[ASA] First MWA Call for Proposals

[John O'Byrne]

Dear Colleagues,

The first MWA Call for Proposals is now open, from March 1 to May 1,
2013.  The proposal template is available from http://mwatelescope.org
and should be read in conjunction with the MWA Announcement of
Opportunity (AO), available from the same URL.

This first Call covers the observing period designated 2013-B (July -
December 2013).  A total of 600 hours of observing time is available
during this period, as detailed in the AO documentation (in the
Guaranteed Time and Director's Discretionary Time categories - note
that no Open Access allocation is available in 2013-B)

As outlined in the AO, the final pre-operations briefing for potential
users was held on February 25/26, following the close of the
Expression of Interest stage (January/February 2013).  Notes from the
pre-operations meeting, plus MWA Management Team presentations made
during that meeting, are available at
http://mwatelescope.org/meetings/eoi-perth-2013/

At this stage, the timeline to the commencement of MWA operations is as follows:

May 1, 2013: proposals due with MWA Director;

Mid May, 2013: MWA Time Allocation Committee (TAC) meets to assess and
rank proposals, with recommendation to MWA Director;

Early June, 2013: proposal teams notified of TAC outcomes;

Mid June, 2013: proposals are scheduled for observation during 2013-B;

July, 2013: observations for 2013-B commence.

Regards,
Steven


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Professor Steven Tingay

Premier's Fellow

Director, MWA

Director, Science and Operations
Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy

Deputy Director, ICRAR

Department of Imaging and Applied Physics
Curtin University of Technology
Bentley, Western Australia
Australia

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