#Korean IGRINS Legacy Programs

IGRINS Legacy Programs are those with significant legacy values of creating a substantial and coherent database of archived observations that can be utilized by subsequent IGRINS and other relevant observations. They must be programs that are of general and lasting importance to the broad astronomical community. Some of the governing principles of them are as follows:

• The IGRINS Korean Legacy Programs (KLPs) include both Korea-only programs and Korea-University of Texas (UT) programs of a legacy nature. For the latter, only the Korean portion will be considered as part of the KLPs.

• This call is the proposal call for the Korea-only programs. Up to 20 nights of observing time is available for this opportunity.

• The primary purpose of the solicitation of the Korea-only programs is to encourage and facilitate Korea-led IGRINS science programs by guaranteeing a time to promising candidates for legacy programs in advance. Note that programs selected in this call are allowed to be developed into Korea-UT legacy programs later on by acquiring a UT portion of the observing time. If the (potential but unsecured) contribution of the UT time is an essential component of the proposals, they are expected to give a sufficient description of the nature of the envisioned collaboration with the UT.

• The data obtained as IGRINS Legacy Programs are expected to enter the public domain immediately upon the verification of the data, thereby enabling timely and effective opportunities for follow-up observations and for archival research.

• All accepted programs will be carried out only when the instrument test observation is finished successfully. We may have to cancel or delay some or all approved programs due to the unexpected trouble with the instrument and/or telescope.

• There will be separate call for proposals for IGRINS normal observational programs, which is expected in the near future.

• Eligibility: Principle investigator of a proposed program must be a Korean citizen or a resident in Korea who is officially affiliated with a Korean research institution or university.

Result of 2013 Pre-Proposal Call

• There was a call for pre-proposals for the Korean IGRINS Legacy programs in 2013, which was meant to provide an opportunity for combining similar programs. After review by IGRINS Korean TAC, two programs were pre-selected and awarded some of the KLP time. More about the selected programs can be found here.

• For those who plan to submit a similar or related proposals, we encourage you to communicate with the PIs of the pre-selected programs on potential co-proposals. If similar targets are proposed in different programs (e.g., young stellar objects for the studies of proto-planetary disks and outflows), observing time may be awarded only to the program of highest rank, or they may be asked to be merged. Therefore, for the potential proposals that may have similar targets of the pre-selected programs, it is best to coordinate with the pre-selected programs. This will promote more efficient use of the instrument time.

Selected Programs from Pre-Proposal Call

IGRINS Instrument Parameters and Exposure Time Calculator

• The expected parameters of the IGRINS instrument is available here.
• IGRINS ETC packages
• IGRINS ETC web app (experimental)

Proposal Format and Requirements

• Page Limit: five pages in total, including two pages exclusively for technical details

  • all components other than technical details must be written within three pages.

  (Note: one page = one A4 page with at least 1.5 cm side margin; font size = 11 or 12 points.)

• Each proposal must be prepared as a single pdf file with the size limit of 10 MByte.

• Each proposal should cover a single, coherent, well-defined scientific topic.

• Each proposal must explain explicitly why the proposed program qualifies as a Legacy program.

• Each proposal must clarify the required observing time and the justification of the time within two pages reserved for technical details.

• Each proposal should include an abstract of the proposal.

• Each proposal must be accompanied by a complete source list as a separate file (see below for the format of the source list file).

• Each proposal must list all the members of the proposing team.

• Each proposal must clarify whether the proposed program is open to a merge with similar programs.

• Each proposal must clarify any requirement of proprietary period and its justification.

• Any proposal that doesn't follow the instructions, including the page limit, may be discarded at discretion of the time allocation committee.

• For approved proposals, their abstracts and the source lists will be made public.

• Any inquiry concerning this call for the proposals should be directed at kgmtprop@kasi.re.kr.

Proposal Submission

• Each proposal must be submitted

  1. using the web submission form at http://kgmt-igrins-proposals.appspot.com/
  2. or by email to kgmtprop@kasi.re.kr.

• It should include

  1. Main proposal file in pdf format as descrived above.
  2. A source list file (a plain text file in IPAC format; see below).

Proposal Submission Form

Format of the Source List File

• The source list should be a plain text file in the IPAC Table format.

• Here is a sample source list.

\catalog = 'Source Catalog'
\ Source catalog for IGRINS Legacy Proposal
| source_name  |   ra      |    dec    |  epxtime |  H_mag  |   K_mag  |
| char         |   double  |    double |  int     |  real   |   real   |
|              |   deg     |    deg    |  sec     |  mag    |   mag    |
 my source 1    165.466279  +34.704730  600        11.27     12.3
 my source 2    63.267      -5.704730   1200       8.72      7.5

• The first three fields (source_name, ra, and dec) are reqired. Others (exptime, H_mag, K_mag) are optional.