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INTEGRAL AO-8 Call for Data Right Proposals is open! 30 August 2010 Today, the Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. David Southwood) has released the 8th Announcement of Opportunity for data right proposals with INTEGRAL.
This announcement solicits proposals for obtaining data rights to targets within AO-8 observations to be carried out from January 2011 onwards. Proposers from all over the world are welcome to participate. All proposals will be subject to an independent peer review by the INTEGRAL Time Allocation Committee (TAC). The deadline for Proposals submission is Friday 8 October 2010, 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT).
More information can be found on the AO-8 Data Right Proposals page. 
INTEGRAL AO-8 General Programme approved 25 June 2010 The INTEGRAL AO-8 General Programme, as recommended by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) and approved on the 15th of June by the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. David Southwood), has been released and the observers have been informed.
Integral SPI detector failure 7 June 2010 An anomaly on SPI Ge Detector #1 occurred on May 27. The failure occurred 31 hours after radiation belt exit (at an altitude of 158000km) and approximately 6 weeks after the end of the last annealing. The MOC and SPI teams are still investigating the anomaly, but the chance of any recovery is slight. Four Germanium detectors out of nineteen have failed, resulting in a decrease of the scientific performance by 12% with respect to the full detector configuration. Detector #2 failed on 06/12/2003; detector #17 on 17/07/2004; detector #5 on 19/02/2009 and detector #1 on 27/05/2010.
8th Announcement of Opportunity (AO-8): preliminary statistics 29 April 2010 The deadline for the submission of proposals for AO-8 open time observations was on 23 April 2010, and all proposals are in the ISOC database. Below are some preliminary statistics on the proposals that have been received. Read more...
2010 Zeldovich Medal for Vito Sguera 28 April 2010 On 01 April 2010, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) has decided to present the 2010 Zeldovich Medal for COSPAR Scientific Commission E (Research in Astrophysics from Space) to Dr. Vito Sguera (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale & Fisica Cosmica, Bologna, Italy). The Zeldovich Medal is given to young scientists who have demonstrated excellence and achievement in their field of research. Read more... |
