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The IRS Data Handbook (DH) is the essential technical reference manual for people working with IRS data. There are some ancillary files that may be of interest.

Note that the Data Handbook will be updated to include detailed information about Peak-Up Imaging data products before any such data are available.

Getting the Document and Ancillary Files

VERSION 3.2, 7 January 2008

File is available in PDF Format.
Some figures may not display well on some monitors, but should print satisfactorily.

IRS Data Handbook, version 3.2, 7 January 2008
The main document.

IRS data products and filenaming convention
A list and description of each of the files you get when you download IRS data.

IRS Pipeline Handbook (a.k.a. pipeline description), dated 30 March 2005
A detailed description of what the S11 pipelines do. See IRS pipeline history for high-level descriptions of how the pipeline versions differ from each other.

Also see...

Document Organization

  1. Introduction
  2. Data Products
  3. BCD Header Keywords
  4. Pipeline Processing
  5. IRS Photometric and Wavelength Calibration Products
  6. Peak-Up Imaging Science Mode
  7. Measurement Uncertainties
  8. Characteristics of the Processed Data
  9. Bit Masks
  10. How to Reduce Spectroscopic Data
  11. Example BCD.FITS Header
  12. Acronyms


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