IRS : Data Handbook

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

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...

• The Post-BCD software area for additional documents and software.
• the Contributed Software Archive
• The Data Analysis Cookbooks for examples with real data
• Information on Rogue Pixels.

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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