Index of IUE Topics
Acronym Lists for IUE Terms
INES - INES Glossary (pdf file)
NEWSIPS - NEWSIPS Man. Append. 2: Glossary
MAST - MAST acronym list
Apertures
Dimensions (in arcsec) - NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 2.2
Geometry - NEWSIPS Man. Figs. 2.16-2.18
LGAP tilt corrections - NEWSIPS Man. Chap 7.2.3
Cookbooks for Input/Output & Analysis of Data
For IUEDAC routines - http://archive.stsci.edu/iue/iuedacfits.html
For IRAF/STSDAS routines - http://archive.stsci.edu/iue/iueiraffits.html
Data Anomalies
Camera artifacts (high disp.) - Crenshaw et al. PASP paper
The FES Camera "Streak"
- DMU corrupted pixel (DN = 159) - NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 4.5
1515Å artifact (low disp.) - NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 6.4.3.2
Database
IUE Merged Log (ASCII)
- IUE Merged Log Files
Data file types
IUESIPS
- IUESIPS Man. Chap 8.1.3
NEWSIPS
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap 12.1
Data Quality ( "Nu" ) Flags
FAQ (pixels to excise?)
- FAQ #15
Spectrum for low disp.
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 9.6
Spectrum for high disp.
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 10.2.4
Resampling
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 7.5
Table summary (IUESIPS)
- IUESIPS Man. Chap. 7.3
Table summary (NEWSIPS)
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 3, Tab. 3.1
Data Reading/Writing
IDL i/o of FITS files
- IUEDAC Routines FAQ #7
IRAF i/o of FITS files
- STSDAS/IRAF Routines FAQ #6
Conversion of GO (IUESIPS) files
- IUEDAC routines, Sect. 1B
Display of Images or Spectra
Browse NEWSIPS spectrum or image
- IUE Preview Images
FAQ on "saoimage" for images
- FAQ #9
Echelle Orders
Line locations in pixels (high disp.)
- NEWSIPS Man., Chap. 10.2.1, Tab. 10.1
Errors (net flux)
see "data quality flags" above
Noise estimate (empirical)
- FAQ #17
Noise model, High disp, NEWSIPS
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 10.2.3
Noise Model, Low disp, & SWET use; NEWSIPS
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 9.1
Noise Model, High disp, used by SWET; NEWSIPS
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 9
Periodic noise
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 6.1.4>
Pixel weighting
- FAQ #16
Signal gains for coaddition of spectra
- Nichols & Linsky AJ paper, p.531
Extraction (gross flux)
Length of slits (high disp, in px)
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 10.2.2, Tab. 10.2
"Optimal" (low disp), "SWET"
- Kinney et al. PASP paper NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 9
SWET difficulties with emission lines
- Imhoff report
Extraction (background flux)
Background verification (high disp.)
- INES pdf file, Sect. 3, p. 7
How to customize
- NEWSIPS Man., Chap. 10.1.6
Reported problems (null drift)
- Smith 1999 PASP paper
Final Archive
General description of NEWSIPS
- Nichols & Linsky AJ paper
Instrumental...
Attributes (high disp.)
- Spectrogr. parameters
Layout
- IUE Observing Guide, Fig. 2.1
Resolution in disp. dir.
- Chap. 2.3.1.1, low disp. - Chap. 2.3.2.1, high disp.
Resolution in spatial dir.
- Chap. 2.3.1.2, low disp. - Chap. 2.3.2.2, high disp.
Inverse Sensitivity Ratio
NEWSIPS Man., Tables 11.5--11.8
- LWP, low disp. LWR-"A" LWR-"B" SWP
IUEDAC Software
Documentation of procedures
- Procedure prologs
s/w for individual procedures
- IUEDAC s/w procedures
IDL users' library
- IUEDAC s/w procedures
Users' guide
- IUEDAC s/w procedures
Key Processing Steps of NEWSIPS
Image Resampling
- NEWSIPS Manual, Chap. 7
Photometric Correction
- NEWSIPS Manual, Chap. 6
Microphonics ("Pings")
Characterization & avoidance
- IUE observing guide, Chap. 4.11
Detection in NEWSIPS
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 4.2
Detection in IUESIPS
- IUESIPS Man. Chap. 3.1
NEWSIPS Reliability
Line strengths
- Knauth et al. Ap.J. 2001 paper
Wavelengths
-
Smith et al. 2001 PASP paper
Flux repeatability
- INES pdf file, sect 4., p. 11
Object Class
IUE object class code
- NEWSIPS Manual, Chap. 14.2
Observing Guide
IUE observing guide
- http://archive.stsci.edu/iue/instrument/obs_guide/guide.html
Observing Research Programs
IUE research program codes
- http://archive.stsci.edu/iue/prog.html
Point Spread Functions
High disp. (spatial direction) -- all cams.
- NEWSIPS Man. Append. 4
Wavelengths
Accuracy
- IUESIPS Man., Chap. 6.5, Tab. 6.4
Accuracy:
published analysis
-
Smith 2001 PASP paper
Compute from Grating eqn.
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 8.3.5, Tab. 8.7
Coverage for order-m (high: all cams.)
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 8.3.5, Tab. 8.8
Format on raw image, all cams., disps.
- NEWSIPS Man. Chap. 2.1
Heliocentric corrections
- NEWSIPS Man. Append. 3
Pixel-dims. (spatial), all cams., disps.
- all cams., disps. (Tab. 2.3)
Instrumental Resolution
- Chap. 2.3.1.1, low disp. - Chap. 2.3.2.1, high disp.
Vacuum-to-air conversion (IUESIPS only)
- IUESIPS Man., Chap. 6.4.2
We welcome suggestions for additional index topics.