2021A CALL FOR PROPOSALS INAF - RADIO
TELESCOPES





-- DEADLINE 5.10.2020 12:00 UTC --





The Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) invites scientists to participate
in the call for proposals of observing time at the three national radio
telescopes:



- the 32-m Medicina antenna

- the 32-m Noto antenna

- the 64-m Sardinia Radio Telescope



Two observing semesters are scheduled every year: 1st January to 30th June, 1st
July to 31st December.

Deadlines fall in early October and early April, respectively.







The three telescopes can be used as single dish for spectroscopic and continuum
observations as well as for VLBI, outside the standard networks coordination
(EVN, IVS, etc.) which have their own time allocations.



VLBI proposers must take care of organising the availability of international
telescopes if needed by their observations. The presence of observers at SRT is
also requested. They are also required to contact the antenna staff prior to
submission, in order to assess the availability of software/hardware services
for their specific needs.



Some SRT configurations are offered in shared risk mode, please take this into
account when preparing the proposal and contact SRT team before submitting the
proposal.

SRT staff may be able to offer support for external proposer/observer, you can
contact them for details.





** IMPORTANT ** PLEASE USE ONLY THE LATEST LATEX FORM **

Instructions on the submission procedure, current latex forms and
characteristics of the instruments currently available can be found at



http://www.radiotelescopes.inaf.it/proposal_main.html









A dedicated help desk for the submission only may be reached via e-mail at radioproposal@inaf.it



The proposals will be peer-reviewed and should be submitted before

12:00 UTC of October 5th, 2020.



Below we report the time INAF plans to award for the next semester 2020A:



Medicina: 2500 hours

Noto: 2000 hours

SRT: 1500 hours



These amounts might be subject to modification, due to maintenance needs and to
the variability of the commitments resulting from international agreements.





** NOTICE



According to the MOU between INAF and KASI up to 30hrs of observing time in
VLBI mode are allocated to approved eating VLBI projects. These projects have
to be submitted both to the Italian and Korean TACs with the standard form
selecting "Eating VLBI mode" in the project type. Approved projects
will be observed up to 30hrs/semester.

Projects exceeding 30 hours will be scheduled together with all other projects
according to their relative grades.

PIs of these proposals must be associated with INAF or KASI.



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Please, feel free to distribute the present call to anyone interested

Best regards,





Tiziana Venturi

Emilio Molinari

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