HEASARC Budget & Staffing
Budget of $1.5M that mostly pays for people
LHEA Science Staff (5 USRA, 1 UMD, 2 GSFC):
- Angelini (Restoration, BeppoSAX, Swift, XIMAGE, XRONOS)
- Arnaud (XSPEC, XSELECT)
- Corcoran (ROSAT, Caldb, HETE-2)
- Drake (User support, EUVE, Archive population)
- Lochner (E/PO)
- McGlynn (Archive Scientist, Skyview, ClassX)
- Pence (FTOOLS, FITSIO, FITS standards, HERA, FV)
- White (Director)
Two addition FTE at SAO (separately funded)
Science staff have 30% time for research
- Successfully compete for observing time e.g. XMM-Newton and Chandra
Programming Staff (5 Software contractor, 1 GSFC)
- Database, archive access, data ingest, data restoration, web services, XANADU analysis software, education & outreach, system support, and user support.
Additional funding competed for via e.g. AISRP