ProposalsObserving time with CARMA is allocated in response to proposals judged on scientific merit. The current Call for Proposals for general and target of opportunity (TOO) time is for observations covering the period from February 27, 2012 to August 6, 2012. Proposals are due on December 5, 2011. Please see the current call for proposals for more information. Proposals requesting Director's discretionary time may be submitted at any time.Calls for proposals will be advertised on the CARMA website and sent to the carma-announce mailing list. To subscribe to that list, please send your email address to Nikolaus Volgenau, CARMA's Assistant Director of Operations (volgenau@mmarray.org). Further information on proposing Most recent call for proposals
Preparing your observationsProposers will be advised of the status of their proposal(s) several weeks before observations are due to commence. PIs will be responsible for the preparation of observing scripts. Efforts will be made to observe all accepted proposals in good weather. Scripts for accepted proposals will be added to the observing queue and will generally be executed by an experienced CARMA observer. Although PIs are welcome to visit the CARMA site, it will not typically be possible to schedule observations during their visit. PIs of large projects may be asked to assist with site observing, after appropriate training.Once you have been advised that your project is to be scheduled, you should prepare an observing script. Script writer and instructions Semester 2011b time allocations and configuration schedule Semester 2011a time allocations and configuration schedule
Monitoring your observationsReal-Time Display (RTD) software. These are Java displays of monitor system data from the array that let you see what the array is doing. The first time you run RTD, you will be asked to accept a certificate from CARMA/University of Maryland. Select the checkbox "Always trust content from this publisher" then click Run.Real-time gains solutions page (Sci1 subarray) Real-time gains solutions page (Sci2 subarray) Projected 3mm schedule (10m & 6m subarray) Projected 3mm schedule (3.5m subarray)
After your observationsObtaining and reducing your data |