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Advanced optimal extraction for the Spitzer/IRS

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2015-05-14 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present new advances in the spectral extraction of point-like sources adapted to the Infrared Spectrograph onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. For the first time, we created a super-sampled point spread function of the low-resolution modules. We describe how to use the point spread function to perform optimal extraction of a single source and of multiple sources within the slit. We also examine the case of the optimal extraction of one or several sources with a complex background. The new algorithms are gathered in a plugin called Adopt which is part of the SMART data analysis software.

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@article{arxiv.0910.1846,
  title  = {Advanced optimal extraction for the Spitzer/IRS},
  author = {V. Lebouteiller and J. Bernard-Salas and G. C. Sloan and D. J. Barry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.1846},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted for publication in PASP

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