News: 2004

Significant recently updated files (December 2004)

16 December 04

• Updated version of MIPS Data Handbook (version 2.1) has been posted
• Updated namelists for MIPS and IRAC have been posted

• Calibration workshop talks have been posted

• Updated ROC v6.1 - this version has updated SED observations included.
• Updated PET with latest sensitivities.
• Updated Observation Planning Cookbook v 4.0.

• Presentations from the DC and Chicago workhops have been posted. The Netherlands workshop has been cancelled; apologies for any inconvenience.
• Several FAQs have been updated
• IRS PUI filter transmission curves have been posted.

Significant recently updated files (November 2004)

30 November 04

• Updated SPICE version

• Updated Infrared Compendium

• New bright object list of things that might saturate MIPS

• New version of Spot and Leopard (Spitzer Pride) and associated documentation (Spot and Leopard).
• Updated NAIF ID list and ephemeris list.
• Cycle-2 budget forms (please see the CP for details on who should fill this out!)
• Proposal templates now available.
• Updated MIPS Data Handbook (version 2.0)
• Important note on MIPS conversion factors (instrumental units to MJy/sr)

• CP-2 now out!
• Updated SOM version 5.0, and associated IRAC, IRS, and MIPS pages. New pages for each on "Best Observing Practices."
• Updated ROC v. 6.0 including all of GO-1.
• New Spitzer Observing Rules, version 5.1.
• New set of GTO abstracts and new set of DDT abstracts.
• New notes on a late ephemeris update - when and when not to request one.
• Updated funding information for Cycle-2.
• New theoretical research program for Cycle-2. (The rest of the research categories have also been updated.)
• New resources for coordinated proposals.
• New IRS PUI AOT added for total of 8 AOTs.
• Updated multi-year schedule.
• Updated workshops information, with new registration deadlines.
• Updated pipeline history, through S11 (which is anticipated to be deployed the week of Nov 15).
• Updated DQA status flag definitions.
• Updated version of Spice.
• Myriad smaller document updates, mostly propagating the information released in the above through the rest of our site.
• And, finally, don't forget these two late-October releases:
  • The post-BCD suite of software, including a new release of MOPEX (and a Linux version), an initial release of the Bandmerge software, and a new release of IRSFRINGE.
  • The first deliveries of Enhanced Products from the Legacy Science Teams, including catalogs, image mosaics, spectra, and documentation.
• Coming soon: the next version of Spitzer Pride (Spot and Leopard) is anticipated to be released the week of November 15. This upcoming version of Spot is what you should use for your GO-2 proposals.

Significant recently updated files (October 2004)

28 October 04

• The first deliveries of Enhanced Products from the Legacy Science Teams are now available. These include catalogs, image mosaics, spectra, and documentation.

• As part of the post-BCD suite of software, there is a new release of MOPEX (including a Linux version), an initial release of the Bandmerge software, and a new release of IRSFRINGE.

• Updated IRAC Pocket Guide
• New dates for workshops

• New MIPS sensitivities and saturations.

• How the Archive Works
• How to request an Appeal of Spitzer Observing Rules Decisions
• How much time do you have left to submit a cycle-2 proposal? new countdown clock...
• New CP-2 versions of SSO Observing with Spitzer and Horizons tips for Solar System Observers. Also added reference to Meadows et al. (2004) for asteroid counts.

• Complete list of AR abstracts from Cycle-1

• New things anticipated for GO-2 - joint proposals and more.
• Updated IRAC FAQ

Significant recently updated files (September 2004)

28 September 04

• New page for submitting your software, and browsing software others have submitted.
• Set of all GO-1 approved program abstracts, listed by PI
• Updated SUP membership

• New BIC.

• New document on how to request that an AOR be declared failed.

• The DDT abstracts have been updated.
• Workshop pages updated with information on Calibration and Observation Planning Workshops.

• The post-BCD pages have been reorganized, and SPICE is now available.

Significant recently updated files (August 2004)

31 August 04

• 2005 Spitzer Fellows Application
• New blackout schedule
• New Spitzer Observing Rules version 5.0

• A Pipeline History Log has been posted.

• IRS Data Handbook version 1.0 has been posted.
• A new IRS document has been added: The SMART Data Analysis Package for the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope by Higdon et al., 2004, PASP, in press

• New complete list of all approved spitzer programs

• New IRAC spectral response information.

• New SOM version, with all IRS updates now!

Significant recently updated files (July 2004)

29 July 04

• New version of Leopard for Mac users, and new Leopard bugs list
• New document with definitions of the "AOR Status" flags that appear in Spot and Leopard
• New Spitzer-related publications

• Post-BCD software for IRS: IRSFRINGE has been released
• Registration for New Views conference now open

Significant recently updated files (June 2004)

28 June 04

• Spitzer Observer's Manual, Version 4.5.
• Many web pages with the information from the new SOM buried in the IRAC and MIPS instrument sections were also updated.
• New MIPS Data Handbook version 1.1

• "Statistics on GO-1 programs," (e.g. output from the TAC process, May 2004), to be compared with "Statistics on CP-1 proposals," (e.g. input to the TAC process, February 2004)
• Many of the documents in the Post-BCD section have been updated today.
• Many of the documents in the IRAC section have been slightly updated today.
• IRS data memo -- a description of IRS data in the Spitzer Archive

• Several more ApJSS special issue papers
• Updated mask information (dmask, pmask, and rmask)
• Updated IRAC and MIPS bright object lists

ApJ Supplement Special Issue (June 1, 2004)

Cycle-1 Selections Announced (May 28, 2004)

Significant recently updated files (May 2004)

11 May 04

• NEW Spitzer Science Archive
• New Spot and Leopard (archive interface) release, along with Spot documentation and Leopard documentation.
• NEW IRAC Data Handbook
• UPDATED IRAC filenaming convention
• NEW MIPS Data Handbook
• UPDATED MIPS filenaming convention
• UPDATED IRS filenaming convention
• Updated SSO documentation: SSO Observing with Spitzer and Horizons tips for Solar System Observers

Significant recently updated files (April 2004)

27 Apr 04

• We are pleased to announce the release of the IRAC FLS data
• The list of IRAC pipeline products and filenaming convention has been substantially updated.
• Updated BIC

• IRS FAQ has been updated
• New pictures of the ROC, including "done" observations.

• The IOC/SV page, being of limited interest at this point, has been demoted off the main home page, and is replaced by a link to our advisory groups.

Significant recently updated files (March 2004)

• Extragalactic FLS paper on the NOAO R-band mosaic has been accepted.

• IAU naming conventions for Spitzer objects

• DDT programs - new programs and abstracts

Significant recently updated files (February 2004)

• Post-BCD - software has been released!

• The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos - conference, 9-12 November 2004, Pasadena, CA

• Statistics on CP-1 proposals have been posted.
• IRAC zero magnitude flux densities
• proposal ingest status - could we print your proposal?

• The Visiting Grad Student Program pages have been updated

• Memo re: Horizons being hacked and solar system proposal deadlines-- UPDATED 13 FEB!

• Spitzer Fellows announced

• New Spot bug affecting dollar amounts submitted as part of archival proposals.

• Typo fixed in Spec-PET - typo was in LH PSSL, 240s ramp duration, at 34 microns. Because we interpolate, this affected sensitivity estimates for LH PSSL, 240s, between 31 and 36.9 microns.

• Ecliptic FLS results report: Thermal Observations and Preliminary Number Counts

Significant recently updated files (January 2004)

26-27 Jan 04

• Observation Planning Cookbook v. 3.0 has been released! Chapters on pointed deep imaging, spectroscopy, imaging survey, and imaging moving targets.
• The OPZ has recently changed! See the operational constraints page in the "Constraints: Definitions, Hints, and Tips" document.
• New ephemeris listing for Spot
• Small bug fix in IRS portion of PET (typo in one of the sensitivities -- 30s, SH, 13 microns.)

• The Performance Estimation Tool (PET) has been recently updated to incorporate MIPS data (and approximations).
• New and updated FAQs
• New and updated schedules and observing logs

• MIPS
  • Late-breaking MIPS news added to FLS data products page.
  • New memo with updated information in post-launch overview file (numbers have been propagated to the rest of the MIPS site, including the sensitivity page and the saturation page, as well as the MIPS pocket guide.)
  • Quoted SED sensitivity number clarification on the MIPS sensitivity page
• IRS
  • In the IRS AOT Example #1 (SOM v4.0, section 7.2.4.1), the units of all line fluxes were inadvertantly given as W cm^-2 instead of the correct units of W m^-2. Please change all flux units in this example to W m^-2 (you do NOT have to change any of the numbers). This will be corrected in the next release version of the SOM, and has already been corrected in the online copy of the examples.
  • Slightly modified sensitivity and saturation web pages; the information is the same as was released in the SOM.
• New schedules and observing logs

• Bright Object Lists
• Gzipped tarballs of the SOM chapters

• Initial data products from the Galactic and Extragalactic FLS
  
• New ROC version 5.1, the version that potential GOs should check for potential duplications
• Extragalactic FLS now has SDSS and NOAO R-band data posted
• New versions of several post-BCD manuals, as well as a few entirely new ones
• New IRAC in-flight PSF FITS files
• Materials from the January Observation Planning Workshops

• New 24 um sensitivity plots for MIPS
• New version of memo on use of distortion header keywords in Spitzer images (replaces two previous memos)
• Effective MIPS wavelengths
• Asteroid Memo and NEA Memo, from the Solar System part of the Proposal Kit
• Papers and talks from 2004 Atlanta AAS
• The post-bcd software is anticipated to be released in mid-February.
• The Observation Planning Cookbook is anticipated to be released before the end of January.

Archival news

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