CXC Response to June 04 Report

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CXC Response to June 04 Report

1. Bakeout Status Paul Plucinsky
2. CIAO upgrade information Jonathan McDowell
3. DS9 and visualization scripts Jonathan McDowell
4. Calibration
5. Status and requirements Larry David
6. Iridium Edge Herman Marshall
7. Pileup Jonathan McDowell
8. Joint Proposals we feel the process is working,
   we will continue to instruct panels to critique
   all time requests carefully
9. Cross-Calibration

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Observation Cycle 6 Status

• Cycle 6 Proposal Statistics
• Received 789 proposals, accepted 191

Type No. Proposals No. Targets Allocated Time (ks) (or AR,Th)
ARCHIVE 18 0 1,105,693
GO 129 325 9960
GTO (competed) 3 4 84
LP 8 38 2867
THEORY 7 0 488,224
TOO 22 34 1833
TOO/LP 1 2 340
VLP 3 12 2794
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Cycle 6 Peer Review Report (cont)
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Cycle 6 Peer Review Report
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Cycle 6 Peer Review Report (cont)
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Cycle 6 Peer Review Report (cont)
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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
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Whats 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 gt 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
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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.