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Whatever people find it useful for. Anyone can send in a proposal; a committee picks as many of them as will fit into a workable schedule. IIRC the schedule is
by db48x 4y ago
Whatever people find it useful for. Anyone can send in a proposal; a committee picks as many of them as will fit into a workable schedule. IIRC the schedule is publicly available, so you can go look up what it will be used for if you want. Don't have a link handy.
- metadat 4y agoHow many proposals from outsiders get accepted?
- db48x 4y agoThat would depend on how you define it. Grab the list of accepted proposals and you can analyze the data yourself, to compare them to any in–group you care about: https://archive.stsci.edu/hst/abstract.html?abstract=&dispabs=yes&atitle=&fname=&lname=&prop_id=&cycle=&type=GO&submit=submit https://archive.stsci.edu/hst/abstract.html?abstract=&dispab... I’m fairly certain that most of them had a grant that paid for the telescope time.