12th of July 2021 |
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CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA) grows past 1 Petabyte |
by Minh Huynh |
Recently the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA) passed the 1
petabyte (1 PB = one million gigabytes) mark. This means that CASDA now holds more than 1 PB
of processed science data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array
Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. This milestone is made possible by the
hard work of the ASKAP operations and
IM&T (CSIRO Information Management and Technology) CASDA teams. The majority
of the data in CASDA is from Phase 1 of Pilot Surveys, obtained to
test the full ASKAP system and survey strategies for the
ASKAP Survey Science Teams.
Most of this Pilot Survey data is publicly available,
and any unreleased data will be made public shortly. The
Rapid All-Sky Continuum Survey (RACS)
, the first all-sky continuum survey with
ASKAP, is also a major component of the data now in CASDA. This
observatory project is also publicly released in CASDA.
Please go to the CASDA landing page https://research.csiro.au/casda/ to begin accessing the data. |