VOL 19 ISSUE 01 Space Telescope Science Institute The Cycle 11 Review Process Duccio Macchetto,
[email protected], Georges Meylan,
[email protected], Letizia Stanghellini,
[email protected], Roeland van der Marel,
[email protected], Robert Williams,
[email protected], Brett Blacker,
[email protected] Laguerra sort through Lorretta Willers, Victoria Horne, and Tania Cycle 11 proposals during the afternoon proposal-processing shift. New Science Opportunities in Cycle 11 There were other novelties in Cycle 11. Given the rate of increase in the size of the Hubble data archive and the value of large, homogeneous data he Hubble Telescope Allocation Committee (TAC) and panels met sets, we wished to stimulate a more ambitious Archival Research (AR) in Baltimore between November 12 and 17, 2001, to select and program by creating the new AR Legacy Program. Selected Legacy recommend to the Director the suite of programs to be programs will perform a homogeneous analysis of a well-defined dataset in executed in Cycle 11. the Hubble archive and will generate data products of use to the scientific TCycle 11 will provide the most powerful combination of instruments since community (catalogs, software tools, web interfaces, etc.), which will allow the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble’s scientific capabilities a variety of new investigations. will be greatly enhanced by upgrades during the next servicing mission, cur- Another important change in Cycle 11 was the start of the Hubble Theory rently scheduled for February 2002. The Advanced Camera for Surveys Program, funded as part of the Hubble AR program. The Theory Program is (ACS) will provide a large increase in sensitivity and field of view, and the in line with recommendations in the report from the Astronomy and installation of a cryocooler will revive the Near Infrared Camera and Astrophysics Survey Committee of the National Research Council, which Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).