NASA Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA)

NASA data for cosmic microwave background (CMB) analysis is made available here by the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA), which is a part of NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC).

Data provided here are normally stored in the generic Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format common in astronomy. Sky maps are generated at various resolutions.

Documentation: The LAMBDA Website

Contact: LAMBDA Feedback

Managed By: LAMBDA

Update Frequency: Various.

Tags: aws-pds, astronomy, archives, datacenter, imaging, satellite imagery

License: There are no restrictions on the use of this data.

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Resources

Description: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Total size of 2 TB.
ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nasa-lambda/cobe/map/dr5
Region: us-west-2
Type: S3 Bucket
Description: COBE/Far-InfraRed Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS). Total size of 9.4 GB.
ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nasa-lambda/cobe/firas
Region: us-west-2
Type: S3 Bucket
Description: COBE/Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE). Total size of 95 GB.
ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nasa-lambda/cobe/dirbe
Region: us-west-2
Type: S3 Bucket
Description: COBE/Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR). Total size of 25 GB.
ARN: arn:aws:s3:::nasa-lambda/cobe/dmr
Region: us-west-2
Type: S3 Bucket

Data At Work

Tutorials

Title: LAMBDA cloud access
URL: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/aws/
Author Name: NASA/LAMBDA
Author URL: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Tools & Applications

Title: LAMBDA Tools
URL: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/toolbox/
Author Name: NASA/LAMBDA
Author URL: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Publications

Title: CMB Experiment Bibliography
URL: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/papers/
Author Name: Various; curated by LAMBDA
Author URL: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/