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Michael Garcia Hubble Space Telescope Users Committee (STUC) Hubble Space Telescope Users Committee (STUC) April 16, 2015 Michael Garcia HST Program Scientist [email protected] 1 Hubble Sees Supernova Split into Four Images by Cosmic Lens 2 NASA’s Hubble Observations suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter’s Largest Moon Ganymede file:///Users/ file:///Users/ mrgarci2/Desktop/mrgarci2/Desktop/ hs-2015-09-a-hs-2015-09-a- web.jpg web.jpg 3 NASA’s Hubble detects Distortion of Circumstellar Disk by a Planet 4 The Exoplanet Travel Bureau 5 TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite CURRENT STATUS: • Downselected April 2013. • Major partners: - PI and science lead: MIT - Project management: NASA GSFC - Instrument: Lincoln Laboratory - Spacecraft: Orbital Science Corp • Agency launch readiness date NLT June 2018 (working launch date August 2017). • High-Earth elliptical orbit (17 x 58.7 Earth radii). Standard Explorer (EX) Mission PI: G. Ricker (MIT) • Development progressing on plan. Mission: All-Sky photometric exoplanet - Systems Requirement Review (SRR) mapping mission. successfully completed on February Science goal: Search for transiting 12-13, 2014. exoplanets around the nearby, bright stars. Instruments: Four wide field of view (24x24 - Preliminary Design Review (PDR) degrees) CCD cameras with overlapping successfully completed Sept 9-12, 2014. field of view operating in the Visible-IR - Confirmation Review, for approval to enter spectrum (0.6-1 micron). implementation phase, successfully Operations: 3-year science mission after completed October 31, 2014. launch. - Mission CDR on track for August 2015 6 JWST Hardware Progress JWST remains on track for an October 2018 launch within its replan budget guidelines 7 WFIRST / AFTA Widefield Infrared Survey Telescope with Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets Coronagraph Technology Milestones Widefield Detector Technology Milestones 1 Shaped Pupil mask fabricated with reflectivity of 7/21/14 1 Produce, test, and analyze 2 candidate 7/31/14 -4 10 and 20 µm pixel size. passivation techniques in banded arrays. ü ü -8 2 Shaped Pupil Coronagraph demos 10 raw 9/30/14 2 Produce, test, and analyze 1 additional 12/30/14 contrast with narrowband light. candidate passivation techniques in banded ü arrays. 3 PIAACMC mask fabricated with 10-8 raw contrast 12/15/14 ü with 10% broadband light. 3 Produce, test, and analyze full arrays with 9/15/15 ü operability > 95%. 4 Hybrid Lyot Coronagraph demos 10-8 raw contrast 2/28/15 with narrowband light.. 4 Produce, test, and analyze final selected 9/15/16 ü recipe in full arrays demonstrating a yield > 5 Occulting Mask Coronagraph demos 10-8 raw 9/15/15 contrast with 10% broadband light. 20% with operability > 95%. 6 Low Order Wavefront Sensing provides jitter 9/30/15 5 Complete environmental testing of one 12/1/16 sensing better than 0.4 mas rms. sensor chip assembly, as per NASA test standards. 7 Spectrograph read-out demo to have low dark 8/25/16 current and read noise. 8 PIAACMC coronagraph demos 10-8 raw contrast 9/30/16 with 10% broadband light. 9 Occulting Mask Coronagraph demos 10-8 raw 9/30/16 contrast with 10% broadband light. 8 Big Picture • The FY15 appropriation and FY16 budget request provide funding for NASA astrophysics to continue its programs, missions, and projects as planned - The total funding (Astrophysics including JWST) is flat at ~$1.3B through FY20 - Fully fund JWST to remain on plan for an October 2018 launch - Fund continued pre-formulation and technology work leading toward WFIRST - Restore SOFIA to the budget with a reduction in FY15 and full funding beyond - Provide funding for SMD’s education programs • The operating missions continue to generate important and compelling science results, and new missions are under development for the future - Chandra, Fermi, Hubble, Kepler/K2, NuSTAR, Spitzer, Suzaku, Swift, XMM-Newton continued following the 2014 Senior Review - SOFIA is in prime operations as of May 2014 - Missions on track for launch include LISA Pathfinder (2015), ASTRO-H (2015), NICER (2016), TESS (2017), JWST (2018), Euclid (2020) - New Explorers being selected (SMEX in 2015, MIDEX in 2017), WFIRST being studied, NASA joining ESA’s Athena and ESA’s L3 gravitational wave observatory • Update to the Astrophysics Implementation Plan has been released • Progress being made against recommendations of the 2010 Decadal Survey - NRC Mid Decade Review (with NSF, DOE) to begin in early 2015 - NASA initiating large mission concept studies for 2020 Decadal Survey 9 FY15 Appropriation ($M) 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Astrophysics $685 JWST $645 • Provides $77M more than the President’s Budget Request for FY15 • Supports the commitment to an October 2018 launch date for JWST • Includes $50M for continued preformulation of WFIRST, an increase of $36M over the Administration request and comparable to FY14 • Includes $70M for continued SOFIA operations, a reduction of $14M (17%) from FY14 o Directs NASA to (a) seek partners to restore SOFIA to its full level, and (b) not terminate missions without a Senior Review • Includes $98.6M for Hubble operations, ~the same as FY14 • Includes $38M for scientific ballooning, an increase of $5M (15%) from FY14 • Does not specify the distribution of funding for the rest of Astrophysics, but the funding is adequate for Astrophysics to execute its program as planned in FY15. o Includes support as planned in FY15 for missions under development, operating missions, SMEX AO, R&A, etc. o Final budget numbers available when NASA operating plan approved 10 FY16 President’s Budget Request Outyears are notional planning from FY16 President’s budget request ($M) 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Astrophysics* $678 $685 $689 $707 $750 $986 $1,118 JWST $658 $645 $620 $569 $535 $305 $198 • Continues preformulation of WFIRST/AFTA as the “Astrophysics Decadal Strategic Mission.” • Grows Astrophysics Research and Analysis (including Astrophysics Data Analysis Program) from ~$80M/yr to ~$90M/yr in FY16. • Supports completion of missions under development, including LPF/ST7, ASTRO-H, NICER, TESS, and Euclid. • Enables selection of a SMEX mission and an Explorer Mission of Opportunity from the 2014 AO, and notional release of a MIDEX AO in late CY16/early FY17. • Provides full funding for SOFIA operations and places SOFIA into the 2016 Astrophysics Senior Review. • Plans for the 2016 Astrophysics Senior Review. • Plans for continued Hubble operations through FY20 providing overlap with JWST. • Plans for mission concept studies and technology development (within the three Program SR&T budgets) leading up to the 2020 Decadal Survey. * Excludes “SMD STEM Activities” in all years. 11 12 Astrophysics Program Content Op Plan En act e d Notional FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 Astrophysics 678.3 726.8 709.1 726.5 769.5 1005.5 1138.256 Astrophysics Research (including STEM Activities) 145.2 187.7 228.1 226.9 229.1 253.2 Astrophysics Research and Analysis 63.3 72.3 73.7 73.0 73.0 73.0 Balloon Project 32.9 38.0 34.2 34.3 37.3 37.4 37.4 Other Missions and Data Analysis 49.1 81.1 120.1 116.6 118.7 142.8 SMD STEM Activities 0.9 42.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 Astrophysics Data Curation and Archival 18.2 18.7 18.8 18.8 18.9 18.9 Astrophysics Data Program 17.0 17.6 17.6 17.6 17.6 17.6 Astrophysics Senior Review 0.2 37.7 33.2 36.2 34.3 Astrophysics Directed R&T 8.6 10.0 10.9 9.9 35.9 Contract Administration, Audit & QA Svcs 13.0 16.0 16.0 16.1 16.1 16.1 Cos mic Origins 224.2 199.3 200.4 199.1 207.9 244.5 Hubble Space Telescope 98.3 98.6 97.1 93.5 97.7 89.3 89.3 SOFIA 84.4 70.0 85.2 85.1 86.2 89.1 91.0 Other Missions and Data Analysis 41.5 17.0 21.7 15.3 29.5 64.2 Spitzer 17.3 7.2 7.5 Hers c hel 11.6 2.4 1.0 Cos mic Origins SR&T 10.0 3.5 9.3 10.9 25.1 58.7 Cosmic Origins Future Missions 0.1 1.0 0.9 1.3 1.3 2.4 Cosmic Origins Program Management 2.6 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 13 HST Going Forward • 2014 Senior Review was not a budget review for HST - HST will be “operated as a Great Observatory as long as it is scientifically productive” • Will be reviewed in 2016 ensure bullet 1 • NASA investigating ways to make HST SR more efficient • Engineering and Safety Center ‘HST Observatory System Reliability Review’ - Used to guide long-term investments • Solar Cycle 24 - Two sigma earliest is ~2025, else 2036 14 SMD Science Education • Education is funded in the FY15 NASA Appropriation Act at $42M SMD-wide as a separate budget line (so E/PO is no longer budgeted as 1% of every mission). • SMD will compete and consolidate education activities for FY16. • SMD has released a Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) soliciting team-based proposals for science education. • The goal of the NASA SMD Science Education CAN is to meet the following objectives: Enabling STEM education; Improving U.S. science literacy; Advancing National education goals; and Leveraging science education through partnership. • The schedule is as follows: CAN Release Date February 4, 2015 Preproposal Conference February 27, 2015 Notice of Intent to Propose Deadline March 9, 2015 Electronic Proposal Submittal Deadline May 4, 2015 Selections Announced (target) ≤ 120 days after receipt of proposals, with initial awards distributed in FY 2015 15 Hubble Space Telescope 25th Anniversary Sample of Events & Programs: • Webcast event at National Air & Space Museum April 24 • Coordinated events worldwide April 24 • Family Day at Udvar-Hazy April 25 • Hubble 2020 STScI symposium • Exhibits at museums around the world • Exhibits at multiple airports • Nationwide University lecture series • Education programs in all 50 states • Comprehensive
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