Considering the much increased time requests for the IRAM telescopes over the last few years, and considering the substantial new investments of the IRAM partners into upgrading the capabilities of the NOEMA interferometer, the following guidelines for allocation of telescope time are to be considered:
- In deciding on proposal rankings the Program Committee is requested to take into account the publication record and impact of the proposers with previous IRAM telescope time allocations.
- The proposers should note in their application whether the same or a similar proposal was or is intended to be submitted to another observatory, in which case special justification of why IRAM telescope time is needed should be included in the proposal.
- A fraction of the available observing time (7.5% for NOEMA, 15% for the 30-meter) will be invested in projects submitted by PIs affiliated with institutes in non-IRAM partner countries.
- The fraction of time for Large Programs can represent up to a total of 50% of the scheduled telescope time at either IRAM observatory. A significant amount of technical time is still needed to upgrade NOEMA to its full capabilities and a large number of GTO programs are already running at NOEMA, limiting the available NOEMA time for new Large Programs.
- In order to ensure proper management of Large Programs in close interaction with the IRAM observatory, including the provision of suitable archive data products for the general scientific community, only programs led by PIs located in one of the IRAM partner countries will be considered.
- Once accepted, PIs of Large Programs cannot submit other proposals (as PI) during the active time of the Large Program.