1. Chandra Users’ Committee, 9-10 Apr 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  Fewer LPs cf Cycle 9 (48)  57 Archive, 41 Theory

2. Chandra Users’ Committee, 9-10 Apr 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Total Time Request Change from Cycle 9  Time request: -3%  LP request: +18%  VLP request: -40%  Grating request: +36%

3. Chandra Users’ Committee, 9-10 Apr 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Gratings Proposals

4. Chandra Users’ Committee, 9-10 Apr 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Oversubscription by Category  LP over-subscription is the highest (9.6)  Compensated by opening up of LP/VLP division (6.7)

5. Chandra Users’ Committee, 9-10 Apr 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Joint Chandra Proposals: other Observatory TACs Joint Proposals  XMM TAC: 2 approved, in ObsCat  HST TAC: not done yet  Spitzer: no joint time this year by agreement with SSC (end of cold mission)

6. Chandra Users’ Committee, 9-10 Apr 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Peer Review  16-21 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

7. Chandra Users’ Committee, 9-10 Apr 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Peer Review (cont)  Changes from last year:  LP/VLPs all compete for 6 Msecs  Constrained Observations:  Same as last year (Easy: 45; Average 35; Diff. 20)  Assessment take a full observing cycle  Pat Slane will discuss Cycle 9 scheduling  Cost Review:  External: for proposals asking for > fair share  Internal: remainder

8. Chandra Users’ Committee, 9-10 Apr 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Response to October 2007 CUC Report  LP/VLP: single pool for LP and VLP proposals – done  Gratings: increase community awareness  HEAD session (SDS)  Gratings Atlas (SDS)  Threads: 1 new proposal thread, more in the works (SDS)  Survey: Paul Green (next)  Chandra Source Catalog:  What’s New item and new section (4.7.1) encouraging archival proposals using source catalog  On-line information about catalog (Ian Evans)  Constrained Observations: Scheduling (Pat Slane)  CIAO Community Education (Jonathon McDowell)  Chandra Fellows:  Planning; webcast plus public posting of talks  Question of Mentors for Fellows (Nancy Evans)