Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Chandra Director’s Office Proposal Cycle 10  639 submitted proposals  *5.6 oversubscribed (based on time)  64 LP, 8 VLP  More LPs cf Cycle 9 (48)  57 Archive, 41 Theory

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Total Time Request Change from Cycle 9  Time request: -3%  LP request: +18%  VLP request: -40%  Grating request: +36%

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Oversubscription by Category  LP/VLP competed for full 6 Msec  LP/VLP Over-subscription: 6.5  BUT: no VLPs approved

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Allocation by Instrument and Science Category

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Gratings Proposals Success rate back to normal

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Archive/Theory Results  Archive:  Budget: $1100K  Allocated $1340K  Over-subscription: 2.7  Theory:  Budget: $600K  Allocated: $730K  Over-subscription: 4.0  Reason: panels grading and priorities  Increased total GO funds to cover: $410K

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Joint Chandra Proposals  Joint Proposals approved by other TACs  XMM TAC: 2 approved: 220 ksecs  HST TAC: 2 approved: 110 ksecs  Joint Proposals approved by Chandra TAC  HST: 14 proposals; 72 orbits  XMM: 2 proposals; 154 ksec  RXTE: 2 proposals; 420 ksec  NOAO: 7 proposals; 20 nights  NRAO: 8 proposals; 93 hrs  Spitzer: non available  Cycle 11  No RXTE  Suzaku: under negotiation  Spitzer warm – restored up to 100 hrs

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Peer Review  June 2007, Hilton, Logan Airport  13 topical panels, 1 Big Project Panel (BPP)  Program as last year:  Tues, Wed: topical panels  Wed evening: BPP organizational session  Thurs, Frid: BPP  Panels:  1,2: Stars, Planets  3,4: SN, SNR, NS  5,6,7: Binaries, Galaxies: Populations  8,9,10: Clusters, Galaxies: Diffuse  11,12,13: AGN, Extragalactic surveys

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Other Peer Review Results  Constrained Observations:  Same as last year (Easy: 45; Average 35; Diff. 20)  Joint allocated: 5D, 2A  Allocated: Diff: 8/15; A+E: 96/70 (1D=2(A+E))  Keep the same for Cycle 11  Developing Constraint classification tool in RPS  TOOs:  over-subscribed SLOW (12-30 days) for the first time  Cost Review:  External: for proposals asking for > fair share (~15)  Internal: remainder

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Cycle 11 Updates  WebVis : major update:  New Look!  Cursor readout  Zoom capability  Pitch angle observing restrictions  Constraint and Slew Tax Estimator:  In RPS  Constraint class and count for each target  Slew tax for each target  Total for proposal

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Einstein Fellows  NASA HQ mandated: Fellows Programs by SMD Theme Provide stability unrelated to missions and uniformity Retain prestige by stopping proliferation Will build/change #s as missions within themes begin and end SMD THEME Fellowship name Number of Fellowships Program Administered by Old Fellowship Program(s) EXOPLANET EXPLORATION Sagan 5 Exoplanet Science Institute Michelson COSMIC ORIGINSHubble 17STScI Hubble Spitzer PHYSICS OF THE COSMOS Einstein 10 Chandra X-ray Center Chandra GLAST (Fermi)

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Einstein Fellows  CXC directed to issue call for new Einstein Fellows program in place of original Chandra Fellowships in mid July  Einstein Fellowship program was separated from CXC, detailed negotiations over budget and contract were completed at short notice  All material (announcements, advertisements and web pages) were updated to reflect the change  Nancy Evans will provide more details later in the day

Chandra Users’ Committee, Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Response to April 2008 CUC Report 1) Chandra Source Catalog: has been released, demo today (Ian Evans) 2) Gratings Threads, update: Dave H. 3) CIAO Workshop: scheduled for Oct ) Mission Planning, update: Pat S. 5+6) Chandra/Einstein Fellows: Nancy Evans 7) Cross-calibration: memo released, update Larry D. 8) Joint Suzaku/Chandra time: being negotiated 9) CXC Website: new design open for CUC comments