The post (<a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/cdfs/" rel="nofollow">http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/cdfs/</a>) on the Chandra site has some additional information, including links to a couple of papers:<p>The deepest X-ray view of high-redshift galaxies: constraints on low-rate black-hole accretion (<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.02614v1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.02614v1.pdf</a>)<p>and THE CHANDRA DEEP FIELD-SOUTH SURVEY: 7 MS SOURCE CATALOGS (<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.03501v2.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.03501v2.pdf</a>) which has some nice images overlaying X-ray sources on images closer to visual wavelengths.
So, supporting evidence for quasi-stars. Cool!<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-star" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-star</a>
Out of curiosity: Can anyone explain to me what the behind the scenes process is with this data? This image came from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and took about 11.5 weeks of observation to collect. Once that 11.5 weeks is up, what do the scientists actually do with it to "process" it or draw conclusions? Is it widely disseminated and people across the world work on it, or is it mostly of interest to the team that started the observation?