Round 2: NOAO Survey Proposals Due March 15

Todd Boroson

In 1999 NOAO initiated the first round of Survey Proposals for large programs to be carried out at its CTIO and KPNO facilities. Such programs allow the identification of complete, well defined samples of objects that can yield both conclusions based on statistical analysis of the survey data itself and also provide important subsets for more detailed observations with larger telescopes. Twenty-one Survey Proposals were received, and 5 were accepted. The accepted programs are:

• Deep Imaging Survey of Nearby Star-Forming Clouds (PI Bally, Colorado)

• In Search of Nearby Stars: A Parallax Program at CTIO (PI Henry, JHU)

• The NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (PI Jannuzi and Dey, NOAO)

• Deep Lens Survey (PI Tyson, Lucent)

• A Fundamental Plane Peculiar Velocity Survey of Rich Clusters within 200 h^-1 Mpc (PI Willick, Stanford)

Proposals for the second round of the NOAO Survey Program are due 15 March 2000. Investigators interested in applying for time under the Survey Program MUST submit by 31 January 2000 a letter of intent to propose a survey program describing the broad scientific goals of the program, the membership of the survey team, the telescopes and instruments to be requested, the approximate amount of time that will be requested, and the duration of the proposed survey. Up to 20% of the telescope time at CTIO and KPNO may be awarded through the Survey Program. About half of this time was awarded in the first round of Survey proposals, and a comparable amount is available for the second round.

A more detailed description of the Survey Program requirements and guidelines is available at http://www.noao.edu/gateway/surveys/. Proposals must be initiated using the NOAO Web Proposal form (http://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/noaoprop.html ), which will be available approximately 15 February 2000.