CDA - Proprietary Data
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Reprocessing IV has been completed in December 2014.
- ASCDSVER: 10.13
- CALDBVER: 4.11.5
- 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
PI and CoI, Observer
Associated with each proposal is a Principal Investigator (PI) and, optionally, a Co-Investigator/Observer (CoI/O). If there is no CoI/O, the PI is the Observer.
- The Observer is the person who is responsible for the observation parameters and with whom User Support works to ensure a correct observation specification.
- E-mail notification of the data being ready for download is sent to the PI and the CoI/O. If hard medium distribution is requested, the medium is sent to the PI.
- Change of CoI/O: a request for changing the CoI/O has to come from the PI by e-mail and be directed to the Director's Office at: cdo@head.cfa.harvard.edu . (Note that a CoI/O can only be assigned per proposal, not on the basis of an individual ObsId.)
Procedures and Policies
Proprietary data are distributed through ChaSeR and on physical media. Data products generated by Automated Processing first have to go through Verification and Validation. The Principal Investigator and the Co-Investigator/Observer will then be notified that the data are available through ChaSeR; at the same time a copy is made on physical medium, if requested, that is mailed to the PI only. Products generated by Custom Processing also go through V&V but are only distributed through the ftp site. In all cases the tar file contains a Standard Data Distribution.
Access to proprietary data (i.e., the proprietary products associated with proprietary observations) is restricted to two accounts: a PI account (that provides access to all proprietary observations of the PI) and a proposal account (that provides access to all proprietary data associated with a particular proposal and that the PI may want to share with collaborators). The Data Distribution e-mail notification contains a reminder about the latter account.
The staging procedures for data retrieved from the CDA include the use of hidden directories to protect the potentially proprietary nature of the data. This mechanism is effective but requires the user to enter the full path or URL, rather than meandering through the ftp directory structure. The only situation where this might cause a problem is when users employ Safari as their web browser; we recommend switching web browsers in that case.
