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Some Known Proposal Opportunities

Facility and Cycle	Proposal Deadline	When Observations Scheduled	Notes
INTEGRAL AO-8 (Data Rights)	8 October 2010	Jan 1 2011 - Jan 1 2012	http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=INTEGRAL&page=AO8S
ESO Period 86	March 31st - PASSED	October 2010-March 2011	Announcement
ESO Period 85	October 1st CET	April, 2010 - October, 2010	Possibility for joint VLT+XMM proposals. Announcement
Swift Cycle 7	29 September, 2010	April, 2011 - April, 2012	Non-GRB pointing proposals allowed. Announcement.
NRAO Large Proposals	1 October, 2008 - Passed		VLA, VLBA, GBT - Includes VIPS and MOJAVE blazar studies
XMM AO-10	8 October 2010	May 2011 - April 2012	Proposal Information
Suzaku Cycle 6	19 November, 2010	April, 2011 - April, 2012	Information HERE
RXTE Cycle 15	16 September, 2010	January - September, 2011	Proposal Information
Spitzer Cycle 7	23 April, 2010 - PASSED	August, 2010 - ??	Information
Herschel	22 July 2010	~2011	http://herschel.esac.esa.int/
SOFIA	30 July 2010	~2011	http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Science/proposals/basic_science/
Chandra Cycle 12	March 18, 2010 - Passed	Dec. 2011 - Dec. 2012	http://cxc.harvard.edu/proposer/
Fermi Cycle 3	5 February 2010 - Passed	Ongoing	Fermi Science Support Center Proposal Information HERE
AGILE AO3	30 April - PASSED	Dec. 2010 - Nov. 2011	http://agile.asdc.asi.it/ao3.html
NRAO Regular Programs	1 Feb., 1 June, 1 Oct.	Trimester after proposal cycle ends
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	26 Feb. 2010 - PASSED	Aug. 2010 - Aug. 2011	Cycle 18. Proposal information

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.