Overview of Documentation

The documentation associated with the Call for Observing Proposals consists of 1 paper document and 11 electronic ``documents''; the detailed list -- complete with version numbers -- is in Appendix C. Everyone on the ISO mailing list will be sent a letter from the Director of ESA's Scientific Programme announcing the Supplemental Call. The documents listed below can be read through the World Wide Web on the ISO Public Server located at ESTEC with URL:

If you have problems downloading any of these files, please send an e-mail to the ISO HELPDESK (section 5.2).

The documents are as follows:

• ISO Supplemental Call for Observing Proposals: This letter from the Director of ESA's Scientific Programme is the formal announcement of opportunity to apply for ISO observing time via the Supplemental Call. It is sent, on paper, to all on the ISO mailing list.
• Supplemental Call for ISO Observing Proposals - Policies and Procedures: This is the document currently being read and is the ``administrative'' document of the Call, giving all necessary information about the policies adopted and the procedures to be followed.
• ISO Observer's Manual: This gives a brief description of the satellite and the ground segment, followed by some specific information on background radiation and source confusion. The last sections address the various spacecraft observing modes and give instructions on how to calculate the spacecraft overheads associated with an observation.
• Four Instrument Observer's Manuals and Addenda: There are four instrument Observers Manuals, one for each of the scientific instruments on-board ISO (ISOCAM, ISOPHOT, LWS, SWS). Each manual contains a description of an instrument and its operating modes (the Astronomical Observation Templates, AOTs) as well as detailed instructions with examples on how to calculate the necessary observing times, including instrument overheads, for each AOT. For ISOCAM, ISOPHOT and LWS, addenda to the respective Observer's manuals have been produced to document the experience gained in-orbit. These addenda update and replace sections of the pre-launch manuals. However, it is stressed that they are addenda; familiarity with the original Observer's Manual is assumed. For SWS, the pre-launch manual has been updated. All these manuals contain information relevant to both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the proposal process.
• List of Reserved Observations: This list of reserved observations, includes the guaranteed time priority 1, 2 and 3 (equivalent to grades 9, 7 and 4 in PGA) plus the open time priority 1 and 2 (equivalent to grades 8 and 6 in PGA) observations. These observations--released or unreleased, executed or awaiting scheduling--have been extracted from the Mission Data Base as of 26 July 1996. The list also contains the priority 3 open time observations (equivalent to grades 3 and 2 in PGA) that have been executed as of 5 August 1996. Per observation, the top level record contains: target name; RA and Dec (J2000); Instrument and AOT; observer ID (OBSID); proposal ID; observation sequence number; in addition, there are a number of AOT-dependent columns giving the lower level parameters which specify the observation sufficiently to permit the Proposer to avoid duplication.
• ISO Remote Proposal Submission Software (IRPSS) Users Manual: This document explains the goal and scope of IRPSS as well as how to get it running and to use it. It contains examples of the input file and a sample output file. Proposers will also have to download the IRPSS source code and associated files.