Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.
1.1 Document Purpose and Scope.
1.2 Basic Definitions.
1.3 Acknowledgements.
Chapter 2. Quick Start Guide.
2.1 Quick-Start for New Spitzer Users.
2.2 Quick-Start for Expert Spitzer Users.
Chapter 3. Overview
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Major Tasks.
Chapter 4. Basic Features and Functions.
4.1 The Basics of Searching.
4.2 History/Tags -- Your search history and tag history.
4.2.1 Your Search History.
4.2.2 Tags and Your Tagging History.
4.3 Read FITS file -- Reading in FITS files.
4.4 Preferences -- Setting and using your preferences.
4.5 Getting Help.
4.6 Catalogs -- Retrieving and using catalogs.
4.7 Downloads – Downloading data.
Chapter 5. Searching.
5.1 Options Common to Most Searches.
5.1.1 Display search results in tabs for… Observation Request (AOR), Level 2 (PBCD), Level 1 (BCD) and sometimes SSC Enhanced Products (IRS), and Contributed Enhanced Products.
5.1.2 More options: filter by Instrument Parameters or Wavelength Range.
5.2 Position Search.
5.3 Apply spatial constraints to AORs or Individual data products.
5.4 Abstract Search.
5.5 AORKEY Search.
5.6 Campaign Search.
5.7 IRS Enhanced Products Search.
5.8 Moving Target Search.
5.9 Observation Date Search.
5.10 Observer Name Search.
5.11 Program Search.
5.12 More on Enhanced Products.
Chapter 6. Understanding Your Search Results.
6.1 Common Options.
6.1.1 Downloading Data.
6.1.2 Restricting data in other tabs.
6.1.3 Saving the results.
6.1.4 Filtering.
6.1.5 Adding/removing columns.
6.1.6 Getting more information on any row
6.1.7 Changing the size of the window or columns.
6.2 Observation (AOR) Tab.
6.2.1 Introduction.
6.2.2 Column Headings.
6.3 Level 1 (BCD) Tab.
6.3.1 Introduction.
6.3.2 Column Headings.
6.4 Level 2 (PBCD) Tab.
6.4.1 Introduction.
6.4.2 Column Headings.
6.5 Filtering -- Imposing additional filters to get the most out of your search results.
6.6 Tag It -- Tagging a search.
6.7 IRS Enhanced Products Tab.
6.8 Contributed Enhanced Products Tab.
Chapter 7. Details Pane.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Details Tab.
7.3 Data Tab.
7.4 AOR DoC Tab.
7.5 AOR Footprint Tab.
7.6 Data Coverage Tab.
Chapter 8. Visualization.
8.1 Visualizing data in the Spitzer Heritage Archive.
8.2 FITS Viewer
8.3 Spectrum (X-Y Plot) Viewer
Chapter 9. Data Downloads.
9.1 Introduction.
9.2 Deciding what files to download.
9.3 The Background Monitor
9.4 Help! I have a lot of zipfiles!
9.5 Using the Download Scripts.
9.6 Help! These things are unzipping into separate directories!
9.7 Acknowledging Spitzer and the SHA
Chapter 10. User Registration.
10.1 Introduction.
10.2 Sign In.
10.3 Forgot your Username or Password.
10.4 Create Account
10.5 Change Password.
10.6 Edit Account
10.7 Preferences.
Chapter 11. Using the VAO/API.
11.1 Introduction to SHA Application Program Interface (API)
11.2 Examples.
11.3 Input parameters.
11.4 Output columns.
11.5 Response on error
Chapter 12. Detailed Examples.
12.1 Introduction.
12.2 Quick Hints, Tips, and Term Definitions:
12.3 Quick Examples – Getting your feet wet
12.3.1 I have detected an object at a non-Spitzer band, and I want to know if Spitzer saw anything there.
12.3.2 I study {this subject, as opposed to this target}, and I want to know if there were any Spitzer programs specifically studying {this subject}.
12.3.3 I want to search the SHA for a whole list of objects all at once.
12.4 More Quick Case Studies (Examples).
12.4.1 Just getting one program’s data out of a recent campaign.
12.4.2 Just getting calibration data.
12.4.3 Getting many zip files to automatically download.
12.4.4 Finding other data that are similar to yours.
12.4.5 Finding Contributed Enhanced Product deliveries in any given region.
12.4.6 Finding data from two different instruments or modes at once.
12.4.7 Finding data from two different channels at once.
12.4.8 Finding just MIPS prime or non-prime data.
12.4.9 Filtering by PI.
12.4.10 Finding AORs that were constrained together.
12.4.11 Finding IRAC subarray Level 2 data.
12.4.12 Finding other IRAC Level 2 data that appears to be missing.
12.4.13 Downloading raw data.
12.4.14 Apparent logical inconsistencies in position searches.
Chapter 13. Getting More Help.
