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Cycle 12

Cycle 12. CfP Release: Dec 15 2009 GTO Deadline : 11 March 2010 GO Deadline: 18 March 2010 What’s New: Joint time: Spitzer, Hubble, XMM-Newton, Suzaku, NOAO, NRAO Special Archive: CDFS DDT Observations, additional ~ $500K budget

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Cycle 12

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  1. Cycle 12 • CfP Release: Dec 15 2009 • GTO Deadline: 11 March 2010 • GO Deadline: 18 March 2010 • What’s New: • Joint time: Spitzer, Hubble, XMM-Newton, Suzaku, NOAO, NRAO • Special Archive: CDFS DDT Observations, additional ~$500K budget • LP/VLP: retained combined allocation in response to CUC recommendation • Peer Review: 21-25 June 2010 Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  2. Cycle 12 Proposals • GTO: 60 proposals (ingested) + 3 to be reviewed • GO Deadline: 17 March 2009 • # Proposals: 678 • Requested time: 87855 ks • Oversubscription: 5.2 • Joint time, other TACs: • 3 XMM approved for total of 286 ks • 8 CXO joint submitted to HST TAC Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  3. Cycle 12 Proposal Submission • 678submitted proposals • *5.2 oversubscribed (based on time) • 70 LP, 5 VLP • 76 Archive (13 CDFS) • 43 Theory Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  4. Over-subscription in Time • Time request is flat (peak when VLP’s initiated) • Over-subscription in time also flat, mean (past 5 years) ~ 5.5 Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  5. Grating Time Request Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  6. Cycle 12 Peer Review • 21-25 June 2010 • Hilton, Logan Airport • No major changes in Cycle 12 • 13 topical panels, 1 BPP • Program as last year: • Tues, Wed: topical panels • Thurs, Frid: BPP (+ initial organizational session Wed evening) • Status: 103 reviewers (inc. 13 chairs, 4 pundits) Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  7. Chandra Deep Field South DDT • Specific CDFS archival budget of $500K • 13 proposals submitted to regular call • Over-subscription: 2.44 • Initial review in science category panels, grouping in single panels as far as possible • Final review including a member of each panel to merge list into final rank order Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  8. NASA Senior Review • Proposal generated and delivered on 9 Feb 2010 • Oral Presentations made on 6 April 2010 in DC • presentations by: Martin Weisskopf, Harvey Tanabaum, Belinda Wilkes, Roger Brissenden, Martin Laming • Keith Hefner also present • Budget was their major issue • Report expected this week • Level of effort to prepare this was very high Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  9. Chandra Paper Statistics Refereed Papers per year Refereed Science Papers • 4182 Total papers (to 04/29/2010) • 2003-2006: 505 papers/year • 2002-2006: 32 citations/paper • 189 PhD Theses Refereed Chandra-related papers: 3708 Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  10. Chandra User Numbers • Many new X-ray Observers • 2979 distinct PIs+Co-Is Cycles 1-11 • (cf AAS full members: ~4250) • ~200 new PIs+Co-Is per year (steady state) • >1350 students + postdocs (over course of mission) Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

  11. Chandra’s impact on science Independent Large Telescope Citation Study (Trimble & Ceja 2008) 2001-2003 (pre-Spitzer) Citations: over 3 years following publication Chandra Users' Committee, 27 April 2010 Chandra Director’s Office

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