What is the Distributed Peer Review (DPR)

From P110 (Oct 2022-Mar 2023) ESO  has introduced the Distributed Peer Review (DPR) for the time allocation of submitted proposals requesting a total telescope time (including overheads) less than a maximum value. Due to the change to the yearly cycle and the uncertainty about the number of submitted proposals, in P117 the time limit will be set after the proposal submission deadline. Therefore, the review channel (DPR vs. panels) will not be known to the PIs at proposal submission time.

Exceptions to this general rule are:

• Proposals including at least one ToO run;
• Calibration proposals;
• Joint VLT-XMM proposals.

All other proposals submitted during a regular cycle will be reviewed in the classical way by the OPC and the panels.

All PIs of proposals qualifying for DPR accept to review a number of proposals submitted by their peers during the same cycle. Similarly, they accept that their proposal/s is/are reviewed by an equal number of peers who submitted proposals in the same cycle.

For more details, please consult our page on Distributed Peer Review.