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Chandra Science Overview

Peer Review: All information for reviewers.
Fellowship Program: Information about, instructions for applying and symposium program and presentations.
Chandra Public Info (top page): The Home for Chandra Education and Public Outreach (EPO).
CXC Sponsored Workshops and Conferences: List of science workshops sponsored wholly or in part by the CXC.

Chandra Proposer Home: All information related to proposing for Chandra.
Cost Proposal and Funding Information: Proposing for a grant after Chandra science proposal is approved.
Education and Public Outreach Proposals: EPO Proposal information.
Director's Discretionary Program: Find out what has been observed using DDT and how to submit a proposal for DDT.
Chandra Special Calls: Associated Data: Access to released data resulting from Chandra Special Calls.

TOO/DDT Submission Instructions: Information on how to submit TOO/DDT proposals.
Web ChaSeR: Chandra Archive Search and Retrieval Interface
Target Search Page: Web interface to info rmation about all approved Chandra Observations.
Target Lists and Schedules: Static list s of approved Chandra Observations and proposal statistics for each cycle; lists are organized by cycle and proposal type, and include joint approvals lists.
Long-term Schedule: Our present estimate of future order of observations
Short-term Schedule: The short-term schedule is the plan for a week's observing time.
Web Interface to PRoVis: Web based target visibility tool
Web Interface to Chandra Guide Star Catalog: Guide stars are selected from the AGASC.

Observations Processing Status: Search and retrieve various reports about the processing applied to any given observation.
Caveats: Warnings concerning the quality of certain data products in the Chandra Archive
Custom Processing: Explains what custom processing requests are for and how to make one
CIAO Analysis Threads: Instruction s on how to process your data using the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO) software package.
Contributed Software Exchange: See what software has been contributed by Chandra Users and learn how to contribute your own software.
The CXC Atomic Database: Atomic database useful for X-ray plasma spectral modeling.
Chandra Source Catalog: The definitive catalog of all X-ray sources detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
TGCat: The Chandra Grating-Data Archive and Catalog (TGCat) makes grating spectra easily viewable and accessible thought a browsable interface.

Guidelines: Guidelines for preparation of press releases.
Guidelines for Chandra Science Publications: Including acknowledging the use of Chandra and source-naming conventions
Chandra Bibliography: List of basic references and URLs intended to be a starting point for understanding the instrument and data
Paper Statistics: Compiled data on Chandra-related publications

Update Your Address: Update your contact information, and subscribe to the newsletter.
Email Announcements: Copies of the Email Announcements sent to the Chandra community.
Chandra Users' Committee: Ensures a broad-based community input to CXC functions and provides general users with a formal mechanism for influencing the CXC.

Supernova Remnant Archive web: The catalog displays shapes and spectra of galactic and Magellanic Cloud supernova remnants.
Chandra Spectral Atlas (X-Atlas): A database of the X-ray spectra of over 250 observations made with the High Resolution Transmission Grating (HETG) on the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The Emission Line Project: Aims to produce a catalog of observed spectral lines with comparison to current plasma spectral models on an ion-by-ion basis.