Fast Turnaround Block May 2021 Call for Proposals

Gemini North and South are accepting proposals for the Fast Turnaround (FT) program. The upcoming deadline is at 23:59 Hawai‘i Standard Time on 31 May 2021. Successful proposals from this cycle will be active in the Queue from July through September 2021. We are happy to announce that we are accepting proposals at Gemini-N for NIRI and NIFS with Altair NGS and LGS. Please check the telescope schedule for Gemini North and South and the detailed instrument availability for the July-September period. The FT program has been used to conduct pilot studies, complete observations for existing data sets, follow-up on newly discovered objects, and much more. Proposing teams are typically notified within a few weeks of the deadline, and data for successful programs can be obtained as early as a week or two after that. We have been using a dual anonymous proposal review process (DARP) since February. Proposals must use the FT DARP proposal templates and be anonymized as described in the Call for Proposals here.