Policies and Procedures
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Policies and Procedures

Announcement of Opportunity for Open Time (OT2)

version 1.0, on 1 February 2007 (GT KP version)

version 1.1, on 2 February 2007

version 1.2, on 9 July 2007 (OT KP version)

version 2.0, on 20 May 2010 (OT1 version)

version 3.0, on 9 June 2011 (OT2 version)

Herschel/HSC/DOC/0888 version 3.0
9 June 2011

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
1.2. Scope
1.3. Acronyms
2. OT2 AO package
2.1. AO documentation
2.2. AO tools
2.3. Associated documentation and tools
3. OT2 AO schedule
4. Observing time
4.1. Total amount of observing time
4.2. Guaranteed and Open Time
4.3. Allocation of observing time
4.3.1. Key Programme observing time
4.3.2. AO-1 observing time
4.3.3. AO-2 observing time
4.4. AOTs and AORs
4.5. Observing constraints
4.5.1. Scheduling strategy
4.5.2. Spacecraft 'slewing' overhead charges and time constrained observations
4.5.3. Duplicate observations
4.6. Targets of Opportunity
5. OT2 Time Allocation
5.1. OT2 overview
5.2. Mission lifetime
5.3. OT2 observing programmes
5.4. OT2 available observing time
5.4.1. OT2p1 observing time
5.4.2. OT2p2 observing time
5.4.3. OT2p1 and OT2p2 observing time summary
5.5. OT1p2 programmes
5.6. OT2 joint Herschel/XMM-Newton observing time
6. Phase 1 proposal submission
6.1. Submission procedures
6.2. Proposal contents
6.2.1. Cover sheet
6.2.2. Scientific justification
6.2.3. Astronomical Observation Requests
6.3. Proposal submission
7. Proposal evaluation and selection
8. Phase 2 data entry and reserved observations
9. Post-call modifications
10. Further calls for proposals
11. Data products and proprietary rights
12. Special information for US-based investigators
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