Thursday, March 18, 2010

Chandra Proposals Part 2

The proposals are in, but I cannot relax... The thoughts about the sources are still in my head.
Also I made a very interesting figure for the proposal... Now it looks like I may need to work on the correlations it shows for a little bit longer...
we went out to dinner, had wine and martini to celebrate the end of the deadline. Now it will be hard to
get back to normal work schedule for a few days....
and btw. I have a hick-up and Lukasz method of pushing on left eye while holding up the breath does not seem to work. I would have died by now holding my breath as the hickup is holdind strong!

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Chandra proposals

o.k. i'm off to proposal world. i'm procrastinating now... i should be writing my science  instead of the blog...  but i'm still not sure which of my favorite sources to observe. I would like to have all of them observed with Chandra, bu this is impossible! If I had my own X-ray satellite this would be something.
I could just point to a random point of the sky and check it out.
Tom suggested that this should be a topic of my  proposal and that should say: "Please let me point to any part of the sky for a day or two.  I'm sure I will discover something that will definitely change the direction of my research. It happen in the past that I discover things... "
Discoveries are unexpected and come in the moment you don't even realize it is happening.
o.k. i guess I do need to write my proposal and maybe I get time for my observation and discover something again...