This document informs potential proposers about the
policies adopted, the procedures to be followed for the AO
and the
interactions foreseen between proposers and the Science
Operations Centre (SOC).
The organization of this document is as follows:
An overview of the different categories of observing time is presented in
section 3.
The entire proposal process is summarised in section 4.
Details of the proposal submission procedure and
evaluation and selection processes are
described in sections 5, 6
and 7, respectively.
Some information on proposal enhancement and scheduling of accepted
targets is summarised in section 8.
Sections 9 and 10 contain information on data
products, proprietary data rights and publication acknowledgment.
Proposers are advised to read all sections of this document carefully;
special attention should be paid to
sections 5, and 6 and subsection 7.1