Herschel Footprint Database and Service

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Abstract. We created the Herschel † Footprint Database and web services for the Herschel Space Observatory imaging data. For this database we set up a unified data model for the PACS and SPIRE Herschel instruments, from the pointing and header information of each observation, generated and stored sky coverages (footprints) of the observations in their exact geometric form. With this tool we extend the capabilities of the Herschel Science Archive by providing an effective search tool that is able to find observations for selected sky locations (objects), or even in larger areas in the sky.

C3, A Command-line Catalog Cross-match Tool for Large Astrophysical Catalogs

“…To quote just a few, the ESA Euclid space mission will acquire and process about 100 GB day −1 over at least 6 years, collecting a minimum amount of about 200 TB of data (Laureijs et al 2014); Pan-STARRS (Kaiser 2004) is expected to produce more than 100 TB of data; the GAIA space mission will build a 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy, by collecting about one petabyte of data in five years (Douglas et al 2007); the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (Ivezic 2009) will provide about 20 TB/night of imaging data for ten years and petabytes/year of radio data products. Many other planned instruments and already operative surveys will reach a huge scale during their operational lifetime, such as KiDS (Kilo-Degree Survey; de Jong et al 2015), DES (Dark Energy Survey, Annis 2013), Herschel-ATLAS (Valiante 2015;Varga-Verebelyi et al 2016), Hi-GAL (Molinari et al 2016), SKA (Braun 2015) and E-ELT (Martins et al 2014).…”