Stephan Ott (Herschel Science Centre, ESTEC) on behalf of the Herschel Science Ground Segment Consortium Herschel overview The Herschel Space Observatory is the fourth cornerstone mission in the ESA science programme. With a 3.5 m Cassegrain telescope it was the largest space telescope ever launched. It performed photometry and spectroscopy in the µm range, bridging the gap between earlier infrared space missions and ground based facilities. The Herschel Space Observatory was launched 14 th of May 2009 and worked smoothly, with an overall efficiency of 97%, capturing exciting science for the astronomical community until it ran out of Helium 29 th of April 2013 Herschel executed about 35,000 HOTAC approved observations in over 22,000 hours of science observing, amassing over 25,000 hours worth of science data from about 600 observing programmes. Out of these, 31,000 observations are already publicly accessible via the Herschel Science Archive. All observations will be publicly accessible October 2013 when their proprietary period ends. In addition, over 3,000 hours of calibration observations are publicly available. Further information Up to 2013, a major HIPE version is released around each six months. This is currently HIPE HIPE 12.0 is under validation. From 2014 onwards we will release a major version annually, with HIPE 15 being the final version to be released by the end of Minor versions are released every few weeks. The Herschel Science Centre at ESAC performs a bulk reprocessing of the whole archive with each major release. Your gateway into the Herschel treasure Visit the Herschel Science Centre Visit the HIPE home page Download HIPE Access webinars and on-line tutorials (via youtube) Download the apps to access Herschel Quick Look Products for Android and iPhone RGB Color-Composite of the Orion Belt Herschel Interactive Processing Environment HIPE Background: Vela Molecular Ridge Credits ESA/PACS & SPIRE Consortia, Tracey Hill, Frédérique Motte, Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, CEA/IRFU - CNRS/INSU - University Paris Diderot HOBYS Key Programme Consortia Spectroscopy of VY Canis Majoris Herschel Data Processing software The Herschel Data Processing system combines data retrieval, pipeline execution, product quality assessment and interactive scientific analysis in one single environment. All tools for data reduction and analysis, e.g. also the expert applications for instrument calibration, are part of the Herschel Interactive Processing Environment HIPE. Therefore the community has access to the same system as the instrument specialists. The Herschel Data Processing software is coded in Java/Jython. It is distributed under the lesser GNU public license, permitting general access and code re-use. Currently Linux, MacOS X (Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion) and Windows (XP, Vista and Windows 7) are supported operating systems. The Herschel Science Centre (ESA), the Instrument Control Centres (HIFI, PACS and SPIRE) and the NASA Herschel Science Center jointly manage and contribute to the Herschel Data Processing System. View of 90º of the Galactic Plane at 250 µm. This is a standard pipeline product available from the Herschel Science Archive. Credits ESA/PACS & SPIRE Consortia, Sergio Molinari, Hi-GAL Project HIFISPIREPACS Created from PACS and SPIRE standard pipeline products blue: PACS 160 µm green: SPIRE 250 µm red: SPIRE 350 µm HIPE screenshot File Navigator Preview Read into variable Automatic selection of Applicable tasks Task GUI Command-line echo Contextual Help and Source Code Start here! Standard pipeline products