Planck-HFI activities at CITA

Quick Look Analysis

CITA is in charge of the Quick Look Analysis software (QLA) of Planck-HFI, building on our Boomerang and Blast experience. The QLA is now a powerful data viewer and analysis program, designed and developed by Barth Netterfield, Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes and George Staikos, a professional KDE programmer. The QLA allows one to display very efficiently timeline data, in real time or not. Many analysis functions have already been built in (power spectrum, histogram, ...) and, since the QLA has a very open architecture, other functionality can be "plugged-in" easily by the user. The QLA will be heavily used in the HFI calibration phase, as well as for rapid monitoring during flight. At University of British Columbia, the QLA is being adapted for use with the LFI.

The current version of the QLA, dubbed KST, is available on the KDE site.
It can also be downloaded on the official KST web page where one can also find an introduction to the software, standard installation instructions, a tutorial and the development history.
More detailed installation instructions can be found here.

We encourage anyone interested by KST to use it and to send any comments to the KST mailing list.

Here is an example of a typical KST session: