ROSAT Status Report #156: ROSAT NEWS 56

[Michael Arida <arida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:32:52 +0200
Subject: ROSAT NEWS 56

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Contents: SATELLITE STATUS
          AO-8 ACCEPTED PROPOSALS
          PROPOSAL ABSTRACTS


SATELLITE STATUS
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On September 20, 1997 the satellite entered a safemode that was
caused by a hang-up of the startracker. Normal operations continued
69 hours later.


AO-8 ACCEPTED PROPOSALS
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The ROSAT IUC (International User Committee) met at MPE on 24 and 25
September to finally decide on the list of targets accepted for AO-8.
The list can be accessed via
http://ftp.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/rosat_svc/timeline/ao8.accepted

Please note that targets with priorities 1 and 2 will (almost) always
find their way into the mission timeline, while only part of the
priority 3 targets will be scheduled during the timeline optimization
process.
AO-8 is planned to start on 15 December 1997.


PROPOSAL ABSTRACTS
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The abstracts for most of those ROSAT proposals for which data are
already in the public ROSAT Data Archive (RDA) can now be viewed via the
ROSAT Archive Browser accessible on http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/

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