The EUVE Legacy Science Program

The EUVE Legacy Science Program is a unique and innovative suite of projects that will maximize the scientific utility of EUVE and yield a long-lasting scientific heritage. It comprises a handful of large-scale, community-based and peer-reviewed observing projects to be executed within the ninth cycle of EUVE operation. These projects will be solicited through a call to be issued in late 2000. The program is open to all science topics and to all scientists worldwide on a competitive basis. Programs may be approved for several hundred Ksecs and possibly >1 Msec. Requirements will include: o Large science investigations, not reproducible by any reasonable number or combination of smaller GO programs o Programs whose scientific data, upon archiving, are of general and lasting importance to the broad community The EUVE Legacy Science Program will have 1) recommended science topics or categories as well as 2) flexibility toward new and credible science areas for which EUVE can make a major contribution. EUVE will rely on the ingenuity of the user community and the peer-review process to guarantee that the approved projects maximize the scientific legacy of EUVE. This presentation will summarize possible Legacy Science Program topical areas and summarize additional program elements. This work is funded through NASA/UCB Cooperative Agreement NCC5-138.