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CDA - Acknowledging CXC Resources

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CDA Status
  • The archive is fully functional.
Reprocessing Status
    Reprocessing IV has been completed in December 2014.
Current Software Releases
  • ASCDSVER: 10.13
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Announcements
  • Electrical Outage 11/05/21 - 11/06/21
    2021-11-05
    There will be a planned electrical outage Friday, November 5 2021, 5:30PM - Saturday, November 6 2021, 6:00PM EDT. During this time period ChaSeR and other archive interfaces will be unavailable.
  • Electrical Outage on 07/28/21
    2021-07-26
    There will be a planned electrical outage Wednesday, July 28 2021, 8:00PM - 10:00PM EDT. During this time period ChaSeR and other archive interfaces will be unavailable.
  • Downtime on 6/12/21
    2021-06-10
    Due to electrical work, the public interfaces of the Chandra Data Archive will not be available on Saturday 6/12 from 4 AM to 9 PM.
  • Repro V Begins
    2020-10-26
    The fifth major reprocessing of the archive (Repro V) has started! Details can be found here.
  • Past Notices
Request for Acknowledgment of Use of Chandra Resources

Chandra users are asked to acknowledge, in the acknowledgment section of any resulting publications, their use of Chandra data (new or archived), the Chandra Source Catalog, and/or CXC software. Acknowledgment of relevant CXC-issued NASA grants would also be appreciated.

This will help us greatly to keep track of software usage, archive and catalog access, etc. - information that is essential for our providing full accountability of our work and services and collect bibliographic information about how Chandra data are used.

The following language should be used for publications using only observations from the Chandra Data Archive: :

This research has made use of data obtained from the Chandra Data Archive provided by the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC).
The following language should be used for publications using both observations from the Chandra Data Archive and data of any type from the Chandra Source Catalog:
This research has made use of data obtained from the Chandra Data Archive and the Chandra Source Catalog, both provided by the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC).
For publications using only data from the Chandra Source Catalog, the following statement should be employed (more details on how to acknowledge and cite the CSC can be found here):
This research has made use of data obtained from the Chandra Source Catalog provided by the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC).
For acknowledgements of usage of software provided by the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC) in the application packages CIAO and Sherpa, please refer to the “Citing CIAO” section in this page. Always include NASA grant numbers, if applicable.

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Last modified: 2020-04-06

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