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Toward the Senior Review

This proposal details the Senior Review for the Suzaku mission, including the science and technical sections, budgets, and key projects. The goal is to assess the scientific merit and contributions of the mission, while considering budgetary constraints and future plans. Expert assistance is needed to establish science goals, contribute to proposal sections, and advise on strategy.

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Toward the Senior Review

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  1. Toward the Senior Review Rob Petre

  2. Senior Review proposal details • Due March 12, 2008 • Competing against: XMM, INTEGRAL, RXTE, Swift, Galex, WMAP, Spitzer and Chandra • Maximum length 15 pages (+ 8 pages for EPO) • Science and technical sections • Provide baseline and overguide budgets • Primary judgment criterion is “science per dollar”

  3. Proposal Content • Science section • Scientific merit of full proposed program • Specific contributions of instruments • How the proposed program will discover and communicate new scientific knowledge in line with NASA’s goals • What has been accomplished to date • Technical section • Technical status of mission components (instruments, spacecraft, ground system) • Description of tasks to be performed

  4. Help needed from user committee • Establish science goals for next 2-4 years • Contribute to science section (~1 page + figure(s) on each topic) • Advise on proposal strategy • GO grants • Composition of science program

  5. Science Goals from Previous Proposal • Test the black hole-accretion disk paradigm through detailed studies of the Fe K line and reflection component in dozens of AGN and X-ray binaries • Observe a large sample of AGN discovered with Swift to constrain their contribution to the hard X-ray background • Measure the non-thermal emission from clusters as a signature of high-energy cosmic rays • Disentangle the multiple components that contribute to the soft X-ray background • Determine the chemical composition (CNO) in a variety of environments in the ISM of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

  6. Factors in senior review strategy • New mission synergies - GLAST, SZ surveys (+) • Data sharing agreement with JAXA/ISAS (?) • Evolution to large programs (and key projects?) (+?) • Ramp up of Suzaku papers just happening (?) • Slower than other missions • Can be traced in part to instrument complexity • US GOF has barely kept up with calibration and processing issues; documentation has lagged (-) • Need to sustain US GOF at current level (1 full time, 2 part time scientists)

  7. Large projects / Key projects • Suzaku introduced large projects in AO3 • 1-2 Ms set aside for large projects (long observations, large collection of observations) • Projects assessed at national reviews • Merging committee changes national review recommendation only in event of conflict • US received 9 proposals, Japan 2

  8. Large projects / Key projects • Substantial discussion this week about key projects • Major dedicated allocation of spacecraft time • Could be entirely within US program, but much better if done jointly • Implementation ideas • Time comes off the top (separate from AO time) • All data immediately public • Project calls for large project white papers (not proposals), convenes small panel to rank • 1-2 new key projects at any one time • Targets either preselected or suggested by proposal • Some funding mechanism in US through project

  9. Some key project ideas • Survey of 500 relaxed clusters • Follow up of BAT and INTEGRAL AGN • LMXB monitoring • Deep SNR observations to find low abundance nucleosynthesis products • Survey of all unidentified HESS galactic sources • Search for ejecta in old SNRs by extensive mapping

  10. FY09-FY10 Budget • GO grants sustained at current level • GOF support sustained at current level • Instrument team funding disappears by end of FY10 • Funds MIT support for XIS, GSFC instrument science support • EPO is slowly drawn down

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