Time Allocation Committee
Current members
| name, first name
| city
| comment
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| Barrado, David
| Calar Alto
| ex officio
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| Bomans, Dominik
| Bochum
| chair
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| Gouliermis, Dimitrios
| Heidelberg (MPIA)
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| Lehnert, Matthew
| Paris
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| Márquez, Isabel
| Granada
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| Moitinho, André
| Lisbon
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| Zapatero, María Rosa
| Madrid
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| Yang, Yujin
| Heidelberg (MPIA)
| substitute
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| Pedro J. Amado
| Granada
| substitute
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| Pedraz, Santos
| Calar Alto
| secretary (non-voting)
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Next meeting
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Autumn meeting at Calar Alto
(evaluation of proposals for Spring 2011)
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The Time Allocation
Committee (TAC) evaluates the proposals for observing time at Calar
Alto and for each proposal determines a rating and recommends a number
of nights to be allocated.
The ratings, recommended number of nights to be allocated and the available
number of nights for the semester define a cut-off rating for each telescope.
Proposals with rating better than this cut-off are scheduled by the
observatory director in a preliminary schedule. Due to scheduling constraints
such as phase of the moon, instrument availability etc. the cut-off
cannot be a hard margin. Therefore the actually allocated number of
nights, the phase of the moon, or the time location within the semester
may have to deviate from the application as well as from the recommendation
of the TAC. In the extreme some proposals rated better than the cut-off
may not be schedulable at all or a proposal with a rating near but below
the cut-off may fill a slot and be scheduled. The drafts of the schedules
are to be approved by the two members of the executive committee, who
represent IAA and MPIA.
It is evident that no changes can be made to the schedule after the
observing times have been communicated to the observers.
Statutes of the TAC
Last updated: August, 24, 2010
Ulrich Thiele