HEASARC Usage Statistics

The HEASARC periodically makes its usage statistics available for the HEASARC Users Group and other interested parties.

  • Archive size and data downloads over time (1993-2009 & projected thru 2011)
  • Growth of the HEASARC Archive (1996-2010)
  • Demand for HEASARC Web services (1993- 2009)
  • Citations of selected HEASARC missions (1993-2009)
  • Data requests by quarter (1998-2009)
  • Data transferred by TB and by equivalent numbers of datasets, broken down by mission, for selected years from 1998-2009
  • History of Data Transfers by Mission (1993-2009)
  • Data Holdings over time and by mission (1998-2010)
  • Detailed HEASARC Usage Statistics (Internal Access only)

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    Archive Size and Data Downloads over Time

    Figure 1. Graph shows an increase in both, with data downloads increasing 
faster Figure 1: HEASARC archive size & annual data download amounts over time.

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    Growth of the Archive

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    Figure 2: Past 15 years (1996-2010) growth of the size of the HEASARC science data archive.

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    Demand for HEASARC Web Services

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    Figure 3: Demand for HEASARC Web Services: Annual numbers of SkyView images requested, Browse queries submitted, volume of science web pages downloaded, and volume of science data downloaded, from 1993-2009.

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    Citations of Selected HEASARC Missions

    Citations for Selected Missions graph Figure 4: Number of citations of selected HEASARC missions over time.

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    Science data and web pages requested

    Figure 5 Figure 5: FTP and HTTP requested volume of data and web pages (TB per quarter).

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    Transfer rates

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    Figure 6(a): The amount of TB of data downloaded in 2009, broken down by mission. A grand total of 44.12 TB of HEASARC data was copied by our users in this year.

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    Figure 6(b): The number of (equivalent) datasets downloaded in 2009, broken down by mission. A grand total of 100,131 HEASARC datasets was copied by our users in this year.

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    The 28.88 Terabytes of HEASARC data transferred in 2007 broken down by mission/directory.

    The number of datasets (64,351) transferred in 2007 broken down by mission/directory.

    The number of datasets transferred in 2005 by mission/directory.

    The number of datasets transferred in 2004 by mission/directory.

    The number of gigabytes transferred in 2003 by mission/directory (top) and datasets transferred in 2003 by mission (bottom).

    The number of gigabytes transferred in all of 2001 by mission/directory.

    The number of gigabytes transferred in all of 2000 by mission/directory.

    The number of gigabytes transferred in all of 1998 by mission/directory.

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    History of Data Transfers by Mission

    Figure 7 Figure 7: History of data transfers for major missions, in terms of annual data downloads (TB per year).

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    Data Holdings

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    Figure 8: HEASARC data holdings as of May 2010, broken down by mission. These totalled 27.2 TB.

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    HEASARC data holdings as of October 2007, broken down by mission. These totalled 16.4 TB.

    HEASARC data holdings as of October 2005, broken down by mission.These totalled 7.6 TB.

    HEASARC data holdings as of November 2003, broken down by mission.These totalled 3.2 TB.

    HEASARC data holdings as of November 2001, broken down by mission. These totalled 2.4 TB.

    HEASARC data holdings as of December 2000, broken down by mission. These totalled 2.2 TB.

    HEASARC data holdings as of December 1999, broken down by mission. These totalled 1.7 TB.

    HEASARC data holdings as of January 1999, broken down by mission. These totalled 1.4 TB.

    HEASARC data holdings as of March 11, 1998, broken down by mission. These totalled 0.96 TB.

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