Call for German Proposals

SOFIA Observing Cycle 10 Call for German Proposals

                      It was the last SOFIA Call for German Proposals.
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The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is pleased to invite proposals for its 10th regular observation cycle. The observation period for Cycle 10 is expected to start on October 1, 2022 and end on September 30, 2023.

The official "Call for German Proposals" document is available for download from this website. It contains all necessary information in order to prepare and submit a proposal for scientific observations during Cycle 10.

         SOFIA Observing Cycle 10 Call for German Proposals

            German-Queue.pdf (for USPOT - Team PDF Attachment)

 

Additional information about the US-led Cycle 10 Call for Proposals can be found on the Cycle 10 Call for Proposals website of our partner organization USRA.

A separate Call for the SOFIA Legacy Program (SLP) was released on October 29, 2021. Check the following file to get all needed information about these Programs:

          Call for Proposals for the SOFIA Legacy Program (SLP)


Cycle 10 Schedule

The nominal schedule for the German Cycle 10 observing program is as follows:

5 November 2021

Release of Call for German Proposals

17 December 2021

Call for German Proposals update

29 January 2022, 06:00 CET

Proposal Submission deadline

May 2022

Proposal Selections Announced

1 October 2022 – 30 September 2022           

expected Cycle 9 observing period



Instruments

For Cycle 9, SOFIA will offer six instruments. The available instruments will be EXES, FIFI-LS, FORCAST, FPI+, GREAT, and HAWC+.

Please, check also the Observer's Handbook for Cycle 10.

 

Collaborative Reserved Observations Catalogs (CROCs)

Observations of targets in the GREAT CROC or in the FIFI-LS CROC may not be proposed for, unless the GO has contacted the instrument PI and received permission to do so. 
The policies are described in Section 3.1.2. of the Call for German Proposals document.

 

Duplication Checking

Duplications of existing observations, or of observations approved for Cycle 9 but not yet executed, need to be justified explicitly. Proposers should search the SOFIA Science Archive in the IRSA-SOFIA for completed observations and the AOR Search page for approved Cycle 9 observations to check for potential duplications. As noted above, the CROC tables in the Call for Proposals should also be checked for disallowed observations.

The Science Archive search results tables for the GREAT instrument do not list the exact frequencies observed. Therefore, if proposers find that a target has been observed by GREAT, they should follow up by executing an AOR search for that target for "All Cycles" with GREAT as the selected instrument. The results will include the observed frequencies. The set of frequencies observed may be incomplete for observations in earlier cycles. Please contact sofia_help@sofia.usra.edu if you have any questions about possible duplications.

 

Unified SOFIA Proposal and Observation Tool (USPOT)

All proposals are to be prepared and submitted using the Unified SOFIA Proposal and Observation Tool (USPOT).
Download USPOT.
Check also USPOT Manual.

 

Exposure Time Estimation

Estimations of exposure times can be made using the SOFIA Instrument Time Estimator (SITE), a web-based tool that provides total integration time or S/N for a given instrument, filter(s), source type (point, extended, emission line), and water vapor overburden.

 

Atmospheric Transmission

The atmospheric transmission, as a function of wavelength, may be obtained using the on-line tool ATRAN developed and provided to the SOFIA program by Steve Lord. The use of ATRAN is necessary for planning SOFIA high-resolution spectroscopic observations.

 

Target Visibility Tool

The target visibility for SOFIA can be determined using the Visibility Tool (VT), which is now available within USPOT. Note that the use of VT is not a requirement, since detailed flight planning is done by the SMO staff.

 

SOFIA Publications

Refereed publications based on SOFIA data, about the Observatory and its instruments are available on the SOFIA Science Center publications page.

 

 

Contact

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Maja Kazmierczak-Barthel

Dr.

DSI SOFIA Senior Scientist

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