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MOPEX User's Guide - IRSA

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Some Tips for <strong>MOPEX</strong> with Spitzer Data:<br />

Version 1 (3/16/2012)<br />

<strong>MOPEX</strong> User’s <strong>Guide</strong><br />

IRAC array location-dependent corrections with <strong>MOPEX</strong> are discussed in Spitzer Data<br />

Analysis Cookbook: Recipes 6 and 7. Color corrections are in the IRAC and MIPS Data<br />

Handbooks.<br />

D.3 Point-Source Fitting: Apex for IRAC stacks, Apex_1frame for MIPS<br />

mosaic<br />

The point source response functions and sample namelists that come with <strong>MOPEX</strong> are for<br />

fitting on the (C)BCD frames for IRAC (Apex) and on the default mosaics for MIPS (Apex<br />

1frame).<br />

D.4 Use the Mosaic Task to make Mosaics (IRAC data)<br />

Sounds obvious, but the confusion comes when running APEX (multiframe) on IRAC data.<br />

APEX is set up to make a mosaic from the image stack for point-source detection (and does so in<br />

the default templates and namelists, e.g. apex_I1_gui.nl). This is because APEX needs some files<br />

that are part of the mosaic process. But it can't do all the fancy outlier rejection that Mosaic can.<br />

For most data, it's better to make mosaics with the Mosaic task.<br />

One approach might be called "all at once". Set up a GUI Mosaic flow, then click on "Insert<br />

APEX multiframe..." and use one of the standard templates. Shut off (hit the X) APEX mosaic<br />

commands: Fiducial Image Frame, Mosaic Interpolate, Mosaic Coadd, and Mosaic Combine.<br />

This is described in the Spitzer Data Analysis Cookbook: Recipe 7. The GUI version of APEX<br />

will now be able to find the Mosaic files it needs. Start the combined flow with the green arrow<br />

at the top.<br />

What if you made a nice mosaic last week and don't want to re-do it? Provided you saved the<br />

original output directory, you can just run APEX. Set the APEX output directory to the original<br />

output directory. You can use a standard template and turn off the APEX mosaic commands as<br />

above, or, for your convenience, there are example namelist files that do this for you,<br />

cdf/apex*have_mosaic*gui.nl.<br />

(In command-line, run mosaic.pl as usual, then drop the mosaicing tasks from your Apex<br />

namelist and run apex.pl to the same output directory used for mosaic.pl, or use one of the<br />

cdf/apex*have_mosaic*.nl namelists.)<br />

251 D.3 Point-Source Fitting: Apex for IRAC stacks,<br />

Apex_1frame for MIPS mosaic

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