Statistics Related to Subaru Telescope Open Use

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Statistics Related to Subaru Telescope Open Use
Subaru Users Meeting 2009.1.14-16

• Subaru Open Use Team

Weather Condition Statistics at the Subaru
Telescope
Recent Open-Use Related Statistics
Taken from Miyashita homepage (
http//www1.subaru.nao.ac.jp/akihiko/)
Probability of Proposed Observations Finally
Being Realized
Submission Inflation on the Deadline Day
Normal/Intensive Program
Service Program
a number of accepted proposals / number of
submitted proposals (in which he/she was involved
as PI)
Preliminary Notice for S09B Call for Proposals
People Involving Subaru Open Use
How the Proposal Selection Proceeds? Time
Schedule for S09B January 2009 Beginning of
discussion/decision about the details for the
S09B semester
(schedule, instruments to be opened, time
exchange program, etc.) February 6 (Fri) Call
for Proposals starts March 6 (Fri) Deadline for
Normal/Intensive program proposals (1200 JST,
Noon) mid- March Grouping proposals into 7-8
categories (by TAC) Nomination of
referee candidates (by TAC)
(About 5 referees for each category, usually 3
Japanese and 2 foreigners) mid to late- March
Inquiring each referee candidate whether he/she
is willing to accept
(When declined, go to another candidate) end of
March Sending review forms and proposals to
referees April 10 (Fri) Deadline for Service
program proposals (1200 JST, noon) mid-April
Sending Service proposals to TAC
members late-April Receiving referee
reports mid-May Time Allocation Committee (2
days) Hearing of Intensive Program
proposals Selection of
Normal/Intensive Program proposals based on
referee scores Tentative time
allocation Ranking of Service
proposals mid to late-May Preparation for
results notification (editing the referee/TAC
comments)
Scheduling by early June Informing the results
of Normal/Intensive Program proposal selection
Announcement of schedule and observing
procedure Informing the results of
Service Program proposal selection August 1
Start of S09B
Subaru TAC Members Kazuhiro Shimasaku (Univ.of
Tokyo) Chair Mamoru Doi (Univ. of Tokyo)
Structure formation and Cosmology Hideyo
Kawakita (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.) Solar system and
Extrasolar planets Tadayuki Kodama (NAOJ)
Galaxies and Clusters of galaxies Takashi
Murayama (Tohoku Univ.) AGN and galaxies
Tetsuya Nagata (Kyoto Univ.) Star/Planet
formation and ISM Takashi Onaka (Univ. of Tokyo)
Stars Toshikazu Shigeyama (Univ. of Tokyo)
General Tomonori Totani (Kyoto Univ.) General
Subaru Open Use Team Hideki Takami
negotiation with Gemini/Keck Yoichi Takeda
manager of proposal selection procedure Nobunari
Kashikawa service program, electronic
submission Masatoshi Imanishi scheduling and
time-exchange program Hiroshi Terada
operation Yasushi Nakajima electronic
submission Chie Yoshida administrative
assistant