8.6 Requested Resources

8.6.1 Primary and Parallel Orbits

(This item appears in the APT form only for GO proposals)

Enter the total number of orbits requested for primary observations and the total orbits requested for coordinated or pure parallel observations. If only ACS auto-parallel observations are being taken, then enter'0' for the number of parallel observations. Only whole orbits can be requested, and only whole orbits will be allocated. In general, only the boxes for 'This Cycle' need to be filled out. However, long-term proposals (see Section 3.2.5) should provide a year-by-year breakdown of the orbits requested by also filling out the boxes for 'Next Cycle' (i.e., Cycle 17) and 'After Next' (i.e., Cycle 18).

8.6.2 Total Targets

(This item appears in the APT form only for SNAP proposals)

Specify the total number of targets requested. Note that multiple visits to the same source should be counted as multiple targets (see Section 3.3).

8.6.3 Budget

(This item appears in the APT form only for AR and Theory proposals)

Please enter a U.S. dollar figure for your total budget request. See Chapter 12 for details on Grant Policies and allowable costs. Make sure that all applicable indirect costs and overheads are included in the listed amount. Please note that the budget submitted for an accepted proposal cannot exceed the dollar figure listed in the Phase I submission.

8.6.4 Budget Explanation

(This item appears in the APT form only for AR and Theory proposals)

This is an optional field that may be used to explain the budget request. It is a 40-character, free text field. An example would be ''Budget to be split over 2 years''.

8.6.5 Archival Resources

(This item appears in the APT form only for AR proposals)

Please fill in the keywords in the table in the APT form, specifying the approximate number of datasets requested for each instrument, the retrieval method (cd, ftp, dvd or disk), and the planned schedule for data retrieval (e.g. over one weekend, 100 datasets/week, etc.).