BeppoSAX : Proposals & Planning Tools
6 Aug 2001 The AO5 approved list of targets
Proposal Information
The BeppoSAX AO5 calls for proposals for Prime Observing Time (OT) of NFI and WFC for the period June 2001 30 april 2002. For A05 100% ofthe prime time is dedicated to the Guest Observer Program (GOP) and is open for competition to proposals led by PI from any country worldwide.
The BeppoSAX Announcement of Opportunity-AO5 document is available in the ftp area on the local server as PS or Tex file and as HTML clicking here. The BeppoSAX Observers' Handbook and the Addendum are also available in the local ftp area only in PS format .
The proposal deadline is 21 May 2001
To submit the proposal observers need to mail the proposal form and deposit the scientific justification in the SDC ftp area.How to get Proposal Forms
The proposal forms can be obtained :
- on the local server legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov in the directory sax/ao_info/ao5
- Sending an e-mail to majordomo@sax.sdc.asi.it containing one of the following strings
- get saxpi proposal_nfi.txt
- get saxpi proposal_wfc.txt
- get saxpi proposal_nfi_notimeconstraint.txt
- The proposal form can be compiled using the WEB based tool available at the SDC
How to submit the Proposal
Submission of the proposal is only electronic.
- The proposal form (without the Scientific Justification) must be sent
via e-mail to:
saxao5@sax.sdc.asi.it
to arrive not later than May, 21, 2001 - The scientific justification must be deposited in the SDC ftp server
before the deadline, May, 21, 2001 . The accepted formats are
postscript, .pdf, .doc or .sdw.
To submit the scientific justification use the SDC ftp server as follow:
ftp sax.sdc.asi.it Name : ftpao5 Password: SAXAO5 ftp> mkdir dirname
The directory name, dirname, should be constructed using the first five letter of the PI's last name followed by _ and a number to distinguish between different proposals sent by the same PI. e.g. the first proposal sent by a PI named Einstein should be stored into a directory named einst_1ftp> cd dirname ftp> bin ftp> put your_file.ps ftp> quit
The postscript file can be compressed with either the UNIX compress (.Z) or gzip compression. Please do not use other compression methods.
Proposal Planning Tools
- Viewing - when is a target available?
- Coco - coordinate conversion
- W3PIMMS - count rates and exposure times
- New PIMMS - obtain the new version via FTP
- WEBSPEC - To simulate spectra using the WWW interface to xspec
- Simulator - To simulate observations with the imaging instruments of BeppoSAX
- BeppoSAX observation log using Browse
- A01+AO2+A03+A4 approved targets and the Science Verification Phase targets
- matrices and background files for simulation are available on the local ftp area (legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov) in the directory /sax/ao_info/simulations.
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