RECENT PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

• NASA ADP07 proposal: Cluster soft X-ray excess and associated phenomena: its origin, and impact on cosmology, co-PI: R. Lieu, M. Bonamente, co-I: A. Blanchard (PDF)
• XMM Guest Observer cycle 6: XMM-Newton observation of the dark galaxy VIRGO~HI~21, PI: M. Bonamente, co-I: M. Weisskopf, D. Swartz (PDF)
• XMM Guest Observer cycle 6: XMM-Newton observations of a complete sample of z=0.10-0.15 bright X-ray clusters out to the virial radius, PI: M. Bonamente, co-I: M. Joy, J. Nevalainen (PDF)
• XMM Guest Observer cycle 6: FeXXV-FeXXVI line diagnostics of galaxy clusters as a calibration independent thermometer, PI: J. Nevalainen, co-I M. Bonamente, co-I: M. Kirsch, L. David (PDF)

RECENT PROPOSALS AWARDED & CONTRACTS

• GMRT Observing proposal: Search for relic electron population in clusters of galaxies: Sersic 159-03 and Abell 3112, PI: N. Werner, co-I: J. Bagchi, J. Nevalainen, J. Kaastra, M. Bonamente, F. Durret (PDF)
• Chandra AO9 archival proposal: X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect scaling relations from a complete sample of clusters az 0.15<z<0.30, PI: M. Bonamente, co-I: M. Joy, J. Carlstrom, B. Maughan (PDF)
• Suzaku AO2 observing proposal:  Temperature profiles of relaxed clusters of galaxies out to the virial radius, PI: M. Hattori; co-I: J. Nevalainen, M. Bonamente,. D. Hannikainen, J. Huovelin, T. Lehto, N. Ota, O. Vilhu (PDF)
• XMM AO5 observing proposal: Mapping the structure and dynamics of the unrelaxed cluster of galaxies Ophiucus, PI: J. Nevalainen, co-I: M. Bonamente, D.  Hannikainen,  J. Huovelin, J. Kaastra, T. Letho, A. Vikhlinin, O. Vilhu (PDF)