Re: ASKAP science team EoI for VLBI from [John Dickey ]
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From: <Chris.Phillips_at_email.protected>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:04:02 +1100
>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:59:46 +1100
>
>Dear Steven,
>
>I agree strongly. I'm on the ASKAP User Policy committee, and
>we've been discussing this a lot recently. The call for EoI's should
>go out around the end of this month, with a deadline around
>mid-December.
>Then there will be a screening (but not ranking), and those that pass
>the screen will be invited to put in serious proposals with a deadline
>around 15 June. The proposals will be primarily for year-length
>projects,
>but there's no reason not to put in a smaller one. One of the
>benefits
>of getting a proposal approved next year (as opposed to waiting two
>or three years and then submitting a much smaller time request
>through the ordinary TAC process) is that some time with the test
>array (first 6 telescopes available in 2010) will be given to test
>observations for the approved proposals. It would be good to
>start doing VLBI with a subset of the array as early as possible.
>
>cheers,
>jd
>
Received on 2008-10-17 12:04:33
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:04:02 +1100
>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:59:46 +1100
>
>Dear Steven,
>
>I agree strongly. I'm on the ASKAP User Policy committee, and
>we've been discussing this a lot recently. The call for EoI's should
>go out around the end of this month, with a deadline around
>mid-December.
>Then there will be a screening (but not ranking), and those that pass
>the screen will be invited to put in serious proposals with a deadline
>around 15 June. The proposals will be primarily for year-length
>projects,
>but there's no reason not to put in a smaller one. One of the
>benefits
>of getting a proposal approved next year (as opposed to waiting two
>or three years and then submitting a much smaller time request
>through the ordinary TAC process) is that some time with the test
>array (first 6 telescopes available in 2010) will be given to test
>observations for the approved proposals. It would be good to
>start doing VLBI with a subset of the array as early as possible.
>
>cheers,
>jd
>
Received on 2008-10-17 12:04:33