-By Chris Evans-
I hope 2024 has been treating your well so far, and I want to highlight some opportunities in the coming weeks. Firstly, many congratulations to those of you with approved JWST Cycle 3 programmes. A personal thank you to all of the ESA-appointed representatives on the topical panels and Executive Committee for your support and commitment to this important process.
This was an unprecedented cycle with over 1900 proposals reviewed by the Cycle 3 Time Allocation Committee, and an oversubscription rate of nine to one for the time available. As in Cycles 1 and 2, PIs in the ESA Member States have continued to be very successful, with 34% of the accepted proposals.
Looking ahead to the next cycle of Hubble observations, the deadline for Cycle 32 proposals is on 26 March, at 8pm EDT (1am CEST); further details are in the Cycle 32 Call for Proposals. There is also the opportunity in this cycle to propose Multi-Cycle Treasury programmes, for larger, more ambitious programmes (>350 orbits), to highlight topics that cannot be addressed through the usual time allocation process.
In addition to the new programmes underway for Hubble and Webb, we also have the scientifically rich archives from both missions. In support of exploration and retrieval of data, I would like to highlight two new features available: a new spectral visualisation tool in the European Hubble Space Telescope (eHST) archive and the latest version of ESASky. Learn more here.
I am very happy to announce the provisional programme for the Science with Hubble & Webb VII: Stars, Gas and Dust in the Universe conference in Porto at the end of April; registration for remote participation is still open and more details are available here.
Lastly, if you have queries about your JWST data or programmes, let me draw your attention to the introduction of ‘Webb Office Hours’ at STScI. This is an opportunity for JWST users to interact directly with members of the JWST team at the Institute. These are informal, online sessions, where there are opportunities to ask questions about topics such as the JWST Pipeline, calibration, science instrument performance, proposal planning, executed observations, or any other questions you might have about your data. The sessions are running on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month, at 11am Eastern US (5pm CET). They will not be recorded, but the questions and answers that arise during the sessions will be captured (anonymously) for future reference. Further details are available at the Webb Office Hours page.
Chris Evans
ESA/HST & ESA/JWST Project Scientist
ESA Office, STScI Baltimore, USA
Email: hubblenewseurope@stsci.edu
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7 March 2024: - Chris Evans, María Arévalo Sánchez, Deborah Baines, Javier Espinosa Aranda, Mónica Fernández Barreiro, Marcos López-Caniego Alcarria, Bruno Merín Martin, Paule Sonnentrucker -
The European Hubble Space Telescope (eHST) Science Archive is hosted at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC). Building on the long-standing partnership between NASA and ESA on Hubble, the eHST archive provides a European mirror for the …
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7 March 2024: - Chris Evans -
The Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VII: Stars, Gas and Dust in the Universe conference will be held in Porto, Portugal from 29 April to 2 May 2024. This is the latest in our series of ESA-sponsored conferences that showcase the science from these two flagship missions. A particular motivation and focus …
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