Status and Future Prospects of the KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre KCDC

TL;DR

KCDC is a web platform providing extensive cosmic-ray data from KASCADE-Grande and other experiments, with ongoing enhancements for accessibility, educational use, and integration of new datasets and tools.

Contribution

This paper details the development and expansion of KCDC, including new data shops, integration capabilities, educational resources, and future plans for the platform.

Findings

Expanded data sets and new data shops implemented

Integration of additional experiments like MAKET-ANI achieved

Public access tools such as Jupyter notebooks introduced

Abstract

KCDC, the 'KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre', is a web-based interface where initially the scientific data from the completed air-shower experiment KASCADE-Grande was made available for the astroparticle community as well as for the interested public. Over the past 7 years, we have continuously extended the data shop with various releases and increased both the number of detector components from the KASCADE-Grande experiment and the data sets and corresponding simulations. With the latest releases we added a new and independent data shop for a specific KASCADE-Grande event selection and by that created the technology for integrating further data shops and data of other experiments, like the data of the air-shower experiment MAKET-ANI in Armenia. In addition, we made available educational examples how to use the data, more than 100 cosmic ray energy spectra from various experiments, and recently attached a public server with access to Jupyter notebooks. In this paper we present a brief history of KCDC, the main features of the recent release as well as will discuss future development plans.