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Please see the General Observer Cycle-5 Proposals FAQs and the Cycle 5
Call for Proposals for more information regarding Cycle-5.
Table of Contents:
Q:
I am a grad student (or postdoc) at an institution that won't let me
handle the money. Can I be the "Scientific PI" of the proposal, and have
my advisor be the "Administrative PI"?
Q:
Can I fund a non-U.S.-based collaborator's visit to my U.S. institution
with Spitzer (GO/AR/TR) funds?
Q:
Is support for ground based observations needed to interpret Spitzer
data an allowable cost for Spitzer proposals?
Q:
I am preparing a Spitzer proposal for ~10 hours of Spitzer time. Could you
give me a rough estimate of what the data analysis funding will be?
Q:
What's the deal with the final reports? When are they due?
Is there a standard form to use to submit the final report for a Spitzer program
contract? Or do I just write up free-form the products of my work?
A:
We do indeed accept proposals from graduate students as the PI. If your
institution requires a faculty member to be the administrative PI and
handle all the funding, we support that. The grad student (or postdoc)
can be the PI and in the 'financial contact' section you should list who
the administrative PI should be.
A:
No NASA funds can flow to non-U.S.-based institutions and non-U.S.-based
investigators. Such investigators must obtain their own funds. We have relaxed
this rule for graduate students and post-docs who typically do not have their own
funding source. But for scientists with permanent jobs at foreign
institutions we cannot request travel funds.
An exception is if your U.S.-based institution will appoint the non-U.S.-based
collaborator to a real but temporary position at your U.S.-based institution.
In that case, the investigator now holds a U.S.-based affiliation and you can
support their visit (flights, stipend, etc.) for the duration of the appointment.
A:
Yes, for Archival or General Observer proposals, modest support for
ground-based observations is allowed. One should not exceed 10-20% of the
total requested/provided funds for such a component.
A:
The funding is determined by formula. A rough estimate would be to use
last year's Cycle-3 average of $3000/hour.
A:
Final reports for all funding contracts issued to support GO, Archive
and Theory awards are due within 30 days of the contract end date.
They should be emailed to ssccat - at - ipac.caltech.edu. There is no
required format. We accept PDF, Word or text files. The report
should be brief (1-2 pages) and describe what was done and list the
publications produced from the work.
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