1 / 7

Chandra Director’s Office

Chandra Director’s Office. Proposal Cycle 8 725 proposals *6.4 oversubscribed (based on time) GTO for review: due 3 rd April (for competed targets. Time request and oversubscription. Peer Review: Cycle 8. 19-23 June 2006 12 Topical Panels, 20-21 June, 10.5 Msecs:

zev
Download Presentation

Chandra Director’s Office

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Chandra Director’s Office Proposal Cycle 8 • 725 proposals • *6.4 oversubscribed (based on time) • GTO for review: due 3rd April (for competed targets Chandra Users' Committee

  2. Time request and oversubscription Chandra Users' Committee

  3. Peer Review: Cycle 8 • 19-23 June 2006 • 12 Topical Panels, 20-21 June, 10.5 Msecs: • 2Normal Stars, WD, Planetary Systems and Misc • 2 SN, SNR + Isolated NS • 3 WD Binaries + CVs, BH and NS Binaries, Galaxies: Populations • 2 Galaxies: Diffuse Emission, Clusters of Galaxies • 3 AGN, Extragalactic Surveys • Big Project Panel, 21-23 June, 6 Msecs: • 12 panel chairs, 3-4 pundits • Allocate time for LP and VLP projects Chandra Users' Committee

  4. Big Project Panel Schedule • Wed 21 June, 7pm: ~ 1hour organisational meeting: • Get hardcopies, discuss procedure for next day • Time for chairs to organize summary of GO program • Thurs 22 June, am: • Triage meeting: summarize GO program and decide which proposals NOT to discuss • Thurs am-pm: • Reading time, chairs meetings as needed • Thurs 4pm: • Presentation and discussion of proposals • Initial voting • Frid am: • Final discussion and voting Chandra Users' Committee

  5. Constrained Observations • As in Cycle 7, the official limit is 15% of observations: • Counting individual pointings • Dividing long observations into orbit-sized chunks • Counting TOO follow-ups • Cycle 7, peer-review approved constrained observations were 22% of the total due to teething problems in the GUI code and the need to count some by hand. The CUC report has been updated to include this information. Chandra Users' Committee

  6. CUC recommendations: CDO • Grant Award Periods: as implemented for Cycle 7, all awards will not be eligible for a 2 year period with a 1 year no-cost extension available on request • Peer Review: Big Project Panel: an additional half day has been added to the schedule for the BPP to allow more reading and discussion time and reduce the stress level on all participants • Peer Review: started inviting senior people in Dec 2005, have a larger percentage already. Are now in the final stages of inviting reviewers. • CUC Presentations: posted on CUC website by Friday before meeting • CUC Reports: We are now posting preliminary responses to the CUC report recommendations 4-8 weeks after the report is received. • Budget Proposal Timeline: 14 Sept 2006, back 2 weeks from Cycle 7 (itself delayed by 2 weeks). We plan to send out letters first week of August. Chandra Users' Committee

  7. CUC Recommendations: non-CXC • Level 3 Catalog: held a detailed scientific review 8,9 Fen 2006 at the CXC. Draft report is on line, Jonathan has presented the results and our responses. • Calibration: description of detector regions over which calibration data are valid included in Larry’s presentation. • Cross-Calibration:Herman’s presentation included a description of the current status of cross-calibration. Published on the website: space.mit.edu/ASC/calib/crosscal Chandra Users' Committee

More Related