FUSE Cycle 5 GI Information

FUSE Cycle 5 Proposal Preparation Guide

FUSE Cycle 5 Proposal Information

Notice of Intent deadline: 8 August 2003 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Due to Hurricane Isabel - *NEW* PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 23 September 2003
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*OLD* Proposal deadline: 19 September 2003

FUSE Cycle 5 News The FUSE Legacy Program is a new proposal category being introduced in Cycle 5. The ease with which observations can be scheduled and completed depends upon the number and duration of the visibility windows relative to the requested observing time. For Cycle 5, in order to be considered feasible, a low-declination observation must be fully schedulable in no more than 4 or 5 visibility windows during the nominal Cycle 5 period (1 April 2004 - 31 March 2005). This and further information on constrained observations can be found in Section 1.3 of the FUSE NRA. A small refinement to the visibility algorithm was made on 15 July 2003. The total visibility over the requested time interval and the total visibility during this interval are also provided in the 15 July 2003 version of the VIZ tool. This is now the default version of VIZ. Cycle 5 proposers should use this version for determining target visibility. Additional visibility information is provided at the visibility constraints link on the menu sidebar.

FUSE Cycle 5 Proposal Information and Tools Detailed information on the FUSE Cycle 5 program (NRA-03-OSS-01-FUSE) can be found below and at the official NASA NRA website for FUSE. Proposal preparation specific information is provided at the menu sidebar link Proposal Docs. This includes the following proposal preparation and submission files and documentation.

Cycle 5 NRA in HTML format
Cycle 5 NRA in pdf format
Cycle 5 Phase 1 LATEX template instructions
Cycle 5 Phase 1 template
Cycle 5 README
Cycle 5 Phase 1 style file

FUSE Target Lists A list of all the targets that have either been observed by FUSE as of 24 June 2003 or are pending execution is provided at the Target Lists link on the menu sidebar. Multiple target lists are provided through this menu sidebar link. The FUSE observation list summarizes accepted targets from GI and PI team programs, links to accepted Survey Program targets and to FUSE calibration program targets are also provided. Investigators intending to propose for observations of calibration targets should reference NRA section 1.8 for information and policies on GI observations of calibration targets. In addition, abstracts for FUSE Cycle 1-4 programs are available at the Prior Observing Programs link on the menu sidebar.

Links to FUSE Documentation The primary support documents for FUSE investigators and proposers are:

Additional documentation can be accesed from the menu sidebar link FUSE Documentation and the links contained therin.

Links to FUSE Planning Tools A general list and description of tools is available for planning FUSE observations. While direct links to selected tools are provided below, users are encouraged to read the more comprehensive descriptions provided for these and additional tools at the FUSE Planning Tools site.

FUSE target visibility predictor, VIZ: This tool allows users to evaluate the availability of any target for stable pointing control. Prior to using the visibility predictor, one should read the Introduction to the new FUSE target visibility tool: VIZ. This introduction describes the motivation for developing the tool, the operational and scheduling parameters used by the tool, and caveats to remember when using the tool. In addition, this introduction outlines potential improvements to the target availability currently under investigation. It is important to remember that the exposure time for the observation will only be a fraction (~30%) of the visibility period since slews, Earth occultations and SAA passes occur during the visibility period. The user is reminded that the selection on non-default parameters requires citation and justification in the phase 1 observing proposal. A few small refinements were implemented in the VIZ tool on 15 July 2003. Cycle 5 proposers are responsible for using the Cycle 5 (15 July 2003) version of VIZ.
FUSE Exposure Time Calculator
FUSE Count Rate Tool
On-line Spectral Simulator, FWEBSIM and description
Slit Position Angle (PA) Calculator:
FUSE continuous viewing zone (CVZ) and orbit RAM calculator:
FUSE sky plot tool: This tool allows the user to make CVZ or full sky plots for supplied lists of targets. Please note that this tool does not include the requirements of positive torque authority.

There are links (and more comprehensive descriptions) to the above tools, to general observing tools (e.g. a precession calculator), and to libraries of FUSE Airglow Spectra, Atomic Line Lists, etc., available at the FUSE Planning Tools site.

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