Re:Deepest X-ray Image Ever Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove
by simplicio on Thursday January 05, 2017 @05:18PM
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Usually the PI that submitted the observation proposal gets the data for their own use for a number of months, after which time its released on the publicly accessible Chandra data archive.
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Re:Deepest X-ray Image Ever Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove
by greglindahl on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:06PM
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... which has long the rule for all US-federal-government funded astronomy instruments; generally the raw data goes public after 12 months. It's extremely useful if you're looking at something and it was observed years ago for a different purpose.