CXC Response to June 04 Report
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Bakeout Status: Paul Plucinsky
CIAO upgrade information: Jonathan McDowell
DS9 and visualization scripts: Jonathan McDowell
Calibration:
1. Status and requirements: Larry David
2. Iridium Edge: Herman Marshall
5. Pileup: Jonathan McDowell
6. Joint Proposals: we feel the process is working, we
will continue to instruct panels to critique all time
requests carefully
7. Cross-Calibration:
Observation Cycle 6 Status
 Cycle 6 Proposal Statistics
– Received 789 proposals, accepted 191
Type
ARCHIVE
No. Proposals
No. Targets
Allocated Time (ks)
(or $: AR,Th)
18
0
$1,105,693
129
325
9960
GTO (competed)
3
4
84
LP
8
38
2867
THEORY
7
0
$488,224
22
34
1833
TOO/LP
1
2
340
VLP
3
12
2794
GO
TOO
Cycle 6 Peer Review Report (cont)
Time Allocated per Instrument
HRC-S/LETG
6%
HRC-S
5%
HRC-I
2%
ACIS-I
32%
ACIS-S
40%
ACIS-S/HETG
12%
ACIS-S/LETG
3%
Cycle 6 Peer Review Report
Galactic Surveys
3%
Extragalactic
Surveys
11%
Solar System
2%
Stars & WD
14%
Time Allocated by
Science Category
WD Binaries &
CV
4%
Clusters of
Galaxies
18%
BH & NS
Binaries
8%
Active Galaxies
12%
SN, SNR
18%
Galaxies: Galaxies:
Population Diffuse
7%
3%
Cycle 6 Peer Review Report (cont)
Percent of Requested Time Approved
Galactic Surveys
Extragalactic Surveys
Clusters of Galaxies
Active Galaxies
Galaxies: Population
Galaxies: Diffuse
SN, SNR
BH & NS Binaries
WD Binaries & CV
Stars & WD
Solar System
0
5
10
15
20
25
Per cent o f R eq uest ed T ime A p p r o ved
30
35
40
Cycle 6 Peer Review Report (cont)
Percent Proposals Accepted
60
Percent Accepted
50
40
GO
LP
VLP
Archive
Theory
30
20
10
0
1
2
3
4
Cycle
5
6
Cycle 7 Status
Schedule and Deadlines for the CfP Cycle
Event
Date
CfP Release
15 December 2004
Science Proposal Deadline (Stage 1)
6 p.m. EST, 15 March 2005
Peer Review
21-23 June 2005
Selected Proposals Announced
Early July 2005
Budget Deadline (Stage 2)
6 p.m. EDT, 18 August 2005
Cost Review
September 2005
Stage 2 Final Selection
October 2005
EPO Electronic Deadline
5 p.m. EDT, 21 October 2005
EPO Hardcopy Deadline
4 p.m. EDT, 25 October 2005
EPO Review
December 2005
Cycle 7 Starts
About December 2005
What’s New in Cycle 7
Summary (Section 1.5 of CfP)
Spitzer Joint Time: 110 hours Spitzer time allocated by Chandra review
(400 ksec Chandra time to Spitzer review)
Pitch Angle Restrictions:
Restriction due to EPHIN → 70-120°
New restriction, pitch angle > 168° to avoid frozen fuel lines (already
being put in place for Cycle 6)
Proposals:
PDF files only
Electronic distribution to reviewers (on CDRom), hardcopies on request
only
Target Specifications: emphasizing that all specifications should be
explicitly entered on RPS form
TOO Specification: expanded to allow follow-ups to explicitly include a
different instrument (previously link had to be made manually by the CXC)
Time-constrained fraction: has been reduced to 15% of targets
User Interface Changes
 Contact Scientists: have been removed as an
option
 User Interface (USINT): self-serve users now
include:
– experienced PIs with unconstrained observations
– CXC and GTO PIs
– Help/USINT assignment is available on request.