Abstract Details

Name: Sudhanshu Barway
Affiliation: Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Conference ID: ASI2020_175
Title : IIA proposal submission and management system (IPS)
Authors and Co-Authors : Sudhanshu Barway, Jaffer Bankapur, Gopinathan Maheswar, D. K. Sahu and G. C. Anupama
Abstract Type : Poster
Abstract Category : Instrumentation and Techniques
Abstract : In modern times, to apply for telescope time on the Optical/IR telescopes in the normal scheduling cycle, potential observers would submit a proposal online through the proposal submission and management system and many observatories around the world are taking great interest in developing such system. Our team at IIA has developed a web-based proposal submission and management system for IIA observing facilities. Using this system, the scientists will able to submit observing proposals online for HCT, VBT, and JCBT. We have released this system for IIA telescope users for 2019 cycle 3 and the system is fully functional since 2019 cycle 3 onward and the proposals are getting submitted through the system successfully then. From 2020 cycle 1 onward evaluation of the proposal by the TAC is also got incorporated into the system. The IPS system is developed in-house by IIA. Most of the development work for this system is complete and we are enhancing the system based on the feedback we received. In this talk, I will give a brief introduction of the IIA proposal submission and management system along with technologies used and challenges faced.