JAC Style guide: template
 Information for Applicants Requesting Time on JCMT for Semester 97B
The deadline for HETERODYNE applications only for semester 97B (August 1st 1997
through January 31st 1998) is 31st March 1997. It has been decided NOT
to invite SCUBA applications for this deadline because revised NEFDs etc
will not be properly known until mid-late March at the earliest
(following the current cool-down - see below), but rather to delay the
the call for semester 97B SCUBA proposals until reliable figures have
been established. Those SCUBA applicants who were successful in obtaining
SCUBA time in the first `24-hour' SCUBA call last Autumn can be assured
that it is still planned to implement these `pilot' proposals as soon as
SCUBA is performing with the required reliability; Principal Investigators
will be contacted when this occurs, and will be offered the opportunity to
modify their observing template as appropriate.
All HETERODYNE applications must arrive at their appropriate collection point
by March 31st. These will be processed for the ITAC meeting to be held with
the other PATT facilities in late May.
Note that the deadline for Netherlands applications is now the same as for
the UK, Canadian and International applications. The Latex template
application form can be downloaded from the JCMT homepage on the Web. An
explanation of how to classify applications into UK, Canadian, Netherlands or
International, the correct number of copies required, and the correct
addresses of the collecting points can also be found on the Web. Electronic
submissions will be most welcome in the case of Netherlands and Canadian
applications. This facility is not yet available for UK or International
applications. See the JCMT home page for further details.
INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE
The current status of RxA2, RxB3 and RxC2 can be found on the Web. These
instruments will be available throughout the semester.
RxW is scheduled to be commissioned on the telescope in July. This is too
late to be able to provide any parameters prior to the ITAC meeting and
therefore applications should not request RxW. More specifically, any C-band
applications allocated time for RxC2 will automatically be given RxW time
should the C-band commissioning proceed successfully. There cannot be any
D-band requests for semester 97B.
It is anticipated that there will be an SBI run around October or November.
Applications should be sent in as normal by the appropriate JCMT and CSO
deadlines. The instruments available will be only RxA2, RxB3 and RxC2, not RxW.
SCUBA
At this moment it is not possible to give any further details about SCUBA
since the instrument is warm and undergoing repairs. Should these repairs
and upgrades result in significantly improved observing capabilities then an
information update will be released later this month (March). This may result
in a late call for CONTINUUM observing applications for semester 97B with a
deadline around the end of April. If this is the case, then the ITAC meeting
will be delayed for the regular PATT date to sometime in late June so that
both heterodyne and continuum applications can be considered together.
Last Modification Date 1997/03/12 - Last Modification Author: Graeme Watt (gdw)
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