What's New This Semester
- New Restrictions on justification sections. They are listed below.
- New Section: Status of Prior CARMA Observations.
Welcome to the CARMA Proposal System. We hope that you will find this system will make it straightforward for you to apply for observing time on CARMA. If you have comments, or if you encounter difficulties and need help, please send email to: proposal-help@astro.uiuc.edu
Information for proposers, including a link to information on the CARMA Array status, is available at: www.mmarray.org
The CARMA Proposal System will ask you to establish an account for your proposals. You can work on proposals and save partial and draft results, and come back later to edit and finish your proposals. Old proposals will be kept on the system until you delete them; you can use your old proposals as templates of new proposals if you wish. The data storage system makes two copies on different computers of all information committed to the system, and frequent period backups are also made, so the chances of losing any information you commit to the system are very small.
The deadline for submissions is March 13, 2008 at 5 pm Central Standard Time. Most people try to write proposals the last day or last hour before the deadline. Be aware that things may be very busy near the deadline, with the proposal computer response slower than normal and our ability to help you with problems in time for you to meet the deadline reduced. It would be to your advantage to get proposals into the system as early as possible. Even after you submit a proposal, you can come back and revise it anytime before the deadline, so getting a complete proposal in early insures that you will meet the deadline without compromising your ability to make last minute changes.
You will first be asked to fill in a form giving information about the proposers and what you propose. There is on-line help for these items that can be accessed by pushing the ? button by each item. The system will check most of what you enter for validity and warn you if an entry is invalid.
After the proposal cover sheet form, you will provide scientific and technical justification for your proposed science. This part of the proposal is strictly limited to 3 pages, 2 pages of text and 1 page of figures and tables. One way to enter this information is to type or paste LaTex into the Scientific Justification and Technical Justification sections. The AASTeX system is fully supported. Postscript figures may be uploaded for inclusion using standard LaTex figure conventions. When you submit, the proposal system will compile your LaTex and display a PDF file on your screen for you to check (make sure the total justification is no more than 3 pages). You may also create the justification section externally and upload your PDF file to our system. If you do this, make sure that you have a Scientific and a Technical Justification section, with the following specifications:
- Side margins: 0.75 inch
- Top and bottom margins: 0.75 inch
- 12 point minimum type face (11pt for captions, tables, references)
- 14 pt (=single spacing) minimum line spacing
- 3 Page limit (including figures). If you generate a PDF file that is greater than 3 pages long, it will be truncated to 3 pages.