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Guest investigators applying for ROSAT observing time should take the following points into account:

• Every ROSAT proposal must identify a Principal Investigator (PI) as the person who is responsible for carrying out and analysing the requested observations.
• Any proposal must be submitted to only one national program (BMFT, NASA, SERC) administering the ROSAT project.
• The ``nationality'' of a scientist is determined by the institution with which he/she is affiliated, either permanently or on a long-term visit that will extend for at least the duration of the guest investigation.
• Any proposer must submit proposals for a given AO period to only one agency.
• Scientists from the participating countries (Germany, United Kingdom or United States) can submit proposals only to their respective agencies, whereas proposers whose nationality is not German, UK, or US can submit their proposals to one (but only one) agency of their choice.
• Each agency will define its own policy of how to deal with proposals from non-participating countries (consult the national cover letter for more information).
• Similar proposals with similar source lists involving essentially the same consortium of investigators should not be submitted to different national programs even if the formal PIs and CoIs are explicitly different. A consortium of investigators from more than one country may choose to split up a large observing program and submit to different agencies, but in doing so they should also, in the spirit of these rules, split up their source lists and note that each individual proposal submitted to each agency must be capable of being evaluated on its own merit.

The proposal selection committees will deal only with the person identified as Principal Investigator. It will be the Principal Investigator's duty to respond to any queries issued by the national agencies concerning submitted proposals and to inform his/her co-investigators.

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Only formally complete proposals will be considered for proposal evaluation, selection, and scheduling. A complete proposal consists of the cover page, the general form, a scientific justification, as many target forms (and possibly target constraint forms) as there are targets in the proposal, plus any additional information required by the agency you are applying to (consult national cover letter for details). All of the information contained in the various forms will be entered into a database. This information is required both for scheduling the requested observations and for communication with the requesting principal investigator. The scientific justification will be used to assess the scientific merit of the proposed observations.

Important note: Any proposal that is submitted incompletely, that in part or in total is illegible, or that is not submitted using the standard proposal forms or, that is not written in English will not be considered in the proposal evaluation and selection process.