News #223, 20 August 2019 CONTENTS XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO-19) [1]Letter of Invitation by the ESA Director of Science [2]Key milestones for this announcement [3]Timeline for Phase II proposal submission NEWS Letter of Invitation by the ESA Director of Science Dear Colleague, I am pleased to invite you to respond to the nineteenth "Announcement of Opportunity" to submit proposals for observations to be performed with the XMM-Newton observatory. This Announcement solicits proposals to be carried out between May 2020 and April 2021. Proposers from institutes located worldwide are welcome to participate. All proposals will be subject to peer review by the XMM-Newton Observing Time Allocation Committee. The detailed schedule of milestones of the announcement, the required software tools and the documentation are available from: [4]http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/ao19 I would appreciate if you would distribute this invitation to interested colleagues. I wish you every success in using the XMM-Newton observatory. Yours sincerely, Prof. Guenther Hasinger Director of Science Key milestones for this announcement Announcement of Opportunity 20 August 2019 Due date for Proposals 11 October 2019 (12:00 UT) Final OTAC approved program late December 2019 Timeline for Phase II proposal submission After the cycle of proposal submission and selection, the observation details for successful proposals must be entered into the observatory system. This is done during "Phase II" proposal submission. Find below for your information the anticipated timeline for that eventual Phase II: Start of Phase II proposal submission 8 January 2020 Closure of Phase II proposal submission 31 January 2020 XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre, Villanueva de la Ca�ada, Madrid, Spain [5]SOC Home [6]Helpdesk Web Interface [7]Contact Helpdesk [8]Newsletter Archive This message is intended only for the recipient(s) named above. It may contain p roprietary information and/or protected content. Any unauthorised disclosure, use, retention or dissemination is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately. ESA applies appropri ate organisational measures to protect personal data, in case of data privacy queries, please contact the ESA Data Prot ection Officer (dpo@esa.int). References 1. file:///Users/marida/Mail/neomutt.html#1 2. file:///Users/marida/Mail/neomutt.html#2 3. file:///Users/marida/Mail/neomutt.html#3 4. http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/ao19 5. https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton 6. https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk 7. mailto:xmmhelp@sciops.esa.int 8. https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/newsletter