Catch up on Chandra's activities from the past year, including two anomaly/recovery events, virtual peer review, virtual science workshop, press releases, and an introduction to the new CXC Manager.
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The Chandra visual description program aims to improve Chandra-hosted captions or descriptions for those who are blind, have low vision, or have different learning needs, and for all non-expert users.
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Progress on improving the Chandra Data Archive with over 5000 target names of archival observations replaced with alternative names that resolve into sky coordinates.
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Results and statistics from the Cycle 23 Chandra Peer Review.
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The Chandra Source Catalog team introduces new approaches to access the source catalog and quickly visualize source properties using Python Jupyter notebooks.
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This August we held the annual science workshop on Chandra Data Science. If you missed it, read this summary for a sample of the content and to find links to all the talks.
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Advances on the Chandra Bibliography including the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) Bibliography and expanded collection of dissertations that use Chandra data.
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Next issue in Spring 2022 featuring a special science article, instrument updates, Director's Log, and the Project Scientist's Report.
Editor's Note: The Project Scientist's Report has moved to Spring due to preparations for the successful launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE).
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The Chandra Newsletter is edited by Rodolfo Montez Jr., with editorial assistance and layout by Karla Guardado. We welcome contributions from readers. Comments on the newsletter should be sent to: chandranews@cfa.harvard.edu.