MIPS Data Products

• Raw Data products:

  • Unprocessed FITS format image files (24, 70, and 160 mm arrays acquire data in all observing modes, not all is useful science data).

• Basic Calibrated Data (BCD) products:

  • Highest quality final calibrated data that can be obtained from an automated pipeline system. The SSC is required to ensure that absolute calibration of all 3 instruments is consistent to within 10%. Processing will include, as a minimum:
    • linearization
    • flat-fielding
    • flux calibration
    • CR removal
    • Correction for optical distortions
    • Dispersion correction (SED)
  • FITS format image files (or 2-D SED frames) are not assembled into maps, scans, or shift and added dither patterns.

• Browse Quality Data (BQD) products:

  • Maps and dithers shift and added using available pointing knowledge only.
  • Extracted SED into 1-D spectrum.

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