Welcome to DARTS/Akari

What's new

30 Mar. 2010: The AKARI All-Sky Survey Point Source Catalogues are open to the world-wide astronomers.

29 Jan. 2010: The data from 2009/11/14 to 2009/12/14 are recovered with new files including corrections of file names and some internal information.

19 Jan. 2010: Note on the latest data. The data observed on 2009/11/14 or later are temporally unavailable from DARTS. We found that the filename and EXFRM_ID are not properly given to the data, and may duplicate with those of previous observations. This is caused by the overflow of FRAME_ID counter after almost four years operation. This problem does not affect to the data reduction and the results, unless you have special processing referring filename and EXFRM_ID. The standard toolkit should work properly. The data will be updated in a week timescale. We are sorry for your inconveniences.

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The AKARI mission

Akari is Japan's first dedicated infrared astronomical satellite (and the second infrared space mission following IRTS) launched on February 22, 2006. Akari's primary mission is to carry out the all-sky survey with the best sensitivity, spatial resolution and the widest wavelengths.

Detailed information can be found at the AKARI project page, including Observers Page.