vicgrinberg, 1 month ago

@joxean the data is publicly available after a short period that allows scientists to actually focus on the work - similar to policies of other space agencies :)

joxean, 1 month ago

@vicgrinberg My criticism is more based on "there is no centralised place where I know I will find this or that mission's data" than anything else. Because, unless I'm mistaken, ESA doesn't have a portal like Mast (https://mast.stsci.edu), right?

vicgrinberg, 1 month ago

@joxean MAST contains some missions but not all. There is ESASky https://sky.esa.int/esasky/ if you want multiple missions in different wavelength.

joxean, 1 month ago

@vicgrinberg Oh, I didn't know this one, thank you!

vicgrinberg, 1 month ago

@joxean you are welcome :) ESA collegues are keeping developing and enhancing it and they also listed to feedback :)

juandesant, 1 month ago

@vicgrinberg you should ping Bruno Merin to bring his Twitter account over here… same to Christophe Arvisette, Deborah Baines, Pedro Osuna, and co…

vicgrinberg, 1 month ago

@joxean but generally, for astronomy missions, most archives are per mission, partially due to different requirements.

juandesant, 1 month ago

@vicgrinberg @joxean and you can always use Virtual Observatory tools such as Aladin 1 or Topcat 2, or query tools such as Astroquery 3.

juandesant, 1 month ago

@vicgrinberg @joxean most astronomical archives provide an ObsCore table that you can query (for instance, with Topcat), and you can apply your query to multiple archived.

https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/ObsCoreDMvOnedotOne/WD-ObsCore-v1.1-20160127.pdf

(Disclaimer: I was one of the co-authors of the 1.0 proposal.)