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 Current
Frequently Accessed Documents
Solar System
Object Documents
Other
Documents: Useful for Preparing Proposals
- Memo on Spitzer pointing
over long integrations (3 Feb 06)
- Special Overhead
Burdens (30 June 2000)
- Describes the extra overhead burdens to be assessed against
Targets of Opportunity, rapid instrument changes, or late ephemeris
changes.
- Spitzer Science Acronyms
- Alphabet soup of TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms)
- Estimating the Sky
Background (revised May 2000)
- How Spot estimates the sky background.
Available in PDF
and HTML. See also
IR
Background page from the IR
Compendium - things to worry about when considering backgrounds.
- How to make PDF documents
- Spitzer proposal submission requires that your scientific
justification be submitted in PDF format. Towards that end, we provide
a few guidelines on creating PDF documents.
- Constraints: Definitions,
Hints, and Tips
- How to use constraints wisely.
- Field-of-View
rotation
- How the field of view rotates as a function of ecliptic
latitude.
- PCRS Guide Star Catalog (GSC)
- Please see the PCS page for all of
the documents related to the PCRS GSC.
- Bright Object List
- Moving targets that Spot can help you avoid, and inertial targets which
are so bright as to be placed on hold early in the mission.
- Presentations from
Observation Planning Workshops
- See the Workshop Pages for all
presentations, handouts, etc.
Other
Documents: Working with AORs
- How to modify approved AORs
- A brief summary of the process for modifying AORs that have already
been approved.
- How to request that an AOR
be declared failed
- A brief summary of the process for requesting that an AOR be declared
failed and request reobservation.
- How to request an Appeal of
Spitzer Observing Rules Decisions
- A brief summary of the process for requesting an appeal of
Rules-related decisions.
- How Scheduling Works
- You've got an approved program, so how long will it take to schedule
your AORs?
- When can my AOR be observed?
- A detailed walkthrough of how to figure out when a given
AOR may be observed.
- How the Archive Works
- Now that your AOR has been scheduled, how long will it take to get
data?
Other
Documents: Data Analysis
- Archive, Data formats
- See the Archives and Analysis
page
- Post-BCD Software
- see the Advanced data
products software and documentation page, aka Post-BCD Software
page, for extensive documentation
- Learning how to use the Post-BCD software
- see the Data Demos page.
- DQA Status flag
definitions (from the "AOR Status" column)
- Presentations from
Data Analysis Workshops
- See the Workshop Pages for all
presentations, etc.
Other
Documents: Policy and Protocol
- Statistics on GO-5 programs, from Mar. 2008 (e.g. output from the TAC process)
- Statistics on CP-5 proposals, from Nov. 2007 (e.g. input to the TAC process)
- Statistics on GO-4 programs, from May 2007 (e.g. output from the TAC process)
- Statistics on CP-4
proposals, from Feb. 2007 (e.g. input to the TAC process)
- Statistics on GO-3
programs, from May 2006 (e.g. output from the TAC process)
- Statistics on CP-3
proposals, from Feb. 2006 (e.g. input to the TAC process)
- Statistics on GO-2
programs, from May 2005 (e.g. output from the TAC process)
- Statistics on CP-2
proposals, from Feb. 2005 (e.g. input to the TAC process)
- Statistics on GO-1
programs, from May 2004 (e.g. output from the TAC process)
- Statistics on CP-1
proposals, from Feb. 2004 (e.g. input to the TAC process)
- Letter from the director
on launch delay, dated Apr 24, 2003
- Letter from the director
on Cycle-1 Duration, dated Sep 30, 2002
- Science Utilization
Policies Document (v. 1.0, Sep 1997)
- This document describes the top-level policies governing
the use of Spitzer by the scientific community, and
represents a basic agreement between the Spitzer
Project and the Office of Space Science at NASA
Headquarters.
- Science Requirements
Document (v. 1.0, Feb 1997)
- This document presents a bottoms-up, scientific derivation of
Spitzer's technical specifications, based on sample
observational programs in each of Spitzer's four key science
themes.
Archived
Documentation
Scientific and technical papers pertaining to Spitzer and of general
interest to the broader community. These papers are
informative but are not subject to review by external referees. Authors
are typically members of the extended Spitzer Team, and may include staff
from the SSC, JPL, the Instrument Teams, and industrial partners.
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