NRAO User Portal and Proposal Submission Guide

  1. The NRAO User Portal
  2. Proposal Submission Tool
    1. Overview
      1. What is the PST
      2. Proposal Types
      3. Proposal Section
      4. Text Length Within Entry Fields
      5. Text Formatting Within Entry Fields
      6. Levels of Help
      7. Reporting Errors, Problems, and Suggestions
      8. Sources, Resources, and Sessions
    2. Getting Started
      1. How Do You Run the PST?
      2. Proposals Section
    3. Entering Proposal Information
      1. Proposal Confidentiality
      2. General
      3. Authors
      4. Scientific Justification
      5. Technical Justification
      6. Sources
      7. Resources
      8. Sessions
      9. Student Support
    4. Submitting a Proposal
  3. Data Processing
  4. Observation Preparation
  5. Helpdesk
  6. User Profile Management
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Examples of Using Sessions
    1. GBT Session Examples
    2. VLA Session Examples
  9. About This Document

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