1. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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

2. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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%

3. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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

4. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Allocation by Instrument and Science Category

5. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 Oct 2008 Chandra Director’s Office Gratings Proposals Success rate back to normal

6. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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

7. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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

8. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 Oct 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

9. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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

10. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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

11. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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)

12. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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

13. Chandra Users’ Committee, 15-16 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 2008 4) 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