INTEGRAL The ISDC was founded in The ISDC is developing the main 1995 to provide the ground software packages for the Level 1 data segment for data processing of the Planck Low- processing, archiving, user Frequency Instrument (LFI) and is support, and scientific involved in the study of extragalactic expertise for the INTEGRAL foreground objects. mission. The ISDC deciphers incoming data and provides automatic data screening (within seconds), quick look results (within a day), as well as data archival and distribution. On the INTEGRAL mission, the ISDC staff has gained valuable experience which is now beneficiary to other missions handled at the ISDC.

GAIA POLAR POLAR is a space experiment to ISDC plays a major role in the measure polarization of -ray coordination unit for bursts. ISDC is busy right now to variability processing (CU7), measure with a prototype in the characterizing the photometric laboratory the key parameters and and spectral variability. to develop the engineering model. Polar might be installed on the Chinese or on the International Space Station

Future Télescope Suisse La SMilla(iCshsiliio) ns XEUS When thinking about future missions, the ISDC can XEUS is a caLndidesate foneutrinosr the provide useful tools and next large mission inside the CTA services: Cosm2i3c .V0is2io.n1 p9ro8g7ra,m 7. h35m40s TU • Data handling, archival, ISDC is ready to provide its processing and distribution expertise and experience to • Near real time analysis as the ground segment well as scientific support activities. The Cherenkov Array • Software development (CTA) will provide unprecedented • Ground segment solutions resolution and sensitivity in the GeV and TeV domain. ISDC can function as the data center for this project Added value Ground segment work at ISDC benefits from

• Experience gained in 6 successful Questions? Comments? years of INTEGRAL operations and Contact us under software development http://isdc.unige.ch • An international team with contacts to all major astrophysical institutes • Flexible and motivated software, hardware and science staff • Synergy effects through shared soft and hardware Volker Beckmann, M. Türler, M. Beck, T.J.-L. Courvoisier for the ISDC consortium. The ISDC Data Center for Astrophysics is affiliated to the Observatoire de Genève and to the University of Geneva