This paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/1748-0221). Planck's Low Frequency Instrument is an array of 22 pseudo-correlation radiometers at 30, 44, and 70 GHz. Before integrating the overall array assembly, a first set of tests has been performed for each radiometer chain assembly (RCA), consisting of two radiometers. In this paper, we describe Rachel, a software application which has been purposely developed and used during the RCA test campaign to carry out both near-realtime on-line data analysis and data storage (in FITS format) of the raw output from the radiometric chains.
@article{arxiv.1001.4787,
title = {LFI Radiometric Chain Assembly (RCA) data handling "Rachel"},
author = {M. Malaspina and E. Franceschi and P. Battaglia and P. Binko and R. C. Butler and O. D'Arcangelo and S. Fogliani and M. Frailis and C. Franceschet and S. Galeotta and F. Gasparo and A. Gregorio and M. Lapolla and R. Leonardi and G. Maggio and N. Mandolesi and P. Manzato and M. Maris and M. Meharga and P. Meinhold and N. Morisset and F. Pasian and F. Perrotta and R. Rohlfs and M. Sandri and M. Tomasi and M. Turler and A. Zacchei and A. Zonca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4787},
year = {2010}
}
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This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in JINST. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The definitive publisher authenticated version is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/4/12/T12017