Joint Proposal Opportunities

The NRAO has agreements with several observatories for Joint proposals where telescope time on Associated Universities Inc. North American (AUI/NA) facilities may be granted by these external telescope time allocation committees (TACs).  Reciprocal agreements exist where the NRAO TAC may grant time on these external facilities.   The table below list these facilities, together with the maximum time that may be allocated by either TAC and a link to the memorandum of understanding (MoU).

 

Joint Proposal Agreements

External Facility

Maximum Time on External Facility per year

Maxumum Time on AUI/NA Facility

Comments

ALMA

 50 hours 5% Currently the joint agreement is only for the VLA.  ALMA MoU.
JWST 50 hours 5% JWST MoU.
HST 30 orbits 3% There is no HST MoU.
Swift 300 ksec 5% Swift MoU.
Chandra 120 ksec 3% Chandra MoU.
XMM-Newton 150 ksec 3% XMM-Newton MoU.
NICER 250 ksec 5% NICER MoU.
IXPE 300 ksec 5% IXPE MoU.
Fermi N/A 5% There is no reciprocal agreement since Fermi primarily observes in sky-survey mode.  Fermi Mou.

 

 

For joint ALMA-VLA proposals there are constraints on the allowed array configurations.  The table below specifies the allowed VLA and ALMA array configurations when submitting proposals through the VLA (semesters) and ALMA (cycles).

 

Available Array Configurations
VLA Semester

VLA Configs.

ALMA Cycle

ALMA Configs.
      25A    D, C, B       11      C1-C10
      25B    --, --, B       11      C1-C10
      26A    A, D, C       12      C1-C8
      26B    --, --, C       12      C1-C8
      27A    B, A, D       13      C1-C10
      27B     --, --, D       13      C1-C10
      28A     C, B, A       14      C1-C8
      28B      --, --, A       14      C1-C8

 

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