SPIRE Documentation - Level 2 - Herschel
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You are in SPIRE Level 2 content
Here you will find more detailed and more technical SPIRE 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 SPIRE Level 3.
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SPIRE Data Products Overview Documents
SPIRE Data Products Overview
Ancillary Data Products
- ADP Release Note: SPIRE FTS Beam Data Products; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: SPIRE-Photometer Beam Data Products; Link to Data (2017)
- ADP Release Note: SPIRE-P Filter Transmissions; Link to Data (2016)
- ADP Release Note: SPIRE-S Diffraction Loss; Link to Data (2016)
- ADP Release Note: SPIRE Trend Analysis and Health Monitoring; Link to Trend analysis data, Link to Health monitoring data (2016)
- ADP Release Note: SPIRE OBSW images; Link to Data (2016)
- ADP Release Note: SPIRE Spectrometer Continuum Offsets and Sensitivity; Link to Data (2017)
Highly-Processed Data Products
- HPDP Release Note: SPIRE Spectrometer Background Subtracted Sparse Mode Spectra; Link to Data (tar file) (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: SPIRE FTS expert processed spectra of calibrators; Link to Data (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: re-gridded hyper-spectral cubes; Link to Data (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: SPIRE FTS spectral feature catalogue; Catalogue Release Note; Catalogue ReadMe; Link to Data (2019)
- The Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer Spectral Feature Finder I. The Spectral Feature Finder and Catalogue (2020)
- The Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer Spectral Feature Finder II. Estimating Radial Velocity of SPIRE Spectral Observation Sources (2020)
- The Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer Spectral Feature Finder III. Line Identification and Off-Axis Spectra (2020)
- The Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer Spectral Feature Finder IV. Neutral Carbon Detection in the SPIRE FTS Spectra (2020)
- HPDP Release Note: SPIRE-P HiRes map products; Catalogue ReadMe; Link to Data (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: SPIRE-Photometer Point Source Catalogue; Catalogue ReadMe; Link to Data (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: SPIRE-P Astrometry Corrected Maps; Link to Data (2017)
- HPDP Release Note: SPIRE-P improved maps; Link to Data (2017)
User-Provided Data Products
- SPIRE Scan- Map AOT and Data Products (2009), Addendum (2010)
- SPIRE Small-Scan-Map AOT and Data Products (2010)
- Spectrometer Point Source AOT and Data Products (2010)
- Spectrometer Mapping AOT and Data Products (2010)
- Release Note for the Herschel SPIRE Fourier-Transform Spectrometer Background Subtracted Spectra (2016)
- Release Note for the Herschel SPIRE Fourier-Transform Spectrometer unaveraged spectra (2016)
SPIRE Overview
Instrument Description:
- SPIRE Design Description (2003)
- In-orbit performance of the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier transform spectrometer: lessons learned (2014)
Uplink:
- SPIRE Point Source Mode: Release Note (2010)
- Release Note for the SPIRE Spectrometer Bright Source Mode (2010)
- SPIRE Scan- Map AOT and Data Products (2010) Addendum (2010)
- SPIRE Small-Scan-Map AOT and Data Products (2010)
- Spectrometer Point Source AOT and Data Products (2010)
- Release Note for the Spectrometer Mapping AOT (2010)
- Release Note for the SPIRE Spectrometer Bright Source Mode (2010)
Science Management
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Performance and Calibration:
Calibration Overview
- Astronomical Calibration Sources for Herschel-SPIRE (2008)
- Sensitivity of the SPIRE Detectors to Operating Parameters (2007)
- SPIRE Calibration Observation Definitions (2008)
- Feed Horn Coupled Bolometer Arrays for SPIRE: Design, Simulations, and Measurements (2003)
- SPIRE Pointing Calibration Sources (2009)
- The SPIRE Analogue Signal Chain and Photometer Detector Data Processing Pipeline (2009)
Spectrometer Calibration
- Herschel SPIRE FTS spectral mapping calibration (2014)
- Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer: calibration of its bright-source mode (2014)
- Deglitching SPIRE Interferograms (2008)
Beams
- Beam profile for the Herschel-SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer (2013)
- Beam pattern (diffraction) aspects in design of the SPIRE instrument (2000)
Confusion
IN-FLIGHT TESTING
- SPIRE Calibration Plan (2005)
- SPIRE Commissioning Phase Plan (2008)
- SPIRE PV Phase Plan (2009)
- SPIRE Routine Phase Calibration Plan (2008)
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)
Data Processing Overview
- SPIRE Pipeline Description (2009)
- Quality Control Metrics for SPIRE Data Processing Pipelines (2016)