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Cycle 14 Peer Review

Cycle 14 Peer Review. 25-29 June 2012, Hilton, Logan Airport No major changes in Cycle 14 13 topical panels, 1 BPP (LPs, XVPs) XVP Panel: Pundits: met Wed, voted and wrote reports Program as last year: Tues, Wed: topical panels (+XVP)

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Cycle 14 Peer Review

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  1. Cycle 14 Peer Review • 25-29 June 2012, Hilton, Logan Airport • No major changes in Cycle 14 • 13 topical panels, 1 BPP (LPs, XVPs) • XVP Panel: • Pundits: met Wed, voted and wrote reports • Program as last year: • Tues, Wed: topical panels (+XVP) • Thurs, Frid: BPP (+ initial organizational session Wed evening) • Reviewer Stats: 110 reviewers, including 6 pundits, 13 chairs • 2 remote: Webex + telcon CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  2. Cycle 14: Final Proposal Statistics • 672 proposals submitted: • GO 452 • LP 78 • XVP 17 • Archive 72 • Theory 53 • 185 approved • Oversubscription (time): 5.2 • Time allocation: 23.3 Ms CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  3. Cycle 14 Proposal Statistics (cont) • Time allocation: • Total Time: 23.3 Ms • LP: 5.7 Ms (4.2Ms) • XVP: 6.2 Ms (7.4Ms) CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  4. Archive/Theory Results Archive: • Budget: $1050K • Allocated $1095K (17) • Over-subscription: 4.2 • Theory: • Budget: $600K • Allocated: $654K (8) • Over-subscription: 5.8 CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  5. X-ray Visionary Projects (XVP) • 17 proposals submitted, time range: 1-6 Ms • Total request: 41.7 Ms (5.6* over-subscribed) • 4 allocated, for 1-3 Ms, range of science topics: • COSMOS sky survey expansion 1.7 sq.deg. To 160 ks: 2.8 Ms • Planck z<0.35 cluster survey, to complete 165: 1 Ms • SMC: deep study of low Z populations: 1.1 Ms • PWNe: deep observations of 3: 1.3 Ms Process: • XVP panel (6 pundits) discussed all proposals and brought recommendations to BPP • Topical panels discussed XVPs and LPs, as usual • Final decisions made by BPP after discussion of highest-ranked proposals • BPP moved ~1.2Ms to LPs (+0.2Ms from TPs) • Final over-subscription for both = 6.6 CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  6. Multi-cycle Proposals • 11 submitted for total 3.6, 2.3, 0.5 Ms in Cycles 14,15,16 (resp.) • 5 approved for total 0.9, 0.6, 0.1 Ms (inc. 1 TOO) • 1 of those approved included joint time w/HST CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  7. Cost Proposals in Cycle 14 • Deadline: 14 Sept 2012 • 176 proposals received and processed • Confirmed: 5 not submitting (foreign PIs) • Currently 19 with incomplete documentation • No early observations this cycle, so all can be processed together CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  8. GO Budget • GO budget: $10.5M • Includes: Observing, Archive ($1.05M), Theory ($0.6M) • Cycle 14: overall decreasing budget projected ~$0.7M cut for first time • Cycle 12-16: 15-25% increase in awarded time (orbit evolution) • Cycle 13 awards: median $42K, average $54K, decrease ~10% SR2012: • CXC requested GO budget augmentation to compensate decrease in budget and $/time awarded • 50% of proposed augmentation was approved • theory, archive funding at same level • increase in GO total budget • Cycle 14 awards: median $46.4K, average $59K CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  9. NASA/China Restrictions and Chandra • NASA GIC 12-01, 9 Feb 2012: restricting bi-lateral collaboration with China or Chinese-government owned entity • RJB+MSFC personnel met with NASA HQ personnel to discuss issue • China-US/China-only proposals considered bi-lateral and cannot be supported • No bi-lateral China-US proposals approved in Cycle 14 • All Cost PIs required to sign a form: “Assurance of Compliance” with this regulation • This restriction will be explicitly included in the Cycle 15 CfP CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  10. Cycle 15: Planned Schedule • CfP, POG etc. release: 13 Dec 2012 • Proposal Deadline: 14 Mar 2013 • Peer Review: 17-21 June 2013 • Results: 12 July 2013 • E-letters: by 16 August 2013 • Cost Deadline: 17 Sept 2013 CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  11. Cycle 15: X-ray Visionary Projects • Cycle 14: • 4 (of 17) proposals accepted • Over-subscription 6.6 (time) • Surveyed panel chairs: • Generally supported balance of time (~ on category) • Most did not feel XVPs were >> LPs, just larger • Supported continuation of XVP-level language • Cycle 15: plan to include a third XVP call • Time available is significantly lower, 20 Ms (TBR): • GO 11 Ms • LP 4 Ms • XVP 5 Ms • Propose to run peer review similarly CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

  12. Cycle 15: Joint Programs • HST, Spitzer (reinstated), XMM-Newton, NOAO, NRAO, Suzaku Possible new joint programs: • NRAO/ALMA: discussions open with new director (Beasley) for ALMA Cycle 2 • NuSTAR: recently launched, contacted Harrison, Stern to open discussion CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office

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