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Archival data reuse

The practice of extracting new scientific results from observations already collected and stored in public archives, rather than from newly scheduled observing time.

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Eighty-four hypersoft X-ray sources surfaced in Chandra channels astronomers had skipped

The 84 detections came out of public Chandra data on six galaxies with no new observing time, and the class is defined by a spectral shape that co-author Jimmy Irwin thinks may cover three different kinds of stellar remnant.

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Adoption20
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Incentives62
Confidence68