MOPEX User's Guide - IRSA

for Linux and Solaris systems, and:
unix% //mopex.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub
on Macs.
1.6.1 Getting Spitzer Data
MOPEX User’s Guide
All Spitzer data are downloaded from the Spitzer Heritage Archive . You will be given a choice
of data products to download. MOPEX is designed to use the Level 1 (Basic Calibrated Data;
BCD) products as input, but the Level 2 (Post-BCD; PBCD) products are useful for quick looks.
In general, the user should begin science reductions with the BCD products. Once you have
downloaded your data, unpack the zip files into a data directory () of your choice.
1.7 Quickstart Guide
To create a quick mosaic of Spitzer data using MOPEX, follow the steps below. This will only
create a mosaic using a generic template, and may not be optimum for your data.
1. Start the GUI as described above;
2. Load a template namelist from the File menu by clicking on File > New Mosaic Pipeline;
3. Select from the drop-down menu, e.g. if you have IRAC channel 1 data, select Mosaic,
IRAC ch1;
4. Create lists of your input files on the command line, e.g.:
unix% ls //ch1/bcd/*bcd.fits > InputImageList.txt
unix% ls //ch1/bcd/*bunc.fits > InputUncList.txt
unix% ls //ch1/bcd/*bimsk.fits > InputMskList.txt
(see Chapter 3 for more information on MOPEX input files);
5. Add the newly-created input list files into MOPEX. In the Initial Settings module:
Image Stack File = InputImageList.txt
Output Directory = /your/chosen/
And under Optional Input and Mask files:
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Quickstart Guide