TIPS Cycle 13 Phase I Status Brett Blacker Science Policies Division
TIPS
Cycle 13 Phase I Status
Brett Blacker
Science Policies Division
February 19, 2004
Phase I Schedule for Cycle 13
• Oct 7
• Dec 3
• Jan 23
• Feb 9
• Mar 16/17
• Mar 22-24
• Mar 25-27
• Apr 1
• Apr 2
• Apr 13
• Apr 30
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CP Release
APT Release
Phase I Deadline
Ship CDs to Panelists
Prelim grades and comments
Panels meet
TAC meets
Director’s Review
Notifications
Send Approved Comments
Send Rejected Comments
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Help Desk Calls
• APT Platform
– 21 Submission questions (34 last year)
– 8 Installation questions (30 last year)
– 63 Writing Proposal (110 last year)
• 4 PDF Conversion Problems (32 last year)
• SPD Platform (about the same as last year)
– 6 Documentation
– 17 Policies
– 10 Templates
– 12 Scheduling/OSF Format
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System
Linux
SunOS
Windows
Mac OS X
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Cycle 13 User Submissions
% Received Change from
Cycle 12
42 + 2.1%
27
15
- 6.8%
+ 1.2%
13
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6
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Submission Statistics
• 949 Proposals Received in Cycle 13 (1046 in
Cycle 12)
– 739 (819) GO for 17,257 (19,674) orbits
• 11 (10) Treasury for 1415 (2202) orbits
• 30 (31) Large for 4292 (3672) orbits
• Future Cycle orbits requested
– 1714 (1860) for Cycle 14
– 212 for (855) Cycle 15
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Stats continued
• 82 Snapshot props for 5364 targets
• 128 Archival Research proposals
– 89 Regular
– 33 Theory
– 6 AR Legacy
• 2 Calibration Outsourcing Props for 2 prime and 20 Pure parallel orbits
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ESA/STScI Stats
• 170 Proposals submitted from ESA PIs
– 155 GO for 2895 orbits
– 12 Snaps for 989 orbits
– 2 ARs
• 89 Proposal submitted from STScI PIs
– 63 GO for 1904 orbits
– 11 Snaps for 686 targets
– 15 Ars (4 Theory & 9 Regular)
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Joint Coordination Proposals
• Chandra Submissions
– We can allocate 400 ksecs of which only 80 ksecs can be time-constrained
– 20 proposals requesting 377 HST orbits and 1181 ksecs
• NOAO Submissions
– We can allocate 15-20 nights on most telescopes
– 15 props requesting 485 HST orbits and 54 NOAO nights
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