XMM-Newton-NEWS

 

XMM-Newton-NEWS  #185,    18-Jul-2016

XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
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Contents:

  • Reminder: Anticipated timeline for AO-16
  • XMM-Newton Users Handbook update for AO-16
  • 2016 XMM-Newton Workshop: Presentations available

Reminder: Anticipated timeline for AO-16

  Announcement of Opportunity Tuesday 23 August 2016
  Due date for Proposals Friday 7 October 2016 (12:00 UT)
  Final OTAC approved programme late December 2016
     
For approved proposals only:
  Start of Phase II proposal submission Tuesday 10 January 2017
  Closure of Phase II proposal submission Friday 3 February 2017
  Start of AO-16 observations May 2017
 

The official "Announcement of Opportunity" will be made public in the XMM-Newton News and on the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre Home Page.

XMM-Newton Users Handbook update for AO-16

The XMM-Newton Users Handbook (UHB) has been updated to version 2.14 in preparation for the next Announcement of Opportunity (AO-16) which will open shortly.

The UHB contains information on the instrumentation on board XMM-Newton and serves as the main technical support document for proposal preparation, based on which potential XMM-Newton users can assess the technical feasibility of their planned observations.

The XMM-Newton Users Handbook is available on-line at

     http://xmm-tools.cosmos.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/documentation/uhb/

Alternatively, pdf and postscript versions of the UHB can be downloaded from the "XMM-Newton Proposer's Info and Manuals" portal at

     http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/documentation

2016 XMM-Newton Workshop: Presentations available

The presentations given during the XMM-Newton Workshop "XMM-Newton: The Next Decade", that took place at ESAC from 9th to 11th May 2016, are available from the conference web page at

     http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2016-workshop/

They are also accessible from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) at

     http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?ref_stems=2016xnnd.conf&sort=RBIBCODE

 

Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC