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** What is known in the literation?
 
** What is known in the literation?
 
** What do we expect to find based on above?
 
** What do we expect to find based on above?
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* What Observations do we propose to do?
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** What diagnostics will we use?
  
 
===Analysis plan===  
 
===Analysis plan===  
Detailed information on what data are available, and what you plan to do with them (e.g. more than "I'm sure Spitzer/WISE/Planck observed this at some point").  How you are going to reduce the data. Kind of analysis planned.  Tools you will use.
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Specifics about data and what to do with the data.
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* How will the data be readied for this study? (Technical term: reduced, or processed).
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* Ancillary data
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** Where will we get our data?
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** How will we supplement our data?  
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** How will we combine data
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* What tools will we use?
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** To work with the data
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** To produce the diagnostic plots.
  
===Educational/Outreach plan===  What your team plans to do, individually or as a group. No need to link to standards or describe this in great detail. This also need not be educational research.  Most of your work should go into the science portion of the proposal; this is mostly to make sure that you have at least started thinking about the educational aspects of this program.
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===Educational/Outreach plan===   
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* The education angle for the general public.
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* Implication for public education?
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* Press release?
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* Image release?

Revision as of 19:41, 7 February 2013

SHIPs Proposal

Abstract

A short, one or two paragraph, summary of the main points:

  • What do we intend to do?
  • Why is it important?
  • How will we do it?

Science Introduction and Context

Topics to consider when writing this section.

  • Background
    • What is the scientific context of the work?
    • Why is this important?
    • What is known, and not known?
  • This work
    • What aspect of the "unknown" will we address in this work?
    • Why is this interesting? How will it help?
  • Target (An important part of carrying on the work).
    • What target did we pick?
    • Why this target?
    • What is known in the literation?
    • What do we expect to find based on above?
  • What Observations do we propose to do?
    • What diagnostics will we use?

Analysis plan

Specifics about data and what to do with the data.

  • How will the data be readied for this study? (Technical term: reduced, or processed).
  • Ancillary data
    • Where will we get our data?
    • How will we supplement our data?
    • How will we combine data?
  • What tools will we use?
    • To work with the data
    • To produce the diagnostic plots.

Educational/Outreach plan

  • The education angle for the general public.
  • Implication for public education?
  • Press release?
  • Image release?