DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.183314.1 ISSN: 2046-1402

Open Science for Missions and Observatories: Practical Choices to Shape Your Observing Adventure

Rebecca Ringuette, Julie Barnum, Rebecca Bishop, Daniel Brandt, Baptiste Cecconi, Mike Frame, Hook Hua, Zesen Huang, Marcus Hughes, Jack Ireland, Brian Knosp, Chris Lowder, Ritesh Patel, Savvas Raptis, Carl Shneider, Brian Thomas, Barbara Thompson, Jon Vandegriff, Matthew West, Dariusz Wójcik
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Open Science activities are now used by multiple US agencies in the review of space- and ground-based observatory proposals, including NASA missions, as driven by federal mandates in the USA and reflected in related international statements. Including significant and numerous Open Science activities on those proposals makes missions and related efforts more competitive in the review process. However, some missions are hindered from completing the typical Open Science activities associated with mission products and would benefit from alternative options. This work provides a list of both the typical activities and additional innovative ideas for the production of mission artifacts and for mission culture generated from a discussion at the 2023 Data Analysis and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) meeting. We invite the mission and wider observing community to use this resource to improve their proposals by selecting the most relevant activities from the provided list to include in their proposal material. A mission is an adventure into the unknown. Open Science practices enrich that adventure. This work provides a starting point for missions to choose their own adventures or improve their current efforts. This work is written for space-based missions, but offers many ideas that are easily applicable to observatories and related observing efforts. We consider the online version of this publication to be a living document, meaning that additional contributions from the community to the provided list in the appendix are welcome even after publication.

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