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Here are pointers to documents here and elsewhere in the SSC hierarchy
that are relevant for IRAC observers.
Spitzer Documentation
- Data Handbook
- The essential technical reference for users of IRAC data.
- Spitzer Observer's Manual (SOM)
- See especially Chapter 6: IRAC.
- Spitzer Observation Planning
Cookbook
- IRAC examples are given for both surveys and deep imaging.
- IRAC Pocket Guide
- IRAC Pipeline Description Document
- Description of the IRAC pipelines.
- Post-Launch
Overview as of 19 Dec 03
- a plain text summary of the biggest changes to
IRAC CAUTION: the information in here may be
dated.
- Presentations from the
Observation Planning Workshops
- The Science User Support Team at the SSC runs observation planning workshops.
There are presentations specifically on IRAC
and on imaging with Spitzer in general. The presentations are available
on the workshops pages.
IRAC papers and background information
- IRAC "Seminal Papers"
- Fazio, G., et al., The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) for
the Spitzer Space Telescope, 2004, ApJSS, 154, 10
- Hora, J., et al., In-flight performance and
calibration of the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) for the Spitzer Space
Telescope, 2004, SPIE, 5487, 77
- Absolute Calibration of the Infrared Array
Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope
- Reach et al., 2005, PASP, 117, 978.
- Angle-of-Incidence Effects
in the Spectral Performance of the Infrared Array Camera of the Spitzer
Space Telescope
- Quijada, M., et al.,, 2004, SPIE, 5487, 244.
- Spectral
Irradiance Calibration for the Infrared XIII: "Supertemplates and On-Orbit
Calibrators for the SIRTF Infrared Array Camera"
- Cohen, Megeath, Hammersley, Martin-Luis, and Stauffer, 2003, AJ, 125,
2645.
- Performance of the Infrared Array Camera
(IRAC) for SIRTF during instrument integration and test by Hora et al.
- Presented at the August 2002 SPIE meeting (Formal citation: 2002, in
Infrared Space Telescopes and Instruments, SPIE Proceedings, 4850, 83.)
- Simfit and Focus Diversity: Methods for
determining the focus of the SIRTF telescope in space without a focus
slew by Hoffmann et al.
- Presented at the August 2002 SPIE meeting (Formal citation: 2002, in
Infrared Space Telescopes and Instruments, SPIE Proceedings, 4850, 428.)
- Confusion limit resulting from galaxies: using
the Infrared Array Camera on board SIRTF
- Vaisanen, Tollestrup, and Fazio, 2001, MNRAS, 325, 1241.
(ADS
entry.)
- "The Infrared
Array Camera (IRAC) for the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)"
by Fazio et al.
- Presented at the 1998
SPIE meeting.
Description of IRAC, including: scientific objectives,
optical and mechanical design, detector arrays and sensitivity,
electronics, operational modes, and observing methodology.
- "IRAC Instrument
Description" by J. Hora
- From a talk at the 1999
Dana Point Workshop.
- Observing with
IRAC" by W. Reach
- From a talk at the 1999
Dana Point Workshop.
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