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Cycle 14 Peer Review 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:• 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

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:

• 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 highest-

ranked 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

• 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

• 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