Exploration Science Programs

The Spitzer warm mission will focus on a new type of observing program called Exploration Science (ES) which require more than 500 hours of Spitzer observing time. ES programs provide an opportunity for large-scale investigations not possible during the cryogenic mission. In Cycle-6 35 ES proposals were submitted requesting a total of 38,050 hours. Ten proposals were selected using a total of 10,345 hours of Spitzer observing time, to be executed over two years.

	Nickname (Click for abstract)	PIDs	Team's Web Site	Title Primary Investigator - Institution
	IRAC_LENS	60034		The IRAC Lensing Survey: Achieving JWST depth with Spitzer Eiichi Egami - University of Arizona
	SEDS	60022 61040  61042 61041  61043		The Spitzer Extended Deep Survey Giovanni Fazio - Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs.
	WARMCEPHEIDS	60010 61000  61005 61001  61006 61002  61007 61003  61008 61004  61009		The Hubble Constant Wendy Freedman - Carnegie Observatories
	SERVS	60024 61050  61052 61051  61053		The Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey Mark Lacy - Spitzer Science Center
	S4G	60007  61064 61060  61065 61061  61066 61062  61067 61063  61068		The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies Kartik Sheth - Spitzer Science Center
	KEPLER	60028		Confirmation and Characterization of Kepler Mission Exoplanets: The Era of Rock and Ice Exoplanets David Charbonneau - Harvard University
	DYNAMIC PLANETS	60021		Dynamic Studies of Exoplanet Atmospheres: From Global Properties to Local Physics Heather Knutson - Harvard University
	YSOVAR	60014  61025 61020  61026 61021  61027 61022  61028 61023  61029 61024  61030		Young Stellar Object Variability: Mid Infrared Clues to Accretion Disk Physics & Protostar Rotational Evolution John Stauffer - Spitzer Science Center
	EXPLORENEOS	60012 61010  61012 61011  61013		The Warm Spitzer NEO Survey: Exploring the history of the inner Solar System and near Earth space David Trilling - Northern Arizona University
	GLIMPSE360	60020  61071 61070  61072		Completing the Spitzer Galactic Plane Survey Barbara Whitney - Space Science Institute