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Here at GBO, we know that diversity is integral to achieving excellence. In order to fulfill our missions, we must ensure that our employees have the resources they need to have equal access to opportunities for success and advancement, and feel empowered and encouraged to pursue them. Our goal is to create a fully inclusive work culture across the social spectrum, by holding ourselves accountable for recognizing, acknowledging, and eliminating barriers. We encourage women, people with disabilities, people of color, indigenous people, Hispanic/Latino people and members of the LGBTQIA+ community to apply for positions within our organizations.

Green Bank Observatory has employees who serve in the the Employee Diversity Group (EDG), which is made up of employees from across the organization (AUI, GBO,NRAO) who are committed to creating a more equitable and inclusive culture where people with diverse identities thrive. The EDG works through grassroots engagement, education, and action.

Pride

During Pride Month (June) Green Bank Observatory (GBO) makes a visible change to our logo, because we want to send the clear message that we value our current and future LGBTQIA+ colleagues, friends, and family members. We send this same message internally by taking seriously our obligation to create and maintain an environment that is safe, secure, and welcoming.

We recognize that our LGBTQIA+ colleagues continue to face social and legal challenges in broader society, and we are committed to ensuring that GBO is a place where being yourself is celebrated. We are grateful to the many people who work here – those who are out, not out, and are allies – who make GBO a place at which diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity is welcomed.

At Green Bank Observatory, we aren’t content with learning about diversity and inclusion; we are continually, intentionally working to identify and change policies and practices that exclude or marginalize. Our staff are empowered and encouraged to speak up when they see a need for change; to talk with each other, and to advocate for changes in policies and practices that aren’t serving all of us.

We hope that Green Bank Observatory has proven, and continues, to be a safe and welcoming environment for our LGBTQIA+ colleagues, both internally and in the community. If we fall short, or if there are changes that we need to make, please let us know.

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SPECIAL SESSION

New Windows onto the Universe with the GBT: Asteroids, Exotic Stars, Gaseous Filaments and More

Monday, January 9th at 9-10AM PT for iPosters session and 2-3:30PM for panel presentation in room 605/610

PRESS CONFERENCE

The Next Generation Planetary Radar System on the Green Bank Telescope

Tuesday, January 10th at 10:15AM PT in room 307/308 or tune in LIVE on the AAS Press Office YouTube Channel

A total of 70 proposals requesting NSF-funded “open skies” time were submitted to the Green Bank Observatory’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) for the February 1, 2022 semester 22B deadline. The table below summarizes the approved observing programs. Listed are the PI name, proposal ID, proposal title, maximum hours approved, and proposal type (Regular, Triggered, Large or External). Proposals from previous semesters that were awarded time in the 22B semester are included. The table also includes HSA and GMVA proposals that were awarded time on the GBT as a VLBI station as well as proposals accepted via external agreements with CHANDRA, Hubble Space Telescope, FERMI, SOFIA, Swift, and XMM.

For each approved program, the Proposal Finder Tool will have access to its author, title, abstract and total approved hours.

A description of the Time Allocation Committee report for 22B can be found here.

PI	ID	Title	Hours	Type
Archibald, Anne	GBT22A-358	Continued Timing of a Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System	50	Regular
Bastian, Tim	GBT22A-360	Probing the Inner Heliosphere with Pulsars: a Pilot Study	10	Regular
Bhakta, Deven	GBT22B-270	Searching for Globular Cluster Pulsars	10	Regular
Bilous, Anya	GBT22B-266	Zooming in on Pulsar Microstructure to understand Fast Radio Bursts	18	Regular
Bolatto, Alberto	GBT21B-024	GBT EDGE: A Representative Survey of the z=0 Universe with Full IFU Spectroscopy	300	Large
Bublitz, Jesse	GBT22B-250	Refining the Molecular Gas Enigma: Mapping NGC 6781 at 3mm	16.5	Regular
Busch, Michael	GBT22A-434	SC:Mapping molecular clouds in OH from diffuse to high-mass star forming regions	300	Large
Caleb, Manisha	VLBA22B-074	Probing the local environment of FRB 20190714A	6.5	Regular
Calore, Francesca	GBT22B-112	Follow-up of bulge MSP candidates detected by both Chandra and VLA	24.5	Regular
Cameron, Andrew	GBT22A-118	Continued observations of an eccentric, relativistic binary pulsar.	57	Regular
Dai, Shi	GBT22B-030	Monitoring the active repeater FRB 20190520B	24	Regular
Dong, Adam	GBT22B-213	GBT Follow-up of a Novel Repeating Galactic Transient Detected with CHIME/FRB	32	Regular
Emig, Kimberly	GBT22B-170	Recombination Lines from Diffuse Ionized Gas in the M82 Starburst	8.75	Regular
Fonseca, Emmanuel	GBT22B-215	Followup Timing of Low-declination GBNCC Pulsars	10	Regular
Frayer, David	GBT22B-162	GBT HI Observations of the GOALS LIRG 3C84	2	Regular
Freire, Paulo	GBT22B-143	Following two potentially super-massive pulsars in NGC 6624 and NGC 1851	13	Regular
Gallimore, Jack	VLBA22B-148	OH Masers in the Water Megamaser Disk of NGC 1068	12	Regular
Goldsmith, Paul	GBT22B-011	A Novel Technique for Electron Density Determination	18	Regular
Gorai, Prasanta	GBT22A-398	Exploring Carbon Chain Chemistry of Massive Protostars	22	Regular
Gupta, Harshal	GBT21B-316	Molecular Exploration of the Diffuse Interstellar mediUM (MEDIUM)	285.75	Large
Huang, Jane	GBT22B-085	Mapping the Delivery of Material to a Planet-forming Disk – copy	2	Regular
Issaoun, Sara	GMVA22B-249	Resolving Polarization in Sgr A* with GMVA+ALMA	10	Regular
Jones, Michael	GBT22B-064	Cold gas reservoirs of satellites in nearby Milky Way-like systems	96.5	Regular
Kooi, Jason	GBT22A-404	Probing Fluctuations in the Solar Wind with Pulsars: a Pilot Study	17	Regular
Kramer, Michael	GBT22B-231	Timing and General Relativity in the Double Pulsar System	101	Regular
Lockman, Felix	GBT22B-204	The Ophiuchus Superbubble — Connecting the Disk to the Halo	115.5	Regular
Lowe, Ian	GBT22B-068	A Multi-Scale, Multi-Wavelength Study of Dust in Molecular Cloud Filaments II	21.5	Regular
Luo, Jing	GBT22B-269	PSR J2108+45 with a massive companion and dense circumstellar environment	36.5	Regular
Maan, Yogesh	GBT22B-104	Transient radio emission from magnetars and connection with FRBs	23.75	Triggered
Margot, Jenan-Luc	GBT22B-209	A search for technosignatures around newly discovered exoplanets	2
Mason, Brian	GBT22B-242	Measuring 3mm Source Contamination in the ACT Galaxy Cluster Sample	18.75	Regular
Maureira, Maria Jose	GBT22B-180	CO freeze-out across a filamentary dense cloud forming a quadruple system	25.5	Regular
McKean, John	VLBA21B-289	Resolving the nature of quasar flux-ratio anomalies in gravitational lenses	60	Regular
Naidu, Shantanu	GBT22B-226	Bistatic Goldstone-GBT Radar Imaging of Binary Near-Earth Asteroid Didymos	25	Regular
O’Neil, Karen	GBT22B-065	Hunting for Massive Low Surface Brightness Galaxies	128.75	Regular
Park, Jongho	GMVA22B-100	A Multicolor View of the Black Hole Environment in M87	28	Regular
Ransom, Scott	GBT22B-256	Long Term Timing of 65 Recycled Pulsars in Bulge Globular Clusters	75	Regular
Redaelli, Elena	GBT22B-052	A crucial test for the mass of prestellar cores in a high-mass clump	2	Regular
Ribaudo, Joseph	GBT22A-430	The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation for Galaxies with Supernova Distances	132	Regular
Roberts, Hayley	GBT22B-060	Understanding the role of dense gas in the most extreme OH megamasers	34.75	Regular
Roth, Nathan	GBT22B-176	Measuring NH3 and OH in a Target of Opportunity Comet with the GBT	7.5	Triggered
Salas, Pedro	GBT22A-269	Probing the C+/C interface in the Orion Bar	16.5	Regular
Salas, Pedro	GBT22A-437	SC: GBT Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey at Low frequencies – GDIGS-Low	826	Large
Salome, Quentin	GBT22B-049	A survey of atomic gas in NLSy1 galaxies with X-ray Ultra Fast Outflows	31.25	Regular
Sanchez, Monica	GBT22B-228	Observations of Marginal Arecibo HI 21cm Detections in the Zone of Avoidance	4.5	Regular
Schmiedeke, Anika	GBT22B-191	Feeding a super-critical filament in a subsonic core	17.5	Regular
Scibelli, Samantha	GBT22A-435	SC: Q- Band Chemical Complexity Survey of Prestellar Core L1544	647	Large
Singal, Jack	GBT19A-083	How Bright is the Radio Sky? A 310 MHz Absolute Map	30	Regular
Song, Yiqing	GBT22B-248	Mapping HCN and HCO+ in Local Luminous Infrared Mergers	19.5	Regular
Spekkens, Kristine	GBT22B-139	Atomic Gas in the Host Galaxies of Gravitational Wave Events – LVK O4	40	Triggered
Spezzano, Silvia	GBT22B-040	Exploring the chemistry of Sulfur towards the young starless core L1521E	18	Regular
Sridharan, T.K.	GBT22A-366	Path to Precision Astrochemistry with Magnetars II – mm-wave Observations	33	Regular
Stark, David	GBT22A-325	Understanding diverse HI depletion times in MaNGA star forming galaxies	79.25	Regular
Stark, David	GBT22A-436	SC: Robust Gas Measurements for BreakBRD Galaxies	206.5	Large
Traianou, Efthalia	GMVA21B-164	Moving and stationary shocks interaction after a gamma-ray flare in TXS2013+370	27	Regular
Valdivia Mena, Maria Teresa	GBT22B-163	Mind the gap: connecting the scales between filaments and protostars	18	Regular
Wen, Di	G22A001	A magnified view of an ionised scattering medium in a z= 1.145 late- type galaxy	36	Regular
Wolszczan, Alexander	GBT22B-200	A search for planets around white dwarfs	18	Regular
Yang, Chentao	GBT22B-020	Confirming the nature of a 380GHz H2O maser disk in a lensed quasar at z=3.91	14	Regular

22b Green Bank Observatory Time Allocation Committee Report

A total of 70 proposals requesting NSF-funded “open skies” time were submitted to the Green Bank Observatory’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) for semester 22B. Proposals are reviewed on a competitive basis with a panel review system (see Proposal Review System). Below are the statistics by proposal count and hours. The oversubscription is the ratio of the number of submitted proposals to the number of approved proposals. The pressure is the ratio of the requested time to the available time in hours. Here we only include proposals submitted for the 22B semester that have been reviewed by the Green Bank Observatory Telescope Allocation Committee (TAC).

A description of the 22B proposals accepted can be found here.

Statistics by Proposal Count

Total Proposals	70
Approved	30
Filler	19
Rejected	18
Hold	2
Withdrawn	1
Oversubscription	2.33

Statistics by Proposal Hours

Requested Time	3334.25 hours
Available Time	1838.75 hours
Approved	694.75 hours
Filler	376.75 hours
Rejected	2134.75 hours
Pressure	1.8

GBT Pressure Plots

Observations in high-frequency bands require better weather conditions than observations in lower frequency bands. The GBT uses three weather categories: poor (for observations below 8 GHz), good (observations between 8-18 GHz and 26.5-50 GHz), and excellent (observation in the 18-26.5 GHz band and above 50 GHz). The first three figures below show the pressure plots for each of these weather categories. The last figure includes all-weather categories. The black horizontal line shows the total available hours. The letters A, B, and C correspond to the priorities assigned by the TAC where A and B are approved time and C is filler time. Carryover is time allocated by a TAC from a previous semester that is being executed in the 22A semester.

GBT Observation Preparation

Please use the GBT Dynamic Scheduling System (DSS) to enable observing sessions, select observers for your project, and enter your blackout dates. The DSS Home Page has additional information about the DSS. See GBT Observing for information about how to prepare for your observations.

Please note that the DSS uses the average Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec) of all sources within a session. The average RA and Dec will be used to determine when the session can be scheduled. You will need to carefully check the RA and Dec, along with the minimum and maximum session lengths, to make sure that these values are satisfactory and will allow all your sources to be observed before enabling the session.