INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-18)
2 March 2020
Proposals are solicited for observations with INTEGRAL in response to the Eighteenth Announcement of Opportunity, AO-18, issued 2 March 2020. This AO covers the period January to December 2021.UPDATE: ESA is doing its best to guarantee that the proposal submission and review processes remain optimal within the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19, coronavirus crisis. Since measures deployed in the ESA Member States have disrupted scientific activities in those countries, the INTEGRAL AO-18 proposal submission deadline has been postponed from Friday, 3 April to Monday, 4 May 14:00 CEST. ESA will continue to follow developments closely and may provide additional updates in the next weeks, at the latest by Monday, 20 April.
Full details of this Announcement of Opportunity, including all the relevant documentation, are given on the dedicated pages at the website of the INTEGRAL Science Operations Centre:
| Key milestones for AO-18 | |
| Release of INTEGRAL AO-18 | 2 March 2020 |
| Deadline for submission of Proposals (*) | 4 May 2020, 14:00 CEST |
| Meeting of the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) | TBD, June 2020 |
| Start of AO-18 observations | 1 January 2021 |
| (*) Please note that proposals must be prepared and submitted in electronic form using the INTEGRAL Proposal Generation Tool software. Access to this is via the INTEGRAL SOC AO-18 web pages. | |
Last Update: 23 March 2020