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Taming the ALMA Data Avalanche

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Felix Stoehr
Felix Stoehr*
Affiliation:
ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str 2, 85748 Garching, Germany email: fstoehr@eso.org
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Abstract

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is nearing its phase of full operations. ALMA will collect about 200TB/year of astronomical data which will be reduced by an automatic pipeline and turned into fully calibrated science-ready data products. We present design choices, challenges and solutions from data capturing over data reduction and data distribution to archival research, that allow to deal with the large amounts of data and, hopefully, achieve the maximum amount of science return.

Keywords

Data intensive astronomyALMAdata managementarchivepipeline
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Highlights H16: Highlights of Astronomy , August 2012 , pp. 673 - 674
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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