Call for Proposals for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)

Deadline: 03 October 2011 for the 2012A semester (Feb 1-July 31, 2012)

Available instruments include:

(1) SpeX, a 1-5 micron cross-dispersed medium-resolution spectrograph (up to R=2,500) and imager.

(2) CSHELL, a 1-5 micron high-resolution spectrograph (up to R=40,000).

(3) MIRSI, a 8 to 25 micron camera and low-resolution spectrometer (R=100 to 200).

(4) NSFCAM2, a 2048×2048 pixel, 1-5 micron camera with a 0.04 “/pixel scale (82″x82” field-of-view) and a circular variable filter.

(5) MORIS, a 512×512 pixel Andor CCD camera mounted at the side-facing, dichroic-fed window of the SpeX cryostat (60″x60″ field-of-view); MORIS can be used simultaneously with SpeX.

(6) PI-instruments including a low-resolution 3-14 micron spectrograph and high-resolution spectrographs for 8-25 microns.

Remote observing is available with SpeX, NSFCAM2, CSHELL, MORIS and MIRSI.

Information on available instruments can be found at: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/Facility/

The online application form and information about instrumentation scheduling details can be found at: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/observing/callForProposals.php

Questions, please contact William Walters, walters@ifa.hawaii.edu