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).
|
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. |
| 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).
| VLA Semester |
VLA Configs. |
ALMA Cycle |
ALMA Configs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23B | D, C, B | 10 | C1-C8 |
| 24A | --, C, B | 10 | C1-C8 |
| 24B | A, D, C | 11 | C1-C10 |
| 25A | --, D, C | 11 | C1-C10 |
| 25B | B, A, D | 12 | C1-C8 |
| 26A | --, A, D | 12 | C1-C8 |
| 26B | C, B, A | 13 | C1-C10 |
| 27A | --, B, A | 13 | C1-C10 |
