CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE NASA INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY (IRTF)

DEADLINE: 1 April 2005

Proposals for observing time on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility for
the August 1, 2005 through January 31, 2006 semester are due Friday, April
1, 2005, 5:00 P.M. Hawaii Standard Time.

See our web site at http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/userSupport/indexota.html
for instructions. Please submit your proposals using the latest version
(rev. Aug. 2004). Postscript or Portable Document Format (PDF) files may
be submitted by anonymous FTP transfer to the IRTF following the instructions.

Please note that we allow only ONE PAGE of text for the Scientific
Justification and one page for figures and tables.

Remote observing from Hilo, Hale Pohaku, or your own office is available
with SpeX, NSFCAM2 and CSHELL. If you wish to observe from your home
institution, you MUST comply with the requirements for video conferencing
and instrument operation provided on the Remote Observers Information page
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/userSupport/remote_obs/. New users of SpeX,
NSFCAM2 and CSHELL should plan to observe from the summit for their first
run to work with their support astronomer and become familiar with the
instrument operation. Observers already familiar with the instrument and
who want to observe remotely from their home institution are strongly
encouraged to contact Miranda Hawarden-Ogata (hawarden@...)
to set up a test of the video link and user interface at least one month
prior to their observing run. We cannot guarantee remote observing on
short notice since we have no control of hardware and software
compatibility on the user's side.

Observers should read the information on the current IRTF instrument
complement and visitor instruments, available on a collaborative basis,
which may be found on the Web at
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/Facility/

Facility instruments include: SpeX (1-5 micron spectrograph), NSFCAM2
(20482 InSb Array camera), and CSHELL (1-5 micron high-resolution
spectrograph. Some imaging projects can be done with SpeX. See the SpeX
web page for available filters and details at
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/Facility/spex/. Note that the Adaptive
Optics System will be available; see details at
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/%7Eao/.

Other instruments that are available on a collaborative basis with the
instrument team include: TEXES (5-20 micron high-resolution spectrograph;
contact Matt Richter at richter@... for more information),
BASS (3-14 micron spectrometer; contact David Lynch at
david.k.lynch@...), CELESTE (5-25 micron echelle spectrometer; contact
Don Jennings at u3dej@...), HIPWAC (9-12 micron heterodyne
spectrometer; contact Ted Kostiuk at kostiuk@...) and MIRSI (8-26
micron camera; contact James Jackson, at Boston U. at jackson@...,
tolles@... (E. Tollestrup), which is also available for remote
observing. MIRSI proposers are encouraged, but not required, to
collaborate with the MIRSI team. Publications resulting from the use of
MIRSI shall include the MIRSI team as co-authors.

To keep our bibliography up to date, we ask that you send us your latest
publications or update your publications list using our website
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/biblio/, or e-mail hughes@....