PACS Documentation - Level 2 - Herschel
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Here you will find more detailed and more technical PACS documentation that will give you deeper insight into the instrument, its data and data products and its operation. If you are looking for even more detailed, technical or historical documentation on a specific topic and do not find it here, you should look in PACS Level 3.
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PACS Data Products Overview Documents
PACS Data Products Overview
Spreadsheet of the relevant FITS keywords to identify the AOT of any PACS spectroscopy observation tarball of CSV + ReadMe; CSV of Metadata table; Excel of Metadata table; only ReadMe (2017)
Ancillary Data Products
- ADP Release Note: Herschel/PACS modelled point-spread functions; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: PACS Spectrometer Beams as Ancillary Data Products; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: PACS Photometer PSFs and EEFs as Ancillary Data Products; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: PACS Photometer Filter transmission; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: Calibrator Models for the PACS Spectrometer; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: PACS OBSW images; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: PACS Trend Monitoring Data Products; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: PACS Observation Summaries; Link to Data (2018)
Highly-Processed Data Products
- HPDP Release Note: PACS-P Point Source Catalogue (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: PACS-P Unimap Highly Processed Mosaics (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: PACS-P JScanam Highly Processed Mosaics (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: PACS-S ON/OFF Spectra (2017)
- HPDP Release Note:The Pointing Offset Correction point-source calibrated spectra (2018)
- HPDP Release Note: PACS-S Red leak spectra (2018)
- HPDP Release Note: PACS-S Blue Edge Spectra (2018)
- HPDP Release Note: Herschel-PACS photometry of the five major moons of Uranus (2020) ***NB: Pending full HPDP ingestion
PACS Overview
instrument description
- The PACS Instrument (EAS, 2009)
- The PACS Instrument (COSPAR, 2010)
Observing Mode Release Notes
- PACS SED and large range scan AOT release note (2010)
- Unchopped AOTs Release note (2010)
- Unchopped line scan bright line mode release note (2011)
- PACS wavelength switching AOT release note (2010)
- Photometer scan map AOT release note (2010)
- PACS homogeneous SED and Nyquist spectral sampling (2010)
- Photometer scan maps for point sources (2010)
- PACS Chopped line scan and high sampling range scan AOT release note (2010)
Performance and Calibration:
Calibration Overview Planning Documents
- PACS Routine Phase Calibration Plan (2014)
- PACS Calibration Document Overview (2014)
- PACS Calibration Document (2014)
- PACS Commissioning Phase Plan (2009)
- PACS Commissioning Phase Timeline (2009)
- PACS PV Phase Plan (2014)
Calibration Framework
Photometer Calibration
- Herschel-PACS photometry of faint stars for sensitivity performance assessment and establishment of faint FIR primary photometric standards. The data tables of individual OBSIDs photometry are available at CDS, by following the link here (2018)
- Far-infrared photometric observations of the outer planets and satellites with Herschel-PACS (2016)
- On the comparison of PACS 160mum and AKARI 140mum maps (2015).
- PACS Photometer Passbands and Colour Correction Factors for Various Source SEDs (2011).
- Point source photometry calibration: asteroids (2014)
- Faint standard stars (2014)
- Photometer Flat Field Measurement (2016)
- Zero magnitude conversion for the PACS Photometer (2013)
- Non-linearity correction module for the PACS photometer (2011)
- Saturation limits for the PACS photometer (2008)
Spectrometer Calibration:
- Spectrometer Flux Calibration (2011)
- PACS Spectrometer flux calibration with the calibration blocks (2011)
- PACS spectroscopy flatfield correction (2010)
- Description of Telescope Background (2010)
- Flux Calibration with "Normalization". (2010)
- Spectrometer Flux Calibration Concept (2009)
- Wavelength calibration of the PACS spectrometer during FMILT (2007)
Filter Curves:
Pointing Performance
PSF and beams:
Photometer beams:
- PACS Photometer Point Source Spread Function (2015)
- PACS-P PSF Ancillary Data (2017)
- PACS-P EEF Ancillary Data (2017)
Spectrometer beams:
- PACS Spectrometer beams; Link to PACS Spectroscopy Beam Efficiencies (Control Version document, 2016); Link to PACS Spectroscopy beam efficiency tables (central spaxel) (2013); Link to PACS Spectrometer beam efficiency tables (2013)
Telescope Background
- Recreating the telescope background in HIPE (2015) + tar file Tarball with associated files from PACS Sprectrometer
- A Herschel telescope background model for the PACS photometer (2016)
Bolometer Performance
Instrument Description
Focal Plane Geometry
Field of View
Radiation effects
- Impacts of The Radiation Environment At L2 On Bolometers Onboard The Herschel Space Observatory (2012)
PACS Data Processing
Spectroscopy
- Spectroscopy of Planetary Nebulae with Herschel: A Beginners Guide (2018)
- Dealing with Point Sources Observed with PACS Spectroscopy (2018)
- Dealing with Semi-Extended Sources Observed with PACS Spectroscopy (2018)
- Dealing with Extended Sources Observed with PACS Spectroscopy and tarball with additional materials tarball with HIPE scripts including additional explanatory material (2018)
- PACS Spectrometer: dealing with “contaminated” off-source data (2017)
- PACS Spectrometer Semi extended sources: Technical note on the extended to point-source correction, tarball with HIPE script and additional explanatory material (2016)
- PACS Spectrometer - pointing offset correction technical note (2016)
Photometry
- Noise characterization of high-pass filtered PACS photometer mini-maps (2018)
- Noise characterization of PACS photometer mini-maps processed with JScanam (2018)
- Unimap applied to Herschel (2015)
- The JScanam Map-Maker Method Applied to Herschel/PACS Photometer Observations (2015)
- MADMAP User's Guide for Herschel (2010)
- Optimised Herschel/PACS photometer observing and data-reduction strategies for moving solar system targets (2013)
- HPFilter and its effects on PSF and noise (2012)
Data Processing Workshops and Webinar Resources
HSC Workshops
- Data Processing Workshop (2015)
- Data Processing Workshop (2014)
- On-Line Spectroscopy Workshop (2014)
- Data Processing Workshop (2013)
- Data Processing Workshop (2012)
- OT1 Data Processing Workshop (2011)
NHSC Workshops and Webinars
- NHSC Workshops and Webinars (2015)