Transcript A proposal for a Science Management Plan

WSO/UV
A proposal for a
Science Management Plan
Draft
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Summary
Draft of the SMP as elaborated by Willem Wamsteker
(as it is in the Spain proposal for ESA NLP support)
Hot topics and criticisms
Policy of other projects
The New Proposal
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From:
Proposal to the Annual Call for Support to Nationally Led Projects
submitted by SPC Spanish delegation
IV.
Program and National time distribution
The WSO/UV is a fully open project following the recipes laid out in UN
A/AC.105/723 Section IV. The scientific community of each
country agreeing to participate (minimally the implementation of
local Science Operations Centre) has essentially unrestricted
access to the data obtained with WSO/UV.
The decisions on Scientific and technical matters have been and will
be continued to be addressed by the WIC (Section I.5.)
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Past deliberations in the WIC have led to some details of the science
management plan as given below
The project observing time is distributed as given below for the baseline
5 year mission (2 months of in-orbit testing and verification at L2 not
included):
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•
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1.6 x 10 8
6.4 x 10 7
1.0 x 10 7
4.3 x 10 7
4.3 x 10 7
Total Observing time 5 years
Core Programme (see sections I.2.1 – 3)
Calibration & Engineering
National Time (Participating Countries)
Open Observing time
sec.
sec. (744 days)
sec. (116 days)
sec. (500 days)
sec. (500 days)
Observing time distribution
Core Programme
27.5%
27.5%
Calibration &
Engineering
39%
National Time
(Participating
Countries)
Open Observing
time
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• The Open Observing Time is allocated by an International panel of
scientific experts.
• The National Time (Participating Countries) is allocated by a
national panel for each of the countries involved in the
implementation process of WSO/UV. These contributions are either
in Hardware, Launch or contributions to the Mission Operations. The
respective shares in the total WSO/UV Project costs have been
established and agreed between parties in the deliberations in the
WIC Meeting (document on WSO web site WSO-VIL-PRG-SUM0001).
• The calibration and engineering time will of course be distributed
according to the needs of the instruments in close cooperation with
the groups building the instruments. This program part will be
designed to make the data available in reduced form as soon as
possible.
• The Core Programme will be designed by a Core Programme
Team, composed of members of the NWWG. This programme will be
submitted to the WIC for final approval.
• For all data an archival structure will be set up in close coordination
with the Virtual Observatory Requirements.
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Some COMMENTS before to go on
From:
Proposal to the Annual Call for Support to Nationally Led Projects
submitted by SPC Spanish delegation
IV.
Program and National time distribution
The WSO/UV is a fully open project following the recipes laid out in
UN A/AC.105/723 Section IV. The scientific community of each
True: no
restrictions
to be part(minimally
of the collaboration
country
agreeing
to participate
the implementation of
local Science Operations
Centre) has essentially unrestricted
BUT
access to the data obtained with WSO/UV.
After the partners are all identified the WSO/UV project will be a
– XXand
– YY
– ZZ (etmatters
al) project”
The decisions “Russian
on Scientific
technical
have been and will
be continued to be addressed by the WIC (Section I.5.)
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From:
Proposal to the Annual Call for Support to Nationally Led Projects
submitted by SPC Spanish delegation
What does it means?
IV.How to
Program
and
National
time distribution
conceal this
with
a “Core Program”
and “National Time”?
The WSO/UV is a fully open project following the recipes laid out in UN
A/AC.105/723 Section IV. The scientific community of each
country agreeing to participate (minimally the implementation of
local Science Operations Centre) has essentially unrestricted
access to the data obtained with WSO/UV.
The decisions on Scientific and technical matters have been and will
be continued to be addressed by the WIC (Section I.5.)
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It is time to leave the concept
of “open project” ?
Let’s go on and see what
happened with ESA.
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From AWG response (ASTRO(2006)3)
• “Given the small fraction (anticipated 4% as presented to
the AWG) of the observing time available to the ESA
community and the lack of a firm plan of a public data
archive, the return to the ESA member state scientists is
limited. Moreover, the proposal lacked a well developed
science management plan approved by all participating
agencies.”
• Question: Why 4% only? Where they take this number?
• It seems about the fractional cost according to the funds
requested to ESA.
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From Ana Ines Gomez de Castro e-mail (26 Jun 2006)
Subject: Re: Science Management Plan
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:37:22 +0100 (CET)
From: Ana Ines Gomez de Castro [email protected]
To: Norbert Kappelmann [email protected]
CC: Isabella Pagano <[email protected]>, Ana Ines Gomez de Castro <[email protected]>, Martin Barstow <[email protected]>
•
Concerning the science management plan, I stated during the presentation,
but it is not written in the application, a "modified" version on Willem’s
original proposal (27% of observing time open to the whole world-wide
astronomical community without having to contribute to the project
was not realistic).
I stated that
40% of the time will go to the core program (as stated in Willem's
application)
5-7% of the time gone into calibration etc,,,
5% of the time to developing countries within the WSO-UN spirit
40% guaranteed time to the project partners splitted into fractions
proportional to the funding they provide
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Hot topics
(from free discussion between colleagues)
• It is “politically” important to have a good fraction of
“Open Time” for the international community.
• It is relevant also for the “image” of the project in the
international contest.
• From an anonymous referee’ comment to a paper
presenting the WSO Science:
– “I suggest to add a remark (marginally pointed out in the
Introduction) that WSO is intended for world wide use including
especially the developing countries (in spite of the fact that the
17 participating countries there is a scarse participation of
developing countries).
At any rate this point seems to me in contrast with the
constitution of a WSO's "core programme".
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From AWG response (ASTRO(2006)3)
“
• The AWG recognizes that a follow-up to present/past UV
missions is desirable, in particular to study plasmas over
a large temperature range and to study the most
abundant molecules.
• The science case of WSO/UV focuses on:
– aspects of the reionization of the universe,
– early evolution of sun-like stars and
– atmospheres of extra solar planets.
• The AWG finds the science case, as presented, not
sufficiently compelling:
– The topics are limited and do not represent substantial advances
with respect to current knowledge.
– The science case is not supported by quantitative assessment of
requirements versus mission performance.
”
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Hot topics
“It is a fashion in space science (which becomes a
standard) to loudly announce one-two major goals of
the mission. In fact, this is somewhat easy for
dedicated missions like GALEX but rather difficult for
such
"all
purpose"
mission
like
WSO/UV.
WSO/UV being properly figured is able to do many
things at the edge of modern science. “
(from my dear friend Boris Shustov)
My opinion is that we need to have a Core Program - not
strictly confined to few items – reflecting the topical
interests of our communities at the edge of modern
science.
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A personal view
• Up to date we – the WIC – have done a good job to look
for support from our agencies.
• The project is now in a more mature phase. Major
partners are identified.
• It is time now to involve ask scientists of countries in
which support has been allocated to be very active:
– Es. In Italy, contemporary to the Phase A/B1 study of the FCU,
the Italian community has to release a document with the main
national science goals .
• The Science Committee (=WIC?) has to take into
account the national science documents to:
– select the core program
– allow the set-up of collaborations between the partners and
– identify PIs for each science item in the core program.
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Roadmap for us
• Decide the time sharing policy (in my
opinion the Willem proposal is not bad, but
we can do some refining)
• Decide rules about how to select the
science program and who will do this:
– Science Committee
– TAC
• Decide the policy after the extension
period (5 years + 5 years)
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Let’s give a look to the case of
other project SMPs
es:
Beppo-SAX
INTEGRAL
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From Beppo-SAX SMP
(Italian National project with a
collaboration with the Neatherlands)
• The observing program will be held flexible in order to accommodate
those TOO for follow-up observations with the NFI. Furthermore the
operation capability of BeppoSAX will allow to acquire the target
within a few hours of its discovery.
• The observations will be organized on the basis of a "Core
Program", devoted to systematic studies with particular regard to
scientific objectives that exploit SAX capabilities, and a "Guest
Observer" program.
• The time reserved to the Core Program is 80% the first year of the
mission, decreasing in the following years. Participation in the Core
Program is open to members of the national communities
participating in the mission and will be regulated, along with
applications for Guest Observer time, by the selection of proposals.
This policy will allow the achievement of complex and systematic
programs, leaving however ample time for smaller projects.
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From Integral SMP: time policy
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From Integral SMP: guaranteed time
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From Integral SMP
the Science Team
The INTEGRAL Science Working Team (ISWT) will monitor and advise
on all aspects of INTEGRAL which affect its scientific performance.
• The external members of the ISWT will be:
– the Principal Investigators (PIs) whose instruments have been selected
for flight
– the Principal Investigator who will lead the international collaboration to
establish and operate the ISDC,
– Mission Scientists – being independent of the PI teams – who provide
scientific input to the programme and advise on science operations and
development of instruments and ISDC.
– In case a PROTON launcher will be used, Russia will be invited to
nominate one scientist formally acting as a representative for Russia
providing the PROTON launcher.
– In case NASA provided ground station(s) will be used, USA will be
invited to nominate one scientist formally acting as a representative for
USA providing the ground station(s).
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The WSO/UV Science Committee
• Is it the WIC?
• See WIC definition and duties in the attachment to the 1st
WIC meeting minute: WSO/UV Distributed Multi-National
Phase A study (V 1.0) (Sep 2001, author WW)
• Is the WIC a Steering Committee?
• WIC  Science Committee
–
–
–
–
Project PI,
Instruments PIs
National Representatives
Mission Scientists
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Personal view & proposal
• A time sharing policy document must be
accompanied by the definition of the actors
(Science
Committee, Time Allocation
may be this is a dream, and we are wise to be
Committee)
according
to the standards
and
more realistic
just accepting
the collection
of
the national
approved
by theresults!
funding agencies.
• The WIC has the duty
– to produce the “Phase A integrated study” (as in the
WSO/UV Distributed Multi-National Phase A study (V
1.0) )
– To maintain the official documentation!
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