Tools & Documentation — SAF - Science Archive Facility

Release of X-SHOOTER Science Verification (SV2) data

The X-SHOOTER Science Verification (SV2) observations took place between September 26 and 29 2009. The SV observations are being performed in "service mode style" by a dedicated team and the collected data are made available to the whole user community.

Published: 2009-10-16

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HST Servicing Mission 4 - Early Public Observation Data Products

On September 9, 2009 NASA held a press conference to highlight Hubble's new instruments and their capabilities and to show that the refurbished instruments are working well and are once again able to provide amazing science data. After the press conference, data from all non-proprietary programs that have executed since the servicing mission are available to the community. In anticipation of a relatively heavy demand, the archives at STScI and the ESO/ST-ECF have pre-staged these data so they are available for download via anonymous ftp. In addition to faster response, the pre-staged data will be of better quality than that immediately available through the pipeline. The most current reference files and other calibration data will not be installed into the pipeline until after the press conference. These data were processed by the instrument teams and use the best available calibrations.

Published: 2009-09-09

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Release of PRIMA Fringe Sensor Unit Commissioning Data

PRIMA is a VLTI facility comprising many subsystems currently under commisioning. This commissioning data release includes a total of 2034 files (~34.7 GB) collected over 30 nights split in six periods plus one UT technical night. All data was collected in single-feed fringe tracking using the VLTI instrument PACMAN operating the PRIMA fringe sensor units (FSU).

Published: 2009-09-01

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Release of X-SHOOTER Science Verification (SV1) data

The X-SHOOTER Science Verification (SV1) observations took place between August 10 and 15 2009. X-SHOOTER SV observations are being performed in "service mode style" by a dedicated team and the collected data are made available to the whole user community.

Published: 2009-08-27

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Release of X-SHOOTER commissioning data

This release of the X-shooter Commissioning data includes a total of 4594 files collected over 24 nights split in four commissioning periods. The first two commissioning runs were with the UV-B and VIS-R arms only, the 3rd and 4th with the UV-B, VIS-R and NIR arms.

Published: 2009-07-13

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Direct access to proprietary raw and reduced files

As an ESO PI, you can now retrieve online your raw data while they are still protected under their proprietary period. In addition to the raw science files, the corresponding data package will also contain raw and master calibrations, science data products and ancillary information (processing logs, excerpts from the relevant observing logs, etc).

Published: 2009-06-29

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New public HARPS Advanced Data Products

Two more years of public HARPS data packages have been released by the External Data Products group within ESO's Data Products department,. The first six years of operation of this instrument are now covered (2003-2008).

Published: 2009-06-25

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GOODS/VIMOS Imaging Data Release: Version 1.0

As part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), deep imaging in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) has been carried out, using the VIMOS instrument mounted at the Melipal Unit Telescope of the VLT at ESO's Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile.

Published: 2009-04-24

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Blu-ray discs for data distribution

The new Blu-ray disc technology will be introduced end of 2009 in the Science Archive Facility. Parallel to the introduction of the Blu-ray discs, the archive will also stop offering CDs as archive data distribution medium. Therefore, archive users anticipating large data requests and Principal Investigators (PIs) expecting significant data deliveries from their observing programmes are advised to make sure that they have available Blu-ray disc readers.

Published: 2009-01-22

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APEX weather query form

Meteorological data for Chajnantor, including the precipitable water vapour, are now available from the ESO archive. The data are obtained from the APEX weather station and radiometer. The ESO archive database contains all available weather data from January, 1st 2007 onwards.

Published: 2009-01-20

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