The Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC) runs the guest investigator program, creates and maintains the mission time line, provides analysis tools for the scientific community, and archives and serves the Fermi data. This web site is the portal to Fermi for all guest investigators.
Look into the "Resources" section for finding schedules, publications, useful links etc. The "Proposals" section is where you will be able to find the relevant information and tools to prepare and submit proposals for guest investigator projects. At "Data" you will be able to access the Fermi databases and find the software to analyse them. Address all questions and requests to the helpdesk in "Help".
The FSSC will be offline for several hours beginning at 9:30 am ET Thursday, Feb. 2nd due to facilities maintenance. This outage will affect both web and data servers. We expect to resume normal operation by 2:00 pm ET.
As of the Friday, January 20,2012 deadline, NASA received a total of 221 proposals in response to the Fermi Cycle-5 NRA. The first stage of the Cycle-5 selection process, a scientific peer-review evaluation of these proposals, will occur in the early spring of 2012. The results of that first stage selection process will be announced in the April 2012 time frame.
Reminder: Fermi Cycle-5 Guest Investigator Proposals are due on January 20, 2012. Please refer to the proposals page for details on how to prepare and submit a proposal. We look forward to your participation in Fermi mission cycle 5.