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Telescope</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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Worldwide Community </font></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; text-align: center; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Cycle 15: 01 December
2020 – 31 May 2021</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; text-align: center; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Submission deadline
Wednesday </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>09<span style="color: black;"> September 2020, 12 UT</span></span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">Submission only via the
online tool </font></span><a href="https://lofar.astron.nl/proposal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">NorthStar</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">** Proposers must
ensure their justification files adhere to the instructions given in Northstar,
including restrictions on formats and proposal length, repeated online </font></span><a href="https://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-lofar/observing-proposals/justification-file-instructions/instructions-j"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">here</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">. ** </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>SINGLE-CYCLE ONLY</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>: Proposals are invited for new projects, in any supported
general-user mode. Single-cycle projects should achieve their science goals
with an allocation only in the upcoming semester (1 December 2020 – 31 May 2021).
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font size="3"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><font size="3"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>OBSERVING TIME,
PROCESSING, AND DATA RESOURCES: </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It is expected that
about 1509 hours may be allocated, roughly evenly split into priority A and B.
Of the 1509 hours available, roughly 900 could be observed at night. The
availability of observing time as a function of LST after taking into account
the already allocated long-term projects is presented </span></font><a href="https://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-lofar/observing-proposals/lst-availability-during-cycle-15/lst-availabil"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">online</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">. The list of available Cycle 15 functionality is available </font></span><a href="http://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-lofar/observing-proposals/observing-capabilities-cycle-15/availability-o"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">online.</font></span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">
<span style="color: black;">Each proposal must request processing time to match
the observing time within appropriate documented ratios (see
documentation </span></font></span><a href="https://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-capabilities/depth-technical-information/major-observing-modes/major-obs"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">online</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">), or should justify how processing will proceed elsewhere. In
relation to this, <i>if a proposing group needs the data to be archived at
a specific LTA site, this should be explicitly requested and justified in the
proposal</i>.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><font size="3"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>SUPPORT IS A </span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>LIMITED<span style="color: black;"> RESOURCE</span></span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>: Required support for
the proposed projects is taken into account during allocation. An </span></font><a href="http://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-lofar/observing-proposals/support-load-instructions/support-load-instruc"><span style='color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">online</font></span></a><font size="3"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> tool is available to
understand whether a proposal entails a low, medium, or high support load of
the observatory staff. During the allocation process, the ILT-PC will be
advised about the amounts of support effort requested and available, and these
will be used as boundary conditions for proposal allocations; support will be
treated as a scarce resource in the same way as has become customary on LOFAR
for processing and data storage resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Advice is </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>available </span></font><a href="http://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-lofar/observing-proposals/support-load-instructions/support-load-instruc"><span style='color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">online</font></span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3"> on<span style="color: black;"> how
proposers can reduce the support load of their project by a prudent choice of
observing mode. The proposal may also indicate that the support will be carried
out by members of the proposing team; in that case, both the expertise and the
work plan must be carefully argued in the proposal. </span></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3"> </font></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><font size="3"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>SYSTEM CAPABILITIES</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>: The ILT is a powerful radio telescope for frequencies below 240
MHz that offers state-of-the-art observing capabilities thanks to its
phased-array technology with digital beam-forming. LOFAR delivers correlated
visibility data for synthesis imaging, plus (in)coherently-added single and
multiple station data (several beam-formed modes) as well as transient buffer
read-out, for example for studies of pulsars, transients, and cosmic rays.
LOFAR capabilities are described in detail </span></font><a href="https://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/astronomers/technical-information/lofar-technical-information"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">online</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>WORLD-WIDE ACCESS</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>: Time on the ILT is
available to scientists from the worldwide community. It is allocated in tandem
between National Consortia and the ILT-PC, and endorsed by the ILT Board. Scientific
excellence and breadth as well as the technical strength of the proposals are
taken along in the evaluations. The ILT-PC will define restricted data access
rights (default period 1 year) based on the specific science goals and
arguments in the proposal. Other groups may be allocated simultaneous access
for different science. </span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><font size="3"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>: For all proposals, the technical case must argue both the
optimal and the minimal required total amount of time and other resources (and
any requirements on cadence or time span). <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>If
the stated minimum time or other requirements cannot be allocated, the proposal
will not be carried out at all.</u></b> When preparing the proposal, please
take into account proper ordering of the target list (</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>see
<span style="color: black;">details </span></span></font><a href="http://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-proposals/target-list-order/target-list-order"><span style='color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">online</font></span></a><font size="3"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>), checking if </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>any<span style="color: black;"> data is already available in the </span></span></font><a href="https://lta.lofar.eu/"><span style='color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">LOFAR Long Term
Archive</font></span></a><font size="3"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;'>. For standard HBA imaging,
the </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>possibility is offered of Co-observing with the LoTTS
survey p</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>roject <span style="color: black;">(see details </span></span></font><a href="https://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-proposals/co-observing-surveys-ksp-team/co-observing-surveys-ksp-team"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">online</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">). LBA imaging techniques have improved rapidly; proposers are
invited to discuss in advance with the PI of the LBA survey project whether a
Co-observing strategy would be mutually beneficial in Cycle 15 (see details </font></span><a href="https://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-lofar/observing-proposals/lba-co-observing-strategy/lba-co-observing-str"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">online</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">).</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><font size="3"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>PRIORITY CLASSES</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>: Due to ongoing upgrade work, system availability and stability
will vary with time. The ILT-PC will classify observing allocations as A and/or
B priority time. Allocations in A priority will have a high likelihood to yield
a successful observation in the period concerned; in case such an observation
suffers substantial failures, it </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>will<span style="color: black;"> be
repeated (once) at a later date. Allocations in priority B will likely be
realized partially; they are carried out on a best-efforts basis, where the
total of all priority B allocations requires an optimistic availability
scenario. </span></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><font size="3"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>OBTAINING ADVICE</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>: In view of the novel
and evolving character of the ILT, proposers are strongly urged to get in
contact with Science Operations & Support at ASTRON </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>through
the </span></font><a href="https://support.astron.nl/rohelpdesk"><span style='color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">JIRA helpdesk</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3"> well ahead of the
deadline. Novice groups may wish to seek or request to be connected to suitable
collaborators, and should also consider keeping the scope of initial projects
modest while they become familiar with the complexities of data handling and
analysis.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><a name="_heading=h.k8sjbzugc902"></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">The Observatory will
explore the possibility for a few users unfamiliar with the reduction of LOFAR
data to come to ASTRON for assistance with this by Observatory
personnel. If this is desired, it must be specified in the proposal.
Limited travel subsidies for eligible users can be supported by RadioNet.
Further details are given </font></span><a href="https://old.astron.nl/radio-observatory/observing-proposals/radionet-transnational-access-programme/radionet-transnational"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">online</font></span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 14pt 0cm; border: currentColor; border-image: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="3">Director, International
LOFAR Telescope </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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