SPIRE Legacy Documentation - Level 3 - Herschel
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Here you will find highly specialist technical SPIRE documentation for reference about the instrument, its data and data products and its operation. Be aware that many of the documents here are for historical reference only and may now be obsolete: these documents are intended mainly for the use of instrument experts.
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SPIRE DESIGN AND SPECIFICATIONS
- Herschel-SPIRE: design, performance, and scientific capabilities (2006)
- The Hershel-SPIRE Instrument and its Scientific Capabilities (2005)
- Herschel/SPIRE: Mission Overview and Canadian Contribution (2005)
- The Herschel-SPIRE instrument (2004)
- SPIRE: Herschel's Imaging Photometer and Spectrometer (2004)
- SPIRE: Herschel's Imaging Photometer and Spectrometer (2003)
- The SPIRE Instrument for Herschel (2001)
- SPIRE instrument for FIRST (2000)
- SPIRE: a bolometer instrument for FIRST (1998)
SPIRE Instrument and Systems
- Optical alignment verification of the Herschel-SPIRE instrument (2004)
- SPIRE beam steering mirror: a cryogenic 2 axis mechanism for the Herschel Space Observatory (2003)
- Design and performance of feedhorn-coupled bolometer arrays for SPIRE (2003)
- Optical design of the SPIRE instrument for FIRST (2000)
- SPIRE internal documents listing: ReadMe, Link to directory tree, Excel, CSV, CSV for Mac, PDF (2018)
SPIRE Observations
Science and science management
- The Herschel-SPIRE instrument and its capabilities for extragalactic astronomy (2007)
- Extragalactic Science with Herschel-SPIRE (2006)
- Extragalactic Surveys with SPIRE (2004)
- The Herschel-SPIRE instrument (2005)
Uplink
- Manual Commanding log table (2013)
- VM Table Versions Record (2013)
- Mission configuration page (2013)
- Transparent Packet generation (2013)
- Chop-Jiggle coupling term (2013)
Performance and Calibration:
Calibration
- In-flight characterisation of Herschel-SPIRE optical performances (2010)
- In-orbit performance of the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (2010)
- In-flight calibration of the Herschel-SPIRE instrument (2010)
STABILITY AND FLUX CALIBRATION
Pre-Flight Testing
- Understanding the Herschel-SPIRE bolometers (2010)
- Characterisation of Herschel-SPIRE flight model optical performances (2008)
- Performance evaluation of the Herschel/SPIRE instrument flight model imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (2008)
- A report on laboratory performance of the bolometric detector arrays for SPIRE/HSO: Part II (2006)
- Performance of flight-model on-board calibration sources on Herschel-SPIRE (2006)
- Performance evaluation of the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (2006)
- A comparison of the theoretical and measured performance of the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (2006)
- Preliminary results from Herschel-SPIRE flight instrument testing (2006)
- Optical performance characterization of HERSCHEL/SPIRE (2006)
- Spectral characterization of the Herschel SPIRE photometer (2005)
- A report on the laboratory performance of the spectroscopic detector arrays for SPIRE/HSO (2005)
- A Fourier transform spectrometer for ground testing of the Herschel/SPIRE instrument (2004)
- First results from Herschel-SPIRE performance tests (2004)
- Modeling the affect of multiple beam clipping in FIR and submillimeter instrumentation: ISO-LWS and FIRST-SPIRE (1998)
Data Processing
- The data processing pipelines for the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (2010)
- SPS: a software simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE photometer (2009)
- On the extraction of extended structure from Herschel-SPIRE scanning observations in the presence of 1/f noise (2008)
- The data processing pipeline for the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (2008)
- Determining the optimum scan map strategy for Herschel-SPIRE using the SPIRE photometer simulator (2007)
- A software simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE imaging photometer (2004)
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