Call for Proposals for the
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

DEADLINE: Thursday 01 April 2004

Proposals for observing time on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility for the August 1, 2004 through January 31, 2005 semester are due Tuesday, April 1, 2004, 5:00 P.M. Hawaii Standard Time.

See our web site for instructions. Please submit your proposals using this latest version (rev. Feb. 2004). Postscript or Portable Document Format (PDF) files may be submitted by anonymous FTP transfer to the IRTF following the instructions.

Please note that we now allow only ONE PAGE of text for the Scientific Justification and one page for figures and tables.

Remote observing from Hilo, Hale Pohaku, or your own office is available with SpeX, NSFCAM and CSHELL. If you wish to observe from your home institution, you MUST comply with the requirements for video conferencing and instrument operation provided on the Remote Observers Information page. New users of SpeX, NSFCAM and CSHELL should plan to observe from the summit for their first run to work with their support astronomer and become familiar with the instrument operation. Observers already familiar with the instrument and who want to observe remotely from their home institution are strongly encouraged to contact Miranda Hawarden-Ogata (hawarden@ifa.hawaii.edu) to set up a test of the video link and user interface at least one month prior to their observing run. We cannot guarantee remote observing on short notice since we have no control of hardware and software compatibility on the user's side.

Observers should read the information on the current IRTF instrument complement and visitor instruments, available on a collaborative basis.

Facility instruments include: SpeX (1-5 micron spectrograph), NSFCAM (1-5 micron camera), and CSHELL (1-5 micron high-resolution spectrograph). NSFCAM is being upgraded to a 2k x 2k and will only be available during Oct. 2004 -Jan. 2005. Some imaging projects can be done with SpeX. See the SpeX web page for available filters and details. The AO system will be available from Nov. 2004-Jan. 2005 on a shared-risk basis.

Other instruments that are available on a collaborative basis with the instrument team include: MIRSI (8-26 micron camera; contact Joseph Hora, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA at jhora@cfa.harvard.edu), which is also available for remote observing, TEXES (5-20 micron high-resolution spectrograph; contact Matt Richter at richter@physics.ucdavis.edu for more information), BASS (3-14 micron spectrometer; contact David Lynch at david.k.lynch@aero.org), CELESTE (5-25 micron echelle spectrometer; contact Don Jennings at u3dej@lepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov), and HIPWAC (9-12 micron heterodyne spectrometer; contact Ted Kostiuk at kostiuk@gsfc.nasa.gov).

To keep our bibliography up to date, we ask that you send us your latest publications or update your publications list using our website's Bibliography page, or e-mail hughes@ifa.hawaii.edu.