Preliminary Agenda for AXAF Users' Committee Meeting

Wed., Thurs., June 25, 26, 1997; Room M340, 160 Concord Ave, Cambridge, MA

1. Status of AXAF and ASC
2. The NRA (volunteers needed to read before meeting, J. Bechtold is one)
3. Proposal Submission Software (volunteers needed to exercise before meeting)
4. Proposal Planning Tools (volunteers needed to exercise before meeting)
   • Roll visualiser
   • PIMMS
   • Spectral simulations
5. OCAT (volunteers needed to exercise before meeting, A Tennant is one)
6. Rules for peer review
   • Definition of conflict-of-interest to be avoided
     • ASC Staff
     • Peer Reviewers
   • Selection of panel chairs
   • Selection and balance of reviewers
   • Division of topics among panels
   • Size of panels, proposed load for reviewers
   • NASA approval process
7. Budget for Users
   • What is it?
   • Review
   • Should there be AXAF Fellows?
8. Instrument complications and constraints
   • ACIS
   • HRC
   • LETG/HRC
   • HETG/ACIS
9. Mission planning constraints
   • long term plan
   • time-constrained observations
   • scheduling software
   • Viewing constraints
   • TOO
   • "Snapshot" Observations
10. Calibration
    • XRCF calibration results and status
    • The archive
    • In-flight calibration
    • ASC Emission Line Project
11. User interface
12. First look analysis software
13. Schedule next Meeting
14. Executive session

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