The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) and the W. M. Keck Observatory (WMKO) operate an archive for the Keck Observatory. At the end of 2013, KOA completed the ingestion of data from all eight active observatory instruments. KOA will continue to ingest all newly obtained observations, at an anticipated volume of 4 TB per year. The data are transmitted electronically from WMKO to IPAC for storage and curation. Access to data is governed by a data use policy, and approximately two-thirds of the data in the archive are public.
@article{arxiv.1408.0835,
title = {The Design and Operation of The Keck Observatory Archive},
author = {G. Bruce Berriman and Christopher R. Gelino and Robert W. Goodrich and Jennifer Holt and Mihseh Kong and Anastasia C. Laity and Jeffrey A. Mader and Melanie Swain and Hien D. Tran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0835},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figs, 4 tables. Presented at Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2014. June 2014, Montreal, Canada