Fast Turnaround News

In this past cycle we received 13 proposals for GS and accepted 5 of them.   BR has used up its FT time for 23A and the US has only ~12h remaining. 

For the next cycle (the last for 23A), with proposal deadline 31 May, NOON HST, we continue to accept only proposals for Gemini South. Accepted proposals will be included in the queue for the period July – Sept. We expect to start accepting proposals for Gemini North in 23B. For more information, please check out this news item on our webpages.  

Please check the GS telescope and instrument schedule and Call for proposals for more information on available instruments and modes. Note that GMOS-S is expected to be unavailable for a portion of the July-August period for the CCD replacement.  This had originally been scheduled for May but was delayed due to the extended GN shutdown in order to ensure at least one GMOS is always available. Note also that the instrument schedule for the August-Sept period (23B) may not yet be available. Please check back closer to the deadline, or contact the FT team (Fast.Turnaround at gemini.edu) for any questions.

We expect to start offering Gemini North time in FastTurnaround again in 23B. The current (May) CfP is the final one for the 23A semester. It is expected that we will offer GN starting with the June CfP.

In this past cycle we received 13 proposals for GS and accepted 4 of them.   As a reminder, BR has very little remaining time in 23A. 

For the next cycle, with proposal deadline 30 Apr, NOON HST, we continue to accept only proposals for Gemini South. Accepted proposals will be included in the queue for the period June – Aug. We are not accepting proposals for Gemini North until further notice. For more information, please check out this news item on our webpages.  

Please check the GS telescope and instrument schedule for 23A and Call for proposals for more information on available instruments and modes. Note that GMOS-S is expected to be unavailable for a portion of the June-July period for the CCD replacement.  This had originally been schedule for May but was delayed due to the extended GN shutdown in order to ensure at least one GMOS is always available. Note also that the schedule for the August period (23B) is not yet available, but we expect GMOS-S and F2 to be available.

In this past cycle we received 15 proposals for GS and accepted 5 of them.   As a reminder, BR has very little remaining time in 23A. 

For the next cycle, with proposal deadline 31 March, NOON HST, we continue to accept only proposals for Gemini South. Accepted proposals will be included in the queue for the period May – July. We are not accepting proposals for Gemini North until further notice. For more information, please check out this news item on our webpages.  

Please check the GS telescope and instrument schedule for 23A and Call for proposals for more information on available instruments and modes. Note that GMOS-S is expected to be unavailable for most of May for the CCD replacement. 

Please be aware, if you are a reviewer in an upcoming cycle, make sure to read the instructions provided before starting your reviews.  We have made some changes to the instructions and plan to have more changes coming in future months as we implement a few improvements to the process with the goal of making the FT process more equitable for everyone. 

In this past cycle we received 6 proposals for GS and accepted 4 of them.   As a reminder, BR has very little remaining time in 23A.

For the next cycle, with proposal deadline 28 February, NOON HST, we continue to accept only proposals for Gemini South. Accepted proposals will be included in the queue for the period April – June. We are not accepting proposals for Gemini North until further notice. For more information, please check out this news item on our webpages.  

Please check the GS telescope and instrument schedule for 23A and Call for proposals for more information on available instruments and modes. Note that GMOS-S may be unavailable for most of May. The shutdown previously planned for April has been postponed until 23B.

Additionally, please remember, you do not know who the recipients of your reviews will be.  It could be senior researchers or early career researchers/students.  Always be courteous and professional.  If you find issues with the proposal, suggest improvements that could help the proposal in the future. Never make judgmental or generic statements.

FT is currently still only being offered at Gemini South.  We will not offer at Gemini North until we are confident of the dates we will be back on-sky for science.  Since there will be additional back on-sky checkouts and a fair bit of catch-up to do, it is possible that FT will not be offered until we are already back on sky.

Please remember that the Gemini partnership includes countries whose native languages are not English, and having perfect command of the English language is NOT a prerequisite for being awarded telescope time!  When reviewing FT proposals, some of the proposals are sure to come from teams whose primary language is not English.  However, you should be concentrating on the intended science case and not on any grammatical or linguistic errors, and please do not assume that any such errors are due to carelessness on the part of the proposing team.  If you are a native English speaker, remember that you have an advantage over those who must write compelling proposals in a foreign language.  

In this past cycle (the first of 23A) we received 11 proposals for GS and accepted 6 of them.   Note that BR has very little remaining time in 23A.

For the next cycle, with proposal deadline 31 January, NOON HST, we continue to accept only proposals for Gemini South. Accepted proposals will be included in the queue for the period March – May. We are not accepting proposals for Gemini North until further notice. For more information, please check out this news item on our webpages.  

Please check the GS telescope and instrument schedule for 23A and Call for proposals for more information on available instruments and modes. Note that GMOS-S may be unavailable for most of May. The shutdown previously planned for April has been postponed until 23B.

In this past cycle (the last of 22B) we received 14 proposals for GS and accepted 7 of them.  

For the first cycle of 23A, with proposal deadline 31 December, NOON HST, we continue to accept only proposals for Gemini South. We are not accepting proposals for Gemini North until further notice. For more information, please check out this news item on our webpages.  

Please check the GS telescope and instrument schedule for 23A and Call for proposals for more information on available instruments and modes. Note that the shutdown previously planned for April has been postponed until 23B.

In this past cycle we received 8 proposals for GN and 6 for GS.  Of those 8 for GN, 4 were able to convert to GS proposals.  Of these 10 proposals for GS, we awarded time for 6.  

For this last cycle of 22B, with proposal deadline 30 November, NOON HST, we are only accepting proposals for Gemini South. We are not accepting proposals for Gemini North until further notice. For more information, please check out this news item on our webpages.  

Note that at this time, the US has only 3.6hrs of time remaining at GS and BR has only 2 hrs remaining at GS.  All other participants with GS time have most of their time remaining.  Accepted proposals for this last cycle will be active 1 Jan – 31 Mar 2023. Although the 23A telescope schedule for GS is not yet available (for Feb-Mar), we expect that GMOS-S and F2 will be available throughout the cycle. F2 MOS is offered this cycle. Zorro and IGRINS are also expected to be available for some portion of this cycle.

Please note that for both the October cycle (reviews currently ongoing) and for the November cycle with proposal deadline November 30, we are only accepting proposals for Gemini South. We are not accepting proposals for Gemini North until further notice. For more information, please check out this news item on our webpages.