ASKING FOR TIME

Regular proposal deadlines

Cycle 0: 1 December 2012 - 14 November 2013 - Proposal deadline: 17 September 2013

Cycle 1: 15 November 2013 - 14 May 2014 - Proposal deadline: 6 September 2013

Cycle 2: 15 May 2014 - 14 November 2014 -  Proposal deadline: 7 March 2014

Cycle 3: 15 November 2014 - 14 May 2015 - Proposal deadline: 10 September 2014

Cycle 4: 15 May 2015 - 14 November 2015 - Proposal deadline: 11 March 2015 

Cycle 5: 15 November 2015 - 14 May 2016 - Proposal deadline: 9 September 2015 

Cycle 6: 15 May 2016 - 14 November 2016 - Proposal deadline: 9 March 2016 

Cycle 7: 15 November 2016 - 14 May 2017 - Proposal deadline: 14 September 2016 

Cycle 8: 15 May 2017 - 14 November 2017 - Proposal deadline: 8 March 2017  

Cycle 9: 15 November 2017 - 14 May 2018 - Proposal deadline: 13 September 2017

Cycle 10: 15 May 2018 - 14 November 2018 - Proposal deadline: 7 March 2018, 12 UT   

Cycle 11: 15 November 2018 - 31 May 2019 - Proposal deadline: 6 September 2018, 12 UT

Cycle 12: 1 June 2019 - 30 November 2019 - Proposal deadline: 6 March 2019, 12 UT

Cycle 13: 1 December 2019 - 31 May 2020 - Proposal deadline: 11 September 2019, 12 UT

Cycle 14: 1 June 2020 - 30 November 2020 - Proposal deadline: 4 March 2020, 12 UT

Cycle 15: 1 December 2020 - 31 May 2021 - Proposal deadline: 9 September 2020, 12 UT

Cycle 16: 1 June 2021 - 30 November 2021 - Proposal deadline: 3 March 2021, 12 UT

 

Proposal submission

Proposals are submitted through the NorthStar online submission tool.

 

DDT proposals

Director's Discretionary Time proposals can be submitted at any time through the NorthStar online submission tool, and choosing the 'ddt' category. 

Commissioning proposals

LOFAR users who want to suggest observing experiments aimed at commissioning a specific aspect of the instrument can apply for ‘commissioning time’.

Commissioning proposals should be prepared and submitted using the NorthStar online submission tool, choosing the 'commissioning' category.

Upon submission, the request will be assessed by R. Pizzo and M. Brentjens, who jointly will decide whether there is room in the schedule for such experiment and whether it warrants reserving a particular amount of Science Operations and Support and Software Support time.

In case of rejection, the proposers can appeal to the Director of the ILT, René Vermeulen (rvermeulen [at] astron [dot] nl).

People who achieve scientific results from commissioning time have to submit their manuscript to the LOFAR Publication Committee for internal refereeing (for more details, see here).