Cardiff PATT Travel Grant: Case for support

在我们目前的专利挂钩赠款中，我们在2018年1月4日至2020年3月31日期间获得了总计42,757 GB的补贴。我们目前已经花费了这笔拨款的52%，预计到当前赠款期限结束时将达到65%的水平。我们目前的PATT赠款支出不足的原因有两个：(I)加的夫员工参与联合i JCMT遗留项目的程度低于预期；(Ii)JCMT观察到2019年11月1日开始的重大政策变化。作为后者的结果，我们在此请求大幅减少15,300 GB的拨款，以支持加的夫下一个时期的观测方案。提出这一请求的理由是：(1)继续努力领导一些不同望远镜的保证时间方案和PI项目；(2)需要减少非现场数据的项目数量增加；(3)卡迪夫继续有研究机会在LMT上使用新仪器；(4)加的夫观测天文学工作人员人数持续增加。

In our current PATT Linked Grant we were awarded a total of £42,757 for the period 01/04/2018-31/03/2020. We have currently spent 52% of this allocation and expect to be at a level of 65% by the time the current grant period ends. The reasons for underspending our current PATT grant are twofold: (i) an involvement of Cardiff staff in co-I JCMT legacy projects lower than expected; (ii) a major JCMT observing policy change starting on the 1st of November 2019. As a result of the latter, we here request a much reduced allocation of £15,300 to support Cardiff's observing programmes in the next period. This request is justified by: (i) a continued effort in leading both guaranteed time programmes and PI projects on a number of different telescopes; (ii) an increased number of project requiring off-site data reduction; (iii) continued research opportunities for Cardiff to use new instrumentation on the LMT; (iv) a sustained number of Cardiff observational astronomy staff.