1. TAC Report @ Subaru UM 2008 2009/01/16 K. Shimasaku (chair)
TAC Members
Review Process
How to Win Subaru Nights
Statistics
International proposals exceed 10%
09B Schedule

2. Current Members (5th generation)
(綱吉)
K. Shimasaku (Tokyo, chair)
T. Onaka (Tokyo)
M. Doi (Tokyo)
H. Kawakita (Kyoto Sangyo)
T. Kodama (NAOJ)
T. Shigeyama (Tokyo)
T. Totani (Kyoto)
T. Nagata (Kyoto)
T. Murayama (Tohoku)

3. Review Process 18 categories ⇒ 8 groups (each has ~20 proposals)
A-1 : solar, extrasolar
B-1 : star formation, ISM
B-2 : normal stars
B-3 : compact objects and SNe
C-1 : galaxy clusters, GL, LSS, cosm.params
C-2 : high-z
C-3 : nearby galaxies, LG, MW, starburst, misc
C-4 : AGN/QSO, QSO abs.
5 referees for each group (Japanese = 3)
Selection
- relative scores (from referees) + TAC review
- consider continuation, bad weather …
- challenging (thus low-score) proposals can survive
Service Proposals
Each proposal is reviewed by 3 TAC members
deviated scores
science impacts
requested nights
comments from SS

4. S I N G How to Win Subaru Nights Sharp Science Large Impact
Novel Method
Use Gemini

5. Statistics

6. Probability of acceptance gradually increases
submitted number
Number of Proposals
ratio
Ratio
accepted number

7. Allocated Nights
all
international
Allocation Ratio

8. Fraction of International Proposals (based on allocated nights)
Exceeds the default value, 10%, for the recent 5 semesters

9. Allocated Proposals
all
international
Allocation Ratio

10. Fraction of International Proposals
(based on the number of approved proposals)
Exceeds the announced value, 10%, for the recent 5 semesters

11. 09B Call for Proposals (plan)
Feb notice (tennet, web)
Mar normal/intensive submission deadline
Apr service submission deadline
early Jun results sent to PIs
Aug S09B starts