Cycle 14 Peer Review
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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
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Cycle 14: Final Proposal Statistics
 672 proposals submitted:
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GO 452
LP 78
XVP 17
Archive 72
Theory 53
185 approved
Oversubscription (time): 5.2
Time allocation: 23.3 Ms
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Cycle 14 Proposal Statistics (cont)
Time allocation:
• Total Time: 23.3 Ms
• LP:
5.7 Ms (4.2Ms)
• XVP: 6.2 Ms (7.4Ms)
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Archive/Theory Results
Archive:
 Budget: $1050K
 Allocated $1095K (17)
 Over-subscription: 4.2
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Theory:
• Budget: $600K
• Allocated: $654K (8)
• Over-subscription: 5.8
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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:
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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 highestranked proposals
 BPP moved ~1.2Ms to LPs (+0.2Ms from TPs)
 Final over-subscription for both = 6.6
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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
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Cost Proposals in Cycle 14
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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
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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
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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
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Cycle 15: Planned Schedule
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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
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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
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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
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