Additional LWS Documents

Last update: 3 Oct 2006

I. General Documentation

In-orbit performance of the ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer, B. Swinyard et al., SPIE 1998 (31/Oct/1998)
Space Operation and Performance of Doped Germanium Photo-Conducting Detectors in the Far Infrared: Experience from the ISO LWS, B. Swinyard et al., 1998 (31/Oct/1998)
Long term performance of doped Ge:Ga photoconductors in the space environment, T. Lim et al., SPIE 1998 (27/Sep/2000)
In orbit performance of the LWS detectors, Burgdorf et al., 1997, presented at FIRSU

II. Data Analysis

Data reduction and analysis of SSO observations (02/Jul/1999)

The ISO Spectral Analysis Package ISAP, Sturm et al, 1998, ADASS VII

a) Quality

LWS Quality Check Level 2 (31/Oct/1998)
FIRST RESULTS OF MONITORING OF THE ILLUMINATOR SEQUENCE DATA (31/Oct/1998)
Automatic data processing and quality control:experiences from ISO-LWS", M. J. Burgdorf et al. (25/Feb/1998)

b) Spurious Features

ISOPEAKS Paper:, Memory Effects and the LWS RSRF, T. Lim et al., 1997 (10/Nov/1997)
Straylight features on the long wavelength detectors of LWS (18/Mar/1998)
Report on the Impact of the solar flare on the LWS instrument (26/Nov/1997)
Anomalous feature found in LWS data from revolution 447 (04/Aug/1997)
Spurious Features in LWS Spectra (09/Apr/1997)
LWS Note: spurious features(18/Oct/1996)

III. Calibration

ISOPEAKS Paper:, Topics in LWS data analysis and calibrations, M. Burgdorf et al. 1997 (10/Nov/1997)

a) Wavelength Calibration

LWS Grating Wavelength Calibration - Final Report (31/Oct/1998)
Final report on LWS-FP wavelength calibration (31/Oct/1998)

b) Flux Calibration

LWS01 scan numbering problem in OLP10.1 (06/May/2004)
Non-Linear Detector Response of LWS LW-Detectors (08/Mar/2002)
LWS Grating Flux Accuracy and Monitoring (31/Jul/1998)
LWS Grating Flux Calibration (10/Jun/1997)

c) Other Documents

ISO Beam Profiles and extended sources flux calibration, A. Salama et al., ESA SP-455 (12/Sep/2000)
Transient response of IR detectors used in space astronomy: what we have learned from ISO satellite, A. Coulais et al., SPIE 2000.
Modeling the affect of multiple beam clipping in FIR and submillimetre instrumentation: ISO-LWS and FIRST-SPIRE, M. Caldwell et al., SPIE 1998.
Calibration and performance of the LWS, Burgdorf et al., COSPAR 1998.
LWS beam sizes and detector memory effects (26/Aug/1997)
LWS Note to Observers, NIR Leak (31/Jan/1997)
Calibration and performance of the ISO Long-Wavelength Spectrometer, Swinyard, B. et al., A&A, 315, L43-L48 (1996).

IV. Operational and Historical Documents

The documents in this section may contain information that is not accurate at the current time. The documents are included here either because they still contain some accurate information or for historical reasons in understanding the evolution of the mission.

Version 10.0 of the ISO Off-Line Processing (OLP) software released (08/Jun/2001)
Version 8.7 of the ISO OLP software released (20/Dec/1999)
On Board Software User Document: Sampling List Content (16/Jul/1999)
ISOLWS Data users manual (IDUM; v5.0) compatible with OLP 7 data (03/Jun/1998)
ISOLWS IDUM (issue 4.0) (09/May/1997)
LWS Note: Release of L03 (17/Apr/1997)
LWS Note: FP AOTs L03 and L04 (15/Apr/1997)
Information on LWS Data products (10/Apr/1997)
LWS Note: The LWS wheel problem (02/Apr/1997)
Addendum to ISOLWS Observer's Manual (5/Aug/1996)
LWS Note: new observing strategies (23/Jul/1996)
ISOLWS Observer's Manual (ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer) (06/Mar/1994)