Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Pipeline: final modifications and lessons learned

Patrick J. Lowrance; Sean J. Carey; Jason A. Surace; James G. Ingalls; William Glaccum; Jessica E. Krick; John Stauffer

doi:10.1117/12.2233804

29 July 2016 Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Pipeline: final modifications and lessons learned

Patrick J. Lowrance, Sean J. Carey, Jason A. Surace, James G. Ingalls, William Glaccum, Jessica E. Krick, John Stauffer

Proceedings Volume 9904, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 99045Z (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233804
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

In more than ten years of operations, the Spitzer Space Telescope has conducted a wide range of investigations from observing nearby asteroids to probing atmospheric properties of exoplanets to measuring masses of the most distance galaxies. Observations using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) at 3.6 and 4.5um will continue through mid-2019 when the James Webb Space Telescope will succeed Spitzer. In anticipation of the eventual end of the mission, the basic calibrated data reduction pipeline designed to produce flux-calibrated images has been finalized and used to reprocess all the data taken during the Spitzer warm mission. We discuss all final modifications made to the pipeline.

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Patrick J. Lowrance, Sean J. Carey, Jason A. Surace, James G. Ingalls, William Glaccum, Jessica E. Krick, and John Stauffer "Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Pipeline: final modifications and lessons learned", Proc. SPIE 9904, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 99045Z (29 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233804

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