MEDIA : MEDoc Interface for AIA

MEDOC, the space solar data center at Orsay (http://www.ias.u-psud.fr/medoc) is now providing a new web access to the AIA/SDO level 1 images. This interface has the advantage of being simple, intuitive, very stable and fast. The full resolution 4k x 4k AIA level 1 images archived at MEDOC are downloaded from upstream DRMS nodes with a 1 minute cadence at all wavelengths. The dataset will be kept online on a redundant archive for the whole SDO mission duration. The FITS files are accessible via an user friendly web interface (http://medoc-sdo.ias.u-psud.fr) that allows users to request data by selecting a date range, the desired wavelengths and a sampling rate (choosing a cadence from 1 minute to 1 day). For each file, users can preview the image (using the Helioviewer tool) or display the header information before downloading the FITS files (with or without Rice-compression). This web interface was built using Sitools2, a tool developed by CNES, the French space agency, and supports most browsers. For more advanced users, a Search/Get Python module is also available at http://sdo.ias.u-psud.fr/python. The users can use it to build more complex yet more powerful queries. We encourage everyone in Europe and beyond to use these new services!