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