This document is the aide to guide users through the XMM proposal submission process with XRPS. Users should follow the steps outlined here closely. Following the guidelines presented below, proposing for XMM observations should be easy and straight-forward.
The XRPS Users' Manual is available in three different formats:
HTML online at http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/user/rpsman/rps_man.html
PostScript (PS) at ftp://astro.estec.esa.nl/pub/XMM/documents/RPSMAN.ps.gz
Portable Data Format (PDF) at ftp://astro.estec.esa.nl/pub/XMM/documents/RPSMAN.pdf
The XMM SOC advises users to use the online version whenever possible to take advantage of the hyperlinks in the text of this document to the appropriate sections of the UHB and also because it might be useful to have this Users' Manual available in one viewer while making the XRPS entries in a separate viewer session.