1. Magellan Status Report March 19, 2016 Carnegie Observatories
Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky

2. Personnel Magellan Telescope Operator
An external search for a new Magellan Telescope Operator to replace Gabriel Prieto (who was promoted to a programmer position) was quickly organized in March 2015
Angélica León was hired
Angélica has a degree in chemical engineering, and previously worked as a telescope operator for two years at La Silla
Magellan Instrumentation Scientist
David Osip was offered and accepted the position of LCO Associate Director to begin on July 1, 2015
A search was undertaken to find a new Instrumentation Scientist
Konstantina Boutsia was hired, and will move to Chile in May
Konstantina was a commissioning astronomer and postdoc at the LBTO from

3. Personnel (cont.) Telescope Engineer
A search was carried out for an “Opto-Mechanical Engineer” and an unsuccessful offer was made in March 2015
A new search for a “Telescope Engineer” with opto-mechanical experience was carried out in late-2015
Charlotte Groothuis was hired, and will arrive in Chile in April
Charlotte was an opto-mechanical engineer at ESO-Garching from , and at the GTC from

4. Observing Statistics: Instrument Usage

5. Observing Statistics: Downtime

6. Instrumentation: Commissioning Status
Facility Instruments: IMACS, MIKE, LDSS3, MagE, FourStar
Facility Instruments awaiting commissioning reports and SAC/Council review: FIRE, MegaCam
Adaptive Optics Instruments under commissioning: VisAO, CLIO2
PI Instruments active: PFS
PI Instruments awaiting commissioning reports: M2FS, PISCO
PI Instruments inactive: MagIC

7. Proposed Transportation Schedule (for implementation in 2016B)
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday:
LCO-LS -- 8:30 am and 1:00 pm
LS-LCO -- 8:30 am and 3:30 pm
Tuesday:
LCO-LS -- 1:00 pm (8:00 am is also an option if the observer is willing to ride with the T.O.s)
LS-LCO -- 8:00 am and 3:30 pm (bus)
Saturday, Sunday:
LCO-LS -- 1:00 pm
LS-LCO -- 4:00 pm

8. Dining Room Enlargement and Remodelling of Astronomers Dorms

9. Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky
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Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky

10. Extra Slides

11. Observing Statistics:
Instrument Usage
2015 Jul 8 – 2016 Jan 16
Instrument Usage
IMACS
22%
FIRE
13%
PFS
11%
MIKE
10%
LDSS3
FourStar
MagAO 9%
M2FS 6%
MagE
MegaCam 2%
PISCO 1%

12. Observing Statistics 2015 Jul 8 – 2016 Jan 16 Baade Clay Open 76.3%
Lost to Weather
22.4%
22.7%
Lost to Telescope
0.7%
0.4%
Lost to Instrument
0.5%
Lost to Computer
0.2%
0.1%
Total Downtime
1.4%
1.0%

13. Observing Statistics Instrument Downtime: 15 Jan 2014- 7 Jul 2015
IMACS
0.2%
MIKE
0.0%
LDSS-3
0.1%
FourStar
MagE
PFS
MMIRS
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MegaCam
FIRE
MagAO
0.3%
M2FS

14. Publications

15. Publications (cont.)

16. Number of Papers per Year
Publications (cont.)
Number of Papers per Year
Crabtree (2015)

17. Average Impact per Paper
Publications (cont.)
The impact of a paper is defined as the ratio of the number of citations that paper has received to the citation count for the median AJ paper of the same year
Average Impact per Paper
Crabtree (2015)