CALL FOR PROPOSAL TNG & REM
also featuring HAN-GTO, GIANO-GTO and NOTTIME
AOT 31 (2015A) is now open for proposals
Applications for observing time for the period
March 1st, 2015 - August 31st, 2015
are solicited and should be submitted by
Monday 17th November, 2014, 12:00 UT
THE NEW INSTRUMENT
GIANO WILL BE OFFERED TO GENERAL OBSERVERS STARTING THIS SEMESTER.
GIANO is a near infrared, high resolution, echelle spectrograph (R~50000) covering from 0.95 to 2.45 microns. Look at the GIANO webpage for more info and observing cookbook:
http://www.tng.iac.es/instruments/giano/NOTICE: TNGDue to the situation of this semester,
TNG time is mostly awarded to guaranteed observers and long term, ongoing programs.
40 nights will be reserved for the continuation of the GAPS program (see the letter by the INAF Science Directorate at
http://www.tng.iac.es/Lettera-GAPS.pdf)
Therefore we are offering a limited amount of nights, starting with
17 available nights, to which few more can be added depending on unassigned nights from external TACS.
See below for the further 20 nights available at NOT telescope.
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.
NOTICE: REM
REM is again operational and equipped with ROS2 visible camera. ROS2 will produce simultaneous images in the four Sloan-like passbands g, r, i, z.
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
FORMS
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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) a conveniently detailed progress report.
All proposals will be judged strictly on their scientific merit.
NOTICE FOR AOT 31
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 OFFERED
THE NEW INSTRUMENT GIANO WILL BE OFFERED TO GENERAL OBSERVERS STARTING THIS SEMESTER.
GIANO is a near infrared, high resolution, echelle spectrograph (R~50000) covering from 0.95 to 2.45 microns. Look at the GIANO webpage for more info and observing cookbook: http://www.tng.iac.es/instruments/giano/.
This semester we are offering GIANO on a shared risk basis. Thus, any time lost for technical reasons will not be refunded.
AOT 31 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)
- 40 GTO for Harps-N consortium
- 40 for GAPS program
- 17 nights for the INAF-TAC (this call)
REM available time is 1000 hours.
