This website contains step-by-step cookbooks for reducing data
taken by all three instruments on board the Spitzer Space Telescope.
We have designed the cookbooks to use only publicly available data and
routines so that anyone can use them at any time.
Although the cookbooks presented here are designed to help you
learn how to use software packages developed at the SSC (e.g. MOPEX, APEX,
SPICE), Spitzer data can be analyzed using any package that reads FITS
files. (If you decide to use any other packages, keep in mind that
the Spitzer images are in units of MJy/sr). Please send us your tips
for analyzing Spitzer data with other packages (e.g. IRAF, IDL,
skyview, SExtractor) at help@spitzer.caltech.edu and we will do our
best to incorporate your suggestions.
This website is a WORK IN PROGRESS and is likely to be updated on
short timescales.
SMART is an IDL-based software tool, developed by the
Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) Instrument Team at Cornell
University, that allows users to perform real-time
processing and analysis of IRS data.
Spitzer IRS Custom Extraction The Spitzer IRS Custom
Extraction (SPICE) software provides a JAVA-based tool
that allows the user to interactively extract Spitzer
Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) spectra.
Bandmerge allows users to input ASCII tables of positions and fluxes of astronomical sources in 2-7 wavebands and combine them into a single merged table.
