Planck Archive

The Planck Archive at IPAC provides two basic services for the U. S. portion of the Planck team. Foremost, serve the U. S. Planck community during the mission operations as the single point of contact for mission data, and, next, to serve the entire U. S. community with public datasets by preparing a mission archive capable of supporting U. S. Planck and NASA researchers into the future.

To provide these services, the Archive will receive data from the two Planck Data Processing Centers: the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) in Trieste and the High Frequency Instrument (HIF) in Paris . The Archive will be responsible for ensuring the integrity and security of the data, and for providing reliable access.

During Planck’s operational phases, the Archive imports data from HFI and LFI DPCs in their native format including detector data, pointing data, and instrument models. Additionally, the archive imports exchange-format data products from HFI and LFI DPCs to include calibrated time-ordered data and frequency Maps. These data are made available to the US Planck team to support their development tasks and their operational responsibilities and to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) for data processing.

Finally, the Archive team provides expertise and knowledge so that the US PDC may install DPC software locally and at NERSC.