Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Purpose
  • Reference Documents
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • The ISAAC Instrument
  • The ISAAC Pipeline
• Data Reduction Software
  • The ISAAC Pipeline
    • Raison d'être
    • Downloading and installing
    • Pipeline usage
  • Data Analysis Tools
• ISAAC FITS Information
  • Extracting FITS Information
  • Visualizing FITS Tables
  • File Names
  • Telescope Keywords
  • Instrument Keywords
  • Observation Block Keywords
  • Template Keywords
    • Keywords common to all templates
    • Keywords common to the jitter templates
  • Pipeline Products
  • Quality Control Products
  • Summary Table
• An Overview of Short-wavelength Data
  • Introduction
  • EXPTIME, NDIT and DIT
  • General Features of the ISAAC SW Infrared Detector
    • Bias variations
    • Shift register glow
    • Electrical ghosts
    • Detector non-linearity
    • Odd-even column effect
    • Remnants from bright sources
    • QE reduction from really bright sources!
    • 50Hz pickup
    • Fringing
• SW Imaging
  • Reducing Science Data
    • Odd-even column effect
    • Ghost removal
    • Dark subtraction
    • Flat fielding
    • Illumination correction
    • Bad pixels and vignetted regions.
    • Sky subtraction
    • Removal of the 50Hz pickup
    • Image registration and stacking
    • Removing the remaining bias residuals
  • Darks
    • Read-out noise computation
  • Twilight Flats
    • Eclipse implementation
    • Limitations
    • Accuracy and period of validity
  • Illumination Corrections
  • Zero Points
    • Colour terms
• SW Spectroscopy
  • Introduction
  • SW Reduction - The Basic Steps
    • Ghost removal
    • First subtraction
    • Removal of the 50 Hz pickup
    • Flat fielding
    • Slit curvature correction and wavelength calibration
    • Combining 2d spectra
    • Extraction
    • Removing telluric lines
    • Flux calibration
  • Pipeline Recipes
    • Spectroscopic flat fields
    • Arc recipe
    • Slit position recipe
    • Star trace recipe
    • Response Function
    • SW_SPJITTER
• An Overview of Long-wavelength Data
  • Introduction
  • Chopping
  • File formats: Chopping and Non-chopping
  • General features of the ISAAC LW infrared detector
    • The zero level offset (bias)
    • Detector non-linearity
    • Correcting frames that were taken without chopping.
    • Electronic ghosts
    • Fringing
    • Image quality
    • Dead region
• LW imaging
  • Introduction
  • Reducing Science Data
    • Dark subtraction
    • Non-linearity correction
    • Flat fielding
    • Sky subtraction
    • Registration and stacking
  • Ghost with the NB_4.07 filter.
  • Photometric Accuracy
  • Pipeline reduction
• LW spectroscopy
  • Introduction
  • Reducing Science Data
    • Dark subtraction
    • Non-linearity correction
    • Flat fielding
    • First Sky subtraction - non chopping only
    • A-B Subtraction - chopping only
    • Slit curvature correction and wavelength calibration
    • Combining 2d spectra - non chopping
    • Combining 2d spectra - chopping
    • Extraction
    • Removing telluric lines
    • Flux calibration
  • Pipeline Recipes
    • Arc recipe
    • Slit position recipe
    • Star trace recipe
    • Flatfield recipe
    • Observation recipe - chopping
    • Response function recipe