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So we got an X-ray telescope that has observed a black hole in an X-ray binary. But how does one access the data? This is such a cool question with a rather simple answer: the data is publicly available! 1/5
Usually, an observation happens because someone wrote an observational proposal and got time on a telescope to observe a certain source. The data obtained will sometimes become immediately public, but usually will stay "private" to the proposers for 6 to 12 months. 2/5
A proposal is a lot of work, so the idea is that the original team gets a chance to work on it and to do a good, thorough job! Then the data goes into archives. There are many different ones. A really cool one is #ESASky by @esascience sky.esa.int/?target=185.47… 3/5
