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The LSST:UK proposal to PPRP in April 2022 will contain 7 FTE of staff effort over the Phase C period 2023 - 2027. As described in the UK’s Rubin LSST In-Kind Contributions proposal (Deliverables : Sect 12.4) This , effort can be either directable or embedded (and endorsed) non-directable, and these definitions (as defined by Rubin Observatory) are defined in the Rubin Project document (“Manual for In-kind Contributors and Recipients”; Marshall et al. 2021). Since a case for UK funding, leadership and impact will need to be made to PPRP, we don’t expect that fully directable effort will be eligible. A balance is recommended for these Phase C proposals.
If there is an oversubscription in this call for proposals, then LSST:UK will decide jointly with Rubin and the Science Collaborations which are the highest priority projects to go forward to the PPRP proposal. The LSST:UK Board will define the selection panel, as they did for the Phase B process.
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The work packages must meet the STFC PPRP general criteria – scientific excellence, unique UK contribution, likely global impact and aspects of UK leadership
They should provide infrastructure, data access, or useful science ready data products to the UK consortium of LSST scientists and be of value to the broader Rubin community - either the project or Science Collaborations. Projects that provide science ready data or analysis mostly to a well defined topic are deemed more suitable for STFC Astronomy Grants Panel (AGP) proposals and not PPRP. Projects that provide proprietary data products only or exclusively to the proposing UK team are not eligible. Projects that provide a fairly narrow range of openly accessible data, or aimed at early science are also better suited to AGP. Cross-cutting proposals that support multiple science goals and areas are encouraged.
The proposing team should have a credible plan to deliver the software work packages in the proposed area (as required in the Rubin Manual). This could be a track record of delivering science ready data to a large community or demonstrate the team’s ability to deliver such a data. The review panel may consider merging projects or work packages that have modest requirements and may be better delivered within one well-defined work package.
Each work package should explicitly describe the UK DAC effort that will be needed to support the DEV work packages.
Given the large number of data rights holders that the full UK In-kind contribution facilitates, the exact value of the Phase C work in terms of PI slots is not a primary concern. UK leadership and impact combined with the scientific value to LSST (as endorsed by the Rubin Recipient group) is a more important consideration.
Requirements for the proposal submission
It should be self contained on 2 pages maximum. Using the template provided, including all citations and any figures. Any proposals over 2 pages will be rejected and not considered further.
We highly recommend approximately 0.5 page of context and summary and 0.5 page from the Rubin recipient group
This leaves approximately 1 page for the project description and justification
The template linked here must be used
Letters of support are neither required nor submittable - recipient group support should be articulated in the 2 page case.
Evaluation panel, process and criteria
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Impact, importance and excellence of the science which will be enabled by the data products provided by the work package
Relevance to the LSST:UK’s In-kind proposal to Rubin and/or relevance to the UK community’s scientific exploitation of LSST data.
The potential of the proposing team to be able to successfully deliver the data products, infrastructure proposed
Submission process
Email this completed template (in doc or docx format) to s.smartt@qub.ac.uk and rgm@roe.ac.uk by 16:00 on XX XXXXXX 2021.
You will get an acknowledgement of receipt by end of the day XXXXXX XX XXXXXX 2021. If you do not, phone or message Stephen Smartt 07876014103.