The community currently includes 17 institutes, all contributing with applications ported to EGEE. The most relevant among them are Planck, MAGIC, SWIFT/MERCURY, and LOFAR.  All of them share problems of computation involving large-scale data acquisition, simulation, data storage, and data retrieval that the grid helps to resolve.  Planck and MAGIC have been in EGEE since 2004.  The ESA Planck satellite, to be launched in April 2009, will map the sky using microwaves, with an unprecedented combination of sky and frequency coverage, accuracy, stability and sensitivity.  The MAGIC telescope, on the on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, is an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope that has been in operation since late 2004.

Contacts

• Claudio Vuerli
  INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste INAF - Information System Unit AA Coordinator
• Fabio Pasian
  INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste INAF - Information System Unit Deputy AA Coordinator