Herschel Science Demonstration Phase Data Processing Workshop

ESAC, 14-16 December 2009

Workshop generalities

• Herschel Science Demonstration Phase Data Processing Workshop final agenda (PDF 15kb)
• List of participants (PDF 17kb)

Presentations

Session 1: Introduction

• Overall status of the Herschel mission as of end of PV (G. Pilbratt) (PDF 3.7Mb)
• Overall status of the spacecraft - Lessons learned from PV (A. Marston) (PDF 2.4Mb)
• Overall progress and future plans for Herschel Data Processing (S. Ott) (PDF 8.3Mb)

Session 2: Uplink and Downlink validation status

• Overview of PACS Photometry after PV (M. Sauvage) (PDF 5.0Mb)
• Overview of PACS Spectroscopy after PV (B. Vandenbussche) (PDF 6.6Mb)
• Overview of SPIRE Photometry and Spectroscopy after PV (T. Lim) (PDF 2.7Mb)

Session 3: Other general aspects

• Latest improvements in HIPE (B. Merín) (PDF 3.3Mb)
• Data access overview (E. Verdugo) (PDF 1.4Mb)
• Documentation overview (D. Rizzo) (PDF 6.4Mb)

Session 4: SPIRE Photometry tutorial/demo session

• SPIRE product pools, data products, where to find data (B. Schulz) (PDF 403kb)
• SPIRE scan map pipeline and known calibration issues ((I. Valtchanov) (PDF 3.4Mb)
• Baseline subtraction and drifts (K. Xu) (PDF 4.0Mb)
• Point source extraction short demo (A. Smith) (PDF 2.9Mb)

• HIFI Status (F. Helmich) (PDF 2.5Mb)

Session 5: PACS Photometry tutorial/demo session

• PACS Point Source Photometry pipeline (M. Nielbock) (PDF 1.8Mb)
• PACS Scan Map pipeline (B. Altieri) (PDF 1.4Mb)
• Mad Mapping (B. Ali) (PDF 7.8Mb)

Session 6: PACS Spectroscopy tutorial/demo session

• PACS Spectroscopy pipeline (R.Vavrek) (PDF 6.0Mb)
• PACS wavelength switching pipeline demo (Ph. Appleton) (PDF 8.8Mb)

Session 7: SPIRE Spectroscopy tutorial/demo session

• Brief introduction to SPIRE spectrometer products and pools (N. Lu) (PDF 804kb)
• Introduction to spectrometer pipeline (T. Fulton) (PDF 532kb)
• Line fitting, sinc/apodized, noise, fringing, etc. (E. Polehampton) (PDF 246kb)

Session 8a: HIFI tutorial/demo session

• Current status of HIFI pipeline and processing (R. Shipman) (PDF 789kb)
• Basic inspection of HIFI data: hands-on tour through a HIFI observation (R.Shipman/M. Avruch) (PDF 2.1Mb)

Session 8b: SPIRE hands-on free data reduction session

Session 9a: Interactions with the users

• The Herschel Data Processing User's Group (A.Heras) (PDF 50kb)
• How to use the Herschel Data Processing Interest Groups (B. Merín) (PDF 4.6Mb)
• How to contribute to HIPE (D. Rizzo) (PDF 2.8Mb)

Session 9b: Free hands-on data reduction session - all instruments