Subject: Cycle 14 HST Phase I Notification Letter From: blacker@stsci.edu Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:17:38 -0400 (EDT) To: saul@lbl.gov CC: williamj@stsci.edu, GAldering@lbl.gov, barrientos@astro.puc.cl, mark.brodwin@jpl.nasa.gov, KDawson@lbl.gov, dey@noao.edu, doi@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, donahue@pa.msu.edu, prme@kromos.jpl.nasa.gov, elling@origins.colorado.edu, VAFadeyev@lbl.gov, fruchter@stsci.edu, gilbank@astro.utoronto.ca, gladders@ociw.edu, gerson@lbl.gov, anthony@astro.ufl.edu, ariel@physto.se, hoekstra@uvic.ca, imh@astro.ox.ac.uk, bjannuzi@noao.edu, kashik@subaru.naoj.org, MPKowalski@lbl.gov, NVKuznetsova@lbl.gov, clidman@eso.org, EVLinder@lbl.gov, lmlubin@ucdavis.edu, RMiquel@lbl.gov, cmullis@umich.edu, panagia@stsci.edu, postman@stsci.edu, jrhodes@mail.jpl.nasa.gov, prosati@eso.org, DJSchlegel@lbl.gov, ALSpadafora@lbl.gov, adam@igpp.ucllnl.org, vall@physto.se, stern@zwolfkinder.jpl.nasa.gov, lifan@panisse.lbl.gov, yasuda@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp, hyee@astro.utoronto.ca Saul Perlmutter University of California - Berkeley CA USA April 05, 2005 Dear Dr. Perlmutter, We are pleased to inform you that your Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 14 proposal Title: Decelerating and Dustfree: Efficient Dark Energy Studies with Supernovae and Clusters ID: 10496 has been approved for Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 14 General Observer time, following detailed consideration by the Cycle 14 Peer Review Panels and final review by the STScI Director. Your proposal was graded in the first quartile of proposals in your Panel. The allocations approved for your program in Phase I are: 219 Primary Spacecraft Orbits in Cycle 14 Comments from the peer review may be found at the end of this message. All Phase I allocations are tentative, subject to successful Phase II submissions and feasibility/duplication reviews. If your Phase II program includes targets or exposures that duplicate those in the published protected lists, they will be eliminated unless specifically justified in your Phase I proposal and supported by specific TAC/Panel recommendations. Of course, all allocations depend upon the satisfactory operation of the observatory, as well as the availability of appropriate scheduling opportunities. In addition, parallel time depends on the existence of an applicable primary pointing, and future-cycle allocations are contingent on review for progress by STScI. The Panel/TAC were instructed to recommend only those parallel and future-cycle requests that were justified scientifically. Note that all DARK TIME orbits granted have the restricted visibility discussed in the Phase I Call for Proposals (i.e., you will only be able to utilize that portion of the orbit when the spacecraft is in the Earth's shadow). It is highly likely that HST will be operated under 2-gyro guiding during most, if not all, of Cycle 14. Therefore, Phase II proposals must be created for 2-gyro mode operations. Any flexible scheduling constraints that were discussed in the Phase I proposal for 2-gyro mode will be critical for the successful scheduling of Cycle 14 observations. Program Coordinators will review all Cycle 14 programs for scheduling constraints as they are submitted. Any constraints that overly restrict program scheduling, or that cause conflicts in scheduling other programs, may have to be relaxed or removed before the Phase II program is accepted. Cycle 14 will have a duration of approximately 12 months, beginning in July 2005. We expect to issue the Cycle 15 Call for Proposals in October 2005, with a Phase I Deadline in late January 2006. For your information, 485 GO proposals requested over 14,000 orbits in Cycle 14, compared to the 3000 orbits available. A total of 63 snapshot proposals requested over 5100 targets, compared to the 1900 targets approved. You will soon receive a separate package specifying the procedures and deadlines for your Phase II submission. These procedures and deadlines are important. It is your responsibility to write and to submit an error-free Phase II proposal by the deadline so that we can efficiently schedule your observations. We usually cannot support Phase II proposals submitted after the deadline; late proposals mean forfeiture of your HST allocation. To help you, specific STScI staff have been assigned to support your Phase II activities. Your Program Coordinator (PC), Bill Januszewski (410-338-4964), williamj@stsci.edu will assist you throughout the development, implementation and scheduling of your Phase II HST program. Your PC is your primary contact person with STScI from proposal development through execution. If you feel you need special assistance with scientific and instrument-related questions, you may request that a Contact Scientist be assigned to your program; a subsequent email from your PC will explain how to request a CS. The European Coordinating Facility (ECF) is prepared to actively assist successful GOs of ESA member states with their Phase II submissions. A detailed Phase II budget is also required from all U.S. investigators to support the reduction and analysis of Cycle 14 data. The deadline for the receipt of paper budgets is May 13, 2005 and the deadline for budgets submitted electronically into our Grants Management System (STGMS) is May 20, 2005. Additional information concerning the submission of budgets will be sent to Investigators shortly. The information will also be available shortly at the following web site: http://www.stsci.edu/institute/brc/ga. Non-U.S. Principal Investigators are requested to forward this message to at least one of the U.S. collaborators (if applicable). Following a specialized financial review at the end of June, a separate notification pertaining to the funding allocated to each program will be sent to U.S. collaborators. Please note that all funds subsequently approved for this Program are contingent upon the availability of funding from NASA at the time the award is made. In accordance with NASA Office of Space Science (OSS) Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) policies, 2% of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cycle 14 budget has been allocated for E/PO funding. The spirit of the HST Cycle E/PO Grant Program is to encourage collaboration between professional astronomers/space scientists and professional educators that would broaden the knowledge and understanding of the latest discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. Accepted HST Cycle 14 General Observers, Archival and Snapshot Researchers (GO/AR/SNAP) and current Hubble Fellows are eligible to submit proposals for an E/PO supplement to the parent research program. (Guaranteed Time Observers (GTO) are not eligible to apply for an HST Cycle 14 E/PO Grant.) The HST Cycle 14 E/PO proposal should have direct linkage to the topic or the science foundations of the parent research program(s). Individual HST Cycle 14 GO/AR/SNAP Principal Investigators and current Hubble Fellows may request up to $20,000, with a possible teamed effort of up to $60,000. Treasury programs may request up to $50,000 but are not able to request a larger funding amount for a teamed effort. NASA OSS and STScI encourage awarded HST Cycle 14 GO/SNAP/AR programs and current Hubble Fellows to give serious consideration to this opportunity. The HST Cycle 14 E/PO Call for Proposals will be released in June with the proposal submission deadline on Friday, 19 August 2005 at 5:00 p.m. ET. The URL for the program website is http://cycle-epo.stsci.edu/. Congratulations on the success of your proposal in the stringent Phase I review, and best wishes for your future participation in and contributions to the scientific program of HST. Sincerely, Steven Beckwith Director Strengths: This is an innovative approach to a fundamental problem and represents a major step forward in techniques to obtain a large and relatively systematics free sample of type Ia Supernova. It accomplishes this with a much simpler scheduling scheme and has a major bonus of all the cluster science with a big multiwavelength dataset on 20 z>1 clusters. An excellent case is made that there are potential dangers of extinction corrections for late-type galaxy hosts and that this method avoids those. This technique will provide an independent data set that will obtain the first cross-check of results from other surveys. Weaknesses: This proposal does not document how 10 more z>1 Type Ia supernovae would improve measurements in w and dw/dz. If one was not aware of the recent literature this proposal alone would not show us the importance of having 10 more high z SN Ia. The redshifts and the source of the redshifts for the high z clusters was not given, and we had to rely on the veracity of the proposers. Reasonableness of Resources: N/A Additional Comments: N/A