IRAC Data Reduction Cookbooks
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Welcome to the IRAC Data Reduction Cookbooks page.
This website contains step-by-step cookbooks for reducing data taken by the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope.
IRAC Cookbooks:
| Retrieving your data | This link provides both general information and specific examples on how to retrieve data, whether public or proprietary, from the Spitzer archives. |
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| IRAC1234 GUI overlap correction GUI mosaic |
This cookbook demonstrates how to use the MOPEX GUI to produce a
science-grade IRAC mosaic images from COSMOS Legacy observations.
These techniques are generally applicable to medium deep black-field
survey observations (~15 minute integrations with more than 10
exposures). |
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| IRAC1234 command-line overlap correction command-line mosaic |
This example demonstrates how to run the Spitzer mosaicker to create mosaics of a large field of view around the SINGS galaxy NGC 1097 in IRAC channels 1 through 4. We pay special attention to choosing the appropriate parameters in the mosaicker namelist files, and discuss the effect of various choices of several of these parameters. For channels 3 and 4, we show how to run the overlap correction script before mosaicking. The final products include the mosaic image, the mosaic uncertainty image, and the mosaic coverage map. |
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| IRAC12 command-line mosaic |
This example demonstrates how to use the command-line version of
MOPEX to make a mosaic of a portion of the Galactic First Look Survey.
It focusses on IRAC channels 1 and 2. |
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| IRAC34 command-line mosaic |
This example demonstrates how to use the command-line version of
MOPEX to make a mosaic of a portion of the Galactic First Look Survey.
It focusses on IRAC channels 3 and 4. |
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| Synthetic Photometry | This link provides information (and IDL software) on how to determine the expected flux recorded by any of Spitzer's imagers, given an input spectrum. |
