Proposal Science Categories
Proposal science categories are defined to group proposals with similar science intents for consideration by reviewers who are familiar and/or experts in the field. The categories can change, though generally, the science categories do not fluctuate frequently. Currently, proposals for the use of Observatory facilities are organized according to one of the following scientific categories:
| SSP | Solar system, stars, planetary systems: Sun, planets, comets, IPM; exoplanets; main sequence stars; active stars; stellar winds; AGB and post-AGB stars; PNe; novae |
| GWT | Gravitational waves and energetic transients: supernovae, gravitational wave sources, gamma-ray bursts, tidal disruption events, fast radio bursts (including persistent radio sources), exotic/unknown transients |
| PCO | Pulsars and compact objects: millisecond pulsars, cataclysmic variables, black hole and/or neutron star x-ray binaries (including ULX), pulsar timing, pulsar proper motion |
| SFM | Star formation: young stellar objects; protostars; jets, outflows; T Tauri stars, circumstellar disks; protoplanetary systems; astrochemistry |
| ISM | Interstellar medium: galactic HI and OH; ISM magnetic field, SNRs; HII regions; astrochemistry |
| NGA | Normal galaxies, clusters, and groups: Galaxies (continuum), including galaxies in groups and clusters: disk emission; star formation; magnetic fields; galactic winds; starbursts; intracluster emission and ICM astrophysics |
| EGS | Extragalactic structure: Galaxies (lines): galaxy structure; galaxy kinematics and dynamics; galaxy chemistry; gas in galaxies |
| HLA | High-Luminosity AGN: AGN, high-luminosity: FR II radio galaxies, quasars (including radio quiet quasars), blazars, BL Lacs |
| LLA | Low-Luminosity AGN: AGN, low-luminosity: FR I radio galaxies, FR 0 radio galaxies, Seyfert galaxies, quiescent SMBG, Sgr A∗ |
| HIZ | High redshift and source surveys: High-z objects; extragalactic source surveys; galaxy formation; gravitational lenses; large-scale structure and clusters (as cosmological probes); CMB; early universe |
Observatory staff reserve the right to change the user selected science category of a proposal to a more appropriate one if warranted without consulting with or notice to the PI.
