For instrument specific information please see IRAC papers, IRS papers and MIPS papers.

Space Infrared Telescope Facility Science Requirements Document (PDF, 933 KB) - 3 Feb 1997

Science Utilization Policies of the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (PDF, 449 KB) - 2 Sep 1997

SIRTF Background Estimation: Methods and Implementation (PDF, 208 KB) - 19 May 2000

Pre-launch performance testing of the Pointing Calibration & Reference Sensor for SIRTF - Mainzer et al., 2003, SPIE, 4850, 122 - Download (PDF, 416 KB)*

Spitzer Space Telescope proposal process - Laine et al., 2006, SPIE, 6270, 627029 - Download (PDF, 332 KB)*

Data Quality Analysis at the Spitzer Science Center - Mannings. V., Laher, R. R., 2006, SPIE, 6270, 62701Z - Download (PDF, 485 KB)*

Spitzer Space Telescope Observer's Manual (Cryogenic Mission) (Cryo SOM) (PDF, 15.53 MB) - 15 Aug 2007

Spitzer Space Telescope Observer's Manual (Warm Mission) (Warm SOM) (PDF, 6.8M) - 9 Nov 2018

Cryogenic Observation Planning Cookbook (PDF, 241.6 MB) - 15 Sep 2007

Warm Observation Planning Cookbook (PDF, 9.6M) - 28 Nov 2018
     AORs (see text for explanation):
     Chapter 4: deep_imaging.aor
     Chapter 5: survey.aor
     Chapter 6: asbolus.aor
     Chapter 7: timeser.aor
     Chapter 8: too.aor

Spitzer Multi-Year Schedule (PDF, 45K)

Presentations

Deep Surveys or How We Learn About the Early Universe When We Can’t Measure All that Would Be Nice! (PDF, 688 KB)
Marcia Rieke
Presented at the AAS Seminar on Infrared Astronomy, AAS Meeting, 7 Jan 2003, Seattle

The Space InfraRed Telescope Facility - SIRTF - an Overview (PDF, 3.82 MB)
Jay A. Frogel and Michael Werner
Jan 2003

The Spitzer Space Telescope: Probing the Universe with Infrared Eyes (PDF, 48.61 MB)
Michael Werner
Presented as the Royal Astronomical Society George Darwin Lecture, 12 May 2006, London

Superseded Documents

In February of 2010 the Spitzer Science Center website was replaced. As part of this process an extensive review and reorganization of the documentation was undertaken, which resulted in some documents being absorbed into other ones. The chart below shows where the information in the superseded documents ended up.

Superseded Document	New Location
Instrument Data Features/Caveats	Chapter 7 of the IRAC Instrument Handbook Chapter 7 of the IRS Instrument Handbook Chapter 7 of the MIPS Instrument Handbook
IRAC Data Handbook	Chapters 7 and 8 of the IRAC Instrument Handbook
IRS Data Handbook	Chapters 7 and 8 of the IRS Instrument Handbook
MIPS Data Handbook	Chapters 7 and 8 of the MIPS Instrument Handbook
Pipeline History Log	Appendix A of the IRAC Instrument Handbook Appendix A of the IRS Instrument Handbook Appendix B of the MIPS Instrument Handbook
Post-BCD pages	Data Analysis & Tools

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