7.1 General Guidelines
7.1.1 Deadline
Please submit well before the deadline if possible, to avoid possible last-minute hardware or overloading problems, or network delays/outages. Late proposals will not be considered.
Questions about policies and technical issues should be addressed to the STScI Help Desk (see Section 1.5) well before the deadline. While we attempt to answer all questions as rapidly as possible, we cannot guarantee a speedy response in the last week before the deadline.
7.1.2 Phase I Proposal Format
Cycle 13 proposals must be submitted electronically. Starting in Cycle 12, a java-based software tool, APT (the Astronomer’s Proposal Tools; see Section 1.4.4) is the new interface for all Phase I and Phase II proposal submissions for HST.
A Phase I proposal consists of two parts:
Both get submitted to STScI directly from within APT. Note that Student Principal Investigators should also send a certification letter from their faculty advisor (see Section 2.3.3).
Please study Chapter 7, Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 carefully. Please do so well before the submission deadline, to give the STScI Help Desk (see Section 1.5) ample time to answer any questions that you may have about the new procedures.
7.1.3 Page Limits for PDF Attachment
There are page limits on the size of your PDF attachment.
For Large GO proposals (see Section 3.2.2), Treasury GO proposals (see Section 3.2.4) and AR Legacy proposals (see Section 3.4.2) the page limits are:
- No more than 11 pages total.
- Any text in the ‘Scientific Justification’ section (see Section 9.1) may not extend beyond page 6.
For all other proposals the limits are:
- No more than 8 pages total.
- Any text in the ‘Scientific Justification’ section (see Section 9.1) may not extend beyond page 3.
In relation to these page limits, note the following:
- Any pages beyond the page limits will be discarded by STScI and will not be available to reviewers.
- There are no limits on the numbers of figures, tables and references in the PDF attachment, and on where they appear in the attachment. However, the total page limit must be obeyed.
- Your PDF attachment must be prepared with a font size of 12pt. Do not change the font size or layout in any of the templates that are provided by STScI.
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