XMM-Newton-NEWS

 

XMM-Newton-NEWS  #228,    03-Feb-2020

XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
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CONTENTS

  • Letter of intent for Multi-Year Heritage Programmes
  • Anticipated timeline for next XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity: AO-20
  • Let us know about XMM-Newton related Ph.D. and prizes for XMM-Newton results

LETTER OF INTENT FOR MULTI-YEAR HERITAGE PROGRAMMES

In the next call for XMM-Newton proposals (20th Announcement of Opportunity) a "Multi-Year Heritage Programme" will be offered for the second time.

This programme seeks scientific visionary projects which require at least 2 Ms of observing time. A total of 6 Ms of observing time, spread over three years, is planned to be made available for this programme.

In order to organise the evaluation of "Multi-Year Heritage Programme" proposals, interested scientists are strongly urged to send an e-mail as letter of intent to the XMM-Newton Project Scientist (Norbert.Schartel + esa.int ) before 6 March 2020. The e-mail should contain a draft title, a short (up to three sentences) description of the respective scientific area and an estimate of the required observing time.

ANTICIPATED TIMELINE FOR NEXT XMM-NEWTON ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY: AO-20

The planned key milestones for the Twentieth XMM-Newton "Announcement of Opportunity" have been established. Within this AO-20 a new call to submit proposals for observations to be performed with the XMM-Newton observatory will be issued

To be prepared for this, please find below the anticipated timeline:

Announcement of Opportunity 18 August 2020
Due date for Proposals 9 October 2020 (12:00 UT)
Final OTAC approved programme mid December 2020

 

For approved proposals only:

Start of Phase II proposal submission 11 January 2021
Closure of Phase II proposal submission 5 February 2021
Start of observations May 2021

 

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

LET US KNOW ABOUT XMM-NEWTON RELATED PH.D.

As already announced in previous issues of this Newsletter, the XMM-Newton team is collecting information about the completion of doctorates and Ph.D. theses based on (or making use of) XMM-Newton observations.

We would appreciate if you - being a candidate or a supervisor of a doctorate - could let us know details through the page

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

Also, we would be grateful if you could inform us (via a message to xmmhelp@sciops.esa.int, with subject "Ph.D. thesis work") in case you are aware of theses from, or supervised by, colleagues that make use of XMM-Newton data but are not yet included in the above list.

 

Yours sincerely,

XMM-Newton SOC