HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24

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10.8	Archival Research Support

STScI provides limited assistance in the reduction and analysis of archived data. Although a Contact Scientist is not usually assigned to a funded AR Program, STScI will do so upon request. The CS will serve as a single point of contact to help resolve calibration issues. Proposers should plan to conduct the bulk of their archival research at their home institutions, and should request funds accordingly. Limited resources preclude extensive assistance in the reduction and analysis of data by non-funded archival researchers.

Archival projects utilizing the Hubble Source Catalog (HSC) will be assigned a contact scientist. Proposers interested in the viability of potential projects should contact HSC personnel via the archive help desk.

•	Archival Researchers with questions about the retrieval of data should contact the Archive Hotseat (see Appendix A.1).

•	Archival Researchers with questions about the analysis and calibration of data should contact the STScI Help Desk (see Section 1.5).