1.2 The ISO Legacy

The ISO Legacy consists of:

• The ISO Data Archive:
  (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/iso Access the Archive)
  • Over 27000 science observations
  • More than 4000 calibration observations
  • Thousands of serendipitous and parallel observations
  • Additional products and software
• The documentation:
  • The Explanatory Library:
    (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/iso ISO Explanatory Library)
  • The ISO Handbook, T.G. Müller, J.A.D.L. Blommaert & P. García-Lario (Eds.),
    ESA SP-1262, 2003:
    (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/iso ISO Handbook)
    • Volume I: ISO - Mission & Satellite Overview (this volume)
    • Volume II: CAM - The ISO Camera
    • Volume III: LWS - The Long Wavelength Spectrometer
    • Volume IV: PHT - The Imaging Photo-Polarimeter
    • Volume V: SWS - The Short Wavelength Spectrometer
  • The following ISO conferences & proceedings:
    First ISO Science Workshop, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 29-31 May 1996, Results published in the A&A Special Issue, Volume 315, Number 2, pp. L27-L400, 1996
    Taking ISO to the limits: Exploring the faintest sources in the infrared, ISO Science Operations Centre, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 3-4 February 1997, Abstracts available from the ISO web pages at https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/iso Conferences and Meetings
    ESA SP-419: First ISO Workshop on Analytical Spectroscopy, ISO Science Operations Centre, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 6-8 October 1997, 329 pages, A.M. Heras, K. Leech, N.R. Trams & M. Perry (Eds.)
    ISO Detector Workshop, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 14-16 January 1998, Proceedings of this workshop published in Exp. Astronomy, Volume 10, Issue 2/3, August 2000
    ESA SP-427: The Universe as seen by ISO, UNESCO, Paris, France, 20-23 October 1998, 1090 pages (2 Volumes), P. Cox & M.F. Kessler (Eds.)
    ESA SP-435: ISO Polarisation Observations, ISO Data Centre, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 25-28 May 1999, 56 pages, R.J. Laureijs & R. Siebenmorgen (Eds.)
    ESA SP-455: ISO Beyond Point Sources, ISO Data Centre, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 14-17 September 1999, 203 pages, R.J. Laureijs, K. Leech & M.F. Kessler (Eds.)
    ESA SP-456: ISO Beyond the Peaks, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 2-4 February 2000, 389 pages, A. Salama, M.F. Kessler, K. Leech & B. Schulz (Eds.)
    ESA SP-481: The Calibration Legacy of the ISO Mission, ISO Data Centre, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 5-9 February 2001, L. Metcalfe, A. Salama, S.B. Peschke & M.F. Kessler (Eds.)
    ESA SP-482: ISOPHOT Workshop on P32 Oversampled Mapping, ISO Data Centre, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 12-16 February 2001; Infrared Processing & Analysis Center IPAC, USA, 26-30 March 2001, B. Schulz, N. Lu & S.B. Peschke (Eds.)
    ESA SP-511: Exploiting the ISO Data Archive - Infrared Astronomy in the Internet Age, Parador de Sigüenza, Spain, 24-27 June 2002, C. Gry, S.B. Peschke, J. Matagne et al. (Eds.)
  • A large number of refereed scientific publications based on ISO observations (at the end of 2002: approximately 1000 ISO-related articles in total, with a peak publication rate of about 180 publications per year)
  • Press releases by ESA, NASA, ISAS and many scientific institutes all over the world
  • Background and summary articles
• The ISO Data Analysis Software Packages:
  (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/iso ISO Data Analysis Software)
  • ISOPHOT Interactive Analysis (PIA)
  • ISOCAM Interactive Analysis (CIA)
  • ISO Spectroscopic Analysis Package (ISAP)
  • Observers SWS Interactive Analysis Package (OSIA)
  • LWS Interactive Analysis (LIA)
• Others:
  • Different sets of new calibrators for infrared wavelengths
  • Hardware, software, operational and calibration expertise