Call for observing Programmes at the NRT

Call for Key Project proposals at the Nancay Radio Telescope and
Call for normal proposals for semester 2015A.

 Deadline : 5 November 2014 

The Nancay Radio Telescope (NRT, France) is a high sensitivity 
(1.4 K/Jy at 21cm) meridian telescope(*) with full polarization capability 
in the frequency range 1.2- 3.4 GHz. It is operated by the Observatoire de 
Paris, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and also funded by 
the Region Centre. The NRT is open to the international community.

The Key Project status is intended for applications which demand large 
amounts of telescope time (> 1000h for 2 years) or for long term 
monitorings. This status is given for two years, and up to 70% of the 
available observing time will be devoted to KP.

Key Projects and normal proposals will be evaluated by the Programme Committee (PC),
 with the help of external referees. All the proposals must be written in 
english.

Main criteria used for evaluation and rating:
- how the proposal fit in the international context, 
- the scientific interest,
- the technical and time justifications, 
- a publication plan, if any,
- the strength and the quality of the team (papers published in the field).

Observations and data processing can be made remotely. It is of course 
possible to come to Nancay to observe and process the data.

 The Meudon, Orleans and Nancay scientific and technical staff provide
support for the preparation of the proposals, of the observations, and for
the data processing if requested.

  http://nrt.obspm.fr 
 


  Forms and explanations
 



  Contacts: 
Ismael Cognard     icognard at cnrs-orleans.fr    (NRT scientific head, pulsars)
Pierre Colom       pierre.colom at obspm.fr       (planetary, galactic science)
Jean-Michel Martin jean-michel.martin at obspm.fr (galaxies)


(*) tracking duration is 1 hour, and varies approximately as 1/cos(DEC).

  Pierre Colom, Chairman of the PC.