Executive Summary

Announcement of Opportunity for Open Time (OT1)

version 1.0, 1 February 2007 (GT KP version)

version 1.1, 9 July 2007 (OT KP version)

version 2.0, 20 May 2010 (OT1 version)

Herschel/HSC/DOC/0887 version 2.0
20 May 2010

Table of Contents

1. Executive summary
1.1. This document
1.2. Herschel overview
1.3. Observing time
1.4. The OT1 AO
1.4.1. The Concepts of 'Large' and 'Normal' Programmes
1.4.2. XMM-Newton observing time
1.4.3. OT1 AO schedule
1.5. The AO package
1.5.1. AO documentation
1.5.2. AO tools
1.5.3. Additional documentation
1.6. The HSC webpages
1.7. Proposed way forward