NRAO Proposal Planning Webinar
NRAO Proposal Planning Webinar
NRAO scientific staff recently invited astronomers interested in planning for the upcoming Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), Green Bank Telescope (GBT), and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) proposal deadlines to participate in a web-based seminar on "Planning a Proposal for NRAO Telescopes."
Broadcast 11 June 2012, this webinar provided an overview of the key capabilities available for each NRAO telescope, and the key decisions and steps needed to assemble an observing time proposal for the upcoming proposal deadlines: 12 July for ALMA, and 1 August for GBT-VLA-VLBA.
This proposal planning webinar was broadcast via the Internet from the NRAO sites in Charlottesville, VA and Socorro, NM. The table below provides links to PowerPoint (*.ppt) and Adobe (*.pdf) format versions of the webinar presentations, and video of each talk.
| Title | ppt | Video (mm:ss) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning an ALMA Proposal | ppt | mp4 (54:40) | |
| Planning a GBT Proposal | ppt | mp4 (27:47) | |
| Current & Future VLA Capabilities | ppt | mp4 (23:02) | |
| Current & Future VBLA Capabilities | ppt | mp4 (20:08) | |
| Proposing for VLA & VLBA Time | ppt | mp4 (22:35) | |
| Questions | mp4 (10:42) |
Supplemental Material: Introduction to Interferometry
The links below provide access to PowerPoint (*.ppt) and Adobe (*.pdf) format versions of supplemental material that is intended as an "Introduction to Interferometry." These presentations were developed by our colleagues at the National Research Council of Canada and are presented by James Di Francesco.
| Title | ppt |
Video (mm:ss) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | ppt | aspx (2:01) | |
| Basic Radio/MM Astronomy | ppt | aspx (23:45) | |
| Aperture Synthesis | ppt | aspx (27:52) | |
| Interferometry Imaging | ppt | aspx (18:16) | |
| Deconvolution Techniques | ppt | aspx (12:48) |
Supplemental Material: Proposal Information and Submission Tools
Supplemental materials for the 12 July ALMA Call for Proposals, and the 1 August GBT-VLA-VLBA Call for Proposals are accessible via the following links.
ALMA Proposals:
- Call for Proposals (proposal deadline July 12, 2012)
- Proposer's Guide
- ALMA Early Science Primer
- ALMA Observing Tool Video Tutorials
GBT Proposals:
- Proposer's Guide (proposal deadline August 1, 2012)
Jansky VLA Proposals:
- Proposing for the Jansky VLA (proposal deadline August 1, 2012)
- VLA Proposal Submission Tool
VLBA Proposals:
- Proposing for VLBA (proposal deadline August 1, 2012)
- VLBA Proposal Submission Tool
