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BeppoSAX e-mail news n. 9 : AO5 announcement
ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY
ASI
Rome, April 20 2001
Dear Sir/Madam,
on behalf of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Netherlands Agency
for Aerospace Programs (NIVR), I have the pleasure of inviting you to
take part in the BeppoSAX Astronomy Observation Program.
The attached ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY (AO5) concerns the fifth
round of proposals for the GUEST OBSERVER PROGRAM
Proposals due by May 21, 2001.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very successful
and profitable participation in the BeppoSAX observation program.
Sincerely,
Giovanni F.Bignami
Science Director, ASI
SCIENCE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE BEPPOSAX MISSION
Rome, April 20, 2001
Dear Colleague,
This letter is to inform you about the opportunity to submit proposals to the:
BeppoSAX GUEST OBSERVER PROGRAM (GOP)
for the period of operations covering June 2001 - end of April, 2002.
Following the decision by ASI ( on April 10 , 2001 ) to extend the
operation of BeppoSAX up to April 30, 2002, the operational phase of
BeppoSAX covering the observation of the Target list approved in the AO-4,
originally to be closed on April 30, 2001, will be extended to June 15,
2001 to include additional pointings still queuing; an AO-5 program
will start in June 2001.
In AO5, 100% of the AO time will be allocated to Guest Observers Program
open for competition to proposals led by PI's from any country worldwide.
Proposals to participate in the BeppoSAX observing programs should be
prepared and submitted following the instructions given in the documents
"BeppoSAX Announcement of Opportunity AO-5 for Guest Observer Program" and
"BeppoSAX Observers` Handbook" with its "Addendum".
Deadlines for proposal submission are:
BeppoSAX GOP AO-5 ====>> May 21 2001
Each proposal will be evaluated by the BeppoSAX Time Allocation Committee.
The list of approved targets will be available before the end of June 2001
Successful proponents are expected to receive the necessary financial
support from their home Institutions or National Agency.
I would appreciate if you could circulate this Announcement to all
interested colleagues within your institution.
Yours sincerely,
Livio Scarsi - Chairman of the SSSC
Dear Colleague,
the documentation regarding the BeppoSAX AO5 for the Guest
Observer Program is available on-line from the ASI Science Data Center
web site at http://www.asdc.asi.it/ and from the BeppoSAX SDC anonymous
ftp service:
ftp sax.sdc.asi.it
cd pub/sax/doc/ao5
or
ftp heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov
cd sax/ao_info/ao5
The SAX Observers' Handbook (SOH) and its Addendum are available from the
same sites:
ftp sax.sdc.asi.it
cd pub/sax/doc/handbook
or
ftp heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov
cd sax/ao_info/handbook
The SAX AO5 Proposal templates (proposal_nfi.txt for NFI,
proposal_wfc.txt for WFC) can be retrieved from the same sites
in the directories pub/sax/doc/ao5 or sax/ao_info/ao5 and compiled
using any text editor.
Proposal templates can be compiled using a WWW tool available at
the following URL:
http://www.asdc.asi.it/bepposax/spass/
A help page for the usage of this tool is located :
http://www.asdc.asi.it/bepposax/spass/help.html
The AO5 proposal templates can also be downloaded from
http://www.asdc.asi.it/bepposax/ao5sdc/proposal_nfi.txt
http://www.asdc.asi.it/bepposax/ao5sdc/proposal_nfi_notimeconstraint.txt
http://www.asdc.asi.it/bepposax/ao5sdc/proposal_wfc.txt
or by sending an e-mail to majordomo@sax.sdc.asi.it with the following text:
get saxpi proposal_nfi.txt
or
get saxpi proposal_wfc.txt
or
get saxpi proposal_nfi_notimeconstraint.txt
The AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO4 pointing list and the corresponding
abstracts can be accessed from the SDC Web interface at
http://www.asdc.asi.it/bepposax/ao_browser.html
The list of approved observations is also available via
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse
Questions concerning this AO and the BeppoSAX mission in general
can be submitted via e-mail to:
helpdesk@sax.sdc.asi.it
Yours Sincerely,
Luigi Piro BeppoSAX Mission Scientist
Paolo Giommi ASI Science Data Center
