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Index of IUE Topics

Acronym Lists for IUE Terms

    INES - INES Glossary (pdf file)
    NEWSIPS - NEWSIPS Man. Append. 2: Glossary
    MAST - MAST acronym list

    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

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

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