Such proposals are encouraged if they are specific and helpful for planning a response. They will be evaluated by the TAC and assigned a scientific priority. If triggered they may displace any lower ranked proposal at the OIC s discretion. The TAC may impose limits on the maximum number of triggers in a given term. In both cases the observations will be assigned a proposal number, reported back to the TAC, and entered into the archive database.
Observers displaced by unscheduled observations have no special rights for access to the data.
Results obtained from such unscheduled observations will be made publicly available as soon as possible although any follow-up observations approved by the TAC will be treated in the normal way. ATUC recommends that additional resources be devoted to upgrading the AT calibrator list. Due to work load in the last year, especially at Narrabri, we have been unable to commit the additional resources. We will at least complete the task of incorporating known calibrator information into the computer database. ATUC assigns a low priority to equipping the new ATCA stations with a coaxial LO system as a temporary measure, before the full upgrade to an optic fibre LO takes place.