The current winter semester has been suffering from extremely poor weather conditions so far and only quite a limited number of 1mm projects could be finished by now. We moved the array into its C-configuration on November 4 and switched to the A configuration (that provides baselines up to 760m) on January 28. It is planned to move to the B configuration around end of February and again to the C configuration by end of March. The switch back to the most compact configuration D is foreseen before the end of April. According to these plans, it will not be possible to complete projects requesting deep integrations using the compact configurations before the end of the current observing period.
As far as A-rated projects are concerned, we still hope to bring many of these to completion before the end of the current winter semester. B-rated projects are likely to be observed only if they fall in a favorable LST range. We remind users of the Plateau de Bure interferometer that B-rated proposals which are not started before the end of the winter period have to be resubmitted.
Global VLBI observations, which include the array in the 3mm phased-array mode, are planned from May 8 to 13, 2008.
Investigators, who wish to check the status of their project may consult the interferometer schedule on the Web at ../PDBI/ongoing.html. This page is updated daily.