Date: Wednesday 18 Jul 2012, 15:30 PDT

Subject: SPITZER: Cycle-9: Bilateral US/China Proposals Prohibited, Data Deliveries

Contents:
1. Spitzer Cycle-9: Bilateral United States/People's Republic of 
China Proposals Prohibited
2. Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Source List Data Deliveries 
3. GLIMPSE Legacy and Exploration Science Program Data Deliveries


1. Spitzer Cycle-9: Bilateral United States/People's Republic of 
China Proposals Prohibited
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Dear Spitzer Investigators,

The U.S. Government has enacted legislation that prohibits NASA 
from using federal funding to enter into or fund any grant or 
cooperative agreement of any kind to participate, collaborate 
or coordinate bilaterally in any way with the People's Republic 
of China (PRC) or any PRC-owned company.

In practice this means that Spitzer cannot award telescope 
time to or fund any proposal where the investigators are ONLY 
at US AND PRC-based institutions or solely PRC institutions. 
This constitutes a bilateral US-PRC agreement. If your proposal 
includes US, PRC and other non-US-based investigators then 
it is a multilateral proposal and the prohibitions do not 
apply. For multilateral or US-only collaborations the rules 
on only funding US-based investigators do still apply. 

Section 6 of the Cycle-9 call for proposals (CP) has been 
updated with the required language with regard to eligibility 
to propose for Spitzer time. The new version of the CP is 
1.1 and is available at 

http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/warmmission/propkit/cp/.

NASA has recently posted an FAQ about this subject on the 
SARA website. It is available at: 

http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs/prc-faq-roses-2012/

Please consult the FAQ and if you have further Cycle-9 related 
questions please contact us at the Helpdesk:

help@spitzer.caltech.edu

The deadline for Cycle-9 Exploration Science, Large GO and 
Snapshot Proposals is 3 August 2012, 5pm PDT. The deadline for 
Cycle-9 small proposals is 26 October 2012, 5pm PDT. See the 
proposals kit at 

http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/warmmission/propkit/

for detailed information.



2. Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Source List Data Deliveries 
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IRSA announces new releases for the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging 
Source List.

An updated version of the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Source List 
is now available. Reliability has been further improved, and 
information on WISE detections is now included. The Spitzer 
Enhanced Imaging Source List can be found at

http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/Enhanced/Imaging



3. GLIMPSE Legacy and Exploration Science Program Data Deliveries
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The final delivery from GLIMPSE3D and the first delivery from 
GLIMPSE360 are now available. Background matched mosaics for 
GLIMPSE3D are now available, as are the first catalogs from 
GLIMPSE360, covering the l=109.0-169.0deg area. You can access 
the data via

http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/GLIMPSE



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