Semester 2009B Time Allocation Statistics



Oversubscription

The graph below shows the so-called "pressure" on telescope time, i.e. the ratio of the number of nights requested over the number of nights available, over the past semesters for the two main CFHT users communities, Canada and France.


PI Time Allocations


The graph above shows the number of nights allocated to PIS (Large Programs are excluded) by Canada (C), France and Opticon (F), Hawaii (H), Taiwan (T), and Brazil (B) over the various instruments for 2009B.


Proposal Success



The graph above gives the ratio between the number of nights allocated and requested (PI proposals only) for a given instrument.
It can be interpreted as the success rate of the proposals on each instrument. Note that statistics for AOB is based on a small number of nights...


Overall instrument allocations


The graph above shows the number of nights allocated to the communities served by CFHT, PI and Large Programs.