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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=359 height=160 style='width:3.7416in;height:1.6666in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D95027.59ADCF90" alt="A
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Description automatically generated"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F6062;background:white'>ESO Period 117 Call for Proposals</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released the Call for Proposals for Period 117 for observations between</span> <span style='background:white'>1 May 2026 – 30 April 2027. P117 marks the transition to a Yearly Cycle (YC), with future Calls for Proposals only being issued once per year. In addition a Fast Track Channel (FTC) with staggered deadlines throughout the year will be introduced during P117. The FTC will be offered initially one or two times per Period to be announced via ESO Science Newsletters, and will be available only for VLT/I Normal Programmes requesting less than ~20 hours of observation time.</span><span style='color:windowtext;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>Under the terms of the Strategic Partnership between ESO and Australia, Australian-based astronomers have access to the facilities of the La Silla and Paranal Observatories, specifically the: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:5.0pt;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>3.6-m telescope (<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/5Ac4C3QNPBi2lgB3gcgfwsQPFNn?domain=eso.org">3.6</a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>New Technology Telescope (<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/F0p2C4QOPEilO2oP2Txh8s4XYDk?domain=eso.org">NTT</a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Very Large Telescope (<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/QvtpC5QPXJi67Pv8PTyiXskt7N4?domain=eso.org">VLT</a>) <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Very Large Telescope Interferometer (<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xqBPC6XQ4Lfyv6Dk6T5sxs5oBuv?domain=eso.org">VLTI</a>).<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>The proposal deadline is <b>Tuesday 23 September 2025 at noon Central European Summer Time</b> (8pm AEST, 6pm AWST). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>Complete details on how to apply can be found at the </span><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/L7UlC71R2NTZKXqMXHqtGsoOHUe?domain=eso.org"><span style='background:white'>P117 Call for Proposals web page</span></a><span style='background:white'>. All applicants should consult the </span><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/a7ZHC81V0PTY05r35cwu7syqtJw?domain=eso.org"><span style='background:white'>Call for Proposals document for Period 117</span></a><span style='background:white'> and are required to have an </span><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/dh5dC91WPRT2XW1nWc0CzsqS24C?domain=eso.org/"><span style='background:white'>ESO User Portal</span></a><span style='background:white'> account to submit or be on proposals, as well as optimise their participation in Distributed Peer Review (if required) through the selection of appropriate keywords. Note that 21 new keywords have been added in P117, in the fields of exoplanets (11), stars (5), galaxies (3), and cosmology (2), <b>so all PIs and Co-Is are urged to login to the User Portal and update their keywords as appropriate</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>A wealth of information for Australian applicants can be found on AAL’s </span><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/SIUlC0YKPvim5X8vXTrF1s9GL_x?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au/"><span style='background:white'>Australian ESO Forum</span></a><span style='background:white'>. Any questions about policies or the practical aspects of proposal preparation should be addressed to the ESO Observing Programmes Office, </span><a href="mailto:opo@eso.org"><span style='background:white'>opo@eso.org</span></a><span style='background:white'>. Applicants who may wish to seek advice on proposal or observing strategies, optimal choice of instrument, etc. are invited to contact AAL’s ESO Program Manager at </span><a href="mailto:Stuart.Ryder@astronomyaustralia.org.au" title="mailto:Stuart.Ryder@astronomyaustralia.org.au"><span style='background:white'>Stuart.Ryder@astronomyaustralia.org.au</span></a><span style='background:white'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='background:white'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F6062;background:white'>What's new in Period 117?</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>Applicants are strongly encouraged to review the expected changes in instrumentation offered and procedures for Period 117 given in <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/a7ZHC81V0PTY05r35cwu7syqtJw?domain=eso.org">Sec. 2 of the Call for Proposals.</a> Among the items likely to be of most interest to the Australian community are:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='color:windowtext;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><b>Changes to <span style='color:black'>Proposal</span> Request Limits: </b>With the start of the YC, Normal Programmes and Monitoring Programmes can now request up to 200h. Large Programmes are being accepted in P117, and now cover up to two Periods (two years) with a minimum request of 200 hours of observing time. While the number of hours that Normal or Large Programmes may request have increased, <b>the page limits for each proposal type are unchanged</b>, with the maximum total length of the “Scientific rationale” section for Normal and Large Programmes being 2 pages and 5 pages, respectively (including figures and references). Due to the change to the YC and the uncertainty about the number of submitted proposals, in P117 the limit on the time request to qualify for the DPR will be set after the proposal submission deadline. Therefore, the review assignment method (DPR or OPC panels) will not be known to the PI at proposal submission time.<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=2 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><b>Joint VLT/I-ALMA proposals</b>: ESO <span style='color:windowtext'>ha</span>s a joint channel for scientific programmes requiring both VLT/I observations and ALMA observations. ESO may award a maximum of 50 hours of ALMA observing time on each of its arrays to Joint Proposals per year. Further details can be found on the <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/nlEuCgZ0N1iGR1k61IyHxs4pAEi?domain=eso.org">Joint VLT/I-ALMA proposals page</a>.<span style='color:windowtext'> </span>ESO has confirmed that ALMA would always treat an Australian-led Joint VLT/I-ALMA proposal as “<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Y5g6CjZ1N7iRX49E4uYI3smZTuP?domain=almascience.eso.org"><span style='color:blue'>Open Skies</span></a>”, regardless of whether they get their time allocated through <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/psjHCk81N9t5jyNlyIySEsGmEnn?domain=almascience.eso.org"><span style='color:blue'>ALMA’s own joint proposal process</span></a>, or through a joint VLT/I allocation. If in doubt, users should contact the <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/H7UKClx1NjiX8w7GwSDTvszayAw?domain=help.almascience.org/"><span style='color:blue'>ALMA helpdesk</span></a><span style='color:windowtext'>.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=3 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><b>MUSE Wide Field Mode with Adaptive Optics</b>: Astronomers are encouraged to use the MUSE Wide Field Mode with Adaptive Optics, because it is more efficient and suitable than non-AO for most science cases. While the non-AO mode is essential for programmes gathering information over the 582–597 nm wavelength which is otherwise blocked by the Na Notch filter, the benefits of AO are many-fold. Not only are the operations at the telescope routine, but importantly seeing is improved in any observing conditions (poor seeing, light cirrus, high wind speed) while proven to be more stable during long exposure times. In case no Natural Guide Star is available, the Tip-Tilt-free mode using the telescope field stabilisation still provides a significant improvement on image quality. As a result, shorter exposure times are required in AO mode to reach equivalent signal-to-noise<span style='color:windowtext'>.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=4 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:windowtext;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><b>Instrumentation updates:</b><o:p></o:p></li></ol><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=4 type=1><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:windowtext;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo2'>VISIR will be decommissioned in Period 117, and is no longer offered on UT1. However the <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/LhGlCmO5gluW3o2XocEU5sR50gi?domain=eso.org">KMOS Public Surveys</a> that will span over 3 years (with a total of 285 nights) starting in late P116 will increase pressure on UT1, due to the reduced amount of open time available.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:windowtext;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo2'>MOONS, FORS-Up, and SOXS will all undergo commissioning in P117, and may be offered via the FTC prior to P118. EFOSC2 is offered in P117, with plans to be decommissioned after SOXS enters stable operations.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:windowtext;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo2'>The Gravity+ AO (GPAO) system on the VLTI offers Laser Guide Star (LGS) modes for the first time in P117. NGS-VIS and LGS-VIS modes are offered for GRAVITY and MATISSE, while LGS/NGSIR is offered for GRAVITY only. The p2 tool for GRAVITY now includes an ObsPrep tab that supports the selection of a suitable Coudé guide star.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:windowtext;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo2'>A fraction of the observing time with the VLTI visitor instrument suite <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/SBdLCnx1jnim2Z5wZT1c6sJacab?domain=asgard-vlti.github.io">ASGARD</a> is open to the community starting from P117, pending successful review of the observing proposals by the OPC/DPR. A preliminary coordination with the ASGARD consortium is mandatory. <o:p></o:p></li></ul></ol><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>We remind applicants of the following important policies:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><b>Distributed Peer Review: </b>ESO <span style='color:windowtext'>uses</span> a Distributed Peer Review (DPR) process for proposals requesting a total time including overheads below a certain threshold (TBD for P117 – see above), with the exception of proposals including at least one ToO run; proposals for Calibration Programmes; <span style='color:windowtext'>Joint proposals; </span>and DDT proposals. All other proposals submitted for P117 will be reviewed in the usual way by the OPC and its sub-panels. PIs of proposals qualifying for DPR accept that their proposals are reviewed by ten peers who have also submitted proposals in P117, and consent to reviewing ten proposals submitted by their peers as laid out in the <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/LtsYCoV1kpfvRV49VHrfMspf4r2?domain=eso.org">DPR rules and guidelines.</a> The PI may elect to delegate the reviewer's role to one of the co-Is listed in the proposal.<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=2 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><b>Visitor Mode:</b> Requests for Visitor Mode observations may be submitted (and are encouraged for new users in particular) for P117, although any scheduled runs may need to be executed in <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/eZC8Cp81lrtAW0Dk0TphYsG6PS4?domain=eso.org">Designated Visitor Mode</a> instead<span style='color:windowtext'> for operational reasons.</span> <span style='color:windowtext'>D</span>irect Qantas services between Sydney and Santiago<span style='color:windowtext'> operate 4 times per week, as well as daily services on LATAM via Auckland, and direct LATAM services between Melbourne and Santiago 3 times per week</span>.<span style='color:windowtext'> ESO will pay for the costs of one visiting observer per run, and may also cover the costs of an accompanying student.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=3 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><b>Scientific keywords</b><b><span style='color:windowtext'>: </span></b>From the <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/E7YzCq71mwfX3yWByS1iPsE0fcd?domain=eso.org">p1 interface</a> users must select at least two keywords, and at most five keywords (ten for Large Programmes). The keywords must be selected in decreasing order of relevance (i.e., the first selected keyword is the most relevant).<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=4 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><b>Proposal anonymisation: </b>Under the Dual-Anonymous Peer Review (DAPR) policy applicants must formulate the scientific rationales of their proposals following <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/r7t8Cr81nyt2YR9MRcDsDs40i8D?domain=eso.org">these anonymisation rules and examples</a>, which includes a detailed description of the DAPR paradigm. <i>Failure to abide by the DAPR rules may lead to the disqualification of the proposal</i>.<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=5 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>If <b>Artificial Intelligence</b> services are used to help write a proposal, the PI remains responsible for the content of the proposal and ensuring the text is properly referenced according to normal scientific standards.<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'> </span></i></b><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F6062;background:white'>Important Data Privacy Notice for all recent and intending Australian ESO applicants</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>ESO supplies AAL with telescope/instrument demand and time allocation data relating to Australian astronomers only. Australian ESO applicant data is used only for statistical purposes, and will only be published or made available to other third parties such as AAL member institutions, in aggregated and anonymised form. ESO’s data collection/use provisions are </span><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/f9cECvl1rKiA5nX1nTVtZsQVP5n?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au" title="https://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/eso-blog/australian-eso-forum/australian-eso-proposal-statistics"><span style='background:white'>available on the AAL ESO Forum</span></a><span style='background:white'> for reference. It may be necessary to use automated data matching from data provided to the </span><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/8NoDCwV1vMfymEp6ETyuOsJQUyf?domain=lens.datacentral.org.au"><span style='background:white'>Data Central Lens proposal database</span></a><span style='background:white'> to confirm the identity of ESO applicants. 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