XMM AO-1 details

The first XMM announcement of opportunity (AO-1) was released on Tuesday, January 19th 1999, soliciting proposals from the world-wide scientific community for XMM science observations covering approximately 12.5 Msec of observing time between May 2000 and May 2002.
Further details about AO-1, the scientific capabilities of XMM and proposing for XMM observations may be found in the following documentation. We have local copies of these documents (in postcript and PDF formats) for faster access to UK proposers. Please click on the document name to download it directly or on the  icon to access our download area.

The XMM Announcement of Opportunity
Currently available as PDF (ao1_letter.pdf)

Policies and Procedures for AO-1
Available as gzipped postscript (policies.ps.gz) and PDF (policies.pdf)

The XMM Users' Handbook (UHB) - online 
  This is our local copy, for faster access by UK users (Note that many of the links will take you to ESA web pages).
Also available as gzipped postscript (XMM_UHB.ps.gz - note it decompresses to circa. 38 MB) and PDF (XMM_UHB.pdf). Note that the UHB now includes the final version (1.1) of the guaranteed time observations list

The XMM Proposer's Guide and XRPS Users' Manual - online
  This is our local copy, for faster access by UK users (Note that many of the links will take you to ESA web pages).
Also available as gzipped postscript (RPSMAN.ps.gz) and PDF (RPSMAN.pdf)

Guaranteed time observations list
The Performance Verification (PV) and Calibration (cal) lists are also now public. Users are advised to consult the Policies and Procedures document for advice on the duplication of observations.

Last updated: Tue Feb 16th 1999