7 March 2016
New CfA Optical/Infrared Science Archive Online
Warren Brown Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Optical/Infrared Telescope Data Center is pleased to announce a new public archive of processed spectra obtained from CfA's ground-based telescopes. The initial release contains 200,000 spectra from the optical Hectospec spectrograph on the 6.5m Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT); more spectra and more instruments will be added in the future.
The archive is virtual-observatory (VO) compliant and can also be accessed by pointing TopCat, Aladin, or other VO tools to the "CfA Hectospec" SSAP service.