Herschel Science Archive (HSA) - News
New version (v4.0.1) of the HSA installed (16 May 2012)
On the 16th of May, a new version (v4.0.1) of the Herschel Science Archive (HSA)
was installed.
The Herschel Science Archive has been completely re-engineered to offer improved performance and better user experience.
The new HSA User Interface offers a more modern look and feel. It includes all the functionalities previously provided, plus many new ones like
- flexible way to handle query and results panels (one result panel per query, possibility to detach windows, details window
 to display metadata and postcards, re-sizable window for the postcards display, ...)
- two ways to visualise the Result Panels that can be changed by clicking on
 :
- The tabular view (default)
- The table view
- direct access to VO tools such as Aladin, Topcat or VOSpec from the top menu
- possibility to send observations metadata to VO compliant tools for catalogues and tables like Topcat
- faster response in general, with improved database performance, including geometrical searches add-on
- all or selected results can be saved as a VOTable or a CSV file
- contextual help, as well as a complete new help manual
- a Log Console to visualise queries and error messages
- possibility to configure the GUI with different colors
The new HSA contains a migration towards state of the art technology, including re-use of existing open source software libraries and databases, better client - server transport protocol to overcome firewall issues, and higher code re-usability with other Science Archive projects at ESAC.
New version (v3.8) of the HSA installed (2 March 2011)
On the 2nd of March, a new version (v3.8) of the Herschel Science Archive (HSA) was installed.
The major changes implemented in this new version of the HSA address the interaction with the Herschel Interactive Processing Environment (HIPE). In particular, the HSA + HIPE system supports now the retrieval and reading of
only selected part of an observation, e.g. the minimum set of auxiliary, calibration and Level0 products required to interactively process an observation.
Further fixes are for the interaction with the Operational Data Processing system and various minor bugs.
New version (v3.7) of the HSA installed (22 November 2010)
On the 22th of November, a new version (v3.7) of the Herschel Science Archive (HSA) was installed.
The major changes implemented in this new version of HSA are:
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The products generated with HCSS 5.0 and provided by the HSA are now compressed fits files (.fits.gz)
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Improvements on the information provided in the User Interface (HUI) per observation: Three new fields have been added containing information on the Pipeline version used to process the observation, the level of processing reached by the Pipeline and the final quality control status of the observation (passed/failed) after all the quality control checks have been completed.
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The HSA is already prepared to accept and distribute new level 2.5 products (produced by the combination of more than one AOR) that will be generated by the PACS and SPIRE pipelines in the near future.
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Further major fixes adressing the interaction with the Data Processing system resulting in the overall improvement of the performance of the whole system (HSA + HIPE)
New version (v3.6) of the HSA installed (7 September 2010)
On the 7th of September, a new version (v3.6) of the Herschel Science Archive (HSA) was installed.
The major changes of this new version are:
- Improvements on the tar file provided by the HSA with Herschel data:
- The tar file contains now a top directory named with the request ID to the HSA
- Under this top directory the hierarchical structure of the data has not been changed.
- However, the xml file needed to import the data into HIPE has been done visible and it is also now immediately under the new top directory
- This new tar structure requires HIPE 4.0 or higher in order to import the tar file into HIPE
- When using HIPE version 4.1 or higher, importing the HSA tar file into HIPE does not require uncompression.
- String queries in the HSA User Interface are now case insensitive
- Further major fixes for the interaction with the Data Processing system
New version (v3.5) of the HSA installed (14 July 2010)
On the 14th of July, a new version (v3.5) of the Herschel Science Archive (HSA)
was installed.
The major improvements of this new version are:
- Queries by the proprietary status (public/proprietary) of the observations
from the HUI "Main Query" panel.
- Browse Products from the Pipeline Products: Icons and Postcards are now
displayed in the "Latest Result" page of the HUI (access restricted according
to proprietary rights).
- A new field in the "Latest Result" page of the HUI called "Quality Report"
displays the quality control report product (when available) with the quality
assessment of the observation (access restricted according to proprietary rights).
- Further major fixes for the interaction with the Data Processing system and
various minor bugs fixed.
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