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Suzaku 6th Announcement of Opportunity

Suzaku 6th Announcement of Opportunity

1 September 2010

The Sixth European Announcement for observations to be performed with Suzaku between April 2011 and March 2012 is now open. Scientists belonging to institutions within ESA Member States are invited to respond. The deadline for receipt of proposals is 19 November 2010 at 16:30 CET.

Letter announcing EAO-6 from the Director of Science and Robotic Exploration

Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to invite you to respond to the "Announcement of Opportunity" to submit proposals for observations to be performed with Suzaku.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), through the European Space Agency, invites participation of European scientists in the Suzaku X-ray astronomy programme, specifically in the Japanese portion of the observing time. Suzaku is a collaborative Japanese and U.S. mission which was launched on 10 July 2005 and has since been successfully performing astronomical observations using the X-ray CCD cameras and Hard X-ray Detector.

This letter is to announce the sixth European Announcement of Opportunity (EAO-6) and to solicit proposals from scientists belonging to institutions within ESA Member States for observing time in the portion reserved for the ESA-Japan programme. The EAO-6 observing time is planned to start in April 2011 and last for 12 months. The aim of the programme is to maximize the scientific return from the mission through co-operation between European and Japanese scientists. Thus, European proposals are expected to involve one or more Japanese co-investigators. If the European proposers cannot identify Japanese co-investigators at the time of proposal submission, JAXA will help assigning Japanese co-investigators later.

Approximately 8% of the observing time will be allocated to successful proposals from ESA Member States. It should be noted that whilst hereby facilitating access, ESA cannot provide funding for participation in this programme, full financial support must therefore be obtained through the usual national channels.

Proposals to participate in the Suzaku EAO-6 must be prepared in accordance with information which will be available electronically from ESA at:

http://www.rssd.esa.int/Suzaku

and must be submitted electronically to ESA by 16:30 CET on 19 November 2010 at the latest.

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