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Last Update: 19 July 2005

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We recommend the ISO Handbook Volume II: CAM - The ISO Camera as a general reference point. Latest updates and further details on calibration can also be found in technical notes and publications available below.

Highly Processed Data Products (HPDP)

Some observations taken in specific observing modes have been fully reprocessed in a systematic way by experts after the release of the last Off-Line Processing pipeline (v10) released in 2003 and are now made available as 'Highly Processed Data Products' through the ISO Data Archive interface.

The following reprocessed data sets are available containing CAM observations made with ISO and are recommended for scientific usage:

Reprocessed CAM LW-CVF observations, A&A, Vol. 436, pp.1151-1158 (2005), F. Boulanger et al.
In addition, new CAM products have been generated in order to be accessible from the Virtual Observatory.

Basic CAM Information

ISO Handbook Volume II: CAM - The ISO Camera, Version 2.0 (24/Oct/2003)
Version 10.0 of the ISO Off-Line Processing (OLP) software released (08/Jun/2001)
Validation Report for CAM OLP. OLP version: olp10b9 (March 2002)
ISOCAM Calibration Accuracies Document (18/Jan/2001)
ISOCAM in flight, C. Cesarsky et al., A&A, 315, L32-L37 (1996).

Data Analysis

CIA, the ISOCAM Interactive Analysis system (11/Apr/2000)
What is new in CIA 5.0? (01/Mar/2002)
ISOCAM Interactive Analysis User's Manual, Version 5.0 (01/Mar/2002)
CIA Quick Reference Card, Version 5.0 (01/Mar/2002)
Data reduction and analysis of SSO observations (02/Jul/1999)
"Design and Implementation of CIA, the ISOCAM Interactive Analysis System", S. Ott et al., ADASS (1996)

Calibration

Different aspects of the ISOCAM calibration, which may be of relevance to future space missions are addressed in detail in the following papers:

"Pre-flight Calibration of ISOCAM" - M. Pérault
"The ISOCAM Strategy for In-flight Calibration" - L. Metcalfe
"ISOCAM Photometry" - J. Blommaert et al.
"Use and Impacts of the ISOCAM Daily Calibration" - P. Gallais

Additional CAM Documents

These additional CAM documents describe aspects of the instrument in some detail and only need to be read for a deep understanding of a particular aspect. But be aware that the reports sometimes reflect "work in progress" and may have been superseded.

See also the proceedings of several ISO Conferences and Meetings for specific instrument related topics.

CAM Institute Links

Le projet ISOCAM at CEA - Saclay, Service d' Astrophysique, France.
Le centre ISO français, at the Institut d' Astrophysique Spatiale (Orsay)