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The WFIRST Science Archive and Analysis Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2017

Sara R. Heap ,
Alexander S. Szalay  and
the WFIRST Science Archive Team
Sara R. Heap
Affiliation:
Visiting scientist, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, MD, USA email: sara.heap@Gmail.com Emerita Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt MD 20771, USA email: sally.heap@NASA.gov
Alexander S. Szalay
Affiliation:
Dep’t of Physics & Astronomy, JHU, 3701 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA email: Szalay@JHU.edu
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Abstract

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The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a 2.4 m telescope with a large field of view ( ~ 0.3 deg2) and fine angular resolution (0.11”). WFIRST’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI) will obtain images in the Z, Y, J, H, F184, W149 (wide) filter bands, and grism spectra of the same large field of view. The data volume of the WFIRST Science Archive is expected to reach a few Petabytes. We describe plans to enable users to find the data of interest and, if needed, to analyze the data in situ using sophisticated software tools provided by the archive. As preparation, we are building a mini-archive that will help us to define realistic science requirements and to design the full WFIRST Science Archive.

Keywords

astronomical data basescatalogssurveysWFIRSTmethods: data analysisgalaxies: statisticalgalaxies: evolutioninfrared: galaxies
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S325: Astroinformatics , October 2016 , pp. 373 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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