The proposal submission for ESO Period 95 (1 April тАУ 30 September 2015) closed on 01 October 2014. 931 proposals were received, including 17 Large Programme and 50 Target of Opportunity (ToO) proposals, for a total of 2428 nights.
ESO Period 95 Proposal Statistics
Published: 17 Oct 2014
The requested nights are broken down as 1648, 962 and 81 at Paranal, La Silla and APEX respectively. The most requested instruments (by nights) were HARPS, FORS2 and X-shooter, with SPHERE, in its first offered period, showing strong demand. The percentages of submitted proposals across science categories were as follows: Cosmology 20%; Galaxies & Galactic Nuclei 19%; ISM, Star Formation & Planetary Systems 29%; Stellar Evolution 31%.
The proposals are currently being reviewed by the Observing Programmes Committee, which meets in late November. Proposers will be informed of the outcome of the review process in December.