Chandra Announcement: Selection of the Chandra Legacy Programs

[Tingle, Evan]

Selection of the Chandra Legacy Programs

In November 2023 the CXC issued the Chandra Legacy Program (CLP) call for white papers to identify science challenges for which the capabilities of Chandra are absolutely required. A committee reviewed the white papers and recommended two initiatives, and a Call for Chandra Legacy Program Proposals for these initiatives was issued in February 2023. 

Two review panels, one for each initiative and composed of topical experts from the astrophysics community, evaluated the proposals and provided recommendations to the selection official, CXC director Pat Slane. Based on these recommendations, we are pleased to announce that the following programs were selected:  

For Initiative I: Probing the Physics of Baryon Cycles and Feedback using Deep Observations of Nearby Galaxies, the selected proposal is: 

A Treasury Survey Probing the Baryon & Energy Cycle and X-ray Binary Evolution in Galaxies at High Angular Resolution

(PI: Smita Mathur) with an award of 2.9 Ms. 

For Initiative II: Deep Observation of a Galaxy Cluster to Understand Key Physical Processes, the selected proposal is: 

The Sounds of Feedback: Deep and Wide Imaging of the Cool Core of the Perseus Cluster

(PI: Andrew Fabian) with an award of 3.0 Ms. 

The programs will run in parallel over the course of Cycles 26 and 27, which nominally begin in January 2025 and January 2026, respectively. 

For more information about the selected programs, please visit the CLP website where you can find the full proposal abstracts.