From:  	 Jessica Chapman
Subject: ATNF Proposal Application Outcome
Date:  	 Sun, February 22, 2009 23:22


V271: LBA_Calibrator_Survey-2

The above proposal has been considered by the Australia Telescope Time Allocation
Committee for the semester  2009APRS.

This proposal has been given a grade of 4.08 on a scale of 0 (low) to 5 (high).
Your proposal will remain in the observing pool for one year and may be scheduled at
any time within that period. The Head of Science Operations, Philip Edwards will
contact you regarding any scheduling arrangements. Please note however that the
proposal wil remain in competition with, and may be displaced by, more highly ranked
proposals.  

Comments on your proposal from the Time Assignment Committee are given below and are
intended to help you improve the proposal for future submissions.  Please take
account of the comments when you rewrite the proposal. 

For queries on the TAC comments please contact the TAC Chair, Dr Andrew Hopkins
(ahopkins@physics.usyd.edu.au).

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TAC Comments: 
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This proposal is seeking to improve the density of VLBI calibrators in the southern
hemisphere to the same level as the northern hemisphere.  These calibrators will be
useful for a wide range of applications (beyond VLBI) and the production of such a
catalogue is vital for a range of southern hemisphere science projects.  The team
have shown through previous proposals/observations that they can achieve the stated
goals and have already made a significant improvement to the southern calibrator
numbers.  Accurate differential astrometry for pulsars and masers are listed as
potential applications for the new calibrator sources - have any steps been taken to
try and identify calibrators close to the Galactic plane which most flat-spectrum
source catalogues do not cover (e.g. PMN has a |b| > 2 cutoff)?