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Everything will be public eventually. There's a bit on the data policy on wikipedia [1] but basically the operations costs are funded (in part) by people payin
by dguest 4y ago
Everything will be public eventually.
There's a bit on the data policy on wikipedia [1] but basically the operations costs are funded (in part) by people paying for telescope time. The project that is currently paying for the telescope gets exclusive access for a 1 year "embargo" period, after which the data becomes public.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Ground_support_and_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Gro...
- wthomp 4y agoSmall correction, no one will be able to pay for time on JWST. But if you put in a proposal for time and it's accepted, they will pay you. That's to make sure there is sufficient funds available to properly make use of the data you proposed for.
- dguest 4y agoActually that's sort of a large correction, thanks for pointing that out. Isn't it a bit of an inversion of the norm in astrophysics? I'd thought many grants included money for telescope time.