CFHT policy
on
Target of Opportunity (ToO) Observations
- Only ToO programs accepted by one of the CFHT national TACs or by
the Executive Director via a Director Discretionary(DD) proposal can
be activated for observations. All accepted ToO programs have to follow the
rules outlined in the QSO webpage
to prepare their programs and observations.
- The target coordinates requested by an accepted ToO program must be submitted
prior to an observing night in the QSO mode, ideally several hours before
the beginning of the night in Hawaii. It is not possible to submit and execute the
observations during an observing night.
- Target prioritization for ToO triggers in the Queues will be determined by the
National TAC or DD time ranking at the time of the program's allocations. The CFHT
QSO team reserves the right to change these priorities based the scientific
relevance of the proposed targets at the time the observations are performed.
- If TOO triggers from multiple programs are considered by the QSO team to have duplicate
observations at the same time, the programs requesting the ToO will have to share the data
coming from the observations that are considered duplicate.
- The CFHT standard proprietary period of one year applies to all ToO observations. This
can only be overwritten by the Executive Director.