The Infrared Science Archive ( IRSA ) is the primary archive for the infrared and submillimeter astronomical projects of NASA , the space agency of the United States . IRSA curates the science products of over 15 missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope , the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), and the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). It also serves data from infrared and submillimeter European Space Agency missions with NASA participation, including the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), Planck , and the Herschel Space Observatory . As of 2019, IRSA provides access to more than 1 petabyte of data consisting of roughly 1 trillion astronomical measurements, which span wavelengths from 1 micron to 10 millimeters and include all-sky coverage in 24 bands. Approximately 10% of all refereed astronomical journal articles cite data sets curated by IRSA.
6-787: IRSA is part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) and is located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology . It is one of NASA's Astrophysics Data Centers, along with the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST), and others. This astronomy -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
12-667: A historical emphasis on infrared-submillimeter astronomy and exoplanet science. IPAC has supported NASA, NSF and privately funded projects and missions. It is located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California . IPAC was established in 1986 to provide support for the joint European-American orbiting infrared telescope, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , or IRAS. The IRAS mission performed an unbiased, sensitive all-sky survey at 12, 25, 60 and 100 Ξm during 1983. After
18-520: A science website is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Infrared Processing and Analysis Center The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center ( IPAC ) provides science operations, data management, data archives and community support for astronomy and planetary science missions. IPAC has
24-898: The Michelson Science Center (MSC) after interferometry pioneer Albert A. Michelson. MSC was renamed the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) in 2008. Today, the greater IPAC includes the Spitzer Science Center , the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute and the NASA Herschel Science Center . In 2014, NASA established the Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) in order to support US-based investigations using Euclid data. The combined efforts of these centers support more than
30-802: The lead role in various other infrared space missions, including the Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) and the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX). IPAC also expanded its support to include ground-based missions with the assumption of science support responsibilities for the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey ( 2MASS ), a near-infrared survey of the entire sky conducted by twin observatories in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. In 1999, IPAC formed an interferometry science center, originally called
36-791: The mission ended, IPAC started the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) to make the data available to anyone who needed it. Later, NASA designated IPAC as the U.S. science support center for the European Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), which ceased operations in 1998. About that same time, IPAC was designated as the science center for the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) -- renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope after launch. IPAC also assumed
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