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BeppoSAX e-mail news n. 8 : AO4 announcement
ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY
ASI
Rome, February 1 2000
Dear Sir/Madam,
on behalf of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Netherland 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 (AO4) concerns the fourth
round of proposals for the CORE PROGRAM and the GUEST OBSERVER PROGRAM
Proposals due by March 6, 2000.
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
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SCIENCE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE BEPPOSAX MISSION
Rome, February 1, 2000
Dear Colleague,
the operational phase of BeppoSAX covering the observation of the
targets approved in the AO-3 round is expected to be completed by
beginning of May 2000.
This letter is to inform you about the opportunity to submit proposals
to the:
BeppoSAX CORE PROGRAM (CP)
and to the:
BeppoSAX GUEST OBSERVER PROGRAM (GOP)
for the fourth year of operations covering the period
May 5, 2000 - April 30 2001.
For this period the Core Program covers 50% of the available observing
time, and the Guest Observers Program covers 50% of the available
observing time.
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-4 for Core Program
and Guest Observer Program" and "BeppoSAX Observers` Handbook" with
its "Addendum".
Deadlines for proposal submission are:
BeppoSAX CP & GOP AO-4 ====>> March 6, 2000
Each proposal will be evaluated by the BeppoSAX Time Allocation
Committee.
The list of approved targets will be available by end of April 2000.
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
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Dear Colleague,
the documentation regarding the BeppoSAX AO4 for the Core and Guest
Observer Programs is available on-line from the BeppoSAX SDC anonymous
ftp service:
ftp www.sdc.asi.it
cd pub/sax/doc/ao4
or from any of its mirrors:
ftp ftp.tesre.bo.cnr.it
cd pub/sax/doc/ao4
ftp heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov
cd sax/ao_info/ao4
Frequently updated information is available from the BeppoSAX SDC web pages:
http://www.sdc.asi.it/
The SAX Observers' Handbook (SOH) and its Addendum are available from the
same sites:
ftp www.sdc.asi.it
cd pub/sax/doc/handbook
or
ftp ftp.testre.bo.cnr.it
cd pub/sax/doc/handbook
or
ftp heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov
cd sax/ao_info/handbook
The BeppoSAX AO4 Proposal templates (proposal.txt for NFI and WFC,
proposal_nfi.txt for NFI, proposal_wfc.txt for WFC) can be retrieved
from the same sites in the directories pub/sax/doc/ao4 or
sax/ao_info/ao4 and compiled using any text editor. Proposal templates
can also be compiled using a WWW tool available at the following URL:
http://www.sdc.asi.it/spass/
A help page for the usage of this tool is located :
http://www.sdc.asi.it/spass/help.html
The AO1, AO2 and AO3 approved CP and GOP pointing lists and the
corresponding abstracts can be accessed from the SDC WWW interface
and its mirror:
http://www.sdc.asi.it/ao_browser.html
http://www.tesre.bo.cnr.it/Sax/ao_browser.html
The list of approved observations is also available via
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse
The proposal templates and the AO4 document can also be obtained 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
or
get ao4.tex
Questions concerning the 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 BeppoSAX SDC
Fabrizio Fiore BeppoSAX SDC
on behalf of
the BeppoSAX Team
