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AOT34 (2016B) Call for proposals. Deadline 16.05.2016


CALL FOR PROPOSAL TNG & REM

AOT 34 (2016B) is now open for proposals
Applications for observing time for the period

September 1st, 2016 - March 31st, 2017

are solicited and should be submitted by
Monday 16th May, 2016, 12:00 UT



This semester the available time offered at TNG via INAF-TAC is 54 nights.
See at the bottom for a detailed schedule breakdown.
See below for the additional 20 nights available at NOT telescope.
REM is again in operation and regularly offered.

Recommended mode is service, where TNG staff astronomers will perform the observations in the scheduled nights. The 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 and INAF-TAC. 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 is undergoing a major upgrade to its new GIARPS configuration and is therefore not offered in this "septmester".

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).

This semester long term programs can be submitted.

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 34

SEVEN MONTHS THIS SEMESTER

Due to different reasons we are moving our semesters one month ahead. In this way TNG and NOT semesters will be aligned, too. To reach this goal we introduce a leap month, and the present call is for seven months, from September to March included.

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. 12 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

Continues during this semester the guaranteed time GTO at TNG for the Harps-N Consortium. 47 nights will be allocated for this project.

AOT 34 TIME BREAKDOWN

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

  • 36 Spanish CAT
  • 8 ITP international time
  • 16 OPTICON TNA (up to 14, to be confirmed)
  • 12 TNG-NOT joint call (to be submitted with this call for proposals)
  • 47 GTO for Harps-N consortium
  • 5 other approved Long Term Programs
  • 54 nights for the INAF-TAC (this call)

REM available time is 1000 hours.