The IRSCLEAN distribution comes with a set of sample IRS data files, located in the subdirectory sampledata/, that can be used to test the program. The sample files are publicly available through the Spitzer archive and are observations of the calibration star HR 6348. There are files for both the Long Low (sampledata/r13349376/ch2/bcd/) and Long High (sampledata/r13349376/ch3/bcd/) modules. In this guide, most examples will use the sample file sampledata/r13349376/ch3/bcd/SPITZER_S3_13349376_0012_0000_8_bcd.fits. Feel free to try out IRSCLEAN using any of the .fits files.
We have included the trio of files usable during spectral extraction in SPICE, bcd.fits, bmask.fits, and func.fits. You can use the bcd.fits file in Stage 1 (mask creation), and the bmask and func (uncertainty) files during cleaning. The sample files also include a file which is itself a list of bcd FITS files, sampledata/r13349376/ch3/bcd/SPITZER_S3_13349376_clean_batch_list.txt. As will be seen, such .txt files can be used in Stage 2 to prescribe a set of data files to be cleaned.
