The ISO Satellite & General Instrumentation Page

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ISO | CAM | LWS | PHT | SWS |

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With these instrument pages it is our goal to provide instrument specific information, like technical overviews, calibration, data analysis recipes and the latest findings, in a compact format. We recommend the ISO Handbook Volume I: ISO - Mission & Satellite Overview as a general reference point.

Basic ISO Information

• ISO Handbook, Volume I: ISO - Mission & Satellite Overview, Version 2.0 (23/Dec/2003)
• Version 10.1 of the ISO Off-Line Processing (OLP) software released (20/Nov/2001)
• ISO Data Product Document (IDPD), Issue 12, (PDF Version) (08/Jun/2000)
• The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) Mission, Kessler M.F. et al., A&A, 315, L27-L31 (1996)

Data Analysis

• ISO Data Analysis Software
• Data reduction and analysis of SSO observations (02/Jul/1999)

Calibration

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

• "The ISO Pointing Performance" - A. Salama
• "The development of stellar photometric standards for ISO" - P. Hammersley & M. Jourdain de Muizon
• "Planetary spectral models as references for calibration" - G. Orton & M. Burgdorf
• "Asteroids as Calibration Standards in the Thermal Infrared - Aplications and Results from ISO" - Th. Mueller & J. Lagerros
• "Stellar Calibration in the Infrared: Extending the Legacy of the KAO, ISO, and MSX to SIRTF and Beyond" - M. Cohen

Additional ISO Documents

These additional ISO documents describe aspects of the mission and satellite 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 But be aware that the reports sometimes reflect "work in progress" and may have been superseded.

ISO Institute Links

• The ISO Data Centre at European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Spain.

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