Data Archives/Analysis

Science Archive Access

• Use Leopard to interact with the archive: User's guide and software download pages.
• Access to Post-BCD data products via IRSA.
• You can also get First Look Survey and original Legacy Program data from the Popular Products site.
• Data release status page - which campaigns are processed and staged to the archive?
• Observatory schedules and logs - which observations were taken when?

• How the Archive Works - a high-level overview, answering many common questions.
• General Observers FAQ, including How to request that an AOR be declared failed.
• General Data Processing FAQ, including what is a BCD/post-BCD.

• DQA Status flag definitions (from the "AOR Status" column)
• Pipeline History Log

• Also see the FAQ file, specifically the ones on "Approved programs" and "Data Archives and Analysis."

Data Analysis Tools

• Advanced data products software and documentation, aka Post-BCD Software
• Contributed software and other web resources - browse contributions, or submit your own.

• How to obtain quick aperture photometry on IRAC and MIPS pipeline mosaiced images
• A comparison of SPICE and SMART

• Online Data Analysis Cookbooks (a.k.a. Demos, or "threads") -- follow along on basic analysis steps.

• Instrument Interest Group mailing lists -- community forum for data analysis discussions, also used for messages about data caveats.

• Data Analysis Workshops -- presentations available online.

Science Data Information and Filenaming Convention

• Data Handbooks
  • IRAC
  • IRS
  • MIPS
• Filenaming convention (a.k.a. What are all these files?)
  • IRAC
  • IRS
  • MIPS-24
  • MIPS-70
  • MIPS-160

• Data Features/Caveats
  • IRAC
  • IRS
    • Archive of all IRS important notes
  • MIPS

• DQA Status flag definitions (from the "AOR Status" column)
• Pipeline History Log

• Interest Groups
  Join and/or check the interest groups for the latest information and for discussions with other instrument/data users.
  
  • IRAC IG archive
  • IRS IG archive
  • MIPS IG archive

• Distortion and header keywords:
  • The SIP Convention for Representing Distortion in FITS Image Headers, by Shupe et al., ADASS XIV, 2005, ASP Conference Series, Vol. XXX.
  • A number of external software packages (WCSTools/SAOImage/DS9; Montage; Starlink ASTLIB/GAIA) have already implemented the Spitzer distortion coefficients.

Legacy Data

Writing papers

• IAU naming conventions
• Guidelines for Publication Acknowledgments
• How to reference a Dataset ID in your journal articles
• General Image Use Policy (includes science images)
• Guidelines for determining candidates for potential newsworthy stories
• Spitzer Publications Archive

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