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Some Known Proposal Opportunities

Facility and Cycle	Proposal Deadline	When Observations Scheduled	Notes
Swift Cycle 6	30 September, 2009	April, 2010 - April, 2011	Non-GRB pointing proposals allowed. Announcement.
NRAO Large Proposals	1 October, 2008 - Passed		VLA, VLBA, GBT - Includes VIPS and MOJAVE blazar studies
XMM AO-9	9 Oct., 2009	May 2010 - April 2011	Announcement due Aug. 26
GALEX - Cycle 6	19 June, 2009 - Passed	Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2010	http://galexgi.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/galex/Cycle6/
INTEGRAL AO7	February 20, 2009 - Passed	16 Aug 2009 - 15 Aug 2010	http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=INTEGRAL&page=AO7
Suzaku Cycle 4	5 December, 2008 - Passed	April, 2009 - April, 2010	Information HERE
RXTE Cycle 14	13 August, 2009	January - September, 2010	Proposal Information
Spitzer Cycle 6	10 October 2008 - Passed	June, 2009 - ??	Large (Exploration Science) proposals Information
Herschel	26 Oct. 2007 - PASSED	~2008	http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Herschel/propinfo.shtml
Chandra Cycle 11	March 17, 2009 - PASSED	Dec. 2010 - Dec. 2011	http://cxc.harvard.edu/proposer/
GLAST Cycle 1	7 September 2007 - PASSED	Jan. 2008 - Jan. 2009 (tentative)	GLAST Science Support Center Proposal Information HERE
AGILE AO1	31 Oct. - PASSED	Dec. 2007 - Nov. 2008	http://agile.asdc.asi.it/ao.html
NRAO Regular Programs	1 Feb., 1 June, 1 Oct.	Trimester after proposal cycle ends	Aim for radio timing proposal for 1 Feb 2007
NOAO Regular Programs	30 Sept., 31 March	Feb.-July, Aug.-Jan.
NOAO Survey Programs	15 March
Effelsberg radio telescope	3 October 2006	Within year after acceptance	Radio timing proposal (Michael Kramer, PI)
Nançay radio telescope	~15 April, ~15 Oct	For 6 mos, begin 1 July, 1 Dec	Renew current proposal bi-annually
ESO	30 Sept., 31 March	Starts 6 months after proposal due	Announcement
ATNF	15 June, 15 Dec.	Starts 3 months after proposal due	Ongoing Radio pulsar timing proposal (Simon Johnston, PI)
REM	April 22, 2007 for AO16	Starts 3 months after proposal due	Web site.
Hubble Space Telescope	7 Mar 2008 - PASSED		Cycle 17. Call for proposals

Submitted LAT Team Proposals

Suzaku proposal for PKS 1510-089 and BL Lac. The proposal for the observation, whose principal investigator is Greg Madejski, was submitted on Jan. 6, 2006. The submission form is here.

Swift TOO proposal for flaring blazars. The text is here. The target list is here. The proposal was submitted by Rita Sambruna (with critical help from Jennifer Carson) on behalf of the LAT Team.
The following proposal to time one hundred pulsars with the Nançay radio telescope was accepted over the summer (David Smith & Denis Dumora, in coordination with some HESS and XMM needs): https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/9650/form-NRT-Avril2006_HEfinal.doc?version=1
Nordic Optical Telescope proposal to measure optical polarization for 120 gamma-ray blazar candidates. The principal investigator is Stefano Ciprini. The proposal is here.
Suzaku Cycle 2 proposals: Two proposals on behalf of the group were submitted on Dec. 1, 2006. One ToO proposal on two flaring blazars among BL Lac, PKS 0735+178, PKS 0537-441, AO 0235+164, 0716+714 and another one on PKS 0528+134. The requested period is January 15- April 1, 2008.