8 March 2015

NASA's IRTF Call for Proposals for Semester 2016B

Crystal Tinch American Astronomical Society (AAS)

The due date for proposals to use NASA's 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea during the 2016B semester (1 August 2016 to 31 January 2017) is Friday, 1 April 2016. An online form is available for proposal submission until 5:00 pm HST on the due date.

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Available instruments:
  1. SpeX, a 1- to 5-micron cross-dispersed medium-resolution spectrograph (up to R = 2,500) and imager;
  2. CSHELL, a 1- to 5-micron high-resolution spectrograph (up to R = 40,000);
  3. MORIS, a 512 x 512 pixel Andor CCD camera (60" x 60" field of view) mounted at the side-facing window of the SpeX cryostat that can be used simultaneously with SpeX; and
  4. iSHELL, a 1.1 – 5.3 micron cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph (up to R=70,000) and imager, is expected to be available starting 1 October 2016 under shared risk.

More information on available instruments and their performance can be found on the IRTF webpage.

Please see the Call for Proposals webpage for the full text of the 2016B call for proposals.