ARCHIVE SCIENCE PORTAL

Dear users,

we are excited to announce that ESO Archive Science Portal has been substantially upgraded. The full list of improvement present in the new version 2.0 has been announced to the scientific community here.

Following users feedback, the updated Archive Science Portal provides (among others) the following improvements:

• A single interface allows users to access data from La Silla Paranal, APEX ,and -now- from ALMA as well:
  
  See for instance here the ALMA footprint over the WHALE galaxy.
  These ALMA data can be retrieved also with this programmatic query:
  SELECT
s_ra, s_dec, dp_id, instrument_name, obstech, proposal_id, obs_release_date
FROM
ivoa.ObsCore
WHERE
intersects(s_region, circle('',3.72333,-39.19667,0.3))=1 AND instrument_name='ALMA'
  
  
• We now provide previews for datacubes, including interactive spectrum extraction:
  
  Users can now extract a quick look MUSE spectrum directly from the Archive Interface
  
  
• Search within user defined polygons:
  
  For instance an user can download all the spectra of the stars in the Jewel Box cluster within a customized region. Naturally this is possible also programmatically:
  SELECT
s_ra, s_dec, dp_id, instrument_name, obstech, proposal_id, obs_release_date
FROM
ivoa.ObsCore
WHERE
intersects(s_region, POLYGON( 'J2000', 193.15859,-60.21354,
193.40507, -60.15885,
193.80660, -60.21094,
193.85447, -60.38943,
193.61956, -60.49661,
193.21774, -60.49711,
193.00831, -60.43487,
193.04188, -60.33450,
193.03932, -60.26952) )=1 AND obstech NOT LIKE 'IMAGE%'
  
  

Dear users,
we are happy to announce that a new version of the Archive Science Portal has been released and announced to the scientific community here. 

Based on user feedback a new view mode has been implemented as a central new feature in addition to the already existing sky view (left-hand panel of figure above). It allows users to inspect, at a glance, the multi-dimensional query space in up to seventeen 1D distributions (right-hand panel of figure). They include physical parameters like sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio, alongside more traditional ones such as Programme ID or instrumental setup. Users can easily interact with any list or histogram to add or remove search constraints and to build up rather complex queries in a progressive fashion.  

Beyond that, the updated Archive Science Portal provides the following improvements:

• the capability of bookmarking and sharing queries;
• customizable set of query parameters and management of query constraints;
• improved layout and support for mobile and touch devices;
• several bug fixes.