is 1000 hours.