Announcement
of
The third observation period (Cycle 3) will begin with Period 55 (2007/06/02), and it will last 13 moon periods (ending on 2008/06/16). In response to this announcement of opportunity (AO), proposals are due until 2007/04/30 at noon and must be submitted to the Physics Coordinator (PC) and to the Program Coordinator (PrC) in due time. Up
to 10% of the total observation time will be available for guest observations.
Proposers should include an overhead of
20% of the requested observation time accounting for losses due to poor data quality. It is strongly recommended a preliminary discussion with a pre-filtering
in the physics working groups,
in such a way that the proposals on topics for which Working Groups are
foreseen are submitted by the Working Group Conveners.
The proposals will be reviewed by an Evaluation
Committee. The reviewers assign grades A, B, C according to
the expected scientific merits. Grade A has highest priority, and every attempt
will be made to schedule the targets of the proposal. Grade B proposals
have a chance to be scheduled in time slots where no competing grade A proposal
is available. Grade C proposals may be recommended for resubmission after
the next AO. The Time Allocation Committee (TAC) may assign observation
times different from those of the original proposal, if it comes to the
conclusion that the scientific merits are not likely to be damaged by this
change. The
TAC will schedule the targets, usually for the entire observation period. The schedule must be approved by the
Collaboration Board (if needed, after appropriate changes).
With a deadline set at 2007/04/16, the PIs of the proposals assigned grade
A or B in the Cycle 2 should send an email to the PC and to the PrC specifying
if the time allocated in Cycle 2 was enough to complete the observation (and in
this case, what is the time foreseen for the publication of results) or if they
plan to ask for time for completion of their observation.
Proposal form
1. Name of PI
2. affiliation
3. Title (indicate if target of opportunity observation)
4. Requested observation time. Format: #1 OT {h](on) #2 OT[h] (off ) #3 OT[h] (calibration+technical) #4 JD #5 UT[h:min:s]
5. Short summary (less than 300 words)
6. Scientific case (less than 5 pages)
7. Preparatory work
8. Feasibility (must be very explicit: simulation results, calculations, expected flux variations, other considerations)
9. Target list: Format: #1 Name of source #2 coordinates (RA[h:min:s]/DEC[dec:min:s](J2000)] #3 mV[mag] #4 comments
10. Observational constraints (e.g., time critical observation, multi-wavelength campaign, use of central pixel, special trigger
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