Contents 1. CCI INTERNATIONAL TIME (2004) CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2. Opportunities/Questionnaire for Narrow Band Imaging with the INT ============================================================================== CCI INTERNATIONAL TIME (2004) CALL FOR PROPOSALS The International Scientific Committee (CCI) of the Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) and Teide (OT) observatories invites applications for International Time Programmes (ITP) on telescopes installed at these Observatories. The ITP offers up to 5% of the observing time, evenly spread throughout the year and the lunar cycle, at the telescopes listed below. An ITP proposal can request observing time over a period of up to two subsequent years. Full details of the scheme for night-time telescopes can be found at http://www.iac.es/gabinete/cci/tinoc1.htm Proposals are considered on an annual cycle and the closing date for submission of proposals to the 2004 ITP is Friday 6th February, for projects which may start during the fall of the same year. Proposers must bear in mind that specific instrumentation may not be available at all times and that the CCI does not schedule the observing time as this is done by the corresponding technical committees of each telescope or group of telescopes. The aim of the ITP is to encourage large-scale international scientific projects of the highest quality, which cannot easily be accommodated within other time allocation schemes. Proposals should be international in their range of participants and are expected to involve astronomers from at least two of the European countries that have signed the Agreements for Cooperation in Astrophysics. They can include astronomers from scientific institutions in any of the countries associated with the EC's Framework Programmes and may entitle them to reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs related to their participation in the observing programme. Moreover, such proposals can include astronomers from scientific institutions from any other country in the world, but this does not entail the right to reimbursement of their expenses. The observing programmes should concentrate on a single large-scale astronomical investigation. Proposals that would benefit from the use of more than one facility, and which would be unlikely to obtain the necessary observing time through the usual time allocation panels because of the scale of the project, or because of the difficulty to coordinate several telescopes, are especially encouraged. However, collaborative international projects that require the use of a single facility are also welcome. Scientific excellence is a prime consideration. Each proposal will be assessed scientifically by the CCI, which reserves the right not to make an award on one or more telescopes if the quality of the proposals is not adequate to justify their use. The CCI may award time to one or more projects. Once a project is selected, and with the agreement of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, any Spanish institution shall have the right to join the programme if it wishes. Annual brief progress reports will be required by the CCI from successful applicants. On completion of the programme, and not later than two years after the final period of observing time, a full report should be submitted to the CCI for publication in its Annual Report. ============================================================================== Opportunities/Questionnaire for Narrow Band Imaging on the INT As of semester 2003B the INT is being operated as a single instrument telescope, the instrument being the Wide Field Camera (WFC). The community is reminded that the available filters for the WFC comprise a good range of narrow band filters suitable for exploitation of bright time. The current list includes the following ING owned filters (filter central_wavelength/bandpass); OII 3737/100 HeII 4686/100 OIII 5008/100 Halpha 6568/95 SII 6725/80 plus the following privately owned filters which are also available to the ING community (filter central_wavelength/bandpass owner/email); Halpha redshifted 9190/50 Alfonso Aragon Salamanca (Alfonso.Aragon@nottingham.ac.uk) Halpha redshifted 8160/50 Alfonso Aragon Salamanca (Alfonso.Aragon@nottingham.ac.uk) OIII redshifted 5027/60 Nial Tanvir (nrt@star.herts.ac.uk) For these privately owned filters prospective applicants should first contact the appropriate owner. In addition the ING is seeking to expand the choice of available filters and is actively pursuing the purchase of the following filters in collaboration with John Beckman at the IAC; Hbeta broad 4861/170 Hbeta narrow 4861/30 As part of this on-going process we are anxious to hear from individuals who have a need for filters not listed above. Please send any suggestions for additional filters to Romano Corradi (INT Telescope Manager) rcorradi@ing.iac.es Robert Greimel (WFC Instrument Specialist) greimel@ing.iac.es Suggestions may be sent at any time but should include a brief statement of scientific interest plus a short technical description of the filters required (minimally central_wavelength and bandpass). ============================================================= To subscribe to [INGNEWS] send to majordomo@ing.iac.es the command "subscribe ingnews" from the email address you want to subscribe. 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