Policies and Procedures
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Policies and Procedures

Announcement of Opportunity for Open Time (OT1)

version 1.0, 1 February 2007 (GT KP version)

version 1.1, 2 February 2007

version 1.2, 9 July 2007 (OT KP version)

version 2.0, 20 May 2010 (OT1 version)

Herschel/HSC/DOC/0888 version 2.0
20 May 2010

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
1.2. Scope
1.3. Acronyms
2. OT1 AO package
2.1. AO documentation
2.2. AO tools
2.3. Associated documentation and tools
3. OT1 AO schedule
4. Observing time
4.1. Total amount of observing time
4.2. Guaranteed and Open Time
4.3. Allocated observing time
4.4. OT1 Herschel observing time
4.5. OT1 joint Herschel/XMM-Newton observing time
4.6. AOTs and AORs
4.7. Observing constraints
4.7.1. Scheduling strategy
4.7.2. Spacecraft 'slewing' overhead charges and time constrained observations
4.7.3. Duplicate observations
4.8. Targets of Opportunity
5. 'Large' and 'Normal' Programmes
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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