基于上海天文台与美国国立射电天文台关于VLBA观测的合作协议，现开始征集2021B的观测申请。申请者需在2021年2月1日17:00前，在NRAO的PST平台上提交英文观测申请书，并将pdf版申请书发送至邮箱prop-vlba@shao.ac.cn，其他注意事项详见下文。

Call for proposals for VLBA2021B

Overview

Based on the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO, US) and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO, China), NRAO agreed to allocate more observing time of the VLBA to Chinese astronomers. SHAO is in charge of collecting and reviewing proposals requestingthe MoA-based observing time. The call for MoA based proposals had been carried out successfully from 2014 to 2020.

This call is for 2021B session, welcome your proposals.

Proposal Submission

Proposals should be written in English and submitted via the NRAO Proposal Submission Tool (PST) online, and also save the preview pdf version and send it to prop-vlba@shao.ac.cn. On the first page of the proposal, “proposal sponsor” should be filled as “SHAO”, and “Type” should be filled as “Regular”. PST webpage is at https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/proposing/pst.

Please note, if you don’t follow the above requirements, your proposal will not be treated as MoA based proposals.

Proposal deadline is 2021 February 1 at 17:00 BJT. SHAO is now accepting observing proposals.

Proposal Evaluation and Time Allocation
Proposals will be evaluated by the time allocation committee (TAC). Recommendations regarding time allocation and scheduling priorities will be given by the TAC. If a proposal conflicts with the NRAO scheduled proposals, it may not be scheduled again. Feedback is expected to be sent to PIs from NRAO.

Special notes

Astronomers are also encouraged to directly submit proposals to NRAO, but the observing time will NOT be related to the MoA.

For the MoA-based VLBA observation, the PI or co-PIs need to support a part of the VLBA observation cost.

More information of the VLBA is referred to the website: https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vlba.