Last update: 14 July 2005

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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 But be aware that the reports sometimes reflect "work in progress" and may have been superseded.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.