INTEGRAL Proposals and AO-News

The latest INTEGRAL AO news from ESA can be found at the INTEGRAL Science Operation Center (ISOC).

AO-14 Observations Approved

28 June 2016 The INTEGRAL AO-14 General Programme, as recommended by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) and approved by ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. Alvaro Gimenez), has been released and the observers have been informed.

AO-14 Call for Proposals Has Been Released

29 February 2016 ESA has released the 14th Announcement of Opportunity (AO-14) for INTEGRAL. The proposal deadline is April 8, 2016. The AO-14 cycle of observations is foreseen to begin on January 1, 2017 and have the usual duration of 12 months. More information can be found at ESA INTEGRAL website.

Release of AO-14: call for observing time proposals:		February 29, 2016
Deadline for submission of observing time proposals:		April 8, 2016 (14:00 CEST)
Meeting of the Time Allocation Committee:		May 17-19, 2016
Start of AO-14 cycle of observations:		January 1, 2017

Change in Russian Federation data rights

13 January 2016 Last year, the Russian Advisory Committee (RAC) for INTEGRAL agreed with proposed changes to the data rights policy with regard to Russian Federation proposals in AO-13. Data or science rights to the targets or science in the field of view (FOV) of the instruments proposed by the PIs from the Russian Federation and accepted by the TAC will be allocated to these PIs with the usual 1-year proprietary period. However, the rest of the field will be made public to the community at-large through the consolidated data programme, i.e., having a policy similar to that for non-Russian Federation proposals. Russian PIs still have exceptional access to the near-real time data of their observations. This policy change is in effect from January 1. Note that the guaranteed return to the Russian science community from the open time programme stays 25%.

AO-13 Observations Started

13 January 2016 The AO-13 cycle of observations started on January 1st and will last 12 months, see the INTEGRAL target lists and sky maps for details as well as the Long-Term Plan.

AO-13 Observations Approved

9 July 2015 The INTEGRAL AO-13 General Programme, as recommended by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) and approved by ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. Alvaro Gimenez), was released and the observers were informed.

Prior AOs

The observing schedules and lists of approved targets for AO-1 to AO-12 are available from ESA's INTEGRAL web site. The AO-1 through AO-12 observing targets are also listed in the INTEGRAL Observing Program Catalog (INTEGRALAO) in the HEASARC INTEGRAL archive. It is searchable using either Browse or Xamin.