MISSION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Attributing MAST Missions

Use the following text snippets to acknowledge data from the various missions hosted by MAST. The attributions should appear in the Acknowledgements section of the paper.

HST

The acknowledgement text should be similar to the following:

and the observing program identifier(s) should be listed at the end.

JWST

All refereed publications based on JWST data should carry the following acknowledgement:

If the research used any data from programs with zero exclusive access periods (including ERS, DD, ERO, Large and Treasury, and other GO, GTO and CAL programs where the default exclusive access periods have been waived):

If the research was supported by a NASA JWST grant managed by STScI, the publication should also carry the following acknowledgment at the end of the text:

The relevant program ID(s) should be inserted into these phrases where indicated.

DSS

The acknowledgement text for the Digitized Sky Survey products should be selected from the following as appropriate:

GSC

The acknowledgement text for the Guide Star Catalog should be one of the following:

Hubble Legacy Archive

The acknowledgement text should be similar to the following:

Users of the Hubble Source Catalog (which is derived from the HLA) are also requested to acknowledge the HSC in the text of their paper, and to consider a reference to Whitmore et al. (2016) who describe the HSC:

Whitmore, B. C., et al. 2016, AJ, 151, A134, available on-line: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AJ....151..134W

Kepler/K2

The acknowledgement text for Kepler and K2 mission data products should be the following:

Pan-STARRS

The acknowledgement text for the Pan-STARRS PS1 survey products should be the following:

The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) and the PS1 public science archive have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation Grant No. AST–1238877, the University of Maryland, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

In addition, users of PS1 data are requested to cite one or more of the following papers, as appropriate:

Chambers, K. C., et al. 2016, The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys, available on-line: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05560
Magnier, E. A., et al. 2016, The Pan-STARRS Data Processing System, available on-line: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05240
Waters, C. Z., et al. 2016, Pan-STARRS Pixel Processing: Detrending, Warping, Stacking, available on-line: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05245
Magnier, E. A., et al. 2016, Pan-STARRS Pixel Analysis: Source Detection and Characterization, available on-line: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05244
Magnier, E. A., et al. 2016, Pan-STARRS Photometric and Astrometric Calibration, available on-line: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05242
Flewelling, H. A., et al., The Pan-STARRS1 Database and Data Products, available on-line: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05243

TESS

The acknowledgement text for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite should be similar to the following:

Legacy Missions

The acknowledgement text for legacy missions should be similar to the following:

where the mission is one of:

Copernicus Satellite
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
Galaxy Evolution Explorer
International Ultraviolet Explorer
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
X-ray Multi-Mirror Telescope

FIMS-SPEAR

The acknowledgement text for FIMS-SPEAR data obtained from MAST should be the following: