XMM-Newton Phase II RPS Users Manual

4.2 Signing up as an XRPS user

Only users with proposals that passed the Observatory Time Allocation Committee (OTAC) successfully can use the XRPS.

Valid User IDs and Passwords for the current AO were distributed by email to the corresponding PIs. To recover forgotten or lost User IDs and Passwords, please contact the XMM-Newton Users Support Group via xmmpi@sciops.esa.int. Also use this account for all proposal related questions.

In the cover page of the XRPS system (see Fig. 1), at the URL http://xmmrps.esac.esa.int/ you are asked to load your proposal.

Figure 1: Screen shot of the XRPS home page.

This leads to the next page where you have to enter your user details (see Fig. 2).

Figure 2: Screen shot of the XRPS signup page.

Once this is done, press the ''Commit'' button at the bottom of the page to send your input to an intermediate memory area (more details on this will follow in § 4.3).

Some users might want to use more than one User ID (e.g., when preparing a proposal not only for themselves, but also for somebody else). In such a case, it is not possible to work on more than one proposal simultaneously during the same browser session. One can only work on different proposals sequentially, i.e., in order to start another XRPS session, the browser session must first be exited and a new one started. This is a safety procedure, where login information is stored in cookies which are only deleted once the browser session is closed.