Announcement of Opportunity for Swift Cycle 6 Guest Investigator Program
Deadline for proposal submissions has now passed.
A new cycle of Swift's Guest Investigator program was announced with proposals due by 20:30 UT (21:30 BST) on September 30th 2009. Cycle 6 observations will begin in April 2010 and last for a year.
Swift provides an opportunity for simultaneous optical to hard X-ray observations of targets, allowing broad-band analysis. The X-ray Telescope is specifically designed to choose the best operating mode for the X-ray flux of the object in question
In this cycle, there will be 2 Ms available for non-ToO targets, 1 Ms for fill-ins and 800 ks for ToOs.
Monitoring campaigns (programmes requiring two or more "visits" to the same target) are permitted, with up to a total of 800 short (<4 ks) and 100 long (>4 ks) visits accepted (total across all proposal categories).
Requests for fill-in observations cannot be time-constrained, although both ToOs and non-ToOs may be, provided the window for the observation exceeds 3 hours. No more than 300 time-constrained observations will be accepted during this cycle.
The duration of an observation is limited to between 1 and 20 ks, although several observations may be requested.
See here for more details, or contact the Leicester Swift help-desk. Information on NASA's science strategy is also available.
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