Annotated Index of cxc.harvard.edu

Chandra Science Overview

Introduction to Chandra Science

Peer Review
All information for reviewers.
Fellowship Program
Information about, instructions for applying and symposium program and presentations.
Chandra Public Info (top page)
The Home for Chandra Education and Public Outreach (EPO).
The Emission Line Project
Aims to produce a catalog of observed spectral lines with comparison to current plasma spectral models on an ion-by-ion basis.
CXC Sponsored Workshops and Conferences
List of science workshops sponsored wholly or in part by the CXC.

Proposing to Use Chandra

Chandra Proposer Home
All information related to proposing for Chandra.
Cost Proposal and Funding Information
Proposing for a grant after Chandra science proposal is approved.
Education and Public Outreach Proposals
EPO Proposal information.

Chandra Data, Analysis and Processing

Observations Processing Status
Search and retrieve various reports about the processing applied to any given observation.
Caveats
Warnings concerning the quality of certain data products in the Chandra Archive
Custom Processing
Explains what custom processing requests are for and how to make one
Reprocessing Information
Details on the latest data reprocessing efforts.
CIAO Analysis Threads
Instruction s on how to process your data using the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO) software package.
Contributed Software Exchange
See what software has been contributed by Chandra Users and learn how to contribute your own software.
The CXC Atomic Database
Atomic database useful for X-ray plasma spectral modeling.
Chandra Special Calls: Associated Data
Access to released data resulting from Chandra Special Calls.
Chandra Source Catalog
The definitive catalog of all X-ray sources detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Chandra Targets, Scheduling Info, and DDT/TOO Time

TOO/DDT Submission Instructions
Information on how to submit TOO/DDT proposals.
Director's Discretionary Program
Find out what has been observed using DDT and how to submit a proposal for DDT.
Cycle8/Cycle9 TOO periods
Start and Cutoff dates for triggering TOOs.
Target and Archive Help Page: FAQs
FAQs about searching for and retrieving data.
Web ChaSeR
Chandra Archive Search and Retrieval Interface
Target Search Page
Web interface to info rmation about all approved Chandra Observations.
Target Lists and Schedules
Static list s of approved Chandra Observations and proposal statistics for each cycle; lists are organized by cycle and proposal type, and include joint approvals lists.
Long-term Schedule
Our present estimate of future order of observations
Short-term Schedule
The short-term schedule is the plan for a week's observing time.
Web Interface to ObsVis
Roll and Visibility Plots.
Web Interface to Chandra Guide Star Catalog
Guide stars are selected from the AGASC.

Chandra User Community

Community and Events

Update Your Address
Update your contact information, subscribe to the newsletter, subscribe to email annoucements list.
E-mail Bulletin
Copies of the E-mail Bulletins and Announcements sent to the Chandra community.
Chandra Users' Email Discussion Group
Trade your ideas, questions and answers with other Chan dr a users.
Guidelines
Guidelines for preparation of press releases.
Chandra Users' Committee
Ensures a broad-based community input to CXC functions and provides general users with a formal mechanism for influencing the CXC.
Guidelines for Chandra Science Publications

Science Projects within the CXC

Supernova Remnant Archive web
The catalog displays shapes and spectra of galactic and Magellanic Cloud supernova remnants.
Chandra Spectral Atlas (X-Atlas)
A database of the X-ray spectra of over 250 observations made with the High Resolution Transmission Grating (HETG) on the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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