10.5 Visualization

We can overlay this AOR on the ISSA $12 \; \mu {\rm m}$ image. As with the large MIPS maps, this too may take a while to finish and suck up quite a bit of memory in the process. If you are viewing this document on the web (and it's in color), the fuchsia (pink/purple) is the $4.5/8.0 \; \mu {\rm m}$ field of view, and the teal (blue/green) is the $3.6/5.8 \; \mu {\rm m}$ field of view. Note, as in the MIPS map, there are regions at either end where there is incomplete wavelength coverage.

Figure 10.5: Visualization of IRAC observation.

If you dare (and you have enough RAM), select the pointings table (the red and blue table icon that appears on the right of the ISSA image window when you overlay this AOR) and choose ``Animate'' to watch it dither three times per pointing. Make sure that it isn't dithering with too large of an amplitude that leaves spaces between tiles. See Figure 10.5. If the spacing isn't what we want, we can change to small (or large) amplitude dithers. And we're off!! Write a GREAT justification and submit this thing.

Note: When you finally go to actually submit your proposal, make sure that you are submitting a clean set of AORs. If you've been playing around with options and alternate targets, make sure to delete those AORs and targets entirely before submitting. If you had any constraints, be sure to strongly justify those in the proposal as well.

The file, ready to be loaded into Spot, containing the raw AORs developed in this chapter (and the MIPS observations from §9) can be downloaded from the SSC webpage:

http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/documents/cookbook/aors/