SPICE User's Guide - IRSA

Contents
SPICE User’s Guide
Chapter 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Important Documentation .....................................................................................................4
1.2 Getting Started.....................................................................................................................5
1.3 IRS Pipeline Overview .........................................................................................................6
1.4 Running SPICE in Batch Mode.............................................................................................7
1.5 Calibration Files ..................................................................................................................8
1.6 BMask Status Bits..............................................................................................................10
1.7 Visualization .....................................................................................................................11
Chapter 2. SPICE Modules ................................................................................................. 15
2.1 Initialize Parameters and Files ............................................................................................15
2.2 Batch Setup .......................................................................................................................16
2.3 Profile ...............................................................................................................................18
2.4 Ridge ................................................................................................................................22
2.5 Extract ..............................................................................................................................23
2.6 Point Source Tune..............................................................................................................32
2.7 Extended Source Tune .......................................................................................................33
Chapter 3. SPICE Menus..................................................................................................... 35
3.1 File Menu..........................................................................................................................35
3.2 Edit Menu .........................................................................................................................35
3.3 Process Menu ....................................................................................................................35
3.4 Tools Menu .......................................................................................................................36
3.5 Images Menu .....................................................................................................................36
3.6 Overlays Menu ..................................................................................................................37
3.7 Options Menu ....................................................................................................................40
3.8 Help Menu ........................................................................................................................41
Appendix A. SPICE on the Command Line .......................................................................... 42
A.1 Why use the command-line version of SPICE? ....................................................................42
A.2 Running SPICE on the Command Line................................................................................42
A.3 Profile ...............................................................................................................................43
A.4 Ridge ................................................................................................................................45
A.5 Extract ..............................................................................................................................46
A.6 Optimum ...........................................................................................................................48
A.7 IRS_Tune ..........................................................................................................................51
A.8 IRS_Retune .......................................................................................................................52
Appendix B. Fatal Bit Patte rns .............................................................................................. 53