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Out of curiosity: Can anyone explain to me what the behind the scenes process is with this data? This image came from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and took
by ohyoutravel 10y ago
Out of curiosity: Can anyone explain to me what the behind the scenes process is with this data? This image came from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and took about 11.5 weeks of observation to collect. Once that 11.5 weeks is up, what do the scientists actually do with it to "process" it or draw conclusions? Is it widely disseminated and people across the world work on it, or is it mostly of interest to the team that started the observation?
- simplicio 10y agoUsually 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.
- greglindahl 10y ago... 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.