IRAC Data Analysis Pipeline
Raw Data: individual frames in DN units
Basic Calibrated Data (BCD)
- primary data product for observers to use
- individual calibrated frames, coordinates to ~1.2
- corrected bandwidth, dark current, nonlinearity, flat
Browse-Quality Data (BQD)
- frames combined into mosaic (dithers, entire AOR)
- astrometry not performed on individual images
- photometry not performed on sources