Call for Proposals
PERIOD 50: OCTOBER 1, 2014 - APRIL 1, 2015
The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) invites applications for observing time in
Period 50, October 1, 2014 - April 1, 2015
The deadline for receipt of the applications is:
Friday, May 16, 2014, at UT 12:00 noon.
The Call for Proposals is also available in the following formats:
Important Announcement:
As stipulated by the Associates that form the NOT Scientific
Association, a contribution to the operations of the telescope will be
required from the Nordic users. The precisely way in which this will
be implemented in the future is being discussed, and likely will be
depending on the kind of proposal and the type of the observations
requested, but the specific details will be announced as part of the
corresponding Call for Proposals.
In accordance with the new NOTSA Agreement, the share of observing
time for each Nordic Country is proportional to the contributions from
the Associates. As (national) demand on observing time will vary from
semester-to-semester and year-to-year, no strict national shares will
be set per observing semester and all proposals submitted to NOT will
still be ranked on the basis of scientific merit by the Observing
Programmes Committee. However, the national shares will be considered
when allocating observing time.
Important Announcement: In order to spearhead the coordinated use of
Europe's 2-4m telescopes, the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) and
NOT telescopes on La Palma have agreed to enter into a closer
collaboration and will continue to jointly offer time at both
telescopes to both communities in the next semester. See further
details
at http://www.tng-not.iac.es/. Accordingly,
Nordic scientists can submit normal observing proposals directly to
the TNG, and vice versa, but prior coordination between similar
proposals from the two communities is encouraged in order to optimise
the scientific returns of the available observing time. However, in
particular with respect to Target-of-Opportunity programs, the
different rules applying to observing time at the TNG and the NOT will
be taken in to consideration.
Following the Agreement between the Instituto de Astrofísica de
Canarias (IAC) and NOTSA for the continued operation of the NOT at the
Roque de los Muchachos observatory on La Palma, 5% of the observing
time at NOT will be offered for joint IAC-Nordic research
programmes. This observing time is aimed at reinforcing the
collaboration and synergies between the IAC and the Nordic communities
through joint programmes. A separate call for proposals will be issued
soon.
1: Proposals for projects of all sizes are welcome, large and small as
well as medium-size. Pooling of related and synergistic proposals by
consortia of groups with similar interests is encouraged. Programmes
requiring one or more single-night periods may be executed in service
mode on pre-assigned nights. Proposals should state whether or not
service mode is desirable. Applicants planning to propose
Target-of-Opportunity or similar projects should contact the Director
(tau@not.iac.es) in advance in order to discuss optimum strategies.
2: The proposal submission procedure is electronic. The Latex template
and style files for Period 50 are available at the NOT web site:
http://www.not.iac.es/observing/proposals/. Detailed instructions are
provided in the template file itself and a README file; they should be
followed carefully. Applicants should process and view the output of
their files before submission in order to check that they process
properly. Proposals using modified style files will not be accepted.
Proposals requesting more than one observing run in the period (using
different instruments on a project counts as separate runs) should
specify them individually in the proposal as indicated.
3: Proposals should be submitted by e-mail before the above deadline
to: proposal@not.iac.es, with the word "Proposal" both as Subject and
as text. Automatic e-mail acknowledgement of receipt, with
notification of any problems encountered in processing, is
provided. Before the deadline, questions on proposal preparations or
procedures may be sent to the same address with "Question" as the
Subject.
4: Up-to-date information on instruments at NOT is found at
http://www.not.iac.es/instruments/. Please
note the following features for Period 50:
We expect that a high- precision polarimeter for FIES will be
available in period 50.
5: Proposals are reviewed without regard to the nationality of the
applicant(s), but eligible non-Nordic proposals should be submitted
via the OPTICON programme if possible (see below), and the total time
allocated to 'foreign' projects, including OPTICON time, will be
limited to ~15% of the Nordic time. This limit does not apply to
Italian projects submitted under the joint call described above.
Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their proposal as soon
as possible after the evaluation by the NOT Observing Programmes
Committee and preparation of the observing schedule by the
Director. Brief explanatory notes are provided to proposers,
especially for rejected proposals. Note also that only 75% of the
science time can be scheduled by NOTSA; the rest is Spanish
time. Awards of observing time do not imply any other financial
support from NOT.
6: The OPTICON Trans-National Access Programme provides access for
external users to NOT and several other European telescopes with
support from the European Union. NB: Proposals for OPTICON time are
submitted and reviewed separately two months before the normal NOT
proposals, and all eligible non-Nordic applicants should follow the
OPTICON procedure. See http://www.astro-opticon.org/fp7/tna/ for the
next deadline and all details on this programme.
October 10, 2013
T. Augusteijn
Director, NOTSA
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