From caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au Tue Mar 2 18:19:50 2021 From: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au (Caroline Foster) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 07:19:50 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Call for ESO-OPC Nominations In-Reply-To: <3C79607F-B285-4C47-ADAE-76C9ABABA0F8@sydney.edu.au> References: <3C79607F-B285-4C47-ADAE-76C9ABABA0F8@sydney.edu.au> Message-ID: <28AC74C4-3F67-44A3-982C-7664661C2985@sydney.edu.au> Good morning fellow astronomers, Please forward the following to relevant people within and beyond your institute. As the ESO Users Committee representative, it is my role to nominate suitable and willing Australian astronomers to serve as referees on the European Southern Observatory Observing Programme Committee (OPC, or ESO?s TAC). ESO has now issued a call for nominees to be considered for serving in periods P109-P110 (panel members) or P109-P112 (OPC panel chairs). While Australia has a very broad representation on the various panels, there is a clear dearth of certain demographics and scientific expertise. ESO is asking for more (senior) female nominees to help balance Australia?s representation on the various panels. I note that both observers and theorists may serve on the OPC. The terms of reference and rules of procedures for the OPC are available here. The OPC meets twice a year (usually in Garching, Germany, but probably virtually for the foreseeable future). Travel, if applicable, is at ESO?s expense. Selected panel and committee members will need to carefully review several tens of proposals each and grade around 100 proposals at the meeting based on discussion. Serving on the OPC represents a significant amount of work and time. For this reason, people typically serve on the OPC for only 2 consecutive periods (1 year), although more senior astronomers may be asked to serve for 2 years as panel chairs. If you/someone you know are/is qualified and available to serve on the OPC (ESO requests for 2nd postdoc of beyond), please contact me directly. Be sure to include in your email the OPC subcategory. Additionally, ORCID, experience on ESO telescopes and the year of PhD award may optionally be included with the nomination (recommended). If you have been nominated recently, but haven?t been contacted by ESO yet, please confirm that you are still available (you should have already received an email). It is in Australia?s best interest to have as many Australian astronomers on the various OPC panels, which cover a range of science topics. I am looking for a diverse (particularly in gender, expertise and seniority) pool of Australian astronomers who are in their second postdoc or beyond to nominate. Thanks everyone for your help! Clear Skies! Caroline Foster ? Dr Caroline Foster ASTRO3D Fellow & ESO Users Committee Representative Pronouns: she/her/hers The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, Sydney Institute for Astrophysics 360B, A28 | The University of Sydney | NSW | +61 286 276 411 | +61 430 453 532 caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au|www.carofoster.com Usual office days: I am at the office most Thursdays. Otherwise, I work flexibly part-time 3 days over the week, mostly from home and/or the AAO. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live (Darug people / Darug nation) and work (Gadigal people /Eora nation) and pay my respect to Elders past, present and future. INSPIRED ? the Campaign to support the University of Sydney sydney.edu.au/inspired CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. 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As a result, you have been missing out on hearing about the fantastic science being carried out by Australia?s PhD students and early career researchers (ECRs). Happily, we can announce the ASTRO 3D ECR Astronomers in Australia Seminar Series. Come and listen to the best and brightest minds in Australian astronomy get together to share their most exciting results. The best thing? You can hire them ? they?re all on the job market! The ASTRO 3D ECR Astronomers in Australia Seminar Series is a series of conference-style presentations aimed at updating the world on the exciting research coming out of Australia. Two twenty-minute talks each followed by five minutes of questions are scheduled every week from mid-March to July 2021 alternating between times friendly to those based in Europe/Africa or South/North America: * Thursdays at 10:00am GMT (London time) / 11:00am CET (Munich time). * Thursdays at 1:00pm PST (California time) / 4:00pm EST (New York time). You can find a schedule of seminar talks here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lqbWCgZ0N1izWJPAIoydsn?domain=astro3d.org.au To participate, please register at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5QXiC0YKPviAWzJGfwK90_?domain=astro3d.org.au/ for Zoom links and further information. All talks will be available afterwards on the ASTRO 3D YouTube channel: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zI2tCjZ1N7ixJ0lnc5bDm5?domain=youtube.com Please forward this email to any relevant colleagues and mailing lists to advertise this seminar series. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the ASTRO 3D international seminar committee at: ecr-sem-series at astro3d.org.au Best Wishes, The ASTRO 3D international seminar committee. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Proposals for ESO time (in August, Oct and Dec 2021) to use the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment ( APEX) antenna on Chajnantor will also be considered on the same basis as those from any ESO member state. The proposal deadline is Thursday 25 March 2021 at noon Central European Time (10pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time, 7pm Australian Western Standard Time). Complete details on how to apply can be found at the P108 Call for Proposals web page. All applicants should consult the Call for Proposals document for Period 108 , and are required to update their ESO User Portal accounts to submit or be on proposals. A wealth of information for Australian applicants can be found on AAL's Australian ESO Forum. Any questions about policies or the practical aspects of proposal preparation should be addressed to the ESO Observing Programmes Office, opo at eso.org. Applicants who may wish to seek advice on proposal or observing strategies, optimal choice of instrument, etc. are invited to contact AAL's ESO Program Manager at Stuart.Ryder at astronomyaustralia.org.au. What's new in Period 108? Applicants are strongly encouraged to review the expected changes in instrumentation offered and procedures for Period 108 given in Sec. 1.1 of the Call for Proposals. Among the items likely to be of most interest to the Australian community are: * Proposal anonymisation: The Dual-Anonymous Peer Review (DAPR) is now fully deployed, after the successful dry run in Period 106. Applicants must formulate the scientific rationales of their proposals following these anonymisation rules and examples , which includes a detailed description of the DAPR paradigm. Failure to abide by the DAPR rules may lead to the disqualification of the proposal. * New Large Programme proposals accepted in P108: Since Period 104, Large Programme proposals are only being accepted once per year during even Periods. Large Programmes can be requested to start either in P108 or in P109, but the programme can extend at most over four consecutive semesters (currently up to Period 111). Due to the preparations to offer SOXS at the NTT in the near future, Large Programme proposals will be accepted for SOFI during Period 108 only and for EFOSC2 only for Periods 108 through 110. * CRIRES availability: The upgraded CRIRES instrument is offered with the spectroscopy mode covering the wavelength range 0.95-5.3?m, with spectral resolving powers of 50,000 and 100,000, and in non-AO and NGS modes only. A set of two gas cells allows high-precision radial velocity measurements. * Updating of ESO User Portal Profiles: ESO is again requesting all science users provide more detailed information in their User Portal profile, including gender, year of PhD, ORCID and a series of keywords for specifying scientific and technical expertise. Users failing to do this will not be able to submit a proposal as PI and/or as CoI in P108. * Rapid Response Mode (RRM) activation policy: The RRM policy changed starting in Period 105: on-going observations on any VLT instrument can be interrupted by an RRM triggered on that specific UT, even if the trigger requires a change of focus, unless the relevant programme is specifically protected against an RRM trigger (in case of strictly time-critical programmes). The change will be operational by the start of Period 108 at UT1 and UT2, and may be ready at UT3 for the start of the Period. It is expected to be operational at UT4 later during Period 108. * Survey Telescopes availability: Period 108 is expected to be the last Period of VIRCAM operations before the start of the modifications required at VISTA for the installation of 4MOST. Only Normal Programme proposals are accepted in Period 108 for this instrument, without restrictions on atmospheric conditions, lunar phase or RA range. Period 108 is the last Period for which the operation of VST is guaranteed under the current agreement between ESO and INAF. Normal and Large Programme proposals are accepted for OmegaCAM in Period 108 without restrictions on atmospheric conditions, lunar phase or RA range, with the understanding that Large Programmes can only run for a maximum of one Period. * Special Call for Period 107: Following the suspension of the regular Call for Proposals for ESO Period 107 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ESO is issuing a Special Call (hereafter SC107) for the submission of projects consisting of novel and urgent observations that must be executed during P107 (1 April - 30 September 2021). The spirit of SC107 is to offer ESO's community the opportunity to take the lead (or to maintain its leadership) on new, important scientific cases, without having to miss out on them because of the pandemic. SC107 will be open as of 1 April 2021, and users will be able to submit proposals any time throughout the Period for observations that must be carried out during P107. * Visitor Mode: Although requests for Visitor Mode may be submitted for P108, any scheduled runs may need to be executed in Designated Visitor Mode instead if travel restrictions are still in place. * APEX: The ARTEMIS (350 ?m and 450 ?m), nFLASH (200-270 GHz and 385-500 GHz), and SEPIA (159-211 GHz, 272-376 GHz, and 578-738 GHz) instruments are all offered in P108. Note that ESO does not plan to offer APEX time beyond Period 110, corresponding to the end of the current APEX agreement. ______________________________ Dr. Stuart Ryder Program Manager (Mon, Wed, Fri) Astronomy Australia Ltd. 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ATNF is currently in the process of designing the upgrade of the digital backend of the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA): the Broadband Integrated GPU Correlator for ATCA (BIGCAT). To capture the science requirements for this upgrade we are holding a workshop on the 11th & 12th of March (1-4pm AEDT/10am-1pm AWST). This workshop will consist of a series of short science talks presenting possible science cases for BIGCAT, and discussions around the data format/processing requirements and commissioning plans. The meeting will be entirely online, with Webex links emailed to registered participants prior to the meeting. A draft program is available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/NM1sCYW8Nocyr83YC0MC_-?domain=atnf.csiro.au This is an open workshop and all are welcome to attend. If anyone would like to present a short science talk on a potential use case for BIGCAT please send an email to elizabeth.mahony at csiro.au with a title and few sentences about your proposed talk. We are looking for science use cases that could stretch the BIGCAT system to enable us to make informed decisions on the system design to make it suitable for as many future science cases as possible. For more technical information on the current design of BIGCAT a summary document is available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/b-61CZY1NqiWJGMvHj9D0R?domain=atnf.csiro.au If there are any further questions either about the BIGCAT upgrade or this workshop please get in touch with either myself (Elizabeth.Mahony at csiro.au) or Chris Phillips (Chris.Phillips at csiro.au). Many thanks, Elizabeth Mahony BIGCAT Project Scientist Dr Elizabeth Mahony Research Scientist Astronomy and Space Science | CSIRO elizabeth.mahony at csiro.au | 02 9372 4143 Usual working days: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. 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One of the primary GWDC activities is to maintain and develop a series of large-scale projects -- the current list of projects can be found on the GWDC website (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/E7VcCYW8NocynxjmU0bwo9?domain=gwdc.org.au). With renewed funding in FY 21/22, the GWDC would like to call for expressions of interest for new large-scale projects to potentially be supported through this scheme. Interested parties should submit a one or two paragraph expression of interest that outlines briefly the science, scope, and maturity of the proposed project. This EOI phase is designed solely to determine whether project applications are better suited to this scheme, or to the GWDC/ADACS Merit Allocation Software Support Programs. Successful EOIs will be invited to work with GWDC staff to prepare a full application (which will involve not more than a two-page proposal), outlining the project, personnel, strategic vision, prospective milestones and KPIs, and an estimate of the required FTEs (noting that the amount of FTEs allocated to projects will depend on demand, availability, and assessed scientific merit). *Expressions of interest are due* *Friday, March 19*. Please email EOIs to gwdc-contact at adacs.org.au. Enquiries can be sent to Paul Lasky ( paul.lasky at monash.edu) and/or Jarrod Hurley (jhurley at swin.edu.au). Best wishes, Paul Lasky (Chair of GWDC Advisory Panel) and Jarrod Hurley (GWDC Program Lead). ============================= Dr Paul Lasky ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer School of Physics and Astronomy Monash University 10 College Walk, Rm 138 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vaWbCZY1NqiWkNXASj-4G3?domain=users.monash.edu.au tel. +61 (0)3 9905 0770 ============================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au Thu Mar 4 07:53:56 2021 From: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au (Caroline Foster) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 20:53:56 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ESO Users Committee Annual Poll Message-ID: Good morning fellow astronomers, Please forward this email to all interested parties within your institute. It is important that we gather as much feedback as possible so I can accurately represent our Australian community in my annual report to ESO and at the Users Committee meeting in April. The UC represents ESO?s astronomical community forming a direct link between the users and ESO. On an annual basis we ask users for feedback through our User Committee Poll : https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Hc6mCnx1jni7qqZ30F9ljIG?domain=eso.org This year there is a special focus on VLT-Interferometry. The poll is open until Friday March 19th 2021. [ If you experience a timeout problem when filling in the poll, please empty the cache of your browser. This is a well-known cookie problem from LimeSurvey. ] It is an anonymous survey, and the answers will be only seen by the UC members who will use them as input for discussions during the annual meeting of the UC and ESO scheduled in April. During the UC meeting updates from ESO and feedback from the user community are exchanged and openly discussed. The meeting webpage [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Mr7vCoV1kpfrLLVPNczNQuF?domain=eso.org] includes a record of the last meeting with recommendations that will be discussed. The User Committee acts as an advisory body to the ESO Director General on matters related to the performance, scientific access, operation and user interfaces to the La Silla Paranal Observatory and ALMA. The UC welcomes opinions and suggestions from the community either through direct contact with the UC members [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RlY2Cp81lrtnNN0OrTYhga2?domain=eso.org] or through the responses via the survey. Clear skies! Caroline ? Dr Caroline Foster ASTRO3D Fellow & ESO Users Committee Representative Pronouns: she/her/hers The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, Sydney Institute for Astrophysics 360B, A28 | The University of Sydney | NSW | +61 286 276 411 | +61 430 453 532 caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au|www.carofoster.com Usual office days: I am at the office most Thursdays. Otherwise, I work flexibly part-time 3 days over the week, mostly from home and/or the AAO. 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The NGS2 system was commissioned in October 2019 (see attached the article published in Gemini Focus). The new NGS2 system allows the use of fainter guide stars - the previous limit with the old system was R=15.5 in good conditions. During commissioning the loop was closed on a R=18 star in average conditions. This results in a huge improvement of the sky coverage for GeMS (2.5 magnitude is approximately equivalent to a gain of 8 times in sky coverage). Acquisition times have also been reduced by almost tenfold. The ANU team was awarded a total of 7 nights of guaranteed time, which they have kindly offered to the Australian community via this open call for proposals process. This allocation was split between the 2020B and 2021A semesters. However, due to the COVID pandemic and challenges associated with it, the Gemini Observatory will offer the remaining observing time in 2021B. All previously allocated proposals in this scheme, will be scheduled when the laser observations are resumed. The expectation is to have two or three laser runs of 7 nights each during the semester, the actual schedule will be based on the demand from the community. All new proposals will be reviewed and assessed by ATAC. The observing time will be allocated in 'classical' mode, which means that observations will be scheduled for specific nights. The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions prohibit international travel from Australia and it is not clear that this situation will change in the 2021B Semester. The classical mode observations will be taken by the Gemini Observatory staff, with remote assistance (control) from PI teams. The Observatory has a good experience with such operations and will work with the individual teams to ensure the best strategy for their observations and the quick access to the raw data. How to apply Gemini proposals must be submitted using the 2021B release of the Phase I Tool (PIT) that can be downloaded from: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5Mc2CVARKgCxL5J1XUGO1Yp?domain=software.gemini.edu Please use the following page for a step-by-step guide and tutorials for submission of proposals using the Phase I Tool: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kFbRCWLVXkU5gPEvxHxi_gY?domain=gemini.edu ol-pit/phase-i-tool-help Note that you need to select the "Guaranteed Time" option to submit you proposal. See the image below. For information about GSAOI and full details on instrument status, please see: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/p3mMCXLW2mUXyqQ3GID1IBn?domain=gemini.edu l-proposals/semester-2021b-instrument as well as the official Gemini Observatory Call for Proposals at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/p3mMCXLW2mUXyqQ3GID1IBn?domain=gemini.edu l-proposals For updates about the COVID-19 measures at the NOIRLab and Gemini South, please see: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1xwyCYW8NocLJN7PgHVB_p8?domain=noirlab.edu For more information contact the ATAC Secretariat: Street Address: AAO - Macquarie University 105 Delhi Rd, North Ryde NSW 2113 Australia E-mail: aat at astronomyaustralia.org.au Web: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cJpaCZY1Nqi5VD6yxHxYwcj?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au Dr Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer | Program Manager ATAC Technical Secretary Astronomy Australia Ltd (Sydney Office) P: +61 2 9372 4842 E: lucyna.chudczer at astronomyaustralia.org.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/q5ZAC1WLPxcMDk4KOf1AA0m?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au/ AAL is committed to equity and diversity and endeavours to create an environment in which every individual is treated with dignity and respect. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The full list is provided in the attached proposal document (written in Japanese, but names and affiliations are listed in English). A brief overview of the program, including details about telescope time on the Subaru Telescope, the ESA Euclid mission, and the NASA Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, is also included in attachment. Funding from the JSPS core-to-core grant will support travel costs for Japanese researchers travelling to visit non-Japanese collaborators associated with the program. At this time there is an opportunity for Australia-based researchers who were not listed on the proposal to join the research network, and to be listed in the formal agreement that will be finalised soon. If you would like to be added to the list, you must be in a position to commit ~$7,500 AUD in travel funding to visit Japanese collaborators in Japan and/or Hawaii over the period April 2021-March 2026. Should you wish to join the research network at this time, please complete the information requested below before Wednesday 10 March, 2021 11:59pm Canberra time. Best regards, ********************************** Professor C?line d?Orgeville Australian National University Translational Fellow Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Group Manager ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Mount Stromlo Observatory, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT 2611, Australia Phone: +61 2 6125 6374 E-mail: celine.dorgeville at anu.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Q3loC0YKPviGD40A2uw4vF1?domain=researchers.anu.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/JTC0CgZ0N1iAxN5zlhoscEA?domain=spie.org Pronouns: she/her ********************************** Information required: (1) Please provide the following details: - First Name and Last Name - Affiliation (Name of university or research organisation) - Job title (Please include only one of the following choices: Professor; Associate/Assistant Professor or equivalent; Postdoc; PhD student; Other) - Research field(s) (short description e.g. "high-redshift galaxies", "galaxy clusters", "adaptive optics", "instrumentation", "time domain astronomy??) (2) You must confirm that you agree and plan to spend on order $7,500 in travel funding to visit Japanese collaborators and/or participate in meetings/workshops/observations in Japan and/or Hawaii over the period April 2021-March 2026: I agree/I do not agree Notes: (a) The $7,500 amount is indicative only, but needs to come from travel funding that you know you have or will have access to (any source including but not limited to ARC funding is acceptable) (b) The $7,500 amount assumes no COVID-related travel restrictions. It is understood that you may not be able to travel as desired or as planned due to COVID-related travel restrictions, and this is OK. There will be no requirement to spend the full travel amount in these circumstances. (c) There will be a requirement to report on actual travel and travel funding spent in the context of this program on an annual basis (reporting details to JSPS are as yet undefined but they are not expected to take too much of your time). 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