[HN Gopher] JWST User Documentation
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       JWST User Documentation
        
       Author : forgotthepasswd
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2022-01-09 13:19 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (jwst-docs.stsci.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (jwst-docs.stsci.edu)
        
       | trynewideas wrote:
       | Interesting to see a public docs site using Confluence.
        
       | Kletiomdm wrote:
       | Is there a simulator for all of this?
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       | Or how does a researcher uses those manuals for requesting time?
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       | Or are all request/approvals going through a core tech team?
        
         | sam-2727 wrote:
         | 1. What do you mean by simulator? The wavelength
         | range/sensitivity of the various instruments has been
         | simulated.
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         | 2. I think you use this tool to submit proposals: https://jwst-
         | docs.stsci.edu/jwst-astronomers-proposal-tool-o...
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         | 3. They go through a panel to be peer-reviewed and compared to
         | other proposals (similar to how grants are allocated by the
         | government). I'm fairly certain this process also includes
         | review by instrumentation experts. The process is double-blind
         | and the first cycle has already been allocated:
         | https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-
         | progra....
        
         | pkaye wrote:
         | They have a tool called APT that lets the researcher define the
         | parameters of the experiment (target object, instrument
         | settings, time, etc) and the software will find an open time
         | slot which can meet those parameters. Then it goes through a
         | double blind scientific review process. The researchers that
         | worked on the telescope hardware get some amount of guaranteed
         | time slots while the rest is used for general observers.
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         | You can see video tutorials on the software here:
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         | https://www.youtube.com/c/JWSTObserver/playlists
        
       | pgn674 wrote:
       | I was clicking around and found documentation explaining what
       | they'll be doing for the next 5 months, after the insertion burn
       | and after it cools down enough: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-
       | observatory-hardware/jwst-w...
        
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