Joint Swift/NRAO Program

Starting from Cycle 11, a joint Swift/NRAO observing program has been established, as detailed in a Memorandum of Understanding. By this agreement, NRAO permits the Swift Program to award up to 5% of scientific observing time on NRAO's VLA, GBT and VLBA, or up to 200-300 hours per year on each telescope. The allocation of time on the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is not covered by this agreement. The Swift Project will make funding available to successful U.S.-based investigators who request NRAO observing time through the Swift GI process. Only proposals falling in the NRAO Regular proposals and Triggered proposals categories are eligible for observing time through this joint opportunity. Radio data acquired through the Swift GI Program will be the property of the proposers for the standard NRAO 12-month proprietary period. The award of NRAO observing time will be made to highly ranked Swift GI proposals and will be subject to approval by NRAO.

Proposers interested in making use of Swift time as part of their NRAO science investigation may also submit a single proposal in response to the NRAO Call for Proposals. The award of Swift observing time will be made to highly ranked NRAO proposals and will be subject to approval by the Swift Project.

No funds will be provided from the Swift Project, however successful NRAO investigators may request financial support by applying to the the Swift GI Program through the correlative observations category.