XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO-20)
18 August 2020
Proposals are solicited for observations with XMM-Newton in response to the twentieth Announcement of Opportunity, AO-20, issued 18 August 2020. This AO covers the period May 2021 to April 2022 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/ao20
| Key milestones for AO-20 | |
| Announcement of Opportunity | 18 August 2020 |
| Due date for Proposals (*) | 9 October 2020 (12:00 UTC) |
| Final OTAC approved programme | mid December 2020 |
| For approved proposals | |
| Start of Phase II proposal submission | 11 January 2021 |
| Closure of Phase II proposal submission | 5 February 2021 |
| Start of AO-20 observations | May 2021 |
| (*) 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-20 web pages. | |
Last Update: 8 September 2020