Spitzer Tools

Spot and Leopard

Sensitivity, Saturation, Exposure time

• Performance Estimation Tool (PET)
  • Sensitivity PET
  • Extragalactic Point Source PET
  • Stellar PET
  • Spectroscopy PET
• An IDL tool, snirac, to calculate the S/N for IRAC point source observations which are not background-limited.
• Colden: Galactic Neutral Hydrogen Density Calculator from Chandra website (useful for MIPS)

Unit Conversion

• Point Source Magnitude to Flux Density Converter
• cooswitch.pro is an IDL routine that converts celestial coordinates from decimal degrees to sexigesimal format, or vice-versa. It does not apply any corrections for proper motions or precession, merely transforms given coordinates from one format to the other. It may be useful when configuring peak-ups in IRS AORs, as described in the Spitzer Observations Planning Cookbook.
• Coordinate conversion and precession (from Chandra)
• Date conversion tool (from Chandra)

Existing Observations: finding and processing

• Finding existing planned observations: Leopard
• Processing data: Advanced data products software and documentation, aka Post-BCD Software, see also Contributed Software Archive

Proposed Observations

IPAC Table Formatter

Submitted Software

PCRS Guide Star Catalog

• Notes on PCRS Guide Star Catalog (PCRS-GSC)
• Explanatory Document for the catalog (This document describes the contents of the PCRS-GSC; in particular, it gives the format, units, and description of each of the table columns that constitute the catalog.)
• the catalog itself (v. 2.4f)
• Use of the PCRS-GSC is described in detail in the IRS chapters of the Observation Planning Cookbook

Simulated data

• IRAC Science Data Simulator (ISDS)

Linelists

• ISO list
• ISO list at Garching (different than the first ISO link)
• NIST list

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