8th Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners
in the NASA-led IRIS mission

 


The outcome of this Announcement of Opportunity was that the following scientists (listed in alphabetical order) were appointed as science planners:
Reetika Joshi, University of Oslo, Norway
Sudip Mandal, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
Chris Nelson, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Alexander Pietrow, Stockholm University, Sweden

 

11 April 2022

This 8th Announcement of Opportunity (AO), open to scientists affiliated with institutes located in ESA Member States, solicits proposals for participation as Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission.

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission, launched in 2013, that allows tracing the flow of solar energy and plasma from the photosphere through the chromosphere and transition region into the corona using spectroscopy and imaging in ultraviolet windows between 130 and 283 nm. IRIS can reveal the dynamics of the chromosphere and transition region, and allow understanding the processes powering them. IRIS is a major leap from previous and existing solar spectrographs (e.g., SOHO/CDS or SUMER; Hinode/EIS) in terms of spatial (0.3-0.4 arcsec), temporal (2 s), and spectral (3 km/s) resolution.

ESA's participation in IRIS is in the form of a Mission of Opportunity, and entails the access of competitively selected scientists based in ESA Member States to the IRIS mission's observations, under the form of Science Planners. A maximum of three scientists will be appointed through the present AO. The appointment period will be for one year.


Proposal Documentation

An invitation from the ESA Director of Science to respond to this Announcement of Opportunity can be found in the right-hand menu.

Full details of the appointment requirements and conditions, the required contents and format of the proposal, and the evaluation criteria are given in the Announcement of Opportunity document, available to download from the right-hand menu.


Proposal Submission

Proposals in PDF format must be submitted using the submission form linked below, before the deadline of 23 May 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST.

Proposal Submission Form
The deadline for receipt of proposals was:
23 May 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST


Schedule

The schedule for this AO is given in the table below:

Event

Date
Date of AO release 11 April 2022
Due date for proposals 23 May 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Appointment of successful proposers July 2022


Contact

Further queries should be addressed to:

Bernhard Fleck
ESA Project Scientist for IRIS
Email: Bernhard.Fleck@esa.int

with copy to:

Luigi Colangeli
For the Science Coordination Office
Email: Luigi.Colangeli@esa.int

 

Last updated: 23 May 2022

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