newsletter1 - AKARI
ASTRO-F European Users Support Newsletter #1
ESAC, 7 June 2005 1. Call for Letters of intent results ---------------------------------- The Call for Letters of intent (LoI) for use of European Open Time on the Japanese ASTRO-F mission opened on 11 May. The deadline was 31 May. We are pleased to report a considerable interest in the use of this infrared facility. A total of 129 Letters from 83 proposers were received. Summary statistics follows: LoI Proposer's (83) distribution by country: =========================================== 18 France 14 United Kingdom 11 Italy 10 Germany 6 Spain 5 Austria 4 Belgium 4 ESA 4 The Netherlands 2 Ireland 2 ESO 1 Greece 1 Portugal 1 Sweden LoI Proposals (129) distribution by Science Category: ==================================================== 12 Solar System 23 Interstellar Matter 50 Stellar/Circumstellar Physics 28 Extragalactic Systems 16 Cosmology The Call for Proposals is foreseen to be issued early September 2005. 2. ASTRO-F Observers Factsheet --------------------------- In order to ease the preparation of the Observing Proposals this Autumn, we have expanded the single-sheet key information on the ASTRO-F mission and its two instruments into a 3-page observers factsheet: http://www.astro-f.esac.esa.int/docs/ASTRO-F_Factsheet_v1.2.pdf ============================================================================= This newsletter is sent to the European Users Support Mailing list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, please visit our Helpdesk Web Pages, http://www.astro-f.vilspa.esa.es/esupport/ [Japan/Korea] http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/ASTRO-F/Observation/ [Europe] http://astro-f.esac.esa.int/