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Data Analysis & Tools
Welcome to the Spitzer Data Analysis pages
Here you will find all of the documentation and software for use with the Basic Calibrated Data (BCDs) you obtain from Spitzer. This suite of software is also known as the "Post-BCD" software. All of the tools listed by name below are "Supported Software", distributed and supported by the SSC. If you have any problems with them, please contact the Helpdesk for assistance.
Contributed Software has been contributed by the Spitzer User Community. The SSC has no control over this software and offers no support; users should contact the authors listed on the individual pages for assistance.
For information on reducing and analyzing your Spitzer data, see the Instrument Handbooks listed below. See Chapter 8 of the Handbooks for an introduction to data analysis. There is a guide to common artifacts and mitigation techniques in Chapter 7 of the Handbooks, and for IRAC, users should see Appendix B of the IRAC Instrument Handbook for a quick guide to photometry. All users should check the Spitzer Data Analysis Cookbook for walkthroughs with example datasets.
IRAC Instrument Handbook
MIPS Instrument Handbook
IRS Instrument Handbook
The Spitzer Data Analysis Cookbook is a collection of recipes for reducing Spitzer data. Each recipe includes of an example data set which can be downloaded from the Spitzer archive, along with step-by-step instructions for how to address a particular data reduction problem using commonly-used software and tools.
For access to the files referenced in the cookbook, please see this page. 
What's New?
- (July 20 2011) CUBISM 1.8 has been released. You can find the new version and change log here.
- (April 9 2010) DARKSETTLE v1.3 has been released, fixing two small bugs in the previous version. You can find the new version here.
- (March 29 2010) DARKSETTLE v1.2 has been released. This fixes a bug in how DARKSETTLE v1.1 handled pmask files. DARKSETTLE v1.1 automatically read in the appropriate pmask for the first file in the input list, and applied the same pmask to all data files. When you ran DARKSETTLE v1.1 on files from more than one AOR from different periods in the mission, it applied the pmask suitable to the first AOR to all the files. If some files in your list required a different pmask than the first file, the pmasks were applied incorrectly. To avoid this bug, download the updated version.
- (Feb 03 2010) A minor update to MOPEX (v18.2.3) has been released, fixing a bug in the Make Array Correction Mosaic module. To get the update, launch MOPEX while connected to the internet. MOPEX should install the update automatically.
- (Feb 01 2010) The new version of SPICE (v2.3) has been released, incorporating a number of updates to the visualization tools. See the SPICE Update Log for more details. To get the update, start SPICE while connected to the internet. SPICE should install the update automatically.
- (Dec 10 2009) The Customizable User Pipeline for IRS Data (CUPID) has been released. CUPID allows users to run the Spitzer IRS Pipelines to re-create Basic Calibrated Data and extract calibrated spectra from the archived raw files. CUPID provides full access to all parameters of the BCD, COADD, BKSUB, BKSUBX, and COADDX pipelines, as well as the opportunity for users to provide their own calibration files (e.g., flats or darks). We recommend users read the IRS Pipeline Description document before running CUPID.
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