Key Programmes on Las Silla: a Preliminary Enquiry

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Mar 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988msngr..51....1v&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 51, p. 1-3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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ESO's raison d'etre is the provision of telescope time, a shorthand expression for a comprehensive package of services of which hundreds of European astronomers avail themselves every year. The core of that package is the number of nights during which the visiting astronomer has control of one of La Silla's dozen optical telescopes. We all know the procedure for obtaining those nights, the composition and submission of the proposal, the evaluation and grading by the OPC, the allocation by the DG. ESO has, in its eight member states, nearly two thousand potential users whose access to La Silla facilities depends on the (relative) scientific merit and the technical feasibility of their observing proposals. Obviously the very large ratio between number of competing observers and number of telescopes means that telescope time is a very scarce commodity. If many of the interesting proposals are granted time, then a likely result is the fragmentation of telescope time to such an extent that most proposers receive some time most of the time.

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