Homepages need updating due to Arecibo destruction

DGG
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I notice the home pages still say in many places that the data from this project is using Arecibo.

Since that telescope was destroyed almost a year ago, shouldn't it's reference to it being a data source be removed from the intro home pages?  It served it's science well but it's gone now.  The home pages should be telling people what sources are providing the data now.  Maybe a short mention of it's prior usefulness.

 

Gary Roberts
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DGG wrote:The home pages

DGG wrote:
The home pages should be telling people what sources are providing the data now.

I imagine you do realise that the data being analysed did come from Arecibo when it was working?  Just because the infrastructure isn't supplying new data, it doesn't mean that all the existing data has vanished as well.

Arecibo generated it and researchers will probably be trawling through it for as long as they consider it useful to do so.

Cheers,
Gary.

Mike Hewson
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Indeed, not all is lost for

Indeed, not all is lost for doing radio astronomy at the site with talk of a new observatory rising from the rubble !

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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