XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO-18)
21 August 2018
Proposals are solicited for observations with XMM-Newton in response to the eighteenth Announcement of Opportunity, AO-18, issued 21 August 2018. This AO covers the period May 2019 to April 2020 and is open to proposers from all over the world.Full details of this Announcement of Opportunity, including all the relevant documentation, are given on the dedicated pages at the website of the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre (SOC):
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/ao18
| Key milestones for AO-18 | |
| Announcement of Opportunity | 21 August 2018 |
| Due date for Proposals (*) | 5 October 2018 (12:00 UTC) |
| Final OTAC approved programme | mid December 2018 |
| For approved proposals | |
| Start of Phase II proposal submission | 8 January 2019 |
| Closure of Phase II proposal submission | 1 February 2019 |
| Start of AO-18 observations | May 2019 |
| (*) Please note that proposals must be prepared and submitted in electronic form using the XMM-Newton Remote Proposal Submission software. Access to this is via the XMM-Newton SOC AO-18 web pages. | |
Last Update: 1 September 2019