Roc Cutri's WISE Pages and Links

Project Links

• WISE Public Website
• Ned Wright's WISE Website at UCLA
• WSDC wiki (internal access only)

Project Information and Documents

• Acronym List (2006-04-25)


• Requirements Documents
• MOS L3 Requirements (2005_07_28)
• Useful Payload and Spacecraft Descriptions
• WISE Digital Electronics Box (DEB) Data Processing (SDL/06-070 2/16/06)
  Describes how sample up-the-ramp output pixel values are determined, binning, and special pixel encoding flag values for saturation and negative slope values

WISE Science Data Center (WSDC) Pages

• WSDC Document Tree
  WSDC Controlled Documents, including requirements, management, design, interface documents, user guides and product descriptions.
• WSDC Document Templates
• WSDC Master Document Template (MS Word format - 3/1/07)

To be used for official, exportable WSDC documents, such as controlled requirements and design documents.

• WSDC Web Document Guidelines (R. Cutri - 3/18/07)
• Blank WSDC HTML Document Template (3/18/07)

To be used for internal WSDC memos, analysis reports, non-controlled documents.

• WSDC Presentation PowerPoint Template (10/1/07)
• WSDS Standards and Guidelines
• Coding Standards (WISE Wiki)
• Subversion Recipes (WISE Wiki)
• Makefile Template Tutorial (WISE Wiki)
• Standard Parameter Usage (WISE Wiki)
• Standard File Naming Conventions (WISE Wiki)
• List of WSDS Utilities (WISE Wiki)
• Hints/tips for use of external (non-WSDS) utilities (WISE Wiki)
• WISE Data Processing Levels (10/19/07)
• WISE Data Simulation
• Simulation Input Catalog Object Types and Assumed Colors
• WSDS Subsystems
• General
• WISE Science Data Processing Overview (11/12/07)
• Ingest
• Pipelines
• Scan/Frame Pipeline
• Instrumental Frame Calibration (ICAL)
• Instrumental Image Calibration Steps (F. Masci 7/29/07)
• Scan (and Frame) Pipeline Processing Flow: Instrumental Calibration v1.5 (F. Masci - 6/2/08)
• On-Orbit Pixel Responsivity (Flat-field) Estimation (F. Masci 3/26/08)
• Sky-Offset/Dynamic 'Bad' pixel flagging Module (F. Masci 3/19/08)
• Multiband Source Detection (MDET)
• Position Reconstruction (PREX)
• Photometry (WPHOT)
• Investigation of WPHOT Flux Biases (K. Marsh 1/14/09)
• Simulated WISE PSFs incorporating geometric distortion during SUTR (K.Marsh - 5/4/09)
• The Effect of PSF Smearing on WISE Profile-Fitting Photometry (K. Marsh - 10/26/09)
• Artifact Identification (ARTID)
• Photometric Calibration (PCAL)
• Multi-Frame Pipeline
• Image Coadder
• AWAIC: A WISE Astronomical Image Co-adder (F. Masci 10/28/08)
• AWOD: A WISE Outlier Detector (F. Masci 5/16/08)
• A Simple Background Matcher (F. Masci 5/29/08)
• WISE Atlas Image Specifications (F. Masci & R. Cutri - 10/15/07)
• Atlas Image Tiling Geometry (F. Masci - 11/29/07)
• Mosaics from a WSDS-Processed Simulation (vsn 1.0) (F. Masci - 7/28/08)
• Coadd (Deep) Source Detection (MDET)
• Multi-Frame Photometry (WPHOT)
• WISE Simulated Images of a Mid-Latitude Field: WPHOT Photometry (T. Jarrett)
• Position Reconstruction Updater (MFPREX)
• Artifact Identification (ARTID)
• Photometric Calibration Updater (PCAL)
• Quality Assurance
• Archive
• Presentations
• MOS PDR - Sept. 2005
• WSDC Introduction (R. Cutri)
• WSDC Architecture (T. Conrow)
• Mission CDR - June 2007
• WSDC Overview and Status (R. Cutri - 6/20/07)
• MOS CDR - July 2007
• WSDC Overview (R. Cutri)
• WSDS Architecture (T. Conrow)
• Calibration Plan Peer Review - September 2007
• WSDC Overview
• Frame Co-Addition Peer Review - November 2007
• Introduction and Overview (R. Cutri)
• Frame Co-Addition (F. Masci)
• Multiband Source Detection (MDET) Peer Review - December 2007
• Introduction and Overview (R. Cutri)
• Multiband DETector (MDET) (K. Marsh)
• Single-Frame Position Reconstruction (SFPrex) Peer Review - December 2007
• Introduction and Overview (R. Cutri)
• Single Frame Positon Reconstruction (SFPrex) (H. McCallon, J. Fowler)
• WSDC CDR - January 2008
• Source Photometry (WPHOT) Peer Review - April 2008
• Introduction (R. Cutri)
• WISE Photometry (WPHOT) (T. Jarrett and K. Marsh)
• WSDC Hardware Status Peer Review - March 2009
• Introduction and Overview (T. Conrow)
• WSDC Hardware Architecture (T. Conrow, H. Brandenburg)
• Mission Operational Readiness Review - October 2009
• WSDC Overview (R. Cutri)
• WSDS Software Status (T. Conrow)
• Quality Assurance (D. Kirkpatrick)
• Science Archive (L. Yan)
• WSDC Operations (R. Beck, R. Cutri)
• MOS/WSDC Interfaces (T. Conrow)
• WSDC Hardware Status (H. Brandenburg)
• Flight Readiness Review - October 2009
• WSDC Readiness Assessment (R. Cutri)
• IPAC Director's Review - October 2009
• Introduction
• WISE Project Status (R. Cutri)
• WSDC Overview (R. Cutri)
• WSDS Software Status (T. Conrow)
• Quality Assurance (D. Kirkpatrick)
• Science Archive (L. Yan)
• Hardware Status (H. Brandenburg)
• MOS/WSDC Interfaces (T. Conrow)
• WSDC Operations (R. Beck, R. Cutri)
• WISE Moving Object Pipeline System (J. Bauer)
• Infrared Science Archive (S. Groom, H. Teplitz)
• IPAC Systems Group (W. Burt)
• IPAC Facilities (R. Scholey)
• Processing Analysis
• Simulation Data
• Selected WSDS Prototype Processing Results for December 2007 Sky Simulation Data (F. Masci, T. Jarrett, R. Cutri - 4/16/08)
• Impact of Pattern Noise on WISE Photometric Measurements (T. Jarrett, F. Masci, R. Cutri - 11/25/08)
• Detector Testing
• Coverage Simulations
• Use of Interpolation (Smoothing) Kernels in Coverage Simulations (F. Masci - 10/4/07)
• Coverage Simulations for Flight Arrays and Spares (F. Masci - 9/5/07)
• Coverage Simulations for Band 2 Candidate Array FPA143 (F. Masci et al. - 7/10/07)
• Coverage Simulations for Band 2 Candidate Array FPA141 (F. Masci et al. - 6/27/07)
• Coverage Simulations for WISE Detector Acceptance Testing (T. Conrow, R. Cutri - 4/19/07)
• Payload Analysis
• Code V Distortion Modelling (J. Fowler, H. MCallon, F. Masci - 6/2/08)
• IOC
• WSDC IOC and Early Operations Check-Out Activities (1/23/07)
• Demonstration of the WISE Scan Rate Synchronization Monitor (8/28/07)
• WISE IOC Coordination (S. Wachter)
• Photometric Calibration
• Bright Stars Near the Ecliptic Poles
• Spitzer Observations of the WISE CVZ (T. Jarrett - 9/11/07)
• Spitzer NEP Data Reduction (T. Jarrett - 11/2/07)
• Preliminary List of WISE Photometric Standard Stars (Cohen, Jarrett, Cutri - 4/21/08)
• South Ecliptic Pole (SEP) Mosaics (F. Masci - 7/15/08)

WISE Science and Analysis

• WISE Data Access Policy v1.0 (P. Eisenhardt - 3/9/05)
• Summary of Current and Planned Large Area IR Imaging Surveys (& selected optical surveys)
• Instrumental Calibration
• Flat-Field Color Dependence (IRAC) (T. Jarrett - 12/19/07)