The use of the data in the public archive is unrestricted. We would
appreciate that the following acknowledgment be made in any publication that
uses data from the Steward Observatory blazar monitoring program:
"Data from the Steward Observatory spectropolarimetric monitoring project were
used. This program is supported by Fermi Guest Investigator grants
NNX08AW56G, NNX09AU10G, NNX12AO93G, and NNX15AU81G."
An appropriate reference within your paper to the Steward Observatory
monitoring project is: Smith, P.S., Montiel, E., Rightley, S., Turner, J.,
Schmidt, G.D., & Jannuzi, B.T. 2009, arXiv:0912.3621, 2009 Fermi Symposium, eConf Proceedings C091122.
In addition, please send a short email to Paul Smith (pssmith@arizona.edu), with a reference to your work that
includes data from the public archive. In this way, we can track the usefulness of the optical monitoring.
Full collaboration with researchers is welcome. Please contact the
PI and/or CoIs
if you desire added expertise, particularly
in the analysis and interpretation of optical data, for your blazar
research team.
In addition, if you require more refined data products and analyzes than
those available from the data archive, a collaborative effort may be
very efficient.
Despite a very demanding observational program, we can generally promise
that our input on data analysis, interpretation, and the composition of
research papers will be prompt.
Statement of Data Use and Acknowledgment