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Spitzer Observer's Manual - Warm Mission
The Spitzer Observer's Manual - Warm Mission (Warm SOM) is the essential technical reference manual for Spitzer observers. The Warm SOM provides technical information about the design, performance and operational constraints of Spitzer. It includes technical information on planning, editing and submitting Spitzer observations. There are separate Calls for Proposals that include the programmatic information needed to submit a Spitzer proposal.
Getting the Document
All files are available in PDF format.
Some figures may not display well on some monitors, but should print
satisfactorily.
One huge pdf file with all the chapters together.
| section | contents | length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | Title page, table of contents (brief and extended), list of tables, Chapters 1-5 (overview of general aspects of Spitzer) | 70 pages (pp. i-60) |
pdf (2146 kB) |
| IRAC | Chapter 6 (IRAC information) | 68 pages (pp. 61-128) |
pdf (4166 kB) |
| End | Chapter 7 - Appendices, Acronyms, Index | 11 pages (pp. 129-139) |
pdf (297 kB) |
Document Organization
The Warm SOM is divided into these major parts: the Introduction (Chapters 1 and 2), the Observatory chapters (Chapters 3 to 5), and the instrument-specific chapter 6. The Observatory section includes a technical description of Spitzer, its operational capabilities and constraints, and information about how Spitzer observations are planned and specified.The IRAC chapter includes a basic technical instrument description, and overview of the instrument's performance and capabilities, a description of its observing modes, advice on how to best use them, and a discussion of the data reduction pipeline and the characteristics of the data.
Document Update Plans
This manual will be maintained by the SSC. In general, we plan to update the Warm SOM, for each Call for Proposals.In addition to maintaining the Warm SOM, the SSC maintains instrument calibration and performance updates on the instrument web pages.
Problems in printing/viewing?
- The files above are available in PDF.
- Some figures may not display well on some monitors, but have printed satisfactorily in our testing.
- Occasionally the Greek letters (sigma, lambda, pi) embedded in the document generate errors or are translated into Roman letters (s, l, p). This is apparently a function of the specific fonts installed on any given system. We have not successfully found a remedy for this problem, but it occurred only about 10% of the time in our testing.
- Sorry, we do not have printed copies available.
Other Relevant Documents
There are five documents needed to plan, prepare and submit a Spitzer observing proposal:
- Spitzer Observer's Manual (Warm SOM) (this page)
- Current Call for Proposals
- Spitzer Observing Rules
- Spot User's Guide
- Spitzer Reserved Observations Catalog (ROC), which is most easily searched via Leopard, the Spitzer archive tool.
Also see the Performance Estimation Tool (the PET has sensitivities; there are other tools too), the Proposal Submission Guide, the Observation Planning Cookbook (includes specific examples with AORs!), and even more stuff listed in the proposal kit...
Looking for the Spitzer cryogenic mission SOM? It is located here.
