MIPS Data Reduction Cookbooks

Welcome to the MIPS Data Reduction Cookbooks page.

This website contains step-by-step cookbooks for reducing data taken by the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS).

MIPS 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.
MIPS-24 Photometry-mode command-line mosaic	In this cookbook, we use the command-line version of MOPEX to mosaic small-field 24 micron photometry observations. The target is a Pleides star observed as part of the Legacy Program "The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context". This cookbook continues in a source extraction step.
MIPS-24 Photometry-mode data download self-calibration command-line/GUI mosaic GUI source extraction	This link provides a tutorial on how to reduce your MIPS-24 Photomery Mode observations, from start to finish, including downloading the data, recognizing artifacts in the downloaded Post-BCD data, and performing self-calibration to remove these artifacts.
MIPS-24 Scan-mode PRF Estimation Source Extraction	This cookbook demonstrates how to use APEX to select point sources for PRF estimation, run the PRF estimate tool, and then use the real PRF for point source extraction. Special care is taken in removing Airy rings of bright point sources as they create false detections. The final products are a table of point source fluxes and a point source subtracted mosaic image.
MIPS-70 Photometry-mode command-line mosaic	In this cookbook, we use the command-line version of MOPEX to mosaic small-field 70 micron photometry observations. The target is a Pleides star observed as part of the Legacy Program "The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context". This cookbook continues in a source extraction step.
MIPS-70 Scan-mode command-line mosaic	This cookbook shows how to use the command-line version of MOPEX to create a mosaic of a portion of the MIPS 70-micron scan mode data obtained as part of the Galactic First Look Survey (GFLS).
MIPS-70 Scan-mode GUI Source Extraction	A tutorial on how to use APEX to extract PSF Photometry from the COSMOS 70 micron scan map mosaic.
Synthetic Photometry	A guide to estimating MIPS 24, 70, and 160 micron synthetic photometry from template spectra. IDL code is included.

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