Spitzer Data Analysis Recipes involving MOPEX

This website lists the recipes that involve the use of the SSC software tool MOPEX/APEX.

Making a MIPS-24 Mosaic: a Pleides star	In this recipe, 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 recipe continues in a source extraction step.
Making a MIPS-24 Mosaic: a galaxy cluster at z = 0.7	This link provides a tutorial on how to reduce your MIPS-24 Photometry 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 PRF Estimation and Point-Source Extraction	This recipe 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-24 Source Extraction: MIPSGAL	In this recipe, we use primarily the GUI version of MOPEX to perform aperture photometry on the MIPS 24 micron MIPSGAL data, which is characterized by a complicated Galactic background.
Making a MIPS-70 Mosaic: a Pleides star	In this recipe, 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 recipe continues in a source extraction step.
Making a MIPS-70 Mosaic: GFLS	This recipe 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 Source Extraction: COSMOS	A tutorial on how to use APEX to extract PSF Photometry from the COSMOS 70 micron scan map mosaic.
COSMOS IRAC channel 1 Mosaic	This recipe 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). This recipe also provides a general introduction to the MOPEX GUI, and we recommend reading it even if your data are more shallow or deeper than COSMOS.
Making an IRAC Mosaic: SINGS NGC 1097	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.
GFLS IRAC channel 3 Mosaic	This example demonstrates how to use the MOPEX GUI to make a mosaic of a portion of the Galactic First Look Survey. It focusses on IRAC channel 3, and discusses how to correct for residual offsets, match backgrounds in overlapping frames, and remove outliers.

Spitzer Data Analysis Recipes involving MOPEX

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