Frank's WISE Analysis and Documentation Pages
By F. Masci
, ©
May 2007 - present
Frank's
All-Sky Release
Explanatory Supplement sections
I.4.c. Image Atlas Cautionary Notes
II.3.b. Atlas Image Header Description
II.3.d. Atlas Image Depth-of-Coverage Maps
II.3.e. Atlas Image Uncertainty Maps
II.3.f. Aperture Photometry Using the Atlas Images
II.3.g. Astrometry of Image-derived Source Positions
IV.4.a. 4-Band (All-Sky) Instrumental Calibration (ICal)
VII.3.b. 3-Band Cryo Instrumental Calibration (ICal)
VIII.3.b. Post-Cryo Instrumental Calibration (ICal)
IV.4.f. Atlas Image Generation
VII.3.e. 3-Band Cryo Atlas Image Generation
IV.4.f.i. Coordinate information for sky tiles defining the Image Atlas
IV.6.c.i. Using Noise Pixels for Quality Assurance
Frank's
AllWISE Release
Explanatory Supplement sections
IV.3.a. Aperture Photometry Using the Atlas Images
IV.3.b. Astrometry of Image-derived Source Positions
IV.4. Image Atlas Cautionary Notes
V.2.a. Correcting the pixel histogram "spike"
V.3.a. Image Co-addition Updates
Frank's
NEOWISE Release
Explanatory Supplement sections
I.2.a.ii. WISE/NEOWISE Flight System: Payload
III.1.a. Single-exposure Images: Description and Format
III.1.b. Single-exposure Image Header Descriptions
III.2. Single-exposure Images: Cautionary Notes
III.3. Advice on using the Single-exposure Image Products
IV.2.a. Single-exposure Instrumental Calibration
Frank's
Prelim. Release
Explanatory Supplement sections
I.4.c. Image Atlas Cautionary Notes
II.3.b. Atlas Image Header Description
II.3.d. Atlas Image Depth-of-Coverage Maps
II.3.e. Atlas Image Uncertainty Maps
II.3.f. Aperture Photometry Using the Atlas Images
II.3.g. Astrometry of Image-derived Source Positions
IV.3.a. Single Frame Exposure Instrumental Calibration
IV.5.a. Atlas Image Generation
IV.5.a.i. Coordinate information for sky tiles defining the Image Atlas
IV.6.d.i. Using Noise Pixels for Quality Assurance
Frame/Scan Pipeline Processing & Plans
Instrumental Calibration Plans and Considerations
Infrastructure and Instrumental Calibration Scan Pipeline
Calibration Peer Review (Instrumental Calibration)
Instrumental Calibration Critical Design Review (January 29-30, 2008)
Science Team Meeting presentation (January 8-9, 2009)
Software Interface Specification (icl01): Frame Processing Status Mask for
Prelim
Release
Software Interface Specification (icl05): Frame Processing Status Mask for
Final
Release including 3band-cryo
Software Interface Specification (fpg01): FITS metadata for level-1b frames to archive
Software Interface Specification (icl02): Internal level-1a frame products
Specifications for Pre-flight Calibration Receivables
Specifications for Pre-flight raw test FITS products
The Droop Effect: to correct or not correct?
Proposed WISE Error Model
The MADTUT method for background sigma estimation
Software Interface Specification (ICL04): Level-1a Frame QA metadata
Software Interface Specification (ICL03): Tempcal QA metadata
Software Interface Specification (ING02): Level-0 Frame QA metadata
Software Interface Specification (ICL06): QA metadata for dynamic (on-orbit) responsivity generation
Software Specifications for the
tempcal
Module
Subsystem Design Specification vsn 1.0:
tempcal
Dynamic Calibration presentation (October 2009)
Software Specifications for the
flatcal
Module
Subsystem Design Specification vsn 1.0:
flatcal
Subsystem Design Specification vsn 1.9:
compflat
A Comparison of Responsivity Estimation Methodologies
Internal Procedure for On-orbit Flats
Accuracy in Relative Responsivity Correction
Dynamic Calibration Plan (as of 6/2/09)
Subsystem Design Specification vsn 6.8: Instrumental Calibration (ICAL)
Converting from Jy/pix to Native WISE Units
Initial (default) Calibration products for IOC/Survey Ops
On-orbit Gain (and possibly Read-Noise) Estimation
Detector Acceptance Testing & Characterization
Coverage Simulations for Band 2 Candidate Array (fpa141)
Coverage Simulations for Band 2 Candidate Array (fpa143)
Coverage Simulations for Band 2 Candidate Array (fpa143 at reduced bias)
Coverage Simulations for (pre-launch) Flight Arrays
Use of Smoothing Kernels in Coverage Simulations
Distortion Calibration and Code-V Modelling
Focal Plane Simulator Results (run 07/16/08)
Impact of Noisy Pixels on Photometric SNR
Ground Calibration of Non-Linearity (version 1.0)
Ground Calibration of Non-Linearity (version 2.0)
Ground Calibration of Non-Linearity (version 3.0)
Reference Pixel Analysis
On-orbit Instrumental Calibration Analyses & Reports
Flight/MIC2 Responsivity Map Comparisons
Provisional Darks and Flats
Instrumental Calibration updates (v6.7) for provisional processing
v3.5 Darks and Flats (for 1st pass reproc)
Detector Calibration Status (Science Team Mtg: 01/28/2010)
Droop and Manifestations Thereof
Flight Idiosyncrasies
A Gallery of Detector Idiosyncrasies
Intensity co-add from cover-on darks in SAA
Coverage map from cover-on darks in SAA
Movie of dark frames marching across footprint
Description of cover-on (dark) co-adds above
W1 dark MIC2 <--> flight comparison
W2 dark MIC2 <--> flight comparison
v3.5-pops Low-Frequency Responsivity Maps
v3.5 Low-Frequency Responsivity Maps [Feb and Apr 2010 ops data]
v3.5 Lien list (ICal and Frame co-addition)
Prioritized v3.5 Lien list (ICal and Frame co-addition)
SkyOffset (Illumination) Correction
W4 bias experiment analysis
3band misc. plots/analysis
3band cryogenic mission saturation trending
Droop-fix test examples for 3band cryo period
L1 photometry validation in 3band-cryo period
L3 photometry validation in 3band-cryo period
Post-Cryogenic Mission Calibrations
Delta/residual flats from post-cryo L1 frames (v5)
S/N versus magnitude for post-cryo as a function of galactic latitude
WISE Calibration presentation for MIRI workshop
Weekly MMR (Instrumental Calibration) Reports
Multi-Frame Processing
AWAIC: A WISE Astronomical Image Co-adder
ICORE (formerly AWAIC) Downloads Page
AWAIC tool presentation (Science Team Mtg: 04/19/2010)
Extending the Spatial Resolution of WISE: Nearby Galaxies (Science Team Mtg presentation: 09/23/2010)
Atlas Image Specification and Plans
Software Interface Specification (fpg02): FITS metadata for Atlas Image products to archive
Software Interface Specification (fco01): Internal level-2a/b interpolated frame products
Atlas Image Tiling Geometry
Nominal Atlas Image Tiling
Subsystem Design Specification vsn 3.1: A WISE Astronomical Image Co-adder (AWAIC)
Subsystem Design Specification vsn 1.3: A WISE Outlier Detector (AWOD)
Subsystem Design Specification vsn 8.385:
framecoadder
script
HTML version of SDS vsn 8.385:
framecoadder
script
Frame Co-addition (AWAIC) Peer Review
Frame Co-addition Peer Review Report
Frame Co-addition Critical Design Review (January 29-30, 2008)
Invited talk on AWAIC: ADASS XVIII conference, Québec City (November 4, 2008)
Paper on AWAIC: presented at ADASS XVIII (2008)
Talk on AWAIC: the GReater IPAC Technology Symposium (GRITS; May 14, 2009)
Science Team Meeting presentation (January 8-9, 2009)
Software Interface Specification (SFP01): AWOD/AWAIC Input Frame WCS-keywords
Mosaics from a WSDS-Processed Simulation (vsn 0)
Mosaics from a WSDS-Processed Simulation (vsn 1.0)
AWOD: A WISE Outlier Detector
A Simple Background Matcher
South Ecliptic Pole Mosaics
Software Interface Specification (fco07): Level-3 (Atlas Image) QA metadata
Coadd Noise in Pattern-Noise Simulations
Depth-of-Coverage Statistics on Ecliptic
General Multi-Frame Analyses
Recovery of depth-of-coverage due to moon contamination (Science Team Mtg presentation: 06/20/2011)
Single-exposure (L1) vs Multiframe (L3) photometric comparisons
GLIMPSE-I (IRAC bands 1,2) versus WISE All-Sky Catalog photometry
A collection of framesets within 18 deg of moon
A collection of framesets within 30 deg of moon
Moon-flagging proposal for multiframe processing
Source-peak to WPHOT-derived position biases
Image derived source position vs astrometric biases for all-sky release review
Single-exposure source-peak to WPHOT position biases (cryo/v4)
Single-exposure source-peak to WPHOT position biases (post-cryo/v5)
Atlas Image derived source positions: co-adder comparisons
Atlas Image source centroid - WPhot positions: cryo vs post-cryo
RMS from repeatability versus magnitude
Multiframe WPRO chi-squares: cryo vs post-cryo
Multiframe WPRO comparisons between v4 (old dynacal) and v6 (new dynacal)
Estimating the sensitivity for AllWISE
Photometric comparison between AllSky and AllWISE (COSMOS tile)
AllWISE moon-contamination testing
AllWISE Proper Motion uncertainty checks
WPHotpm testing using new (v2.2) AWOD module
Signal-to-Noise in AllWISE vs AllSky extractions
Atlas Image saturation count vs ecliptic longitude
Multi-Epoch Photometry (MEP) diagnostic plots for non-variable sources
AllWISE sky-background maps from w?sky and w?sigsk
General
Ground Calibrations Checklist and reference material
Development Schedule for F. Masci
IOC Schedule (and lead-up) for F. Masci
IOC Task List (updated)
Software Interface Specification (SIS) list
A Study of the Bias from Inverse Poisson-Variance Weighting
The danger of statistical inference in magnitude space
Schematic of latency patterns on ecliptic and poles
Optimum Photometric Aperture Size for a Gaussian Profile
Simple Formula for Uncertainty in Aperture Photometry
Aperture Photometry Uncertainties assuming Priors and Correlated Noise
Proposed scheme for flagging variable sources
Computing 'Number of Noise Pixels' from Data
WISE Background Predictor
Computing flux upper-limits for non-detections
The impact of correlations on the optimum location measure and its variance
A Survey for Galaxies in the Zone-of-Avoidance
Running SExtractor on WISE Atlas Images
Stray light from Moon: background and RMS versus distance
NEOWISE-R Mission
NEOWISE-R Pixel Calibration Product Status
NEOWISE-R Bad Pixel Animations
NEOWISE-R Early mission trending
NEOWISE-R L1b-frame v7.5 trending
NEOWISE-R L1b-frame int.v7.5 to ops.v7.5 trends
NEOWISE-R L0-frame Systematic Calibration Trending
NEOWISE-R Gain/Read-noise calibration
NEOWISE-R pixel uncertainty calibration
NEOWISE-R L1b-mdex vs image centroids (v7.0/v7.5)
NEOWISE-R channel-noise correction upgrade (v7.5)
NEOWISE-R CMDs involving L1 photometry and 2MASS
NEOWISE-R L1b-mdex vs 2Mass phot/astrom vs FPA position (v7.5)
NEOWISE-R L1b w?mpro vs w?mag in 2D
NEOWISE-R L1b pixel-calibration residuals
NEOWISE-R saturated-source biases and artificial masking
NEOWISE-R delta-ZP (with AllWISE) versus Temperature
NEOWISE-R extractions for hot vs cold scan
NEOWISE-R coadd photometry for BD W0855
NEOWISE-R difference imaging (for MaxWISE)
Summary of NEOWISE-R trending and calibrations for handover
Project internals (restricted)
Cool Co-adds & Mosaics
NGC3603 prelim (RGB=W431)
NGC3603 better regist (RGB=W321)
NGC3603 better regist (RGB=W431)
M31 greyscale (W1)
M31 blue log-stretch (W1)
M31 (RGB=W421)
M31 zoom-in (RGB=W421)
M31 (RGB=W431)
M31 zoom-in (RGB=W431)
M31 (RGB=W321)
M31 zoom-in (RGB=W321)
M31 NEW (RGB=W321)
M31 NEW (RGB=W421)
M31 NEW (RGB=W431)
M31 family schematic
M31 latest and greatest (small file)
M31 latest and greatest (big file!)
M31 + M33 together (big file!)
M31 + M33 together (annotated - bigger file!)
Fornax Cluster (RGB=W431)
Fornax Cluster Zoom (RGB=W431)
Fornax NEW (RGB=W321)
Fornax NEW Zoom 1 (RGB=W321)
Fornax NEW Zoom 2 (RGB=W321)
Fornax NEW (RGB=W421)
NGC6118 (RGB=W321)
NGC6118 PRF-interp coads vs HiRes comparisons
IC342 (RGB=W321)
IC342 (RGB=W432)
IC342 HiRes composite (RGB=W432): 10,25,10 iterations
IC342 HiRes composite (RGB=W432): 10,25,25 iterations
IC342 HiRes composite (RGB=W321): 10,10,25 iterations
IC342 HiRes w1-w4: 10,10,25,10 iterations
IC342 W3 HiRes - prf coadd comparison
IC342 IRAC 8um vs. W3 (25-iter) HiRes comparison
IC342 IRAC 8um vs. W3 (50-iter) HiRes comparison
IC342 W4 25-iter HiRes vs. CFV to test reality of ring
NGC1514 coadd (RGB=W432)
NGC1514 HiRes (RGB=W432)
Heart & Soul Nebulae (RGB=W432)
Heart & Soul Nebulae (RGB=W321)
Heart & Soul Finder Chart
Heart & Soul W1 coverage
Heart & Soul W2 coverage
Heart & Soul W3 coverage
Heart & Soul W4 coverage
NEP depth=600 PRF coadds
NEP depth=600 cov maps
Torque Rod anomaly coadds at ecl=103.76,46.84; Qscore=5
Torque Rod anomaly cov-maps at ecl=103.76,46.84; Qscore=5
Torque Rod anomaly coadds at ecl=103.76,46.84; Qscore>=0
Torque Rod anomaly cov-maps at ecl=103.76,46.84; Qscore>=0
Outlier tuning before/new W3 int coadds (top), W4 (bot)
Outlier tuning before/new W3 cov maps (top), W4 (bot)
Neptune and a hint of Triton (RGB=W432)
IC10 - Dwarf Irr: RGB=W321
IC10 - Dwarf Irr: RGB=W432
Saturn with dust ring: RGB=W432
Saturn with bigger dust ring: RGB=W432
New co-add of Saturn using latest co-adder: RGB=W432
Jupiter: RGB=W432
Uranus + moons? RGB=W432
Pleiades RGB=W321
Pleiades RGB=W432
Pleiades Finder Chart
NGC6946 RGB=W432
NGC6946 RGB=W321
NGC1566 RGB=W432
NGC1566 RGB=W321
Comet X in w3, gray
Comet X in w3, color
Comet 103P-Hartely: w432
Moving Co-add (comet) examples for Apr 2010 NASA Senior Rev.
NGC1398 RGB=W431+Halpha
NGC5907 RGB=W321
NGC5907 RGB=W432
M83 HiRes RGB=W431
Circinus SF region: RGB=W321
Collection of nearby spirals: RGB=W3_W1_GALEX-FUV
Collection of nearby spirals: RGB=W4_W2_GALEX-FUV
Collection of nearby spirals: RGB=W4_W3_W1
NGC628: SFR density and specific SFR maps (per unit stellar mass)
Galactic Center from Prelim release
Galactic Center from Prelim release with grid
AITOFF zoom of gal center from prelim release
NGC5907 RGB=W321 coad
NGC5907 RGB=W321 hires
NGC5907 RGB=W431 hires
High redshift cluster 1: RGB=W321 hires
High redshift cluster 2: RGB=W321 hires
W1,W2,W3 of prelim sky
W1,W2,W3 of prelim sky with grid
W1 hi-res depth-of-coverage map
Lynds 1780 dark cloud: W2,W3,W4
Stephan's Quintet W1,W2,W3 HiRes
Stephan's Quintet W1,W2,W3 Drizzled Co-add
Stephan's Quintet W1,W3,W4 Drizzled Co-add
~42 x 10 deg. swath of galactic plane from prelim release: W1,W2,W3
~42 x 10 deg. swath of galactic plane from prelim release: W2,W3,W4
~46 x 12.9 deg. swath of galactic plane from all-sky release Atlas: W1,W3,W4
~40 x 10 deg. swath of galactic plane from SPIRITIII/MSX: 14.7um I think!
M87 RGB=W431 coad
M87 RGB=W431 hires
Circinus RGB=W321 5.5 deg. drizz.
Circinus RGB=W431 5.5 deg. drizz.
Circinus RGB=W321 zoom drizz.
Circinus RGB=W431 zoom drizz.
Circinus W1 big jpg
Circinus W2 big jpg
Circinus W3 big jpg
Circinus W4 big jpg
Circinus 20cm (ATCA)
NGC0185 RGB=W431 (dE satellite of M31)
NGC2768 RGB=W123 coadd
NGC2768 RGB=W134 coadd
NGC2768 RGB=W123 hires
NGC2768 RGB=W134 hires
Helix Nebula RGB=W123 hires
Helix Nebula RGB=W124 hires
NEP deep drizzle coadd
LMC+SMC poster
All-Sky map RGB=W134 (ugly vsn 1)
All-Sky map RGB=W134 (ugly vsn 1 - different stretch)
WISE All-Sky map from EPO
WISE All-Sky map from EPO rendered by F. Masci
"Raw" All-Sky WISE maps made by F. Masci
All-Sky map with labels
Last update - 30 October 2018
F. Masci - IPAC/Caltech
