Observing time proposals for 2001B
Given that it is likely we will be commissioning in October/November/December
2001B, we need to ask for commissioning time (via Rene Rutten) and observing
time (via PATT) by 31/03/2001.
commissioning time
This email contains our commissioning time
request. We have asked for 1 bright night sometime in October-December,
2001.
observing proposals
To kick-start the process, Tom sent this
email to me with a
list of possible projects, and then this
email to his colleagues in Southampton.
After much consideration, we decided that commissioning in January 2002 was
too close for comfort, given the likely timescales for the delivery of the
optics from Specac and the CCD cameras from UKATC. So we decided to delay
until 2002A and withdrew our commissioning time request and did not apply
for any PATT time.
This email contains our second commissioning
time request. We have asked for 1 bright night sometime in April-May,
2002.
This contains the case and forms
for an XTE proposal which Martin Still, Kieran O'Brien (and others) have
submitted to XTE for a possible XTE+ULTRACAM campaign on XRBs. The
accompanying ULTRACAM proposal will not go to PATT until semester 2002B (due
to the object RAs).
We decided to submit only 2 PATT proposals for semester 2002A so as not to
upset the time allocation committee if the instrument does not work for some
reason. Tom wrote one proposal on eclipsing detached
binaries and I wrote one proposal (with Axel Schwope) on
simultaneous optical and X-ray light curves of
HU Aqr (which also includes observations of OU Vir, one of Tom's new
OY Car-like DN from the 2DF QSO survey).