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VLA/VLBA Proposal Selection Committee Meeting

    Activity
    Perform triage on very highly rated or poorly rated proposals
    Discuss proposals by referee category, starting with VLA proposals for a category, then VLBA proposals for same category
    Assign preliminary disposition, strongly guided by mean and consistency of normalized referee ratings
    Compile statistics and make preliminary schedule
    Assess remaining oversubscription as function of Sidereal Time
    Discard some observing tracks using preliminary disposition
    Re-run schedule, and re-assess remaining oversubscription
    Continue to iterate (discarding or adding observing tracks) until schedule is "full"
    Produce final list of approved observing tracks
Note: The process described above is for the fixed-schedule portion of the VLA or the VLBA. For the dynamically scheduled portions (the primary method of VLBA observing), the iterative process involves subtracting or adjusting the number of tracks, perhaps as a function of sidereal time, to fill the dynamic scheduling queue to an appropriate level for a four-month trimester. Page maintained by schedsoc

Modified on Friday, 26-Sep-2008 11:48:36 MDT