Cycle19 Statistics
Brett Blacker
Science Policies Group
Science Mission Office
March 15, 2011
So What’s a Deadline?
 Windstorm causes PDUs to trip ~2:30pm Friday 2/25

Webservers and ETCs down ~1 ½ hours

APT Submission Server kept on trucking (It was on the
SOGS UPS). APT users couldn’t connect to Address
database (only impact).

Delayed Deadline until 10pm via community email around
4:20pm
 Windstorm causes PDUs to trip again ~6:50pm

Webservers and ETCs down ~3 hours

Again the APT Submission Server keeps on trucking!

Delayed Deadline until No Earlier than 3pm Saturday via
community email around 10:30pm
Deadline con’t
 PDUs trip ~2:00am Saturday (Print Server stopped at
1:10am)
 Webservers and ETCs down ~12 hours
 Decision made to wait until morning to bring everything
back up.
 Left MAST and DADs offline until Monday morning.
 Replaced PDU breakers that kept tripping prior to
bringing things back up.
 APT Submission Server kept on trucking!
 Delayed Deadline until 6pm Saturday via community
email around 3:30pm
Proposal Submissions/
Resubmissions
2000
Cycle 19
1750
Cycle 18
Cycle 17
# of Submissions
1500
Cycle 16'
1250
Cycle 16
Cycle 15
1000
Cycle 14
Cycle 13
750
Cycle 12
500
250
Deadline
T-1
T-2
T-3
T-4
T-5
T-6
T-7
T-8
Days
T-9
T-10
T-12
T-13
T-14
T-15
T-16
T-17
T-18
T-19
T-20
T-21
T-11
0
Normal or Not?
2000
"Resubmissions"
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
Actual Proposals
Proposals Submissions
by Cycle
1400
1298
1200
1078
1000
# Submitted
1053
1025
863
914
1050
960
1046
906
949
821
747
800
727 733
600
1007
200 ESA
556
502
427
798 GO
65 Snaps
144 Archive Research/Theory
400
396
200
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16' 17 18 19
Cycle
Orbits Submitted
by Cycle
25000
24667
21734
23096
20771
19674
20000
17690
17257
17200
Requested Time
18676
16236
14272
15000
14668
15876
14005
10000
14173
13543
10732
8169
3950 ESA
4361 Large
1582 Treasury
6072 Snap Targets
925 Pure Parallels
8289
6473
6303
5000
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 7N 8
9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16' 17 18 19
Cycle
Orbit Bins by Proposal
350
300
301
250
# of Proposals
215
200
150
128
100
63
50
19
0
31
12
5
5
0
2
1 - 10 11 - 20 21 - 30 31 - 40 41 - 50 51 - 60 61 - 70 71 - 80 81 - 90 91 - 99 100 150
Bins
3
1
1
1
150 200
200 250
250 300
> 300
Orbit Bins by Orbits
4500
3847
4000
3269 3268
3500
Orbits
3000
2233+36
2500
2000
1830
1500
861+47
1000
677 + 54
387+72
336+126
500
541
0+90
195
205
288
314
0
1 - 10 11 20
21 30
31 40
41 50
51 60
61 70
71 - 81 80
90
Bins
91 - 100 - 150 - 200 - 250 - > 300
99 150 200 250 300
Orbit Size by Cycle
Science Category
Submissions by Proposal
ISM in External
Extra-Solar Planets Galaxies
4%
6%
Solar System
4%
Star Formation
5%
Unresolved Stellar
Populations and
Galaxy Structure
12%
AGN/Quasars
11%
Resolved Stellar
Populations
14%
Quasar Absorption
Lines And IGM
6%
Cool Stars
5%
ISM and
Circumstellar Matter
7%
Cosmology
15%
Hot Stars
11%
Science Category
Submissions by Orbits
Extra-Solar Planets
6%
ISM in External Galaxies
4%
Solar System
2%
Unresolved Stellar
Star Formation
Populations and Galaxy
4%
Structure
14%
Resolved Stellar
Populations
15%
AGN/Quasars
9%
Cool Stars
3%
Quasar Absorption Lines
And IGM
8%
ISM and Circumstellar
Matter
5%
Hot Stars
7%
Cosmology
23%
Prime & Coordinated
Parallel Orbit Usage
50
45
Cycle18
40
Cycle 19
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
ACS
COS
FGS
NICMOS
STIS
WFC3
Instrument Details
Configuration
ACS/SBC
ACS/WFC
ACS/WFC
ACS/WFC
COS/FUV
COS/NUV
COS/NUV
FGS
FGS
NIC1
NIC2
NIC3
NIC3
STIS/CCD
STIS/CCD
STIS/FUV
STIS/FUV
STIS/NUV
STIS/NUV
WFC3/IR
WFC3/IR
WFC3/UVIS
WFC3/UVIS
Mode
Imaging
Imaging
Ramp Filter
Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy
Imaging
Spectroscopy
POS
TRANS
Imaging
Imaging
Imaging
Spectroscopy
Imaging
Spectroscopy
Imaging
Spectroscopy
Imaging
Spectroscopy
Imaging
Spectroscopy
Imaging
Spectroscopy
Coordinated
Prime % Parallel %
1.1%
19.6%
0.8%
0.1%
13.9%
0.1%
2.2%
1.2%
0.2%
0.5%
0.6%
0.7%
0.1%
1.0%
5.0%
0.4%
3.8%
0.0%
2.0%
18.9%
3.1%
24.3%
0.2%
100%
0.0%
53.4%
0.0%
3.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
0.6%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
5.5%
0.1%
36.5%
0.0%
100.0%
Total
0.9%
28.1%
0.6%
0.9%
10.4%
0.1%
1.6%
0.9%
0.1%
0.4%
0.6%
0.6%
0.1%
0.7%
3.8%
0.3%
2.9%
0.0%
1.5%
15.6%
2.4%
27.4%
0.2%
100.0%
Instrument
Prime +
Instrument Coordinated
Prime
Parallel
Usage
Usage
21.6%
30.5%
16.2%
12.1%
1.4%
1.0%
1.9%
1.7%
12.3%
9.2%
46.6%
45.5%
100.0%
100.0%
Pure
Parallel
Usage
Snap
Usage
0.0%
12.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
48.0%
16.0%
24.0%
0.0%
100.0%
0.0%
18.9%
1.1%
0.0%
8.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.6%
1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
2.5%
0.0%
4.0%
0.0%
0.0%
23.8%
2.0%
34.8%
0.9%
99.9%
Instrument Details
 NICMOS Proposals Submitted
 22 GO (437 Orbits)
 1 Snap (60 Targets)
 75% Imaging vs 25% Spectroscopy
40
30
# of Submissions
Proposals by Country
(w/out USA)
70
USA is 761
60
50
20
10
Taiwan
Austria
Switzerland
Mexico
Ireland
Russia
Czech Republic
Belgium
Korea
China
Japan
Israel
Sweden
Denmark
Chile
Canada
Spain
Australia
Netherlands
Italy
France
Germany
United Kingdom
0
120
100
80
# of Submissions
Proposals by US State
200
180
160
140
60
40
20
RI
KS
WY
UT
AR
NV
NC
DE
TN
NH
LA
IA
AL
SC
NM
GA
MN
KY
IN
CT
WI
WA
VA
NJ
DC
OH
FL
TX
HI
IL
MI
PA
NY
AZ
CO
MA
MD
CA
0
250
200
# of CoIs
CoInvestigators by
Country (w/out USA)
500
400
1st CoIs from
Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovak Republic
50
Portugal
Croatia
Bulgaria
Slovak Republic
Norway
Argentina
Venezuela
Ukraine
Iceland
Finland
South Africa
Iran
Hungary
Greece
Taiwan
Czech Republic
New Zealand
Ireland
Poland
India
Brazil
China
Austria
Russia
Mexico
Korea
Belgium
Israel
Switzerland
Denmark
Sweden
Australia
Chile
Japan
Spain
Netherlands
Canada
Italy
France
Germany
United Kingdom
0
United States has 3493
1801 ESA CoIs
5793 Total CoIs
2888 Unique CoIs
450
350
300
150
100
500
# of CoIs
CoInvestigators by
US State
900
800
454 STScI CoIs
700
600
400
300
200
100
MT
MO
RI
NE
VT
WY
NV
KS
NH
UT
OK
LA
IA
NC
AR
DE
TN
NM
MN
KY
SC
IN
AL
GA
DC
FL
WI
CT
WA
OH
NJ
HI
MI
VA
CO
TX
PA
IL
AZ
NY
MA
MD
CA
0
Other Tidbits
 7 Calibration proposals (3 AR & 4 GO)
 29 Target of Opportunity
 16 Disruptive and 13 Non-Disruptive (< or >2 weeks)
Archival
Research
Small
Medium
Legacy
Regular
17
50
10
Theory
39
27
0
Total
57
77
10
Observatory
Props
Requested Time
Units
HST Orbits
Chandra
13
666.5
Ksecs
345
NOAO
7
15.05
Nights
174
Spitzer
8
122.1
Hours
567
Operating Systems for
HST Phase I Submissions
70
Linux
SunOS
Windows
Mac OS X
60
Percentage
50
40
30
20
10
0
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011