James Webb Space Telescope

Re:James Webb Space Telescope by josePhoenix on Friday January 23, 2015 @10:13AM (#8935187)

Hey, my job's on HN! I work on JWST (simulation software, among other stuff) and I think it's pretty cool too :)

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope by stargazer-3 on Friday January 23, 2015 @10:47AM (#8935388)

As an astronomer who works on infrared data every day, I am really grateful for everything you guys are doing. What kind of simulation software are you developing?

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope by josePhoenix on Friday January 23, 2015 @08:52PM (#8938499)

I'm working on WebbPSF, a tool to simulate PSFs for the Webb instruments. I'm also adapting it for WFIRST, a future mission. It's going to be kind of like TinyTim is for Hubble when it's done.

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope by IndianAstronaut on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:13PM (#8936983)

Very cool. How much data is going to be arriving from JWST daily? Is it going to be readily open to the public?

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope by privong on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:23PM (#8937040)

> Is it going to be readily open to the public?

The scientific data will be available to the public, sometimes after a "proprietary" period (typically in the range 6–18 months) where the data is only accessible to the team who successfully proposed to obtain that data.

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope by josePhoenix on Friday January 23, 2015 @08:54PM (#8938504)

Not really my department! I do work at STScI, which operates the MAST archive that will eventually hold all this data, so I'm sure someone in my building knows.

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