Status and Goals of the RHESSI Mission Archive 

Brian Dennis and Kim Tolbert 

We are generating a final RHESSI Mission Archive in order to ensure continued use of the RHESSI science data in years to come.  The archive and associated documentation will be hosted at the Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) at Goddard.  For users familiar with RHESSI data analysis methods, all Level-0 and quicklook data files will be archived at the SDAC to allow them to continue doing the kinds of processing, analysis, and visualization they have always done. In addition, a number of prepared products will be available for any user, including images of every flare in optimized time/energy bins, high and standard resolution energy spectra, and fine and coarse visibility data.  The images will be available for viewing online, and FITS files of the image data will be available for download. The spectra and visibilities will be provided in standard FITS files that can be downloaded and read with standard FITS readers for stand-alone processing.  Data from ancillary missions – MESSENGER, FERMI, GOES, SMM, AIA - will also be archived at the SDAC. Documentation describing the mission, the analysis software, and the archived data sets will be archived at the SDAC in a condensed version of the current RHESSI web site (http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/).

These prepared products are in various states of completeness. The first cut of the image archive and visibility files is complete; now that we have an improved roll angle database, select flares will be reprocessed.  The high-energy spectrum files are awaiting the final RHESSI calibration files (almost done), and the standard-resolution files are complete through 2015.

A summary of the archive is available at the RHESSI web site under the 'Mission Archive' tab (https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessi3/mission-archive/).