GSFC XMM-Newton GOF Status Report #305: XMM-NEWTON NEWS #185

[Newsletter for users of the XMM-Newton mission <xmmnews@lists.nasa.gov>]

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              XMM-NEWTON NEWS #185    ---    18-Jul-2016
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             XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
              ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre,
P.O. Box - Apdo. 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Canada, Madrid, Spain

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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
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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
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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
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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

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